op ed review 9/3
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gave President Trump´s administration
an A+ on its response to Hurricane Harvey during a press briefing Monday.
Proving they are the opposition party, journalists
completely switched complaints when it comes to the subject of Republican
presidents and Hurricanes. While reporters spun George W. Bush as callously
staying away from Hurricane Katrina, MSNBC’s Katy Turn on Monday whined about President
Trump visiting Texas too quickly.
A professor who said Texans ‘Deserve’ Harvey because they
voted for Trump, is now looking for a new job.
New York Times
defends Antifa: “Antifa is…..a defensive
response to the growing presence of right-wing extremism.”
Many on the left are starting to see the goons of Antifa as
the menace they are. Too bad the Berkeley, Calif., Police Department remains
clueless. “…when hundreds of masked,
armored thugs arrived in quasi-military formation, carrying shields banned
under police rules, the cops were ordered to retreat.”
Governor Terry McAuliffe’s efforts to evade responsibility
for the shocking violence at Charlottesville just got even more implausible. He
and local authorities were warned by Homeland Security, and yet allowed, if not
forced, the two violence-prone parties into such close proximity that violence
was a near certainty.
The fix was in: Fired
FBI Director James Comey had already drafted a preliminary conclusion that
Hillary Clinton was not going to be held responsible even before sixteen key
investigative witnesses, including Mrs. Clinton herself, were interviewed.
HUH?? Hillary Clinton’s case isn’t interesting enough to the
public to justify releasing the FBI’s files on her, the bureau said this week
in rejecting an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former
secretary of state punished for perjury.
“Dead
Broke” Hillary Clinton Sells Summer Home for $29 Million
A federal appeals court ruled that Arkansas can kick Planned
Parenthood out of its network of Medicaid-approved health providers. The 8th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Medicaid recipients are entitled to
care, but cannot dictate to the states where they get that care
In 1990, 88 percent of
the world’s energy came from fossil fuels. After more than 25 years and over a
trillion dollars in subsidies for “renewable” energy, in 2015 the world’s share
of energy from fossil fuels was . . . 86 percent.
Denmark, the world’s most taxed nation, is proposing tax
cuts that will hit all income groups, “making it more attractive to work”
Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., which does business as
D. James Kennedy Ministries, has sued the Southern Poverty Law Center, Amazon
and Guidestar in federal court for declaring the Kennedy Ministries as a “hate
group” because, consistent with Christian doctrine, it opposes gay marriage.
Arpaio Pardoned, RINOs melt down
After President Trump pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the
media went on a RINO hunt. Speaker Paul Ryan was happy to criticize President Trump
for pardoning a former Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio, becoming the
highest-ranking Republican to object to the move. Who needs Nancy when we have
Ryan?
AP, NY Times Have Ignored Wasserman Schultz-Dem IT Scandal
for Over a Month
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
With President Trump turning his attention to tax reform,
Democrats are busy dusting off their shopworn claims about federal income
taxes. Almost nothing they say about taxes is true.
Here are the three big lies:
1. Bush tax cuts didn't work. "The American people,"
says Winnie Stachelberg of the Center for American Progress, "know from
experience under the Bush era that tax cuts for millionaires and corporations
will not benefit the U.S. economy, jobs, or the middle class." They also
supposedly boosted the deficit. Democrats have been peddling this lie for so
long that no amount of hard data will likely stop them. But here goes, anyway. Federal
deficits steadily declined after Bush signed the 2003 tax law, which
retroactively cut income tax rates — the deficits dropped from $470 billion in
2004 to $167 billion by 2007. The economy perked up, with GDP jumping 6.9% in
Q3 2003 and 4.8% in Q4. In the six quarters after Bush signed those tax cuts,
average quarterly GPD growth topped 4%, compared with 2.1% in the previous six
quarters. Anyone want to guess how Obama's tax hikes affected GDP growth?
By the end of 2007, the unemployment rate had dropped to
4.7% — down from 6.1% when Bush signed the 2003 tax cuts into law. Median
household income climbed 3%. Income inequality, meanwhile, didn't change at
all. It was the financial crisis — which, as we have repeatedly shown in this
space, was caused by misguided federal policies first enacted under President
Clinton — that erased these gains.
2. The rich don't pay their fair share. "The last thing
we need is for the tax code to be even more rigged in favor of millionaires,
billionaires, and corporate insiders," claims the organizers of Not One
Penny, a liberal coalition that includes the George Soros-backed MoveOn.org. If
by "rigged" liberals mean a tax code under which the top 1% pay 39%
of federal income taxes — which is up from 33% in 2001 — and that U.S. is the
most progressive in the industrialized world, then we'd agree. But the idea
that the "rich don't pay their fair share" is utterly false. In fact,
one reason tax cuts always seem to benefit the rich more than the middle class
is precisely because the tax code is so heavily skewed toward the wealthy.
According to the IRS, the bottom 50% of taxpayers account for less than 3% of
federal income taxes paid.
