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THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Making Freedom Great Again: U.S. Jumps Six Spots On Global
Freedom Index
Payrolls surge by 304,000 in January, smashing estimates
despite government shutdown
Hispanic pastors praise Trump for work on border security.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/27/inside-the-beltway-hispanic-pastors-back-trump-on-/
Trump gets NATO allies to pony up $100 billion, earning
praise from NATO Secretary General.
Trump donates his 3rd quarter salary, $100K to
alcoholism research.
Weeks after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made
headlines by calling for a top marginal income tax rate of 70 percent in an
interview with “60 Minutes,” her fellow freshman congresswoman, Rep. Ilhan
Omar, D-Minn., suggested that the rich could pay even more.
Pelosi says Democrats were elected to end the “sinful” pay disparity
between workers and CEOs.
It’s been a full week since the state of New York legalized
late-term abortions, yet none of the major national TV networks has bothered to
mention the story. This deafening silence is in stark contrast to the alarmist
coverage seen whenever a state passes legislation that the media see as
curtailing “abortion rights.”
Virginia Democrat Delegate Kathy Tran proposed a measure
last week that would not only allow abortion throughout all nine months of
pregnancy in the state, but would also permit a woman to decide whether she
wants to “abort” her baby as she is dilating and about to give birth.
“Moderate” Virginia Gov. Northam (a pediatrician!) praises Abortion
Bill: Infant Could Be Delivered and Then ‘Physicians and the Mother’ Could
Decide If It Lives.
Virginia Delegate Who Proposed Infanticide Bill Has A New
Cause: Saving Caterpillars
The Party of Death, out in the open.
Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse says Gov. Northam
shouldn’t serve in government if he supports leaving babies to die after
they’ve been born.
Follow the money:
Gov. Northam received nearly $2M dollars from Planned Parenthood.
A Texas Catholic bishop called a video showing New York
state legislators cheering at the passage of a radical abortion law last week a
“scene from Hell.”
Abortionist holds dismembered baby, says patient can now ‘get
on with her life’
Democrats‘ new border security proposal would cut the number
of detention beds available to hold illegal immigrants for deportation,
effectively forcing Homeland Security to release more people into communities.
140 House Democrats Refuse to Condemn Illegal Aliens Voting
Border protection agents in Arizona make largest fentanyl
bust in US history, enough of the drug to kill 50 million people.
Migrant Caravan Swells to 12,000 at Mexico’s Southern Border
Rich Russian women flock to Florida to deliver American anchor
babies.
Rich Chinese women flock to California to deliver American
anchor babies.
Historic shift: More Hispanic than black voters in 2020,
whites decline to 66 percent.
This is not good: “60 Percent of College Students Value
Tolerance Over Free Speech, Survey Finds”
“Bad Ideas Are Born in Bad Universities”
Sen. Kamala Harris vows to get rid of private health care
plans: “Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on”
Kamala’s town hall notes: I’ll take away your doctor, your
guns, your wealth, your free market, your wall. Any questions?
Former California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown admits
it: Kamala Harris slept her way to the top.
Elizabeth Warren is not
proposing a tax; she’s proposing asset forfeiture.
Judge Napolitano: “Last
Friday, on a quiet residential street at 6 in the morning, the neighborhood
exploded in light, noise and terror. Seventeen SUVs and two armored vehicles
arrived in front of one house. Each vehicle had sirens blaring and lights
flashing. The house was soon surrounded by 29 government agents, each wearing
military garb, each carrying a handgun and most carrying high-powered automatic
rifles…Circling above all this was a helicopter equipped with long-range
precision weaponry and high-powered spotlights. Four agents approached the front door holding a battering
ram, and two pointed their rifles at the door. One of the agents shouted and
banged on the front door until the terrified owner emerged, barefoot and
wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He was greeted by two rifle barrels aimed at his
head. This was not a movie set; it was not a foreign city in a war zone; it was
not the arrest of the Venezuelan opposition leader in Caracas. It was middle
America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The agents worked for the FBI, and the
target of this operation was not a drug kingpin or a terrorist operative. It
was a peaceful American in his own home -- a political operative and longtime
friend of President Donald Trump's, named Roger Stone. Why were there more FBI agents sent to
arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the
morning in America? Here is the back story.” (Oh and CNN was tipped off to send
a camera crew)
The special counsel’s indictment of Roger Stone contains no
allegation of a conspiracy to collude with Russia or to steal emails from
Democrats, and appears to undercut some
of the logic behind Democrats’ collusion narrative.
Sean Hannity: If Roger Stone’s arrest is a sign of things to
come, we’ve lost our country. Say goodbye.
