op ed review 12/23
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
After Nancy Pelosi bragged that Republicans didn’t have the
votes, House approves spending bill with $5.7B for border wall. Outlook in senate uncertain where
supermajority needed to overcome filibuster.
President Trump can’t get $5B for the border wall, but the
State Department is happy to send $10.6B in aid to Mexico and Central America.
Angel Moms Call Out Nancy Pelosi: Would You Support Border
Wall if It Saved Your Loved One?
We need one more vote on the Supreme Court. On Friday, Chief Justice Roberts sided with
the four liberal justices of the Supreme Court once again, as they ruled against
the Trump administration’s request for permission to immediately deny asylum to
illegal immigrants.
Trump hails passage of criminal justice bill
Trump's push on prison reform called 'goodwill' to
minorities. President scores win that eluded Barack Obama in
reducing long mandatory minimum sentences
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/19/first-step-act-prison-reform-called-trump-goodwill/
Rep. Martha McSally appointed by Arizona governor to Senate
seat held by John McCain
Michael Flynn latest victim of the Deep State
In an interview, James Comey brags about violating FBI protocols
and policies. “The audience was audibly
thrilled by his cleverness in keeping Flynn unrepresented by legal counsel and
unaware of the true nature of the meeting.”
TWO-TIERED JUSTICE: Mike Flynn and Tony Podesta Did Same
Work for Turkey, Both Filed Retroactively — Flynn’s Life Is in Tatters;
Democrat Podesta Walks Free
While much has been written about the entrapment of Michael
Flynn by the ethically challenged Andrew McCabe and his accomplice Peter
Strzok, little discussion has been devoted to the constitutionally dubious
federal law under which he was charged.
Trump
approval among female Republicans is 93%—even higher than among GOP men.
NBC News Contributor: If We Can’t Indict Donald Trump, Let’s
Go After His Children
Representative Elijah Cummings Outlines Democrat Plan to
Remove President Trump via Michael Cohen…
VDH: “We Are Witnessing a Soft Coup of the Trump
Administration”
ICE: 90% of all arrests had criminal records, 'pending'
charges
A
triple amputee Air Force veteran and motivational speaker has raised more than
$11 million to go toward building a wall on the US border with Mexico. Brian
Kolfage is asking the 63 million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump
to chip in $80 apiece for the wall. The
total would meet Trump's request for $5 billion to build such a wall, with $40
million to spare.
Here’s the gofundme site, I just gave them $100.
Liberals ridicule the effort: Jimmy Kimmel declared that the
people who have contributed over $12 million to the GoFundMe page to build a
wall along the southern border of the United States, are “very dopey people”
who are “dipping into their meth money.”
Denmark approves plan to send foreign criminals to tiny
island
IHOP will no longer advertise on Tucker Carlson's Fox News
show
Tell them what you think.
Christians 'Standing in the Way' of China's Xi Jinping's
Totalitarian Rule
California Companies Flee Business-Hostile State In Droves
Least-Educated State: California No. 1 in Percentage of
Residents 25 and Older Who Never Finished 9th Grade; No. 50 in High School
Graduates
German govt.-backed brochure: Kids from ‘right-wing’ families that oppose “racist”
positions on gender theory, sexual diversity, and immigration gender must be re-educated:
Thousands Chant ‘USA,USA’ During Largest Conservative
Student Gathering
???
Washington State University has begun stocking men's bathrooms on one of its
campuses with free menstrual products. “part of a system-wide effort to be more inclusive of
transgender individuals.”
'I Want to Do That Every Year': Conservative Commentator
Glenn Beck Pays Off All Layaways at Dallas-Area Walmart
Inspector general discovers that Team Mueller scrubbed
Strzok and Page text messages during critical post-election period
The US is planning a total withdrawal of its military forces
from Syria... “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there
during the Trump Presidency,” the president tweeted Wednesday morning.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Jennifer Harper 12/13
Why Democrats really fear Trump's wall
Why
should the U.S. build a better wall on the southern border? House Majority Whip
Steve Scalise offered a clear and candid rationale during a Fox News
appearance this week, telling host Mark
Levin that 10 known terrorists are captured each day trying to breach
the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protections also informed Congress that
3,029 people were apprehended in one day this month — deeming the occurrence a
crisis.
Meanwhile,
21 percent of all potential migrants — an astonishing 158 million people —
would like to come live in America if they could, according to a Gallup
analysis, which found that the U.S. has remained the No. 1 destination for the
last decade.
There
is a viable rationale for border improvement. The wall, however, has become a
showcase for President Trump’s foes, who wrap their opposition in humanitarian concerns
— even though they have walls and barriers of every description around their
own homes.
Talk
radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh points out that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi are part of this
group — and appear motivated by political concerns rather than moral calling.
