op ed review 4/14
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Democrats in New York killed a proposal for tuition
assistance for children of veterans killed in battle and instead approved a
bill to give illegal immigrants free tuition.
Democrat California Governor now campaigning in El Salvador.
US weekly jobless claims drop to the lowest level in 50
years.
RINO Mitch McConnell tells 2020 Republicans to run
'independent' of Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/11/mitch-mcconnell-tells-2020-republicans-run-indepen/
More RINOs: Fourth GOP senator opposes Trump Fed pick Herman
Cain, effectively ending his path to confirmation.
Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime,
costs American taxpayers about $70,000.
Illegal alien from Honduras charged with raping, killing
jogger had been deported twice
Somali Woman Charged With Terrorizing Neighborhood Tied to
Human Sex Trafficking Case
There are more than 10,000 illegal aliens living in the
United States who are from foreign countries that have been designated as state
sponsors of terrorism by the State Department.
Poll: 67% Of Likely Voters Say Illegal Immigration Is A
Serious Problem, Most Believe Democrats Don't Want To Stop It
Trump at border: 'Our country is full'
Assange arrested in London.
Who's Worse—Julian Assange or the New York Times and Washington Post?
FLASHBACK: Media Once Loved Julian Assange….before he
published Hillary’s emails.
234 House Democrats, 2 Republicans Co-Sponsor Bill Forcing
Schools to Let Male Athletes Compete on Girls Sports Teams
Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) denounces women and girls sports
leagues; says sports competitions must be for all “human beings.
Failed Georgia Democratic candidate for governor Stacey
Abrams says the Georgia “fetal heartbeat” bill is “evil.…not only bad for
morality and our humanity, it’s bad for business.”
California goes tax wild, eyes levies on everything from
water to tires. California republicans
hold only 7 of California’s 53 congressional seats…Democrats’ model for the
rest of the nation.
Retired Pope says church’s crisis was a product of the moral
laxity that swept the West, and not just the church, in the 1960s. Benedict
blames clerics and theologians who, in the aftermath of Vatican II, abandoned
natural law — the notion that morality is written into human nature itself and
can therefore be grasped by human reason — in favor of a more “pragmatic” morality.
Ken Starr says Hillary Clinton DID trigger Vince Foster's
suicide when she humiliated him in front of White House staff and admits he
omitted the finding in FBI report because he didn't want to 'inflict further
pain' on her.
Report:
Google Is Blacklisting The American Spectator…Its CEO told Congress such things
weren’t going on.
Google labeled the pro-life film Unplanned as a
“Drama/Propaganda” when users searched for the film.
“I wanted to help Google make AI more responsible. Instead I
was treated with hostility.”
Former CBS News reporter Lara Logan joins conservative media
for 3-month gig, fears vicious left-wing attacks: ‘I don’t know if I’m going to
even survive this’
Chinese authorities bulldoze Catholic church.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Shaanxi-government-razes-Qianyang-parish-to-ground-(video)-46686.html
Chinese cops send people to ‘concentration camps’ if they’re
found with Facebook on phones during random stop and searches.
China is planning to send millions of youth “volunteers”
back to villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao’s
brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago.
Obama appointed federal judge blocks Trump’s policy of
having asylum applicants wait in Mexico until they get a ruling
But late Friday, the Ninth Circuit(!) overruled the judge…"serious
errors of law."
France proclaims trees should have rights
President Trump will deliver keynote address at NRA annual meeting
this month.
Obama shatters previous record, mentions himself 467 times
in one speech in Berlin.
Farrakhan claims to be Jesus, promises to “bring about the
end of the civilization of the Jews”
Rhode Island: Teachers’ Unions Oppose Bill That Would Make
Sex with Students a Crime
All Steve and Bridget Tennes want is to sell their apples,
peaches and blueberries at a Michigan farmers’ market without being required to
get into the gay-wedding business. They
say their Catholic faith has been maligned by East Lansing officials who have
sought to bar them from the farmers’ market over the couple’s refusal to host
same-sex ceremonies on their property.
Over Parent Objections, Public School Teaches 6-Year-Olds
About ‘Transgender Ravens’ and Gender Fluidity
Government-funded research now allows wrong sex hormones
such as testosterone to be given to girls as young as 8.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Dr. Sebastian Gorka: “Your
Family Can Save Our Civilization” 4/3/19
Let
me ask you a personal question: Why do you believe what you believe? Why? From
where did you derive your values as a human being? In my case, there was an amazing, very strict
Latin teacher at school who I think helped me internalize some of my values.
Everybody has mentors, of course, or one hopes everyone may be so blessed. But
for the majority of human beings who have ever lived on God’s green Earth,
their values come from their parents. It’s incontrovertible. Parents are our
primary role models. And for men, you always—always—try to live up to
your father’s example. For me, that was very, very hard.
My
parents were children when the fascists took over Hungary during World War II.
After the war, my father was persecuted, tortured, and imprisoned for life by
the age of 20 by the Communist regime that replaced the fascists. My mother and
father escaped to the West during the Hungarian Revolution, after my father was
liberated from a political prison.
