op ed review 6/25
The Congressional race between Republican Karen Handel and
Democrat Jon Ossoff was the most expensive House race in US history. More than
$50 million spent on the race, Osoff had nine times as many donors from
California as from Georgia where he was running, but it wasn’t enough.
Republican Karen Handel defeated Ossoff by nearly 5%.
Pollsters say sky-high turnout drove Handel, the GOP
nominee, to a nearly 5-point victory on Tuesday, despite most pre-election
surveys showing Ossoff with a small-lead.
“Democrats swamped by Republicans who came out in numbers
that ended up dwarfing previous high-profile special elections..”
There have been 4 special congressional elections since the
hated Trump took office and Democrats have lost all 4.
Message from Georgia: Hating Trump is not a platform
Left wing terrorism:
A total of 30 Republican members of Congress have either been attacked
or revealed that they were the victim of a death threat since the beginning of
May.
A research group in New Jersey has taken a fresh look at
postelection polling data and concluded that the number of noncitizens voting
illegally in U.S. elections is likely far greater than previous estimates. As
many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have voted in the 2008 election, which put
Barack Obama in the White House
President Donald Trump has said he will pursue legislation
that would bar immigrants from being eligible for welfare for at least five
years.
Audit shows 1.4 million illegals working under stolen Social
Security numbers.
California state lawmakers approved $45 million in a state
budget plan to expand legal services for illegal immigrants.
Some of the top CEO’s of technology companies in America met
with Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, praising him for hosting an
afternoon summit on important tech issues.
Protesters interrupted President Trump’s Wednesday rally in
Iowa, but his crowd of supporters responded by drowning them out with a “USA”
chant.
CNN Tries To Conduct Online Trump-Hater Poll, But Turns Out
To Be Landslide Of Support For President
Starting to like this guy:……Rep. Greg Gianforte of Montana,
the newest member of Congress, drew boos from some in his own Republican caucus
as he called for withholding lawmakers’ pay unless they approve a balanced
budget.
Hillary Clinton escaped criminal charges last year but her
legal troubles may not be over — the Arkansas state bar has promised a decision
by next month on disciplinary action over “dishonest behavior and lying under
oath in testimony to Congress.”
The State Department has opened a formal inquiry into
whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her aides mishandled
classified information while she was the nation’s top diplomat.
Russia collusion?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated the transfer a
highly enriched uranium (HEU) previously confiscated by the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) during a 2006 “nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one
Russian national and several Georgian accomplices,” a newly leaked classified
cable shows
Authorities are treating the stabbing of a police officer at
an airport in Michigan as an act of terrorism. The suspect, Amor Ftouhi, 50,
shouted "Allahu Akbar" before knifing the officer in the back and
neck, said officials.
A new report claims that DNC staffer Seth Rich was likely
killed by either “a hired killer or serial murderer.”
Atheists across the fruited plain are rejoicing after a
federal judge declared that a cross erected in a Florida park violated the law
and must come down.
Court Tosses Out 14 Charges Against Pro-life Journalist Who
Exposed Planned Parenthood’s Baby Part Market
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investor’s Business Daily
6/22
“Did Votes By Noncitizens Cost Trump The 2016 Popular Vote? Sure Looks That Way…”
Late
in 2016, we created a stir by suggesting that Donald Trump was likely right
when he claimed that millions of noncitizens had illegally voted in the U.S.
election. Now, a study by a New Jersey think tank provides new evidence that
that's what happened.
Last
November, just weeks after his Electoral College win that gave him the
presidency, then President-elect Donald Trump tweeted, "In addition to
winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you
deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." The reaction was angry
and swift, with the left accusing him of being an "internet troll"
and of hatching a "Twitter-born conspiracy theory."
At
the time, we noted that a group called True The Vote, an online
anti-voter-fraud website, had claimed that illegals had cast three million
votes last year. The media and left-wing groups immediately portrayed True The
Vote as a fringe group with little credibility.
The
only problem is, a study in 2014 in the online Electoral Studies Journal made a quite similar claim: In the
2008 and 2010 elections, they said, as many as 2.8 million illegal noncitizen
votes were cast, "enough to change meaningful election outcomes including
Electoral College votes and congressional elections," said the study,
authored by Jesse T. Richman and Gushan A. Chattha, both of Old Dominion
University, and David C. Earnest of George Mason University.
The
bombshell was this: "Noncitizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the
pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care
reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress." It got little coverage in the mainstream
media, and what coverage it did get was almost entirely dismissive.
Now
comes a new study by Just Facts, a libertarian/conservative think tank, that used data from
a large Harvard/You.Gov study that every two years samples tens of thousands of
voters, including some who admit they are noncitizens and thus can't vote
legally. The findings are eye-opening. In 2008, as many as 5.7 million
noncitizens voted in the election. In 2012, as many as 3.6 million voted, the
study said.
In
2016, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that there were 21.0 million adult
noncitizens in the U.S., up from 19.4 million in 2008. It is therefore highly
likely that millions of noncitizens cast votes in 2016. And it was no accident.
Democrats had extensive get-out-the-vote campaigns in areas heavily populated
by illegal aliens. As far back as 2008, Obama made sure that those who wanted
to vote knew it was safe, announcing that election records would not be
cross-checked with immigration databases.
And
last year, the Obama White House supported a court injunction that kept Kansas,
Alabama and Georgia from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
The message was sent, loud and clear: If you're a noncitizen or here illegally,
don't be afraid. You're free to vote. No one will stop you.
We
don't know the exact number of illegal votes. No one does. But the data that
are available suggest that the number of illegal votes was substantial —
probably in the millions, as Trump said — and likely had a significant impact
on the election's outcome.
