op ed review 7/16
President Trump’s speech to the Polish people wasn’t quite
President Ronald Reagan telling Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall,
but in setting the tone for what may be called the “Trump Doctrine” it may be
equally important in a historical context.
CNN’s Jeff Zeleny interpreted Mr. Trump’s Warsaw words as a
racist “White America, America First kind of speech.” Mr. Zeleny and many
dozens of other writers and talkers for U.S. newspapers, magazines and TV
networks have declared war on American exceptionalism…..”
Leftist G20 protesters get more violent, burning cars and injuring
over 160 police officers
The Mayor of New York joins them. “When the mayor of the
capital city of global capitalism hops a plane to protest the G-20 meeting now
underway in Germany, it’s not unreasonable to wonder: Will he be wearing his
Che Guevara T-shirt? Didn’t he honeymoon in Havana, after all?”
Amid the firestorm over the new revelations about Donald
Trump Jr´s contact with a Russian lawyer during the campaign, it´s worth noting
that another candidate´s associates engaged in "collusion" with a
foreign government: Hillary Clinton´s allies and the Ukrainian government
teamed up to coordinate anti-Trump material.
“This is not an accusation. This is an on-the-record action
that they took….”
The public record also shows that Democrats have willfully
used Moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against
Donald Trump and attack his administration.
A Democrat (and ex-CIA) says: Trump is right, Democrats did
spread the ´British dossier´ - so did the intel community.
Has Russia secretly funneled money to environmental groups opposed
to oil and gas drilling? “If you connect the dots, it is clear that Russia is
funding U.S. environmental groups in an effort to suppress our domestic oil and
gas industry, specifically hydraulic fracking.”
It’s about time. Department
of Veterans Affairs officials have fired more than 500 misbehaving employees
since January.
The National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities is giving
millions of taxpayer dollars to nonprofits with assets of over $1 billion.
OpenTheBooks.com, a transparency watchdog group, released a report this week
highlighting egregious examples of arts funding going towards museums,
universities, and nonprofit organizations that hardly need federal funding.
Police officer who categorized a transgender woman as male
on a citation is reprimanded. Now the entire Fort Lauderdale Police Department
must undergo extra training on how to properly treat transgender people, a city
panel has decided.
A painting of Jesus Christ on the cross was left on a fence
outside the Hillside Islamic Center in Long Island, New York. The police are
investigating the incident as a “hate crime.”
How Good Morning America hides George Stephanopoulos’ “little-boyish mini-legs”
Senator Maria Cantwell beclowns herself on Senate floor.
House Republicans said Tuesday they’ve included $1.6 billion
in funding for President Trump’s border wall in their new homeland security
spending bill, setting up fight with Democrats who have vowed to block any wall
funding
Seattle´s wealthiest would become the first Washington state
residents to pay an income tax under legislation approved by the City Council.
Democrats in the California state legislature are asking
lobbyists to provide data on the race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual
orientation of their firms’ employees — meanwhile the state refuses to give
voter data to President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission.
Senate Democrats are blocking President Trump´s political
nominees at unprecedented rates: "The
Senate is conducting the slowest confirmation process in American history."
Women´s marchers hired armed guards to protect them during
protest against the NRA
Judicial Watch released 448 pages of documents from the U.S.
Department of State revealing new incidents of Huma Abedin, deputy chief of
staff to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, providing special State
Department treatment to major donors to the Clinton Foundation and political
campaigns.
The Stupid Party?
“The Republican-led House decisively approved a defense policy bill on
Friday that declares climate change a national security threat, demands
rigorous oversight of the Pentagon’s cyber operations and rejects the Trump
administration’s bid to close (unneeded) military bases.….closing excess
installations would save $10 billion over a five-year period.”
The House rejected a proposal that would have required the
Secretary of Defense to conduct a study of “Islamic religious doctrines,
concepts or schools of thought” that could be used to radicalize or recruit
Islamic terrorists. The amendment offered by Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., was
defeated by a vote of 208-217. There were 27 Republicans who crossed the aisle
to vote against the measure.
