op ed review 8/6
Great again: US
created 209,000 new jobs in July, vs 183,000 jobs expected
Toyota and Mazda are forming a partnership to build a new $1.6
billion final assembly plant in the United States….it will have the capacity to
build 300,000 vehicles annually while employing 4,000 workers.
American Companies Post Profit Growth Not Seen in Years...
President Trump unveils bill to transform legal immigration
system, which he says emphasizes merit in an effort to protect American workers
and the American economy….” immigrants should bring skills…..speak English.”
Predictable cries and squeals from advocates of open
borders.
Seven Ways Trump Is Taking Back America’s Culture
But no surprise:
After 6 months of relentless hammering by CBS-ABC-NBC-CNN, President
Trump approval down to 38%.
With Repeal Off The Table, Media Suddenly ´Discover´ That
ObamaCare Is In Deep Trouble (and needs new funding)
Sarah
Sanders Blasts Press for ‘Russia Scandal Fake News’, Points to Clintons’ Real
Russia Relationships
Fishing expedition on Trump:
“Robert Mueller has empaneled a grand jury so that subpoenas can be
dispatched to begin taking testimony in the ongoing investigation into Russian
interference within the 2016 election.” Apparently,
Donald Trump Jr. in the first batch of recipients.
This does damage to America:
Washington Post has published transcripts of President Trump’s conversations
with the leaders of Mexico and Australia…..may lead to lie detector tests for
the small number of people with access to transcripts….
???? Republican Senate Blocks President Trump From Recess
Appointments…
“Senate Republicans turning their backs on Trump?”
The State Department’s own “deep state” is trying to sabotage
President Trump’s foreign policy agenda.
“The Slow-Motion Coup d’Etat picks up steam”
Congress sank to a 10% approval rating in a new Quinnipiac
University poll released on Thursday, with roughly five in six Americans saying
they disapprove of the country´s legislative body.
"A phalanx of social justice warriors, ideologues,
egalitarians, and opportunistic careerists has ensconced itself in America’s
college and universities….The destruction they have caused in the humanities
and social sciences has now reached to engineering…. Instead of calculating
engine horsepower or microchip power/size ratios or aerodynamic lift and drag,
the engineering educationists focus on group representation, hurt feelings, and
'microaggressions' in the profession."
Purdue’s recently-appointed engineering dean advises “need to de-center
Western civilization…gender is a key….examine racist and colonialist projects
in science.”
'Sanctuary City' Portland Releases Felony Illegal -- Who
Then Rapes Elderly Woman...
A 23-year-old DREAMer in Washington state is accused of
brutally raping a 19-year-old woman in her apartment complex's gym and leaving
her with severe facial injuries -- including a broken jaw and dangling ear.
Sean Hannity, who has the #1 MSM radio and TV programs
opposing the Deep State fake news juggernaut that seeks to destroy the presidency
of Donald J. Trump, is the target of a new attack that aims to deliver the
“kill shot” to his successful 21-year reign on the Fox News channel.
Atheists attack White House Bible study meeting
A week has passed since the arrest of former House staffer
Imran Awan, and the establishment media have given the event only superficial
coverage.
Rush Limbaugh celebrates radio show's 30th year
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/rush-limbaugh-celebrates-radio-shows-30th-year/#hQ7WoJsyXAmYzWjo.99
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/rush-limbaugh-celebrates-radio-shows-30th-year/#hQ7WoJsyXAmYzWjo.99
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
In 2016, President Barack Obama lifted the ban on openly
transgendered people entering military service. His administration announced,
further, that the Pentagon would pay for medical gender transitions. This was
viewed as necessary lest transgendered servicemembers turn instead to suicide,
or drug and alcohol abuse.
President Trump reversed this decision last week. He made
the announcement, as is his self-destructive wont, via Twitter, making it
essentally impossible for him and his administration to explain their
rationale. A limit of 140 characters, or a multiple of that in a series of
tweets, is not remotely sufficient to lay out a case for a complex and
contentious policy……..But,
on the substance of the transgender decision, Trump, or rather Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, is
right.
To
understand this decision it's best not to start with Trump, but to go back to
Obama's earlier choice, made at the tail end of his term in office. Because of
the nature of the military, the burden of proof for such a big change to its
culture rests on the person proposing the change.
The
military is unlike any civilian institution. Members of the military give up
their freedom when they sign up to serve. Every enlisted person and officer is
under an obligation to follow all lawful orders under pain of court martial,
imprisonment, and possibly even death. This feature makes the military a
tempting target for those who want to conduct fringe social experiments.
Because military personnel must obey, they are in no position to refuse their
commander in chief's orders, whether those orders are good or, as in Obama's
case, disruptive, unnecessary, and bad.
The
second unique feature of the military is that it is a purely functional body.
It does not exist for personal enrichment, leisure, community, the pursuit of
happiness, or for its own sake, as civilian institutions do. The military's
sole purpose is to smash and destroy enemies. Even when it is merely used as a
deterrent, the military's usefulness derives entirely from its ability to
accomplish that goal in battle. This means all decisions about how the military
is run should be subordinated to questions of military effectiveness, including
morale, discipline, equipment, logistics, troop readiness and the like.
Our
military regulations reflect this, exempting the services from rules that other
employers must live by. There are many examples, but the relevant one is that
the services not only reserve the right but actually have a mission-based
obligation to discriminate in some cases where civilian employers would be sued
for doing so. People with physical disabilities and bad health are routinely
turned away. If you are over the age of 35, it's already too late to join the
Army, Navy, or Coast Guard, and far too late to think about a career in the
Marine Corps. The Air Force won't take you after age 39, and federal law
forbids enlistment beyond age 42. Don't even think about bringing an
age-discrimination lawsuit. You may think it unfair, but fairness isn't the
goal.
