op ed review 6/18
Trump-hating Bernie supporter opens fire on Republican
lawmakers practicing for charity baseball game, leaving five injured.
The shooter had a list of Republican names in his pocket
that was recovered by the FBI.
Trump sits by wounded Scalise’s bedside.
Progressive Media Personalities Agree: Those Republicans
Deserved To Get Shot
‘By the Grace of God, One of the Folks Here Had a Weapon to
Fire Back’
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-New York, received an email following
the shooting with the subject line: "One down, 216 to go…,"
New
York Times supports Trump assassination play in Central Park. “we support the right of the Public
Theater to stage the production as they chose."
“What’s a newspaper to do when it ostentatiously refuses to
cut funding for a high-profile play in Central Park depicting an obvious
President Trump-themed Julius Caesar being assassinated, and then a left wing
extremist attempts to assassinate a group of GOP congressmen?” Blame Sarah
Palin?
Two corporate sponsors—Bank of America and Delta—cutting
ties with the Public Theater.
Time Warner still sponsoring.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria Hails Trump Assassination Play As
'Masterpiece.' (His Employer Sponsors
It)
The Huffington Post pulled a piece calling for the
“execution” of President Donald Trump published Saturday. “….contained rhetoric
and imagery that seems tasteless, particularly after Wednesday’s events.”
More threats to Republicans:
Authorities in Georgia are investigating after a suspicious
package and powder-filled envelopes were sent to Republican congressional
candidate Karen Handel and her neighbors.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/powder-filled-envelopes-found-ga-gop-candidate-neighborhood-article-1.3250811
Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz has personal experience
in being targeted — at least by explicit threats of violence — apparently over
political views. A Florida man is awaiting trial for threatening to lynch the
Utah Republican, one of many death threats Chaffetz has seen in recent months.
“This List Of Attacks Against Conservatives Is Mind Blowing”
Mark Steyn: ‘The Left Wants To Denormalize And Dehumanize
Its Political Opposition
Bad sign: Three
members of the team hired by special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate
Russia´s meddling in the 2016 election have donated primarily to Democrats,
according to records from the Federal Election Commission
Comey and Mueller Have a History as a Deep State Tag Team
Meanwhile, Trump Making America Great Again: A Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's
iPhones is considering building a plant in Wisconsin.
President Trump rolls back Obama Cuba policy, Cutting Cash
to the Military and Curbing Travel
The Trump administration rescinds Obama’s DAPA program that
could have allowed as many as five million illegal aliens with children to
remain in the country if they met certain criteria.
Trump pledge to wipe out MS-13 paying off...
The Trump administration is poised to nip the Bears Ears
National Monument, beginning a rollback of one of President Obama’s most
aggressive environmental moves.
The Rasmussen shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters now approve
of President Trump’s job performance.
Why Is Hillary Clinton Comparing Herself to Wonder Woman? “Something tells me that a movie about a
strong, powerful woman fighting to save the world from a massive international
disaster is right up my alley,”
Unlike Trump, the Obama administration actually did have a
“back channel” to communicate with Russian officials last year.
The Denver City Council has voted unanimously to
decriminalize a number of offenses, including defecating and urinating in
public, camping on public or private land, panhandling, and lying in public
rights-of-way, such as sidewalks. Democrat Mayor Michael Hancock and city
officials explained the new ordinances are designed to protect illegal immigrants
from “unintended consequences.”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Spengler 6/17 Asia Times
The
distinguished political scientist Angelo Codevilla coined the ominous term “cold civil
war” to describe America’s precarious condition, adding, “Statesmanship’s first
task is to prevent it from turning hot.” The attempted massacre this week of
Republican Congressmen and their staff by a deranged partisan of Sen. Bernie
Sanders turned up the heat a notch, but it would be mistaken to attribute much
importance to this dreadful outburst of left-wing rage. The augury of American
fracture will not be street violence, but a constitutional crisis implicating
virtually the whole of America’s governing caste. The shock troops in the cold
civil war are not gunmen but lawyers.