Vatican Press Lashes Out At Catholic Trump Voters, Calls
Steve Bannon "A Supporter Of Apocalyptic Geopolitics"
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Selwyn
Duke 7/14
The obsession with Donald Trump Jr.’s “Russian” email chain
is just the latest example of what the Media/Democrat Party/Establishment Axis
does best: engage in misdirection to confuse people about who America’s real
enemies are.
Now, since the emails are currently Exhibit A in Trump
treason allegations, let’s talk about treason. No, we don’t have to go back to
when Senator Ted Kennedy secretly approached the murderous Soviets and asked
for help defeating Ronald Reagan in 1984. That’s too old and too obvious. But
try this on for size.
We’ve now learned that U.S. soldier Ikaika Erik Kang, just
arrested for Islamic State ties, expressed allegiance to the group as early as
2011, which is a bit like a serviceman having expressed support for the Nazis
during WWII. Instead of being immediately put in the stockade, however, Barack
Obama’s military and FBI, the Daily Mail reports, “investigated to
determine whether he posed a threat, authorities said.” They must have still been wondering in 2013,
because that’s when they gave Kang back his security clearance after having
revoked it the year before.
This clearly was part of the leftist Obama mentality that
sought to elevate anything contrary to Americanism. It didn’t matter that Kang
had already threatened “to hurt or kill other service members back in 2011,” as
the Mail relates it. It doesn’t matter that he could have been the next
Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 at Ford Hood in 2009 after he, too, expressed
jihadist sentiments but wasn’t stopped. Hey, if you want to make an omelet, you
have to break a few eggs.
Some will point out that the Left’s enabling of
intra-military jihad isn’t, technically speaking, treason. That’s true. Neither
is what Trump Jr. did, with experts saying it wasn’t illegal. But we’re talking
here about treason in spirit, often worse than the illegal variety.
The Trumps also aren’t inviting aliens into the nation to
overwhelm the natives. But that’s precisely what the Left has been doing for
ages via immigration, with Obama ratcheting the process up to a fever pitch. He
used every trick in the book — granting gratuitous “refugee” status, ceasing
border enforcement, etc. — to ensure that as many non-Americans as possible
would occupy America.
Obama did this because, as the Daily Caller reported in
2015, he believes “immigration will drown conservatism.” Actually, it drowns
Americanism. But
the Left knows what it’s doing. Eighty-five percent of our legal immigrants
come from the Third World (also, in part, Ted Kennedy’s handiwork); 70 to 90
percent of them vote for leftist Democrats upon being naturalized. Obama hailed
this, mind you, how becoming a “hodgepodge of folks” extinguishes Americanism.
No, he wasn’t as blunt as Swedish Social Democrat and soul
mate Mona Sahlin, who said, alluding in 2001 to “her nation’s” immigration-born
changes, “[T]he Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden
is never coming back.” But what do you call people who import foreigners for
the purposes of disempowering and defeating fellow countrymen? What do you call
those who use demographic genocide against “their own people”? At least, I
guess, they aren’t doing it via email.
In his famous quotation, Roman statesman Marcus Cicero
remarked 2000 years ago that “the traitor appears not a traitor.” This is
especially true today because the Left has made treason the norm, birthing
something I’ll call “treasonism.” It inverts reality and institutionalizes
treason, creating a situation in which desiring to secure your border and stem a foreign invasion
makes you a xenophobe, complaining about another nation’s flag flown in your
own country gets you fired and branded a hater.
American high-tech workers are replaced with foreigners,
whom they’re forced to train. An illegal alien is called an “undocumented
worker” (much like calling a rapist an undocumented husband). Warning of your
nation’s demographic and cultural genocide makes you a “racist.”
defending Western civilization, as Trump did in Poland
recently, brings accusations of “racial and religious paranoia.”
Add to this Obama’s/the Left’s efforts at foisting a contraception
mandate on Christian entities, forcing private businessmen to cater events
(e.g., faux weddings), removing historically present Christian symbols and
sentiments from public property while opening the door to Satanism, Wicca and
Islam, a complete betrayal of our cultural and religious tradition…In fact,
it’s hard to think of anything authentically American the Left doesn’t aim to
destroy. Say what we will about President Trump’s style and ideology, he’s not
a treasonist. Trump is putting America first. The Left is trying to put America
down.
