op ed review 3/19
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Biggest Untold Story Under Trump: The Surge In Optimism
After 8 Years Of 'Hope-n-Change'
President Trump’s budget proposal this week would shake the
federal government to its core if enacted, culling back numerous programs and
expediting a historic contraction of the federal workforce. This would be the
first time the government has executed cuts of this magnitude — and all at once
— since the drawdown following World War II.
They may need to hear from you. Less than two months in,
Republicans have emerged as one of the biggest obstacles to Trump's young
administration, imperiling his early efforts to pass his agenda and make good
on some of his biggest campaign promises.
President Donald Trump’s budget director told reporters
Thursday the White House was no longer spending money on climate change
research because it’s a “waste of your money.”
President Trump Tells T-Rex:
Cut U.N. Funding by 50%…
President Trump proposes to zero out funding
for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS)? Liberals howl, but even this CPB board member
says it’s time, in the Washington Post no less: “Public broadcasting
shouldn’t get a handout from taxpayers anymore”
Judge Napolitano says that British Intelligence provided
Obama admin with surveillance data on Trump Tower phone conversations. "Three
intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside
the chain of command," Napolitano said. "He didn't use the NSA, he
didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI, and he didn't use the Department of
Justice." Instead, Napolitano said, Obama used GCHQ, a British
intelligence and security organization that has 24-7 access to the NSA database.
"There's no American fingerprints on this," Napolitano said. "What
happened to the guy who ordered this? Resigned three days after Donald Trump
was inaugurated."
Obama moles told to do as much damage as possible before
they leave White House staff.
The Obama administration in its final year in office spent a
record $36.2 million on legal costs defending its refusal to turn over federal
records under the Freedom of Information Act,
President Trump´s budget director says the Obama
administration was "manipulating" jobs data to make the unemployment rate "look
smaller than it actually was."
A group of leading senators is calling on newly installed
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to immediately launch an investigation into
efforts by the OBAMA administration to sway foreign elections by sending
taxpayer funds to "extreme and sometimes violent political activists"
that promote leftist causes.
The U.S. Justice Department is developing plans to
temporarily reassign immigration judges from around the country to 12 cities to
speed up deportations of illegal immigrants who have been charged with crime
The Internal Revenue Service granted an "After School
Satan Club" their tax exempt status. The approval process took only 10 days.
The satanic club was started by a Mass. based non-profit organization that
operates the Satanic Temple of Seattle. The director founded the club at Point
Defiance Elementary in Tacoma, Wash. The Point Defiance Elementary Satanic club
is run by adults that have been cleared by the "Executive Ministry"
of the Seattle Satanic Temple.
In one of the most ruthless opinions issued of fellow panel
judges, five judges from across the political spectrum in the Ninth Circuit
went out of their way to remind everybody just how embarrassingly bad the prior
Ninth Circuit stay panel decision was on Trump’s travel ban.
The main plaintiff in the Hawaii case blocking President
Trump’s revised temporary travel ban is an Imam with ties to the Muslim
Brotherhood.
Nearly 500 jurisdictions are now sanctuary cities, according
to a group that’s tracked the issue for more than a decade, and who said
there’s been a massive surge in the number of places trying to thwart federal
immigration agents since President Trump’s election.
New App for Illegal Aliens Enables Them to Call for Help
When Caught
NYT Eats Crow After Trump Tax Return Proves Major Story
Wrong, “undermined the left´s speculation that he was a tax dodge.”
Trump paid higher tax rate (25%) than MSNBC COMCAST (24%),
Obama (19%), Bernie Sanders (13%)
Actually it was much higher than 25%. If ABC analyzed Trump’s return the same way
as Obama’s, reporters would have taken Trump’s “taxes paid” and divided it by
“Adjusted Gross Income.” This would have yielded an effective tax rate of 79
percent.
Donald Trump owes his presidency to then-campaign manager
Kellyanne Conway, claims White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon. Bannon
believes Conway’s “relentless advocacy” for Trump after the infamous “Access
Hollywood” scandal before last November’s general election carried the now-president
over the finish line.
