op ed review 12/16
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump Just Achieved What Every President Since
Nixon Had Promised: Energy Independence
Jobless claims hit 49 year low.
After 2 years in office, Trump’s approval rating matches
Obama’s at same point of presidency.
Obamacare is dead, pending a possible Supreme Court review.
A federal judge sided with the argument put forward by a coalition of
Republican-leaning states, led by Texas, that Obamacare could no longer stand
now that there's no penalty for Americans who don't buy insurance.
Trumpism Sweeping The Globe As Western Europe & Canada
Go Conservative
President Trump creates a new White House council to help
economically depressed areas, including the "opportunity zones"
created by last year's tax reform legislation. It will be led by HUD Secretary Ben Carson.
President Trump supports prison reform bill that will
dramatically improve rehabilitation and reduce overcrowded prisons. Joining him
are a majority in the Senate as well as numerous groups representing law
enforcers and prosecutors. The problem:
A small group of GOP senators are trying to defeat the bill.
Trump EPA seeks to roll back Obama-era “Waters of the United
States” rule; would
roll back federal control over waterways (like puddles and ditches.) Environmentalists shocked and horrified..
“It all started in 2012 when California farmer
John Duarte plowed his wheat field and wound up paying a $1.1 million
fine to the federal government for his efforts…In a victory for farmers and
land developers throughout the West, the Trump administration announced
a broad rollback of rules …… The decision means regulations put in
place in 2015 by the Obama administration will fall by the wayside.”
Trump administration plans to finalize one of the biggest
changes to legal immigration policy in a generation, to require immigrants to
show they aren’t a public burden if they want to extend their visas or get on
the path to citizenship. Democrats say
it’s “cruel”.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/10/immigrants-must-prove-they-arent-public-burden-und/
Over 30 cities oppose Trump proposal on immigration benefits..
“….it is already scaring away foreign nationals who are otherwise eligible
beneficiaries of social programs.”
All the above explain why the Left is frantic
to bring down Trump: Incoming House
Intel Chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) can’t wait to abuse his subpoena power
and plans to investigate President Trump’s personal finances
Witch Hunt: NY Attorney General Says She´ll Investigate
Everyone Around Trump
Liberal Media jumping on the impeachment bandwagon, with CBS
and ABC leading the way, even in their intros…..used the very same phrasing for
their on-screen teases, with corresponding narration from the anchors:
“Impeachable Offenses?”
The Boy Scouts of America is mulling declaring bankruptcy
amid flagging membership and an avalanche of costly sex abuse allegations.
Thank former Scout President Rex Tillerson and his
“pragmatic….need to accept societal change”.
Catholic Church's third most senior cleric Cardinal George
Pell - known as the 'Vatican's treasurer' - is found guilty of sexually abusing
two choir boys inside a cathedral
Harvard Study Confirms Gender Wage Gap is Just a Myth…..“weekly
earnings gap can be explained by the workplace choices that women and men
make.”
President Trump shocked House speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi and
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer with his televising of the Oval Office
sit-down over his demand for $5 billion in funding for border security,
including funding of critical mileage for his border wall.
Everybody’s Wrong: Donald Trump Won the Chuck-n-Nancy Meeting,
and Here’s Why
Of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s many targets, the most
tragic may be former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. The former
three-star general pleaded guilty last year to a single count of lying to the
FBI about conversations he had with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Now we
learn from Mr. Flynn’s court filing to the sentencing judge that senior bureau
officials acted in a way to set him up for the fall.
GOOGLE’S anti-Breitbart plot: Employees Targeted Site’s Ad Revenue in 2017
Google Approves App For Muslims To Report People Who Commit
Blasphemy
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/google-approves-app-for-muslims-to-report-people-who-commit-blasphemy/
Google's 'two-tier' workforce: 50% are temps. internal document shows how
Google employees are trained to treat temps, vendors and contractors.
DOJ Wants To Keep Justification For Raiding Reported Clinton
Foundation Whistleblower Secret..??
Parents of 2nd graders
concerned about lessons involving gay rights
USA Today faces backlash after shaming Heisman winner for “homophobic”
tweets posted when he was 15 years old.
‘Give us $50,000 each to go home': Caravan migrants march to
the US consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, demanding US government let them in or pay
them off.