Rules
on military recruitment are based entirely on its goal of breaking things,
killing people, and defeating enemies as effectively as possible within the
laws of warfare. When Obama made his decision on transgender service and
recruitment, it was not taken with this singular goal in mind. (He had a
singular goal, which was to embarass his successor, just as President Clinton
sought to embarass President Bush with last minute environmental regulations).
This means the Obama transgender rule is not sacrosanct, much though the
left-wing reaction to Trump's decision has been what it would have been had he
been overtuning a time-honored and popularly supported tradition. It needs to
be remembered that that's what Obama was doing, not what Trump is doing in
reversing it.
Imposing
a fringe ideology about gender differences that is not widely accepted in
civilian life on hundreds of thousands of people sworn to obey creates
logistical and morale problems, too.
By
the time Obama permitted open service by gay men and lesbians in 2011, the
majority of society had made its peace with that idea. This is one reason it
has not apparently had severe consequences for morale or military
effectiveness. Civilian society has not drawn a similar conclusion with respect
to the idea that we can wish away the biological reality of sex and identify
people as "he" or "she" when in truth they are she and he.
Can
a person with male anatomy be a woman? Leftists opinion insists that the answer
is yes. Yet people who are physically of one sex but think they are actually
members of the opposite sex are regarded by most people and widely by the
medical profession as having a psychological problem, not a physical one. In
the argot of psychiatry it is called gender dysphoria. The most generous thing
one can say in argument with those who insist that men can be women, and women
can be men, is that the question isn't even close to being settled.
Most
people want to be kind and charitable, but it doesn't mean they embrace the
idea that male and female are mere social constructs and not scientific
reality. If they did, then most people attracted to men or to women (whatever
their sexual orientation) would not insist on a partner who is physically and
not just notionally male or female. Transgender activists point to this
unavoidable reality as evidence of discrimination, but it is, rather, evidence that almost no one accepts the
idea that a gender continuum can replace the biological concept of sex. If
pressed in private on their discriminatory dating habits, the 99-plus percent
of the population that harbor them would probably say it's because you can only
stretch things so far, even in an effort to be inclusive.
That's
the most glaring evidence that this issue is far from settled in civilian life.
There is plenty of other evidence, though. The spectacle of biologically
male athletes dominating women's sporting events is an obvious and natural source of controversy, not unity.
The removal of legal protections against biological males openly inhabiting
spaces reserved for women remains a serious point of contention as well.
Society
might someday change its mind, setting biology aside to give inclusion
precedence over fact. It has of course changed its mind on other, bigger
questions more than once in recent times. If so, perhaps military policy on
transgenderism will have to be revisited.
But
the military services should be the last place where such such social changes
are imposed, not the first. As Obama subordinated the military's mission to
unrelated considerations, at the risk of complicating that mission, the
reversal of his decision is the right course.
As
tempting as it is to force controversial ideology on large groups of people who
are obligated by law to obey, it is a cynical urge on the part of a radical commander
in chief, and it should be resisted when military effectiveness is at stake.
“Transgender people continue to possess all of the rights of
their fellow citizens, but there is no “right” to serve in the military.”
Social engineering at work:
“Roseanne will have a nine-year-old ´gender creative´ grandson in TV
revival: Casting directors are looking for a child who can be ´sensitive and
effeminate´…”
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Ask a liberal how
Obama’s [transgender] policy actually improves
readiness, and they’ll respond one of two ways: with a personal story or a
personal attack. Why? Because there hasn’t been a single scientifically based,
rational military argument for it. Without psychology, top brass, or even
popular opinion on their side, the Left resorts to a tired playbook —
distractions and name-calling. … This isn’t a civilian office, where work can
afford to take a backseat to sensitivity. It’s a warzone. If we care about
national security, why would we waste resources, money, and training time on a
pride parade for the mentally unstable? Political correctness doesn’t save
lives in a battle with ISIS. Only an efficient, highly trained, mentally fit
force can.”
-Tony
Perkins
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LEFTIST WATCH
By unanimous vote, the Seattle City Council has now enacted
an Income Tax ordinance imposing a tax on "high income residents,” i.e,
those whose annual incomes exceed $250,000 ($500,000 for joint filers). The new
legislation is largely the work of Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, an unabashed
leftist and redistributionist who was elected on the Socialist Alternative
party ticket, and who was a moving force behind Seattle´s ill-advised $15 per
hour minimum wage. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/seattles_income_tax_brings_out_the_crazy_in_people.html
Women´s Studies Professor: ´I Wish Someone Would Just Shoot´
Trump
Progressives, crazed with identifying new forms of
oppression attached to the currently fashionable catchword “privilege,” have
finally embraced the stupid as a victim class.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/07/check_your_cognitive_privilege_all_you_smart_people.html
Procter & Gamble´s Identity-Politics Pandering
“We stopped the moral monstrosity of Trumpcare. Our
resistance is working.”
-Nancy
Pelosi
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GLOBALONEY
In a recent interview, Al Gore claimed that he lives a
"carbon free lifestyle." But Al Gore´s Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity
Than Average U.S. Household
Commercial crabber tells Al Gore he hasn’t seen the sea
level change since he began his first career as a commercial crabber in 1970.
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ARTICLES
The Military Coup Against Donald Trump of 2018, Part 1
It is no secret the Clintons have been unrepentant political
grifters for decades to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. And yet,
when it is all laid out by Judicial Watch, it still manages to shock given how
much they’ve done and yet still continue to get away with it.
Time for the GOP to teach the Democrats a scandal lesson.
(They probably won’t though.)
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WISE WORDS
“To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to
plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when
they are too large.”
-Aristotle
“No one can be free unless he is independent… In reality, he
who is served is limited in his independence.”
-Maria
Montessori
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