op ed review 11/11
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Disaster averted: Trump just third president in 100 years to
gain Senate seats in midterm election
Washington Post: “Democrats
won the House, but Trump won the election”
Celebrities Lose Big: How Endorsements From Taylor Swift,
Oprah and More Worked Out in the Midterms
Democrats won control of six more state legislative chambers
in Tuesday’s election and loosened Republicans’ grip on some others, but they
didn’t significantly shift a balance of power that still heavily favors the
GOP.
But here we go again in Florida: Rubio Sounds the Alarm: Broward County
Election Officials Trying to Steal Election – Produce Thousands of New Ballots
43 Hrs After Polls Closed
46,000 Democrat votes “found” after election day, with more
to come
Democratic 'army of lawyers' heads to Florida amid GOP fears
of bid to 'steal' Senate seat
Florida teacher finds ‘provisional ballot box’ in school storage
area
And how can this be?:
Republican suddenly losing Arizona senate race.
Texas
Election Officials Caught on Video Helping Non-Citizens Vote Illegally and
encouraging voters to choose Democrat candidates because they're
"better."
For the environmentalist Left, biggest loss came in
Washington State, where a measure to tax carbon dioxide emissions lost 56
percent to 44 percent, despite backing from a broad coalition of Democratic,
environmental, union and Native American groups. The measure's lopsided defeat
squashed hopes that the tax would become a model for other states.
Media loves firsts, but uninterested in first Korean woman
in congress... because she's a Republican.
Alabama Approves Amendment Saying Unborn Babies Have a
“Right to Life”
But Oregon Votes to Force Residents to Fund Abortions Up to
Birth After Planned Parenthood Spends Millions.
Here Come The Crazies! Nancy Pelosi As Speaker, Maxine
Waters, Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings In Leadership Roles
Beto O'Rourke’s loss to Ted Cruz is a heartwarming reminder
that money can’t buy elections
GOP knocks off at least three Senate Democrats
Important because of this rumor: “Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg Will Retire from the US Supreme Court in January, 2019”
Attorney General Sessions Resigns
DC Antifa Publishes Home Addresses of Tucker Carlson and His
Brother — As Well As Ann Coulter, Neil Patel, and Sean Hannity
Protesters Send Message to Tucker Carlson outside His Home:
‘We Know Where You Sleep at Night’
Tucker Carlson’s terrified wife locked herself in a room
after Antifa mob broke the front door.
Young African-American Beauty Accused of Racism and Fired
from Modeling Agency for Attending TPUSA conservative Black Leadership Conference.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that migrants
who attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally will not be eligible to
claim asylum under a new rule meant to crack down on "meritless"
claims.
7 Top Takeaways From Grassley’s Report On Brett Kavanaugh’s
Accusers……1. Ford’s changing story 2.
Other inconsistencies, 3. Yale had a flasher on the loose; it wasn’t
Kavanaugh 4. Strange coincidences
related to Julie Swetnick 5. Grassley
isn’t done.
Grassley calls for feds to probe woman who falsely accused
Kavanaugh of sex assault
Seattle homelessness spending tops $90 million
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Newt Gingrich
The big story coming out of Tuesday’s midterm elections is
how totally the news media missed the issue of what waves were building. There
was no red wave. If there had been, Republicans would have kept majority
control of the U.S. House and had even more pickups in the Senate. There was no
blue wave. If there had been, Democrats would have gained control of the
Senate. There was an underreported green wave, which attempted to drown
Republicans in left-wing money. And there was the usual anti-Republican liberal
media wave, which tried to prop up Democrats. This was a fascinatingly complex election in which unique
Republican personalities won re-election as governors in New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maryland – three clearly blue states and one purple
state in the Northeast.
The
biggest change in this election was the sheer volume of money generated by
left-wing billionaires and activist groups who hate President Trump. In
congressional race after congressional race, Republicans suddenly found
millions of dollars poured in against them on a scale that resembled Senate
races in the past.
House
Republicans had hurt themselves by allowing the number of House incumbent
retirees to become larger than any time since 1930, when the Brookings
Institution started tracking
congressional retirements. Breaking an 88-year record for retirees is a tough
way to start an off-year election for the incumbent president’s party. Despite
this institutional disadvantage, President Trump’s House losses were far less
than either the 54 seats President Clinton lost in 1994 or the 63 seats
President Obama lost in 2010.
Measured
against the Clinton and Obama standard, you would have to give President Trump
an A+ for keeping Republican House losses to a minimum – and setting the stage
for a Republican majority comeback in the 2020 presidential election.
In
the Senate, the president, working with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
put together a great, focused campaign that has reversed historic norms and
gained seats. In fact, as I am writing this, it appears that enough Republicans
will have won Senate seats that it will be far more difficult for Democrats to
have a shot at winning a Senate majority in 2020 than anyone might have
expected.
The
best example of the green wave’s failure is Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas. He
became the darling of the media – the left’s political rock star to battle
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who the media despises. O’Rourke raised more than $70
million, a record for a U.S. Senate race – and an amount we used to associate with presidential
campaigns. After all the liberal media hype, and the sheer volume of money from
the green wave, O’Rourke lost.
Once
again, the voters of Texas disappointed the liberal media by refusing to elect
their darling. Republicans gained Senate seats to an unprecedented degree,
because President Trump personally crisscrossed the county holding massive
rallies, which dwarfed the size of former President Obama’s rallies.
This
was President Trump’s victory, and he and Sen. McConnell will use it well to
continue getting judges and other nominees confirmed by the Senate, to block
left-wing actions by the Democrats, and to set the stage for key legislative
achievements the American people want (probably starting with infrastructure
investments and reforms). The president defeated both the money wave and the
liberal media – and had a very successful midterm election for a first-term
president.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“CNN stopped doing news a long time ago.”
