op ed review 1/28
Trump wins shutdown standoff. “Progressive lawmakers and activists are
furious over the Senate´s Monday vote to advance legislation to end the
government shutdown.”
Davos: European CEOs
Go One By One To Tell Trump They Are Investing Billions Back In The US
The establishment media have saved Democrats from
embarrassment by refusing to cover their struggling attempts to explain away
the positive economic effects the Republican tax bill delivered for the working
class……Pelosi, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has consistently
dismissed the typical $1000 bonuses that workers are receiving as “pathetic”
and “crumbs.”
President Trump Wins 'Medal of Life' From Int'l Human Rights
Group (But Fake News Media Blacks Out News)
As Congress and the White House go back to the drawing board
on immigration, the administration took a hard line against compromise plans
pushed by Senate moderates, and a new Harvard University poll backed up
President Trump’s plan.
Shock poll: Americans want massive cuts to legal immigration
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/22/shock-poll-us-wants-massive-cuts-legal-immigration/
“Actually, It’s Lindsey Graham Who Is Out of the Mainstream
on Immigration”
Enough obfuscation. Here are some of the most pernicious
myths of illegal immigration, debunked
If
you want a sign of a growing economy, look at the disability rolls. They've
been shrinking rapidly of late, as fewer apply for benefits and more disabled
return to work.
“No question about it— one year into President Trump's first
term, the economy is on a roll, creating wealth, income and jobs for Americans,
and building opportunities for the young. It's a triumph of economic realism
over foolish skepticism.”
President Trump’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS)
has taken new steps to restore religious protections for physicians and other
health care providers long under attack by the bureaucratic bullies of the
Obama administration.
Deafening is the word for the silence that has greeted the
report that former Secretary of State John Kerry has sent a message urging the
Palestinian Arab leader Mahmoud Abbas to stay strong, resist “Trump’s demands”,
and to “play for time.” “…..this is an appalling thing from a former state
secretary.”
Sanctuaries: 675 Jurisdictions Won’t Turn Over Criminal
Aliens to ICE
New study: Illegals
commit crimes at double the rate of native-born.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/26/illegals-commit-crimes-double-rate-native-born-stu/
New California law will automatically register illegal
immigrants to vote... and it all begins on April Fool´s Day!
FBI Text Said To “Directly” Link Obama To Illegal 2016
Election Tampering
NFL rejects ad by veterans group featuring American soldiers
carrying the flag, with the hashtag #PleaseStand.
Florida lawmakers consider requiring schools to post “In God
we trust”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
“It was by most accounts (with the exception of
those among the most biased of the anti-Trump media) a remarkably successful
showing by POTUS Trump in Davos. He was confident, cordial, tough, yet fair – and
in the end, the world cheered this new era of “America first but not America
alone” leadership. Within
minutes of finishing his speech, the stock markets rocketed to new all-time
highs, adding TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars more into the retirement accounts of
the American Middle Class. Where once world markets groaned when Barack Obama
gave another meandering anti-American diatribe, those same markets now cheer a
U.S. president’s promise of opportunity, freedom, and innovation. By nearly
every measure, the lives of ALL Americans are better since Donald Trump became
President. It is for that reason his enemies wish to see him destroyed. He is a
true political outsider, someone far removed from the incestuous-globalist echo
chamber, who continues to play by his own rules – not theirs, and who also puts
the needs of the American people first, not those of America’s enemies. What a remarkable time we now live in.”
Investors
Business Daily
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller's vast and fruitless
investigation into supposed ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian
government drags on, it's the FBI itself that appears to have been engaged in
nefarious activities.
First there is the memo circulating among lawmakers on
Capitol Hill regarding how the FBI went about obtaining its warrants to wiretap
Trump campaign officials during the campaign.
The speculation is that the memo — drafted by the House
Intelligence Committee — will confirm what many already suspect, that the FBI
used a phony "dossier" — which was nothing more than a factually
challenged compilation of gossip and innuendo secretly financed by the
Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign — to get those warrants. To
hear from House Republicans who've seen it, the memo is explosive…
If it's as bad as Republicans say, what the Intelligence
Committee findings mean is that the FBI used unsubstantiated politically
motivated opposition research paid for by one campaign as a pretext to spy on
members of another campaign. As Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept rightly
explains, "One of the gravest and most damaging abuses of state power is
to misuse surveillance authorities for political purposes." (Which makes
the mainstream media's utter disinterest in this story so bewildering.)
