op ed review 6/10
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
U.S. Chamber of Commerce demands amnesty for 1 million
migrants.
Chamber lapdogs in the House GOP leadership will push a new
amnesty bill that does not set upper limits on amnesty, cut immigration levels,
or build a wall.
Passing a “clean” Dream Act to legalize “Dreamers” will spur
a new wave of illegal immigration and create a new population that will need an
amnesty 10 or 20 years in the future, the government’s chief deportation
official said Tuesday.
Immigrants accounted for more than 30 percent of the federal
prison population and nearly all of them are confirmed or suspected illegal
immigrants
Calling the border with Mexico an “environmental disaster,”
Interior Secy. Ryan Zinke has ordered both U.S. park rangers and park police to
Arizona and New Mexico to help stop the movement of illegal immigrants into the
country.
Nearly two-thirds of the public oppose "sanctuary cities."
As many as 40 state-level Democratic parties may have been
involved in an illegal scheme to funnel as much as $84 million to Hillary
Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The U.S. Supreme Court on
Monday handed a victory to a Colorado Christian baker who refused for religious
reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple,
“This is a niche victory for the bakery rather than a
sweeping referendum on civil rights or religious freedom……The left wants to
tell the story of a mean bigot who used mean religion to mask his hateful
homophobia to punish a young couple in love……progressives act on their meanness
and hate out in the open with little or no condemnation. Meanwhile, we are told
again and again that Trump voters have hate in their hearts, though it rarely
manifests itself anywhere outside of the imaginations of the #Resist factions.”
In selling the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran to Congress, the
Obama administration assured lawmakers that Tehran would not have access to the
U.S. financial system. But in 2016, the administration secretly granted Iran a
license to do just that
How Obama Secretly Gave Iran Access To Billions Of Dollars —
And Enabled Terrorism
Iran Just Threatened, Again, to Murder Nine Million Israelis
Four of the world’s biggest tech platforms have working
partnerships with a left-wing nonprofit,
the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), that routinely labels
conservative organizations as “hate groups.”
Poland's Catholic Church rejects Pope Francis' liberal
embrace
Seattle Needs a Cure for Its Head Tax Fever…….communities,
like Pierce County to the south, are mocking Seattle by offering a
$275-per-employee incentive to companies that move there.
Costco Wholesale Corp. announced late last week that it's
giving raises to 130,000 employees, thanks to the Trump tax cuts. This is the
company, mind you, whose founders openly backed tax-hiking Hillary Clinton for
president.
Obama-era FAA hiring rules placed diversity ahead of airline
safety.
Republicans Poised to Gain Senate Seats in 2018?
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Walter Williams 6/9
Having
enjoyed my 82nd birthday, I am part of a group of about 50 million Americans
who are 65 years of age or older. Those who are 90 or older were in school
during the 1930s. My age cohort was in school during the 1940s. Baby boomers
approaching their 70s were in school during the 1950s and early '60s.
Try
this question to any one of those 50 million Americans who are 65 or older: Do
you recall any discussions about the need to hire armed guards to protect
students and teachers against school shootings? Do you remember school
policemen patrolling the hallways? How many students were shot to death during
the time you were in school? For me and those other Americans 65 or older, when
we were in school, a conversation about hiring armed guards and having police
patrol hallways would have been seen as lunacy. There was no reason.
What's
the difference between yesteryear and today? The logic of the argument for
those calling for stricter gun control laws, in the wake of recent school
shootings, is that something has happened to guns. Guns have behaved more
poorly and become evil. Guns themselves are the problem. The job for those of
us who are 65 or older is to relay the fact that guns were more available and
less controlled in years past, when there was far less mayhem. Something else
is the problem.
Guns
haven't changed. People have changed. Behavior that is accepted from today's
young people was not accepted yesteryear. For those of us who are 65 or older,
assaults on teachers were not routine as they are in some cities. For example,
in Baltimore, an average of four teachers and staff members were assaulted each
school day in 2010, and more than 300 school staff members filed workers'
compensation claims in a year because of injuries received through assaults or
altercations on the job. In Philadelphia, 690 teachers were assaulted in 2010,
and in a five-year period, 4,000 were. In that city's schools, according to The
Philadelphia Inquirer, "on an average day 25 students, teachers, or other
staff members were beaten, robbed, sexually assaulted, or victims of other
violent crimes. That doesn't even include thousands more who are extorted,
threatened, or bullied in a school year."
