op ed review 4/16
President Trump will speak at the National Rifle
Association’s annual convention on April 28, becoming the first U.S. president
to address the gun-rights group since Ronald Reagan in 1983.
The White House will direct federal agencies to make deep
personnel cuts over the next year.
The conservative Club for Growth aims to turn up the heat on
more centrist Republicans to pressure them to support legislation to repeal and
replace Obamacare.
President Trump refused to sign onto the G7 statement on the
Paris Agreement to Global Warming junk science. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said the US was
in the process of reviewing the agreement.
Judge Napolitano Vindicated? British Intelligence Was Used
By Obama Administration to Obtain FISA Warrants On Trump Team
61% of federal criminal arrests are of non-citizens
President Trump´s newly installed U.S. attorney general,
former Sen. Jeff Sessions, is doing something unique for a top U.S. law
official: He´s actually enforcing immigration law. What a concept.
Sessions Announces Illegal Aliens Who Illegally Re-Enter The
U.S. Will Be Charged With a Felony
Fear of Trump Makes Migrants Disappear From Mexican Border
Dallas´ Latino leadership organized an immigration march,
hoping for 100,000 people. After the
march, Dallas police estimated 3,200 people marched and attended the subsequent
rally.
In the first special election since Donald Trump’s big win
in November, Republicans held Mike Pompeo’s seat in Kansas. But New York Times
declares it a victory for Democrats.
The liberal media, so desperate for anti-Trump stories to
feed into their narrative, are looking to use something as innocuous as the
White House Easter egg roll as a yardstick to show "yet another"
failure of the Trump administration.
The Keystone XL oil pipeline could generate about $44
million in tax revenues a day once it’s fully up and running, according to a
new report.
State of Modern Sports: Boy Identifies as Girl, Boy Competes
as Girl, Boy Wins Everything
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investor’s Business Daily
With surprisingly little fanfare, President Trump has set
about doing something that has evaded presidents of both parties for decades:
reshaping, resizing and reforming our vast, dysfunctional federal bureaucracy.
If he succeeds, all Americans will be the better for it. It's not an easy task.
But it is a vital one.
Last Wednesday, the ball really got rolling when Trump ended
his temporary freeze on federal hiring, and announced a plan to
"resize" the government to make it less costly, more productive and
more responsive to average citizens. It's the kind of thing that private
businesses do all the time, but that Big Government with its 2.9 million
workers does almost never.
"The president of the United States has asked all of us
in the executive branch to start from scratch — a little blank piece of
paper, and if you were going to rebuild the executive branch, what would it
look like?" Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told
reporters.
To that end, Mulvaney has
sent a letter to all federal agencies telling them to expect major funding cuts
and that calls on them to "reorganize governmental functions and eliminate
unnecessary agencies" as part of a plan to make government leaner and more
efficient.
Though the bureaucracy makeover is part of the laundry list
of items Trump wanted to get done in his first 100 days, Mulvaney notes the
actual budget cuts won't happen until the 2019 budget. "One of the reasons
this is so difficult to do is that you just can't wave a magic wand in the Oval
Office and do these things," Mulvaney told RealClearPolitics.
Recent tales of a Veterans Affairs worker viewing porn while
dealing with a customer and a Las Vegas-based Environmental Protection Agency
official who used a government credit card for a $14,799 high-end gym
membership only underscore the need for changes. But it goes even farther than
that.
The fact is, along with revamping the bureaucracy itself,
Trump plans to slash thousands and thousands of burdensome regulations whose
costs far exceed their benefits. Today, according to economists' estimates,
regulation costs the U.S. more than $2 trillion, much of that completely
unnecessary. Sharp cuts in regulation will lead to fewer, but far more
productive, federal workers.
The goal isn't to punish federal workers, but to make them
subject to the same rules of efficiency as the rest of the world. It will take
some doing, but reducing the size, scope and cost of government, while also
limiting its influence in our lives, is a worthy goal.