As for corporate taxes, the U.S. imposes the highest
corporate income tax rate of any industrialized nation — up to 40% when federal
and state taxes are combined. Yet it has one of the lowest collection rates as
a share of GDP. Why? Because the code is riddled with loopholes that benefit
"corporate insiders." The GOP plan is to cut the tax rate, close
loopholes and simplify the code. The only losers will be companies that on
political connections and gimmicks to lower their tax burden.
3. Tax reform must be 'revenue neutral'. "At a bare
minimum, tax reform should not lose revenues," declares the liberal Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities. What they and other Democrats mean by this is
that any tax cuts must be offset by tax hikes somewhere else, and that no
account can be made of the growth effect of tax cuts. But the idea the tax
reform must be revenue neutral is based on a myth that taxes are at an
acceptable level today. The fact is, they are historically high. As it stands,
taxes as share of GDP will be 18% this year, which is well above the 17.2%
average since World War II.
The reason the federal government is running deficits is
because spending will equal 21% of GDP this year, which is also well above the
post-War average. Clearly, then, the country doesn't have a tax problem, it has
a spending problem, which means that both taxes and spending should be cut.
And, since tax cuts will boost economic growth, at least some of the revenue
"lost" to tax cuts will be regained from an expanded economy.
One final point worth keeping in mind. The mainstream media
won't correct any of these lies, despite their supposed role as guardians
against "fake news."
Depressing article by Brent Bozell, read at your own risk: “The Grand Old Party is about to commit
suicide.”
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OTHER COLUMNS
“In totalitarian societies, cities change their names
regularly. Statues go up and are torn down. Words, as the historian Thucydides
warned 2,400 years ago, habitually change their meanings to reflect passing
political orthodoxy — and thugs, commissars and brownshirts oversee the
charade. For an antidote to these statue-smashers and name-changers, Americans
seek just one honest public official who dares to say ‘no more’ — and arrests
rather than appeases those who destroy public property, or shames those who
ruin people through guilt by association.”
-Victor
Davis Hanson
“Antifa chants, ‘No Trump, no wall, no USA at all.’ The
label ‘anti-American’ is not a pejorative, it’s just descriptive.”
-Jim
Geraghty
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GLOBALONEY
Members of the major media —who apparently moonlight as
climate scientists —are already politicizing Hurricane Harvey, insisting the
storm proves the validity of the global warming theory, and mocking Republicans
who disagree.
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ARTICLES
“Neo-Nazis have been around for a long time. I remember
learning as a teenager that there was an American Nazi party led by George
Lincoln Rockwell. It seemed odd, but no one paid much attention. Neo-Nazis and
white supremacists–the terms seem to be used interchangeably these days–have
been with us for decades, regarded as irrelevant fringe groups consisting of
nuts and watchful FBI agents. Suddenly, though, that has changed.
Neo-Nazi/white supremacist groups turned out a few hundred tiki torch-carrying
goofs in Charlottesville, and now these fringe kooks have become, we are told,
a crisis of the republic.”
Understanding Charlottesville: “The specification is Mr. Trump’s insistence
that at Charlottesville, there was violence on both sides. To say this was a dastardly abrogation of
duty, even though the Doctor (Krauthammer) himself acknowledges it to be true
(“Yes, there was violence on both sides.”).
It is true, but “not the point.”
It is not the point because all the leaders “in this generation,” all
except Trump, recognize the unique importance and evil of white racism in
American society. And so, if there was a
faction in the streets of Charlottesville that stood for racism, it is immoral
to criticize another faction opposing it. It makes no difference what the other faction did, or
what part it played in the mayhem. It
makes no difference that the “Unite the Right” demonstrators had a permit,
affirmed by a court of law. It is
immaterial whether all of those protesting the removal of the Robert E. Lee
statue were actually Nazis or Klansmen. It
does not matter that the President had denounced the Nazis and the Klan in his
second statement, and specifically the one who murdered a woman with his car.
Trump must be deemed to have taken all that back when he said there was
violence on both sides. And it makes no
difference whether the bloody confrontation was, in effect, engineered by
calculating politicians, who restrained the police from intervening to prevent
violence. All Krauthammer knows is that
there were elements harkening back to Jim Crow on the scene, and so it is a
moral disgrace to talk about anyone else.”
“Over the past few months, we have finally entered the fully
realized historical revisionism promised in George Orwell’s “1984,” in which
the motto, “Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past
controls the future,” was central to shaping the book’s dystopian world. In the
book, history was continually being rewritten and re-promulgated to meet the
political necessities of the moment. There was no history to be remembered, let
alone lessons to be learned. For all the talk of Trumpian bluster or
exaggeration, there is only one group that seeks to systematically and
violently achieve its goals here……”
VDH: TrumpHaters & supporters, a civil war field guide.
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WISE WORDS
“A man’s admiration for absolute government is proportionate
to the contempt he feels for those around him.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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