Even
Democrats should find this troubling; every vote cast by a noncitizen voter
negates the vote of a citizen voter. It's that simple. It's time the Democratic
Party started living up to its name and stop encouraging noncitizens and
illegal aliens to vote in our election.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Truth be known, the American Left, and that includes most
of the MSM, has become quite morbid in its fascinations. The whole way it talks
about poverty, the environment, immigration, race — practically any social
problem — is morbid. I look at The New York Times and The Washington Post every
morning. They sit there on my breakfast table. Rarely does their front page not
feature what the political philosopher Kenneth Minogue called a ‘suffering
situation’: several starving Africans; a corpse or two from some hellhole; an
impoverished Appalachian family with at least one child, his head shaved
because of cancer or some other horrible malady; a gay couple that has suffered
a setback. I could go on, but you get my point. The MSM is obsessed with
misery, social strife and — dare I say it — political correctness. As long as
these values dominate and there is no mitigating alternative, the public had
best be armed.”
-R. Emmett Tyrrell
“Fully one-third of Pelosi’s 193 House Democrats now come
from just three states, the usual liberal suspects of California, New York and
Massachusetts, not the crucial Heartland. Pelosi’s entire leadership team is
also coastal, and like her, linger on in their mid-70s.”
-Andrew
Malcom
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BOOKS
“Understanding Trump” by Newt Gingrich. “….by far the BEST
book on both the 2016 election and Donald Trump I've seen yet- and I've read
over 2 dozen. Gingrich writes not only as a true Trump "insider", but
his own experience as Speaker of the House gives him an unparrelled
understanding of the "swamp" (he's the one that named it), the
creatures in it, and what it will take to overcome them.”
“Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism”
by Mark Levine. “..revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of
overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our
country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
A summer of heated protests are being planned against
Republican House and Senate members, with organizers already forecasting
clashes with police and staffers over their efforts to stop GOP reform of
Obamacare. A leading organizer, Indivisible, has issued a new "tool
kit" to guide protesters on how to conduct a sit-in that could last a very
long time.
University of Georgia Socialist Group Calls for GOP
Lawmakers to Be ´Guillotined´
A Connecticut college professor has created a firestorm for
calling white people “inhuman a-holes” who need to “die” following last week’s
shooting attack on congressional Republicans.
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GLOBALONEY
Origin of the Global Warming Scam: “One of the great Soviet/Russian deceptions,
Wraga wrote, was the idea that humans were changing the climate and that humans
could save the earth through socialism……protection of the environment has
become the principal tool for attack against the West.”
“Climate heretic” Dr. Judith Curry is Professor and former
Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute
of Technology. Here she testifies at the
US Senate Commerce Committee. “Data vs Dogma”
Dr. Tim Ball - The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science . Presented at a conference in Mt Vernon, WA.
Group of distinguished scientists write an open letter to
the President of MIT after he criticized President Trump’s withdrawal from the
Paris agreement. “By withdrawing from the Paris agreement, President Trump did
a wonderful thing for America and the world. He showed that advocacy
masquerading as science should not be the basis for political decisions.”
“It is one thing to waste time and money playing with
climate models in a laboratory, where they don’t meet minimum scientific
standards, it is another to use their results as the basis for public policies
where the economic and social ramifications are devastating. Equally disturbing
and unconscionable is the silence of scientists involved in the IPCC who know
the vast difference between the scientific limitations and uncertainties and
the certainties produced in the Summary for Policymakers.”
“Uncertainty about feedback mechanisms is one reason why the
ultimate goal of climate modeling – forecasting reliably the future of key
variables such as temperature and rainfall patterns – is not
realizable……Scientists need to get some broader based support, to capture the
public’s imagination…that, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage.
So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements,
and make little mention of any doubts we may have…each of us has to decide what
the right balance is between being effective and being honest.
-Stephen Schneider, IPCC member
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ARTICLES
Prager:
As I document in my book "Still the Best Hope: Why the World
Needs American Values to Triumph," which is an explanation of Americanism,
leftism and Islamism, hysteria is a major tactic of the left. If you think
about it, there is never an extended period of time — one year, let´s say —
during which society is not engulfed by a hysteria induced by the left. The
mother of them all is global warming, or "climate change," as the
left has come to call it.”
If you ask a social justice jihadi, everyone besides
straight white males is oppressed, period. But Leftist groups that don´t fit
one of those descriptors are lately engaged in a battle for oppression
supremacy, which PhD sociologists with no other marketable skills refer to as
"intersectionality." For those of us who prefer fact- and
evidence-based reasoning, it´s hysterical to watch these Oppression Olympics
take place -- such as when Black Lives Matter halted the Toronto gay pride
parade to air their grievances:
Trump's education cuts aren't 'devastating,' they're smart
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-evers-alger-trump-education-cuts-good-20170612-story.html
Planned Parenthood’s brutal century
“You have to wonder how liberals think this works. So, a
manifestly conflicted special counsel leading a pack of maxed-out Democrat
donors decides Donald Trump has to be kicked out of office for “obstructing
justice” regarding a cynical lie about him cavorting with the Kremlin and…then
what? President Pence, until they do the same thing to him? Or do we just skip
right to President Felonia von Pantsuit, shrug our shoulders, and give up on
our foolish dream of having a say in our own governance?”
Two articles about the same event, one in CNN and one in
Breitbart. Can anyone spot the difference?
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PHOTOS, VIDEOS, LISTS, CHARTS
Remarkable list of President Trump’s executive orders. This is why the left has become unhinged.
3 Tips for Talking to a Liberal About Healthcare
Charlie Daniels: What would happen if liberals got what they
wanted?
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WISE WORDS
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that
virtue is not hereditary.”
-Thomas
Paine (1776)
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