op ed review 11/18
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
With the House in their control, Democrats load
"subpoena cannon" with 85+ Trump targets.
Trump priorities like nuclear weapons modernization and a Space
Force will go nowhere, defense budgets will go down, and oversight will go up,
up, up.
Democrats aim to pass the most aggressive gun-control
legislation in DECADES after winning the House
In Georgia and Florida, with too many Republican votes to overcome,
Democrats begin to fold their tents.
But absentees give Democrats a Senate seat in Arizona.
What’s wrong with Arizona?
Republican McSally is fighter pilot, first American woman to fly in
combat. Her opponent Sinema once said it
was OK for Americans to join the Taliban?
“5 Reasons Why Sinema Won”
How could Arizona elect someone like Kyrsten Sinema?
There is a way that McSally could get McCain’s seat.
This is where out-of-control immigration leads:
Democrats Gain Veto-Proof Majority in California Legislature.
Orange County’s House delegation now all blue.
In Washington State, Dem’s gain in both State legislative
chambers look more secure.
Poll: Voters, 5-to-1, see anti-Trump media bias, ‘unfair,
disrespectful’
High-ranking Facebook executive 'forced to resign over his
support for Donald Trump' after gifting $10,000 to anti-Clinton campaign during
the 2016 Presidential election
Bill and Hillary Clinton tour canceled due to ‘poor sales’ One
possible reason: a documentary movie featuring Juanita Broaddrick, who says
Bill Clinton raped her in 1978, was scheduled to be screened in each city on the
very same night the Clintons would appear.
Only hard leftists need apply: “Seattle City Council Candidate Drops From
Race Following Vile Racist Threats from the Far Left to His Wife and Children”
America first: 878,000 millionaires added in last 12 months,
‘Trump effect ... relentless’
Gallup Poll: Five million central Americans now want to join
caravans to the U.S.
Eye-Opening Ground Report Video From Inside Migrant Caravan
Shows Truth of Motivation and Intent…shown on Tucker Carlson last week.
An illegal immigrant released by a “sanctuary city” county
in New Jersey was charged last week with a triple homicide.
CA Gov. Jerry Brown Vetoed 2016 Wildfire Management Bill,
now CA Burns.
Ms. Blasey Ford still raking in cash from liberals, more
than $850,000, $4,000 over last weekend.
Christian filmmakers threatened with prison in Minnesota if
they refuse to make gay wedding films.
Support For 'Pre-Existing Conditions' Protections Plummets
When Costs Are Explained
ABC, NBC Ignore Antifa Mob Assaulting Home of Fox News Host
Tucker Carlson
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investors’ Business Daily 11/9
Recent reports suggest that America has made no progress at
all in its "War on Poverty" since the 1960s. Headlines claim
"one in eight" Americans live in poverty. But is that true? It
depends on how you define poverty. And the answer matters a lot, since it
determines so much of U.S. economic policy, from food stamps to minimum wages,
and from taxes to welfare work requirements.
It's true: Official poverty data from the U.S. Census show
little change since the 1960s. The rate in 1966, for instance, was 14.7%. As
recently as 2014 it was even higher: 14.8%. The rate has since declined to a
still-high 12.3%. A damning statistic that shows the failure of America's
welfare safety net?
Hardly. A recent report by the American Enterprise Institute
(AEI) shows why the federal government's poverty rates are deceptive. There are
many technical reasons, but they all boil down to this: They measure only
poverty as it relates to income, not to consumption. This is important,
because much of our welfare efforts go toward bolstering consumption, not
incomes. Adjusting official income levels for what people consume, rather than
what they earn, yields a very different poverty rate: 2.8%, according to the
AEI report. Almost nonexistent.
How can that be? An officially poor family of four has
income of about $25,000 or less. That's not much. But that measure fails to
take into account taxes. The poor mostly don't pay taxes. In fact, many get
money back through the Earned Income Tax Credit and other income-support
programs. Food stamps, housing support and other aid likewise enable officially
poor households to boost their incomes, in most cases significantly.
The fact is, when the very same households that the federal
government considers to be poor are questioned, they report roughly $2.40 in
spending for every $1 of income that Census says they have. So that family of
four earning $25,000 is likely consuming as much as $60,000 a year in goods and
services.
Heritage Foundation poverty analysts Robert Rector and
Rachel Sheffield in a 2016 data report noted that "poor" in America
doesn't mean what it means elsewhere. Based on a 2009 government survey of
spending, the average poor person in the U.S., for instance, lives in a bigger
house than the average nonpoor person in France, Germany or England.
