op ed review 1/15
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Small business optimism surges to the highest in 35 years.
Deutsche Bank Predicts Trump Economy Will More Than Double
U.S. GDP Growth…
Apple to expand manufacturing in Arizona.
Asia’s richest tech billionaire chats with Trump about how
to create 1 million jobs over 5 years in America.
AMAZON to create 100,000 new jobs in USA...
Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush,
will attend President-elect Donald Trump´s inauguration this month.
Real Fake News: BuzzFeed, CNN Target Trump with Admittedly
Unverifiable Russia ‘Memos’
It’s open war between the media and Donald Trump
How Trump´s
nemesis John McCain kicked off the ´Kremlin memo´ scandal by handing dossier to
the FBI after sending an emissary abroad to collect it.
4Chan Claims to Have Fabricated the Anti-Trump Report As A
Hoax
Buzzfeed’s Trump report takes ‘fake news’ to a new level.
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton
and undermine Trump during the election by publicly questioning his fitness for
office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption…and
they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his
advisers, a Politico investigation found.
Democrats and unions are joining to kill any prospect of
meaningful education reform by President-elect Donald Trump. How? By fatally
damaging school reformer Betsy DeVos´ nomination as Secretary of Education.
Al Sharpton Promises 'Season of Civil Disobedience'...
Washington Post writer ponders how to “remove Trump from
office” before he’s even sworn in.
In a new study of President Obama’s legacy, the Pew Research
Center found that religious affiliation and practice dropped off dramatically
during his two terms in the White House.
Pot triggers schizophrenia, heart attacks, experts say in
landmark study...
Actress Nicole Kidman is encouraging all Americans to put
the election behind them and rally around President-elect Donald Trump.
Good idea: Senators
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) teamed up to introduce a law that
would block taxpayer dollars from going toward the UN, in response to the
anti-Israel Resolution 2334 passed by the Security Council last month.
Marine Le Pen has rocketed into the lead in the race to
become France’s next president - just months ahead of the country’s general
election. http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/752664/Marine-Le-Pen-leading-French-presidential-election-polls-Francois-Fillon-Emmanuel-Macron
The media just want to focus on how the Ft. Lauderdale airport
shooter was given his gun back, ignoring that he is a Muslim convert who years
before joining the U.S. Army took on an Islamic name (Aashiq Hammad),
downloaded terrorist propaganda and recorded Islamic religious music online.
Hillary Clinton once offered this zinger about Donald
Trump’s claims to be a business wizard: “What kind of genius loses a billion
dollars in a single year?” The New York Post has the answer in their review of
election-campaign financial disclosures. The final cost of Hillary’s futile bid
for the presidency — including monies spent by the Democratic Party and
supporting PACS — exceeded $1.2 billion.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Why the Left Hates Trump So
Intensely 1/13/17
The intensity of the hatred for a newly elected president
faced by Donald Trump is equaled only by the reaction of the Confederacy to the
election of Abraham Lincoln. That ended
up in civil war, a precedent that one hopes will not be equaled. But there has
been a remarkable fury at people who do not shun Trump: boycotts of a company
whose shareholder contributed to a PAC supporting Trump, attempts to pressure the
president of a historically black college to prevent its marching
band from performing at the inaugural, and hateful rhetoric at Hollywood awards
ceremonies. With much more to come.
A useful perspective is to regard this as a religious
conflict. Cults behave exactly the way the left is behaving when a member
leaves the fold. And remember that Donald Trump used to be a member in good
standing of the Democrat cultural machine. He even had a show on NBC, a
mainstay of the Left, in addition to being a generous contributor to many
Democrats. An
anonymous poster on Reddit
offers an interesting take on the religious nature of the conflict NotJaffo”
writes:
“Why is Hollywood (in particular) freaking out so badly over
Trump? First,
because he's a Republican who might actually do the things he said he wanted to
do. But second, because this is the first cultural victory the right has scored
since Reagan stumbled into one in the '80s. The left is used to losing political battles.
They scream and cry over these but they don't truly panic, because they know
that as long as they maintain their hammerlock on the culture, Republicans
can't really change anything.”
