op ed review 3/10
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Illegal
immigration is at its highest levels across the southwest border since
2007. Border Patrol agents reportedly
stopped more than 66,000 illegal immigrants jumping the border in February
alone. Illegal immigration overall is up 97 percent compared to last year. “The
word of mouth and social media quickly gets back — if you bring a child, you’ll
be successful.”
Everyone needs to understand this: if the entire adult population of Guatemala
showed up at the border accompanied by one child each, we would have to let
them all in because of legal loopholes that Congress refuses to change. (Why?
The invisible hand of Wall Street, Koch Bros, Chamber, Roundtable, etc.)
“If this continues, I don’t think there will be anyone left
in Guatemala.”
Disgraceful influence of the business lobbies: President Trump is facing a potential revolt
among Senate Republicans (!) over his national emergency declaration to
construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Catch and Release, Birthright Citizenship, Sanctuary Cities
Continue Unaltered Despite Trump Opposition
Tucker Carlson: 1 million illegal aliens at the border is a
crisis -- 'manufactured' or not.
Border Patrol Chief: We Have Intercepted Migrants from 40
different countries including Bangladesh, Turkey, Romania and China.
During a press conference this week, Nancy Pelosi admitted
that the goal for the country’s mass illegal and legal immigration system is to
ensure the more than 1.5 million new arrivals who come to the U.S. every year are
on the voter rolls. Pelosi added that it is immigrants, not American citizens,
who make the nation “more American.”
House Democrats voted to defend localities that allow
illegal immigrants to vote in their elections, turning back a GOP attempt to
discourage the practice.
Democrats refuse to condemn the anti-semitism of Rep. Ilhan
Omar; pass a watered down resolution condemning “hate” in general.
“Democrats’ refusal to call out Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism
is just appalling”
President Trump's approval rating continues to climb.
Trump’s Visit To Vietnam Brings $15 Billion Dollar Boeing
Contract And Thousands Of Jobs To U.S.
Trump says he’ll sign executive order for free speech on
college campuses.
The United States will surpass Saudi Arabia later this year
in exports of oil, natural gas liquids and petroleum products.
Rasmussen: A majority of Americans agree with President
Donald Trump that some members of Congress “hate our country.”
Harvard-Harris poll: About 3-in-4 American voters favor a
populist-nationalist “America First” legal immigration, trade, and foreign
policy platform from candidates running for office that prioritizes protecting
the way of life and economic security of United States citizens above all else.
Dems looking for new demographics for a permanent majority: 125
House Dems vote in favor of bill to lower voting age to 16.
Democrats’ Plan to Steal the Senate in 2021: Create New
States
Former AG Holder: If Democrats win the Senate in 2020 they should
pack the Supreme Court by adding additional seats.
What a great idea! Utah Senate OKs push to teach about
failed economic systems of socialism, communism.
New Alabama law would require residents to pass drug tests
to get food stamps
Georgia House passes 'heartbeat' abortion bill
‘If the heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected’:
Anti-abortion bill gains momentum in Texas
Apparently, the 42 percent of Portland residents who
identify as atheist have been suffering under a great wave of persecution in
their city, because Portland has passed an ordinance making them a protected
class.
??Evangelical university blocks lecture by pro-life activist
Star Parker because of her “radically held beliefs that UNW as a whole would
not agree with.”
Trump administration’s citizenship question on 2020 census
blocked by Obama appointed federal judge
President Trump’s effort to defund the abortion giant
Planned Parenthood is being challenged by 22 states in a series of lawsuits
announced Monday.
Iowa Supreme Court rules that transgender people can use
Medicaid funds to pay for transition-related care, including surgeries.
Canadian Court Rules Parents Can’t Stop 14-Year-Old From
Taking Trans Hormones
Elizabeth Warren opens door to reparations for Native
Americans in addition to African Americans.
Who’s next?
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Liz Peek, Fox News, 3/4
The
2020 election
will be the most important of our lifetime. You hear that from politicians
every two years; this time it’s true.
The
American way of life is going to be on the ballot in 2020. Our free enterprise system,
our individual liberties and the universal opportunity offered by this great
country are under attack. A wrong choice in the next election could set this
nation on a road from which there will be no turning back.
The
2020 presidential campaign will likely pit a progressive Democrat like Bernie
Sanders or Kamala Harris against President Donald Trump. The field of
candidates includes a couple of self-described “moderates” like Sherrod Brown,
and it may yet be that Joe Biden or Michael Bloomberg jumps in to save the
Democrat party from itself. At the moment, though, the energy is on the Far
Left, courtesy of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and her
millions of Twitter followers.
