op ed review 11/4
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
This is what’s at stake next week: The Democrats aim to kill
this economic boom by suffocating it with a pillow. They’re willing to cater to
far left whackos who have an agenda that will cost us trillions and have no
idea how to pay for it. They’re willing to use gossip to destroy their enemies.
We’ve seen how far Democrats are willing to go to win. Imagine if they’re in
control! Get out the Republican vote!
President Trump will embark on a whirlwind tour of eight
states in the coming days as he doubles down on his campaign efforts in the
last week before the Midterm elections.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1038146/us-midterm-elections-2018-donald-trump-campaign-rallies
House Republicans, White House commit to 10 percent
middle-class tax cut next year
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy: ‘No Longer Just
Republicans Versus Democrats; It’s America Versus Socialism’
Broadcast networks heavily spinning their campaign coverage
against Republicans,
NBC: If Americans Are ‘Fed Up’ and ‘Mean It’, They’ll Vote
Against Trump/GOP
Most polling suggests that Democrats should flip the House
of Representatives in the midterm elections — but some analysts warned that
nothing is certain a week before the pivotal contests.
Midterm voter enthusiasm reaching historic levels
Oregon May Elect a GOP Governor for First Time in 36 Years
Arizona GOP holds early voting advantage, dimming hopes of
Democratic 'blue wave'
179 Death Threats Against President Trump Are Live On
Twitter…Real Time Updated List
Death Threats, Assaults, Vandalism: over 40 Acts of
Left-Wing Thuggery in October, So Far…
Actor James Cromwell threatens: There will Be ‘Revolution,’
‘Blood in the Streets’ Unless Trump Stopped.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/30/james-cromwell-actor-warns-of-revolution-there-wil/
Former DNC Chair Howard Dean: “This is 'a Struggle of Good
vs. Evil. And Trump is Evil'”
Four Bullets Fired Into Republican Headquarters in Florida
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/four-bullets-fired-into-republican-headquarters-in-florida/
But the New York Times editorializes: “one side of the
political spectrum is peddling hatred, while the other isn’t.”
Why are fake bombs sent to Democrats more shocking than real
ricin packages to Republicans?
President Trump reveals plan
to use executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegals
Discussions of the issue:
The caravan of migrants headed toward the U.S. is an
“elaborately planned” ploy that’s benefiting gangsters and human traffickers
who are smuggling children, according to Guatemalan officials — who just
rescued 7 unaccompanied minors being smuggled inside the caravan.
The media's shameful coverage of Central American 'caravan'
Three
more Central American Migrant Caravans Press North:
On
Sunday the United Nations admitted they are supporting the caravans.
https://neonnettle.com/news/5480-leaked-documents-prove-soros-working-with-un-supporting-illegal-migrant-crisis
'People who deny there are criminals in the caravan are naive - MS-13 are everywhere.'
https://neonnettle.com/news/5480-leaked-documents-prove-soros-working-with-un-supporting-illegal-migrant-crisis
'People who deny there are criminals in the caravan are naive - MS-13 are everywhere.'
One interviewed Caravan Migrant Admits to Previously Being
Deported from U.S. for Attempted Murder
Mexican
ambassador admits violent migrants in the caravan.
President Trump moving up to 14,000 troops to border.
Silence from the media after Hillary Clinton Jokes About
Confusing Eric Holder with Corey Booker: “They all look alike”…
After synagogue shooting, mainstream media call President
Trump an anti-semite, ignoring that he has a Jewish daughter, son-in-law, grandkids,
and has received a Friend of Zion Award from Israel. Then he declares "Those seeking the
Jews' destruction, we will seek their destruction". Is that clear enough?
It was ironic to see many of the same liberals, who recently
fought to prop up the world’s most powerful Jew-hating terror state, lecturing
us on the importance of combating anti-Semitism.
There have been two major acts of political violence over
the past year and half. One by an ardent supporter of President Trump. The
other by an ardent supporter of Bernie Sanders. How the press covered these two
stories tells you all you need to know about media bias.
San Francisco spent $300,000 to register noncitizen voters —
a whopping 49 signed up.
Washington
State Supreme Court issued a decision affirming nearly all of the state’s charter school law.
Fireworks and flags as Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidential
vote, “The Trump of the Tropics”
Fox News ratings higher than CNN and MSNBC combined.
NARAL’s new election pitch:
“Remember, abortion is for the children.”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Ned Ryan 10/25
With
all of the coverage regarding the Honduran caravan marching toward the U.S.
border, it’s time to have a conversation about who we want to be as a country
in the future. Not in the distant future, but in the very near future; maybe
less than 10 years from now. Because what we decide to do today will set the
tone for the next several generations.
