op ed review 3/24
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2020 aims to
cut all funding for PBS and NPR, along with the National Endowment for the Arts
(NEA).
The
Defense Department has identified $12.8 billion in possible funding that it
could use to fulfill President Trump’s call for a border wall.
Trump gets a U.S. Supreme Court victory on immigration
detention
President Trump Donates First Quarter 2019 Salary, $100,000,
to Homeland Security
Trump’s Popularity Soars in Midwestern Battleground States
Ted Koppel: Trump's 'Not Mistaken' That Liberal Media Are
Blatantly 'Out to Get Him'
Elizabeth Warren wants to abolish the Electoral College
Obama appointed judge blocks Kentucky’s new law banning
abortion of babies with beating hearts
President Trump’s 2020 spending proposal has drawn criticism
from deficit hawks worried that it fails to balance the budget within a decade,
but some Democrats are promoting a new economic theory that says deficits don’t
really matter.
“People didn’t use to use the word embarrassing about
Seattle, but they use it a lot now,” the narrator to a new KOMO News special
titled “Seattle is Dying” says. The focus of the special is homelessness and
the ways in which it has changed the city.
Must see: This is the
KOMO video report, “Seattle is dying”
Political leaders and public figures were falling over
themselves this weekend to condemn the mosque attacks in New Zealand, while
dozens of Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria to the sound of
crickets.
Double the number of Christians killed worldwide last year
New Zealand Killer: Nation with Closest ‘Values to My Own Is
the People’s Republic of China’
But media calls the New Zealand shooter 'right-wing'
As Russia collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton
emerges
Democrats want to change the rules because they aren’t
winning anymore
New York Times: “The
Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy”
Conservatives face a tough fight as Big Tech's censorship
expands
Facebook blocks Trump’s social media chief: 'Why are you
silencing me?'
Rep. Devin Nunes Sues Twitter for $250 Million in Damages
for “Shadow-Banning” Conservatives to Influence Elections
This is a joke right?
ABC Panel finds “The GOP Is Too Far to the Right, Dems Closer to the
Center”
ICE Union says ‘Thousands of Illegal Aliens Are Being
Released into U.S.’ with ‘Catch and Release in Overdrive’
Dramatic video shows dozens of Central American migrants
cutting and shoving their way through a hole in a California border fence
400 Migrants Apprehended Within Five Minutes in El Paso
Sector
There are 644,488 illegal aliens remaining in our country
who have already been served final deportation orders. No resources to find them and send them back.
The road rage suspect who killed a sheriff’s deputy, wounded
a police officer and died in a central Washington state shootout this week was
living in the United States illegally,
House Democrats want to spend $100 million to give away free
diapers to low-income families.
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Gil Gutknecht 5/15
Watching the Jeep Super Bowl commercial
(see the link below) several times, it suddenly became clear, President Trump
is on his way to a 45 state landslide.
You are way out over your skis, some will say. Get this guy
some smelling salts! What about the nonstop investigations? What about Stormy
Daniels and Robert Mueller? What about the angry Left and their apologists in
the national media? What about Mr. Trump’s prickly, in your face persona? What
about the feckless Congressional Republicans and the never Trumpers? What if
the trade talks with the Communist Chinese come up empty?
Watching the Jeep ad, it became crystal clear. None of that
really matters. It is just noise.
All elections boil down to fairly simple questions. The next
election will not be a matchup between a larger than life Donald Trump and one
of the twenty-odd, Left-lurching munchkins. It won’t even be a contest between
a Republican and a Democrat (Socialist). It will be a contest between those who
love this country and those who don’t. It’s as simple as that.
The marketing and advertising guys at Jeep understand that
here in the land of the free, there is still a majority of us who are patriots.
Especially among prospective Jeep buyers. Ask yourself this, how many people
share the same distain for our country that most leading Democrats do?
Democrats reinforce this every day.
The Left wants to destroy everything most of us believe in.
It wasn’t a slip of the tongue when New York Governor Cuomo said that he didn’t
think America was that great. Like the militant Taliban, they want to tear down
the monuments and memorials that a handful of radicals think offensive. To
them, our founding was flawed. Our founders were racists slave owners. Christopher
Columbus was a criminal. American history is pockmarked with one abuse after
another.
Democrats somehow have convinced themselves that most of the
problems in the world can be blamed on the United States. Others are poor
because we are rich. To them our wealth has nothing to do with free people
interacting in a free market. No, it is because we have exploited and stolen
from others. They conveniently ignore the enormous price Americans have paid to
plant the flag of Liberty around the globe.
They are now willing to openly advance Socialism as the only
cure for the inequities of Capitalism. Never mind the overwhelming evidence
that raw Socialism goes against human nature and it has never
worked…anywhere.
They believe traditional morality is passé. Marriage is
outdated. People of faith are only slightly higher than Neanderthals. The Left
worships humanism, diversity, the environment and the latest class of victims.
Their only sacrament seems to be the sacrificing of the unborn, slaughtering
them even after babies are born alive. It is sick!
