op ed review 4/26
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
In First 2 Months in Office: Trump Reduced Debt by $100
Billion
After years of stalling under President Obama, President
Trump on Friday approved the Keystone XL pipeline, and the company looking to
build the massive pipeline project has received its permit to finish it.
Trump: We’ll Have the Biggest Tax Cut Since Reagan,
‘Probably Bigger than Reagan’
The Trump administration wants to
build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is
difficult to climb or cut through.
NASA to focus on space exploration instead of global
warming: President Trump put NASA on course for deep space exploration signing
a bill that authorizes $19.5 billion in funding to revive the agency’s manned-space
flight program and plan missions to Mars and beyond.
Obamacare repeal dies for lack of
enough Republican votes. Democrats cheering.
Flashback: Republicans voted 60 times to repeal
or alter Obamacare when they knew it wouldn’t go anywhere because Obama was
president and could veto their bills.
What to think about this? Two opposing views: (1) “The Freedom Caucus is often
unreasonable, but its opposition to Ryancare was totally sane”
(2) “GOP cave on Obamacare repeal is the biggest broken promise
in political history…..Failing to get the votes on one particular bill is one
thing. But failing and then walking away on seven years of promises is a
pathetic abdication of duty.”
Fake News: AP Touts Anti-Trump Poll with Warped Demographics
Conducted by Soros-Backed Org
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for
Tuesday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job
performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar21
Republican congressional investigators expect a potential
“smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump
transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself.
Oops! CNN accidentally confirms story that Brit intel passed
along Trump communications to Obama admin.
Former CIA officer confirms the story that Judge Napolitano
told about British intelligence passing along surveillance data on Trump.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/oops_cnn_accidentally_confirms_story_that_brit_intell_passed_along_trump_communications_to_obama_admin.html#ixzz4bsdjI1VM
So why did Fox News suspend Judge Napolitano over the story?
So why did Fox News suspend Judge Napolitano over the story?
Hypocrisy: Was there
anyone more pious, anyone more inclined to stroke his chin and intone for
guarding national security than Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta?
Turns out the wily Democratic operative was neck-deep with the Russians he
intoned against all along, through a Russian-financed company called Joule.
And his brother’s lobbying firm received $180,000 from the
Russian government’s uranium company to which then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton transferred 20% of U.S. uranium reserves.
A number of top Democratic lobbyist bundlers, who together
pulled in millions of dollars for Hillary Clinton´s presidential campaign and
donated generously to Democratic leaders, personally represent or work at firms
that have represented Russian interests in recent years
Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect
Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion
Nebraska Democrats welcome refugees with diapers, kitchen utensils,
and voter registration forms.
In 24 States, 50% or More of Babies Are Born on Medicaid;
New Mexico Leads Nation With 72%, Washington State at 49%.
Three California Democrat lawmakers have a warning for
contractors who sign up for President Trump’s border-wall construction
project: Don’t participate, or else!
In an attempt to increase pressure on sanctuary cities, the
Department of Homeland Security has published its first weekly list of all 118
localities refusing to cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration
crackdown.
?? Several Senate Democrats were unified in deriding
originalism as a judicial philosophy during Monday’s Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court justiceship
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), ranking Democrat of the committee, described
originalism as a "very troubling” jurisprudential approach.
Tip of the iceberg? A
39 year-old transgender who was born male, won her first international women’s
weightlifting title, breaking four national records in the process.
Contrary to news reports last week, President Trump is not
eliminating funding for Meals on Wheels. He´s not even cutting it. How do we
know this? Meals on Wheels says so.
Howard Schultz, the very liberal CEO of Starbucks, will step
down from his role at the coffee chain next month. This comes following the
collapsing brand image as a direct result of Schultz’s political virtue
signaling to hire 10,000 refugees and avoid hiring Americans.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Pat Buchanan 3/24
Devin
Nunes just set the cat down among the pigeons. Two days after FBI Director
James Comey assured us there was no truth to President Trump's tweet about
being wiretapped by Barack Obama, the chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee said Trump may have had more than just a small point.
The
U.S. intelligence community, says Nunes, during surveillance of legitimate
targets, picked up the names of Trump transition officials during surveillance
of targets, "unmasked" their identity, and spread their names around,
virtually assuring they would be leaked. If true, this has the look and smell
of a conspiracy to sabotage the Trump presidency, before it began.
Comey
readily confirmed there was no evidence to back up the Trump tweet. But when it
came to electronic surveillance of Trump and his campaign, Comey, somehow,
could not comment on that. Which raises the question: What is the real scandal
here?.....
The
real scandal, which the media regard as a diversion from the primary target,
Trump, is that a Deep State conspiracy to bring down his presidency seems to
have been put in place by Obamaites, and perhaps approved by Obama himself. Consider.
On Jan. 12, David Ignatius of the Washington Post wrote, "According
to a senior U.S. government official, (Gen. Michael) Flynn phoned Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama
administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials ... What did
Flynn say?" Now, on Dec. 29,
Flynn, national security adviser-designate, was not only doing his job calling
the ambassador, he was a private citizen. Why was he unmasked by U.S.
intelligence?
Who
is this "senior official" who dropped the dime on him? Could this
official have known how many times Flynn spoke to Kislyak, yet not known what
was said on the calls? That is hard to believe. This looks like a contract hit
by an anti-Trump agent in the intel community, using Ignatius to do the wet
work. Flynn was taken down. Did Comey turn his FBI loose to ferret out the
felon who had unmasked Flynn and done him in? If not, why not?