Like
nails on a chalkboard, we keep hearing Democrats and left-wing activists talk
about these desperate immigrants seeking asylum and refuge from dysfunctional
societies. We are told that it’s about “humanity first” and that we have a
moral obligation to take them in.
However,
we should not be fooled by the emotional reactions (and political maneuverings)
of those who claim to speak for the caravan. The United States is under zero
moral obligations to take citizens from misgoverned countries around the globe.
We
are not an escape valve for the breakdown of civil society in Central America,
nor are American taxpayers some sort of backstop for the Mexican government
that refuses to fulfill its own obligations towards asylum seekers.
It
seems that there is the new standard, which puts all of the responsibility on
the shoulders of the U.S and no one else in the hemisphere. We are not
obligated to accept anyone seeking asylum from anywhere in the world. And we’re
not talking about thousands of people; we’re now talking about hundreds of
millions.
The
United States would become the great dumping ground for the problems of other
countries. Countries who don’t have the ability or desire to deal with their
problems, so their solution is to offload them on the United States and
American taxpayer.
What’s
even more insulting about all of this is the billions of foreign aid and
taxpayer dollars that have already been sent to these dysfunctional countries
over the last eight years.
Now
certain segments of the left and the squishy middle think that somehow the
taxpayer should be put upon again, despite the fact that we’re already funding
some $116 billion annually for the illegals already in the country. If we do not firmly resist this
influx of illegal immigrants, our social welfare programs will be at even
greater risk than they are now. The significant majority of our federal
government’s mandatory spending goes toward social welfare programs and
continues to climb yearly.
If
we do not stop the current trends, what happens when mass automation hits,
throwing many low skilled or unskilled workers out of work?
We
cannot afford more of our national wealth being devoted to social programs, nor
can we afford the social and civic degradation of tens of millions of people
living dependent on others, especially if millions of them are first generation
unassimilated immigrants. Whether we go broke or are Balkanized, we will cease to
be a free people. Instead, we will become serfs of the federal government,
toiling away to fund the government’s massive obligations.
We
are a generous and caring people. We have given much to the world: from helping
rescue the world from Nazism, to standing firm against the expansion of
communism, to providing the greatest amount of freedom and opportunity to men
and women from all over the world. Not to mention the millions of refugees and
immigrants we’ve welcomed — according to legal processes — over the decades.
Because
of who we are, we are a beacon of hope around the world. Don’t be fooled,
“humanity first” is just a slogan. What the supporters, enablers and apologists
of the caravan seek is great numbers of immigrants whom they believe will be beholden
to the party of government, the Democrats.
Those
who see through this smokescreen believe that “America First” actually offers a
better way. We firmly believe that our experiment in self-government, rule of
law and free markets requires national sovereignty and secure borders. Our
values, our institutions and our future cannot thrive or survive if what makes
America exceptional is not safeguarded.
We
wish no ill will to other peoples; we simply do not wish for them to become our
wards. If the United States was treated more as a model and less as a safety
valve for failed states, we’d all be better off.
It
is well past time to secure the southern borders, even to the point that we
cease foreign aid to all countries that refuse to respect our national
sovereignty and show gratitude for our generosity over the decades. If this
caravan and others, is the future, there might well come a day when the United
States is forced to turn its generous foreign aid into funding for border
security. As President Trump has said often, the days of the United States being taken
advantage of are over.
IBD 10/29 Migrant Caravan: A
Foreign-Financed, Leftist-Led Violation Of U.S. Sovereignty
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The ‘calls for [Trump] to cool his overheated rhetoric’ are
what I’ve been calling ‘civility bulls—t’ for years. It’s always only aimed at
the other side. They want you to stop fighting them with vigor, and they have
no intention of stopping fighting you. Trump obviously know[s] this and can’t
be played.”
-Ann
Althouse
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BOOKS, FILM, VIDEO
Many
conservatives know Steven Crowder, host of the show "Louder with
Crowder" on CRTV and a happy conservative warrior against the left. Now
Crowder has come up with his best idea yet: "Devil's Advocate." Devil's Advocate is a new segment on
Crowder's show in which he takes on the role of a smug liberal and invites prominent
conservatives to debate him.
TRUMP CAMPAIGN Releases Powerful Midterm Ad: “We Can’t Go
Back”
MUST SEE! Satirical Democratic
Party ad.
Candace Owens: “When
I uploaded my first video onto YouTube one year ago, I entitled it “Mom, Dad,
I’m a Conservative.” Soon thereafter I
would discover that for black Americans, the punishment that awaits is far
worse than any social exile: it is a full-court social lynching.”
The Maduro Diet: How three-quarters of adults in Venezuela
lost an average of 43 pounds in two years.
