op ed review 1/20
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Fake news story dominates the entire news cycle Friday “Trump
ordered lawyer Cohen to lie to Congress.”
MSNBC and CNN mention impeachment almost 200 times during the day. Whole
thing turned out to be a lie.
Yet another Trump 'bombshell' ends up being a hoax
There’s a method to the fake news madness: delegitimatize
the President. “..The baseline here is that everything the institutional-left
does, is sequential and planned. This is what they do. This is all they do.
None of the characters within the institutions of professional leftism create
anything; build anything; have a life purpose for anything, other than
organizing their efforts to exploit control of others via politics…..When you
develop your skills to see their patterns you can then see the predictability
behind it.”
Another week, another feverish contest among Democrats to
see who can drag the party faster and farther to the left.
30 Democratic lawmakers left the government shutdown behind
on a chartered flight to Puerto Rico to meet with 109 lobbyists and corporate
executives during which they planned to see the hit Broadway show “Hamilton”
and attend parties. Media blames shutdown
on Trump.
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who was accused by federal
prosecutors of engaging in prostitution during his past visits to the
Caribbean, was spotted with a young woman on the beach in Puerto Rico. “Here
Bob Menendez working tirelessly with a sunscreen products lobbyist about the
difference between Banana Boat and Coppertone and how to bring in more
"donations" to the UV PAC”
Since January 1, neither CNN nor MSNBC has booked a single
“Angel Mom” — mothers of children brutally murdered by illegal aliens — as
guests on their networks.
Nancy Pelosi Refuses to Meet with Angel Moms Protesting
Inside Her Office
Two of the three suspects in the MS-13 gang-related assault
of a Long Island teenager exploited the unaccompanied minor loophole after
crossing the border illegally in South Texas,
Border rancher: 'We've found (muslim) prayer rugs out here.
It's unreal'
The Department of Homeland Security spent seven years and
more than $1 billion trying to create a wall of technology at the border. It was a bust. Now the idea has returned as
the main ante for congressional Democrats in the border security spending
fight.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/13/democrats-now-back-george-w-bush-technological-wal/
700 lbs of cocaine seized in one border area in one day
Three New Central American Migrant Caravans Press North
Obama appointed judge blocks citizenship question on 2020
census
Gallup publishes poll showing conservatives outnumber
liberals in America. “The most resilient political fact over the last
half-century is the clear majority of Americans who identify themselves as
"conservative" rather than "liberal." Even California has a
conservative advantage, according to some polls.”
Poll finds most people think President Trump's critics are
trying to use Robert Mueller's investigation to delegitimize the 2016 elections.
Shock Poll: Trump Gains 19 Points with Latino Voters During
Border Wall Shutdown
Rep. Steve King has been barred from sitting on any
Congressional committee following a NYT hit piece that completely misconstrued
comments he once made. Congressional Republicans didn’t even bother to find out
the truth….Here’s the rest of the story:
Fifth Circuit Ruling Dismantles Planned Parenthood Talking
Points
March for Life 2019: Vice President Pence makes surprise
visit at DC rally
All Three Networks Ignore ‘March For Life,’ Cover
Pro-Abortion ‘Women’s March’ Instead
Poll Shows Most Americans Favor Limits on Abortion
Leaked Document Exposes How Google Manipulates YouTube
Search Results to Censor Pro-Life Videos
Leaked Bruce Ohr testimony may be the key to unraveling the
biggest political scandal in American history
Vice President Mike Pence's wife Karen is once again
teaching art a Christian school in Washington's suburbs – “sparking anger from
gay rights advocates who say it sends the wrong message from the inner circles
of US power.,,,On page 11 of an application to work at the school, teachers are
asked to pledge to "maintain a lifestyle based on biblical standards of
moral conduct."