Build the Wall! Illegal
Immigration Last Month Hit Highest Level in Over a Decade
As the number of international migrants reaches new highs,
people around the world show little appetite for more migration – both into and
out of their countries, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 27 nations
conducted in the spring of 2018.
Planned Parenthood is fighting with every tooth and nail it
has to keep abortion reporting requirements 'safe' from the public eye, and
it's prompting questions about just what they have to hide.
Russia to award those who fight against abortion….?
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Investors Business Daily 12/12
“Is There Anything Environmentalists Won't Blame On Climate
Change?”
CNN
this week published a huge story saying the source of the migrant caravan
wasn't so much corrupt Central American governments, violence or lousy economic
policies. It was climate change. This is just the latest attempt by
environmentalists to blame any and all bad news — even acne and animal bites—
on climate .
The
CNN story, complete with pictures, videos and charts, claims that climate
change is responsible for the drought in parts of Honduras, Guatemala, El
Salvador and Nicaragua that forced thousands to flee for the U.S. Well, not
"responsible," exactly. The author admits part way through that
"Studies have not definitively tied this particular drought to climate
change."
In
other words, the entire premise of story is pretty much bunk. The best the CNN
reporter could come up with is that "computer models show droughts like
the one happening now are becoming more common as the world warms." Why
would you need computer models to tell you what is supposedly happening right
now? Probably because in the U.S., at least, there's been no
increase in droughts since the 1890s. Unfortunately, playing fast and loose with the facts and
jumping to wild conclusions is now the standard operating procedure when it
comes to global warming.
This
week also saw a bold headline declaring that "climate change was behind 15
weather disasters in 2017." Again, not exactly. These events were
"influenced" by it, the story said. That's a bit hard to swallow,
too. Every adverse weather event is now somehow attributable to climate change.
Whether it's a big snowstorm, heavy rains, a dry spell, unusually cold weather,
unusually hot weather, or anything that can be labeled as "unusual." At
least those have something to do with the weather. These days, virtually
anything bad that happens gets blamed on climate change.
Pick
a topic and add "climate change" to it in a Google search and you're
likely to find some article or study suggesting a connection between the two. This
week, CNN ran another blame-climate-change-first story. This one claimed
that the rate of animal bites "has increased over the past 10 years,
according to Dr. Joseph Forrester, one of the authors of the study published
Tuesday in the BMJ. He anticipates that it will continue to rise, partially
because of climate change."
Time
magazine blamed mental health problems on climate change. "Trauma,
post-traumatic stress disorder and depression all rank among the ailments
linked to climate change," the story said. Another story argued that
global warming was connected to sexual violence. EcoWatch warned pet owners
that climate change was probably the reason their dogs have fleas because
"climate change is creating an ideal habitat for pests." The Denver
Post claimed that climate change was partly responsible for the decline in
fertility rates. Another article claimed a few years ago that "various
skin disorders such as acne scars are the result of global warming and climate change."
One website had collected examples of just about everything that's been
connected to global warming. There were hundreds of examples. A beer shortage, a building collapse in
England, the creation of ISIS, rising insurance premiums, kidney stones, prostitution,
teenage drinking and homelessness are but a few.
Why
the avalanche of such claims? One obvious reason: If you want to get attention
to your story or cause, the best way to do so is to claim there's some climate
change connection. Yet despite these endless tales of woe, the public remains
indifferent. France had to back down on a modest increase in fuel taxes it had
imposed specifically to fight global warming, after protests consumed the
nation. Liberal Washington State overwhelmingly rejected a carbon tax.
Countries that made solemn pledges to cut CO2 emissions three years ago as part
of the Paris climate change agreement aren't close to living up to them.
Fighting climate change continues to rank at the bottom of the public's list of
priorities.
Most
likely that's because the public has far more common sense than
environmentalists or the mainstream media. They know that bad things have
always happened. There were devastating hurricanes, floods, droughts,
starvation, deprivation, wars and other terrible tragedies — including acne —
long before mankind started burning fossil fuel.
They
also know that the climate is always changing. And the public knows that not
everything bad that is happening today can possibly be the result of a less-than-1-degree
Celsius increase in average global temperatures over the past 100 years.
Trying
to convince people otherwise just exposes what a hoax the whole climate change
mania has become.
