op ed review 5/14
Trump fires FBI director Comey. “Trump goads his critics into incoherent
rage……this, and all the other fulminating underway over the Comey firing, is
precisely the response that President Trump anticipated. For Trump, the outrage
of his critics over the way he handled the firing of his FBI director is not a
bug, it is a feature, as they say in the tech world.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/trump_goads_his_critics_into_incoherent_rage_with_comey_firing.html#ixzz4gglajcOj
IBD: “Why Trump Was Dead Right To Tell Comey: ´You´re Fired´”
IBD: “Why Trump Was Dead Right To Tell Comey: ´You´re Fired´”
In Firing Comey, Trump Shows He´s Afraid of No One
CNN can’t understand it: “Many Trump backers are ´totally OK´
with Comey firing”
Fire Comey! Whole string of Democrats called for Comey’s
firing, but that was then, this is now.
The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in
April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury
Department data released on Wednesday.
“Steel industry, seeing a new dawn, is cheering for Trump.”
President Trump is expected to
sign an executive order on Thursday launching a commission to review alleged
voter fraud and voter suppression in the U.S. election system, three White
House officials said.
The Trump administration on Monday named 10 judges and other
law professionals it plans to nominate for key posts as President Donald Trump
works to place more conservatives on the nation´s federal courts.
The
Mormon church will pull about 150,000 boys out of Boy Scout programs, starting
next year. The announcement is
significant. The church and the Boy Scouts of America have had a relationship
for more than a century. It was the first partner to sponsor Scouting in the
United States, and to this day remains the nation's largest sponsor. The church
said the move was meant to shift focus to "spiritual, social, physical and
intellectual goals outlined by the Church." But it comes at a time the
church has expressed reservations about the Boy Scouts' decision to allow gay
and transgender troop leaders.
Middle School Student Suspended 10 days for liking a photo
of an airsoft gun on Instagram
Residents of a Mexican city are upset about Central American
immigrants causing crime.
Fact Check: It´s a Lie That the GOP Healthcare Bill Abandons
People With Pre-Existing Conditions
“Parents Magazine Needs To Check The Facts Before Scaring
Moms About Pre-Existing Conditions”
Democrats said the mayor´s election in Omaha was a
referendum on President Trump. Then their guy lost.
While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made a personal
call to pressure Bangladesh’s prime minister to aid a donor to her husband’s
charitable foundation despite federal ethics laws that require government
officials to recuse themselves from matters that could impact their spouse’s
business.
MTV gets praise from liberal groups for awarding the first “genderless
acting award” on a major entertainment awards show.
Oregon planning to be first state with a ´no gender´ option
on its driving licenses which could be available from this summer
In the name of progress, Harvard University will segregate
graduation ceremonies based on race. Seriously.
Detroit School to Hold ‘Muslim Girls Only’ Prom
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Mark Bauerline 5/9
I
have given up on discussing the ascendance of Donald Trump with anyone who
didn’t vote for him. They are too hard in their denunciation. A mild suggestion
that the Democratic Party went so far into identity politics that it pushed
people toward a leader outspokenly tired of political correctness leads at most
to a pause in the rancor. “Yes,” they
might agree, before returning to the point: “But Trump? You can’t be serious!”
You
don’t get a debate, just another accusation. And pledges, too, as in
Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ “We’ve got to stop his ass!”
It
is clear by now that reactions such as these to Donald Trump’s presidency run
deeper than political differences. When you see your liberal friends and
colleagues unable to contain their scorn, you know that the offense isn’t about
education policy and tax rates. Something fundamentally human is in play.
In
the last 50 years of culture wars in America, there has been no stronger weapon
than guilt. It is the Left’s great hammer of progress. It figured powerfully in
the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, women’s liberation, and
same-sex marriage. Guilt runs through the teaching of U.S. history from 5th
grade through college. It colors controversies over affirmative action,
transgender bathrooms, and the glass ceiling. The entire careers of Leftist
commentators from the self-righteous Bill Moyers to the self-regarding
Ta-Nehisi Coates rest upon it. If we add up the successes guilt has brought to
progressive causes and identity politics, we realize just how important guilt
is to the Left agenda. Without it, in fact, the Left fails.
Which
brings us back to Donald Trump. Why do people hate him so?
Because
he won’t accept this appointed condition. He has no white guilt. He doesn’t
feel any male guilt, either, or American guilt or Christian guilt. He talks
about the United States with uncritical approval—“America First”—and that’s a
thought crime in the eyes of liberals. It ignores slavery, Jim Crow, the Indian
wars, Manzanar . . . Donald Trump would never refer to America as beset by the
original sin of racism, as Barack Obama did frequently, and that makes him
worse than a conservative. President Trump is a bigot.
He
enjoys the company of attractive women and makes no apologies for it. A man of
proper male guilt would have bowed out after the bus tapes were released during the campaign, but
there he was in the second presidential debate talking about jail time for
Hillary.