“Media Astonished To Learn Christian School Teaches
Christian Beliefs”
FBI catches man planning jihad attack on White House with
anti-tank rocket
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/16/hasher-jallal-taheb-arrested-white-house-attack-pl/
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
1/18 Alexander G. Markovsky, Senior Fellow at
the London Center for Policy Research
America: The New Socialist Frontier
It seems that socialism is like an infectious disease that
everyone has to get ill of to develop immunity. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn
pointed out, “For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while for many people
in the West, it is still a living lion.” This dead dog, expelled from Russia,
acquired a new life in the United States and regained vitality to become a
living lion within the Democratic Party.
The 2018 Democratic victory in the midterms brought new
Marxist arrivals to the House of Representatives who are interpreting the
elections as an endorsement of socialist policies. They dropped all the
pretenses — no liberals, no progressives — they are proud Marxist-Leninists
driven by the ideology and committed to converting this country into the United
Socialist States of America.
This militant crowd is comprised of uninformed and
misinformed people looking at themselves as unfortunate, underpaid,
underappreciated victims of capitalism, overwhelmed with jealousy that there
are people who are everything they are not. They are the face of new Democratic
Party – “We have been naught, we shall be all.”
The Democratic Party explicitly casts itself as an inheritor
of Marxism. The Democrats’ demands are almost total inversion of the
Constitutional arrangements and traditional American values. The economic
redistribution, open borders, repeal of the Second Amendment, the abolition of
the Electoral College, the election of a president by popular vote, voting
rights and free health care to illegal aliens are just part of the
comprehensive strategy of putting the harness of socialism around the necks of
the American people.
The driving force of the Democratic Party is economic
“inequality” — the argument socialists have never tired of invoking since the
dawn of capitalism. The mantra brought into play by the French Revolution — “War
to the palace, peace to the cottage” — is alive and well today in the
Democratic Party. The seductive idea of wealth redistribution has proved to be
irresistible to the masses discontented by the inequities. The philosophy of
envy and siphoning from the rich appeals to a large segment of the population
that does not realize that the definition of “rich” is a spiral of devolution
that eventually will reach every business and every individual who works for a
living.
From the Democrats’ perspective, President Donald J. Trump
is a disrupter of what had been a smooth transition to the bright socialist
future. In a concerted effort to denigrate the President and paralyze executive
authority, they are branding him a racist and blatantly subvert every program
on his agenda. To render him ineffective, they actively support a collective
mania for ever more sweeping investigations of dubious claims, rumors,
unsubstantiated allegations and innuendos that has descended over the
President, his family, his associates, and nominees. People who cannot even
spell “impeachment” demand one without any substantiation. They act as if their
fiat is turning the country into chaos, or as Lenin called it, “revolutionary
environment.”
Unfortunately, the contemporary political thinking of the
American people is more backward than that of the Russians or Chinese, and too
many of them are living in a flat-earth, know-nothing, Jesse Watters’ world.
Neither education, nor upbringing, nor life experience prepares Americans for
grasping the veracity of the socialist assault on the American way of life.
Thanks to the fatuity of the American public, there has not
been any effective comprehension of the totality of the assault nor its
enervating effect upon national vigilance. We may surmise that the socialist
dragon has come of age and socialism in America, be it democratic or otherwise,
no longer looks like an exceedingly lofty ambition.
The great historical irony is that unlike the Russian people
who understood the perils of socialism and fought the Bolsheviks in a bloody
three-year civil war that by some estimates took fifteen million lives, the
freedom-loving Americans keep voting themselves into socialism. Indeed,
Communist leaders from Lenin to Brezhnev are sardonically grinning from hell
and watching in disbelief as what was impossible for the Soviet Union to
accomplish with all its military might and nuclear arsenal is being endorsed by
the duly elected American legislators.
Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a speech
on behalf of presidential candidate Barry Goldwater that would become known as
“A Time for Choosing.” His ardent warning of the advance of socialism in the
United States resonates even more today: "You and I have a rendezvous with
destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on
earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of
darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say
of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
Did we?
