op ed review 6/22
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Joe Biden has 85 at big Iowa rally -- Trump has 100,000 sign
up in Florida -- Line Starts 42 Hours Early, Outdoor Jumbo Screens Ordered
Trump's Orlando Speech: Unprecedented and Remarkable
Democrat Leaders Pelosi and Schumer Caught on Camera Doing
Victory Dance After They Thought They Goaded Trump into War with Iran
5.8 Million Individuals Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump
Appeals court clears way for Trump administration rule
targeting Planned Parenthood
Mexico to target human traffickers in immigration crackdown
Democrats fear Trump’s wooing of Hispanic voters in Florida
Poll: Support for Florida Gov. DeSantis Surges After
Sanctuary City Ban
“Washington man” (illegal alien) assaults woman days after
being released from King County Jail for raping her last year.
Rjode Island Democrat Gov. Raimondo Signs Bill to Allow
Abortion Through Birth
Black intellectuals surprise Democrats by telling them who
owes the tab on reparations.
Democrats’ talk of reparations inspires things like
this: Man arrested for rape in NYC allegedly
told witnesses ‘she deserved it’ … ‘for slavery’
Supreme Court upholds cross on public land in Maryland
But Alaska government meeting opens with 'Hail Satan' prayer
Fox News beats CNN, MSNBC combined in ratings, tops all of
cable
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fox-news-beats-cnn-msnbc-combined-in-ratings-tops-all-of-cable
Poll: AOC disliked, distrusted, unwanted in her own NY
district
'I don't see why not': Pete Buttigieg open to “having kids”
with husband in White House
The first two states to legalize recreational marijuana are
starting to grapple with teenagers’ growing use of highly potent pot…. “Horrible
things are happening to kids,” said psychiatrist Libby Stuyt, who treats teens
in southwestern Colorado and has studied the health impacts of high-potency
marijuana. “I see increased problems with psychosis, with addiction, with
suicide, with depression and anxiety.” Says the Chair of pediatrics at Seattle Children’s
Hospital “I hope we don’t lose a generation of people before we become clear we
need to protect our kids’ brains”
Marijuana damages adolescent brains, two prominent health
professionals write in NYT op-ed.
Testing of sewage from the City of Tacoma confirms marijuana
use doubled in three years.
Only thing sadder than Swalwell's gun control proposal? His anti-gun
'rally' numbers outside NRA's headquarters (18 people)
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Abraham Miller is emeritus professor of political science, distinguished fellow with
the Haym Salomon Center, 6/19
“Multiculturalism Is a Nation Killer” 6/19
Politics is about
power, how to get it and how to keep it. Politics is about mobilizing votes.
It
should come as no surprise that candidates can say one thing on one day and
another on another day because they will say whatever needs to be said to
appeal to the electorate. Joe Biden instantaneously flip flops on abortion.
Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were as much against illegal immigration as is
Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton was once against gay marriage…..
Politics
in America is about the competition of interest groups for political power.
Once victorious an interest group does not go away; it escalates its demands. The
civil rights movement started out with demands for basic human dignity. Once
those were met, it legitimately demanded equality of opportunity, and once that
was achieved, it demanded preferential treatment where equality of opportunity
was redefined, in Orwellian fashion, as equality of result. Flush with success,
it now demands reparations where those who never were enslaved will receive
compensation from those who never owned slaves, all in the name of virtue and
justice.
By
nature, humans are tribal. Tribalism is the easiest way to organize people and
mobilize them politically. Until very recently, America was a multi-ethnic
society with a dominant culture. That culture is breaking apart as we become
more tribal, and we begin to think of ourselves in terms of tribal loyalties,
as reinforced by political elites.
Multiculturalism
is the great myth of our time. The cliché is, “Our strength is our diversity.”
But is it? Military officers sent to Vietnam learned that the enemy’s strength
was a homogeneous culture, language, and identity.
There
is no real multicultural society on the planet that has not tumbled into
barbarism or devolution. Whether Lebanon, which institutionalized
multiculturalism in its constitution and exploded into ethnic warfare, or
Rwanda, where tribalism descended into barbarism, multiculturalism does not
work.
Switzerland
is not a multicultural society. It has different language groups with one
strong, unshakeable identity. The Swiss know who they are. Something we seem to
be forgetting. Ask the white farmers who are being hunted in South Africa like animals, with the
eager justification of some black political elites, if Nelson Mandela’s vision
of the rainbow society is working.