I
can trace back to a single moment in time when I understood the core values I
inherited from my father. I was on holiday with my parents as a child in
France, my father came out of the ocean—he was a great athlete, he was on the
national crew team before the secret police arrested him, and he loved to swim.
As father came out of the ocean I noticed for the first time in my life the
heavy white lines on his wrist, and, I knew that he was too young to be
wrinkled at his wrists. So, I said, “Dad, what’s that?” And, without skipping a
beat, totally unemotional, he replied: “Well son, that’s where the secret
police bound my wrists together with wire behind my back so they could hang me
from the ceiling of the torture chamber.” That’s when my life changed forever.
That’s
when I understood the value of freedom, I understood what human dignity is, and
for the rest of my life, I understood why the truth matters. And that is the
essence of our civilization. It is a civilization to which both Hungary and
America are a party— our shared Judeo-Christian civilization. We are proud of
being part of that civilization.
The
most important speech our president has given since his inauguration as the
45th commander-in-chief was the speech that he gave in Warsaw. If you are not familiar with the
Warsaw speech, read it.
At the time we told
the Polish government, “We don’t want him downtown…giving the speech. We want
him standing right next to the statue of the Warsaw Uprising. The
memorialization of those brave men and women who stood up to dictatorship.”
Finally, they agreed and that’s where he gave the speech.
A
key part of that speech is where the president asked a question. He asks the
only question that matters right now, which is: “Do we have the desire and the
courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and
destroy it” That is the question. What are the core values of that
civilization?
On
my national radio show, America First, I did an hour-long interview with
Os Guinness that we will be
airing on this Friday. I wish I had days and days to interview him, a true
champion for Truth and Western Civilization. I asked him, “What is the essence of our
civilization—the Judeo-Christian civilization?” And he answered, “Three things:
number one, dignity, number two, freedom, number three, justice.” What do these
words mean and where does their content come from?
First,
dignity. We have dignity not because a government deigns to give us dignity.
And we don’t have dignity simply because we’re the most intelligent animal. We
have dignity because, as the Bible tells us, we are made in the image of our
God. There is a reason that the founding document of this great nation has the
word “Creator” with a capital-C in it. All of this garbage about the founders
being deists—oh really? Read what they wrote. Listen to what they said. They
were Christians and they believed that our unalienable rights came because we
are made in the image of our Creator.
Second,
freedom. But, what kind of freedom? I’m a Catholic and I like to quote St. John
Paul, when he gave his incredible speech in Poland during the Cold War—he was
one of the key actors who brought down the Iron Curtain, along with Ronald
Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The Pope said, “Freedom is not the freedom to buy
Playboy. Freedom is having the choice to do what you ought to do.” That’s where
the quality of freedom comes from.
Judeo-Christian
civilization believes that true freedom, the true realization of Man’s worth,
his value, his objective essence is when you are given freely the choice to
decide by your God, and you use that power to do the right thing—which is
rarely the easy thing. Ask any parent and you will have that confirmed.
And
then lastly justice. This word has nothing to do with “social justice” or with SJW idiocy. This has to do
with objective truth. Objective justice. Our civilization believes that truth
exists outside of humankind. Truth is immutable. A man is a man, a woman is a
woman, good is good, bad is bad. And we strive to create manmade justice
systems that reflect that objective reality, not the capricious systems we see
outside our civilization. Just look outside our civilization. I’m sorry, I’m
going to say something controversial (allegedly): Some cultures are better than
others. Period. If that isn’t true, just go and live in Somalia. Go and live in
Venezuela and then get back to me about those cultures, those political
systems.
Think
of those three foundations. Think of dignity, freedom, and justice, and how
they are represented in other cultures. I have worked very closely with our
allies and our partners in the Middle East. I spent five-and-a-half years in
the Defense Department training our friends, such as the Jordanians and the
Egyptians. Go to the Middle East and do a little research on what “dignity” is
there. Look at what it is to be a woman in the Middle East; what it is to be a
non-Muslim in the Middle East. Talk to me about concepts of freedom and justice
in societies that are run along tribal or clan lines. Or look at Asia, where
the needs of the collective truly outweigh the rights of individuals…..
I
asked you at the outset, “Why do you believe what you believe?” It was a trick
question. Because if you’re a conservative like I am, if you believe this is
the greatest nation on God’s Earth, then you don’t believe what you believe,
you know that what you hold is true. You know that just because today
Jimmy says he’s Julie, doesn’t mean he’s a girl. He is still a boy, though a
confused one. Just because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the Green New Deal
will provide justice for everyone, doesn’t mean it won’t destroy freedom and
the free market and individual liberty in this country, in ways that Stalin
could never have dreamt of doing.
We
are here because we know the core building block of the Judeo-Christian society
is the family. It is the family that provides us the direct connection to the
eternal truths upon which our civilization is built. A civilization that
proudly counts both America and Hungary as its members. God, family, country.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Most often delusions are harmless. Sometimes they are not.
