op ed review 11/25
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Four new House Democrats and the “radical new Democratic
ideas” they’ve come to advance: free health care, free college, the abolishment
of ICE and an infrastructure project designed to address impending climate
catastrophe that they’re calling the “Green New Deal.”
An
energized Democratic electorate wasn’t enough to defeat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
this month, but in the state’s most populous county (Harris), it created a blue
landslide that wiped out Republicans in the
largest county in Texas.
House Democrats are planning to “immediately” investigate
the reason President Donald Trump wants American citizens counted on the
upcoming 2020 Census.
Election
fraud scheme bribed LA homeless with cigarettes or dollar bills for signatures.
University refuses campus Chick-Fil-A after admin poll
revealed it was students’ top choice. “..their corporate values have not
sufficiently progressed…to align with (ours).”
House Democrats hosting a “Thanksgiving-type meal” for their
first caucus meeting reportedly banned “ideological food” such as Chick-fil-A.
President Trump has given Defense Secretary Mattis the
authority to allow troops at the Southwest border to perform “military
protective activities” he deems necessary to protect troops and border patrol
agents. Those activities include “a show or use of force
(including lethal force, where necessary), crowd control, temporary detention,
and cursory search.”
Illegal immigration soars to the top American concern.
Migrant caravan at US border is harboring more than 500
criminals, Homeland Security claims
?? Has Hillary Clinton changed her position on
immigration? Says Europe 'needs to get a
handle on migration' in order to halt rise of rightwing populists.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts scolded President
Trump’s claim that an “Obama judge” had blocked his effort to deny asylum to
those entering the country illegally. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) notes that Roberts was silent
when President Obama attacked the Court during the State of the Union address
in 2010.
Joe diGenova: “Justice
Roberts’ attack against President Trump was blatantly political and wrong”
President Trump’s critics are belittling him for not buying
the lefty narrative that global warming is to blame for the California
wildfires. Instead, Trump points to decades of mistakes by government agencies
that caused the woodlands to become overly dense and blanketed with highly
flammable dead wood and underbrush. wo
months ago, the state legislature quietly enacted a measure that would expedite
the removal of dead trees and use “prescribed burns” to thin forests. In other
words: the very same reforms that Trump is now being mocked for proposing.
Alan Dershowitz says Democrats on the extreme left are
"tolerating anti-Semitism" to avoid alienating their base.
Obama suggests Trump is a confused, angry racist and has
'mommy issues' that are making him incapable of fixing the country's problems. This from a man whose mother abandoned him at
age ten.
Former Senior Ohio Lawmaker Arrested for Murder of His
Estranged Wife, Media Plays 'Guess the Political Party'
The
police chief of Republic, Washington says the state's new strict gun laws are
violating the US Constitution. Chief Loren Culp has refused to enforce the new
state gun control laws. “it's clear many in the town support making
Republic a “Second Amendment Sanctuary City."”
New socialist Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez Has No Idea What
The 3 Branches Of Government Are.
“Ocasio-Cortez represents ideology that's 'destroyed
civilizations'
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Marina Medvin 11/22
I am thankful to be an American. I am thankful to live in a
free nation protected against its government by the Constitution. I am thankful
for American food, the abundance, the diversity, and the deliciousness.
I am thankful to live amongst the American people, the most
caring and charitable people in the world. I am thankful for free enterprise,
thankful that I was free to choose a career and pursue that career without ever
having a single family member in that field to help me along.
I am thankful that I was free to choose who to love and
marry. I am thankful to be free to choose to practice any religion or none at
all. I am thankful for the diversity of American state laws and the freedom to
choose to live in a state with laws that conform to my values. I am thankful
for my parents who have taught me to be the best that I can be and to respect
my country and its laws.
I am thankful that my president is as proud to be an
American as I am. I am thankful to live amongst the free and the brave, amongst
men and women who volunteer to protect our great nation. I am thankful to be an
American.
