op ed review 12/31
Tax reform: 143
million will pay less in '18...
Holiday spending record
The Left is angry about all the corporate tax cut bonuses to
employees.
Trump
rolls back Obama legacy
Trump Sets Off Democrats With Epic Global Warming Tweet
Trump approval matches Obama at end of first year: 46% approve,
53% disapprove
Pretty good considering only 5
percent of MSM news stories about Trump are positive.
CNN
ignores stories like the defeat of ISIS, but obsesses for two days over a white
truck that blocked their view of the Trump golf course. Turns out it was a Sheriff’s Dept. truck.
Alan Dershowitz on defending Trump: 'My liberal friends
don't invite me to dinner anymore'
Celebrate LGBT or else:
California has become the first state in the union to mandate the use of
LGBT textbooks in elementary schools and have given parents no way to opt out.
Oregon appeals court rules bakers who refused to make
lesbian wedding cake will have to pay $135,000 in damages.
Mueller
witch hunt now targeting the Republican National Committee
Ambassador
Nikki Haley tells the United Nations what they can do with their resolution to
condemn the U.S. over the Jerusalem announcement: US to cut the UN operating
budget by $285M.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/12/25/haley-announces-285m-cut-in-2018-19-un-operating-budget.html
If U.N. officials didn’t like that, they’re certainly not
going to enjoy this New York Post cover:
Another
group of weasels: The Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals issued yet another ruling Friday blocking most of President
Trump’s latest version of his travel ban, finding that the White House exceeded
its powers.
China carried out the first flight-tests of a new kind of
ballistic missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). “The missile
successfully made impact “within meters” of the intended target…. Hypersonic
glide vehicles delivered by ballistic missile boosters are an emerging threat
that will pose new challenges to missile defense systems.”
China dominates the global drone hardware market, which is
forecast to surpass $11 billion by 2020.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/01/in-race-to-dominate-drone-space-west-is-no-match-for-chinas-dji.html
China to Overtake U.S. Economy by 2032 as Asian might builds
The number of US-born children who were given birthright
citizenship despite at least one of their parents being an illegal alien now
outnumbers one year of all American births.
How Democrats build their Machines: “Guess where high school
dropouts can earn $400/hr.”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Sundance, 12/25
As the year winds down there will be lots of reviews of all
things political. Lists of shifts and outlined accomplishments will be compiled
to either show the advances or declines depending on tribal affiliation of the
pundit. However, not many people ever ask the questions behind the “why”. Why is there so much opposition to President
Trump?
In the larger analysis, Donald Trump and the Make America
Great Again (MAGA) proposition is a daily reminder that citizen inspired
government can eliminate the decades-long notion of politics as a
profession. There are hundreds-of-thousands of people within the institutional
system known as politics. Each member carving out a specialty and selling their
expertise as necessary within the opaque organization known as government. From
city council, through state legislature and into federal representation, the
primary selling point of each participating member is to declare their
operational skill within the institution. Heck, the professional political
enterprise is so accepted as ordinary you can even go to college and earn a
degree in how to be a politician. Why?
Boil down government to its most basic of institutional
objectives and the entire premise is about operating common systems to the
benefit of the aggregate assembly. The only thing that changes is the scale of
the assembled constituency, local, state or federal. In the private sector
success or failure is measured on competence in achieving the objective,
usually financial growth. In the public sector success or failure is measured
in how effectively the individual retains the perception that governance is
necessary.
When businessman Donald Trump arrived in Washington DC he
represented a wrecking ball to a decades-long Potemkin village that only
politicians can govern. As a direct consequence, if Trump succeeds in solving
problems or making things better he’s essentially embarrassing an entire
profession; and fundamentally changing the dynamic.
Now, if your core purpose, and evaluation by your peers of
success, was to convince people that only a specifically trained group of
people could govern effectively, and along comes Trump and does it better than…
well, see the problem? If a team of little people showed up to the
winter Olympics and easily won the bobsled competition because their physical
stature meant they could remove half the weight of the sled; well, the next
winter Olympic year the entire field of bobsled teams would be midgets……Then
what happens to the ‘regular-sized‘ career bobsled professionals?
Never has there been a more brutally obvious intention on
display, than with President Trump’s cabinet selections. Toward the end goal of MAGA, President-Elect
Trump assembled his cabinet; these would be the subject matter experts to whom
he assigns specific responsibilities.
Now, unlike most ‘politicians’, the filter of cabinet
selection qualification did not include political repayment for campaign
support rendered. Indeed, all previous political presidencies used cabinet
positions to repay political favors; generally, it has always been thus. However, for POTUS Trump the intensely
mapped-out MAGA objective is the primary filter. He was looking for results
oriented doers not politicians. Within this cabinet, the level of competency
and skill is stunning.
