op ed review 5/12
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump & Gallup -- Approval Rating Ticks Up to
New High of 46 Percent. Obama’s job-approval rating was 44 percent at the same
point in his presidency
Trump pardons ex-Army lieutenant convicted of killing
suspected Al Qaeda terrorist in 2009.
Labor organizations will no longer be allowed to skim dues
money from the checks of Medicaid patients under new rules adopted by the Trump
administration.
Trump admin announces groundbreaking policy requiring drug
companies to disclose prices in TV ads.
????Democratic Candidates Say Obama Is The Reason The
Economy Is So Good
New York Times “blockbuster” story on Trump's billion-dollar
tax write off was told by Trump 15 years ago on 'The Apprentice'
'An Evening With the Clintons' tour ends, ticket prices
plummet to $2.00
Collusion with a foreign power? Democrats Colluded With Ukraine Against Trump.
House Speaker Pelosi: ‘We Are a Superior Branch’ of
Government
Pete Buttigieg: America 'Was Never as Great as Advertised'
57% of Democrats Believe President Trump Guilty of Treason
Leftie groups move to oust one of the last anti-abortion
Democrats from Congress.
Whoops, wrong result!
Senate Democrats’ social media poll finds more users want Supreme Court
justices like Kavanaugh than Ginsburg.
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants to give
everybody $1k per month. Isn’t this illegal?
Vatican would deny papal blessing to politician strongly
against illegal immigration
The Liberal Media and Pope Francis Align Against
“Conservative” Catholics.
Heritage Foundation raises record $14M to fight socialism. That’s good, but consider: Bernie Sanders
raised $18.2M in the first quarter.
Colorado school shooting: Devon Erickson identified as one
of two teen shooters: whoops, he doesn’t fit media’s preferred narrative: He
hated Trump, hated Christians, drove a car with “F*** Society,” “666” and what looked like a
pentagram spray-painted across it.
STEM students storm out, chant ‘mental health’ when
gun-control activist Democrats try to politicize vigil for victims.
Racist Liberals Attack Tiger Woods for accepting a
Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump.
Migrant caravan goes global, attracts refugees from across
world trying to enter US.
Joe Biden: U.S. Has ‘Obligation’ To Give Healthcare To
‘Undocumented’ Immigrants
Denver voters reject homeless urban camping initiative.
But wait! Denver
poised to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms?
“The Wrong Narrative”: ’ Seattle elites show little sympathy
for woman raped by homeless man.
Microsoft to Release Version of Word That Makes Your Grammar
‘Politically Correct’
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Washington Times 5/2
Venezuela
is a real-time example of the failure of socialism. Promises of prosperity
frequently lead to poverty for the masses and all-too-often opens the door to
brutal dictators. Nicolas Maduro is such a ruler and we sadly see daily
reminders of how far he is willing to go to maintain his power. More than 3
million people are part of the exodus from Venezuela, with another 2 million
expected to leave by the end of the year.
Once one of the most prosperous countries in this hemisphere,
Venezuela’s economy is falling apart. The socialism promoted by Mr. Maduro is
hurting the people of his country. More than 9 out of 10 people live in poverty
and the average citizen there has lost more than 20 pounds through malnutrition
and deprivation.
Defenders of socialism dismiss Venezuela as an anomaly, but
there are plenty of other examples: Cuba, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and North Korea
to name a few. And who can forget the collapse of the Soviet Union or the fall
of the Berlin Wall? Where is the similar list of failed democratic republics
supporting free enterprise?
Sadly, many liberal politicians still embrace socialism.
Bernie Sanders was for socialism before it became cool on the left as it is
today, and many of his advisers view Venezuela as a model. Scary.
Socialism has failed over and over again. Former British
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it best, “The trouble with Socialism is
that eventually, you run out of other people’s money.” She
was right then and even more so now. No matter how much the government taxes
the “wealthy,” there will never be enough to cover all of the costs connected
with socialism.
Take the so-called Green New Deal. One group estimates the
cost of the plan over a decade to be between $51 trillion and $93 trillion. That
would be on top of the federal government debt that already exceeds $22
trillion. The share of that debt for a child born today in America is $67,000
(more than double the average amount of student loan debt). Our kids and
grandkids will pay the bills, and they will not have enough money to cover the
costs of those bills.
Plus, socialism is not fair. Again, Prime Minister Thatcher
summed it up well when responding to a member of Parliament complain about
“income inequality” saying, “The honorable Gentleman is saying that he would
rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich.” She
was right — yet again.
It increasingly seems that socialists and liberals
(Democrats) are not so concerned about improving the lives of the poor as they
are in taking from the presumed rich. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax is a
prime example. She doesn’t just want to impose a tax on income. She wants to
tax again what many saved up after being taxed on income.
That would be like telling a straight-A student that she has
to share her grades with the other students. Most would agree that is not fair.