Star Parker: As
France is gripped by civil disorder, many commentators identify, quite
correctly, as the culprit the outsized burden that France's bloated welfare
state places on its citizens. According
a recent report….the highest tax burden in the industrialized world is in
France — 46.1 percent of GDP…Welfare state spending in France is 32 percent of
GDP, almost double that of the U.S., meaning that 1 out of every 3 dollars
generated by the French economy is captured by the government and redistributed
into social/welfare spending.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Those of us who take a more miserly view of the enumerated
powers of the federal government believe that it does not have very many
legitimate jobs to do. Instead of doing a few things well, it does many, many,
many things — badly. But if the federal apparatus serves any purpose at all,
providing for national security — beginning with securing the borders — is it.”
-Kevin
Williamson
“The thing that really outrages me about the potential
government shutdown is that it’s only partial and temporary.”
-Matt Walsh
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LEFTIST WATCH
As Venezuela continues to crumble under the socialist
dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of warning
– and resentment – against a six-year-old gun control bill that
stripped citizens of their weapons.
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ISLAM
Steyn: “Yesterday,
the usual "known wolf" - that's to say, known to the highest levels
of the French security apparatus - killed three and wounded a dozen more in
this year's first attack on a Christmas market - in Strasbourg. The jihadist
yelled ...oh, go on, take a wild guess: Joyeux Noël? Bonnes Fêtes?
No, he stuck to the traditional greeting.” (Allahu Akbar!)
Jihad in Strasbourg….Cherif Chekatt reminds Emmanuel Macron
that climate change is not the only threat France faces.
Who are these “dark-eyed virgins in paradise” who are
“yearning” for martyrs? The proper Arabic term for these entities is al-hour
al-‘ayn, commonly known by the English transliteration as houris.
They are supernatural, celestial women -- “wide-eyed” and “big-bosomed,” says
the Koran (56:22, 78:33) -- created by Allah for the express purpose of
sexually gratifying his favorites in perpetuity.
Incoming Muslim Congresswomen Mock Pence’s Christian Faith
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ARTICLES
Mark Alexander: “Bankrupting the Boy Scouts of America”
Riots in France perfectly illustrate why we need the
Electoral College.
“Comey, Careless and Corrupt”…..Drunk on his own
self-deluded rectitude, James Comey has become one of the most insufferable
voices on the Left. He teaches “ethics” at William & Mary, but it is hard
to imagine a more unethical FBI director than one who signs off on the most
invasive spying warrants imaginable without bothering to verify them, or even
know their rationale. That came out in his shameless testimony last Friday in
closed session with Congress.
There
is so much wrong with Sports Illustrated’s decision to have Christine Blasey
Ford present its 2018 Inspiration of the Year award, it is hard to know where
to begin. “What is wrong with you, Sports Illustrated?”
Blasey-Ford's scared little girl voice has disappeared in
first public statement since her Senate testimony.
Congressional Hush Fund Hypocrites: Which is worse: candidate, businessman, and
then still private citizen Donald Trump using his own money to make what
Hillary Clinton might call "bimbo eruptions" go away to protect his
brand and himself from personal embarrassment, or Congress using taxpayer money
in a slush fund to pay off those sexually harassed by sitting officeholders?
The ‘Trump Doctrine’ Is the Future of Conservative Foreign
Policy
Humorous article: “Settled
Science: There Really Are ‘Latte Liberals’”
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THE ONION (SATIRE)
“U.S. Military Honors Sacrifices Of NFL Players By Wearing
Jerseys Throughout December “
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INTERESTING
TripAdvisor reveals its most booked attractions of 2018
Hypnotizing footage from NASA's InSight rover: Martian soil
is revealed in incredible detail as robotic explorer flexes its arm before
starting work.
The inside of Boeing's £300 million 777X looks like a
five-star luxury hotel. Stunning
pictures show plush bedrooms, futuristic style shower pods and lavish dining
rooms, aboard the private airliner.
Virgin Galactic has reached the edge of space for the first
time, in a milestone accomplishment for Richard Branson's space tourism
endeavors. Nice photos from the Daily Mail.
A group of archeologists and other scientists say they have
discovered strong evidence that the region of the “Middle Ghor,” where the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are believed to have existed, were in fact
destroyed by a meteor that exploded in the sky above, raining down superheated
matter and raising temperatures to thousands of degrees, a theory that matches
the account of the cities’ destruction contained in the Old Testament Book of
Genesis.
Mexican federal investigators discover fentanyl lab in
Mexico City municipal building.
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WISE
WORDS
“During the course of administration, and in order to
disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged
with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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