op ed review 5/26
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
This Poll Gives Strongest Evidence For Reelection Of
President Trump
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47652/poll-gives-strongest-evidence-reelection-president-hank-berrien
It´s not just Rasmussen! Trump tops 50 per cent in a second
poll amid trade chaos as Zogby finds more than Half of millennials approve of
his job performance
Jon Voight declares President Trump ‘greatest president
since Abraham Lincoln’…
This is not good: Four
in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism
Nancy Pelosi lets Rep. Ilhan Omar serve as Speaker Pro
Tempore of the House, calls for Impeachment of Trump. (Same Rep. Omar that told
a group in January “were going to impeach the mother******”)
Anti-Zionist imam delivers opening prayers in the US House
of Representatives
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan attacks 'Satanic
Jews'
Kamala Harris Pledges to Criminalize Private Gun Sales via
Executive Action
Democrats Claim ‘Constitutional Crisis,’ Media Repeat It 386
Times
Obama Judge: Congress Can Subpoena Trump’s Personal Finances
That was then, this is now:
When it threatened President Clinton, Schumer, Nadler compared impeachment
to cannibalizing children, assassinating a president.
Australia’s
Conservatives Win Surprise Election Victory. Voters in mining areas turned against
climate change issues.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/australias-conservatives-appear-set-to-win-surprise-victory-11558186774
Saturday Schadenfreude: Al Gore inserts himself into
Australia's election — and Aussie voters run the other way
Americans, take note: Aussies just rejected futile,
hair-shirt environmentalism
Big surprise! An Immigration and Customs Enforcement pilot
of new rapid DNA testing at the border has found that nearly a third of those
tested were not biologically related to the children in their custody.
Federal judge blocks President Trump from using Defense
funds for parts of border wall.
Hundreds of illegal immigrants stormed a French airport and
occupied an entire terminal, demanded to meet with the country’s prime
minister. “France does not belong to the French! Everyone has a right to be
here!” one person can be heard yelling into a loudspeaker.
California lawmakers weigh budget proposals to cover health
care for illegal immigrants
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace to Beto O'Rourke: What Can We Do to
Better Cover Your Candidacy? If this isn’t
an in-kind campaign contribution, what is?
Government documents will soon be made public that explain former
U.N. ambassador Samantha Power's voluminous unmasking efforts in 2016. “The documents will show that Power
was on a “one-woman crusade” for the Palestinians and against Israel in
2016.”
“The Deep State Just Killed Space Force—and Endangered Us
All.”
https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/05/22/the-deep-state-just-killed-space-force-and-endangered-us-all/
Sen. Dianne Feinstein hosted Iranian Foreign Minister Javad
Zarif for dinner a few weeks ago. “How
is this not colluding with America’s enemies?”
Washington’s governor has signed that freaky human
composting funeral legislation that allows residents to recycle loved ones like
Seattle requires food waste be composted. “more environmentally friendly…..reduces
air particulates and carbon dioxide”
EU President Jean-Claude Juncker Lashes Out on Eve of
Elections: "These Stupid Nationalists - Are in Love with Their Own
Countries!"
Deep State Exposed: Investigation Finds Thousands of
Regulations Issued By Career Bureaucrats In Violation of the Constitution
Documents Show Russia Wanted to Recruit Black Nationalists,
Not Trump
Good for them. Alabama
Public Television refuses to air children’s show “Arthur” episode with gay
wedding.
NBC accused of smearing Covington Catholic teen in ´Law
& Order´ episode
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/10/nbc-accused-smearing-covington-catholic-teen-law-o/
Border Patrol Rep: Record Number of Agents Contracting
Illness from Illegals
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Killing the Electoral College would turn rural Americans
into serfs 5/23
Should rural and small-town Americans be reduced to serfdom?
The American Founders didn’t think so. This is one reason why they created
checks and balances, including the Electoral College. Today that system is
threatened by a proposal called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, or NPV.
Rural America produces almost all our country’s food, as
well as raw materials like metals, cotton and timber. Energy, fossil fuels
but also alternatives like wind and solar come mostly from rural areas. In
other words, the material inputs of modern life flow out of rural communities
and into cities.