So, instead of stealing her high grades, we should be focused on how we can
help the other students improve their own education and get good grades.
Rather than imposing policies that weaken and shrink the
economy, what about doing things that strengthen and grow it? Then, we can help
people improve themselves with the education and skills that they need to
succeed. That will help them get and then keep good-paying, family-supporting
jobs.
President Ronald Reagan said it well on June 29, 1981: “It’s
time that we found ways to make the American economic pie bigger instead of
just cutting an ever smaller pie into more but smaller slices. It’s time we
welcomed those Americans into the circle of prosperity to let them share in the
wonders of our society, and it’s time to break the cycle of dependency that has
become the legacy of so many federal programs that no longer work — indeed,
some of which never did work.”
In America, we know that true freedom and prosperity do not
come from the clumsy hand of the government. They come from empowering people
to live their own lives and control their own destinies through the dignity that
is born of hard work. As I’ve said before, that’s why we celebrate the 4th of
July and not April 15th, because in America we celebrate our independence from
the government and our dependence on it. That’s why we, the United States of
America, will never be a socialist country.
“’The Strange Greatness of Donald Trump’….the central
question to be framed in the next election: What should we demand of our
president? If we’re looking for dignity, manners, grace and orderliness, Trump
is vulnerable. If we’re looking for strong leadership to provide real
opportunity for economic advancement for all Americans and a strong defense of
America and its interests, then Trump has a claim to greatness over his current
opponents and his predecessors.”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The besmirching of AG Barr’s conduct is surreal. He
certainly has not done anything even remotely approximating the conduct of
former President Obama’s two attorneys general. Has Barr dubbed himself the
president’s ‘wingman’ or called America a ‘nation of cowards,’ as did former
Attorney General Eric Holder? Has Barr’s Department of Justice monitored
reporters’ communications or ordered surveillance of a television journalist?
Has Barr used a government jet to take his family to the Belmont Stakes horse
race, as did Holder? Has Barr met secretly on an airport tarmac with the spouse
of a person his Justice Department was investigating, as did former Attorney
General Loretta Lynch, who had such a meeting with Bill Clinton?”
-VDH
“As a 35-year political veteran, looking beyond the
Democrats’ spite and condemnation of Barr, I can smell fear. And the Democrats
are afraid of Barr’s independence, his experience and his willingness to pursue
the obvious questions of the FBI and the Justice Department’s leadership and
the Obama administration’s political posturing during the 2016 campaign. Barr
has the confidence to almost taunt the Democrats. The truth is out there, and
Barr is threatening to reveal it.
-Ed
Rogers
(Re: STEM school shooting) “We have spent decades telling
impressionable young people, with increasing access to all kinds of drugs, that
everything they see is a cosmic accident. They are told that it is foolish to
believe in God, that it is a constitutional right to kill unborn children, that
the country of their birth is evil. And yet we are still shocked and surprised
when this sort of thing happens. Sadly, there will be more such senseless
violence, and it has virtually nothing to do with guns.”
-Gary Bauer, on
the STEM school shooting
“It’s interesting
that no one is against armed guards at banks to guard money….yet so many are
against armed guards at schools to protect children.”
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BOOKS
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution
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LEFTIST WATCH
Prager: Why the Left Mocks the Bible: The Bible and the left are as opposed as any
two worldviews can be. One out of many examples: The biblical view is that people are not
basically good. Evil therefore comes from within human nature. For the left,
human nature is not the source of evil. Capitalism, patriarchy, poverty,
religion, nationalism, or some other external cause is the source of evil.
Chick-fil-A likened to 'pornography' as university faculty
pushes for campus expulsion
As Dems Embrace Socialism, Even ‘Socialist’ Countries Reject
It
This from a Left leaning newspaper:: “Universal basic income doesn’t work.”
Crushed by the Leftist Juggernaut: One Lawyer’s Story
Left-Wing Ideology: A Cult, a Religion, or Science?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/leftwing_ideology_a_cult_a_religion_or_science.html
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GLOBALONEY
Al Gore's activist group demands broadcasters push 'climate
crisis' in their coverage.
Environmentalists Have Now Declared War On Our Lawns
May snowstorm breaks 117-year-old record in Minnesota
Climate Activist Naomi Klein: ‘We’re Not Even Sure We
Deserve to Survive’
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ARTICLES
Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett was fired upon
and injured in his patrol car at close range. Surveillance
cameras caught the point blank shots. The
suspect confessed: "I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic
State and that's why I did what I did."
Philadelphia Mayor holds a press conference, and offers his politically
correct assessment: “In no way, shape or form does anyone in this room believe
that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen (in
the video).”
The States and the Courts Differ on Abortion Laws. When and
Will It Come to a Head?
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INTERESTING
New 4,000 Mile Trail Will Let People Bike From Coast to
Coast on One Seamless Path. Ends at the
John Wayne trail in Washington State.
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WISE
WORDS
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will
secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt.”
-Samuel
Adams
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