op ed review 2/4
Memo release: Shocking
memo reveals how Comey disgraced an honorable FBI……discredited dossier was key
to FBI’s FISA warrant to surveil members of Team Trump.
What it says 1. The Steele dossier formed an essential part
of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page. 2.Andrew
McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA
Court without the Steele dossier information. 3.The political origins of the
Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from
the FISA applications. 4.DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in
the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele's bias. Steele
told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected
president.
Worse than Watergate:
“What The MSM Is Hoping YOU
Ignore About FISA MEMO”
The Onion: “FBI Warns
Republican Memo Could Undermine Faith In Massive, Unaccountable Secret Government
Agencies”
“Tonight’s State of the Union speech was a triumph for
President Trump. The speech was excellent, and Trump knew it cold and delivered
it effectively. The president began with a recitation of his administration’s
achievements that was truly impressive. Trump emphasized, appropriately, the
remarkable gains our economy has made in just one year…..For the Democrats, the
optics were very bad. They ostentatiously refused to stand or even applaud…”
To ABC News, the speech was ‘Divisive,’ ‘Gloomy,’ ‘Sad’
‘Stoking...Racial Tensions’
NBC Trashes ‘Subdued,’ ‘Tired’ SOTU Speech Full of
‘Hyperbole’, talks about Russia probe as speech began.
Whoops! CBS embarrassed that its own poll showed viewers
approve of Trump's first State of the Union address by 75%
Black Dems' Stonefaced Reaction to News of Historically Low
Black Unemployment...
SOTU address smashed the record for Twitter activity with
4.5 million tweets by users about the speech, according to Twitter.
Zogby: Trump boosted GOP 2018 chances, 2020 re-election
“New Poll Looks Grim for Democrats”
Americans are split 49-49 on Trump's job approval, his best
showing in the Rasmussen Reports poll since last June That number beats his
popular-vote election performance in 2016 Big bump comes after
well-received State of the Union Address
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5345079/Trump-vaults-49-cent-approval-rating-voters.html#ixzz55yKJLuUp
President Trump’s job approval on the economy has soared to 51 percent…..”After
more than a year of fake news-frenzies pushing conspiracy theories about
Russian collusion/obstruction, the
American people are finally tuning out the media’s neurotic white noise to turn
their focus on what President Trump has actually accomplished.”
U.S. Oil Production Tops 10 Million Barrels A Day for First
Time Since 1970
Economy to grow at 5.4% rate in first quarter, Atlanta Fed
tracker shows
Due To Trump Tax Cuts Iowa Utility Customers To Get $147
Million Refund!
Private payrolls grow by 234,000 in January, vs 185,000
expected:
Exxon Mobil announced it will invest an extra $50 billion in
the American economy, citing Republican’s recently passed tax reform.
Americans' Compensation Rise At Fastest Pace Since 2008
Former NFL running back Herschel Walker accused the NFL of
essentially giving out "hush money" to stop players from kneeling for
the national anthem. The 1982 Heisman Trophy winner highlighted the fact that
the NFL in late November offered $100 million to social justice organizations
favored by players. The move was widely viewed as an attempt by the league to
end the controversy surrounding the anthem protests. "The league gave the
players a large sum of money toward their cause. That´s hush money," he
said, adding that players never should have been kneeling in the first place.
The Associated Press wages a daily battle against the Trump
administration on behalf of the Democratic Party. Its bias is manifest and
unconcealed, but rarely do we see a hit job as outrageous as this one……
Leftist fantasies expressed?
‘Law & Order: SVU’ Depicts Brutal Rape of Female Conservative
Commentator
Harvard-Harris Poll: Black
Americans are the most supportive group in the United States of dramatically
lower legal immigration levels
To Protect Illegals from Deportation, Denver Decriminalizes
Pooping on the Pavement
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investors Business Daily
President Trump, defying expectations that he would give a
speech filled with concessions to the bitterly angry Democrats, gave a
full-throated, detailed (and long) defense of his first year in office and
offered a vision for the future. It was a bravura performance, one of the best
in recent history….the first-time politician Trump pushed all the right
buttons, and probably reminded a lot of people why they voted for him instead
of his supposedly invincible opponent.
