op ed review 12/9
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump is prepping for all-out political war.
The Democrat poised to lead the House Judiciary Committee
next year says he has no intention of continuing the GOP-led investigation
into FBI and Justice Department misconduct during the 2016 election, calling it
a “waste of time.”
Illegal immigration ticked up in November, but the number of
those people traveling as families shattered records, Homeland Security
reported Thursday, saying it’s proof that migrants have figured out how to game
the flawed U.S. immigration system.
A
new report finds that 45% of households headed by a noncitizen reported using
food programs in 2014. That's the latest year for which such census data are
available. That compares with 21% for U.S. citizens. Half of noncitizen
households reported using Medicaid, compared with 23% for citizens. The CIS
analysis also found that 31% of noncitizen households got cash benefits, when
you include the Earned Income Tax Credit. That compares with 10% for
citizen-headed households. Overall, 63% of noncitizen-headed households got
some form of welfare benefit in 2014, compared with 35% for citizens. "The
data show that, overall, noncitizen households access the welfare system at
high rates, often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children.”
Young America's Foundation Scores Major Free Speech Victory
Over UC Berkeley
Free speech? “Pastor Who Fled Persecution in Iran Arrested
in Minnesota for Sharing the Gospel.” At
the Mall of America he was told “You cannot talk religion here.” “I’ve gone
through this before — in Muslim countries I was arrested for passing out
bibles,” Parsa said. “I didn’t expect that would happen in America…”
Three people have come forward with hundreds of pages of
evidence of potential wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation, including
misappropriation of funds and allegations of quid-pro-quo promises made to
donors during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promised to pass
the Dream Act in the new Congress, which would provide amnesty to millions of
illegal immigrants.
Pelosi calls border wall “immoral”, won't accept DACA deal in exchange for wall
funding.
On Health Costs, ObamaCare Was A Massive Failure, IBD/TIPP
Poll Shows
The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed a challenge by three
conservation groups to the authority of President Donald Trump’s administration
to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a victory for Trump who has made
the wall a centerpiece of his hardline immigration policies.
?? Pope Francis says church closings are a ‘sign of the
times,’ and should not cause anxiety.
Gonzaga University blocks conservative Ben Shapiro speech,
citing ‘Jesuit’ values
Virginia teacher fired for refusing to use new pronouns for
transgender student
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) joined the migrant
caravan in their attempt to cross the border, condemning President Donald Trump
for "creating the crisis." She said she was able to help five asylum
seekers gain access to the United States.
Media elevate Bush in death, use his passing to denigrate
Trump
Bush 41’s death reveals the truth of the cliché: the only
kind of Republicans the media likes are dead ones.
Glenn Beck and Mark Levin are teaming up by merging TheBlaze
and CRTV to create a conservative-media entity dubbed Blaze Media, which they
say will reach 165 million people via television, digital platforms and social
media.
A super PAC that spent millions attacking Republican
Sen. Ted Cruz during the midterm election was revealed to be funded almost
entirely by Washington, D.C. Democrats. Because it launched so close to the
election, “Texas Forever” was able to sidestep revealing where the funds
came from until a month after voting concluded.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Bruce Bialosky 12/9
The
United States spends an ungodly sum on colleges and universities. A lot of that
money provides little to no benefit to the consumer (student) or to our
society. Many students end their college careers steeped in debt. Yet we
have a shortage of people in many critical areas. Here is an idea to
solve that.
Colleges
today offer degrees to people that provide them little opportunity for
supporting themselves for the rest of their lives. The idea of a liberal
arts education used to make a certain amount of sense. When the cost
became enormous with the resulting disaster for the student’s finances, some
decisions must be made as to whether there is rationale for this. At the same
time, we do not have enough students to meet our needs in STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math).
The
proposal is that colleges and universities provide no-tuition degrees that are
critical for our country. Reading this some may think this idea aligns
with the Bernie Sanders set, but it is radically different. The idea
limits no-tuition education to certain degrees like doctors, scientists and
engineers which are critical to our future as we are not producing enough
home-grown talent and the no tuition degrees would be limited to American
citizens. Under this plan, getting a degree in English literature, journalism
or law is on your dime.
I
have written previously that it is bothersome that our tech companies are
always arguing for more visas to bring in foreigners with engineering degrees.
Yet few ask why America is not producing enough individuals to get those
degrees when there are lucrative careers available.
The
National Association of Manufacturing and Deloitte predict the U.S. will need
to fill about 3.5 million jobs by 2025; two million of those jobs
may go unfilled, due to difficulty finding people with the skills in demand…….Yet
a 2017 report from the National Foundation for American Policy found 81 percent
of full-time graduate students in electrical and petroleum engineering programs
at U.S. universities are international students, and 79 percent in computer
science are also foreigners.
Or
what about one of the most important positions in our society – doctors.
The Association of American Medical Colleges is projecting a shortfall of
between 34,600 and 88,000 doctors by 2025. A large reason is the
financial commitment it takes to become a doctor. If you are a top tier
brain where would you go -- to a hedge fund where you can start at up to
$300,000 per year or a doctor where you start your career with up to $300,000 in
debt?
This
is not a farfetched idea as New York University (NYU) has committed to covering
the education costs for its medical students. This is with special
funding, but almost all private schools have the endowments to cover the cost
of the students at their medical schools. Public schools could just
allocate the funds. Here is an idea: Raise the tuition at their law
schools which seem to be in high demand, and there is an extremely low need for
additional lawyers in our country.
We
already fund the education of a certain class of people – our military leaders.
