op ed review 12/3
Tax bill clears Senate in big boost for Trump, GOP
Included in the bill:
repeal of ObamaCare’s individual mandate.
“Republicans' discipline, in short supply for much of this
year, saw the bill through.”
Consumer
confidence is at a 17 year high.
First time in 12 years:
the economy grow at an annual rate of 3.0 percent or better in three
straight quarters.
Ringing in the holidays for the first time from Washington,
President Donald Trump lit the National Christmas Tree Thursday evening,
wishing the country “a Merry Christmas”
Melania unveils the first Trump Christmas White House - and
gets the ultimate compliment from one of her young guests.
Did you know that those exquisite White House Christmas
decorations First Lady Melania Trump proudly unveiled yesterday are
"spooky," "spine-chilling," and "nightmarish" —
like scenes from Mordor, Narnia, or The Shining? It took most of the
day, but by nightfall, the Trump-hating media was able to settle on an
unfavorable narrative with which to belittle the newly unveiled decor.
How Hateful Are the Democrats? This Hateful
After causing the stock market to drop 300 points, ABC News on Friday evening corrected an
explosive special report that aired in the morning saying that Donald Trump, as
a candidate for president, had asked Michael Flynn to make contact with
Russians. It was fake news.
Did San Francisco Jury Find Kate Steinle’s Killer NOT GUILTY
Just To Make A Political Statement Against Donald Trump?
“You Know Who Doesn’t Have A Refugee Problem? Japan……..Japan’s
total contribution to the effort thus far in 2017 has been to take in… three.
Yes, that’s not a typo. They took three refugees. Last year the figure was
vastly higher at… 28.”
Canadian Teachers Attend 'LGGBDTTTIQQAAP' “Inclusiveness
Training”. New categories: Genderqueer, Demisexual, Two-Spirit, Asexual,
Pansexual, Polyamorous (here comes the movement for polygamy)
NBC’s Matt Lauer fired for sexual harassment…everyone knew
about it…. turned his 30 Rockefeller Center office into a secret sex lair,
complete with a button under his desk that automatically locked his door.
CNN Producer Fired Over Alleged Inappropriate Behavior
Garrison Keillor fired for alleged 'inappropriate behavior'
by Minnesota Public Radio
NPR And PBS, The Biggest Harassment Hypocrites
President Trump caused a stir in the liberal media when he
mocked Democratic Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” during
an Oval Office event to honor the work of Navajo code talkers during World War
II. The Big Three Networks rushed to claim Trump was whipping around a racial
slur, but meanwhile, they brushed over where the moniker came from: Warren’s
dubious claims she was of Native-American heritage, which she used to gain an
advantage in forwarding her career.
Actor Denzel Washington stressed the prison system was not
to blame for crime in black communities, stressing the importance of properly
raising children at home,…...“It starts in the home,” the two-time Oscar-winner
told The Grio. “If the father is not in the home, the boy will find a father in
the streets. I saw it in my generation and every generation before me, and
every one since.” “If the streets raise you, then the judge becomes your mother
and prison becomes your home.”
MSNBC host Joy Reid thinks that rural Americans are “the
core threat to our democracy”
The College of the Holy Cross is mulling whether to shed its
century-old sports symbol the “Crusader” out of concerns the image of a
Christian warrior might be offensive to Muslims.
Those jobs aren´t coming back the liberal liars scolded us.
Hillary and Obama wanted torretrain coal miners as computer programmers. We
elected Trump, and in April, May and June alone, mining increased 28.6 percent.
Intelligence Community Chief Inspector General Outlines
Politicization of Clinton Email Investigation…
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Ed Rogers 12/2
Friday
morning’s guilty plea
from former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn is a major
disappointment for Democrats. Flynn admitting to having made false statements
is nowhere near where the Democrats want this to go. Of course, the story
is big and the fact that a former White House official has been charged with
anything and pleaded guilty is consequential, but it doesn’t suggest any
collusion occurred and it doesn’t even get close to confirming that Donald
Trump or his campaign was somehow complicit in a nefarious scheme.
Democrats
are already straining themselves trying to suggest that Flynn’s plea is just
the beginning and that there is more to come. But as far as Flynn is concerned,
that is unlikely. It is just wishful thinking on their part. It’s not as though
he pleaded guilty only to leave unresolved matters for later.
Commentators
are saying Flynn’s plea couldn’t come at a worse time for the president. As
Republicans are on the brink of passing this administration’s most important
legislative initiative with the GOP-led tax reform bill, some in the media have
gone so far as to suggest Flynn’s admission of guilt may disrupt the tax bill’s
vote count in Congress. Well, a note to the political geniuses in the liberal
mainstream media: There isn’t one Republican member of Congress thinking, “Gee,
Flynn pleaded guilty to something or another. Maybe I won’t vote for a tax
cut.” It just doesn’t work that way.
