op ed review 8/5
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump’s approval rating has risen to 50% on
Rasmussen Reports. President
Trump is now 5 points ahead of Barack Obama at a similar point in his
presidency. And this is while 90% of network media coverage has
been negative of President Trump.
President Trump threatened to shut down the government if he
doesn't get money for his border wall as REPUBLICANS (!) mull putting off the
money until after November election.
New asylum rules approved by the GOP majority (!) and
Democrat minority House Appropriations Committee would give the right to
migrate to the United States to a foreign population at least half the size of
the American Midwest.
?? The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank partially
founded by the billionaire, pro-mass immigration Koch brothers, is advocating
for full open borders to the United States.
Not good: A Record
Number of Democratic Challengers Are Outraising GOP Opponents
Even worse: The
online fundraising platform ActBlue this week surged past the $1 billion mark
in contributions to Democratic candidates and causes in this election cycle. The
fundraising milestone offers a sign that the liberal activism fueled by
President Trump’s election isn’t slowing down. The average donation this cycle:
$34.
When one of President Trump’s top economic advisers, Lawrence
Kudlow, said recently that the federal budget deficit “is coming down,” the
Democrats and the press — apologies for the redundancy — accused him of lying. After
Friday’s news that second-quarter real GDP growth hit an estimated 4.1%, and
that the real GDP growth rate for the first half of 2018 exceeded 3%, maybe it’s
time for some fact-checking of the fact-checkers.
Sen.
Bernie Sanders'
"Medicare for all" plan would increase government health care spending by $32.6 trillion over 10
years, according to a study by a university-based libertarian policy center. That's
trillion with a "T."
Portland Police Refused To Help ICE Agents Who Called 911,
Agents Say
President Trump Is Correct--Study Shows 90% Of
Administration Media Coverage Is Negative.
We
call it “Trump derangement syndrome.” Therapists call it “Trump Anxiety
Disorder” A 'symptom' is feeling as
though the world is going to end.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Compares Trump to Joseph Stalin
Billionaire investor Peter Thiel compared Silicon Valley’s
one-party culture to “North Korea” in a speech to last week’s Turning Point USA
conference, a gathering of conservative high school students in Washington, DC.
Noncitizens across U.S. find it easy to register to vote,
cast ballots
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/31/noncitizens-find-it-easy-register-vote-cast-ballot/
AG Jeff Sessions announced a new religious liberty task
force in the Department of Justice to defend religious freedom as laid out in last October's memorandum. In his remarks, Sessions referenced
the Southern Poverty Law Center as a threat to religious liberty, suggesting
the new task force may investigate or target the left-wing smear group.
News you won’t see reported on CNN: your President of the United States of
America donated his second quarter salary ($100,000) yesterday to a project
that helps rebuild military cemeteries.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Evan Sayet 7/13
My
Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if
I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are
“beneath the dignity of the office.” Here’s
my answer: We Right-thinking people have
tried dignity. There could not have been
a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous
lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this
earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer
human being ever than Mitt Romney? And
the results were always the same.
This
is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and
propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight
where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I
don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s
lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up
racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party. I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying
about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent
filmmaker to cover your tracks. I don’t
see anything “statesman-like” in weaponizing the IRS to be used to destroy your
political opponents and any dissent. Yes,
Obama was “articulate” and “polished” but in no way was he in the least bit
“dignified,” “collegial” or “proper.”
The
Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children
of the ‘60s. To them, it has been an all-out war where
nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale. It has been a war they’ve fought with
violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – till
today.
The
problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting
this war. While the Left has been taking
a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with
dignity, collegiality and propriety. With Donald Trump, this all has come to an
end. Donald Trump is America’s first
wartime president in the Culture War.
During
wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most
essential qualities one looks for in their warriors. Ulysses Grant was a drunk whose behavior in
peacetime might well have seen him drummed out of the Army for conduct
unbecoming. Had Abraham Lincoln applied
the peacetime rules of propriety and booted Grant, the Democrats might well
still be holding their slaves today. Lincoln rightly recognized that, “I cannot
spare this man. He fights.”
…….Trump
is fighting. And what’s particularly
delicious is that, like Patton standing over the battlefield as his tanks
obliterated Rommel’s, he’s shouting, “You magnificent bastards, I read your
book!” That is just the icing on the
cake, but it’s wonderful to see that not only is Trump fighting, he’s defeating
the Left using their own tactics.
That
book is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – a book so essential to the
Liberals’ war against America that it is and was the playbook for the entire
Obama administration and the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis. It is a book of such pure evil, that, just as
the rest of us would dedicate our book to those we most love or those to whom
we are most indebted, Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Trump’s
tweets may seem rash and unconsidered but, in reality, he is doing exactly what
Alinsky suggested his followers do. First,
instead of going after “the fake media”,,,,Trump isolated CNN. He made it personal. Then, just as Alinsky suggests, he employs ridicule
which Alinsky described as “the most powerful weapon of all.”
Everyone
gets that it’s not just CNN – in fact, in a world where Al Sharpton and
Rachel Maddow, Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof are people of influence and
whose “reporting” is in no way significantly different than CNN’s – CNN
is just a piker. Most importantly, Trump’s tweets have put CNN in an
untenable and unwinnable position. With
Trump’s ability to go around them, they cannot simply stand pat. They need to respond. This leaves them with only two choices: They can either “go high”..and begin to
honestly and accurately report the news or they can double-down on their usual
tactics and hope to defeat Trump with twice their usual hysteria and
demagoguery.