A
considerable portion of America’s permanent bureaucracy, including elements of
its intelligence community, is engaged in an illegal and unconstitutional
mutiny against the elected commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump. Most of
the Democratic Party and a fair sampling of the Republican Establishment wants
to force Trump out of office, and to this end undertook an entrapment scheme to
entice the president and his staff into actions which might be construed after
the fact as obstruction of justice.
By
means yet undisclosed, the mutineers forced Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn from office
and now seek to bring down the president for allegedly obstructing an
investigation of Gen. Flynn that arose in the first place from the entrapment
scheme. One of the Republican Party’s
most distinguished statesmen recently told a closed gathering that a “cold
coup” is underway against the president.
By
no coincidence is Gen. Flynn the central character in this scenario. As I wrote
in February,
the CIA really is out to get him: Flynn’s Defense Intelligence Agency produced
a now-notorious 2012 report warning that chaos in Syria’s civil war enabled the
rise of a new Caliphate movement, namely ISIS…..Flynn humiliated the bungling
CIA and exposed the incompetence and deception of the Obama administration, and
got fired for it…
The
mainstream media makes no effort to disguise its hatred for Trump and
insinuates in countless ways that the president fired former FBI director James
Comey in order to protect Gen. Flynn from a legitimate investigation….I think
it more likely that Comey showed insufficient zeal in uncovering the pattern of
press leaks and other sabotage which the mutineers employed against the president.
Faced with a mutiny fed by illegal actions (leaking classified information is a
felony that carries a 10-year prison sentence), the president requires a
pitbull for a counterintelligence chief. Comey, who in 2005 earned $6 million
as general counsel for the giant defense contractor Lockheed Martin, is more of
a Pomeranian.
In
cinematic terms, the investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016
US elections is the McGuffin, or what Alfred Hitchcock called the object that
the spies are searching for. The plot revolves around it, explained the
celebrated director, but as to what it specifically is, “The audience don’t
care.” If it is proven that Russian
cyber-spies hacked the email account of Democratic National Committee Chairman
John Podesta and handed embarrassing information to Wikileaks, we will know
that Russia has done what all intelligence agencies have done for centuries:
Leak embarrassing political information to the press…..
Podesta
and his gang at the DNC used unethical and perhaps illegal means to sandbag the
campaign of Sen. Sanders, leaks about which embarrassed Hillary Clinton.
Sanders, knowing on which side his bread is buttered, declined to make an issue
of the sandbagging, allowing Trump’s enemies to transform what should have been
an investigation of corruption in the Democratic Party into a fairy-tale about
Russian spies stealing an American election with implied collusion by the Trump
campaign.
The
Trump-Russia collusion story is nonsense, as its disseminators know better than
anyone else. The object of the exercise is not to support the innuendo, but to
launch an investigation which can provoke the White House into responses that
might be construed as illegal. The intelligence leaks involved in framing the
story alone are probably sufficient grounds to put several dozen senior
officials in federal prison for double-digit terms. That consideration gauges
the scale of the problem: the mutineers have committed multiple felonies, and
their downside should the mutiny go wrong is not ignominious retirement but
hard time at Leavenworth.
For
the moment, the mutineers have the momentum. The Trump administration continues
to run on a skeleton staff, with the vast majority of key positions still
unoccupied. If my surmise is correct, it was unable to persuade the director of
the FBI, the nation’s chief watchdog, to undertake vigorous countermeasures
against the mutiny, for example, a comprehensive screening of electronic communications
by the reporters who received leaks of classified materials.
Most
mainstream journalists consider Trump a threat to a desirable social order and
are not squeamish about the means they might employ to undermine him. And there
are any number of former Obama appointees, for example, former US Attorney for
New York’s Southern District Preet Bharara, prepared to convict the president
in the media……The White House and in particular the National Security Council
meanwhile remain riddled with Obama Administration holdovers, forcing Trump to
rely on a close circle of trusted advisers. That limits the president’s ability
to reach out for allies against the mutineers.
