op ed review 4/21
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Mueller report released: no collusion, no obstruction, no coordination,
no conspiracy.
But liberal talking heads say that doesn’t matter, he’s
still guilty…..mention impeachment an astonishing 309 times during their
coverage the of the Mueller report Thursday.
Trump donations soar after Mueller Report.
Priest punched in the face at a convenience store in
Washington State believes the cross around his neck 'enraged' the suspect. “The man who struck him…asked, “How’s Trump?”
Have you seen the man in this photo?
Turning Point USA leader reportedly stalked, says almost
victim of a hit-and-run on Seattle campus.
Subliminal message?
CBS drama 'The Good Fight' sparks outrage after tweeting a list starting
with the words, 'Assassinate,'
'President,' and 'Trump'
Border agents capture 1,800 illegal immigrants in one day.
The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to try to
block some 32,000 illegal immigrant-led families from claiming section 8 public
housing assistance, saying it’s unfair to hundreds of thousands of Americans
who are stuck on waiting lists. The plan would scrap Clinton-era regulations
that allowed illegal immigrants to sign up for assistance without having to
disclose their citizenship status.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/17/hud-moves-cancel-illegal-immigrants-public-housing/
How illegal aliens arrive here as ready-made Democrats.
'Climate refugees' -- Democrats' new tool to kill U.S.
borders.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/16/climate-refugees-democrats-new-tool-to-kill-us-bor/
Yuma, Arizona declares state of emergency over surge of
migrants.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/16/yuma-arizona-declares-state-emergency-over-surge-m/
Putting American flags on police cars sparks controversy in
Laguna Beach CA. Flag is “hurting people’s feelings who might be immigrants or
visitors”…”..threatening, intimidating, racism..”
Trump Proposes to Bus Illegals to Sanctuary Cities
Sanctuary Cities Should Welcome Illegals, Unless Liberals
Are Lying
The New York Yankees have stopped using TV/radio star Kate
Smith’s rendition of Irving Berlin’s
“God Bless America” during their home games because of allegations of past
racism in the late singer’s choice of songs in the 1930s.
Yankees’ ban of Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’ is a new PC
low
A historic mural depicting white children playing outside in
winter was removed from an Illinois middle school because school officials said
it failed to represent the school’s diversity.
Google Leftists Panic About Leaks, Threaten Employment Of
Colleagues
Middlebury College Cancels Conservative Philosopher's
Lecture on Totalitarianism
Major U.S. bank shuts down 'alt-right' accounts
Don’t know what started the fire, but ISIS fanatics warn of
a future attack on fire-ravaged Notre Dame
European Churches: Vandalized, Defecated On, and Torched
"Every Day"
875 Catholic Churches in France Were Vandalized in 2018 by
Radical Secularists and Muslims
Some French lefties say Notre Dame rebuild shouldn't be
'overburdened' with Christian meaning
Photos inside ravaged cathedral
???Muslim prayers and Koran readings were held at the Vatican
for the first time in history on Sunday.
Lefties think this is wonderful, but Muslims read this as Christian
weakness.
Should Senator Cory Booker Pay Slavery Reparations to
Himself? He can write a check
from the 45% of his European DNA to the 47% of his African DNA.
2020 Democrat Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says he
and his husband want a child soon.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2020-hopeful-pete-buttigieg-husband-planning-child/story?id=62421122
Step aside, First Ladies: it’s Chasten Buttigieg’s time to
shine….”BuzzFeed reporters and other Peter Pans discovered a
potential future occupant of the East Wing who is exactly like them: a zany
manchild obsessed with eating, Harry Potter, and cute animals.”
Mayor Pete and the Crackup of Christianity
The Vigilante From South Bend
Almost All of You Paid Less Taxes in 2018, And Bernie
Sanders Wants That Money Back.
What the lying media isn’t telling you about the Trump/GOP
tax cuts: They really ARE cuts.
50,219,667 Tax Return Filers Paid $0 or Less in Income Taxes
Obama Adviser’s Book Is Ranked 1,030 On Amazon. How Did It
Make NYT’s Best Seller List?
NYC council votes to ban employers from testing job
applicants for pot use.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Robert Stacy McCain, American Spectator, 4/19
For approximately 3 million people, nothing in the Mueller
report could exonerate President Trump of “Russian collusion,” obstruction of
justice, and various other high crimes and misdemeanors of which they are
certain he is guilty. For those 3 million people (a number reflecting the
combined average weekday primetime audience of CNN and MSNBC) Trump’s guilt is
an indisputable fact, his presidency an ongoing crime against humanity, his
2016 election a fraud. In a nation of 325 million people, of course, 3 million
is less than a single percentage point. However, that hard-core audience of
obsessive Trump-haters includes every Democrat in Washington and the vast majority
of our nation’s journalists, university faculty, and other such members of the
intelligentsia. Therefore, their deranged idée fixe has enormous
influence, calling into existence a sort of anti-Trump industry that
manufactures a constant output of rage-inducing propaganda. The CNN/MSNBC
bubble is the cable-TV equivalent of a cult compound, where dissent from their
political religion is forbidden. For the past two years, the fanatics have been
told every night by Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, et al., that the final
destruction of Trump was at hand — “the walls are closing in!” — and the
left-wing faithful awaited their deliverance from the evil man in the White
House.