Once
the dust settles, the Democrats and their media allies will realize that there
is nothing more to this story than what Flynn has admitted
to. Commentators are saying Flynn has agreed to cooperate, as if that is
something new. The fact is, there was never a time when Flynn wasn’t
cooperating. He has been a cooperating witness since special counsel Robert S.
Mueller III’s investigation began.
The
Democrats won’t admit it, but they are throwing in the towel on collusion.
Their only choice now is to prop up the convoluted claim of obstruction of
justice, and that could go on forever. The ordeal may be bothersome for the
White House, but it won’t be fatal.
Oh
and by the way, let’s reflect on what has happened in this investigation so
far. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were indicted on matters associated with
foreign-agent registration and money laundering that predated any engagement
they had with Trump. Flynn has pleaded guilty to a crime that occurred after
the campaign was over. To be precise, none of this involves the president or
his campaign. It’s all ugly and ragged, but this White House has a lot of ugly
and ragged.
Even
if Flynn says he was instructed by the president to be in touch with the
Russians, so what? All that would mean is the president-elect told his national
security adviser to do his job. Don’t be fooled by the breathless, desperate
reaction from the usual suspects. As far as the White House is concerned, the
Flynn guilty plea is a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10.
Sorry,
Democrats. The investigations and “collusion” outrage are running out of steam,
well short of reaching the president’s doorstep.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“Rarely has the idiom ‘virtue is its own reward’ looked
better than it does in light of the sex scandals sweeping the nation. The
so-called ‘prudishness’ of a previous generation and the respect most men were
once taught to have for women — and which Hugh Hefner and his disciples of
‘free love’ mocked — are looking better with each passing day. Conservatives
have been told they can’t impose their morality on others, so how is its opposite
working out for individuals and the culture?”
-Cal Thomas
“The liberal attitude toward guns is very strange. One day
they’re ranting and raving about the legal use of a firearm, the next they’re
defending a chronic felon who pulled the trigger and murdered Kate Steinle.
There’s a lot of bloody hands in California this morning.”
-Charlie
Daniels
“At least liberals are finally telling the truth about Bill
Clinton — and just 20 years after it mattered! Of course, considering it took
the Democratic Party a century to discover that slavery was wrong, two decades
is lightning speed for these moral paragons.”
-Ann Coulter
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LEFTIST WATCH
More leftist hate: Campus newspaper editorial: 'Your
[white] DNA is an abomination'
New
York Daily News calls Trump “mentally unwell.”
Tom Steyer, billionaire hedge fund manager and liberal
mega-donor, told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that President Donald Trump should
be impeached as soon as possible.
“This week, The New York Times editorial board took over the
paper’s opinion section Twitter account, which has 650,000 followers, ‘to urge
the Senate to reject a tax bill that “hurts the middle class & the nation’s
fiscal health”.’ To facilitate this, it tweeted out the phone number of
moderate Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins and implored its followers to call
her and demand that she vote against the GOP’s bill. In others words, the board
was indistinguishable from any of the well-funded partisan groups it whines
about in editorials all the time.”
Brown University Will Allow Any Student to ‘Self-Identify’
as a Person of Color
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GLOBALONEY
Every once in a while, environmentalists will let slip that
the goal of fighting climate change can´t be won unless capitalism is first
defeated. The fact that there´s no evidence to support the claim doesn´t seem
to matter. The latest to make this case is Arizona State University fellow
Benjamin Fong in an Op-Ed published recently by the New York Times, headlined
"The Climate Crisis? It´s Capitalism, Stupid."
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ARTICLES
Must read: “The Deep meaning of the Mueller probe” “The end game of the investigation is the
removal of Donald Trump from the presidency, either by impeachment (which does
not require proof of a court-prosecutable crime) or by publicly discrediting
Trump to such a degree that his reelection becomes politically impossible. The
latter can be accomplished by projecting the appearance of a criminal
investigation (notwithstanding that there is no underlying crime), turning
administration officials into suspects, and hopefully generating the
false-statement prosecutions that help depict the administration as dishonest
and icky.
Former federal prosecutor:
“Here’s what I’d be tempted to do if I were President Trump: I’d direct
the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate Iran’s
efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, including any Obama-administration
collusion in that enterprise. I would make sure to call it a
“counterintelligence investigation,” putting no limitations on the special
counsel — just as with the investigation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller
has been unleashed to conduct into Trump “collusion” with Russia. That is, I
would not restrict the prosecutor and investigators to digging for specified
criminal violations.”
Why the Alabama Senate race is shifting in Roy Moore´s favor
Lying to FBI Is Illegal; How About the FBI Lying to Us?
Law Professor To Students: If You Say ´I Feel´ Rather Than
´I Think,´ You Must Cluck Like A Chicken
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WISE
WORDS
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing
deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its
operation upon all the members of the community.”
-Benjamin
Rush
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