In a previously released batch of (text messages), FBI agent
Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page called Trump an "utter idiot,"
said that Hillary Clinton "just has to win," and talked about a
mysterious "insurance policy" they had in case Trump won the
election. The two had been involved in the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation,
and until these exchanges were uncovered, had served on Mueller's team. A new
batch of texts deepens the intrigue, with one mentioning a "secret
society" after Trump's victory in November, and another suggesting that
the FBI needed to quickly close the books on the Clinton email investigation
once Trump secured the nomination.
Then there's the text where Strzok says he was conflicted
about joining Mueller's team because the Russia investigation was, in his own
estimation, much ado about nothing. "You and I both know the odds are
nothing," he texted. "If I thought it was likely, I'd be there no
question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there's
no big there there."..
(One way) of reading this is that corrupt FBI officials used
the immense power at their disposal to illegally eavesdrop on private citizens,
fuel a costly and bogus investigation into Trump — while giving Hillary Clinton
a free pass on her own scandals — and then tried to keep these machinations
under wraps.
We are not conspiracy-mongers here. And we, like everyone in
the country, want to be able to trust that our federal law enforcement
officials aren't serving as political pawns. But the facts keep pointing to the
latter interpretation.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“You know a Republican is in the White House when Apple announces a commitment to the economy of $350B and 20,000 new jobs, North and South Korea are talking, the Dow closes above 26,000 for the first time … and the news media is focused like a laser on the president’s weight.”
“You know a Republican is in the White House when Apple announces a commitment to the economy of $350B and 20,000 new jobs, North and South Korea are talking, the Dow closes above 26,000 for the first time … and the news media is focused like a laser on the president’s weight.”
-Twitter
satirist @hale_razor
“Government shutting down — partially — is not a disaster.
The real disaster is paying $4 trillion a year to keep it running and getting
such poor service in return.”
-John
Stossel
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BOOKS, FILM, TELEVISION
Fox News is digging into the Bill Clinton presidency with
the gripping new documentary series “Scandalous,” a no-holds-barred look into
the numerous controversies that plagued America’s 42nd president. Episode 2,
set to air Sunday, January 28 at 8 p.m. ET, will focus on former Arkansas state
employee Paula Jones’ unsuccessful suing of then-President Clinton for sexual
harassment, as well as the emergence of then-first lady Hillary Clinton in the
public eye.
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LEFTIST WATCH
What
a remarkable contrast: President Trump was in command at Davos talking about
economic growth and prosperity, while House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) and disgraced former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) were babbling and belittling thousand-dollar bonuses
and increased take-home pay for American workers. Specifically, in case you
missed it, Wasserman Schultz actually said she is “not sure that $1,000 … goes
very far for almost anyone.” And Pelosi, who once described a $40-per-paycheck
Obama-era tax cut as a “victory for America,” said thousand-dollar bonuses are
just “crumbs.”
Unhinged Michael Moore assails Trump, 'unfit,' 'narcissist,
'sociopath,' 'threat to humanity'
Letting an 8-year-old be a drag queen isn't progressive,
it's child abuse
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ARTICLES
Heritage Foundation ranks President Trump as doing even
better than conservative icon President Ronald Reagan in the first year of his
Presidency –
Dennis Prager: ‘My Opposition to Donald Trump Was Wrong,’ He
Is a ‘Great President’
Most politically polarizing brand names.
Pussy
Hats And Church Hymns: A Tale Of Two Movements : “There could not be a starker contrast than
that between the March for Life and the Women's March one day later. (WARNING: some women’s march signs VERY
offensive)
Lawyer Victoria Toensing:
“What alleged illegality is Mueller investigating? Trump exercising
lawful presidential authority?”
Not that they needed one, but progressive wing nuts and
their fellow travelers are getting another reason to hate President Trump. He’s
proving that capitalism works.
Scholarly study finds conservatives are more attractive than
liberals.
Psychoanalyzing Seattle:
everything Seattle does is designed to show San Francisco and the world
that Seattle is big…To the progressives who run big cities the word
"big" is synonymous with progressive. Many American cities are headed
down the same decivilizing progressive dead end as Seattle.
The scourge of multiculturalism.
Forget Coattails: GOP Needs Trump’s Backbone in 2018
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WISE
WORDS
“Many of those who attack capitalism know very well that
their situation under any other economic system will be less favorable.
Nevertheless, with full knowledge of this fact, they advocate a reform, e.g.,
socialism, because they hope that the rich, whom they envy, will also suffer
under it.”
-Ludwig von
Mises
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