op ed review 10/1
GDP growth estimates have been revised to show an increase
of 3.1% breaking the economic threshold of three percent President Trump
established as a growth goal. Economists predicted it would never happen.
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said
that President Trump´s tax reform proposal can achieve 4 percent growth.
"We have a jobs bill in front of us if we keep these rates down, we´ll go
to 4 percent growth, that´s what we had under Reagan."
President
Trump’s tax proposal gets pushback from some blue state Republicans, fuming
over the decision to end deductions for state and local income taxes.
‘Obamacare’ survives; GOP concedes on last-gasp repeal try.
Republicans should have read the latest ObamaCare polls before
deciding to give up on repeal. Public support for the law has dropped sharply,
while most like the idea of giving states greater control over health care.
Republican establishment shocked: Roy Moore wins Senate
primary race in Alabama.
Schlichter: “GOP, Can
You Hear Us Normals Now?”
“The Dallas Cowboys, together with team owner Jerry Jones,
take a collective knee at the start of the Monday Night Football game to
display their unity with… well, something probably. Stick a fork in the
financial future of the NFL, it’s done; finished.”
NBC
guest calls National Anthem ´white supremacist´
NFL says it doesn’t want to block players’ free speech. But it has previously banned teams from
honoring murdered cops and threatened players honoring 9/11.
The NFL’s game operations manual specifically requires both
teams to appear on the field for the national anthem, standing at attention and
holding their helmets in their left hands while remaining quiet. Failure to
comply can result in fines, suspensions, and the loss of draft picks. Yet, on
Sunday entire teams hid in the locker room and face no disciplinary action.
NFL ticket sales dropped 17.9 percent in the last week.
Anheuser-Busch said they will be having a word with the NFL
over their anthem-protests.
Then on Thursday night, chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A!"
reverberated around Lambeau Field as the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears
stood to observe the national anthem. Players and coaches from both teams
locked arms on their respective sidelines. No one sat and no one kneeled.
Another Poll Shows Americans Aren´t Big Fans of Anthem
Protests. Solid majorities oppose anthem kneeling (more than seven-in-ten call
it "unpatriotic."
Kaepernick donates $25,000 to group honoring convicted
cop-killer
“We are forgetting someone in this NFL vs. fans fight. They
are the most important people among us. The ones who sent loved ones off to war
never to see them again. These families have had to sit silently watching a
bunch of spoiled, mostly incoherent dunces spit on the flag that bears the
blood of their loved ones.”
Hannity is now on at 6 now, tops MSNBC’s Maddow in first
head to head match.
One third of
IBMs workforce is in India.
DOJ files suit against one company for not hiring Americans.
The use of private planes by President Trump’s Cabinet has
come under intense media scrutiny in recent days, but officials in the Obama
administration also took pricey flights on the government’s dime, including for
personal trips.
Hillary unhinged: Compares
Trump to Putin: ‘Hopefully He Hasn’t Ordered the Killing of People and
Journalists’
The swelling population of illegal immigrants and their kids
is costing American taxpayers $135 billion a year, the highest ever, driven by
free medical care, education and a huge law enforcement bill, according to the
most authoritative report on the issue yet.
Federal rules allow legal immigrants to "sponsor"
several more family members from their countries. On average, legal immigrants have been
sponsoring three additional immigrants. And newly arrived Mexicans are
sponsoring an additional six family members.
“It didn’t make the biggest headlines, but the most
important thing that happened today was the U.S. Supreme Court’s agreeing to
review Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. If,
as expected, Justice Gorsuch casts the decisive fifth vote in favor of Mark
Janus, all public employees in the U.S. will, in effect, be treated as though
they were in a right to work state. Those who don’t want to be represented by
the union, or support it, won’t have to.”
The U.S. Now Ranks 11th In Economic Freedom,
Thanks To Obama
Muslim college in Berkeley buys Lutheran seminary campus
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
IBD 9/26
Whether
you agree with them or not, the NFL players and the executives that run the
National Football League have really stepped in it, damaging their brand and
alienating millions of fans and potential fans for no real good reason. It was
a classic mistake.
Like
it or not, and whether it's fair or not, many Americans feel that professional
athletes as a whole lead a privileged existence, working only part of the year
and earning millions for their efforts. When they're seen leading
"protests" by disrespecting the flag and the national anthem — and
all the high ideals and sacrifice those symbols represent — it's too much.
Yes,
Trump intentionally tweaked the football players on Friday, after his
back-and-forth with the NBA champion Golden State Warriors led to the president
disinviting them from a White House visit. Trump then turned his attention to
the NFL players for "taking a knee" to protest racism.
"Wouldn't
you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to
say, 'Get that son of a b---h off the field right now. Out! He's fired. He's
fired!' " Trump said Friday. "You know, some owner is going to do
that. He's going to say, 'That guy that disrespects our flag, he's fired.' And
that owner, they don't know it, they'll be the most popular person in this
country."
An
estimated 200 players knelt during the protests this weekend, some joined by
team owners. Others, such as the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Tennessee Titans and
Seattle Seahawks, simply didn't come out of their locker rooms for the anthem.
(One notable exception: Steelers lineman Alejandro Villanueva, a West Point
grad and former Army Ranger, who stood alone at attention during the anthem,
and was criticized by his coach for it.)
When
the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars played over the weekend in
London, they protested there too. Yet, as Nate Jackson of the Patriot
Post reminds us,
"they stood for the U.K.'s anthem, 'God Save the Queen.' God save the one
who can't see why that's outrageous."
