op ed review 6/2
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Donald Trump announced that he is slapping a 5%
tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure the country to do
more to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants trying to cross
the U.S. border. He said the percentage will gradually increase — up to 25% —
“until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied.”
Pollak: Trump Just Found a Way to Make Mexico 'Pay for the
Wall'
Mexico’s President Says Migrants Have a Right to Move to the
U.S.
How shocking! Nearly
9-in-10 Illegals Released into U.S. Not Showing Up to Court Dates
ICE Agent: Migrants Trade Children to Get Discounts from
Coyotes
Massive Victory for Conservative Nationalists in European
Elections…
In UK, Farage's Brexit party storms to EU election victory
Pope Francis cries “racism” as EU nationalists win big.
Disney threatens to boycott Georgia over its new abortion law,
but is happy to partner with China, which puts muslims in internment camps.
Ilhan Omar Accuses US of Atrocities on Border
Rep. Ilhan Omar's socialist supporters denounce Seattle-area
protesters against her as 'fascist'
Funny how no one wants to look into that report that Rep
Ilhan Omar married her brother... You'd think they'd be all over this like
tabloid papparazzi. Wild and prurient news always sells papers and draws viewer
eyeballs, and the scattered reports about how America's first Muslim
congresswoman, Rep. Ilhan Omar, reportedly married her own brother in a bid to
bring him into the country ahead of the others trying to get in, is quite a
doozy.
REPORT: Minority Voters Poised To Help Push President Trump
To 2020 Landslide Victory?
Stanley to Make More Craftsman Tools in U.S.
California threatens to upend Catholic 'seal of confession'
AG Barr Battles Intel Community And FBI. Illegal
Surveillance Had Been Going On For Years.
FISA Court exposes Obama's abuse of NSA to spy on Americans
Joe DiGenova blows the lid off the real scandal: the Russia
hoax was a cover-up effort for Obama’s political spying since 2012
President Trump honors Ohio State University officer for
shooting to death a knife-wielding Somali refugee on Nov. 28, 2016, after the
attacker had wounded 13 people on campus.
Big companies want to show that they are “woke”. Gillette
releases commercial showing transgender man shaving for the first time.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Victor Davis Hanson
5/29
One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald
Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the initial impeachment efforts; the
attempt to get him under the emoluments clause, the Logan Act and the 25th
Amendment; the Russian collusion hoax; the Mueller investigation; the demand
for his tax returns; and the psychodramas involving Michael Avenatti, Michael
Cohen and Stormy Daniels. Relentless progressives have needed a new Get Trump
fix about every two months.
More practically, their fixation also substitutes for a
collective poverty of ideas. The Democratic Party has no plan to secure the
borders other than to be against whatever President Trump is for. They would
not build a wall, deport illegal entrants, end sanctuary cities, fine employers
or do much of anything but allow almost anyone to enter the United States.
The homeless crisis is reaching epidemic proportions in our
cities, almost all of them run by progressive mayors and city councils. None
have any workable plan to clean the sidewalks of needles and human excrement.
None know what do with the hundreds of thousands who have camped out in public
spaces, endangering their own health and everyone around them due to drug addiction
and inadequate sanitation and waste removal. On abortion, the new Democratic
position seems to be that the unborn can be aborted at any time the mother
chooses, up to and including the moment of birth. The Green New Deal has been
endorsed by most of the current Democratic primary candidates, even though they
privately know its utopian fantasies would shut down the U.S. economy and
destroy the present prosperity fueled by record energy production,
deregulation, and tax reform and reduction……
Have Democrats proposed canceling the new pipeline
construction that Mr. Trump has fast-tracked? Would they scale way back on the
natural gas and oil production that has made America energy-independent and on
the cusp of becoming the world’s greatest energy exporter?
Democrats have occasionally talked of implementing
reparations for slavery, a wealth tax and free college tuition, and of
eliminating college debt, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the
Electoral College. Yet they have never spelled out exactly how they would enact
such radical proposals that likely do not appeal to a majority of the
population.
Would they reverse Trump tax cuts, stop hectoring NATO
members to pay their promised defense contributions, restore NAFTA or revive
the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement? For now,
no one has much of an idea what Democratic candidates would actually do, much
less how they would do it.
Instead, the fallback position is always that “Trump stole
the 2016 election,” “the Mueller report did not really exonerate Trump of
collusion and obstruction,” and “Trump must be impeached or somehow stopped
from finishing his first term.”
When the Mueller report found no collusion and no indictable
grounds for obstruction of the non-crime of collusion, for a moment
progressives suffered an identity crisis. The temporary paralysis was prompted
by the terror that without a crusade to remove Mr. Trump, they might have to
offer an alternative vision and agenda that would better appeal to 2020 voters.
The Democratic establishment has become something like
novelist Herman Melville’s phobic Captain Ahab, who became fatally absorbed
with chasing his nemesis, the albino whale Moby Dick. The great white whale
once ate part of Ahab’s leg, and he demands revenge — even if such a never-ending
neurosis leads to the destruction of his ship and crew.