-Larry King
“Kinda funny the Democrats putting all their hope behind
Beto [O'Rourke], a white male, when they’ve successfully chased about all of
them out of the party.”
-Frank Fleming
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BOOKS, FILM, VIDEO
From the producer and screenwriter: “The Media Censorship of
Our Gosnell Movie”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Great moments in socialism:
Venezuela's annual inflation hit 833,997 percent in October.
Progressives: “White women need accountability and ‘a lot of
learning’ after failing to vote uniformly for left-wing candidates.”
CNN's Lemon doubles down: 'Evidence is overwhelming' that
white men are 'biggest terror threat’
Former Obama Campaign Worker Arrested for Neo-Nazi Graffiti
Writing “Kill All Jews” on Brooklyn Synagogue…
MSNBC's Maddow Organizing Street Marches to Protest Sessions
Firing
Michael Moore says the Pope told him that capitalism is a sin.
Vatican consultant and gay activist priest Fr. James Martin
stated at a recent conference that Pope Francis has gone out of his way to
appoint “gay-friendly” bishops and cardinals in the Catholic Church.
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ISLAM
Islamic groups, leftists and empty-headed multiculturalists
did everything they could to foil the publication of Robert Spencer's new book
on the history of jihad. No wonder. With the possible exception of Thuggee
stranglers, there has never been a religion more devoted to rape, murder and
conquest.
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GLOBALONEY
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez recently compared climate deniers to Nazis in WW II. But when it
comes to "climate change" as well as other
"environmentalist" issues, it is Ocasio-Cortez and her party who have
more in common with Hitler's Third Reich than the Republicans and conservatives
who oppose them and whom they smear as "Nazis" with remarks like
hers.
The effect of wind farms on ecosystems is effectively the
same as if a new predator were introduced to the area.
Climate Change Alarmists Suffer Huge Blow In Deep Blue Washington
State: Environmentalists were hoping to score a huge
victory in Washington state with a statewide tax on CO2 emissions. Alas, even
liberals in Washington don't believe climate change is that big a threat. The initiative proposed a $15 tax on each
ton of carbon emissions in the state starting in 2020, with the tax rate
climbing each year. It would have cost families in the state nearly $1,000 a
year by 2035. Keep
in mind that the proposed carbon tax was a tiny baby step toward what
environmentalists' claim will be needed to avoid a worldwide climate
catastrophe. Think about it this way. Washington is a deep blue state
where Trump got less than 37% of the vote in 2016. Only six states in the
nation were more anti-Trump. Yet 56% of Washington voters rejected the CO2 tax.
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ARTICLES
So much for the 2018 midterm elections that cost in excess
of $5 billion. President Trump’s name was not on any ballot, but you can be
excused any confusion because he seemed to be everywhere. Lucky for Republicans he was. The 72-year-old
threw himself mainly into Senate campaigns with dozens of rallies across the
country where he knew he could energize that loyal base he forged in 2015-16.
And it paid off. Despite ubiquitous predictions of a blue wave erasing the GOP
and embarrassing Trump, it didn’t happen.
?? During the last weekend before the 2018 midterms, the
media decided an ad by President Trump was "racist" and therefore
refused to air it. CNN, NBC, Facebook and even Fox News took that position. The
"star" of this commercial is Luis Bracamontes, a Mexican citizen who
has repeatedly entered America illegally and who shot two California police
deputies dead in 2014. In January, Fox News aired footage of Bracamontes
boasting in court: "I don't (expletive) regret that (expletive). The only
thing that I (expletive) regret is that I (expletive) killed two. I wish I
(expletive) killed more of those (expletives)." But CNN and MSNBC didn't
cover it as news. They covered it as an example of President Trump being divisive.
Why couldn't we unite as Americans around the idea that illegal immigrants
shouldn't be killing our cops? Why can't the "news" networks define
that as news, and not as inflammatory content to be banned?
Ann Coulter: Having
mastered fake news, now the media are trying out a little fake history. In the news business, new topics are always
popping up, from the Logan Act and the emoluments clause to North Korea. The
all-star panels rush to Wikipedia, so they can pretend to be experts on things
they knew nothing about an hour earlier.
Such is the case today with "anchor babies" and
"birthright citizenship." People who know zilch about the history of
the 14th Amendment are pontificating magnificently and completely falsely on
the issue du jour. If you'd like to be
the smartest person at your next cocktail party by knowing the truth about the
14th Amendment, this is the column for you!
In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge famously said that the
“chief business of the American people is business.” Today, however, this could
be reworded as “the business of the American people is redistribution.” And
government redistribution of income and wealth—violations of personal property
rights—is tearing apart the social fabric of the country. Today more than half
of Americans receive more money from government transfer programs than they pay
in federal taxes. When a majority of people benefit, on net, from government
transfers and its growth, a tipping point is reached where pulling back is
increasingly difficult, if not politically impossible.
The hardcore Left needs Americans to believe that feminism
and progressivism are intertwined, and thus that every woman is intrinsically
wired to embrace left-wing orthodoxy. The success of their political movement
increasingly depends on it. As a result, when the existence of conservative
women is revealed — as it was on election night — they dismiss our views and
our votes as being the result of ignorance, malice, or insufficient
independence from the sway of the misogynistic patriarchy. In doing so, the
Left undercuts the definitional core of feminism itself: Women can be trusted
to think for themselves.
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WISE
WORDS
"The
urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to
rule."
-H.L. Mencken
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