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Here’s the truth: Men are looking for meaning in a world
that tells them they are perpetuators of discrimination and rape culture; that
they are beneficiaries of an overarching, nasty patriarchy; that they are, at
best, disposable partners to women, rather than protectors of them. Giving men
purpose requires us to give them purpose as men, not
merely as genderless beings. There’s a lot to be said for the idea that our
culture has ignored the necessity for men to become gentlemen. But that’s a
result of a left-wing culture that denigrates men, not a traditional
masculinity built on the idea that men were born to defend, protect and build.”
-Ben Shapiro
“To compare — as many have done — a border wall designed to
keep people out to the Berlin Wall, which was designed to keep people in, is an
exercise in asininity. I’m reminded of my old boss William F. Buckley’s
demolition of such moral equivalence: ‘To say that the CIA and the KGB engage
in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old
lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man
who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that,
after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.’ But this is
what happens when you follow politics like it’s a form of entertainment.”
-Jonah Goldberg
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LEFTIST WATCH
New York’s marxist mayor says wealth is ‘in the Wrong
Hands,’ pledges to redistribute it.
He also pitches plan to seize private property of problem
landlords.
Documents show Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is a
puppet for revolutionary Marxist group “Socialist Alternative.”
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) accuses President Trump of
wanting a version of the United States that does not have any people of color
in it. “Ethnic cleansing”
The latest fad in criminal-justice activism is the concept
of “survival crime.” The theory holds
that the homeless, the poor, and people of color commit property crimes and
low-level infractions in order to secure their basic survival. Any enforcement
of these laws is thus a violation of their basic human rights and should be
relaxed—that is, local governments should stop enforcing any laws that
“criminalize homelessness” and “criminalize poverty.”
Here comes the leftist call for changing the Senate: “The
Path to Give California 12 Senators, and Vermont Just One”
The Left Attacks Trump’s Pick to Replace Brett Kavanaugh on
Court of Appeals for Her Smart College Writings (reportedly is on the short
list for the Supreme Court, so she must be destroyed)
Outspoken Hollywood actor James Woods warned in a tweet
Thursday that newly elected socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
poses a greater threat to America than most realize. “Most dangerous person in america
right now.”
More than 30 students at the University of Texas have been
doxxed by a student antifa group, for the crime of joining conservative
clubs…..”snuck into conservative club meetings, took photos of attendees, and
posted students’ names and emails online.”
University seminar teaches faculty not to judge ‘quality’ of
writing when grading… led by a University of Washington-Tacoma professor, the
purpose is to pursue “antiracist ends” through writing assessments.
New issue of The Atlantic magazine calls for President
Trump’s impeachment on its cover
We know the IRS unconstitutionally targeted conservative
groups. We know they illegally demanded, obtained, and held the donor lists of
these conservative organizations. Now we learn that in 2012, the height of the
targeting, the IRS was involved in a “secret research project” with this
confidential, illegally obtained donor information. “why did the IRS, through
Lois Lerner, deliver the 1+ million pages of tax filings, to include the entire
donor list of Tea Party and patriot groups, through 21 CD-ROMs and not by
electronic data transfer. Information that was specifically sent to Eric Holder
and the U.S. Department of Justice”?
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ISLAM
Islamic
Activist Advocates Using Public Schools to Convert Americans to Islam "We
want to turn them into Muslim individuals.”
New Palestinian-American congresswoman who called Trump a
'motherf****r' is pictured with activist who calls Jews 'Zionist terrorists'
and says Israel has no right to exist
Leftie activist and 2017 Women’s March co-chair apparently
ignorant of the Koran: “My beloved Prophet Muhammad was a….human rights
activist.”
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GLOBALONEY
How Google and mainstream media distort a grain of truth
about global warming to promote hysteria.
“Learn the facts about plastic versus paper bags – and bag
the bans, instead.”
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ARTICLES
Say goodbye to the “melting pot”. “Canada is in the midst of what one writer
called a "civilizational experiment in which a western nation is being
transformed into a post-western nation. And this revolution is centered around
the cult of diversity…The question is not whether Canada should accept
immigrants. The question is …whose values should win the day…In Canada right
now it's labeled bizarrely xenophobic and anti-immigrant…..if you simply say
I'd like us all to integrate here and live together in a compatible way.”
