op ed review 9/10
CNN has dismantled its vaunted
Trump-colluded-with-the-Russians investigative unit in a wretched concession to
reality. The only thing the unit found was an empty well for stories,
surrounded by a crust of fake news. The whole caper damaged the network´s credibility
and the public just wasn´t buying it anymore. So the whole unit had to go. What
a shabby end to what the network had put so much stock in in the heady days of
trying to oust President Trump just as he had taken office.
Here is video of James Comey testifying under oath that he
did not make up his mind about Hillary Clinton’s guilt prior to the FBI
interview that took place just days before he announced she had done nothing
illegal. Ah, but that is in direct contrast to the breaking news this week that
Mr. Comey had in fact sent out a draft memo to upper level FBI administrators
exonerating Hillary Clinton TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE INTERVIEW.
Comey and Clinton: Rigged from the beginning
Trump Immigration Crackdown Raises Middle-Class Construction
Wages In America By 30%
http://dcwhispers.com/trump-immigration-crackdown-raises-middle-class-construction-wages-america-30/
Many seasonal businesses had to hire Americans this summer —
and pay their workers more.
Fraud is rampant and “huge” for the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a former official with the United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency alleges.
The National Science Foundation is spending over $130,000 on
a study that asks four-year-olds about their "internal sense of gender
identity."
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-138000-asking-four-year-olds-internal-sense-gender-identity/
This weekend in Philadelphia, a four-day long convention of
LGBTQ (gay, lesbian, transsexual, bisexual, queer) activists is meeting with
leading mainstream journalists and corporate media producers and executives.
The stated purpose is to influence mainstream reporting on issues close to the heart
of the LGBTQ activist community. The issues include same sex marriage,
transgenders in the military, isolating conservative religious groups as hate
mongers, and even how to cover President Donald Trump. Incredibly, the
journalists are there not to report on the event – but to be enthusiastic
participants while their employers help to pay for it.
Corruption: A sitting U.S. Senator is currently on trial for
bribery, and if he´s found guilty it could have major political ramifications.
Haven´t heard about this case? That´s because the Senator in question is a Democrat.
The New York Times refuses to call Menendez a Democrat.
NBC News even claimed that Menendez is a Republican.
It Appears That Out-of-State Voters Changed the Outcome of
the New Hampshire U.S. Senate Race
Regnery, the nation’s premier publisher of conservative
books, has cut ties with The New York Times over long-simmering allegations the
newspaper took a decided left-leaning slant in picking which books to feature
on its best-seller lists.
Brace yourself for the next health insurance crisis: the
uninsured middle class. The Affordable Care Act added millions of mostly poor
people to the insurance rolls. But the law is driving premiums so high that
middle class people can no longer afford insurance.
Catch and Release: 9 Illegals Arrested at Trump Tower
Protest, Mayor De Blasio Sets Them Free
Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll
back so-called "right to work" laws as part of the renegotiation of
the North American free-trade agreement.
President Trump is staying out of the military´s way as he
trusts the judgment of our soldiers. Unlike Barack Obama who envisioned himself
as the Shaka Zulu of the Potomac, Trump does not have to prove his manhood. The
generals appreciate it. “Winning a war instead of managing it.”
Top Democrat Tim Kaine’s Son Is an Antifa
Member–Congratulations Tim, You’ve Raised a Terrorist
52% of Likely U.S. Voters agree with Reagan’s statement that
government is the problem.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Ben Shapiro 9/7
Politics is the art of shifting the playing field. This is
an art Republicans simply don’t understand. Perhaps it’s because they spend so
much time attempting to stop the Democratic snowball from running downhill too
quickly, but Republicans in power have an unfortunate tendency to conserve
their political capital rather than invest it. That’s unfortunate because
political capital doesn’t accrue when you save it; it degrades.
Just as sticking your cash in a mattress is a bad strategy
when it comes to investment, inaction in power is a bad strategy when it comes
to politics. Democrats understand that political capital must be used, not to
pass popular legislation but to fundamentally change the nature of the
political game itself. Democrats do not see ObamaCare — a piece of legislation
that cost them the House, the Senate and, eventually, the presidency — as a
disaster area. They see it as an investment in a leftist future: By making
Americans accustomed to the idea that the government is responsible for
universal coverage, they understand that any future failures will be attributed
to lack of government, not an excess of it.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) understood that in 2013 when he
attempted to block ObamaCare funding. He quite rightly explained that once
ObamaCare went into effect, it would be nearly impossible to dismantle it. That
became obvious this year, just four years after its full implementation, when
congressional Republicans obviously have no political will to get rid of
ObamaCare at all.
This is the difference between Republicans and Democrats:
Democrats see their radical legislative moves as building blocks for the
future. Republicans, afraid that their carefully crafted tower of electability
will come crumbling down, make no radical legislative moves. That basic formula
is playing out yet again with regard to former President Obama’s executive
amnesty. Obama implemented the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program,
or DACA, knowing full well that a Republican president could get rid of it with
the stroke of a pen. But he also knew that Republicans would not want to be responsible
for changing the status quo — they wouldn’t want to own the political
consequences of allowing the deportation of DACA recipients.