Another good
read: “The circumstantial evidence is
mounting that the Kremlin succeeded in infiltrating the US government at the
highest levels. How else to explain a newly elected president looking the other
way after an act of Russian aggression? Agreeing to a farcically one-sided
nuclear deal? Mercilessly mocking the idea that Russia represents our foremost
geo-political foe? Accommodating the illicit nuclear ambitions of a Russian
ally? Welcoming a Russian foothold in the Middle East? Refusing to provide arms
to a sovereign country invaded by Russia? Diminishing our defenses and pursuing
a Moscow-friendly policy of hostility to fossil fuels? All of these items, of
course, refer to things said or done by President Barack Obama.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“The most important thing for us is to send a message to the
world that the border is not open. Please don’t come. You will be apprehended
if you do come, and you will be deported promptly.”
-Attorney General Jeff Sessions
“In the end, capital punishment is a matter of justice and
just deserts. It is justice for the dead and his or her relatives and it is
just deserts for the murderer. On several occasions I have offered people
opposed to the death penalty a deal. I will oppose capital punishment for the
guilty, if they will oppose ‘capital punishment’ for the innocent unborn. I am
still waiting to hear from them.”
-Cal
Thomas
“The reason that the Russians are in [Syria] is not an
affection for Assad … but because, as a result of their involvement, they now
have a naval base in the warm water Mediterranean, they have an active, very
powerful airbase in Syria. They have a presence in the Middle East. They are
the power. They have displaced the United States. And their entire foreign
policy under Putin is to restore the glory and the territory and the influence
of old Soviet Union, one piece at a time. And it does that by taking away from
the United States. It’s a zero sum game.”
-Charles Krauthammer
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LEFTIST WATCH
MIT Press has just put out a new book aimed at the kiddie
market. It’s called “Communism for Kids.” And it’s hitting the “best seller”
Amazon lists for the “communism and socialism” section — yes, that’s truly a
section. Anyhow, the Amazon description reads thusly: “Once upon a time, people
yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism.”
Notre Dame’s student newspaper spotlighted a protest
campaign by left-wing undergraduates decrying the supposedly “racist, sexist,
homophobic, [and] xenophobic” Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence,
who is set to be the commencement speaker this year at the university.
The Pigpen Left: Found in 20,000 tons of Dakota pipeline
protest garbage and debris: one dead body.
A lawsuit alleges Seattle mayor Ed Murray raped
drug-addicted, teenaged boys.
If the Mayor resigns, the Seattle Times frets about “the
possibility of a Mayor Kshama Sawant, or some other extreme left-wing
ideologue, steering this booming city wildly off course.”
Forcing Political Correctness On Employees And Characters Is
Killing Marvel Comics
Venezuela: Socialist Mob Assaults Archbishop of Caracas
During Holy Week Mass
Harvard is dropping the reference to the school´s Puritan
founders in the lyrics of its 181-year-old alma mater because it´s “not
inclusive enough.”
A PBS high school lesson plan encourages students to
empathize with young Palestinian terrorists who want to become suicide bombers
to achieve martyrdom and suggests they would rather die because Palestinians
have less land and are restricted.
The editorial staff of Wellesley College’s student newspaper
recently wrote that anyone who dares utter a politically incorrect thought
should be punished with “hostility.”
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ISLAM
Muslim teacher in Australia demonstrates how a man should
beat women with a stick - as Islamic group says a husband´s violence towards his
wife is a ´beautiful blessing´.
Flashback from last week: “Here…is the moderate liberal
Islamic position on beating your wife: Don't do it too hard. “….the goal of the
beatings is rebuke in a way that does not cause injury.”
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ARTICLES
Palace intrigue:
Conflict between Trump advisor Steve Bannon and Trump son-in-law Jared
Kushner. “The Swamp Is Rooting for
Kushner”
If Tesla Is Worth More Than GM, Why Are Taxpayers Still
Subsidizing It?
“The surprising truth about Trump and veterans” Without Trump, Vietnam War veterans would
have never gotten their heroes´ welcome, 32 years ago, “the largest parade of
participants in the history of New York City.”
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WEBSITES, LISTS, VIDEOS
104 Year history of the income tax.
Video released by the Pentagon on Friday showed the “Mother
of all Bombs (MOAB)” plummeting from the sky and exploding in eastern
Afghanistan, as military officials said it flattened a cave-and-tunnel complex
controlled by ISIS. President Donald Trump, who said he authorized
the attack, called it a “very, very successful mission.”
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WISE WORDS
“But if we are to be told by a foreign Power … what we shall
do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have
contended hitherto for very little.”
-George Washington
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