op ed review 7/9
President Trump gives powerful speech in Poland – “Today, on
the site of the Warsaw Uprising, in the heart of democratic Poland, President
Trump gave the most powerful speech of his presidency. In an echo of Reagan’s
“tear down this wall” speech given 30 years ago last month, President Trump
declared Poland’s defense of freedom and Western values an enduring “symbol of
hope.”
“Trump showed a clear-eyed recognition of the threats from
Russia and radical Islam, promised continued U.S. engagement in Europe, offered
to support Poland against Moscow, and wrapped it all in a full-throated defense
of Western civilization and its achievements.”
Trump
trolls CNN: “President Trump signaled
Sunday that he’s ready to rumble with the mainstream news media — tweeting
a video in which he takes
down CNN with a vicious pro-wrestling move.” The doctored clip shows Trump using a “clothesline” maneuver
to flatten an opponent with CNN’s logo in place of his head.
Mainstream Media Promotes Death & Mayhem While Accusing
President Trump Of “Inciting Violence” against journalists.
While
this was going on, the House of Representatives passed two bills: H.R.1215, which caps medical malpractice
lawsuits by restricting plaintiff non-economic damages to $250,000, and H.R.3003, also known as "No
Sanctuary for Criminals Act", that would strip federal dollars from
self-proclaimed "sanctuary" cities that shield residents from federal
immigration authorities. The bill passed with a 257-167 vote, also mostly along
party lines.
President Trump honors veterans at Celebrate Freedom Rally
PBS shocked by its own poll: More Americans Trust Trump Than
the Media
NBC Decries Rise of Conservative Media for Creating
Polarized Country, No Mention of MSNBC
Obama warns Americans about too much patriotism on July 4th
weekend!
Not much interest from the media because they don’t involve the
police: 102 shot, 15 fatally, in Chicago
over July 4 holiday weekend.
A $400 billion proposal to create a universal healthcare
plan for all Californians is pitting state Democratic leaders against each
other in an acrimonious fight that has even spurred death threats
Progressive Journalists Outraged At The NRA For Pointing Out
Leftist Violence
Investigator links Clintons To human trafficking in Haiti,
then found dead of “suicide”.
A shocking study out of Britain suggests — are you sitting
down? — President Trump’s aggressive statements on trade may actually be
working to the benefit of the United States.
The admitted killer of an American Special Ops soldier in
Afghanistan will receive $8 million in damages from the Canadian government,
plus an official apology for mistreatment (at Gitmo). You read that right.
Liberals shocked and appalled: “Justice Neil Gorsuch Votes Conservative 100
Percent Of The Time”
World gone crazy: In
the UK, leading doctors back NHS-funded womb transplants for biological males
who identify as women.
There are two ways of looking at the Roman Catholic Church
under the rule of Pope Francis: an increasingly tolerant, inclusive,
mercy-based charity, or a spectator blood-sport between ideological rivals who
will reconcile their differences. Under the second scenario, Francis just
scored what might be a knockout punch. By removing Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig
Müller as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Francis
neutralized one of the few princes of the church whose job it was to call out
the pope for his seemingly endless appetite for doctrinal change.
Vatican police break up drug fueled ‘gay orgy' at home of
one of Pope Francis' advisors.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
There's no doubt that President Trump is the most abused
president in modern history – more so than George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and
Richard Nixon, all of whom caught their share of flak. That's the
judgment of Fox News's Brit Hume, who sees today's partisanship as "the
most intensely hostile political atmosphere" in memory – in his case, a
memory stretching back almost 50 years. Hume believes that the treatment
of President Trump is "the most biased coverage" he's ever seen…..
I wonder how Trump can stand it. The president must be
incredibly thick-skinned or possessed of a truly magnanimous soul.
Although he often defends himself by striking back, it's hardly
proportional. For every Trump tweet, there are thousands of attacks from
the liberal media.
It's clear that the left is grasping at straws and has now
descended into name-calling, the lowest form of rhetoric. If the attacks
were based on substance, they might be taken seriously. But "crazy
lunatic"? That is the stuff of an affronted seven-year-old, not of
an educated adult.
Now that Russiagate has unraveled and "collusion"
has gained little traction, what's next? More name-calling, accompanied
by an endless string of groundless charges, all of them the purported basis for
impeachment – everything from continuing refusal to release his tax returns to
receiving "foreign emoluments."…..