This is fine, so long as the exchange is voluntary — rural
people choose to sell their goods and services, receive a fair price, and have
their freedom protected under law. But history shows that city dwellers have a
nasty habit of taking advantage of their country cousins. Greeks enslaved whole
masses of rural people, known as helots. Medieval Europe had feudalism.
The Russians had their serfs.
Credit
the American Founders with setting up a system of limited government with lots
of checks and balances. The U.S. Senate makes sure all states are
represented equally, even low-population rural states like Wyoming and Vermont.
Limits on federal power, along with the Bill of Rights, are supposed to protect
Americans from overreaching federal regulations. And the Electoral College
makes it impossible for one population-dense region of the country to control
the presidency.
This
is why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. Instead of winning over small-town
Americans, she amassed a popular vote lead based on California and a few
big cities. She won those
places with huge margins but lost just about everywhere else. And the system
worked. The Electoral College requires more than just the most raw votes to win
— it requires geographic balance. This helps to protect rural and small-town
Americans.
Now
a California millionaire named John Koza is trying to undo this system. He is
leading and funding the National Popular Vote campaign. Their plan is to get
state governments to ignore how their own citizens vote in presidential
elections and instead get them to cast their electoral votes based on
the national popular vote. If
it works, this will be like getting rid of the Electoral College but without
actually amending the Constitution.
California
has already passed NPV, along with 13 other
states plus Washington, D.C. Nevada, with six electoral votes, could be next. NPV only
takes effect if it is joined by enough states that they control 270 electoral
votes, which would then
control the outcome of all future presidential elections. If that happens (NPV
needs 81 more electoral votes), and if the courts do not strike it down, big
cities will gain more political power at the expense of everyone else.
The
idea that every vote should count equally is attractive. But a quote often
attributed to Benjamin Franklin famously reminds us that democracy can be “two
wolves and a lamb voting
on what’s for lunch.” (City dwellers who think that meat comes from the grocery
store might not understand why this is such a big problem for the lamb.) And
when you think about it, every check on government power, from the Electoral
College to the Bill of Rights, is a restraint on the majority.
The
Electoral College makes it even harder to win the presidency. It requires
geographic balance and helps protect Americans who might otherwise have their
voices ignored. All Americans should value constitutional protections, like the
Electoral College, that remind us that the real purpose of government is to
protect our individual rights.
The Democrats' Alien Voting Strategy: The plan uses the
voting booth to obtain power. To do that they need voters. Here’s one way to
get truckloads of new voters. Immigrants who become citizens vote
overwhelmingly Democratic. Table 4 from this Center for Immigration Reform link shows
voter changes as immigrant population increases in 25 U.S. cities. It gives a pretty good reason why Democrats
want more immigrants. They result in
Democratic election wins.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/the_democratsalien_voting_strategy.html#ixzz5p3cgfJkU
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Democrats only want access to classified documents when
they hurt the President. They only want transparency as long as it doesn’t
expose their lies. They don’t want what’s best for America. They only want
what’s worst for Donald Trump.”
-Charlie
Kirk
“This is your daily reminder Hillary Clinton deleted over
33,000 emails from a private server, as Secretary of State AFTER a
congressional subpoena. And Nancy Pelosi has the nerve to accuse the President
of a massive coverup.”
-Charlie
Kirk
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BOOKS, FILM
The pro-life movie "Unplanned" has been
effectively banned from playing in Canadian cinemas.
At a graduation ceremony at
Liberty University, Vice President Mike Pence warned students that it has
become “acceptable and even fashionable to ridicule and discriminate against
people of faith,” and that they should “be prepared for persecution.” This was
a gentle - one might say Christian - way of describing what has become an
all-out war on believers. This war which I have described in my book Dark
Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America.
Walter Williams reviews "Restoring the Promise," about
the crisis in higher education. He summarizes the three major problems faced by
America's colleges and universities. First, our universities "are vastly
too expensive, often costing twice as much per student compared with
institutions in other industrialized democracies." Second, though there
are some important exceptions, students "on average are learning
relatively little, spend little time in academic preparation and in some
disciplines are indoctrinated by highly subjective ideology." Third,
"there is a mismatch between student occupational expectations after
graduation and labor market realities." College graduates often find
themselves employed as baristas, retail clerks and taxi drivers.
