op ed review 5/28
President Trump’s trip to the Middle East has even the liberal
New York Daily News impressed: “Trump’s
bracing clarity on terrorism: His Saudi speech, rallying the world, brings
necessary boldness to the fight”
A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the
true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump.
GQ’s Keith Olbermann Pleads with Spy Agencies Around the
World to Help Him Take Down Trump
The Media Can’t Stop Asking Democratic Guests If They’re
Ready to Impeach Trump
Classified documents show Obama illegally spied on Americans
for years...
The FBI has illegally shared raw intelligence about
Americans with unauthorized third parties and violated other constitutional
privacy protections, according to newly declassified government documents that
undercut the bureau’s public assurances about how carefully it handles
warrantless spy data to avoid abuses or leaks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed that another senator had told
him that he was surveilled by the Obama administration.
Justice Scalia Believed Supreme Court was Being Surveilled
by Obama
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department
will ask the Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling that blocked
President Donald Trump´s travel ban. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on
Thursday ruled 10-3 against the travel ban.
Republican Greg Gianforte won Thursday’s special election
for the U.S. House in Montana, defeating Democratic challenger Rob Quist
despite being charged with misdemeanor assault the day before. The election
results — with Gianforte winning over 50% of the vote and leading by a
seven-point margin — were a major blow to Democrats’ anti-Trump efforts, and to
the media’s expectations, after Gianforte had allegedly “body-slammed” a
reporter before his final campaign event on Wednesday.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday said the
terror threat is worse than most realize, saying some people would "never
leave the house" if they knew the truth.
Seth Rich, slain DNC staffer, had contact with WikiLeaks,
say multiple sources
More than 7 million voter registrations appear to be
registered in two states simultaneously, according to data obtained by the
Washington Free Beacon.
Yet another court has thrown out a voter ID law. Last week,
the Fifth Circuit gutted Texas’s voter ID law under the ludicrous notion that
it discriminates against minorities. Today, the Fourth Circuit overturned North
Carolina’s voter ID law and went a step further than the Fifth Circuit,
asserting that the law was “passed with racially discriminatory intent.”
The message is being sent out loud and clear: the American
Left is moving toward violence as a tactic in its quest to grab the political
power to which it believes it is entitled.
Violence And Intimidation Against Republicans Are Becoming
The New Normal
Need more of this: Maxine
Waters heckled by pro-Trump protesters at Inglewood town hall
Western Washington University is hosting a workshop Friday
to ´reduce the impact of white privilege´.
Students at Evergreen State College demand the firing of a
professor who objected to student demands that all white people leave the campus
for one day to create a “safe space for the students left behind.”
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to
host an event to mark Islam´s holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said,
apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions
for nearly 20 years.
Planned Parenthood executives joked about decapitated
fetuses, admitted to altering abortion procedures to preserve fetal organs and
said clinics have a financial incentive to sell human tissue in a new
undercover video released Thursday.
The same 9th circuit judge that blocked President
Trump’s executive order on sanctuary cities, ordered YouTube to remove this
video.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Wes Pruden: “Anything goes in the Great American Snipe Hunt”
Now anything goes. All restraints are loosened, all
self-discipline trashed. There’s no cure or even treatment for Trump
Derangement Syndrome, a disease as wild and as swiftly lethal as anything
imported from the Ebola River valley of the dark continent. The rules and
taboos that once guided even the sleaziest excuse for a newspaper no longer
apply.
Destroying Donald Trump is all that matters in the newsrooms
of the mainstream media, so called, and by any means necessary. Rarely have so
many hysterics contributed so much of the national conversation.
A columnist in The New York Times, ground zero in the
epidemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome, suggests that a mutiny at the White
House is the “more appropriate” way to rid the nation of the legitimate 46th
duly elected president of the United States. Why waste time on impeachment?
Mike Pence, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell could organize the ambush. The
columnist likens them to “stewards for a syphilitic emperor.”
Ross Douthat is regarded as a “conservative” at The New York
Times, and he thinks impeachment would take too long, be too messy, and
recommends invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment, which permits the president’s
Cabinet to remove the president if a majority of the secretaries tells Congress
that the president can no longer perform his duties.
Ultimately, he writes in the newspaper once known as “the
old gray lady” and which has become “the old crazy lady,” he does not believe
“our president sufficiently understands the nature of the office he holds, the
nature of the legal constraints that are supposed to bind him, perhaps even the
nature of normal human interactions, to be guilty of obstruction of justice in
the Nixonian or even Clintonian sense of the phrase.”
A half-century ago a certain magazine thought a
long-distance psychiatric examination of a presidential candidate was in order,
and asked 12,000 psychiatrists (who knew there were so many headshrinkers on
the fruited plain?) whether they thought Barry Goldwater was crazy, and 1,189
responded with a diagnosis: Mr. Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president
in 1964, was nothing less than nuts. The American Psychiatric Association,
sensitive to the public outrage that followed, told their members never to do
it again.
But since the psychiatrists wouldn’t do it, Ross Douthat was
fitted out with degrees in medicine and psychiatry (honorary degrees, we must
hope), and told to get to work. (He is expected to retire his shingle once
President Trump has been dispatched to the nut house, but who knows? On the
Upper East Side there’s never enough psychiatrists.) Dr. Douthat writes that
the president has no aides, friends and confidantes who have any remaining
regard for him. “They have no respect for him, indeed they seem to palpate with
contempt for him, and to regard their mission as equivalent to being stewards
for a syphilitic emperor.”
