op ed review 10/15
Consumer sentiment sets new 13 year high, stocks set new
records.
Unemployment claims fall to lowest level in 43 years,
despite hurricanes.
Trump wins: “Supreme Court Tosses Case Against Trump’s
‘Travel Ban’….the fight is largely over, and Trump has won.”
Trump ends Obamacare subsidies. This will accelerate Obamacare’s collapse.
The Left goes nuts.
“Trump rescinded an unconstitutional order by President
Obama and restored the authority of Congress over the “power of the purse.” The
Democrats’ response has been a curious call for the judicial branch to prevent
the executive branch from recognizing the inherent authority of the legislative
branch. It would have baffled the Framers.”
The White House submitted a 70-point immigration enforcement
plan to Congress Sunday evening with the stiffest reforms ever proposed by an
administration: calls for a border wall,
more deportation agents, a crackdown on sanctuary cities and stricter limits to
chain migration — all issues the White House says need to be part of any bill
Congress passes to legalize illegal immigrant “Dreamers”.
Protesting anti-Israel bias, US announces withdrawal from
UNESCO.
Trump´s $33 Billion Tax Cut You Didn´t Know You Just Got
“With each passing day, President Trump unravels another piece
of Barack Obama's legacy.”
The Left in panic: “Porn
King Larry Flynt Offers $10 Million for Information Leading to Trump
Impeachment”
RINO McCain could give the same thumbs-down to a tax
overhaul as he did to health care
Here are 29 women who have come forward to accuse Democrat mega-donor
Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse. Bill
Clinton II? This list is actually up to
36 on Saturday.
3 women accuse Weinstein of rape.
Barack and Michelle Obama now say they are “disgusted” by
movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations. But as president
and first lady, oh my, how they loved his cash and his Hollywood glitz.
Best
article on Weinstein: “The bloated,
greasy movie mogul slimed his way through countless ballrooms, suites and
restaurants trailing lies, threats and promises. But he had the right politics.
At the 100th anniversary of Planned Parenthood, honoring Hillary Clinton, Harvey
had his thick wallet open to the tune of $100K for the abortion organization.
Harvey was sitting with Hillary. Not to mention Meryl Streep and Shonda Rimes.”
First the Boy Scouts cave to the LGBT lobby, now they
announce that girls will soon be allowed to become Cub Scouts and to earn the
coveted rank of Eagle Scout, the organization’s highest honor. What happened to “timeless values”?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-scouts-will-admit-girls-allow-them-earn-eagle-scout-n809836?
Scholar publishes peer reviewed paper showing that European
colonialism was, on the whole, a positive force. The article caused howls of outrage. The
author requested that it be withdrawn. The journal initially declined to delete
it. But now the publication has knuckled under, after the journal editor received
“serious and credible threats of personal violence”. “This is what fascism
looks like.”
The heads of five conservative groups sent a letter to
Senate Republican leaders calling on them to step down from their posts, saying
they aren’t making progress on the GOP’s agenda and haven’t worked hard enough.
Representatives of FreedomWorks, Senate Conservative Fund, Tea Party Patriots,
For America and Media Research Center said Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and the
four other leaders of the Senate GOP conference should step down.
Bannon Declares War On GOP Establishment: "We're Coming
After All Of Them And We're Going To Win"
A new poll shows that the NFL is no longer "America´s
game." In fact, it has gone from the sport with the highest favorables to
the sport with the lowest. The drop has coincided exactly with the anthem
protests.
Hillary Clinton pledges support to the NFL players
protesting the national anthem.
ESPN commentator blasts Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones
this week, comparing him to a slave owner for telling his players to stand
during the national anthem. Players’
average salary: $2M/year.
Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue Rages: President
Trump is Existential Threat to NAFTA…
The Obama Library is on track to cost $1.5 billion, three
times the $500 million it was projected to cost, and quite a bit of that will
be borne by taxpayers. And his
presidential papers will not even be stored there. ??