Democrats can never forgive Mr. Trump for unexpectedly
defeating supposed sure winner Hillary Clinton in 2016 and then systematically
— and loudly — undoing the eight-year agenda of President Obama.
So far, Mr. Trump seems to have escaped all of their efforts
to spear and remove him before the 2020 election. Mr. Trump, like Moby Dick,
seems a weird force of nature whose wounds from constant attacks only seem to
make him more indestructible and his attackers even more obsessed with their
prey.
Even if the quest to destroy Mr. Trump eclipses every other
consideration and entails the destruction of the modern Democratic Party, it
seems not to matter to these modern Ahabs.
Getting Trump is all they live for — and all they have left.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“How many of those taken in by alarmism realize that deaths
from extreme weather have dropped somewhere around 99.9 percent since the
1920s? Heat and cold can still be killer, but thanks to increasingly reliable
and affordable heating and cooling systems, and other luxuries of the age, the
vast majority of Americans will never have to fear the climate in any genuine
way. Since 1980, death caused by all natural disasters and heat and cold is
somewhere under 0.5 percent..”
-David
Harsanyi
“By asking the executive to investigate itself, it was guaranteed
— yes, guaranteed — that we’d have a fight over ‘obstruction
of justice.’ For the architect of that investigation to keep saying ‘We aren’t
exonerating our target’ is extraordinary. Innocence is the default position in
this country. If a person doesn’t have enough evidence that someone committed a
crime to contend that a crime was committed, he is obliged to presume his
innocence. ‘Not exonerated’ is not a standard in our system, and it shouldn’t
be one in our culture, either.”
-Charles
C.W. Cooke
“More than a few Americans may also notice the contradiction
that Disney is more worried about filming in a U.S. state that has passed a law
democratically than it is operating its theme park and hawking its films in
China, which uses facial-recognition software to monitor its population and has
a million Uighurs in re-education camps. Georgians have a right to self
government, and like other Americans they aren’t fond of receiving ultimatums
from elites on the coasts.”
-The Wall
Street Journal
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BOOKS, FILM
David Limbaugh reviews Mark Levin’s new book. “..presents a
unique indictment of the liberal media today — something I doubted could be
done, given the plethora of material already written on this subject….While the
media and their Democratic Party colleagues breathlessly warn that President
Trump is a threat to the free press, they are just projecting. Trump is simply
defending himself and issuing a clarion call to Americans, warning us that the
partisan media are the real threat — both to the institution of a free press
and to the republic.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
The world has been watching China’s social credit system
with grim fascination, a real-life compulsory Orwellian horror in which
citizens’ lives are determined by their social score. Daily activities are
monitored and tracked, then distilled into a single number according to rules
set by the government. Intended to be fully implanted by 2020, its goal is to
“standardize the assessment of citizens’ and businesses’ economic and social
reputation.” This is all very interesting in a distant and
other-side-of-the-world sort of way, right? Or … are we facing something
similar here in America? Think about it. The U.S. is in the grip of a
progressive mobocracy trying to standardize everyone’s thoughts and actions.
Leftists insist you support their side or they will find some way to hurt you –
economically, politically, socially, educationally,
Soros, Wallace Help Bankroll Dark Money Fund Aimed at
Midwestern Voters
What people who have lived under socialism, good and hard,
will tell you about it
Total Disaster: Venezuela’s Failed Socialist Experiment
Produces Worst Collapse In Nearly 50 Years
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GLOBALONEY
Bill Gates downplays renewable energy: “Do you guys on Wall
Street have something in your desks that makes steel? Where is fertilizer,
cement, plastic going to come from?’
“The public in general doesn’t
realize that from the point of view of geological history, we are in a CO2
famine. … There is no problem from CO2. The world has lots and lots
of problems, but increasing CO2 is not one of the problems. So [the
Paris accord] dignifies it by getting all these yahoos who don’t know a damn
thing about climate saying, ‘This is a problem, and we’re going to solve it.’
All this virtue signaling.”
-Princeton University
scientist William Happer.
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ARTICLES
Why Is the Info Generating Mueller's Probe All Linked To
Hillary Clinton?
Mueller’s Final Statement Turns Jurisprudence On Its Head
Mueller Tried to Entrap Trump
Planned Parenthood’s false stat: ‘Thousands’ of women died
every year before Roe
Democrats, the party of abortion
Karl Rove: “….imagine how Americans might react to the
Democratic argument that the president should be removed from office because he
obstructed justice when there was no underlying offense to hide, and no corrupt
intent behind his demands regarding the Mueller investigation that were issued
out of frustration and never carried out. Swing voters want the federal government to
work. They want Congress and the president to focus on the big challenges
America faces, not to spend all their energy in hyper-partisan activity.
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WISE
WORDS
“War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has
given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better
instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with
justice.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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