Stone’s crime? Lying
to Congress. Obama administration CIA Director John Brennan lied notoriously
and repeatedly to Congress, yet he remains at large. He is not under
indictment. The FBI has not sent a heavily armed battalion to raid his home and
take him into custody in front of his friends at CNN.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn): “Israel has hypnotized the world,
may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”
Anti-Semite Rep. Omar facing new scrutiny over past effort
to win leniency for 9 men accused of trying to join ISIS.
The sheriffs resisting Washington State’s new gun laws: 'I'm
not going to enforce that'
So who to cheer for in the Super Bowl? Patriots owner praises Trump for working for
country’s ‘best interests’
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Karin McQuillan 1/29
The country should be unified and full of bonhomie. The
whole world has advanced to inconceivable levels of global peace and
prosperity. Life is easier, healthier, and more comfortable for more people
than ever before in history. Socialism and Communism—those tragic sisters from
the 1800s that led to the greatest human suffering, poverty, and mass
starvation in human history—should barely be remembered. Instead, they are
ascendant in the Democrat Party. Cultural Marxism and socialism are the new
Democrat chic.
The entire country is in an uproar. Everyone feels a sense
of doom and gloom…..Conservative pundits have latched onto the fun words
“hysteria” and “Trump derangement syndrome.” These words, though cute, mask the
seriousness of what is actually happening. The mass hysteria is a goal and a
tactic, whipped up by cool-headed, purposeful people. It was not caused by
Trump’s tweets…. It has everything to do with a long game to change our
country. Things are so weird in American politics on purpose, or rather, for
radical left purposes….The tactics of the Trump #Resistance were developed
decades ago by Leninists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven along with
Alinksy. They were taught by Barack Obama as both a community organizer and a
University of Chicago lecturer…
The socialist plan to create anger and chaos to undermine
America is happening all around us right now. Yet we ignore it. It doesn’t fit
into our image of America. It comes with an aura of unreality. We’d rather make
snarky comments about snowflakes and peoples’ heads exploding than get serious.
You can’t defeat an implacable enemy you refuse to name or wilfully
underestimate. Today, the American Left is empowered with unprecedented
funding. Soros is only one among a number of radical billionaires, from the
Green promoter Tom Steyer, to the Pritzkers of Chicago (Hyatt Hotel heirs), who
launched Obama’s U.S. Senate run. One of the Pritzkers is transsexual and a
Democrat mega-donor. ActBlue raised well over $1 billion dollars for Democrats
in 2018….
Conservative groups aren’t even playing the same game. The
Koch brothers don’t make the list of top 50 “heavy hitter” political donors in
the country, compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics—only two out of the
top 20 give to Republicans. David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin in their book The
New Leviathan, count
122 leftist foundations worth $104 billion. Conservative political groups?
Eighty-six in the whole country, worth a measly $10 billion. Radicalized
progressive groups also get federal funding not given to conservative groups,
under the guise of being apolitical nonprofits for health care, poverty
programs, the environment and even for helping illegal aliens…..
America is in trouble. We never understood that a community
organizer is not a feel-good social worker looking to help people. (I was a
social worker, so I know.) A community organizer is a paid agitator, out to
make poor people so mad they will storm the barricades and destroy the system.
They don’t respect political norms. They are out to smash norms and politicize everything…….Out
here in Realville, we better get real about our opponents. They are not
well-meaning liberals. They are dangerous. The target is not Trump. They are
out to get all of us.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I had some thoughts about walls. Kind of like the front
door of my house. You don't just walk
into my house; you come to the front door and knock. I'll go to the door and decide whether I even
want to talk to you. If I do, we'll talk
-- through the door. If I decide I want to let you in, I will -- otherwise, I
won't. Same thing with this county. This
is our COUNTRY. You don't just walk into this country. You want in? There are
procedures you must follow. And walls. Walls
are immoral? Anyone who says walls are immoral is an idiot. Plain and simple.”
“When you’re trying to cross a border, and there’s a 20-plus
foot steel slated barrier in your way, it seriously inhibits your ability to
cross. A sensor tells a Border Agent, miles away, that they have to find you
now. I wonder which one works better.”
-Dan Crenshaw
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BOOKS
“Obstruction of Justice: How the Deep State Risked National
Security to Protect the Democrats” by Luke Rosiak, forward by Newt Gingrich. Dana Loesch says “My jaw hit the floor; one
of the most amazing miscarriages of justice I have ever seen. This book
illuminates everything you need to know about a Nancy Pelosi-controlled House.
Luke Rosiak is a bulldog, never ceasing until every last detail of the most
explosive cover-up by Democrats is made known.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Democrats are worrying about former Starbucks CEO Howard
Schultz running as an independent for president in 2020. They say it will only
help President Trump. But the only reason this lifelong Democrat is thinking
about an independent bid is because the Democratic party has moved so far to
the left.
(Democrats’) political agenda comes first, everything else
takes a backseat. It’s what they are. If the 100 million murdered in the name
of their philosophy in the 20th century didn’t cause any soul searching, what’s
the murder of a college student here or a police officer there going to do?
