Saturday, September 23, 2017

op ed review 9/24



After campaigning against it, McCain saves Obamacare again, cheered by the liberal media, praised by Chuck Schumer.

President Trump speaks at the UN:  .targets rogue regimes...threatens to destroy NKorea...'Rocket Man on suicide mission'... draws applause for blasting Iran.. “Socialism delivers anguish and failure”….former UN ambassador John Bolton says best speech of his presidency.
“Over the years, a curious habit has taken hold at the United Nations. A body designed to strengthen the best of humanity has too often become a font of doublespeak and appeasement that protects the worst of humanity. That tragic comity was shattered when President Trump played the skunk at the garden party and dared to tell the truth.”
Lowry:  As someone said on Twitter, never before has been there so much murmuring of “holy sh**” in so many different languages. Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations was a sometimes awkward marriage of conventional Republican foreign policy and a very basic version of Trump’s nationalism. …….If the point of the speech was to get the world to take notice, this surely succeeded.”
“Trump Hits Home Run for America in UN Speech”

President Trump persuaded China to freeze all financial transactions with North Korea and ordered a new round of U.S. sanctions Thursday.
What made China see the light??....”executive order structured in such a way that the downstream consequences from any economic engagement with North Korea effectively cuts off that entity from engaging in commerce or economic activity with the United States.”

Trump vindicated:  U.S. Government Wiretapped Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort… Call it Watergate 2.0, the unthinkable wiretapping of a presidential candidate by the administration of a political opponent. This is the electronic version of the Watergate breakin, something more worthy of a dictatorship like Venezuela than the United States.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/trump_vindicated_on_wiretaps_hillary_ukraine_collusion.html#ixzz4tEksFRx7
“Vladimir Putin did not hack the election. Barack Obama did…….Obama’s Watergate”

Democratic Party leaders this week said President Trump had agreed to make a deal on illegal aliens. Chuck and Nancy carefully said "excluding the wall," meaning that was off the table. The press interpreted this as the wall was falling. There will be no wall, they reported. And they laughed at Trump supporters and called us fools -- and then the House passed a $1.6 billion appropriation for the wall.
“Glitch” Allowed Illegals To Vote In Philly Elections
ABC has greenlit a new sitcom tentatively titled "Sanctuary Family" about an illegal alien family living in the U.S.
Nancy Pelosi says DREAMers’ Families Did a ‘Great Thing’ Illegally Bringing Children to America.
Hungary has slashed illegal immigration by over 99 per cent after rolling out a series of powerful border fences in response to the European migrant crisis, possibly providing a lesson as to the potential impact of constructing President Trump’s much-discussed southern wall in the U.S.
California's attorney general plans to file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's plan to construct a wall along the border with Mexico

Activists now have third grade football players kneeling for the national anthem.  This is not good for America.
President Trump tells rally in Alabama that NFL owners should fire any players who protest during the national anthem - and called on fans to walk out if they see anyone doing so.

Anti-Trump Witch Compares Casting Hexes To Singing The National Anthem, Saluting The Flag
Parents Get Angry After Actress Teaches Students About the Constitution…in Texas no less??

GOP Establishment’s Steve Schmidt, the genius who ran the 2008 McCain campaign,  calls
for ‘Breitbart News’ to Be ‘Put Out of Business’
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investor’s Business Daily   9/20
The U.S. government under President Obama wiretapped former Trump campaign Chair Paul Manafort in New York's Trump Tower under "secret court orders before and after the election," CNN reported, citing "three sources familiar with the investigation." Assuming CNN's report is true, it means President Trump, who was ridiculed earlier this year for claiming that his iconic building had been wiretapped, has been massively vindicated. But don't hold your breath waiting for an apology.

Just months ago, Trump was called a liar and worse for his tweets alleging that Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped……..

The entire investigation into alleged Trump campaign ties to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election appears to center on the wiretaps of Manafort, whose consulting work included some foreign political groups, including in Ukraine. Even so, top U.S. intelligence officials have steadfastly and adamantly denied any wiretap of Trump. "With respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI," former FBI Director James Comey told the House Intelligence Committee last March. Comey was under oath.

National Intelligence Director James Clapper also denied any wiretap, telling NBC in March that he would have known about a "court order on something like this." Clapper denied to Congress that any of the intelligence agencies he oversaw wiretapped Trump, and said the FBI did not get a court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) — the only court that can grant a domestic wiretap on grounds of national security — to tap Trump's phones.

A host of others, including some Republicans in Congress, likewise publicly dissed Trump's claims. If CNN's report proves true, those who lied will no doubt say, "We didn't wiretap Trump; we wiretapped Manafort." But that cutesy, specious logic comes up short, both legally and ethically. In tapping Manafort, they knew they were getting Trump's many intimate conversations with him. That's how they could go to FISA and say it wasn't about Trump, but about Manafort. It was in fact a roundabout way of getting Trump in trouble, possibly even impeached.

As the CNN report said, "The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Trump." And the wiretaps were used to feed the ongoing investigation of Robert Mueller of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
This, by the way, puts a new gloss on why President Obama did nothing at all when first presented with evidence in the summer of 2016 that the Russians might be hacking our election. It was a way to take down the Democrats' biggest threat, the unpredictable Donald Trump.

As has been noted previously, President Obama didn't have authority on his own to request a wiretap of a U.S. citizen. That requires the Justice Department. But that doesn't mean he didn't make it happen. The Justice Department was then headed by Loretta Lynch — one of the most politicized Attorneys-General in U.S. history, known for repeatedly bending the truth in her public comments. So it's not a stretch to think that, with a nod and a wink, Obama encouraged Lynch to go after Trump. He had every reason to do so, given that Hillary Clinton at the time seemed to be the only hope for Obama's progressive legacy to live on.