The
NFL's official response was pathetically tone-deaf and could have been written
by the NFL players union. Heck, maybe it was.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell castigated Trump for his "divisive
comments" and "an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL."
Lack
of respect for the NFL? What about respect for the nation's flag and its anthem, and
for those who died defending them and what they stand for? What about respect
for your own fans, many of whom still believe that America, though not perfect,
is the greatest country on Earth? It's no wonder that many of the protests were
met with a chorus of boos.
Nor
is this, as many self-righteously claim, a matter of "free speech."
NFL football players have the right to express what they believe, however
odious or wrong it may be. But businesses have a right not to employ those who
intentionally damage their businesses by reckless behavior and comments. The
idea that NFL millionaires have special rights, unlike the rest of us, that let
them ruin the very businesses that employ them tells you how out of touch they
are with basic civics and responsibility.
We're
not in the prediction business, but it's clear that Sunday was not a banner day
for the league, at least as far as TV ratings were concerned. And TV is
everything to the NFL, which has historically had the highest-rated programs on
TV and which gets more than $7 billion a year from televising its games.
"On
a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms,
players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national
anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league, NBC and the NFL took a
ratings hit on Sunday Night Football," reported Deadline
Hollywood's TV analyst Dominic Patten. Sunday night's Oakland Raiders-Washington Redskins game
was off 8% from last week's game and 10% below the same week's game a year ago,
he noted……..
The
politicization of sports, one of the last refuges for Americans from the
politicization of nearly everything, is an enormous business mistake
that the NFL will come to regret. They have angered and insulted millions of
fans in order to throw a political temper tantrum. Sure, the players have a
right to disrespect the flag and the anthem. As we noted, people have fought
and died for those rights. But fans also have a right to be disappointed,
offended and angry. Roger Goodell, the team owners and the whole NFL enterprise
better wake up before it's too late.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“For the first time in American history, the party in power
— complete power, mind you — is being asked to bail out the minority’s
signature failed reform. Not just any reform: Democrats unilaterally shoved
through the system a wide-ranging national restructuring of a vital part of the
economy. It was an effort that blew up dozens of governing norms and was built
on a giant lie, a manipulated Congressional Budget Office score and a process
that, outside a few Kabuki theater hearings and technical amendments, ignored
half the country while coercing every citizen’s participation. In fact, many of
the people being asked to bail out Obamacare warned that Obamacare would need
bailing out.”
-David
Harsanyi:
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LEFTIST WATCH
The New York Times has long been known for having a fondness
for all things politically left, but the Grey Lady has developed a real soft
spot for communist and/or socialist nostalgia this year. The paper has been
running a series called Red Century, which doesn´t so much just look at the
history of communism as give apologists a very large platform to extol its
virtues.
Pelosi mutters 'oh God' during question, suffers brain
freeze, stares at reporters...
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GLOBALONEY
Climate change alarmists portray a catastrophic rise in sea
level as one of the chief dangers of global warming. They draw pictures of the
Statue of Liberty up to her chest in water, and so on. I doubt whether many
people actually believe these dire predictions, however. If they did, prices
for oceanfront property would be collapsing. That isn’t happening, which
suggests that a lot of people pay lip service to global warming hysteria who
don’t actually think it has any scientific basis. If they don’t believe it,
they’re right.
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ARTICLES
Rush Limbaugh takes on NeverTrumpers and elite
conservatives: “What Happened to the
Conservative Movement?”
“To
say that the president made things worse (NFL) is to understate how bad things
were — i.e., how appalling the fraud behind the kneeling protest has been….Police
killings are at historic lows……far more whites than blacks are killed in
confrontations with law-enforcement — twice as many in 2015, for example.
Police departments are more integrated than they have ever been — often overseen
by African-American commissioners and political officials…….Though they make up
only six percent of the population, black males account for 42 percent of cop
killers; police officers are 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black
male than are unarmed black males to be killed by a police officer.
Lowry: “NFL kneelers are cutting against the
American cultural grain, besides picking the wrong target on the merits. The
American flag isn’t a Confederate monument — indeed the opposite. Our military
fights under it. The flag drapes the caskets of the fallen and is folded in a
solemn ceremony at military funerals, with practically every movement fraught
with religious and patriotic meaning. It is not to be trifled with — unless you
intend to insult the country for which it stands.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451728/nfl-national-anthem-protests-american-flag-deserves-more-respect
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451728/nfl-national-anthem-protests-american-flag-deserves-more-respect
Tim Allen comment on Last Man Standing cancellation:.
“there’s nothing more dangerous, especially in this climate, than a funny,
likable conservative.”
“It Was the Deep State that Colluded with the Russians, not
Trump”
John McCain has once again shown he has no loyalty to his
party, his friends, or to his voters
Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly appeared on “Hannity”
Tuesday, addressing the beliefs of the far-left in America. “They’re after–they
don’t want capitalism. They don’t want the electoral college. They don’t want
white people…generally calling the shots. So they have to mobilize minority
Americans to be angry,” O’Reilly told Sean Hannity. O’Reilly also claimed that
far-left agents, which he believe to be “evil,” want to “destroy the
Constitution” by changing it. “‘Who forged it? Slave owners — Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington. We can’t have a Constitution that they made — we have to
have a new one!’ That’s the
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WISE WORDS
“Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil
Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.”
-James
Madison
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