The fight over the border wall crystallizes this great
divide. The Left has so much contempt for this country that they do not believe
we have the right to defend our borders. With the help of fellow-travelers in the
media, they torture our language. They turn the arguments on their head
convincing some that those who believe in the rule of law and that citizenship
remain a precious thing are just mean-spirited. Anyone who disagrees must be
shamed and demeaned. Even expressing the view that Western Civilization is
worth defending is now branded as hate speech.
Ordinary Americans, the ones who defend this nation and get
a little misty watching the Jeep commercial, have had more than enough of the
self-righteous, Blame America First crowd. The vitriol that Democrats dispense
daily for our country, its values and its history cannot be explained away.
Voters see it clearly. They know that the anti-America crowd cannot relate to
them, let alone understand how they feel. Donald Trump clearly loves this
country and he does relate to them.
Distain for America may be just the ticket to move the
Democrat base. Democrats don’t see the oncoming train, but they have punched
their ticket to electoral disaster in the general election.
You can drive that Jeep to the bank.
Here’s the Jeep ad:
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The left refers to the skeptics of ‘climate change’
alarmism as ‘anti-science.’ But when it comes to left-wing passions like the
$15 minimum wage, a ‘universal basic income’ and the ‘wealth tax,’ it is the
left that ignores evidence.”
-Larry
Elder
“The Electoral College is the last remnant of the Founders’
vision for a state-governed republic, rather than an all-powerful central
gov’t. The 17th Amendment eliminated state authority in Congress. Killing the
EC will officially eliminate state authority over the presidency.”
-Sean
Davis
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LEFTIST WATCH
‘Damn socialism, why are you chasing me?’ Chinese-Americans
see ghost of communism in Democrats’ leftward turn.
Am I a Democrat? Here’s the checklist.
Socialism: An Old Dogma With No New Tricks
Bernie Sanders in the 1970s urged nationalization of most
major industries.
United Nations Honors Che Guevara—Yet Again. Here’s what he said once: “Violence is inevitable! To establish
Socialism rivers of blood must flow! If the nuclear missiles had remained [in
Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York
City. The victory of socialism is worth millions of atomic victims!”
Why do so many of our university professors argue that
socialism is a better way to peace and prosperity than capitalism? Because it
is, to them, an article of faith. To admit that socialism has failed --
repeatedly, consistently and abysmally -- for over a century would be, for
them, to deny their god.
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GLOBALONEY
Liberals apparently chose the polar bear as a poster child
for global warming because the bears are considered cute, although no one who
had a close encounter with a polar bear would describe it that way. Why global
warming would be harmful to polar bears was never persuasively explained, nor
was there any explanation of how the bears had survived many climatic changes
over hundreds of thousands of years. In any event, it’s time to call the whole
thing off. Polar bears are thriving:
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ISLAM
Unmarried couples flogged in Indonesia after they were
caught behaving amorously -- a crime under Sharia law.
The sympathy with Islamic jihadists is the necessary
perverse outcome of a deep mental illness which I diagnose and call
Islamophilia. This is the exaggerated
love of Islam and of followers of Islam based upon a desire to bring death and
destruction to Christians, Jews, and even those secularists who remain loyal to
Judeo-Christian morality.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/islamophilia_a_neurotic_reaction_against_truth.html
Muslim Doctor Stuns CNN: “President Trump And GOP ´Beloved´
In Much Of The Muslim World…..the Trump administration is not Islamophobic.”
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OCASIO-CORTEZ
Ocasio-Cortez Joins De Blasio In Call To Punish Asian
Students. Progressives want to lower the standards of admission at New
York's top public high schools in the name of diversity. And they don't care
how many Asian students it harms.
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called
illegal immigrants her constituents.
Ocasio-Cortez Blames Low Favorability on Racism, Sexism, Fox
News
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GLOBALONEY
“The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change” by Marc Morano. Mark Levin says, "This book arms every
citizen with a comprehensive dossier on just how science, economics, and politics
have been distorted and corrupted in the name of saving the planet."
Here’s what they really want: “Ending climate change requires the end of
capitalism.”
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ARTICLES
Rep. Ilhan Omar has become widely known for her attacks on
supporters of Israel. Ms. Omar is a naturalized citizen whose Somali refugee
family settled in the U.S. to escape starvation, famine and civil war. Another
name is worth recognition and remembrance, especially among Somali refugees:
Lawrence Freedman. Freedman was the first American killed as part of the relief
effort in Somalia in 1992. Any American casualty is noteworthy, but Freedman’s
sacrifice stands out because he was Jewish.
The people who thirst for justice over Washington’s
continued attempts to deny Donald Trump the power of the presidency make a
mistake in treating Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe as an actual
whodunnit. If this were an Agatha Christie novel, it would have ended with the
revelation that the investigation was sourced in Hillary Clinton opposition
research renamed for dramatic effect “the Steele dossier.” The “who” that
“dunnit” was none other than Barack Obama’s CIA and FBI turning that farcical
absurdity into probable cause to go fishing into the life of Donald Trump to
find something, anything, that might damage him.
Young People’s Embrace of Socialism Shows Why We Shouldn’t
Lower the Voting Age
Roger Simon: Trump's
Most Daunting Task: Educating on Socialism
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WISE
WORDS
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those
who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things
worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to
encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
greater confidence than an armed man.”
-Cesare
Beccaria
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