President Trump hired the most traveled business executive
on the planet to be the COO of the administration. He actually hired the Chief
Executive of the largest private business in the world. to be the Secretary of State….With economics
as the backbone to MAGA, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross is as comfortable
dancing through the fine print of international trade contracts as Fred Astaire
gliding in a Viennese Waltz……An odd duck within the international finance world,
also considered a rain-man of sorts by those who tried to figure out his mental
algorithms for currency exchange…is Steven Mnuchin, and President Trump took
Wall Street’s mild-mannered rain-man to be our Treasury Secretary…Rain-Man
Mnuchin scared the left-coast elites so much Hollywood made a movie about their
perception of him but they never credited the origin of the screenplay…….Knowing
China was the dominant threat to MAGA on the trade front, the filter for USTR
consideration would be depth of knowledge, scale of understanding the Chinese
psyche, and willingness to confront an opponent that will never come to
equitable terms. That’s why Robert Lighthizer is our combat wolverine US Trade
Representative…..Trump hired an eagle-scout, Navy SEAL, outdoors-man to be
Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke; a life-long Georgia farmer to be
Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue. The list of exceptional qualifications goes
on, but hopefully you see the larger picture.
The Trump Administration is a strategic assembly of the most inherently
competent people ever put together within a U.S. cabinet. And yes, I do mean so much more so than even
President Ronald Reagan was able to assemble.
All prior presidencies needed to balance politics with the
assignment. Political debts owed, to whom, what party, for what reason, etc.
all of this was part-and-parcel of the prism of cabinet nominee selection. But
not Donald Trump. For this administration there is one objective: Make America
Great Again. That’s the nucleus, the
core, the central goal that radiates outward into the concentric circles of the
cabinet and aggregate Trump administration. That central objective, in
combination with the competency currently in place to accomplish that mission,
is why Donald J Trump is considered an existential threat to the system.
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GLOBALONEY
The Left is scrambling to explain how record breaking cold
weather is consistent with global warming.
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LEFTIST WATCH
BuzzFeed is being slammed for a racially charged article it
published Wednesday titled, “37 Things White People Need To Stop Ruining In
2018,” which lists “America” among the things that whites are supposedly ruining.
Leftists declare war on Thomas The Tank Engine and Paw
Patrol for being racist or fascist.
It’s a Wonderful Life is now a sexist movie that must be suppressed.
Obama
adviser Ben Rhodes crossed the line with many Americans when he tweeted that he
hopes for the death of Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence.
Krugman: “Lets make pink pussy hats the symbol of our
deliverance from evil.”
Linda Sarsour, the new Islamist face of the left: ‘you have
no right to tell us we can’t kill Jews.’
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BOOKS, FILM
“Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn't want
you to know” by Gregory
Wrightstone. “Easy to read and even easier to understand narrative using
sound scientific evidence disproving many of the climate change opinions…..An
excellent read for all those interested in meaningful discussion.”
The new Steven Spielberg historical drama The Post is a
celebration of how Democrats turn lemons into lemonade via their control of the
media. A prequel to the 1976 Watergate movie All the President’s Men, the new
movie recounts how the Democratic Washington Post used an embarrassing 1971
Democratic scandal—Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the LBJ
administration’s secret history of its own incompetence and insincerity in
Vietnam—to take its first tentative steps toward eventually teaming up with the
Deep State to overthrow the elected Republican president.
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ARTICLES
Here’s
proof Democrats don’t believe in private property.
Provocative
article:
“The most important lesson from Judge Roy Moore's U.S. Senate loss to Doug
Jones in Alabama is that the reliable red state is dead. What, then, turns a..blue
state red? The answer is so simple that
it's often overlooked: turnout, turnout, turnout. Showing up and turning
out is all that ultimately matters in politics…..Alabama's tally confirms….Two
million registered voters stayed home, and Jones won by 21,000 votes.
On Christmas Eve, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
issued a tweet wishing Christians around the world a Merry Christmas, pointing
out that Israel is a tolerant nation that protects the right of people from
different faiths to worship at their holy shrines…Netanyahu then offered to
personally lead Christians next year on a tour of their most holy sites.
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LISTS
Tucker Carlson’s list of “100racistthings”
Sharyl Attkisson’s list of 10 times the intel community has violated
the trust of US citizens, lawmakers and allies with illegal surveillance.
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WISE
WORDS
“A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute
interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government
honest and unoppressive.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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