“They
could never, ever sign on to and assist in the funding and construction of a
wall. You know why? Because walls work. These people that we’re talking about
put walls around their homes and their estates. They know that walls work, and
that’s precisely why there isn’t going to be one on the southern border,
because if there ever is a wall, guess what? We finally will have control over
who gets into this country and who doesn’t,” Mr. Limbaugh told his 14 million
listeners.
“The
wall is the single greatest obstruction to the future of the Democrat Party.
They do not want a wall. They will not support a wall. A wall would bring about
the end of the Democrat Party. They’ll argue about money, government shutdowns.
But they can’t survive as a party if that wall is ever built. That’s their
permanent underclass that would not be permitted to enter the country,” he
continued.
Yes,
it’s a political thing.
“No
matter what they say, no matter how understanding they appear to be in
conversations about border security, they cannot afford there to be a wall. It
would bring an immediate end to their primary constituency, which is the great
unwashed and permanent underclass,” Mr. Limbaugh noted. “This is what President
Trump’s up against. Now, Trump wants to build a wall to save America,
the culture, and basically to enforce existing federal law. All he wants to do
is enforce the law. It’s why he wants to enforce the law the Democrats can’t
permit. As far as they’re concerned, Donald Trump is trying to make sure that future Democrats
don’t get to register to vote.”
Another good read: Wanted:
New Conservative Fighters by Sheriff David Clarke 12/14
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I’d like you to join
me in a thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that somebody wrote a ten-page
report filled with an assortment of charges against you. Imagine that some are
so awful that if your family and neighbors ever learned about them you’d
probably lose your job and your family. And imagine that the people who put
together this collection of unverified charges convinced a court to issue a
warrant to monitor your phone calls and those of your close friends and
associates. And then, fulfilling your worst fears, imagine that your enemies
leaked all of this to your local newspaper. How would this make you feel?
Needless to say, it would be a nightmare. But we don’t have to imagine because
that’s exactly what former FBI Director James Comey did. … No matter whether
you are a Democrat, a Republican or a #NeverTrumper, liberal, conservative or
libertarian, the political weaponization of our national security apparatus
ought to strike fear into the hearts of every American. Using the power of
government to harass and destroy political opponents is what fascists do.”
-Gary Bauer
“Many leftists and LGBT activists are simply not content
with ‘live and let live.’ It’s ‘embrace completely everything we think, say and
do or else we will do whatever we can to ruin you.’ What a special brand of
tolerance.”
-Allie Beth
Stuckey
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BOOKS
“The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose
Made the West Great” by Ben Shapiro Says Rush Limbaugh: “[Shapiro is] exactly what the conservative
movement needs...not just content to have people be dazzled by [his]brilliance;
[he] actually go[es] out and confront[s] and tr[ies] to persuade, mobilize,
motivate people.” Matthew Continetti
says “Shapiro may be the most important conservative at work today. In his
prolific output, forensic zeal and ability, love of the fray, exhausting
schedule, adoption of new communications platforms, captive audience, and
conservative ecumenism, Ben Shapiro resembles no one so much as the young
William F. Buckley Jr.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
The
Maduro diet: A letter from Venezuela
The left-wing activist group that accosted Florida Attorney
General Pam Bondi at a movie theater in June received half a million dollars in
2017 from an organization funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros
The
left thumps the Bible to promote illegal immigration
The Embezzling Nuns From the Order That Helped Train Obama’s
Alinskyite education.
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GLOBALONEY
New
York Times asks “Would human extinction be a tragedy?..... it might just
be a good thing.”
Follow the (Climate Change) Money
Texas city featured in Al Gore film lost millions in green
energy investments
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ARTICLES
Why ballot harvesting must be made illegal.
Liberalism Bankrupts the Boy Scouts “What did it profit the
Boy Scouts to gain the PC world and lose its soul?”
The year was 1986. We tried the carrot approach, I suppose
hoping that if we were understanding and big-hearted, the curse of nonstop
illegal immigration would cease. President Reagan, a conservative Republican,
with the acquiescence of Congress, granted amnesty to millions of foreign
nationals illegally residing in the United States. The slate was wiped clean, and from then on,
we were told, the government would get serious about illegal immigration. The
borders would be secured, immigration law enforced. It was a sham.
Democrats used to talk tough about border security, but that
was then and this is now. Here are some
quotes.
Brilliant idea from Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX): a bill calling for the use of $14 billion
seized from cartel drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to be used to pay for
the President’s border wall.
Witchcraft moves to the mainstream in America as
Christianity declines - and has Trump in its sights”
The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You
Google Knows Where You Sleep. It has the makings of a stalker.
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INTERESTING
18
Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2018 ‘This
was the year when reporters ... began loosening the usual boundaries governing
journalism’
Health Care Reform Facts: How Does U.S. Actually Stack Up
Against Other Countries?
Diverse nature of life across the globe revealed in stunning
travel photos
Stunning images reveal gigantic ice filled crater 50 miles
wide on the surface of the red planet.
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WISE
WORDS
“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a
wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us
secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness
without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient
virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection
of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in
our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.”
-James Madison
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