“Blue Team Progressivism is a church, offering you moral
superiority and a path to spiritual enlightenment. As a church it's got a lot
going for it. It runs religious programming on television, all day every day.
Every modern primetime program is like a left-wing Andy Griffith show,
reinforcing lessons of inclusion, tolerance, feminism, and anti-racism. Watching a 90-pound
Sci-Fi heroine beat up a room full of giant evil men is as satisfying to the
left as John Wayne westerns were for the right. The Blue Church controls the HR
department, so even if you don't go to church, you have to act like a loyal
churchgoer in every way that matters while you're on the clock. And off the
clock, on any kind of public social media platform.”
“Jon Stewart and John Oliver are basically TV preachers.
Watching them gives the same sense of quiet superiority your grandma gets from
watching The 700 Club. The messages are constantly reinforced, providing that
lovely dopamine hit, like an angel's voice whispering, "You're right,
you're better, you're winning." Hollywood award shows are like church talent shows -
the skits and jokes aren't really funny, but it's fun to look at the pretty
girls, and you're all on the same team.”
The interesting point is that until now, “Red Conservativism is a business,
selling a set of political products. They don't make you feel good, they don't
appeal to your morality or your spiritual sense of self, but sometimes you
really NEED one of their core products like security, jobs, or national
defense. Their appeals to "freedom" and "family values"
ring hollow these days, but when people are flying planes into buildings, you
need a strong member of Conservatism, Inc. in the big chair.”
“And now this unequal match has changed: For the first time
in decades, voters explicitly rejected the Blue Church, defying hours of daily
cultural programming, years of indoctrination from the schools, and dozens of
explicit warnings from HR. We've been trained since
childhood to obey the pretty people on TV, but for the first time in decades,
that didn't work.”
“Donald Trump won because flyover America wants their
culture back, and Blue Team has not been rejected like that before. The younger ones
have grown up in an environment where Blue Faith assumptions cannot even be
questioned, except anonymously by the bad kids on Twitter. But now the bad kids
are getting bolder, posting funny memes that make you laugh even though John
Oliver would not approve, like passing crude dirty pictures under the table in
Sunday School. Meryl Streep is panicking because for the first time voters have
rejected HER, and everything her faith has taught her to believe.”
Donald Trump is not peddling a religion, but he is peddling
a counterculture that challenges the “Blue Faith,” as NotJaffo” aptly labels
it. And that is the basis of panic. And that's what Meryl Streep is really
scared of. She's not truly aware of it, just like fluttering housewives
couldn't really understand the counterculture threat in 1968. But they feel
that something is changing in their safe little world, and they know they have
to fight it, because this threat isn't just passing pointless budget
resolutions and selling pointless platitudes about family values - these guys
mean business, and they're fighting on her turf.
The global warming religion has already folded itself into
the Trump hater cult. The question
facing us now is how to deprogram cult members.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/why_the_left_hates_trump_so_intensely.html#ixzz4Vei8jMno
Another good read: VDH: “What
is Trumpism?”
Donald
Trump is hated by liberal Democrats because, among other things, he is likely
to reverse the entire Obama project. And, far worse, he probably will seek
fundamental ways of obstructing its future resurgence — even perhaps by peeling
off traditional Democratic constituencies. The proverbial mainstream media despise Trump.
Culturally, he has become a totem of their fears: coarseness, ostentatiousness,
flamboyance, and the equation of big money with taste and success. His new
approach to the media may make them irrelevant, and they fear their downfall
could be well earned. The Republican Washington–to–New York establishment is
alienated by Trump. It finds his behavior reckless and his ideology
unpredictable — especially given his cruel destruction of in-house Republican
candidates in the primaries and his past flirtations with liberal ideas and
politicians. That he has now brought them more opportunity for conservative
political change than any Republican candidate in a century only adds insult to
their sense of injury. Nonetheless, from the 2016 campaign and from
President-elect Trump’s slated appointments, past interviews, and tweets, we
can see a coherent worldview emerging, something different from both orthodox
conservativism and liberalism, though certainly Trumpism is far closer to the
former than to the latter. Here may be a few outlines of Trumpist thought. “He
is a Jacksonian who wants a huge club at the Department of Defense largely to
ensure that he’ll never have to use it….”