Moreover, nearly 85% of poor homes in the U.S. have air conditioning, and
nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite TV. Half own computers, and 43% have
internet access. More than half own a video game system.
This is not to say that the poor have it easy, or that we
should ignore their plight. But we have to understand that claims America has
grinding poverty as in the developing world are false. And, as the last two
years have shown, the best anti-poverty program of all is a job.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
(Attorney for Stormy Daniels and Kavanaugh accuser, Michael Avenatti,
arrested this week for domestic abuse)
“I have always believed in the presumption of innocence but
I know Michael Avenatti is not a fan of that principle. Out of respect for his
preferences, I will therefore assume that he is guilty as hell.”
-Matt Walsh
“Bad news is because he hit a woman, Avenatti probably won’t
be President. Good news is he still has an excellent chance of becoming DNC
Co-Chair.”
-Stephen
Miller
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BOOKS, FILM, VIDEO
Jeffrey Lord reviews Tucker Carlson’s “Ship
of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of
Revolution”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Chicago
Archbishop says talking about the environment and refugees is more important
than addressing church sex abuse allegations. “The pope has a bigger
agenda”
Sen. Kamala Harris compares ICE, the federal deportation
agency, to the Ku Klux Klan, drawing a fierce retort from the agency’s acting
director who said there is no equivalence between patriotic officers enforcing
the law, and a racist mob bent on violence and intimidation.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/15/kamala-harris-draws-comparison-between-ice-and-kkk/
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a top progressive Democrat in
the House, on Tuesday called for hearings and a vote on "Medicare for
all" legislation now that her party has taken back the House.
This is demented: Nancy
Pelosi Thanks Al Sharpton for ‘Saving America’
Protesters vandalize American flag mural painted on the side
of New York building because they believed it represented "a political
position."
Lefties Rejoice That Actor Gerard Butler Lost His Home in
Calif. Wildfires Because He Supports Israel
Soros and liberal groups seeking top election posts in
battleground states
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/23/section-527-works-to-seat-liberals-as-election-ove/
Detroit's School Board Is Considering Renaming Ben Carson
High School Because It's 'Offensive'
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GLOBALONEY
Whoops! Another Doomsday Climate Model Flunks A Math Test. “Its alarming conclusion was all but
invalidated.” The media that so
enthusiastically covered the initial release of the paper will not give the
corrections of their mistaken reports nearly as prominent display as the original.
Polar bear numbers are so HIGH they threaten native eskimo
populations, claims controversial Canadian government report bitterly contested
by environmentalists who have made the creature the icon of global warming.
Climate Hoax: Not A Single G-20 Country Is Close To Hitting
CO2 Emission Targets
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ARTICLES
5 Dumb GOP Mistakes We Better Fix Before 2020
How Many Non-Citizens Vote in U.S. Elections?
Democrats Are Emerging As Party of the Rich
Will Trump be the last Republican President? “Florida is now
a toss-up state and Texas may soon be there.”
Progressive Politics Are Not Really Progressive
“Not your grandfather’s marijuana.” States are rushing to legalize powerful
recreational marijuana, but they’re running headlong into mental-health issues
that should stop them in their tracks…..we are steadily deciding as a nation
that widespread availability of marijuana is worth the mental-health risk to
our youth, the medical evidence for which is growing stronger every year….. the big issue here is that marijuana
is much more potent now. Today’s marijuana has been hybridized by specialty
farmers into an incredibly powerful mind-altering drug…. A study found that the
average THC content has increased from an estimated one percent in the 1960s to
almost 13 percent today.
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2ND AMENDMENT
Gun control advocates at NPR developed this chart: “How Have Your Members Of Congress Voted On
Gun Bills?”
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HUMOR
“Hillary Clinton is a historic figure for a number of
reasons. She's the first Clinton to lose a presidential election. She's the
first woman Bill Clinton ever decided he didn't want to
have sex with. She's the only first lady to dodge gunfire from snipers that
don't exist. She's the only woman to try to stand in the way of the first black
POTUS. She's the first secretary of State to use YouTube as an excuse for her
own incompetence. She's the only defeated presidential candidate to be
eulogized on SNL. The list of Hillary's remarkable achievements goes on and on.”
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WISE
WORDS
“The main evil of the present democratic institutions of the
united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their
weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the
excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities
which one finds there against tyranny.”
-Alexis
De Tocqueville
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