op ed review 6/17
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fall to a
near 44 year low.
Q2 GDP estimate rises to 4.8%.
Food Stamp Enrollment Dips to Lowest Level in 8 Years
Trump approval rating: Better than Obama and Reagan at Same
Point in their Presidencies
Kim Jong-un commits to complete denuclearization in historic
Trump meeting.
President Trump’s forging of a historic peace-making deal
with North Korea’s despot Kim Jong-un has the leftists of the country up in
arms because, to put it bluntly, it’s getting harder and harder for them to
sell their hate.
Newt: “Trump has
accomplished more than Clinton, Bush, and Obama combined - this is just the
beginning…..”
Norwegian state broadcaster NRK announced this week that
President Trump is now officially in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize
after his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday.
Nancy Pelosi bummed out by Trump booming economy.
The picture that emerges of Jim Comey from the Inspector
General’s report is one of an astonishingly arrogant weirdo, an FBI director
who pompously talked about “norms” while shattering them on his own say-so —
from crowning himself the de facto attorney general, thereby sparing Hillary an
indictment, to lesser offenses of self-indulgence, such as his richly ironic
use of Gmail to conduct official business. Anyone who goes to the trouble of
slogging through this mountainous report will wonder how such an unreliable and
self-deluded flake could hold any position at the FBI, let alone serve as the
chief witness in Mueller’s investigation of a sitting president.
The complete IG report.
IG report suggests either Bill Clinton or Loretta Lynch is
lying about their tarmac meeting
One
FBI agent on the Hillary investigation wrote in an FBI text: “Trump’s
supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.” "POS"
is the agent's acronym for "Pieces Of S***."
IG Report Littered With References Of Top FBI Officials
Calling Trump Supporters: F***ing Idiots, Sad, Pathetic, Retarded
Inspector General’s Report: FBI May Have Covered up Weiner
Laptop to Help Clinton
Referendum To Split California Into 3 States Gets On Ballot.
Here´s What The New Californias Would Look Like.
French President Macron calls Italy’s decision to refuse a migrant
loaded ship as “sickening,” while scolding Italy for its supposed “cynicism and
irresponsibility” in dealing with migrants.
The Pew Research Center has released a poll showing that 54
percent of Americans favor the death penalty for people convicted of murder. That’s
up from 49 percent two years ago.
??American Medical Association adopts sweeping gun control
policies.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/12/american-medical-association-adopts-sweeping-gun-c/
Seattle moves to repeal head tax after just a month
Federal judge halts secret FEC plot to target GOP groups
??Netflix has reportedly banned workers from looking at each
other for more than five seconds as part of its new anti-harassment rules.
Twitter CEO apologizes to liberals for eating a chick-fil-a
sandwich
Where can you get paid $466K a year to wash trucks? Union
clout at a New Jersey port.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Walter Williams 6/13
In
conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians and race
hustlers, it's not long before the magical words "diversity" and
"inclusiveness" drop from their lips.
Racial
minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women
are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the
process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas.
We're
told how it's doing so in science, in an article by Heather Mac Donald, a
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, titled "How Identity
Politics Is Harming the Sciences" .
Mac
Donald says that identity politics has already taken over the humanities and social
sciences on American campuses. Waiting in the wings for a similar takeover are
the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math. In the eyes of the
diversity and inclusiveness czars, the STEM fields don't have a pleasing
mixture of blacks, Hispanics and women. The effort to get this "pleasing
mix" is doing great damage to how science is taught and evaluated,
threatening innovation and American competitiveness.
Universities
and other institutions have started watering down standards and requirements in
order to attract more minorities and women.
Some
of the arguments for doing so border on insanity.
A
math education professor at the University of Illinois wrote that
"mathematics itself operates as Whiteness." She says that the ability
to solve algebra and geometry problems perpetuates "unearned
privilege" among whites. A professor at Purdue University's School of
Engineering Education published an article in a peer-reviewed journal positing
that academic rigor is a "dirty deed" that upholds "white male
heterosexual privilege," adding that "scientific knowledge itself is
gendered, raced, and colonizing."
The
National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are two
federal agencies that fund university research and support postdoctoral
education for physicians. Both agencies are consumed by diversity and inclusion
ideology. The NSF and NIH can yank a grant when it comes up for renewal if the
college has not supported a sufficient number of "underrepresented
minorities." Mac Donald quotes a UCLA scientist who reports: "All
across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more
women and minorities by 'changing' (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had
previously set for graduate level study?" Mac Donald observes,
"Mathematical problem-solving is being deemphasized in favor of more
qualitative group projects; the pace of undergraduate physics education is
being slowed down so that no one gets left behind."
Focusing
on mathematical problem-solving and academic rigor, at least for black students
at the college level, is a day late and a dollar short. The 2017 National
Assessment of Educational Progress, aka The Nation's Report Card, reported that
only 17 percent of black students tested proficient or better in reading, and
just 7 percent reached at least a proficient level in math. In some
predominantly black high schools, not a single black student scored proficient
in math. The academic and federal STEM busybodies ought to focus on the
academic destruction of black youngsters between kindergarten and 12th grade
and the conferring of fraudulent high school diplomas. Black people should not
allow themselves to be used at the college level to help white liberals feel
better about themselves and keep their federal grant money.