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Politicians who call for law and order are often viewed
negatively, but poor people are the most dependent on law and order. In the
face of high crime or social disorder, wealthier people can afford to purchase
alarm systems, buy guard dogs, hire guards and, if things get too bad, move to
a gated community. These options are not available to poor people. The only
protection they have is an orderly society. Ultimately, the solution to high crime
rests with black people. Given the current political environment, it doesn’t
pay a black or white politician to take those steps necessary to crack down on
lawlessness in black communities.”
-Walter
Williams
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GLOBALONEY
Scientists Now Warn of A New Ice Age As Temps Plummet to
-80°F In Russia!
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LEFTIST WATCH
“This may be the single most despicable act of media bias I
have ever encountered. It took a lot of effort and art for CBS Radio to put
together an early report on the Chicago torture incident that was strictly
factual, yet created the impression on listeners that a group of white Trump
supporters had attacked a helpless mentally challenged black man. (it was the
other way around).
“The viral video of a beating and knife attack in Chicago
suggests the assault had racial overtones. CBS’s Dean Reynolds tells us the
victim is described as a mentally challenged teenager. In the video he is
choked and repeatedly called the n-word. His clothes are slashed and he is
terrorized with a knife. His alleged captors repeatedly reference Donald Trump.
Police are holding four people in connection with the attack.”
-CBS Radio
(All “true,” but you wouldn’t know it was four blacks who attacked a
white man by this maliciously deceitful description.)
Rosie O’Donnell calls for MARTIAL LAW and Trump´s
inauguration to be delayed until he
is ´cleared´ of involvement in Russian hack
is ´cleared´ of involvement in Russian hack
Anarchists Are Hoping To Turn Donald Trump’s Inauguration On
January 20th Into One Of The Biggest Riots In U.S. History Their stated goal is
to “disrupt” the Inauguration festivities as much as possible, and they are
planning a wide range of “actions” to achieve that stated goal
MTV
host mocks Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Asian-American grandchildren on Twitter,
accusing Sessions of “stealing his grandchildren from Toys “R” Us for the
hearing”. He went on to call his grandchildren a “prop,” brought to mitigate
accusations of racism.
‘Gaslighting’ and the Left’s War on Reality
Democrats hunker down for ‘permanent opposition’ to Donald
Trump presidency
They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an
understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable. But now students at a
University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato,
Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the
curriculum simply because they are white.
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ISLAM
Judge dismisses Clock Boy family´s defamation lawsuit
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ARTICLES
“A Left-wing American friend confessed a few days ago that
he was beginning to like Donald Trump: ‘He’s got no mental teleprompter,’ he
told me admiringly, ‘no notes, no filter, no volume control. He just says
stuff, and sometimes he’s got a point . . .’ My friend has been uncontactable
since Wednesday’s Trump press conference. I think he might either be in Heaven
or in hospital from shock. Because this was the most madcap performance by an
incoming president since the 19th century, when Andrew Jackson took a bullet in
the arm in a bar fight with a Senator….”
Fred Barnes: “Donald
Trump is in the rare position of loathing the media and dominating
them—simultaneously. What more could a president-elect want as he enters the
White House?”
In George Washington’s 1796 farewell address, he argued that
of “all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,
religion and morality are indispensable supports.” In Barack Obama’s farewell
address, he congratulated himself for undermining them. He identified America’s
progress in the diminution of its historic religion and morality and urged
Americans to embrace greater and greater departures from them. The country’s future,
he said, depends upon welcoming Islam and the transgendered, among other
favored groups, and eschewing “discrimination,” his catch-all term for any
lingering conservatism in the country.
At home and abroad, Obama’s trail of disasters
President Obama Awards Himself Distinguished Public Service
Medal
Is The U.S. Government Insolvent? Sorry, But Its Accountant
Can´t Tell You
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INTERESTING STUFF
Donald Trump inauguration schedule of events, performers and
inaugural balls
The Preposterous Success Story of America’s Pillow King
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WISE WORDS
“Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds
of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the
next generation.”
-Edmund Burke
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