In
today's Wall Street Journal, Dan Henninger points anew to a story in The New
York Times of March 1 that began: "In the Obama administration's last
days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information (across the
government) about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election -- and
about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Trump and
Russians…..At intelligence agencies, there was a push to process as much raw
intelligence as possible into analyses, and to keep the reports at a relatively
low classification level to ensure as wide a readership as possible across the
government -- and, in some cases, among European allies."
For
what benign purpose would U.S. intelligence agents spread secrets damaging to
their own president -- to foreign regimes? Is this not disloyalty? Is this not
sedition?
On Jan.
12, writes Henninger, the Times "reported that Attorney General Loretta
Lynch signed rules that let the National Security Agency disseminate 'raw
signals intelligence information' to 16 other intelligence agencies."
Astounding.
The Obamaites seeded the U.S. and allied intel communities with IEDs to be
detonated on Trump's arrival. This is the scandal, not Trump telling Vlad to go
find Hillary's 30,000 missing emails. We need to know who colluded with the
Russians, if anyone did. But more critically, we need to unearth the deep state
conspiracy to sabotage a presidency.
So
far, the Russia-connection investigation has proven a dry hole. But an
investigation into who in the FBI, CIA or NSA is unmasking U.S. citizens and criminally
leaking information to a Trump-hating press to destroy a president they are
sworn to serve could prove to be a gusher.
As
for the reports of Lynch-White House involvement in this unfolding plot to
damage and destroy Trump the real question is: What did Barack Obama know, and
when did he know it?
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OTHER COLUMNS
“This is what the Left means when it talks about the
‘fundamental transformation’ of America, using massive flows of immigration to
change America the way Europe is being changed. The Left rejects the idea of
American exceptionalism. It rejects assimilation, the idea behind e pluribus
unum: out of many, one. That is why the Left is increasingly outraged by
displays of patriotism. Earlier this month, an Iowa high school apologized
after students at a basketball game showed up wearing red, white and blue. Are
you kidding me?! American kids showing pride in their country should not be
offensive. What is offensive is that a young girl within a short drive of the
White House was raped in a school restroom by thugs who shouldn’t have been in
the country. By the way, if immigration agents had caught up with [Henry]
Sanchez-Milian [one of the perpetrators] and raided the apartment or home where
he was living prior to last week’s attack, he would have been presented on the
evening news as a victim, another ‘dreamer’ whose dreams were cut short by
Donald Trump. It seems to me that we should be devoting more effort to figuring
who is dreaming of helping America and who is dreaming about assaulting our
daughters.”
-Gary
Bauer
“If you want a good world, the death of Judeo-Christian
values should frighten you.”
-Dennis
Prager
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BOOKS
“Reagan Rising”
by Craig Shirley fascinatingly charts Ronald Reagan's rise from the defeat of
the 1976 presidential campaign to his victory in 1980. This book allows
people to gain new insights into how Ronald Reagan grew as a candidate and
leader as he championed the individual and appealed across party lines.
But readers can also see many similarities between the rise of Ronald Reagan
and the election of Donald Trump.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/how_to_chart_ronald_reagans_ascent__and_its_parallels_to_trump.html#ixzz4cLdz28jk
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LEFTIST WATCH
New ‘Safe Space’ Guidelines at University of Arizona Treat Students
Like Preschoolers
The Socialist senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, set off
a Twitterstorm yesterday with a tweet that was hard to believe….A man who owns
three houses -- including the recent purchase of a vacation home for $600K --
and pays a smaller percentage of his income in taxes than most middle class
Americans, should not be taking a dump on America in a glass house.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) tells Trump to ´get ready for
impeachment´
Media outlets promote 78 year old Rep. Maxine
Waters as the new Democratic leader for millennials to rally behind.
A network of some of the nation’s wealthiest Democratic
donors is weighing providing money and support to several of the new activist groups
that have cropped up since Election Day to challenge President Trump. The
alliance, aligned with billionaire financier George Soros, also is weighing
building a pool of money that can be deployed for “rapid response” work by
other liberal groups on an array of issues.
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ARTICLES
“Newspapers in my state reported a particularly sadistic
murder. The victim was shot, strangled, beaten with a hammer, stabbed,
punched, and set on fire. The killers were thorough and then some. If you look at how
reading is taught in the U.S., you will think of this execution.
Children are taught stupidly and then some. Every technique that will make reading difficult
and unpleasant is employed…..”
Next time you hear about students attacking a conservative
speaker, check the school´s tuition costs. Odds are you´ll find that they are
attending an elite college that caters to the rich. Money can´t buy love, but
it can, apparently, teach intolerance.
Tim Allen
says that living in Hollywood right now is akin to Nazi Germany “You gotta be real careful around
here,” Allen noted. “You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody else
believes. This is like ’30s Germany.” Allen, 63, plays an outspoken conservative
on the sitcom “Last Man Standing” and is one of the few actors in Hollywood to
profess having right-wing leanings.
Crowdsourcing border security: Citizens can sign up as Virtual Texas
Deputies to participate in border surveillance through this social network.
Virtual Texas Deputies from around the country will monitor the streaming video
from these cameras 24/7 and report any suspicious activities directly to the
Border Sheriffs via email. All emails regarding suspicious activity will be
submitted anonymously.
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WISE WORDS
“[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful
in a law is the intention of the law-makers.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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