The American media, including social media, is
overwhelmingly anti-Trump. The heart of the matter is that the left does
not wish to make America great again. Leftists wish to see America
diminished. They do not favor "America First," "more and
better jobs for American workers," "lower taxes for individuals and
businesses," "repealing and replacing Obamacare," "greater
national security," "immigration security," and other Trump
initiatives. They favor fewer good jobs, higher taxes, less military
spending, open borders, and bowing to the world outside the U.S.
The media are guilt-ridden over our national history, as
they see it, of racism and class oppression. They despise the middle
class, and they live in a politically correct nightmare of benefiting from any
sort of privilege or unfair advantage. On the contrary, they are intent
on conferring unfair advantages to minorities and the socially oppressed,
especially when this diminishes the opportunities of the white middle class.
Trump stands in the way of this agenda of relinquishment and
repudiation. Once the American people, with Trump's help, turn their back
on the politics of white guilt and income inequality, the progressive movement
will deflate like a punctured balloon. That's why they are in a panic to
stop him. And
that's why they must insist that Trump is the worst president in history.
Ironically, the better Trump does, the worse he can be made
to appear with voters on the left. Already, American mining and energy
sectors have seen a resurgence, but what should be good news is bad, according
to the left, whose intent is to kill off both sectors. Already, key
alliances have been strengthened with Britain and Saudi Arabia, among others,
and border security has been improved. But that's bad news for those who
wish to weaken the U.S. Already, economic projections have turned up –
more bad news for the left, because with wage growth, more Americans are
entering the much despised middle class.
Yes, Trump is "guilty" of restoring jobs to the
middle class, increasing national security, and blocking terrorism, to say
nothing of proposed health care reform and tax cuts. But in the eyes of
the left, he is guilty of something worse: blatant disregard for what
constitutes the moral basis of the American progressive movement – that is,
political correctness and class guilt. Trump's nonchalant disregard for
the left's condemnation of America is the unforgivable sin.
Without race, class, and gender, and the guilt that for many
attaches reflexively to each of these categories, the American left has no
basis for existence. The same goes for the mainstream media, much of
which, as Brit Hume put it, has abandoned the idea that they should be
"neutral" in presenting the news. Hume is correct in suggesting
that the media are now largely incapable of fair reporting.
Far from it. Like the left in general, the mainstream
media will continue portraying Trump as the worst president in history –
even as he shows promise of becoming one of the best.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/the_most_abused_president_in_history.html#ixzz4m5O0TE73
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OTHER COLUMNS
“What the 2013 fight showed, and what the current fight is
showing again, is that the Republicans’ actual last chance to get rid of
Obamacare was the 2012 election. That was before the health care law went into
effect, before it touched millions of American lives, and when it could still
be repealed without great disruption. But when Barack Obama won re-election and
could safeguard (and prop up) Obamacare through its early years, the Republican
chance to repeal was gone. Now Republicans are fighting among themselves over a
bill that would make substantial changes in Obamacare but leave the structure
of the law intact. And several GOP lawmakers — enough to scuttle any final
agreement — are still afraid of cuts in subsidies, in coverage, and in the
Medicaid expansion…… It all shows that Ted Cruz was right back in 2013. Once
Obamacare’s subsidies and benefits began to flow, he reminded us, ‘this thing
is here forever.’”
-Byron York
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LEFTIST WATCH
How the Left Lost Its Mind
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ISLAM
Jihad, the New Mental Illness
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GLOBALONEY
Study Finds ‘Temperature Adjustments’ Account For ‘Nearly
All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data
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ARTICLES
Trump has driven CNN stark raving mad.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his bride, Jane, have become
the Bonnie and Clyde of national Democratic politics — the law is hot on their
trail as the lovebirds restlessly move from one hideout to another. The
difference, of course, is that Bonnie and Clyde were dirt poor, while Sen.
Sanders, the 75-year-old Social Justice Warrior, reported an income of
$1,052,000 last year. And Bonnie and Clyde lived in their car. Mr. and Mrs.
Sanders own three fabulous homes — a four-bedroom in Burlington, a townhouse on
Capitol Hill, as well as their new summer cottage on Lake Champlain.
Uncovering the Russia ties of Hillary’s campaign chief
In the past week election officials in dozens of states have
rejected a request from the newly-formed Presidential Advisory Commission on
Electoral Integrity to provide voter records for a study on the extent (if any)
of election fraud…….“If the same voter information is offered for sale, why is
it a matter of principle to refuse to provide it to the Presidential Advisory
Commission on Electoral Integrity?”
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WISE WORDS
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our
paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation
of the public moneys.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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