Yale
University legal scholar John Lott argues that gun accessibility in our country
has never been as restricted as it is now. Lott reports that until the 1960s,
New York City public high schools had shooting clubs. Students carried their
rifles to school on the subway in the morning and then turned them over to
their homeroom teacher or a gym teacher — and that was mainly to keep them
centrally stored and out of the way. Rifles were retrieved after school for target
practice. Virginia's rural
areas had a long tradition of high school students going hunting in the morning
before school, and they sometimes stored their guns in the trunks of their cars
during the school day, parked on the school grounds.
During
earlier periods, people could simply walk into a hardware store and buy a
rifle. Buying a rifle or pistol through a mail-order catalog — such as Sears,
Roebuck & Co.'s — was easy. Often, a 12th or 14th birthday present was a
shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given to a boy by his father.
These
facts of our history should confront us with a question: With greater
accessibility to guns in the past, why wasn't there the kind of violence we see
today, when there is much more restricted access to guns? There's another
aspect of our response to mayhem. When a murderer uses a bomb, truck or car to
kill people, we don't blame the bomb, truck or car. We don't call for control over
the instrument of death. We seem to fully recognize that such objects are
inanimate and incapable of acting on their own. We blame the perpetrator.
However, when the murder is done using a gun, we do call for control over the
inanimate instrument of death — the gun. I smell a hidden anti-gun agenda.
Another good read: If
There’s a Red Wave Election in 2018, This Will Be Why
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“If you hadn’t noticed, physical beauty is a huge part of
our economy and our culture. And before you go on about this showing how sexist
or ‘lookist’ American society is, physical beauty is a huge part of literally
every culture on earth and has been for all time. Notions of beauty are fluid,
sure, but the interest in beauty — or desirability — itself is an expression of
human nature. Can it go too far? Absolutely. Can you get rid of it? Nope.”
-Jonah
Goldberg
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LEFTIST WATCH
At Jesuit Fordham University in the radical 1970s, a young
John Brennan had devoured anti-American literature portraying the CIA as a
wicked meddler in the political affairs of other countries. This radicalism had
bred in Brennan, according to his own admission, a very dim view of America —
an “unhappiness with the system,” he recalled once, that led him in 1980 to
support Gus Hall, the presidential candidate for the Soviet-controlled American
Communist Party. At one of the most crucial moments in
the Cold War, America’s future CIA director was rooting for the Reds. It sounds
like an Onion parody, but it isn’t. It is the story of America’s
decline, marked by a generation of radicals who rose to the top of agencies and
institutions they once tried to destroy. The irony is no doubt lost on Brennan,
who went from condemning CIA election interference abroad to spearheading it at
home.
Free Cash! California
city fights poverty with guaranteed income
Bernie Sanders: “Our Socialist Ideas Are Winning!”
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ISLAM
Inside Britain’s secret Sharia courts.
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GLOBALONEY
It has become an article of faith in the U.S. that recycling
is a good thing. But evidence is piling up that recycling is a waste of time
and money, and a bit of a fraud.
“Climate change is over. No, I’m not saying the climate will
not change in the future, or that human influence on the climate is negligible.
I mean simply that climate change is no longer a pre-eminent policy issue. All
that remains is boilerplate rhetoric from the political class, frivolous
nuisance lawsuits, and bureaucratic mandates on behalf of special-interest
renewable-energy rent seekers.”
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ARTICLES
Which state do you think has the highest poverty rate? Must
be Mississippi or Alabama or one of those Southern states. No it’s California. Our
progressive, income redistributing state which accounts for 12% of the
country’s population is home to about 1 in 3 of all U.S. welfare recipients. The
California poverty rate exceeds 20% when the national average is around 15%. It
is not as though California policy makers have neglected to wage their assault
on poverty. Since 1992 California has spent nearly $1 trillion on
benefit programs. Clearly it hasn’t worked. Then again paying poor people to be
poor never does.
Jonah Goldberg: The
lunacy of kicking ‘beauty’ out of the Miss America pageant.
One
of the most ironic things about the constant "toxic masculinity"
complaints that we hear these days is that we live in an overly feminized
culture where most of the "toxic" males seem to have either been
raised without fathers or claim to be adherents of feminism. The statistics on
men raised without fathers are grim almost beyond belief: 70% of gang members, high school
dropouts, teen suicides...and teen substance abusers come from single mother
homes. 80% of rapists and 85% of all
youths sitting in prison come from single mother homes.
Pat Buchanan: The Old
GOP is Dead
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GOOD WEBSITES
Amazing colorized photos of D-Day landing
Helicopter flight over the Hawaiian lava fields.
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WISE
WORDS
“To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal
jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the
accomplishment of this noble end and aim.”
-James
Wilson
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