I am thankful that I do not live in a socialist county,
where the government is in complete control of its people. I am thankful that I
do not have to wait in line for food like I did when I was a little girl in the
USSR. I am thankful that my food choices are not limited by my government
(albeit, I do not live in California).
I am thankful that my parents were wise enough to know that
we are not Russian-Americans. I am grateful to my parents for always reminding
me that we came to America to be Americans. I am thankful for the opportunity
to pursue the American Dream. I am a thankful American.
“Marina Medvin is a capitalist, conservative columnist and
political commentator. She is also an award-winning trial attorney in Wash DC.”
Ben Shapiro “(America)
is the result of the greatest governmental philosophy ever committed to paper:
God-given individual rights protected by limited government. We haven't always
lived up to that philosophy -- in some areas, we've progressed mightily, and in
others, we've regressed. But the overall success of the United States should be
ringing proof that at the very least, we should be grateful and proud to live
here…Yet as of July 2018, fewer than half of Americans surveyed by Gallup said
they are extremely proud to be American. Just 32 percent of Democrats, down
from 56 percent in 2013, said they are extremely proud to be American; only 42
percent of independents said they were extremely proud to be American. That's
ridiculous…..If Washington could urge gratefulness in 1789, we'd be fools not
to do so now, when our lives are so much better in every material way(long list
in this article). This Thanksgiving, let's remember what we have -- and let's
remember the eternal ideas that provide the groundwork for our prosperity.”
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2018/11/21/the-ungrateful-nation-n2536306
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Collective farming nearly starved the Pilgrims. It also
starved tens of millions in the Soviet Union and in Communist China. And it’s
not just a farming problem. Doing anything collectively, especially if you do
it involuntarily, is a bad, inefficient idea. Government can force everyone
into the same centrally-dictated plan, but in doing so it stifles individual
initiative and drive. Economists call it the ‘tragedy of the commons,’ and it
happens whether the individual’s goal is to make food, build houses or invent a
better running shoe. This holiday, I’ll be thankful that the Pilgrims were
smart enough to stop doing things the hard way. Modern America should learn
from that.”
-John Stossel
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LEFTIST WATCH
Marine Corps reservists attacked in Philadelphia. The
Marines were down the street from a “We the People” rally when they were
approached by a group of people who called them “Nazis” and “white
supremacists.” After the name-calling, the group sprayed mace at the Marines
and began punching and kicking them.
The University of Oregon hosted an event, titled
"Thanks But No Thanksgiving," which labeled the holiday as a
"celebration" of "ongoing genocide."
Recent media studies show ‘pretty much all of journalism now
leans left’
You can’t make this up: Lecturers at a UK university have
been told not to use capital letters in assignments because it might frighten
students into failure.
The Left’s Accusation That The Right Is Fascist Is Simply
Psychological Projection
The New York Times Reveals the Horrors of Capitalism—By
Showing China’s State-Run Hospitals ?
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GLOBALONEY
California Gov. Jerry Brown Issues Another Bogus Global
Warming Prediction
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ISLAM
European women are to blame for being raped by Muslim men. Such
is the latest position – the latest apologia – being offered by those dedicated
to exonerating undesirable Muslim behavior, particularly in the context of
accepting more Muslim migrants into the West.
A federal judge on Tuesday declared the country’s female
genital mutilation law unconstitutional, dismissing nearly all charges against
two doctors in Michigan and others accused of subjecting minor girls to genital
cutting at a clinic in Detroit.
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ARTICLES
VDH: Did 1968 win the
cultural war?
Defining the Blue Wave Down
Prager: “Even
Astronauts Fear the Left”
Five Hollywood Conservatives We Are Thankful for This
Year
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GOOD STUFF
Must see: Lightning
striking the Grand Canyon and a magical dive into an abyss: The stunning
winners of the panoramic photography awards revealed.
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HUMOR
A Social Justice Warrior’s Guide to a Woke Thanksgiving
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WISE
WORDS
“I do recommend and assign Thursday … next to be devoted by
the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who
is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.”
-George
Washington 1789
“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay
of the principles on which it was founded.”
-Charles de
Montesquieu
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