op ed review 1/21
Senate
Democrats have blocked a bill to keep the federal government running and fund
the Children’s Health Insurance Program for the next six years. “Republicans should agree to a (DACA deal)
only if it comes with real enforcement measures, such as mandatory E-Verify for
new hires, and limits on (chain migration). Only such a deal should be
acceptable to Republicans….Hang tough, Republicans.”
Dow breaks above 26,000 for the first time, 1000 points in one week. 31% gain during
Trump's first year is the best since FDR
Apple announces plans to repatriate billions in overseas
cash, says it will contribute $350 billion to the US economy over the next 5
years
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: Common Core is Dead at U.S.
Department of Education…
For eight years, the Obama administration tried to force
nuns and others of faith to act against their moral convictions by complying
with mandates including contraceptives, abortion, and assisted suicide. No more.
Bad news for CNN: White
House doctor says president is in excellent health and had a perfect 30/30
score on cognitive screening test.
Donald Trump will be first US president in 45 years to speak
at pro-life march
CNN’s Worst
Nightmare – Youngstown Ohio Voters Thrilled With Trump’s First Year…
Mollie Hemingway: “I
wasn’t a Trump supporter. I am now.”
Poll Shows Public Waking Up to Media Lies About GOP Tax Plan
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/01/18/poll-shows-public-waking-media-lies-gop-tax-plan/
Nancy Pelosi is slated to appear as a guest judge in a
drag-queen competition show. (she could be House Speaker again, if things go
badly in midterm elections.)
Not a good sign: a
democrat scored a 9-point victory in a special election in Wisconsin's State
Senate District, flipping a district that had been held by the GOP since 2000
and that President Trump won by 17 points in 2016.
If it continues, the current “chain migration” process,
where newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign
relatives to the U.S. with them, is likely to add a potential 8 million new
foreign-born voters to the country’s electorate over the next two decades.
“Undocumented immigrant” accused of murdering deputies, warns
he’ll do it again…….“I will break out soon and I will kill more.”
During the Obama administration, ICE was not following
proper procedures when checking if illegal aliens were known terrorists,
jeopardizing national security, according to an audit.
Recent assaults by tactical teams on prototypes of President
Trump’s proposed wall with Mexico indicate their imposing heights should effectively
stop border crossers.
Demography is destiny:
Mohammed is most popular name for newborn boys In Holland for 2nd year straight
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
announced that states could experiment with work requirements and volunteer
community service as prerequisites for Medicaid eligibility, the melodramatic
response from Democrats and media allies was predictable. Nancy Pelosi summed
up the position: “mean-spirited,” “cynical,” and “spiteful.” USA Today piles on:
“Medicaid work requirements are a throwback to rejected racial stereotypes.”
Huh?
California Democrats want businesses to give up half their
tax-cut savings to state.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-democrats-want-businesses-to-give-half-12508742.php
California AG: Employers who Cooperate With Federal
Immigration Raids Will be Prosecuted
Pope Francis Honors Dutch Abortion Activist with Pontifical
Medal of Knighthood
Meanwhile, 215
million Christians are facing “high levels of persecution” in 60 different
countries, with “Islamic oppression” the driving factor in eight of the top ten.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/16/jesus-followers-being-wiped-worldwide-islamic-oppr/
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Karin McQuillan: “What
I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right”
Three
weeks after college, I flew to Senegal, West Africa, to run a community center
in a rural town. Life was placid, with no danger, except to your health. That
danger was considerable, because it was, in the words of the Peace Corps
doctor, "a fecalized environment."
In
plain English: s--- is everywhere. People defecate on the open ground, and the
feces is blown with the dust – onto you, your clothes, your food, the water. He
warned us the first day of training: do not even touch water. Human
feces carries parasites
that bore through your skin and cause organ failure.
Never
in my wildest dreams would I have imagined that a few decades later, liberals
would be pushing the lie that Western civilization is no better than a
third-world country. Or would teach two generations of our kids that loving
your own culture and wanting to preserve it are racism.
Last
time I was in Paris, I saw a beautiful African woman in a grand boubou have her
child defecate on the sidewalk next to Notre Dame Cathedral. The French police
officer, ten steps from her, turned his head not to see. I have seen. I am not
turning my head and pretending unpleasant things are not true.
Senegal
was not a hellhole. Very poor people can lead happy, meaningful lives in their
own cultures' terms. But they are not our terms. The excrement is the least of
it. Our basic ideas of human relations, right and wrong, are incompatible.
As
a twenty-one-year-old starting out in the Peace Corps, I loved Senegal. In
fact, I was euphoric. I quickly made friends and had an adopted family. I
relished the feeling of the brotherhood of man. People were open, willing to
share their lives and, after they knew you, their innermost thoughts. The
longer I lived there, the more I understood: it became blindingly obvious that
the Senegalese are not the same as us. The truths we hold to be self-evident
are not evident to the Senegalese. How could they be? Their reality is totally
different. You can't understand anything in Senegal using American terms.
Take
something as basic as family. Family was a few hundred people, extending out to
second and third cousins. All the men in one generation were called "father."
Senegalese are Muslim, with up to four wives. Girls get FGM. (I witnessed this,
at what I thought was going to be a nice coming-of-age ceremony, like a bar
mitzvah or confirmation.) Sex, I was told, did not include kissing. Love and
friendship in marriage were Western ideas. Fidelity was not a thing. Married
women would have sex for a few cents to have cash for the market.