AOC,
as she is called, has terrorized her Democrat colleagues into embracing one
policy after another that would destroy our capitalist economy. The Green New
Deal, which requires legislators to dictate not only how our energy industries
operate but also what kinds of jobs Americans may hold and what their homes
will look like, may seem crazy and reckless to most of us, but it has attracted
the support of 11 co-sponsors in the Senate and 89 in the House. All six
Democratic senators running for president have signed on. They apparently don’t
think it’s crazy at all.
Medicare-for-all,
also gathering support, is nearly as frightening. Backers are either willfully
ignoring the well-publicized shortcomings of similar systems in the UK or
Canada, or they are too lazy to have done their homework. I suspect both are
true.
Representative
Pramila Jayapal from Washington, a co-sponsor of Medicare-for-all, recently
defended the proposal on NPR, saying that rolling it out in two years wasn’t a
challenge because, after all, Social Security was introduced in a similar time
frame. (Actually, it was not. FDR signed the bill in 1935, taxes were
instituted in 1937 and the first checks went out in 1940.)
Really.
This woman, who supposedly has the chops to serve in Congress, thinks that
initiating a program to send checks to the elderly is roughly as complex as a
program that kills off the $1 trillion health insurance industry, puts the
600,000 workers in that field out of work, ends all employer-sponsored
insurance programs and therefore many, many labor contracts, puts the feds in charge
of prioritizing and vetting our health care providers, and sets up the
requisite watchdog operation necessary to oversee the vast funds that would
flow under the mandate. Is it possible
she is that misinformed? Are voters that stupid?
In
2020, Trump will face off against someone who wants to toss our progress
down the drain and forever change the nature of this exceptional nation. Will
this country turn its back on an economic system that has created more wealth
and provided more opportunity for millions to improve their lives in favor of a
socialist utopia that has never, ever succeeded elsewhere? Will they break from
our free enterprise system at a time when every person who wants a job can find
one, when real wages are finally moving higher, when Americans are optimistic
about their futures? This is the moment Democrats choose to try to force
socialism down our throats? How can that be?
You
can thank President Obama. Obama ignored the working men and women of this
country. After the financial crisis, Obama did not prioritize putting people
back to work. He focused on ObamaCare, climate change and on winning the
Hispanic vote. He surrounded himself with people like Larry Summers who, to
this day, derides our economic potential. Summers’ judgement that the U.S. had
entered a prolonged period of “secular stagnation” convinced the Obama White
House that boosting our manufacturing industries or unshackling small
businesses was pointless.
As
a result, the economy stuttered forward and wages were stuck. Disgruntled
workers saw investors reaping the rewards of globalization while their own
fortunes steadily declined. Some of those workers elected President Trump, who
promised to revive American industry and has kept that promise. Others bought
into Bernie Sanders’ politics of envy, believing that successful Americans are
profiting from a rigged system that only favors the rich.
The
former group will vote to support our way of life; as success stories pile up,
we have to hope that the latter group will also vote against the socialist
solution. The Wall Street Journal reported recently on Cassandra Eaton, a young
single mom in Mississippi who was earning the minimum wage of $8.25 per hour
until a local shipyard undertook to train her as a welder. Her pay has jumped
to nearly $20 and when she’s finished her internship she’ll be making $27 per
hour. That’s life-changing.
The
Journal also told the story of James Wilson, a high-school drop-out who went to
prison for selling drugs. Wilson, released in 2013, got help and training from
Goodwill, which led to a job as a fork-lift operator in Indianapolis. Wilson
has a house and a Cadillac; his life, too, has changed forever. There are
millions of stories like these, which remind us that the best welfare program
truly is a good job.
President
Trump is a political neophyte, and as such he gets into trouble. But for the
same reason, he challenges everything. He asks why we allow China to cheat and
steal, why U.S. exporters to Europe are treated unfairly and why we can’t use
our energy bounty to move the needle in the Middle East.
He
asks, most importantly, what we can do for our workers and how we can grow our
economy. In 2020, he will face off against someone who wants to toss our
progress down the drain and forever change the nature of this exceptional
nation. We cannot and must not let that happen.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“It is fundamental to the Democrats’ worldview and reason
for being that all hate comes from the right. They constantly tout themselves
as the party of inclusion, tolerance and love. … [But] our politics today are
suffused with hate, to a degree not seen within my lifetime. Above all, hate
for President Trump. Also, hate for conservatives. Hate for Republicans. Hate
for all those who fail to toe the latest, ever-shifting intersectional line. …
And yet the Democrats cannot admit that they, and the Left, are the
overwhelming source of hatred in today’s world.”
-John
Hinderaker
“At some point we stopped asking a very fundamental
philosophical question: What is the government and what is it supposed to do?
Our Founders thought the government’s job was to protect and ensure liberty.
People today seem to think [the government’s] job is to protect comfort and
lifestyle.”