The
installation of former FBI director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to chase
the Russian McGuffin also constrains the counterintelligence operations of the
White House. If senior intelligence officials claim to be engaged in
counterintelligence investigations against Russian interference in US
elections, is it obstruction of justice to investigate their illegal contacts
with the media?
The
mutineers also can count on the support of Establishment worthies like Sen.
John McCain (R-Arizona) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), for whom
Trump’s election was an intolerable humiliation. Trump ran against the Bush
wing of the Republican Party as much as he ran against the Democrats. The
NeverTrump Republicans are complicit in the destruction of Iraq, Syria, Libya,
Yemen and the Sudan, and would have wrecked Egypt had Gen. al-Sisi not
overthrown a Muslim Brotherhood government that the Establishment Republicans
helped incubate.
The
President’s free-wheeling style, more suited to the management of a family
business than the Executive Branch, makes minor missteps more likely. Minor
missteps are dangerous when a desperate and determined enemy is ready to
exploit them. Trump’s one great advantage in all of this is that he has done
nothing wrong. He did not obstruct justice because there is no crime. The
mutineers’ only hope is to provoke him to take actions which might be construed
as obstruction of justice in an investigation with no crime and no victim.
Still, it is a moment of great danger for the American Republic.
The
mutiny has burned its bridges on the beach, and its perpetrators will risk
everything to make it succeed. Whatever the outcome, the legitimacy of a
political system designed to be litigious and oppositional will be called into
question, and the polarization of American opinion will become more rather than
less extreme.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“You’ve had a series of things … that tell people that it’s
OK to hate Trump. It’s OK to think of Trump in violent terms. It’s OK to
consider assassinating Trump and then … suddenly we’re supposed to rise above
it — until the next time?”
-Newt
Gingrich
“Sessions’ few meetings with the Russian ambassador proves
guilt, but the IRS chief visiting the Obama White House 150 times means
nothing.”
-Twitter
satirist @hale_razor
“Either the United States will return to a shared single
language and allegiance to a common and singular culture, or it will eventually
descend into clannish violence.”
-Victor
Davis Hanson
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ISLAM
A 30-year-old Pakistani man has been sentenced to death by a
counterterrorism court, following the conviction on charges he insulted the
Prophet Muhammed and his wives on Facebook,
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GLOBALONEY
Nobel laureate in physics: global warming is pseudoscience
Dr. Don Easterbrook, Western Washington University, global
warming is a LIE
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.
The National Science Foundation is funding a doctoral
dissertation on "climate change denial." The research seeks to find a
"more complete and nuanced understanding" of individuals who are
skeptical that human beings cause climate change.
Green deathtraps: energy-saving renovation blamed for
horrific Grenfell Tower fire in London
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ARTICLES
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.
The seemingly fractured Democratic Party may face another
setback ahead of the 2018 elections, Peter Doocy reported. Supporters of
progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said they want to start their own party.
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
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PHOTOS, VIDEOS, LISTS, CHARTS, ACTIVISM
Oppose the internet sales tax working
its way thru the Washington legislature.
Ebay will send letters on your
behalf.
A poll of the hotly contested special election in Georgia’s
Sixth Congressional District to replace Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) shows that Jon
Ossoff, the Democrat, leads Republican Karen Handel by only three points.
Democrats have raised staggering sums of money to defeat her. You can contribute here; anything helps….
Our friends in Louisiana alerted us to a nationwide blood
drive being held for Rep. Steve Scalise who was shot Wednesday while practicing
for the Congressional baseball game. Rep. Scalise remains in critical condition
and has received several blood transfusions.
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WISE WORDS
“Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The
second step is the notion: ‘Things must change — no matter how, anything is better than what we have.’
Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it
articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. …
Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who
live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.”
-Hannah Arendt
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