What
I did witness every day was that women were worked half to death. Wives raised
the food and fed their own children, did the heavy labor of walking miles to
gather wood for the fire, drew water from the well or public faucet, pounded
grain with heavy hand-held pestles, lived in their own huts, and had conjugal
visits from their husbands on a rotating basis with their co-wives. Their
husbands lazed in the shade of the trees. Yet family was crucial to people
there in a way Americans cannot comprehend.
The
Ten Commandments were not disobeyed – they were unknown. The value system was
the exact opposite. You were supposed to steal everything you can to give to
your own relatives. There are some Westernized Africans who try to rebel
against the system. They fail. We hear a lot about the kleptocratic elites of
Africa. The kleptocracy extends through the whole society. My town had a
medical clinic donated by international agencies. The medicine was stolen by
the medical workers and sold to the local store. If you were sick and didn't
have money, drop dead. That was normal…..corruption ruled, from top to bottom. Go to the post office,
and the clerk would name an outrageous price for a stamp. After paying the
bribe, you still didn't know it if it would be mailed or thrown out. That was
normal.
One
of my most vivid memories was from the clinic. One day, as the wait grew hotter
in the 110-degree heat, an old woman two feet from the medical aides – who were
chatting in the shade of a mango tree instead of working – collapsed to the
ground. They turned their heads so as not to see her and kept talking. She lay
there in the dirt. Callousness to the sick was normal. Americans think it is a
universal human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It's
not. It seems natural to us because we live in a Bible-based Judeo-Christian
culture.
We
think the Protestant work ethic is universal. It's not. My town was full of
young men doing nothing. They were waiting for a government job. There was no
private enterprise. Private business was not illegal, just impossible, given
the nightmare of a third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy. It is also
incompatible with Senegalese insistence on taking care of relatives.
All
the little stores in Senegal were owned by Mauritanians. If a Senegalese wanted
to run a little store, he'd go to another country. The reason? Your friends and
relatives would ask you for stuff for free, and you would have to say yes. End
of your business. You are not allowed to be a selfish individual and say no to
relatives. The result: Everyone has nothing.
The
more I worked there and visited government officials doing absolutely nothing,
the more I realized that no one in Senegal had the idea that a job means work. A
job is something given to you by a relative. It provides the place where you
steal everything to give back to your family.
I
couldn't wait to get home. So why would I want to bring Africa here? Non-Westerners
do not magically become American by arriving on our shores with a visa.
For
the rest of my life, I enjoyed the greatest gift of the Peace Corps: I love and
treasure America more than ever. I take seriously my responsibility to defend
our culture and our country and pass on the American heritage to the next
generation….
We
are lectured by Democrats that we must privilege third-world immigration by the
hundred million with chain migration. They tell us we must end America
as a white, Western,
Judeo-Christian, capitalist nation – to prove we are not racist. I don't need
to prove a thing. Leftists want open borders because they resent whites, resent
Western achievements, and hate America. They want to destroy America as we know
it. As President Trump asked, why would we do that?
We
have the right to choose what kind of country to live in. I was happy to donate
a year of my life as a young woman to help the poor Senegalese. I am not
willing to donate my country.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/what_i_learned_in_peace_corps_in_africa_trump_is_right.html#ixzz54eMHLx12
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Gonna be incredible when some Democrat screams ‘YOU LIE’ at Trump during the State of the Union and the entire media cheer wildly.”
“Gonna be incredible when some Democrat screams ‘YOU LIE’ at Trump during the State of the Union and the entire media cheer wildly.”
-Ben Shapiro
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GLOBALONEY
Earth's surface will almost certainly not warm up four or
five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released Wednesday which, if
correct, voids worst-case UN climate change predictions.
A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature
finds that all those global warming doomsday scenarios aren't credible. Not
that you would ever know based on how little coverage this study is getting……..on
the same day the Nature study was published, NASA released its latest report on
global temperatures, declaring that 2017 was the second hottest year on record,
with 2016 the hottest. Guess which story
made front page news?
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LEFTIST WATCH
The progressive billionaire speculator George Soros has said
he will ‘fight back’ against the “dominant ideology” of nationalism, whilst
admitting that favored globalist project the European Union is “on the verge of
a breakdown”.
British School For Girls Won't Let Teachers Call Students
'Girls.' "……fears that using the
'g-word' could result in pupils who are changing sex being
'misgendered.'"
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ARTICLES
VDH: “Nobama:
President Trump disassembles Obama legacy”
“Congratulations NY Times Hack Paul Krugman Winner of the
2017 #FakeNewsAwards! – You Finally Won an Award You Deserve!”
How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter
and Google Without Even Realizing It
Employee Lawsuit Reveals Google as Intolerant Race Cult
2017: The Year the News Media Went to War Against a
President
Since
the election of President Trump, we have witnessed a series of rulings by
Clinton- and Obama-appointed federal judges to block executive orders (E.O.)
related to immigration. In each case, the current system has allowed
a single unelected judge to block the actions of a duly elected president who
has attempted to exercise the authority conferred upon him by the Constitution
and the voters. Such judicial tyranny cannot be tolerated. Here’s how to fix it.
Donald Trump Is Shrinking The Government. Everything Else Is
Noise.
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WISE
WORDS
“Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a
people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all
nations.”
-Paul
Valéry
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