“Orange Man Bad”— that’s a shorthand label for the anti-Trump mentality,
coined by an anonymous contributor on a Reddit forum in 2017, mocking the
robotic mindlessness of the president’s enemies. No fact that might contradict
their Trump-hating beliefs has any validity to them, because Orange Man Bad.
By obverse principle, anything done to harm Trump or his supporters, including
libel and violent assault, is considered legitimate, because Orange Man Bad.
Living inside a media-generated echo chamber where everyone shares their
simplistic worldview, the Trump-haters tune in nightly to their MSNBC/CNN
religious revival and are catechized, so to speak, with the latest reiteration
of the Orange Man Bad gospel.
What
else can explain what happened Thursday, after Mueller finally delivered his
448-page “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016
Presidential Election.” The delivery of the special counsel’s report was
preceded by a press conference at which Attorney General Barr summarized the
result of the investigation. Barr “made clear that, after two years of
investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and endless media speculation, the
‘Russian collusion’ story was, as some of us had noted all along, a story about
nothing…Contrary to what MSNBC and CNN viewers had been told night after night
for month after month, Trump is not a Kremlin stooge and yet: “Orange Man
Bad!”
Proven
wrong on the matter of “Russian collusion,” the anti-Trump media sifted through
the Mueller report in search of evidence of other wrongdoing by the president,
who of course must be guilty of something. The Twitter feeds of media
types filled up with excerpts of the report proving… what? Well, Trump was very
angry about being falsely accused of “collusion,” and he didn’t enjoy watching
his former associates being investigated and prosecuted as part of what he
considered a partisan witch hunt, inspired in large measure by the phony Steele
dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign. But we already knew that. Trump’s
animus toward the Mueller investigation was certainly no secret, but being
angry is not a crime and, however angry he was, nothing Trump did amounted to
obstruction of justice. Because there was no “collusion,” and thus no crime to
conceal, it would be hard to figure out how or why justice could be obstructed
in such a case. The innocent don’t fear justice, and if Trump was innocent of
“collusion” (as Mueller concluded) why should he engage in obstruction? Never
mind basic logic, cried the Trump-haters, because Orange Man Bad!
CNN
went into complete meltdown mode Thursday afternoon, led by the network’s chief
legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who declared the Mueller report was “pretty bad” and “very
damaging” for Trump. CNN commentator Ana Navarro ranted on Twitter that Barr is
“complicit… duplicitous” and “disloyal to the Constitution,” and harrumphed: “I
don’t know how anyone can read [the] Mueller Report and conclude Trump did not
attempt time and time again to obstruct justice.” Things were no better on
MSNBC, where Chris Matthews reacted to Trump’s written answers to Mueller’s questions:
“My God, it was like he had failed an Alzheimer’s competency test.” MSNBC
commentator and former CIA director John Brennan, who’s spent two years promoting the Russian collusion
narrative, claimed that the Mueller report, which effectively exonerated Trump,
nonetheless contained “really quite extensive” information supporting his own
view. Brennan said the Mueller report showed Trump’s “conduct was unethical,
unprincipled, dishonest and I would say it really does back up political corruption.”
Their
minds are made up, and mere facts cannot penetrate their ironclad certainty
about Trump’s maliciousness. Thus, a 22-month, $25 million federal
investigation that disproved their Russian conspiracy theory was really just a
waste of time and money; The anti-Trump media and Democrat politicians in
Washington continue to believe what they have always believed: “Orange Man
Bad!”
On
Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program last night, the Wall Street Journal’s
Kimberly Strassel said bluntly, “It’s over.” No collusion. No obstruction. No
more indictments. The whole Russians-stole-the-election narrative has been
conclusively debunked, and despite the Mueller report’s detailed accounting of
Trump’s angry outbursts about the investigation, justice was never obstructed.
Yet the 3 million viewers of CNN and MSNBC may not realize this, because those
networks are still saying the same thing they’ve been saying since 2016: “Orange
Man Bad!”
What
can be done about the anti-Trump cult? It’s obvious that they cannot be persuaded
by rational argument to abandon their paranoid delusions, and they’ll still be
ranting about Russia until the day Trump leaves office. They never believed he
could win the 2016 election, and the Russian “collusion” theory was a way to
deny the reality of his victory. Now we are barely a year-and-a-half away from
the next presidential election, and Trump’s chances of winning a second term
have significantly increased. The nearly 63 million Americans who voted for
Trump seem to be sticking with him — his job approval numbers have gained about
7 points in the Real Clear Politics poll average since December 2017 — and the Democrat field for 2020 is a
clown car full of left-wing crazies. Despite what
his enemies in the media might believe, the end of the Mueller probe is a clear
victory for Trump, and if the economy keeps roaring along like it is now, the odds of him being
re-elected are quite good.