After hearing Trump demonized and vilified in the media for
the better part of a year, average Americans were no doubt surprised to hear a
confident president with an extensive resume of successes express his love, admiration
and, yes, devotion to the country he plainly loves a great deal. "Over the
last year, we have made incredible progress and achieved extraordinary
success. We have faced challenges we expected, and others we could never
have imagined," Trump said, very early in his speech. "We have shared
in the heights of victory and the pains of hardship. We endured floods
and fires and storms. But through it all, we have seen the beauty of
America's soul, and the steel in America's spine."
We don't know for sure how average Americans viewed his
speech. But we do know that it was the kind of speech that Americans
like. It was clear and plain-spoken. His ideas were based on common sense and
normal American decency, not weird ideologies that bear no relevance to
every-day American life.
In nearly every instance, whether talking about: North
Korea's nuclear threat and its inhumanity to its own people; Or the daily
indignity suffered by American veterans served by an often-incompetent and
uncaring VA; Or the thrill of having tax cuts passed that would put $4,000 back
in each household's pockets for saving, spending or investing; Or proposing
more spending on vocational training for young people; Or the $8 trillion
increase in stock market value since he was elected, which, he noted, is
"great news for Americans' 401k, retirement, pension, and college savings accounts";
Or "leveraging" $200 billion in federal money to create $1.5 trillion
in infrastructure improvements; Or pointing out the every-day heroes of the
shootings in Washington, the hurricanes in Texas and Louisiana, or the fires in
California; Or talking about repealing the Obamacare individual mandate, a
"cruel tax" that hits those earning less than $50,000 a year hardest; In almost all these cases, Trump focused on
average Americans, real people. He seemed genuinely touched by their sense
of duty and sacrifice. And by the possibility that their lives might be made
better.
Pollster Frank Luntz, a frequent Trump critic who did not
support him in 2016 —and who, as a numbers guy, is not known for his mawkish
sentimentality — even tweeted the following: "Tonight, I owe Donald Trump
an apology. Tonight, I was moved and inspired. Tonight, I have hope and faith
in America again. It may go away tomorrow… But tonight, America is great
again."
This is probably not what Washington inside-the-beltway
types and leftist media elites wanted to hear. It's definitely the last thing
the far-left that has captured the Democratic Party wants to hear. As we noted,
the media in recent weeks repeatedly called on Trump to "reach out"
to angry Democrats. And, to a degree, Trump did just that. "Tonight, I
call upon all of us to set aside our differences, to seek out common ground,
and to summon the unity we need to deliver for the people we were elected to
serve," Trump said, reaching of his hand across the aisle to the
Democrats.
But, based on the Democrats sour reaction even when Trump
announced initiatives, such as infrastructure rebuilding, that are at the core
of Democratic politics, it didn't really matter. The assembled Democratic
politicians looked like they had just bitten into a lemon. They, apparently,
have decided not to cooperate with Trump on anything — and signaled it
loudly on Tuesday. During Trump's speech, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
and her No. 2, Steny Hoyer, mostly sat stone-faced, occasionally passing
comments to one another.
Even when Trump told America what most of the liberal media
hadn't reported, or had buried in their pages and on their web sites —
that Hispanic and African-American unemployment rates were at their lowest ever under
Trump — Black and Hispanic Democratic congressional representatives sat looking
grim, mostly without clapping.
Such stunning economic success should be celebrated. That it
isn't, especially by those who pretend to represent the African-American and
Hispanic communities, only shows how poisoned the Democratic Party has become
by its own extreme ideology. Chicago Democrat and Rep. Luis Gutierrez even
stormed out of the room after chants of "U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A," rose
up, mostly among Republicans. His angry march out of the room perfectly summed
up why average Americans increasingly feel alienated from the Democratic Party,
which seems no longer capable of even simple patriotism.
