op ed review 4/22
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Congressional lawmakers made a criminal referral Wednesday
to the Department of Justice against
James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Andrew McCabe, FBI Special Agent
Peter Strzok and his paramour FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
The Hillary Clinton Campaign and the DNC allegedly used
state chapters as strawmen to launder as much as $84 million in an effort to
circumvent campaign donation limits, and the Federal Election Commission
ignored complaints exposing the practice, a lawsuit filed Monday claims.
IG
Report Outlines How Obama DOJ Worked To Shut Down Investigation Into Clinton
Crime Syndicate
More than half a million people dropped off the food stamp
rolls in a single month, according to the latest figures from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA).
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/15/food-stamp-usage-drops-half-million-single-month/
U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Hold Below 300,000 for Longest
Streak on Record
Federal government has cut 21,000 jobs under President Trump
Nonpartisan analysis finds GOP’s tax cut isn’t a gift to the
rich.
Trump Blasts U.S. Anchor Baby Policy: ‘You’re Violating
Something Very Sacred, You’re Violating a Border’
Trump action will reduce immigrant Medicaid enrollment.
After Barbara Bush’s death, the Left shows who the real
hatermongers are in America. These
people are disgusting.
About half of Californians say they support President
Trump’s Muslim travel ban and more deportations of undocumented immigrants,
according to a new poll that challenges the conventional belief that residents
of the left-leaning Golden State are overwhelmingly allergic to the
administration’s hard line on immigration.
San Diego County Board of Supervisors votes to support
sanctuary state lawsuit against California
Proposal to split California into 3 states.
Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” former Vice President
Joe Biden told host Al Sharpton that Republicans don’t want African-Americans
voting.
How Much Did The Media Cover Pro-Life Student Walkout Vs.
Gun Control Walkout?
Actor James Woods points out via Twitter that first lady
Melania Trump hasn’t been a muse for the magazine industry since her husband,
President Trump, took office. Woods tweeted: “If the Trumps were Democrats,
Melania would be on every cover of every chic women’s magazine in the world
every month.”
Fox News host Laura Ingraham's viewership has gone up by 20
percent since gun control activist David Hogg initiated a boycott of her
advertisers late last month.
Millennials know a lot of stuff, just not history.
Always looking for a source of more supporters, Democrats in
Washington D.C. want to let 16-year-olds vote for president.
Two
articles, one will put a spring in your step, the other will leave you
depressed:
“Trump
is swinging at the complete destruction of the Democratic Party by gradually
squeezing the Democrats out of the American political arena.”
“Millennial
poll: Historic youth wave coming in 2018, Dems outnumber GOP 2-1”
For the first time in nearly a decade, Republican candidates
across the country find themselves bereft of what was once their favorite
talking point: repealing and replacing Obamacare, because the GOP failed
dramatically in its efforts to roll back the ACA…..Democrats are looking to
exploit as they seek to regain power in the midterms.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is counting the Tuesdays
until she expects to retake the Speaker´s gavel.
But House Speaker Paul Ryan just doesn’t get it…he will push
his open borders agenda during his last months in Congress, telling the media
that he is interested in passing a DACA amnesty.
Arizona Supreme Court strikes down in-state tuition for
'dreamers'
London Mayor looks to ban knives as murder rate spikes.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Newt Gingrich 4/5
Imagine
the frustration building in elite media offices across the country.
Lately,
the members of the elite media have been relentlessly bashing President Trump. The
reality they have been promoting has been one in which the White House staff is
in chaos; a hardline, supposedly dangerous right-wing hawk has been nominated
to be national security adviser; and some of the most important news of the day
centers around a woman with a lurid tale from more than a decade ago.
Meanwhile,
deeply nostalgic TV personalities, who have been nurtured on the true faith of
demonstration liberalism, have been fondly describing how anti-gun protests are
bringing back memories of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements.
In
weaving together this false narrative, members of the elite media are
collectively building an effort to uplift left-wing values and diminish the
achievements of conservative leadership – specifically the Trump administration.
However, after all this effort, President Trump’s approval rating has
increased.
Whoever
thought up the stunt of gathering more than 1,000 Central Americans in a
caravan to travel across a complicit Mexico toward the U.S. border had no idea
of the opportunity they were giving President Trump.
A
recent CNN poll
found that job approval for President Trump increased from 35 percent in
February to 42 percent in
March. The result was so shocking that CNN commentator Chris Cillizza, who is
normally deeply anti-Trump, had to spend time analyzing the voter blocs in which “Trump performed
significantly better in March than he did in February.”
In
the CNN poll, President Trump saw big gains with men (8 points), young voters
(8 points), middle-aged voters (9 points), and college graduates (10 points).
Cillizza called the increases among younger and college educated voters
“intriguing,” and said they were “most likely” due to the passage of the Tax
Cuts and Jobs Act.
The
Trump Approval Index History, published by Rasmussen Reports, has consistently showed
the president’s approval in the 40s – even hitting 50 percent on Monday. Importantly,
the Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows that while
President Trump’s average monthly job approval rating has dropped from February
to March, his daily rating has been mostly at or above President Obama’s 2010
rating since early February.
How
could this be happening? How could a month of unending anti-Trump media lead to
his gaining ground? Rasmussen again had a big part of the answer.
A
recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52 percent of likely
American voters believe most of the news media are against Trump’s agenda,
while only 5 percent thought reporters are in support of Trump’s agenda. The
elite media’s intense and pervasive hostility has begun to vaccinate the
American people against its opposition to President Trump.