Students Denounced As Racist For Wearing US Flag Colors
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
“More Reagan than Reagan?: Donald Trump follows through on
one of Ronald Reagan's failed promises”
3/16
President Donald Trump made good on a long-time conservative
goal in his first proposed budget Thursday morning, targeting the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
for complete elimination.
Trump’s budget would zero out the $445 million budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a relatively small source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide, per the Washington Post.
The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016, as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports libraries and museums. Additional cuts would affect two tourist mainstays in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art. One can practically hear the liberal shrieking from across the ocean. President Trump hasn't even been in office for 60 days and he's already proven to be better than the most lionized conservative president the Republicans have ever had.
It should be informative to see which Congressional Republicans cuck on this, just as they've tried to cuck on Obamacare. It is becoming increasingly clear that they never actually intended to do anything they promised since 1980. It is also becoming obvious that anything is on the table. He may well abolish the Department of Education too.
It's amusing to see the opposition media ping-pong from complaining about how the Wall will cost too much with claiming that $971 million is just a tiny drop in the bucket so there is no reason to cut it. But that's $971 million more that can go towards the Wall and making America great again.
Now let's see him eliminate Hollywood's tax exemptions, as Glenn Reynolds has repeatedly suggested.
Trump’s budget would zero out the $445 million budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a relatively small source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide, per the Washington Post.
The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016, as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports libraries and museums. Additional cuts would affect two tourist mainstays in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art. One can practically hear the liberal shrieking from across the ocean. President Trump hasn't even been in office for 60 days and he's already proven to be better than the most lionized conservative president the Republicans have ever had.
It should be informative to see which Congressional Republicans cuck on this, just as they've tried to cuck on Obamacare. It is becoming increasingly clear that they never actually intended to do anything they promised since 1980. It is also becoming obvious that anything is on the table. He may well abolish the Department of Education too.
It's amusing to see the opposition media ping-pong from complaining about how the Wall will cost too much with claiming that $971 million is just a tiny drop in the bucket so there is no reason to cut it. But that's $971 million more that can go towards the Wall and making America great again.
Now let's see him eliminate Hollywood's tax exemptions, as Glenn Reynolds has repeatedly suggested.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“President Trump’s assertion that his phones at Trump Tower
were tapped last year has been treated as hilarious — and in some circles as
beyond contempt. But I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance
does occur, regardless of whether it is officially approved. I was wiretapped
in 2011 after taking a phone call in my congressional office from a foreign
leader.”
-former
Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich
“I think there’s a difference between not supporting an
order on policy grounds and finding it unconstitutional. I do not think
[Trump’s travel ban is] unconstitutional. I do think the Supreme Court will
uphold it even if [Neil] Gorsuch is not yet on the Supreme Court.”
-Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz
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LEFTIST WATCH
Harvard going Orwell, protecting students from conservative
websites
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GLOBALONEY
Global Warming In One Easy Lesson “Richard Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of
Meteorology at MIT. MIT’s web site suggests his scientific eminence. “Calls to limit
carbon dioxide emissions are even less persuasive today than 25 years ago.
Future research should focus on dispassionate, high-quality climate science,
not on efforts to prop up an increasingly frayed narrative of “carbon
pollution.” Until scientific research is unfettered from the constraints of the
policy-driven UNFCCC, the research community will fail in its obligation to the
public that pays the bills.”
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ARTICLES
Conrad Black: The
ignominious collapse of the Democratic claims and insinuations that Donald
Trump was improperly connected to the Russian government has de-escalated the
Democrats’ campaign against the president — from a frenzied assault seeking
impeachment and removal for a cause to be named later, to guerrilla war.
Russian collusion has vanished down the same deep hole as the charges of
sexism, racism, and a will to autocracy.
Legal analysis: Losing
is Contagious: Inconsistent Conservatism Leads to Crushing Consistency on
Courts
“I Had Dinner With the Afghan Ambassador. What He Said About the Differences Between
Trump, Obama Is Stunning”
Newt:
ObamaCare repeal bill Republicans presented this week is an
important, first step toward achieving a next generation health care system in
America.
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WISE WORDS
“One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of
the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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