“What the fight over Trump's border wall is really about” Less than half of the border between the
U.S. and Mexico has man-made barriers. Map shows the gaps.
VDH: The Left’s
License to Hate Trump Supporters “What
we are witnessing….is that it is fine to demonize millions, from their
appearance to their purported hygiene and smell to affinities with feces and
apes—if it serves political or cultural agendas. In sum, cultural progressivism
is about raw power, not principle.”
New York Times wasn't always so suspicious of 'secretive
communications' with Russia
What’s going on in France:
“From the 1980s onwards, it was clear there was a price to be paid for
western societies adapting to a new economic model (that sacrifices the)
European and American working class….It’s obvious now, however, that the new
model not only weakened the fringes of the proletariat but society as a whole.
The paradox is this is not a result of the failure of the globalized economic
model but of its success.
Networks Trashed Trump With 90% Negative Spin in 2018, But
Did It Matter?
The Opiate Epidemic Is Coming To A Suburb Near You
Heather McDonald: The Obama-era policy of integrating women
into ground combat units is a misguided social experiment that threatens
military readiness and wastes resources in the service of a political agenda.
The next defense secretary should end it.
Rep. Dan
Crenshaw, R-Texas, wants to help make conservatism "cool" for younger
voters who have been flocking to Democrats. Fresh off his post-election
appearance on "Saturday Night Live," Crenshaw thinks he can help
translate Republican policies for young voters all around the country.
No sooner had the Democrats taken back the majority in the
House of Representatives than they proved their harshest critics correct – the
party no longer concerns itself with the interests of the American people. And
by refusing to provide a dime for a physical barrier on our border, they did it
in the starkest terms possible. Led by far-left Nancy Pelosi, who held off a
challenge to her leadership from the even farther left, the House Democrats promptly
put themselves in the position of being seen taking the side of foreigners
entering the country illegally over the security and economic
It’s not a joke to say Republicans have an uncanny knack for
snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Of all the things the GOP excels at,
this tops the charts. So as the longest partial shutdown of the government in
history rolls on, it’s important to take a moment to check the status of things
and game out how things could go. And, believe it or not, Republicans could
actually end up with money for a border wall (or barrier, whatever) if only
they ignore all their natural instincts and stand strong.
“For almost three years now, the intelligence services and
police apparatus of the deep state have worked tirelessly to undermine Donald
Trump….we are staring into
the bowels of the biggest political scandal in the history of the United
States. Americans pride themselves on living in a republic in which the
peaceful transfer of power is a hallmark of our political life. But what we
have here is an effort by one administration to thwart that process.”
Toensing and diGenova:
“The brazen plot against Trump by the Obama-era FBI and DOJ continues,
enabled by a complicit media”
“For Real 'Russian Collusion,' Look to the Democrats
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HAT TIP TO A READER:
“So my house was broken into yesterday. Don’t worry. George is OK. Fortunately, the
alarm told me and police apprehended a man with his 10 year old daughter
ransacking the house. The bad news is my neighbors took a vote and decided the
girl was innocent and was only there because her dad brought her. Now I have to give her a room, feed her, and
pay for her to go to school. Worse yet,
since she would be abandoned if her dad goes to jail, he’s been found innocent
and I have to let him stay with the girl and feed him too. If you think this sounds unfair, then you
understand DACA.”
“Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him to
fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Promise a man a lifetime supply of somebody
else’s fish, you create a Democrat.”
“It’s quite simple really. If Americans won’t vote for
Democrats, we’ll import people who will.”
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INTERESTING
35 Times the FBI “Deviated from Standard Practice” or
Committed Crimes in Effort to Exonerate Hilary and Indict Trump
PHOTOS: From Vatican Walls to Obama’s Fence, 20 Barriers
Around the World
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WISE
WORDS
“It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and
ambitious members of a democratic community will labor without ceasing to
extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to
wield those powers. … Centralization will be the natural government.”
-Alexis
de Tocqueville
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