At
the same time, the Trump presidency has a lot of good things going for it. The
Republican tax cuts are working. People are getting bonuses and pay raises, and
they are seeing companies beginning to reinvest in America. The president’s
strong actions against Russia after the poisoning of a former Russian spy and
his daughter in London pretty well knocked down any assertion that President
Trump is unwaveringly pro-Putin. More and more foreign leaders are coming to
the White House because President Trump is being recognized and acting as a world
leader, despite the elite media’s effort to undermine him.
President
Trump’s decision to talk with North Korea strikes most Americans as a welcome
alternative to fighting another war on the peninsula. With Mike Pompeo and John
Bolton nominated as secretary of state and national security adviser,
respectively, it is hard to argue the Trump administration will go soft or be
deceived by the North Koreans during the discussions. As Winston Churchill once
said: “Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.”
Finally,
the president’s opponents keep helping him. Whoever thought up the stunt of gathering
more than 1,000 Central Americans in a caravan to travel across a complicit Mexico toward the
U.S. border had no idea of the opportunity they were giving President Trump. If
we ever needed to demonstrate the case for a strong border wall, this supposed
Central American invasion of our southern border will convince most Americans.
This
may all change, but for the moment, President Trump is winning and the elite
media is not.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The reason we lock our doors at night is because we love
the people inside, not because we hate the people outside.”
-Border Patrol
Agent Art del Cueto, President of the Border Patrol Union in Tucson
“The story at Starbucks isn’t racism but entitlement. The
two men felt entitled to loiter on private property without buying anything.
They decided that the rules didn’t apply to them. And apparently they were
correct.”
-Matt Walsh
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GLOBALONEY
Climate Scientists Mount Misleading Attack On IBD Editorial
About Global Warming
New Discovery Could Destroy All Those Global Warming
Doomsday Forecasts
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LEFTIST WATCH
After Bernie Sanders, many candidates proudly embrace the
label “socialist”.
Hollywood writers coach progressive candidates as left plots
2018 course…..
these progressives were reveling in what they believe is the political moment
that will vault the liberal movement into power not just in Washington but
nationwide.
A wealthy Democratic donor club plotting the future of the
liberal movement wants the Democratic platform to include “medicare for all,
free college, and reparations for slavery.”
Another Tom Steyer, Left Wing-Funded Group Gathers on the
National Mall: March for Science Redux
The left doesn’t see anything wrong with this: “college hosts no-whites-allowed pool party”
Far left billionaire George Soros has been systematically
targeting district attorney races throughout the United States. Some of the
candidates he has backed have already won. Now he is focusing on Oregon.
We can remember when the left used to accuse conservatives
of being prudish censors. Now it's the left that appears determined to censor
speech it doesn't like. And they appear to have three incredibly powerful
allies in their quest: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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GLOBALONEY
You
just know the usual suspects are behind this: “A group of young people sued
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) to force him to take action on climate change. The group of eight young Florida residents —
represented by Oregon(?)-based Our Children's Trust — sued Scott to demand that
the state begin working on a court-ordered, science-based "Climate
Recovery Plan.
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ISLAM
France is going to try to reform Islam. Good luck with that. “Islam is a faith that thrives solely on
dominating. It’s not exactly compatible with modern, more democratically run
societies — never mind with other religions and beliefs. The goal of Islam is
not so much to peacefully convert but rather to spread at all costs, by
whatever means, and then to establish sharia and bring all into subjugation
with its strict principles. Think of it like conquering, not converting.”
Facebook Bans German Historian for Saying 'Islam Is Not Part
of German History'
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TV, FILM
‘Chappaquiddick': The Grim Record of a Kennedy Cover-Up
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ARTICLES
This is what real collusion with a foreign power looks like…and
it didn’t bother ABC news at the time.
How Online Media Companies Are Suppressing Conservative
Speech
This
relentless critique is about what happens in Progressive schools from nurseries
to colleges. Ayn Rand essay in 1970 explained
how children are deliberately destroyed.
“In today´s public dialogue, there´s a lot of talk back and
forth over the transgender issue. And why not? Transgenderism has been made
into a cause celebre by the cultural elite. Many, myself included, view this as
part of the ongoing effort by the Left to separate America from God and
tradition. For that reason, it is worthwhile to delve a little deeper into the
issue than what is normally provided by what is claimed by transgender people
themselves.”
Pretty much sums it up.
The grassroots voters that fueled the extraordinary rise of
House Speaker Paul Ryan spurned their erstwhile conservative hero for a new
champion, President Trump, marking a generational shift in ownership and
attitude of the Republican Party. A change in the philosophical predilections
of the GOP has been blamed for this slow-rolling divorce, made official with
Ryan’s announcement that he would step down as speaker and retire from Congress
at year’s end after more than two decades in Washington. But irreconcilable
ideological differences had little to do with it.
Chick-fil-A scares Dan Piepenbring, a freelance writer in
Brooklyn. He believes the Atlanta-based chain of chicken sandwich shops is one
long nightmare…."New York has taken to Chick-fil-A. One of the Manhattan
locations estimates that it sells a sandwich every six seconds, and the company
has announced plans to open as many as a dozen more... And yet the brand’s
arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its
pervasive Christian traditionalism.”
“I was honestly astounded the New Yorker actually printed
Dan Piepenbring’s bigoted and downright ignorant attack piece Friday titled
“Chick-Fil-A’s Creepy Infiltration of New York City.”
“Return of the Feckless Chick-Fil-A-Phobes”
Leading from in front, President Trump is finally redrawing
the red line that President Obama erased in 2013. Whatever the threats and
criticisms that will surely follow, the world will be safer for it. The vital
message is that America is no longer the hamstrung giant of the Obama era.
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WISE
WORDS
“In framing a government which is to be administered by men
over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the
government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control
itself.”
-James
Madison
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