The American Left has dropped all pretense of moderation.
They don’t simply want to defeat the president and his supporters at the ballot
box. They want to exterminate us. They call Trump Hitler, but it’s the
Democratic Left who would do to us what that monster did to the Jews.
No more melting pot. NBC's Tom Brokaw was forced to apologize
over his comments on "Meet the Press", that Hispanics should work harder at
assimilation and “should make sure that all their kids are learning to speak
English.”
The California Department of Education is working on a plan
to teach kindergartners that there are at least 15 different “genders.”
Joe Biden denounced by the Left for praising a Republican congressman as a
champion in the fight against cancer.
In
China even the dead cannot be religious….Chinese persecution continues into the
afterlife, as authorities remove crosses and crescent moons from tombstones.
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GLOBALONEY
Media blame record cold weather on global warming.
Global warming?
Chicago is colder than parts of Antarctica.
Amidst Global Warming Hysteria, NASA Expects Global Cooling
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ARTICLES
Is abortion constitutional? Let’s ask the founders. One of
the most authoritative sources for learning law during the founding era was
William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England. American law
students studied his work so religiously that Thomas Jefferson wrote to a
friend that “Blackstone is to us what the Koran is to the Muslims.” Here’s what Blackstone said.
Rush Limbaugh's December 2018 Limbaugh Letter has an article
titled "Demonizing White Men." It highlights -- with actual
quotations from people in the media, academia and the political and
entertainment arenas -- the attack on white men as a class. Don Lemon, a CNN
anchorman, said, "We have to stop demonizing people and realize the
biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to
the right, and we have to start doing something about them.
Howie Carr: More than 200 years ago, John Adams observed
that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Which explains why the
Democrats now shun Catholics and born-agains and anyone else who tries to live
by any traditional western faith. They’re standing athwart Obama’s “fundamental
transformation” of America. So they must be destroyed, or at the very least
shoved into the back of the bus.
During the attempted electronic lynching of the Covington
Catholic high school boys on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the mask hiding
the Left’s genocidal rage slipped and was momentarily visible. The reality of
the confrontation was inverted 180 degrees by the duplicitous mainstream media
so that a smiling white teenager was made to face the wrath of an Orwellian
two-minute hate that stretched on for days, even after the factual record was
corrected. Accelerated by social media, the virtual lynch mob called for, among
other horrors, MAGA-hat-wearing teenage boys to be fed headfirst into wood
chippers, or for them to be locked en-masse into their school and the school to
be burned to the ground.
No one is talking about the most disturbing aspect of the
confrontational incident involving the Covington Catholic school boys. Those
boys were not speaking. No one was trying to silence their voices or shout them
down. They were merely standing there
wearing MAGA hats. Not content with just silencing conservatives, the left is
now actively trying to chase conservatives out of the public sphere and society
at large.
In case anyone still needs confirmation, the rage and frenzy
surrounding the supposed standoff caught on video last week between Covington
Catholic High School students and an anti-Catholic, Native American activist
demonstrates as nothing else has lately that the political left’s primary aim,
the end game of identity politics, is the demonization of white Christian men.
VDH: The Covington
Lie offered the perfect occasion for the electronic mob to pounce—after
temporarily licking its wounds following the BuzzFeed fake news
hysteria. And it did so without shame or even much regret after the fact….The
entire psychodrama boiled down not to what the facts on the ground showed, but
rather who each party was perceived innately to be.
Hindsight: massive
historical study, the first major military review of the Iraq war’s lessons,
conducted by half a dozen field grade officers at the US Army War College,
conclusion: Iran was the only beneficiary of Iraq war.
Washington Post: “The
bright red Make America Great Again baseball cap…has transformed into an open
wound, a firestorm of hate and a marker of societal atavism….Has there been in
recent memory any other item of clothing — so specific in design and color —
that pits neighbors against each other, causes classroom altercations, sparks
both rage and fear, and ultimately alludes to little more than a mirage?
Can the Republic Survive the Mainstream Media?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/can_the_republic_survive_the_mainstream_media_.html
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INTERESTING
President Trump has often noted that America’s rich and powerful
choose to live behind large walls for protection, much like the wall he is
trying to build across the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Walls Across America: Celebrity Edition”
Funny satire site “The Peoples Cube” America through the
eyes of a former Soviet agitprop artist..
Cut and paste the URL, right click open doesn’t work.
Trailer for new documentary about World War I by Peter
Jackson (took four years to make). Old
film and newsreels colorized and sharpened with startling results. Jackson: 'I wanted to reach through the fog of time
and pull these men into the modern world, so they can regain their humanity
once more - rather than be seen only as Charlie Chaplin-type figures in the
vintage archive film.”
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WISE
WORDS
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to
reap, we should soon want bread.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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