We do this because we want to attract the best and the brightest to lead
our military. Each branch has an academy that provides a rigorous
education to students……If we charged for the real cost of West Point or
Annapolis, how many great leaders would we lose? Better yet, how many would we
get?
Why
America would waste our national resources on funding degrees like Asian
Studies, Jewish Studies, Black Studies or Hispanic Studies is beyond me.
Degrees like that are superfluous and provide you an opportunity to get a job
in the department at the university that minted that pointless degree and not
much else other than being a bartender…….A lot of these degrees are just a
plain waste of national resources…..
There
are some programs that are already aimed toward this. Chevron has funded
$400 million toward orienting students at a young age toward STEM degrees.
The STEM Coalition is a non-profit that emphasizes getting support for
more students focusing on a STEM education.
Our
higher education system developed on its own for centuries. It is the
marvel of the world as countries send their best students to our country to get
the quality education we provide at hundreds of schools. It just is not
educating American students for our needs.
The
world has changed. Our students have accumulated over a trillion dollars
in debt and we are not even producing enough skilled people to take care of the
needs of our country. The program needs a revamp and this is a prime idea
to start doing that.
We
need more doctors and not more students with degrees in sports management where
the only job they will ever get in sports is working the counter at a
Footlocker. We need to stop wasting these key resources on nonsense and
produce viable college graduates. Let’s fund the ones that are necessary to us
as a society.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Fewer homicides were committed by political terrorists of
any stripe in the United States in 2017 than were committed by undocumented
immigrants in the state of Texas alone.”
-David
Harsanyi
“Demonstrations across France this weekend turned violent as
protestors set fire to cars, tires and some local government buildings. More
than 130 people were wounded and more than 400 were arrested. The riots,
considered among the worst France has seen in decades, stem from plans by
President Emmanuel Macron to further increase taxes in France. The French
already pay high taxes to subsidize their socialist welfare state. But Macron,
a true believer in the ‘global warming agenda,’ is proposing to tax gasoline
even more. Apparently, the French aren’t too keen on paying more than $7 a
gallon for gas. It wasn’t that long ago when Macron was lecturing President
Trump about patriotism. Now his government is attempting to negotiate with the
rioters who have taken over the streets, as his approval rating collapses to
26%. I’m not sure Macron is in a position to lecture Trump on anything.”
=Gary Bauer
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BOOKS
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie have written a seminal
book as critical participants in one of the most historic events in American history. Their
book is about the triumphs and setbacks of the campaign of Donald Trump to be
elected the 45th president and then his governance for the first eighteen-plus
months.
Tucker Carlson's 'Ship of Fools' rises above mundane
punditry and deserves a spot on your Christmas list
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LEFTIST WATCH
Stanford Fraternity Told to Take American Flag Down to
‘Improve Image’. An administrator reportedly told the fraternity that the
flag could be seen as “intimidating, aggressive or alienating.”
Minnesota professor suggested in a series of tweets that the
Virgin Mary did not consent to the conception of Jesus Christ and suggested
that God may have acted in a “predatory" manner.
'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' movie criticized for
bullying and bigotry
Satanic Sculpture Installed At Illinois Statehouse, Just In
Time For The Holidays
Nebraska school deems candy canes 'unacceptable,' says J shape
stands 'for Jesus'
Rep.-elect
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested Democrats, who take power in the House next
month, should not wait to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump
because “we have far surpassed” the “standard” that the Republican Party used
to impeach former President Bill Clinton.
New Dem congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez once more validated Mark
Twain's quip, "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of
Congress; but I repeat myself."
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“BALLOT HARVESTING”
What Is ‘Ballot Harvesting,’ And How Did California Dems Use
It To Nuke The GOP?
‘Ballot Harvesting,’ California Dems’ Latest Election
Stealing Tool
Ballot harvesting bounty: How Dems apparently used election
law change to rout California Republicans
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GLOBALONEY
France Suspends Climate Tax Following Weeks Of Anti-Macron
Protests
France’s protesters are part of a global backlash against
climate-change taxes
Three years after leaders from around the world signed on to
the Paris climate agreement, pledging to cut their carbon footprints, global
CO2 emissions accelerated. Does anyone still think President Donald Trump was
wrong for pulling the U.S. out of this sham agreement?
“Well, this actually explains a lot: Biggest delegations to
UN Climate Conference come from poor African nations”
Poland trolls the global environmentalists at UN climate
meeting
For three decades, global warming alarmists have harassed
society with stories of gloom and doom as a result of the carbon dioxide
emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuel. They are exercising
precisely what prominent writer H.L. Mencken described as “the whole point of
practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be
led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary”.
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ARTICLES
Jason Chaffetz: Why is Michael Cohen prosecuted when Hillary
Clinton, Eric Holder and Lois Lerner were not?
Even after Republicans won the White House, Senate, and
House of Representatives, they acted as if they had lost. Always on the
defensive and forever begging for forgiveness from an ideology that never
grants it, conservatives had better change their tactics or get used to coming
in second place in a two-party race.
Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost
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NOTABLE
Turning Point America:
the 2018 Annie Taylor Award recipients: Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. “Charlie
Kirk started Turning Point USA in his garage back in 2012. Today he empowers students to stand for
American values on 1,300 high school and college campuses across the country. Candace Owens changed politics forever, reaching black
America with a conservative message in ways never before seen.”
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WISE
WORDS
“Public servants say, always with the best of intentions,
‘What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a
little more power.’ But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function,
government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.”
-Ronald Reagan
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a
noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their
ancestors.”
-Justice
Joseph Story
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