Since impeachment would take so long, Dr. Douthat would
“respectfully ask Mike Pence and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to reconsider
their support for a man who never should have had his party’s nomination, never
should have been elevated to this office, never should have been endorsed and
propped up and defended by people who understood his unfitness all along.”
It’s hard to imagine anything more calculated to invoke a
Second Amendment answer to such a Twenty-fifth Amendment coup, and it would be
nothing less than a coup by the Republican elites and the press that so many
Americans believe have “rigged” the elections meant to express the nation’s
will. You don’t have to be a Trump friend, supporter or voter to see where this
would inevitably lead. The United States has never been a banana republic or a
third world dump where elections are ultimately determined in the streets, but
this would be the ultimate national indignity, wrought by just those who would
go to civil war to depose an indignity.
The two stories that have dominated
the news this week were the work of the very two newspapers, The Washington
Post and The New York Times, that have become the not-so-loyal opposition,
drivers of the coup with tales told in every edition. The Post accuses the
president of dispensing national secrets to the Russians, based on the word of
an anonymous source who concedes he wasn’t in the meeting, and denied by those
who were. The New York Times says it heard a passage read from a memo written
by James Comey, telling how the president asked him go easy on Mike Flynn, and
denied by the White House.
All this to support tales of Trump campaign collusion with
the Russians, which Democrats and Republicans agree that no one has yet found
any evidence of. There’s no fire and only a few wisps of something that might
be smoke, or more likely, the passing of partisan gas.
Another good read:
Ben Stein 5/20 “First of all, now that we know we can have
Special Prosecutors without there being any meaningful evidence of a crime, or
in fact any evidence at all of a crime besides gossip and endless political
campaigning, let’s have a Special Prosecutor for Maxine Waters. She’s the
screaming voice of the most anti-Trump, shrillest slice of the Democrat party.
She’s been a civil servant all of her life, earning a modest wage. Somehow, she
has a $4.5 million dollar home and other property here in L.A. True, there’s no
evidence so far that’s she’s taken bribes. But under the logic of Rod
Rosenstein, that only means she’s all the more guilty and needs a Special
Prosecutor to investigate every aspect of her whole life.”
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Demagoguery and
propaganda are enemies of good governance, but nowhere is that more apparent
than in the federal budget, on which Democrats are shameless and too many
Republicans are feckless. Sages from American history presciently predicted
that our republic would be in jeopardy if voters acquired the power to vote
themselves money from the public trough. The U.S. Constitution did not
contemplate that the federal government and federal politicians would be able
to secure their elective offices through legislative transfers of wealth, but
the sordid practice has been with us for decades, and we are paying the price.
… Liberals have an easy job. All they need to do is promise benefits and apply
dishonest marketing strategies to paint themselves as caring and their
opponents as ogres. They don’t need to designate how those benefits will be
funded, and they slam the so-called rich for not paying their fair share — an
abominably false claim.”
-David Limbaugh:
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LEFTIST WATCH
Something is wrong with the American Left. The recent spate
of violent protests on college campuses has been well-documented, but the
violence and intolerance championed by left-wing student activists is beginning
to creep off campus and into mainstream public life.
A new $80 million anti-Trump network is being led by an
organization whose top funder is liberal billionaire George Soros and which
employs former members of the controversial and now-defunct Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
George Soros has all but bought another district attorney’s
seat. The left-wing billionaire turned the Philadelphia district attorney’s
race on its head by giving $1.45 million to fund a super PAC in support of his
preferred candidate, Larry Krasner.
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GLOBALONEY
National Science Foundation Spends $700K on Climate Change
Musical
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ARTICLES
“As I write this, there is a crowd outside the house of FCC
commissioner Pai. His crime? He is returning control of the internet to
internet service providers (ISPs). The Obama administration enacted "Net
Neutrality" in defiance of a Supreme Court decision. In essence, Barack
Obama seized ISP property because the ISPs weren´t serving the public interest.
This was exactly how socialist revolutionary Benito Mussolini defined Fascism:
a system where citizens own private property so long as they serve the public
interest.”
Why did Trump say that Obama spied on him? Because he did.
Politics in the Western world is undergoing a “big sort” that
could upend major parties in several nations that date their existence to the
industrialization of the 19th century. While it’s no sure thing, conservatives
stand a good chance of forming the new winning coalitions that will emerge from
this kaleidoscopic change.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447993/global-politics-21st-century-patriots-transnationalists
The left’s ridiculous double standard on spilling secrets
“Below
is the case for how the Hillary Clinton campaign was colluding with the Russian
government, and then tried to cover it up by blaming her election loss on
Russian President Vladimir Putin…Here is a partial accounting of the
connections we do know something about.”
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PHOTOS, VIDEOS, LISTS, CHARTS
Mesmerizing time-lapse captures rare cloud phenomenon in
Grand Canyon
Amazing new digital archive of more than 2million images
highlights the best work from the first 100 years of photography
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4547484/Digital-archive-highlights-100-years-photography.html#ixzz4iKKa0jFu
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WISE WORDS
“All government, in
its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing
forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.”
-H. L. Mencken
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done
by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a
limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to
particular exceptions.”
-James Madison
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