op ed review 9/16
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Democrats pull Anita Hill 2.0 for the Kavanaugh nomination. At the 11th hour, Sen. Feinstein finds
a college professor who claims Kavanaugh sexual misconduct in high school thirty-five
years ago. Kavanaugh and a witness strongly deny the incident. On Friday, more
than five dozen women came forward to defend Kavanaugh, calling him “a good
person" in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. (No word yet on how
much the accuser was paid.)
USA is now the largest global crude oil producer – surpassing
Russia and Saudi Arabia
Middle-class income rose to the highest level ever recorded
in 2017 and the national poverty rate declined as the benefits of the strong
economy lifted the fortunes of more Americans.
The number of job openings sets new record: 6.94 million in July.
Trump drops poverty rate to 11-year low
Small business optimism surges to highest level ever, topping
previous record under Reagan.
Trump Keeps Campaign Promise to Scale Back Size of the EPA
Trump administration closes the PLO office in Washington
because the Palestinians are unwilling to negotiate any peace agreement with
Israel. US also ending its decades of funding for the U.N. agency that helps
Palestinian refugees.
Companies took advantage of last year's tax cuts to bring
home profits they had stored overseas. In the first quarter alone,
multinational enterprises brought home about $300 billion of the $1 trillion
held abroad.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/chart-shows-surge-in-corporate-cash-brought-home-since-tax-cuts.html
Who needs Paris Climate Agreement? America leads the world by a huge margin in
carbon emissions reduction since year 2000.
All this success scares liberals to death. Washington Post blames President Trump for Hurricane
Florence.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says Trump is “a bigger threat to
the American dream than foreign adversaries” in 9/11 op ed.
DC police investigate threat to commit mass shooting at a
MAGA event in Trump International Hotel
Arson fire at Wyoming GOP Office.
Woman sends out powerful tweet denouncing the abortion
movement, days later she is hiding, scared for her life. When she went public
about receiving death and rape threats, pro-abortion Twitter users championed
the threats against her.
California man accused of switchblade assault on GOP congressional
candidate.
Broadway Star Asks ‘Where Is John Wilkes Booth?’ for Trump
A leaked video of Google executives trying to console
employees who were upset after the election of President Trump has infuriated
conservatives, who say the remarks illustrate the search giant's political bias
and should prompt regulators to take a close look at the company.
“It’s Official: Google Is a Democratic Party Front”
Twitter suspends Benghazi hero after criticism of President
Obama!
Twitter is tagging the phrase ‘illegal alien’ as ‘hateful
content’
At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out
approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of
more than 12.5 million illegal aliens, and about 4.2 million citizen children
of illegal aliens. That amounts to a tax burden of approximately $8,075 per
illegal alien family member and a total of $115,894,597,664.
Because of restrictive judicial orders and catch and release
loopholes, 98 percent of families who were apprehended after illegally entering
the United States from Mexico in fiscal year 2017 were never deported and
remain in the country.
The
percentage of the U.S population that is immigrant has reached the highest
level in 107 years, with nearly one-in-seven being foreign born.
Illegal immigrants cited in theft of 39 million Social
Security numbers
Border Patrol agent shot at while sitting in patrol car near
border
Assaults on ICE and Border Patrol surge as illegal
immigrants get more violent
After fighting President Trump over separating illegal alien
children from their parents, ACLU has discovered the families don't want the
children back.
Just say no to NFL football:
Anthem Protests: 10 Players from 6 Teams Protest on Week One
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/nfl-anthem-protests-10-players-6-teams-protest-week-one
Chinese officials burn bibles, close churches, force
Christian to denounce faith amid 'escalating' crackdown
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Chet Richards, 9/12
The
Oval Office is in chaos. Donald Trump is
mercurial, scatter-brained, given to changing his opinion every few minutes. Talks all the time. Doesn’t listen. Is opinionated. Often wrong. He is interested only in today, not tomorrow. He lacks caution. It all adds up to a president who clearly is
mentally deficient – insane even. Or so
some say. They say it is vital for the
Nation’s future that Donald Trump be relieved of his office – or at least
tightly controlled.
All
of the above may, or may not, be true. Only those in a day-to-day working
relationship with the president know the reality, and publicly they say only
positive things about the man. Whatever the truth, the simple fact is that
Donald Trump is, thus far, perhaps the most productive president in American
history. Only Teddy Roosevelt is a
productive rival, and chaos surrounded him, as well. How can Trump’s purported chaotic insanity
produce such positive results?
The
simplest explanation is simple: Donald
Trump may be a genius! Don’t laugh. He may be the real thing. He jokes about it, which suggests he doesn’t
realize that he really is (see the Dunning-Kruger effect). His career record certainly suggests
he is a major creative talent – and a gutsy one at that.