And Obama was completely right. Republicans promised for
years that they would get rid of Obama’s executive amnesty if given power.
Finally, President Trump has pledged to get rid of it . . . in six months. And
everyone knows that he is willing to trade away DACA enforcement for
border-wall funding. The Democratic status quo will win out, one way or
another.
Now, quickly: Name the last transformational conservative
change Republicans have made — a change to the field of play; any change that
would redound to the detriment of Democrats. It’s pretty tough. That’s despite
Republican control of Congress and the presidency from 2002 to 2006; that’s a
longer period of unified control than Democrats had from 2008 to 2010.
Republicans have unified control of government once again.
But they seem less willing to use it than ever, afraid that their tenuous
control will dissipate. That must end. If Republicans hope to set a foundation
for future victory, they’ll need to do more than act as an impediment to bad
Democratic ideas. They’ll need to take political risks in order to shift the
playing field itself. If they don’t, they’ll lose quickly. And they’ll deserve
to lose
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Democrats love to say that Trump is violating
constitutional norms. Well, Obama violated them when he unilaterally
implemented DAPA and DACA. The Supreme Court threw out DAPA and — if Gorsuch
had been on the court — it probably would have quashed DACA too. By winding
down DACA — slowly — and asking Congress to find a legislative fix, Trump is
returning us to a constitutional norm. That liberal congressmen are scandalized
by being asked to fulfill their constitutional duties tells you more about the
expediency of contemporary liberalism than it does about Trump.”
-Jonah
Goldberg
“In her ‘reporting’ on the ending of the DACA program,
Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC asserted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was wrong
to use the term ‘illegal alien,’ which she deemed both ‘offensive’ and ‘not
correct.’ But ‘illegal alien’ is in fact the correct legal term. … The
politically correct term ‘undocumented immigrant’ that she and others insist on
using is a made-up term used by progressive groups and media sources to
extinguish the line between legal immigrants and illegal aliens. That makes it
easier for them to claim that anyone who wants our immigration laws enforced is
‘anti-immigrant.’ As civil-rights icon Barbara Jordan (who chaired Bill
Clinton’s Commission on Immigration Reform) aptly said, ‘We disagree with those
who would label efforts to control immigration as being inherently
anti-immigrant. It is both a right and responsibility for a democratic society
to manage immigration so it serves the national interest…. Unless this country
does a better job in curbing illegal immigration, we risk irreparably
undermining our commitment to legal immigration.’”
-Hans von Spakovsky:
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GLOBALONEY
Renowned climate scientist jailed for fraud
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LEFTIST WATCH
New York’s Marxist Mayor:
In a wide-ranging and candid interview with New York, Mayor Bill de
Blasio casually noted that the “way our legal system is structured to favor
private property” provokes his “anger, which is visceral.” The mayor elaborated
on this point, insisting that “people all over this city, of every background,
would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes
where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be.”
Getting rich on poverty law:
We’ve had the number of the ludicrously misnamed Southern Poverty Law
Center for a long time. It is a vastly influential left-wing hate cult
operating in the form of a nonprofit fundraising phenom most famous for its
supposed “hate map” and related designations.
It’s is neither poor nor devoted to law…….
The SPLC invests almost 20 percent of its nearly $320
million endowment fund in offshore equities and other investments.
Tens of thousands of witches around the world join forces
every month to cast a ‘binding’ spell on Donald Trump and ‘protect’ us from his
actions.
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ISLAM
ISIS Supporters Celebrate Hurricane Irma: “May Allah Drown
the Enemies of Islam”
ISIS terrorists have put out a call for jihadists to head to
disaster areas in Texas and do whatever they can to put those outside the Islam
faith “out of their misery.”
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ARTICLES
"Argh, I´m a pirate!" So says every boy after
watching the animated movie Peter Pan. Then he slips into his daddy´s boots,
makes a cardboard sword and puts on a funny hat. He prances around in his getup
imitating Captain Hook. His mom is delighted. "Oh, indeed you are. You´re
quite a daring and darling pirate." She videotapes him and posts it on
Facebook for everyone to adore. "Now go to bed, you cutie-pie
pirate." So the boy goes to bed. Most boys outgrow this but not the left.
They imagine themselves as outlaw swashbucklers even as they slavishly conform
to establishment politics.”
“Republicans cower”……Last month’s events in Charlottesville
have given our Republican elected officials an excellent opportunity to educate
the public on the violence of the hard Left and sources of their funding.
Sadly, most are squandering the opportunity to make use of their bully pulpit
and shed light on these disturbing realities. President Trump was correct that
there were two violent sides involved in Charlottesville and “both sides” need
to be denounced, and investigated. But you wouldn’t know it from listening to
the media, or to most Republican officials for that matter.”
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WISE WORDS
“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who
are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient
expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public
good.”
-Friedrich August von Hayek
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity,
under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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