In any case a lot of Americans were probably surprised by
what they saw and heard after a year of nonstop Trump demonization: A man in
full, flawed but street-smart, full of love of country, ready to defend it,
full of ideas, and eager to go forward. An American.
Of course, it is possible to oppose policies by any
president. Our country was built on that. But we would hope that the shrill,
non-stop, outrageously venomous vilification of Trump by the media and his
political foes would stop. It's damaging the country by dividing us along
political lines, something that hasn't happened to this extent in 150 years.
The perpetual calls for Trump's "impeachment" by
constitutional illiterates in the Democratic Party have become boringly
routine. It's the only response of a party that can't answer a foe's obvious
policy success, or his popular pragmatic conservatism. It's the equivalent of
yelling "fire" in a theater when you don't like the movie.
So, did President Trump win over Democrats on Tuesday? No.
Contrary to the media's desires, he was really speaking to moderates and
independents, not Democrats. But any Americans who were listening with an open
heart and open mind no doubt heard much to like, and even more to deeply
admire: A president who loves his country, is avidly fixing its problems, and
wants the continued help and support of the American people to do so. It's been
quite a while since we've had a president like that.
____________________________________________________________________
FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The New American Moment laid out a ‘clear vision and a
righteous mission — to make America great again for all Americans.’ But not
everyone who happens to live in America wants it to be great.”
-Daniel
Greenfield
“People who came
here in the 19th century and most of the 20th century came here to learn our
language, learn our customs and become Americans. Years ago, there was a
guarantee that immigrants came here to work, because there was no welfare
system; they worked, begged or starved. Today, there is no such assurance.
Because of our welfare state, immigrants can come here and live off taxpaying
Americans. There is another difference between today and yesteryear. Today,
Americans are taught multiculturalism throughout their primary, secondary and
college education. They are taught that one culture is no better or worse than
another….”
-Walter Williams
___________________________________________________________________
LEFTIST WATCH
California professor encourages 'abolition of white
democracy'
ACLU Complains that Trump Used the Word 'America' too much
in his State of the Union speech.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid denounces SOTU references to “Church ...
family ... police ... military ... the national anthem ... Trump trying to call
on all the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism.”
Luis Gutierrez, the illegal alien-loving congressman from
Illinois, appeared to be triggered during President Trump’s soaring rhetoric
during the State of the Union address and fled the House chamber. Trump praised
the Capitol building, calling it a monument to the American people. As applause
broke out, so did chants of “USA! USA! USA!” Gutierrez left his seat as several
Democrats patted him on the arm as he retreated to a safe space.
In a celebrity counter-event to the State of
the Union speech, one comedian spoke about the "ugly
underbelly"
of Trump
supporters who voted him into office.
_____________________________________________________________________
ISLAM
Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public
without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in force since the
Islamic revolution of 1979 intensify, Iranian media reported Friday.
____________________________________________________________________
ARTICLES
Donald Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight
Frank Luntz, former Trump hater: ‘I owe Donald Trump an
apology’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/31/frank-luntz-former-trump-hater-i-owe-donald-trump-/
There is a lot of competition for the most inane commentary
on the triumphant State of the Union Address that President Trump delivered
last night.
Just minutes before entering the House chamber for his first
State of the Union address to the nation, President Trump signed an executive
order reversing President Obama´s decision to close Guantanamo Bay Prison.
"Terrorists who do things like place bombs in civilian hospitals are evil.
When possible, we annihilate them. When necessary, we must be able to detain
and question them. But we must be clear: Terrorists are not merely criminals.
They are unlawful enemy combatants. And when captured overseas, they should be
treated like the terrorists they are,"
____________________________________________________________________
WISE
WORDS
“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by
multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of
the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”
-Alexander
Hamilton
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