Mac
Donald answers the question of whether scientific progress depends on
diversity. She says: "Somehow, NSF-backed scientists managed to rack up
more than 200 Nobel Prizes before the agency realized that scientific progress
depends on 'diversity.' Those 'un-diverse' scientists discovered the
fundamental particles of matter and unlocked the genetics of viruses." She
might have added that there wasn't even diversity among those white Nobel
laureates. Jews constitute no more than 3 percent of the U.S. population but
are 35 percent of American Nobel Prize winners. One wonders what diversity and
inclusion czars might propose to promote ethnic diversity among Nobel Prize
winners.
Another good read explains the IG report:
The long-awaited report from the Justice Department's
inspector general about the FBI's handling of the Clinton email scandal seems
to absolve the bureau of any political bias. What it really shows, however, is
that the FBI — under pressure from President Obama — was just going through the
motions the whole time…..but look at the report in its totality and you see
that time and again officials made "judgment calls" that weakened
their investigation. In other words, from the range of options available to
them, they consistently chose the less aggressive course of action…….
Former EAD John Giacalone told the IG, "We open up
criminal investigations. And you have the President of the United States saying
this is just a mistake ... That's a problem, right?" "Obama stated that while former
Secretary Clinton had been 'careless' in managing her emails while she was
Secretary of State, she would never intentionally do anything to endanger the
security of the United States with her emails."
So, while the IG might not have found smoking-gun evidence
of political bias in the investigation, the report makes it clear that the
entire investigation was biased from the start. From Obama on down, no one ever
wanted or intended to do what should have been done: Prosecute Clinton for
gross negligence in her handling of highly classified material. The entire
investigation was just for show.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The Left has been having a tantrum over Chick-fil-A for
years now. Chick-fil-A has just ignored them and made no effort to apologize or
change its ways for the sake of the whining bullies. This is a model we all can
follow.”
-Matt
Walsh
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LEFTIST WATCH
George Soros was soundly rejected in his bid to rig the
District Attorney´s races in California. His creepy little pawns in his project
to get leftist soft-on-crime DAs elected across the state lost in nearly all
instances
Hungarian Prime Minister: “Population Replacement Underway
in Europe, Speculators Like Soros Hope to Profit from Its Ruination”
The Berkeley City Council on Tuesday night declared what it
called a "climate emergency" with more global significance than World
War II, and demanded an immediate effort to "humanely stabilize
population" and "reverse ecological overshoot."
Elizabeth Warren Declares War On Billionaires — Does That
Include All The Liberal Ones?
Former President Obama is no longer pushing his agenda from
the White House, but he is still in charge of the nationwide network of
volunteers who helped get him elected and are now setting their sights on
November’s midterm election.
Lefties despair: “Did
the Head Tax Repeal Kill the World-Famous Progressive Seattle?”
Citizens of the ultra-progressive Seattle
have lost patience with political leaders’ failure to address the homelessness
crisis.
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ARTICLES
“Once upon a time, the FBI said some thugs planned to rob a
bank in town. Thugs are always looking to rob banks. They try all the time. But
at this particular time, the FBI was hyper-focused on potential bank robberies
in this particular town. The best way to prevent the robbery - which is the
goal, after all - would be for the FBI to alert all the banks in town. "Be
on high alert for suspicious activity," the FBI could tell the banks.
"Report anything suspicious to us. We don't want you to get robbed."
Instead, in this fractured fairytale, the FBI followed an oddly less effective,
more time-consuming, costlier approach. It focused on just one bank. And,
strangely, it picked the bank that was least likely to be robbed because nobody
thought it would ever get elected president - excuse me, I mean, because it had
almost no cash on hand. (Why would robbers want to rob the bank with no cash?) Stranger
still, this specially-selected bank the FBI wanted to protect above all others
happened to be owned by a man who was hated inside and outside the FBI.”
A great high school and the mayor who would diminish it
“Progressives are like me in 1973. They're not trying to
solve problems. They're trying to look cool to the world. Failing that, they're
trying to look cool to themselves; they're trying to feel good about
themselves. And so each failed government social program is not a failure at
all to a progressive. Because by their metric — did it make me look cool and
feel good? — it was a success. I get that. I was there 40 years ago. But now I
have a different take. I now realize that spending other people's money on
destructive programs for the purpose of making myself look cool is not cool,
despite what the group-thinking cool kids say. That's why I became a
conservative. My aim is to solve problems, not to milk them. You may say I'm a
dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us.”
Trump Could Be One of America's Great Foreign Policy
Presidents
Malkin: "I also
have a dream." This rallying cry, handwritten on a simple white placard
held up by an Asian-American mom at a protest this week against liberal New
York City Mayor Bill de Blasio´s plan to radically transform New York City´s
public schools, says it all. A new civil rights struggle in education has
exploded — yet the national media and the usual celebrity voices for equality
and justice are nowhere to be found. While student "Dreamers" here
illegally from south of the border garner bleeding-heart front-page stories and
nightly news dispatches, the high-achieving sons and daughters of legal
immigrants from Asia are getting shafted by far-left Democrats.
Under Barack Obama one in five US households, or twenty
percent of US households, were on food stamps in 2013. The Obama administration
paid recruiters to sign up people on food stamps. At the same time, the Obama
administration also pursued a “partnership” with the Mexican government to
“raise awareness” about food stamps. The administration used a Spanish soap
opera format to push food stamps on illegal immigrants and Spanish-speaking
Americans. (Video) But those days are over, The number of US households on food
stamps dropped to below 20 million for the first time in eight years!
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GOOD WEBSITES
Photos show how the internet works.
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WISE
WORDS
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of
little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves
his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
-Thomas
Paine
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