Woman who survived being aborted at EIGHT MONTHS after a
nurse heard her cries from the medical trash can spent 17 years tracing her
birth mother and reveals how she learned to forgive
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Tyler Dahnke 9/30
Addressing the House of Commons on November 11, 1947,
Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government,
except for all the others.” I’ll borrow his sentiment and suggest the same
rings true of the United States of America. All nations have flaws because they
are the product of humans, who in their nature are often deeply flawed. Our
great country is no different. The U.S. is home to thieves, rapists, murderers,
pedophiles, religious extremists, sexists and racists. But this small minority do
not define us and they do not represent We The People.
Colin
Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, leftists, and now the NFL are all
pushing a pernicious myth that the United States is a bad and racist place.
They lie and say that large swaths of our citizenry are oppressed. They lie and
say that the United States is a land characterized by white privilege, income
inequality, political corruption and persecution. They lie and say that
kneeling during our anthem is not disrespecting our flag.
On
September 25, the FBI released their violent crime statistics for 2016.
According to Heather Mac Donald's analysis of this report and Washington Post data, 16 unarmed
black men were killed by police officers last year. She makes an important
distinction that a suspect’s categorization as “unarmed” does not lend insight
into whether they were violently engaging an officer, or putting the lives of
others at risk, only that they were not carrying a firearm or knife at the time
of the shooting. With this in mind, truly unjustified police shootings of
young, unarmed black men are rarer than the 16 identified by the Post.
There
are slightly more than 37 million black people living in the United States.
This means that, even if it's assumed that all 16 shootings involved excessive
use of force, unarmed black Americans have a 0.000043% chance of being shot by
a police officer. To put that in perspective, the average person has roughly a
0.033% chance of being struck by lightning in their lifetime.
This
is what Colin Kaepernick and the NFL are protesting. Imaginary, fictitious,
systemic police racism. This is why they refuse to take pride in our flag. And
that begs the question: Is there any flag Kaepernick would stand for?
What
country is more generous than the United States? Last year, individuals broke
the previous world record
(also set by us) by donating $390.05 billion to charitable organizations.
What
country treats the LGBT community with more tolerance than the United States?
Certainly not Jamaica, where anal intercourse is punishable by up to 10
years imprisonment with hard labor. Not in Middle Eastern countries, where homosexuals are punished even
more harshly. In Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, to be gay is a death sentence.
Here in the U.S., if a private business owner doesn’t want to make a cake for a
gay wedding, they’re publicly shamed and make national news.
What
country has greater economic opportunity than the United States? The World
Bank lists the global
poverty line at $1.90 per day. Assuming one works every day of the year at that
rate, their annual income would be only $693.50. Compare that with the United
States, which marks it’s poverty line at $22,162 a year. Our poverty line starts
31 times higher than the global rate. Our economy represents 25% of the world’s
GDP. The United States and its wealth have been vastly more instrumental in
lifting human beings out of poverty than any nation in history.
What
country has contributed more to the world than the United States? We invented
the modern suspension bridge, the electric light bulb, photographic film, the
skyscraper, electric traffic lights, frozen food, automatic car transmissions,
the assembly line, airplanes, credit cards, disposable diapers, the integrated
circuit, lasers, personal computers, mobile phones, space shuttles, the
internet, GPS, and perhaps most importantly, chocolate chip cookies.
And
now, the question at hand. What predominantly white country has provided more
opportunity and equality to its minority black population than the United
States? Yes, the legacy of slavery hangs over our founding like a shroud, but
to pretend we are alone in this is pure fiction. Slavery was a worldwide evil.
In 1778, the state of Virginia abolished the importation of slaves. This effort
was led by Thomas Jefferson, who, as president, also signed legislation that
criminalized the international slave trade in 1807. England passed similar legislation
that same year. Sweden abolished the slave trade in 1813, The Netherlands in
1814, France in 1826, Brazil in 1851. Almost the entire developed world decided
that slavery was evil in a period of about 50 years. No one would pretend that
it’s been roses since then. But in fighting the civil war, abolishing Jim Crow,
and amending our constitution to provide equal protections and rights under the
law, the United States has made more progress toward living our ideals than
most modern nations.