And
he wouldn’t say, “Black Lives Matter,” either, a slogan that implies whites
don’t care about black lives, but insisted, “All lives matter.”
Finally,
while Christians, especially Catholics and Evangelicals , are supposed to feel
guilty for their doctrine on gender roles and abortion, President Trump quickly
dropped gender identity from Title IX and nominated a religious conservative to the Supreme
Court.
That’s
what happens when a political leader doesn’t share the guilt, and progressives
know it. For decades they have pushed a campaign of guilt in classrooms,
museums, movies, books, and newsrooms precisely to forestall those moves. If
you can persuade an opponent that he’s wrong about a political issue, you can
win the day’s debate. But if you can make him feel guilty about his opinion,
you’ve got him on the defensive forever.
Guilt
isn’t political, it’s psychological. When you can make someone feel guilty,
it’s a powerful temptation, especially among those who already suffer feelings
of resentment. When during the course of the campaign Mr. Trump refused to
accept any guilt, the frustration and disbelief among the Democrats and the
media were obvious. When he spoke of “Mexican rapists,” the outrage was
voluminous, but he wouldn’t apologize. When the former-president of Mexico
sputtered an obscenity about the wall, Trump replied, “The wall just got ten
feet taller.” A guilty man wouldn’t be so unabashed.
Guilt
isn’t political, it’s psychological. When you can make someone feel guilty,
it’s a powerful temptation, especially among those who already suffer feelings
of resentment.
When
David Duke came out in favor of Trump, the media pounced, insisting that surely
this time Trump would acknowledge shameful elements in his candidacy. But when
asked, Trump looked more puzzled than ashamed. It was as if he didn’t understand why David Duke was even
an issue, but that only compounded his vice, for Duke is significant precisely
because he embodies American guilt. That Trump minimized the whole thing only
showed his absence of shame.
Donald
Trump’s success, then, amounts to a calamitous disarmament of the Left. Not his
occupation of the White House, but his termination of the game of guilt—for
now, at least. Since the election, progressives have only amplified the
charges. More and more, the protests look less like political speech and more
like tantrums. Yes, but what else could they do? As Freud once said, “hardly
anything is harder for a man than to give up a pleasure which he has once
experienced.” Until the Left lets go of guilt and begins formulating a
political outlook, not a psycho-political one, its steady descent into
adolescence will continue.
“The gift Trump has given the Republican party is the power
to reject the guilt. He doesn't care about the labels, he doesn't care about
the stigma, he doesn't even care what they think of him. Or, as Glenn Reynolds
summed up, "He rejects their assumed position of moral and intellectual
supremacy. Which is both fair, and painful, because that position has always
been a lie."
Conrad Black:
“Trump’s quiet victories”
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Scientists have found 1,559 genetic differences between
boys and girls — but try telling that to Oregon officials! The radicals in the
Beaver State are doing everything they can to gloss over those distinctions in
their latest push to wipe gender off drivers' licenses. In what ought to make
every American shake their head, Transgender Oregonians are lobbying for the
change, which would let residents identify as ‘nonbinary’ (neither male nor
female) on their most significant form of identification.”
-Tony Perkins
“No one has yet to explain to me what the core crime [is]
that would be investigated with regard to Russian influence.”
-law
professor Jonathan Turley
_____________________________________________________________________
LEFTIST WATCH
Being a member of the Communist Party would no longer be a
fireable offense for California government employees under a bill passed by the
state Assembly.
After Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was rudely shouted
down by left-wing students during a commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman
University on Wednesday, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning attempted to justify
the disrespectful behavior.
__________________________________________________________________
GLOBALONEY
A GLOBAL cool down will “march in with vengeance” to usher
in a 100-year mini-ice age that could freeze over the River Thames, climate
scientists told Daily Star Online.
Obama ‘travels with gas-guzzling 14 car escort to give $3.2 million
dollar climate change speech.
__________________________________________________________________
ARTICLES
If you´re wondering where the Washington, D.C., swamp is
being drained as promised, look no further than the Federal Communications
Commission and intrepid new Chairman Ajit Pai.
The Democrats who attacked President Trump’s travel order in
front of carefully-selected Democratic judges made the extraordinary claim that
the President’s statements on the stump, as a candidate, were somehow relevant
to whether the order was constitutional. This claim implies that an order may
be unconstitutional if issued by one president, while the exact same order
would be perfectly fine if issued by another. This is an absurd result. It may
be absurd, but it is what the Democrats believe.
The Real Reason Washington Post Republicans Hate Donald
Trump
“Claims….about how the U.S. spends more money on health care
and gets worse outcomes than any other industrialized nation are nonsense.”
_____________________________________________________________________
WISE WORDS
“I want people to be able to get what they need to live:
enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government
does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.”
-Davy
Crockett (1786-1836)
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