Despite
a near complete blackout of national media coverage, the controversial film
“Gosnell; The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” has scored a 98%
percent positive rating from movie fans on RottenTomatoes.com. Producers tell
WND it’s “unprecedented” and “by far the highest audience score of any feature
film currently in theaters.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
The Sad, Sad Culture of Progressivism……If
you’ve ever read anything written by any progressive over the age of forty,
chances are pretty good that you’ve been exposed to a certain weary,
self-indulgent, spiritually-agonized tone. It is very recognizable, like the
smell of decay that’s characteristic of a swamp. By comparison, leftists under
the age of forty are likely to have more-or-less the same tone that they were
born with -- the high-pitched tone of an infant that is not getting its way.
Older leftists have usually run out of this youthful vigor, just like the rest
of us. They do not participate in Antifa riots on the streets. They think about
such youthful protests with a sense of nostalgia, remembering their wild,
radical college days -- whether they actually experienced them or not. Lost in
a kind of communal introspection, they gather to have a coffee and a chat about
how infinitely, heartbreakingly hard it is to endure the misery of the world.
It would be vulgar to point out that a nice income and a nice house in a nice
neighborhood can do a lot to ease this unbearable sense of soul-wrenching
angst. Moral anguish can actually be quite comfortable if you can manage to do
it safely at a distance……I will
hardly be the first to observe that the left long ago lost the battle over
facts. Ghettoes, crime, and overdose deaths are facts. The chaos in Western
Europe is a fact. The degeneration of Detroit into semi-rural scrub forest is a
fact. The “arc of history,” pretty as it sounds, is nothing but a literary
dream. A castle of mere words. Socialism has always been, at heart, a literary
façade for the same old centralization of power -- a petty tyranny at the hands
of self-appointed and self-righteous planners and intellectuals. It’s a lie. In
its death throes it has even lost the charm of being a beautiful lie.
George Soros, the billionaire financier who supports
numerous progressive causes, has provided $1 million in funding for a nonprofit
group that works closely with Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that
commissioned the infamous Steele dossier.
“a
strong case can be made for the claim that Soros today affects American
politics and culture more profoundly that any other living person…..Soros’s
agenda is fundamentally about the destruction of national borders.”
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ISLAM
Palestinian Authority chairman curses Trump, vows to
continue rewarding families of terrorists: "The salaries of the shaheeds
(martyrs) are our red line.”
A Christian woman in Pakistan has been on death row for
nearly a decade for the crime of offering water to fellow farmworkers. The
charges against the 47-year-old mother of three dates back to a hot day in 2009
when she went to get some water for her and coworkers. Later, two women refused
to drink from the container she had touched because she was not Muslim. A few
days later, a mob accused her of blasphemy after the women went to a local
cleric to report her. She was tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
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GLOBALONEY
Next
week, voters in five states will decide whether they want to raise their own
taxes, kill jobs and lower their standards of living. All in a fanciful effort
to stop "global warming." They'd be better off letting the free
market do the work. Washington, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado all have
global-warming ballot initiatives, each heavily financed by environmental activists.
General Motors Surrenders To The Green Lobby — Calls On Feds
To Mandate Electric Cars
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2ND AMENDMENT
“Did you hear about the mass shooting in McDonald’s on
Saturday? You didn’t, did you? You know why? Because there wasn’t one, and you
know why there wasn’t one? Because there was a guy in there with a gun that
stopped it. You think I’m making this up? “A brave dad armed with a pistol
stopped what could have been a mass shooting Saturday inside an Alabama
McDonald’s when he took down a masked gunman who had stormed in and opened
fire.
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ARTICLES
‘Socialism’ Is Popular Only Because People Don’t Know What
It is’ Maybe it’s cool to think of oneself as a socialist now that we are
decades away from Stalin’s Great Terror and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. With a
body count in the millions, you’d think “socialism” would be hard to rebrand.
But thanks to Bernie, being a socialist is in vogue.
California Ranks as Poorest State, One of the Worst for
Income Inequality
Notorious race-baiter Rev. Al Sharpton believes that
President Donald Trump’s decision to allow Turning Points USA to host its Young
Black Leadership Summit at the White House this year is somehow, someway wrong
and perhaps even racist.
Latinos are waking up to the duplicity of the Democrats
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HUMOR
In a special report Thursday, CNN's Jim Acosta took
President Trump to task for failing to take any responsibility for causing
World War II. The president was
criticized for not acknowledging that his rhetoric may have contributed to the
conflict that spilled out across the globe in the late 1930s. While some
historians acknowledge that there may have been other factors—like
the Treaty of Versailles, the expansionist Japanese Empire, and a certain
German fascist—a large swathe of liberal scholarship has now pinned the war
squarely on Donald Trump.
The Week in Pictures: Fizzle Edition
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WISE
WORDS
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in
a law is the intention of the law-makers.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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