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LEFTIST WATCH
AOC says cauliflower is racist…”Behold The Stupid: AOC
Claims Growing Cauliflower is 'Colonial Approach' to Vegetables”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist cauliflower for brains
Speaking to a rally to
promote the lunatic Green New Deal that would bankrupt America while allowing
China, India, and the rest of the world to continue to emit CO2 without
restriction for more than a decade, AOC revealed the inspiration for her
economic thinking: Karl Marx.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/ocasiocortez_goes_full_marx.html#ixzz5nu7aDdPS
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/ocasiocortez_goes_full_marx.html#ixzz5nu7aDdPS
Government Experiment Brainwashes Children to Manipulate Conservative
Parents: They’re not your children anymore. They’re a “treatment group.” “Child-to-parent
intergenerational learning—that is, the transfer of knowledge, attitudes or
behaviours from children to parents—may be a promising pathway to overcoming
socio-ideological barriers to climate concern.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273776/government-experiment-brainwashes-children-daniel-greenfield
CNN now the 'hate Trump' network, ex-contributors say:
Network 'openly despises conservatives'
Pundit and black conservative activist Candace Owens placed
on a list of “hate agents” maintained by Facebook.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/18/candace-owens-big-tech-trying-to-subvert-a-mass-awakening/
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ISLAM
Pakistan: teen girl has oil thrown on her, lit on fire for
refusing marriage proposal
The FBI has uncovered a homegrown, jihadist compound in the
small Alabama town of Macon County.
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GLOBALONEY
“When we started our careers, it was considered an honor to
be a member of professional societies that helped practitioners keep up with
the latest developments in their fields through relevant meetings and
publications. But things are different now. Whether it be chemistry, physics,
geology or engineering, many of the world’s primary professional societies have
changed from being paragons of technical virtue to opportunistic groups focused
on maximizing their members' financial gains in support of the climate scare, the
world’s greatest science fraud.
It got wetter in the 1990s: climate change! Then it got
drier roughly from 2000 to 2013: more climate change! Then it got wetter again
starting in 2014, and it continues to be wet: still more climate change! The
case for climate change is irresistible, but we always knew that. The Earth’s
climate has been changing for millions of years, and it will continue changing
until the Earth or its atmosphere disappears. Meanwhile, a theory that is consistent with
everything, and therefore purportedly explains everything, in reality explains
nothing.
Many young people suffer from “climate anxiety” for obvious
reasons. “Younger generations are more prone to believe climate-change alarmism
thanks to our modern-day leftist education complex. Older generations, on the
other hand, have lived long enough to know that a plethora of climate doomsday
scenarios haven’t unfolded.”
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ARTICLES
The most quoted like from Martin Luther King’s “I have a
dream” speech is, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.” It’s a beautiful dream we’ve not only
stopped moving towards, Democrats have slammed the car in reverse. To win
elections they’re willing to damage the country by engaging in exactly what
they tell people they’re fighting. That saddest part is it works.
The general public typically
equates the Chamber of Commerce with local Mom and Pop businesses in their area
which meet for networking and mutual support in local chapters across the
country. This is erroneous. According to the Hill: While local chambers cater
to the needs of car dealers and restaurant owners, the national Chamber
operates as the lobbying arm of large corporations that have never met a big
government program they did not like.
That the U.S. leads the world in mass shooting events, and
that the cause is our liberal gun laws, are articles of faith on the Left. This
belief, while pervasive in our culture, is untrue: America: is #56 in mass shootings.
Deroy Murdock: 'Blazing Saddles' and other classic films
don’t deserve wrath of social justice warriors
Narrative Fail: The Country Has Become Less Prejudiced Under
Trump
The Trans Lobby Is Now Marketing to Your Kids
The Mechanics of Deception – the 36 players behind the
Steele Dossier
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INTERESTING
Memorial Day photo: eagle sitting on a gravestone in a
National Cemetary
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WISE
WORDS
“The more that is given, the less people will work for
themselves, and the less they work, the more their poverty will increase.”
-Leo Tolstoy
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done
by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a
limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to
particular exceptions.”
-James
Madison
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