"It was the Comey-led FBI in the Lynch-led DOJ, in the Obama presidency, that reportedly used the FISA Court to obtain a warrant, quite possibly based on the phony (Russian) dossier, that has provided material to get Manafort and pressure him to find something to squeal about and catch a higher-up," wrote Thomas Lifson at the American Thinker. "The legitimacy of that warrant now is in question."

We'll take that a step further. The entire Russia investigation, which was manipulated into being by Obama administration holdovers working with congressional Democrats, now appears to be a fraud. More than a year after the government began looking into the charges, no proof of any wrongdoing or crime has been produced.

This is a tragic turn in American democracy, when a sitting president has a political foe spied upon by our own intelligence agencies. It's time to wind down the Russia probe and begin looking into the real scandal: Whether the Obama administration illegally used the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. to try to neutralize a political opponent. If it did, it's a serious crime that warrants a real criminal investigation — not Mueller's political witch hunt.


Newt Gingrich:  “this may be the most egregious abuse of the criminal justice process in American history…….the country that you and I know is under siege by a deep state which illegally wants to create a very different America and is willing to break the wall and abuse the law……This is a radically bigger scandal than anything about Russia,”
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OTHER COLUMNS
“[Trump] said as president of the United States he will always put his country’s interests first, just as each [UN member] would put their country’s interests first. The UN rank and file apparently couldn’t understand that idea, unfortunately, because most of them routinely put themselves first, not their own countries. … In the real world probably half of the UN people who come to New York are not coming to work for world peace and greater prosperity. They’re coming to see their mistresses and rack up hundreds of unpaid parking tickets.”
              -Michael Reagan
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BOOKS
As the U.S. Secret Service sought greater diversity in its ranks, the agency lowered its standards, former agent Dan Bongino says in a new book on the inner workings of the government agency assigned to protect the President of the United State
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LEFTIST WATCH
Sillier all the time:  Left-wing writers are taking the victim narrative to a new level this week, decrying “straight black men” as the “white people of black people.” In a column for The Root´s “Very Smart Brothas,” writer Damon Young accused straight black men of having the “type of privilege created for and protected by whiteness.

UC Berkeley faculty calls for a Campus-Wide Boycott of Class to protest the visits of conservative speakers to the campus.

EMMYS Devolve Into 3 Hour Celebrity Anti-Trump Rage Fest...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is growing in popularity on America’s political left-wing as the despot engages in a war of words with President Trump.

Huh? Brown University will offer segregated student dinners for black, Muslim students.
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ISLAM
The second suspect arrested in the London ‘bucket bomb’ attempt highlights the reality of the multi-year concern about unvetted refugees and the potential for importing terrorism. Yahya Faroukh, 21, is a Syrian national who sought asylum in the U.K. from the civil war. Unfortunately, it appears he carried the civil war of jihad with him
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GLOBALONEY
Global warming is "settled science," we hear all the time. Those who reject that idea are "deniers." But as new evidence trickles out from peer-reviewed science studies, the legs beneath the climate change hypothesis are increasingly wobbly. A new study admits that the 12 major university and government models that have been used to predict climate warming are faulty……Based on the growing evidence, who are the real deniers?

Liberals want us to turn control of our economy over to them, not because their stewardship has been successful in the past–heh–but because if we don’t, the Earth faces imminent climate catastrophe in the form of global warming. Some (e.g., liberal reporters) accept such claims uncritically, while the rest of us want to see evidence. In this debate, there are two types of evidence. The first is the raw material of science, observation. The second is climate models created by alarmists for the purpose of generating scary scenarios. Anyone with the slightest acquaintance with science understands that observation trumps theory
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ARTICLES
“It’s safe to say that none of his many enemies in the global elites anticipated an intellectual challenge from Donald Trump. He doesn’t look or talk or act the way they think an intellectual should. Yet somehow, he has placed them in a box. In his UN debut, he challenged the intellectual basis of the world order they are working towards. He personally addressed many of the political leaders in the audience when he said: …you, as the leaders of your countries will always, and should always, put your countries first.”

Sharyl Attkisson:  “It looks like Obama did spy on Trump, just as he apparently did to me” In her case, “I have spent more than two years litigating against the Department of Justice for the computer intrusions. Forensics have revealed dates, times and methods of some of the illegal activities. The software used was proprietary to a federal intel agency. The intruders deployed a keystroke monitoring program, accessed the CBS News corporate computer system, listened in on my conversations by activating the computer’s microphone and used Skype to exfiltrate files.”

A new survey from NBC News/Wall Street Journal is the perfect example of the utter worthlessness of public polling as it relates to the implementation of government policy. In the poll, which covers numerous political topics, one question stands out: “Would you favor or oppose a single-payer health care system in which all Americans would get their health insurance from one government plan that is financed by Taxes?” To this question, 47% said they “favored” such a system, 46% said they “opposed,” and 7% said they were “not sure.” However, when pollsters added a bit of specificity to the question, the results changed rather dramatically.

Tucker interviews baseball legend Curt Schilling about politics at ESPN:  “the left is about your race, your sex, your sexual preference, your identity, who you worship, who you don't worship, who you want to sleep with, whether you are in transit, they are all about identity politics, every decision they make, every chaos, every event they create is around one of those factors if not more…..The right, we are about legal and illegal. Is it lawful? Are you a law- abiding citizen? I don't care what color you are. If you are a law- abiding citizen, I'm okay with that. If you are not, I'm not.”

Jonah Goldberg:  New study confirms dogs’ love of man is real
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WISE WORDS
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
                -William Hazlitt

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