The Trumps are accused of “colluding” with an enemy of
America. Our
leftists ARE enemies of America.
These are the things that matter. These are the matters that
affect your life and those of your children and grandchildren. This leftist
treasonism, if not entirely upended, will destroy our nation. Yet we’re worried
about — and very well may vote next year based on — issues such as a stupid
(but legal) email. Unbelievable.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/trump_jrs_email_want_to_talk_about_treason_okay.html#ixzz4mp7k3G5Z
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Liberal journalists would like everyone to forget how
then-President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National
Committee engaged in a blatant strategy to solicit illegal foreign
contributions from Asian sources before the 1996 presidential election.… After
Clinton was easily re-elected, the DNC was forced to return more than $2.8
million in illegal or inappropriate donations……Few people remember this scandal
because it was buried by those same news outlets that can’t stop talking about
Russia.”
-L. Brent Bozell
“Here’s the truth: Trump isn’t a conspiratorial mastermind.
He’s a man irked by empty criticisms and dedicated to kicking his enemies in
their most vulnerable areas. Sometimes that looks like he’s reinforcing their
theories. He isn’t. So long as the media insist that Trump is someone he isn’t,
they’ll keep finding conspiracies that don’t fit the facts or the personality.”
-Ben Shapiro
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LEFTIST WATCH
Three members of the Cal State Fullerton College Republicans
have been named in a lawsuit backed by the California Democratic Party in
retaliation for their work to recall a state senator.
Leftist think tank advises:
Reconsider Caring For Your Kids Because Money Matters Most “…giving up your career to care for your
children is a huge financial mistake.”
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GLOBALONEY
Climate-change fearmongering has turned
totally unhinged…..”One of the hallmarks of the “Ugly American” is the
habit of thinking foreigners will understand what you’re saying if you just
shout it louder and louder. The
Ugly Environmentalist does something similar. He exaggerates the challenge of
global warming by using ever more hysterical rhetoric, thinking that if the
last doomsday prediction didn’t work, this one will.
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ARTICLES
First, it must be understood up front that in the grand
scheme of things “transgender” people constitute a statistically insignificant
portion of the population. They’re so exceedingly rare as to make almost any
public-policy or political argument about their treatment by society a sideshow
in a true sense. We’re not talking about 10 percent of the population who
suffers from “gender dysphoria,” or even one percent. We’re talking about a
small fraction of one percent. There may be more Amish people than transgender
people. Somewhere there might be a transgender Amish person, who is sure to be
interviewed by 60 Minutes……
A handful of conservative media, including the Drudge Report
and radio talker Rush Limbaugh, are being singled out for instigating the 2016
"voter insurrection" that helped Republican Donald Trump foil
Democrat Hillary Clinton´s sure-bet march to the White House.
Democrats
have always dismissed Republican concerns about illegal voter registrations and
evidence of fraudulent voting as pure fantasy. Why, no illegal immigrant would
dream of voting in a U.S. election, despite demonstrating a penchant for
lawbreaking by entering the U.S. illegally. “Top officials in the Democratic National Committee are
worried about a sudden drop in voter registrations in Colorado……perhaps illegal
immigants have registered in large numbers and now want to pull their names off
the radar one step ahead of the law as the integrity of voter registrations and
voting records are at long last being scrutinized - at the same time as
an illegal immigration crackdown.
The One Sentence That Explains Washington Dysfunction: Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania explained
why Republicans are having such trouble with health care. Speaking at a town
hall during the July 4 recess, Toomey said, "I didn´t expect Donald Trump
to win. I think most of my colleagues didn´t. So we didn´t expect to be in this
situation."
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VIDEO
1938, Kate Smith sings “God Bless America”
Fly over the surface of Pluto in stunning NASA video as New
Horizons maps reveal the planet´s surface in unprecedented detail.
NASA just released photos of Jupiter that are clearer and
closer than ever before. From just 5,600 miles away (9,000 kilometers), NASA´s
Juno mission offers a new look at the planet´s famous Great Red Spot storm….
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WISE WORDS
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and
it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out
the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with
both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
suppress.”
-Frederick Douglas
“There are those who will say that the liberation of
humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right.
It is the American Dream.”
-Archibald MacLeish
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