There
are still approximately 30 million people enslaved in the world today.
Slave trading still exists in countries like Haiti, Pakistan, and India, and is
still practiced widely across the African continent. Black Americans are
afforded more opportunity here than they would be anywhere else on Earth. No
country in Europe has ever elected a black Chief Executive. Neither has Canada.
In fact, no country with a minority black population, apart from us, has done
so. We cherished black musicians, actors, poets, writers, scholars, athletes,
politicians, judges, and businessmen. Above all other labels, those people are
viewed as great Americans. And why is that?
Because
America is not racist. It’s the worst country on Earth, except for all
the others. And that is why I will always stand for our flag and our anthem.
Because I’m honored, and grateful to live in what is still, and hopefully
always will be, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“The NFL misunderstood its own nature. It’s not just that it
is a game that should be a respite from political and social contention; as a
quasi-national festival, it should be identified with a certain baseline of
patriotism (the national anthem, the enormous American flags on the field
before games, the military flyovers, etc.). Colin Kaepernick cracked this
image, and Donald Trump drove a wedge through it.”
=Rich
Lowry
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LEFTIST WATCH
Tom Steyer, Democratic mega-donor and environmentalist, has
demanded Democratic lawmakers and candidates pledge to push for the impeachment
of President Donald Trump if they take control of Congress next year.
The Kellogg Foundation. The Ford Foundation. The Open
Society Foundation. (G. Soros) The California Endowment. The Marquerite Casey
Foundation. Fidelity Charitable Gift. The open borders-promoting National
Immigration Law Center. These are some of the very deep pocket groups that have
donated MILLIONS to the far-left, militant Center for Community Change which
has been described as follows: The Center for Community Change, a Washington,
D.C.-based 501 (c)(3) progressive community organizing group that does not
reveal its donors, has been involved in direct action against President Donald
Trump and Republicans before and after the November elections.
Former Obama White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer called for the
United States to implement an Australian-style gun confiscation program in an
article published on Wednesday.
The Southern Poverty Law Center: Making money on hate
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GLOBALONEY
Netflix’s ‘Magic School Bus’ Warns Kids ‘Use alternative
“clean” energy or a hideous monster will eat you. This is the heartwarming
green message aimed at winning the hearts and minds of young children in the
animated Netflix series The Magic School Bus Rides Again.
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ARTICLES
Conservatives and economic nationalist leaders are looking
past the current dysfunction in Washington to a group of new and exciting young
candidates throwing their hats in the ring nationwide to break the gridlock
with midterm election victories. This group of individuals, which some are
calling “The League of Extraordinary Candidates,” is emerging nationally—a
distinct slate of U.S. Senate and House candidates, as well as key
gubernatorial contenders, all united in their focus on breaking the logjam in
Congress.
“The GOP Becomes the Party of the Little Guy”
President Trump’s campaign operatives and other allies have
begun surveying the political landscape for his 2020 reelection bid, viewing a
handful of upcoming midterm races as especially insightful to his strategic
path three years from now.
“Donald Trump´s True Nature”
People were understandably horrified that Stephen Paddock
was able to fire what amounted to machine guns into a crowd. Yet similar
weapons were being fired in movie theaters around the country. Three of the top
five movies at the box office featured characters blasting away with automatic
weapons.
“We’re having a fight...within the black community against
Marxism and socialism,” said retired NFL safety Burgess Owens on Saturday’s Fox
& Friends. Owens told host Chris Wallace that leftist ideology is fomenting
anti-Americanism as well as feelings of hopelessness within the black
community.
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VIDEOS,
PHOTOS, CHARTS, ETC
It seems like everyone in the country is weighing in on the
national anthem debate, and that includes North Dakota farmer Gene Hanson.
Hanson went viral this week for mowing a message into his bean crops: “We stand
for the national anthem.”
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WISE
WORDS
“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average
student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think … but is
altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent
intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the
flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
-William
F. Buckley
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be
disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America
cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people
are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that
can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.”
-Noah
Webster
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