Minorities
will support the idea of multiculturalism as long as it advances their own
interests. Consequently, tribalism ironically finds its justification in
multiculturalism. In the name of multiculturalism, Muslims want public schools
closed on Muslim holidays and halal food in the school cafeterias. Somehow the
tribal aspirations of all cultures are legitimate, unless those tribes are
white or Christian. In the name of multiculturalism, schools have segregated
dormitories, student unions, and even graduations. But imagine if whites wanted to
segregate the student union, to have white-only dormitories and graduations?
The virtue signalers would descend on the campus in outrage.
Muslims
in Seattle wanted their public-school students greeted with a Koranic
blessing during Ramadan but let a dozen
Christians stand beneath the flag and silently pray in the name of Jesus, and one would think
the Constitution was being eviscerated.
The
advocates of affirmative action hiring in the name of diversity almost never
seek to hire whites where there is a preponderance of minority employees.
Diversity is only good when it means hiring minorities in white-dominated situations,
not the other way around.
No
man or woman wants to be a stranger in their own land, told their culture is
illegitimate, or the aspirations of their children must be sidelined because of
historic injustices of which they had no part, save that someone with similar
skin color was advantaged by them.
We
are told it is the essence of bigotry to see the disproportions of black crime
and not look beyond race to social and economic factors, but when it comes to
the evils of enslavement, all whites are guilty, even those whose ancestors
never owned slaves or had not stepped foot in America until slavery was long
gone.
The
mobilization of tribal instincts is the means for elites — especially the
identity-obsessed left — to advance their quest for political power. But in
politics, as in physics, for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. Newton’s Third Law embraces the political world. Do not expect whites
to sit by idly and be told their culture is illegitimate, and they are
responsible for all the evils in the world. Expect that they too will be
mobilized on the basis of identity.
In
the end, if we devolve into a multicultural society, we will have the same
political instability as other multicultural societies. The mobilization of
people by identity will create a society that is inherently not viable. It is
what the left’s myopic obsession with phony multiculturalism and identity
politics will bring.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Most of the best parts of our constitutional order are
undemocratic and act as counters to the popular passions of democracy, which
our Founding Fathers understood, feared, and held in contempt for good reason.”
-Kevin
Williamson
“This is your daily reminder the Attorney General of
Minnesota is someone who is accused of multiple incidents of domestic abuse
with 911 calls and bruises as evidence. His name: Keith Ellison (also former
DNC Deputy Chair). Democrats pretend to ‘believe women’ until real abuse
happens within their own party.”
-Charlie
Kirk
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TUCKER CARLSON
Clarimont: “….why
Tucker Carlson has become the de facto leader of the conservative
movement—assuming any such thing can still be said to exist. He didn’t seek the
position. I doubt he wants it. He’d probably disclaim it, in fact. But the
mantle settled on him nonetheless, partly by default, though it’s more than
that. First, there’s the show. Carlson is something of a Rush Limbaugh for the
Trump era….. Second, Carlson’s message is in tune with the times. Limbaugh
became famous in part by grasping, early, where conservatism was headed in the
immediate post-Reagan era. Carlson is similarly more in tune than anyone else
with the mix of populism, economic centrism, immigration restrictionism, and
war fatigue that motivates today’s disaffected Right.
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LEFTIST WATCH
Lefty cop haters celebrate murder of young female Sacramento
rookie cop.
‘Socialist’ Countries’ Retreat From Bernie’s Socialist
Health Care Solution
Venezuela: A Humanitarian Crisis The Left Couldn’t Care Less
About
Oberlin’s cultural rot went far beyond SJW politics into a
‘culture of theft’
Pandering to the Left, Joe Biden Suggests Starting ‘Physical
Revolution’ To Deal With Republicans
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GLOBALONEY
Lomberg: Sorry,
banning plastic bags won’t save our planet
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ISLAM
Two Chicago-area men convicted of providing support to
Islamic State
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ARTICLES
VDH: “California:
America’s First Third-World State”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/california-third-world-state-corruption-crime-infrastructure/
How the GOP Will Retake the House in 2020
Oberlin's Racial Hucksterism Comes Home to Roost
Does anyone doubt that Trump is the Rocky of American
politics?
Trump Just Revolutionized Health Care — And Nobody Noticed
We Must Reject LGBTQ Craziness Becoming America's Accepted
Norm
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SATIRE
Babylon Bee “House
Democrats Draft Legislation That Would Make It A Hate Crime To Eat At
Chick-Fil-A”
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WISE
WORDS
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to
make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”
-Thomas
Paine
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