-Matt
Walsh
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LEFTIST WATCH
Rider University students voted to bring Chick-fil-A to
campus, one of the most popular fast food restaurants in the nation, but the
private university nixed the proposal because the chain's "corporate
values have not sufficiently progressed enough to align with those of Rider." One dean resigns in protest.
As
the Democrats Go Socialist, They Go Anti-Semitic….Jew-hate and socialism have
always gone hand in hand.
Socialism destroys prom: School officials ban kids from
riding in limos because not everyone can afford it.
The Left's Hate-Crime Hoax Machine: Hoax hate crimes belong to a larger category
of ideologically motivated hoaxes, meant to sway public opinion and impact policy
and legislation. Remember Matthew Shepard?
“Shepard socialized with his killers and all three parties to Shepard's
murder were involved in, among other things, the sale of crystal meth. But last
year, amid much publicity and fanfare, Shepard was reinterred at the National
Cathedral, a new heroic martyr to the LGBT cause.
Now we have “colorism: the privileging of light skin over
dark skin,” Backlash over casting of Will Smith as tennis superstars Serena and
Venus Williams’ father, Richard, because Smith’s skin isn’t dark enough.
Washington Post Defends Marx – “Five Myths About Socialism”
A protester obstructed a College Republicans event at
Portland State College by ringing a bell loudly and standing in front of the
projector displaying a presentation for the event. Campus police were present
and witnessed the disruption but did nothing to stop the protester’s behavior,
so the event could proceed.
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GLOBALONEY
Denver Weather: Coldest Early March Temps In Nearly
60 Years
CNN demands: “Explaining
climate change: The new role of the TV weathercaster”
PragerU: Climate
Change: What's So Alarming?
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ISLAM
In the UK: Program Teaching Kids About Homosexuality was
pulled after the school received a petition with over 400 signatures from
parents, mostly Muslim, who have withdrawn their children from the school in
protest.
Amazon Bans Tommy Robinson’s Book, ‘Mohammed’s Koran’
because it’s an unfavorable portrayal of Islam….” Can you think of another
scholarly book on Islam that has been banned by Amazon? Mein Kampf is
for sale on Amazon. As are books like the terrorist manual called The
Anarchist Cookbook.”
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OCASIO-CORTEZ
Chilling must see video:
“AOC did not run, she WAS run: AOC is not a real Congresswoman,
she’s an actress….The Brains Behind AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” “Our goal is
to take over the Democratic Party” Also
mentioned: Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is part of this effort.
AOC’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti ran $1M slush fund
by diverting campaign cash to his own companies.
AOC
owes back taxes from 2012 but wants you to pay “your fair share”.
AOC says the state of America Is
'Garbage,' says Reagan pitted whites against minorities.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44467/ocasio-cortez-state-america-garbage-reagan-pitted-ryan-saavedra
Ocasio-Cortez refuses to denounce socialist Venezuela
dictator Maduro.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/ocasiocortez_refuses_to_denounce_maduro_when_asked.html
´Pompous Little Twit´: Greenpeace Co-Founder Unloads On
Ocasio-Cortez
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GLOBALONEY
Important read: Peer-reviewed
study reveals majority of scientists are skeptical of 'global warming crisis'
PragerU: Climate
Change: What's So Alarming?
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ARTICLES
It’s an odd juxtaposition that in 2019 the self-professed
“party of science” is pushing all their chips into the center of the table
against the concept of biology. Democrats have rejected not only biology, but
all of human history and their own eyes to embrace the idea that what
constitutes a “man” or a “woman” is now open to interpretation. To think
otherwise, to believe your lying eyes, is now on its way to being a hate crime.
Among the many, many things that starkly define the differences
between the Left and the right, none is more wretched than the difference in
how they approach life. Leftists, even when they are in power, are
generally miserable, discontent with America as it was founded and as it is,
always banging their heads against some perceived wall. The right,
on the other hand, is characterized by general good-natured love of country and
the quest to save America from the radical left's reprehensible appropriation
of the culture, academia, the media, and entertainment. Conservative
people revel in their families, work, and self-reliance and their good fortune
to be Americans. They are grateful people.
Forget about Israel: Rep. Ilhan Omar’s not a big fan of
America, either
Steve Bannon has leased a huge deserted monastery in Italy
to become “a gladiator school for culture warriors.” The mission of this school is to save the
West, no less, by restoring Judeo-Christian values to the heart of the
political conversation.
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INTERESTING
How four families came to control California.
Where you'll pay the most – and least – on state and local
taxes in the US
#Walkaway: The Great Awakening; Breaking the Chains of the
Democratic Party
Really funny video montage exposes fake news media: “EXPLOSIVE!! BOMBSHELL!”
Satire Democrat ad. “While Republicans promise freedom, we
promise free stuff!...Our goal is to make government work for you, so you don’t
have to work at all!” 2M views.
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WISE
WORDS
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to
every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole
art of government consists in the art of being honest.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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