None
of these facts matter to the 3 million who watch CNN and MSNBC, the cable-TV
echo chamber defined by the anti-Trump cult mentality of Maddow and Matthews,
Joe Scarborough and Erin Burnett, Chris Hayes and Chris Cuomo. The good news is
that this alternative universe appears to be shrinking. Maddow has lost
nearly a third of her audience since last April, and CNN recently recorded its worst
ratings week of
the year. It has been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over, expecting different results, and this is exactly what
Trump’s media enemies seem to be doing. The more often the president mocks them
as “fake news,” the more determined they become to destroy him, and the more
they limit their audience to the most fanatically deranged Trump-haters.
However, it never seems to occur to them that they might be mistaken, no matter
how often they find themselves humiliated in the ratings. They know only one
thing, and they are completely committed to it: “Orange Man Bad!”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“It’s nearly impossible to listen to college presidents,
provosts and other administrators talk for more than 15 minutes or so before
the words diversity and inclusion drop from their lips. But there’s a simple
way to determine just how committed they are to their rhetoric. Ask your
average college president, provost or administrator whether he bothers
promoting political diversity among faculty. I’ll guarantee that if he is
honest — or even answers the question — he will say he doesn’t believe in that kind
of diversity and inclusion. According to a recent study, professors who are
registered Democrats outnumber their Republican counterparts by a 12-1 ratio.
-Walter
Williams
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BOOKS
Know Thine Enemy: Essential Reading for Conservative
Americans…. “a page-turning reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding
of the threat to America’s culture, politics, and future posed by the Left’s
radical agenda.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Democrat Politician Visits Cuba to Learn About ‘Economic
Development’ and ‘Quality of Life’……dutifully performed all the traditional
Democrat rituals mandatory for such visits, primarily hailing Cuba’s glorious
“healthcare and education!” “there is
much to learn from Cuba.”
‘Shadowy’ dark money network behind left-wing causes exposed
in new report
Watching Bernie at the Fox News Town Hall: Memories of the
Soviet Union
Couple behind Ocasio-Cortez viral video starts pro-socialism
TV show.
Wounded SEAL and freshman Congressman Dan Crenshaw mocked by
the left as ‘captain sh*thead,' Nazi, 'eyeless f**k'. Rep. Crenshaw, 35, who wears an eye patch
after losing his right eye in Afghanistan, has received two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and the Navy Commendation
Medal with Valor.
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ISLAM
A leading academic and cleric from World Cup host country
Qatar has filmed a shocking video guide on how Muslim men should beat their
wives.
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GLOBALONEY
Environmental Purity, Not Common Sense, Motivates
California’s Ban On Plastic.
Eco-warriors' plan to shut down London Heathrow Airport
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6936451/Eco-warriors-plan-shut-London-Heathrow-Airport.html
Flat Broke & Busted: German Wind Turbine Maker Senvion’s
Spectacular Financial Collapse
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ARTICLES
Amazing to see this in the Washington Post: “Admit it: Fox News has been right all along”
Dennis Prager: Notre
Dame: An Omen
Rebuilding Notre Dame Requires Rebuilding the Culture That
Created It
If Entrepreneurs 'Didn't Build That,' Who Did?
Candace Owens Has Shown Us the Way
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell tells Mark Levin about
overcoming his lifelong battle with addiction.
U.S. Intelligence Institutionally Politicized Toward
Democrats
Don Surber: Obama turned the FBI into the KGB
In the Trump Administration, Delivering Results Is The Only
Source of Job Security
Illegal alien families sense that they are vital to
progressive agendas of fundamentally transforming the country by importing
first-generation, loyal constituents—a sentiment that is slowly replacing the
prior idea of mostly young men coming to work off the books. In an increasingly
tribal America, they expect on arrival to be recalibrated instantly from
Mexican nationals without any experience of America into “Latinos” and
“Hispanics” with historical grievances against the majority population of
United States, to be remedied by reparatory hiring and admission, and
facilitated by ethnic operatives. Some polls in the past have suggested that a
third of Mexico’s population would immigrate to the United States if
possible….In theory, 50 million could cross the border in the next two decades,
which poses the question: what are the theoretical limits on illegal
immigration?
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GOOD STUFF
Excellent website gathering together Democrat-Russia
collusion evidence. “In late May 2016, a
man calling himself Henry Greenberg contacted Trump advisors Michael Caputo and
Roger Stone offering negative information on Hillary Clinton. Both Stone and
Caputo refused Greenberg’s offer. Turns
out “Henry Greenberg” is actually an alias of Gennadiy Vasilievich Vostretsov, who
says he has been an informant for the FBI.”
!!??
A new book, previously banned by American publishers,
documents Democrat-Russia collusion during the Cold War, using material a
Russian dissident stole from the Soviet archives.
Must see! Little girl
does outstanding AOC imitation. Hilarious!
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WISE
WORDS
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with
government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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