At the moment my fellow Democrats are suffering from two that are harmful. The
first is that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for
the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives. …
The second Democratic delusion is that Americans were robbed of the truth when
Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr concluded
that President Trump did not collude with Russia in 2016.”
-former
Nebraska Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey
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AOC
The Pentagon should draft “all genders,” not just men and
women, according to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
AOC defends Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-NY) after Omar trivialized
the 9/11 terrorist attacks as "some people did something," claiming the
criticism "is an incitement of violence against progressive women of
color." by the political Right.
Ilhan
Omar calls for release of Egyptian prisoner with terrorist ties.
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LEFTIST WATCH
So much for all that free health care. Now for what it
looks like up close: Socialist
Venezuela is an exploding supernova of spreading disease vectors, with its
three million fleeing refugees bringing measles, malaria, diptheria, typhoid
fever, tuberculosis, AIDS, Zika, leprosy, dengue, chikungunya virus, and other
diseases long thought to have been eradicated in the early 20th century, with
them. What an
advertisement for socialism that is.
Confidential Memo: Secretive Liberal Donor Club Plots $275
Million Spending Plan for 2020
College President Argues Against Free Speech on Campus
At the University of Missouri-Kansas City, conservative
Michael Knowles was attacked by leftie protester who used a super soaker to
fire liquid at him that appeared to be glitter-colored bleach. Knowles’ speech was titled simply “Men Are
Not Women.”
New trend at colleges and universities: a course evaluation
form that includes heavily politicized questions such as whether the instructor
has demonstrated “cultural awareness” or created an “environment free of bias
based on individual differences or social identities.”
The Unlawful Campaign against Chick-fil-A
Boston Globe Publishes, Then Edits Op-Ed Encouraging Waiters
To ‘Tamper With’ (urinate) Trump Official’s Food
Bernie Sanders says states should allow felons to vote from
behind bars
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GLOBALONEY
Three million years ago CO2 levels on Earth were the same as
they are today, but there is one major difference between three million years
ago and today…Three million years ago, we humans were not driving cars or
eating the meat that requires cow farts; we weren’t barbecuing or refusing to
recycle or building factories; there was no Industrial Age, no plastic, no air
conditioning, no electricity, no lumber mills, no consumerism, no aerosols.
Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke: Farmers should give ‘fair share’ of crops
for climate change
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ARTICLES
Democrats
& Media Go Ballistic Over Attorney General Investigating THEM For Attempted
Coup. A wide-eyed and stammering
Speaker Nancy Pelosi called it “unhinged” while CNN ran headline after headline
declaring it “stunning” and “scary.” And what exactly has them so upset?
Quite
simply they fear the truth of their attempted coup of a sitting president being
proven as fact by an honest Attorney General and the very serious legal
implications that could then follow.
VDH
California Has Become America's
Cannibal State…..For
over six years, California has had a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3
percent, the highest in the nation. About 150,000 households in a state of 40
million people now pay nearly half of the total annual state income tax.
The state legislature
sold that confiscatory tax rate on the idea that it was a temporary fix and
would eventually be phased out. No one believed that. California voters, about
40 percent of whom pay no state income taxes, naturally approved the extension
of the high rate by an overwhelming margin. California recently raised gas taxes by 40 percent and now
has the second-highest gas taxes in the United States. California has the ninth-highest
combined state and local sales taxes in the country, but its state sales tax of
7.3 percent is America's highest.
Doctor explains how central planning destroys health care
innovation
For those of you who trust the Establishment Media 100%,
chances are you are currently living under the illusion/delusion that hate
crimes in Trump’s America are rising at a pace never before seen. NOT TRUE. In
fact, what is actually ‘exploding’ in this regard are hate crime hoaxes and
some widespread manipulation of the statistical data.
Having decided to become a high school teacher, I was
excited to be accepted to the University of Washington’s Secondary Teacher
Education Program (STEP), which awards a masters degree in teaching and bills
itself as a 12-month combination of theory and practice….I expected the program
to be grounded in challenging practical work and research, both in terms of how
to develop academic skills in young people, and also in the crucial role public
education has in overcoming some of the most grave and intransigent problems in
society. I am not interested in politics or controversy, and I derive no
pleasure in creating difficulties for the UW out of personal resentment. But
whenever family and friends ask me about graduate school, I have to explain
that rather than an academic program centered around pedagogy and public
policy, STEP is a 12-month immersion in doctrinaire social justice activism.
This program is a bizarre political experiment, light on academic rigor, in
which the faculty quite consciously whips up emotions in order to punch home
its ideological message….I found the program so troubling that I have decided
to write this first-hand account with specific examples of the daily experience
to illustrate how social justice activism in the academy has a high opportunity
cost.
Ex-transgender: 'We are ruining an entire generation of
young people'
“Let me tell you
about ‘white privilege’.
If you want to know why Democrats are frightened of Candace
Owens, watch the video of her Tuesday morning testimony before the House
Judiciary Committee.
Democrat Diogenes looking for honest members of his party
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WISE
WORDS
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and
corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.”
-John
Witherspoon
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