The
problem for CNN (et al.) with the former is that, if they were to start
honestly reporting the news, that would be the end of the Democratic Party they
serve. It is nothing but the
incessant use of fake news (read: propaganda) that keeps the Left alive……Imagine
if they had honestly and accurately conveyed the evils of the Obama
administration’s weaponizing of the IRS to be used against their political
opponents or his running of guns to the Mexican cartels or the truth about the
murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the Obama administration’s
cover-up. This makes “going high” a non-starter for CNN. This leaves them no other option but to
ratchet up the fake news, conjuring up the next “nothing burger” and devoting
24 hours a day to hysterical rants about how it’s “worse than Nixon.”
This,
obviously, is what CNN has chosen to do. The problem is that, as they become more and
more hysterical, they become more and more obvious. Each new effort at even faker news than before
and faker “outrage” only makes that much more clear to any objective observer
that Trump is and always has been right about the fake news media…….
So,
say anything you want about this president – I get it, he can be vulgar, he can
be crude, he can be undignified at times. I don’t care. I can’t spare this man. He fights.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Under Obama, economic growth peaked at 2.6% and averaged
around 2% per year. And we were told over and over again that this was the new
normal, that a roaring economy was a thing of the past. Yet Trump came into
office and did the exact opposite of what Obama did. Obama raised taxes. Trump
and the Republican Congress cut them. Obama imposed massive regulations on
businesses and the economy. Trump has been rolling back red tape at a record
level. Obama gave us eight years of bigger and bigger government (Obamacare)
and more and more pessimism. He apologized for America and attacked small
business owners, telling them, ‘You didn’t build that.’ Trump came into office promising
to make America great again. And just as he has done on so many other issues,
Donald Trump is delivering on that promise.”
-Gary Bauer
“‘Illegal straws’? Show some compassion. It’s 2018. They’re
called undocumented drinking structures.”
-Allie
Beth Stuckey
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FILM
Playing at a theater near you, “Death of a Nation.” “Not since 1860 have the Democrats so
fanatically refused to accept the result of a free election. That year, their target
was Lincoln. They smeared him. They went to war to defeat him. In the end, they
assassinated him. Now the target of the Democrats is President Trump and his
supporters. The Left calls them racists, white supremacists and fascists. These
charges are used to justify driving Trump from office and discrediting the
right “by any means necessary.” But which is the party of the slave plantation?
Which is the party that invented white supremacy? Which is the party that
praised fascist dictators and shaped their genocidal policies and was in turn
praised by them? Moreover, which is the party of racism today? Is fascism now
institutionally embodied on the right or on the left? Through stunning
historical recreations and a searching examination of fascism and white
supremacy, Death of a Nation cuts through progressive big lies to
expose hidden history and explosive truths.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Democrats who are pushing for the impeachment of President
Donald Trump will have $110 million to spend on the cause, thanks to the
efforts of left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer.
Tom Steyer’s $110 million plan to redefine the Democrats
O´Keefe Catches Antifa ´Fight Instructors´ Teaching
Activists How To Inflict Pain on Their Targets
280 Percent Increase In Young Democratic Socialists Of
America Chapters On College Campuses
Democrats' love of socialism is a losing strategy – but they
foolishly follow it anyway
Once again, the oh-so progressive, oh-so enlightened Seattle
City Council is showing the rest of the country what not to do. The
idealistic leftists who control the Council are wasting millions of hard-earned
taxpayer dollars in failed attempts to solve problems the Council members
created.
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ISLAM
An
Imam in Copenhagen tells his followers “the final solution to the problem of
the Levant – after the establishment of the Caliphate and the elimination of
the Jewish entity – will be through the conquest of Europe.”
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ARTICLES
The tragedy of American conservatism is that its only
electoral home is in a party most of whose funds come from those who agree with
the globalist agenda and whose privileged position insulates them from its
disastrous cultural consequences. In
short, America’s corporate elite is
making tons of money from globalism -- chiefly, mass immigration and
manufacturing outsourcing -- while they experience no negative effects in their
privileged and insular world.
“This
week I posted what might have been my first truly controversial tweet, and I’m still trying to figure out
what was controversial about it. While catching up on news about Papa John’s
pizza founder John Schnatter’s resignation, I started thinking about society’s
evolving standard for language, and hazarded the following: “Why is the N-word
the only remaining curse word?...Every word that shocked and horrified 50 years
ago is now mainstream, but the n-word is so unthinkably evil, it's a national
headline when anyone says it, even as a quote…..Except for rappers, of course.”
Ann Coulter: The ACLU
won’t rest until every illegal gets in
“Donald Trump is the greatest threat to human life since the
Black Death. As anyone who watches CNN or MSNBC knows, his policies have
already murdered millions, er, billions, no make that trillions of people. It
must be true, I saw it on Facebook. Trump’s death toll is staggering. It’s one
genocide after another — net neutrality, tax cuts, pulling out of the Paris
“climate accords,” Brett Kavanaugh, the Muslim travel ban, ripping children
from their mothers’ arms, etc., etc. Who knew that full employment, a roaring
economy and the destruction of ISIS could lead to the premature deaths of tens
of millions of Democrats? But that’s what they’re saying on social — or should
I say anti-social — media.”
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INTERESTING
The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades
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WISE
WORDS
“Let each citizen
remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present
or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to
do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for
which he is accountable to God and his country.”
-Samuel
Adams
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