Perhaps
President Trump is the kind of genius who thrives on turmoil. If so, that explains the chaos. In my profession of physics, there have been
several brilliant notables with exactly that characteristic. It is not to say that Donald Trump lacks
self-discipline. He wouldn’t be where he
is today if discipline was lacking. His
discipline is probably very different from the norm, but it clearly works.
Creative
people understand chaos. They especially understand it if they have
collaborated with other talented people on a difficult problem. Creative chaos is the norm in such an
environment. Without that chaos
productivity can vanish.
More
than half a century ago, equipped with a fresh physics degree, I attracted the
attention of a group of professional inventors and was hired. Most of the time the work was routine. The
real fun came, most days, when things were winding down. Then a few of us would
gather together for exercises in pure invention. We were led by the group’s
technical boss, a master inventor. It was in these sessions that I received my
training as a professional inventor. The most noteworthy things about these
sessions were their chaos and their entertainment value – they really were fun.
A
problem would be posed. It didn’t matter what kind of problem as long as there
was no known solution. Then came a great
deal of discordant, often simultaneous, often loud, back and forth. Chaos. Then, sometimes popping out of the blue, a
solution magically appeared. Almost
always these sessions would produce at least one patentable invention (and
often more than one)…Given the creative ferment there it is little wonder that
the group produced a series of engineering masterpieces. Later, after several
uninspiring years in graduate school, I found myself working directly for one
of the aerospace industry’s great geniuses. Chaos again. I was back in my element. People change,
personalities change, but the creative chaos is always the same – provided the
talent is there.
Trump
faces a problem: the Government. The
Government is not, by its nature, a creative institution. When it tries to be it almost invariable gets
it wrong. Just consider all the failed
social programs if you doubt this.
Government
is good at routine. Routine minds are
repelled by the kind of turbulence that surrounds Donald Trump. Which, of course, is the reason they have
routine minds in routine jobs. Government
is process oriented and rule bound. Once
a routine is established things tend to go smoothly for a while. Unfortunately, routine breaks down in
stressing situations. Then, creative
thinking is required. But the creativity
is usually not there. Creative people
just don’t fit comfortably in a process oriented organization.
The
aerospace industry has many examples where process breaks down. One program, where I was involved at a senior
level, suffered from excessive process. The program manager was a retired Lieutenant
General who had had great success managing a key part of the first Gulf War. He was highly intelligent and accessible. But he did not understand the creative chaos
required for success in this kind of program. What he did understand was process.
Key
decisions were to be made according to a detailed schedule, not for technical
merit. After an expenditure of more than
a billion dollars of government money, and hundreds of millions of dollars of
corporate investment, the program was canceled. Process had killed the program.
The
people who thrive at upper levels in Government are mostly highly intelligent
conventional thinkers. Put them in the
service of someone like Donald Trump and they may do outstanding work. Or, they may rebel and engage in subversion. Such rebellion seems to be a problem today…..In
time the mix of the people around the president will have evolved to be a
buffer between the productive conventional thinkers and their highly
unconventional boss. In engineering
terms, Trump’s senior staff should serve as an efficient impedance matching
device. Given Donald Trump’s major
talents, and with such a mature staff around the president, we can expect this
administration to go down as one of history’s greatest.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/presidential_chaos.html#ixzz5RILIyYsO
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“It’s no small irony that one of the major factors driving
Trump supporters’ steadfast loyalty is the arrogance and outrageousness of the
left. They expect support for Trump to evaporate because he supposedly exhibits
the very type of extremism and unhinged conduct they display themselves — every
single day.”
-David Limbaugh
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BOOKS, FILM
First look at the trailer for a forthcoming film,
"Trump @ War," that Steve Bannon released on Sept. 9.
When readers see the new book, “The
Worst President In History, the Legacy of Barack Obama,” liberals are likely to
laugh at the list of 200 reasons. Conservatives are likely to think 200 is too
few.
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LEFTIST WATCH
Far-left
Islamic activist Linda Sarsour calls for the “dehumanization of Israelis”.
After all the left wing activist trouble last year, Evergreen
State College freshmen enrollment drops 50%.
Nancy Pelosi Trashes Jobs Report Some Analysts Call
‘Greatest of All Time’
Left-wing activists threaten Sen. Susan Collins with $1M for
her next democrat opponent if she doesn’t vote against Kavanaugh. “I consider
this…an attempt to bribe me..”
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ARTICLES
The bombshell admission came last
week on MSNBC. New York uber-liberal Donny Deutsch said, “Trump will be
re-elected in 2020 by a landslide.” That—while amazing—is not the bomb. It’s what he said next: “That’s why Trump must
be removed from office now.”
VDH:
The Circus of Resistance
Mass Shootings in America: Anatomy of a Hyped Statistic
Democrats Silent As Violence Against Republicans Escalates
Conrad Black: Dirtiest
Trick In U.S. History Comes Into Focus
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WISE
WORDS
“Government has three primary functions. It should provide
for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between
individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their
property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange
the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in
inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a
referee, not an active player.”
-Milton Friedman
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