op ed review 8/18
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Trump’s New Hampshire Speech Broke Elton John's Arena
Attendance Record
Poll: Trump at 45% in Wisconsin -- Higher than 2016
Trump administration boosts ability to deny green cards to
immigrants using welfare programs.
Trump campaign's small-dollar donations surge, marking major
shift for GOP
Trump: Mental hospitals needed to keep 'crazy people' away
from guns
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/15/donald-trump-mental-hospitals-needed-keep-crazy-pe/
“If there was ever any doubt about the depth and extent of
the deep-state coup against both candidate and President Donald J. Trump and
the number of deep-state actors attempting to thwart the will of the American
people, it vanished with the release of partially redacted copies of former
Deputy AG Bruce Ohr’s FBI 302 reports.
Liberal self-loathing on display: Actress Rosanna Arquette: 'I’m Sorry I Was
Born White and Privileged. It Disgusts Me'
CNN's Anderson Cooper: It's 'exciting' that whites will no
longer represent nation's 'majority'.
Democrat congressman publishes hit list of names and
professions of EVERY MAJOR TRUMP DONOR in his city of San Antonio earlier this
week.
‘Outed’ Trump donors share deranged threats they’re getting
in wake of Castro’s stunt.
FBI investigating shots fired at ICE offices in San Antonio
MSNBC Guest Calls For Literal Mob Of Pitchforks And Torches
Outside Trump Donor's Home
MSNBC’s Brian Williams fails to push back on ‘insane,
tinfoil hat conspiracy’ theory linking Trump and Hitler.
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace apologizes for saying Trump is
calling for 'exterminating Latinos'
Beto O'Rourke calls Trump 'white supremacist,' says US 'has
been racist since it's been a country'
Cory Booker promises to create office to combat white supremacy
if elected president.
Gang of Democrats besieges Mitch McConnell’s house and calls
for him to be murdered.
Biden compares Trump to the Ku Klux Klan and claims
president has 'abandoned' national unity.
But to the NY Times: ‘Conservatism Has a Violence Problem’
New Hollywood Film Depicts Trump Supporters Being Hunted for
Sport by Liberals
After outrage, ads pulled for 'The Hunt' in wake of mass shootings.
Two Illegal Immigrants Arrested for Repeatedly Raping
11-Year-Old Girl
CNN Sympathetically Profiles Illegal Immigrant Dodging
Deportation — 8 months later he kills a father of five in Colorado while
driving without a license.
Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Mollie Tibbetts Claims
‘Constitutional Rights’ Violated
ICE Arrests 680 Illegal Aliens in Largest Single-State Raid
in U.S. History
Majority of Blacks, Hispanics Support Anti-Illegal
Immigration Candidates
Out of 1200 migrants, zero were found eligible for asylum since
the 'remain in Mexico' policy.
The left's big blame game after El Paso: Guns, Trump, white
supremacy
Connor Betts, the Dayton, Ohio
mass shooter, was a self-described “leftist,” who wrote that he would happily
vote for Democrat Elizabeth Warren, praised Satan, was upset about the 2016
presidential election results, and added, “I want socialism, and i’ll not wait
for the idiots to finally come round to understanding.”
Dayton shooter Connor Betts may be antifa's first mass
killer
FBI Insider: El Paso Shooter Told Officials It was the
Democrat Debate on Free Healthcare to Illegals -- Not Trump! -- That Triggered
His Mass Shooting
Lefties change El Paso shooter online profile from democrat
to republican.
Media ignores 59 people shot across Chicago the same weekend.
Democrats Threaten to Pack Supreme Court over Second
Amendment
Philly Cop-Shooter Maurice Hill Attended Radical Mosque
Firearm Advocate Turns Tables On CNN Town Hall: “Do You
Believe A Woman Has A Right To Choose a Method Of Self-Defense?”
“Lindsey Graham Politely Explains to Idiot Reporters Why He needs
an AR-15”
Evangelist Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr: .“I am the Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Listen to my words,” she
recently tweeted, “President Trump is not a racist!!
Is Rep. Ilhan Omar having an affair with this married Dem
strategist, who has received $250,000 from her campaign? This would get her stoned under Sharia law in
her native Somalia.
Former AOC chief of staff under investigation for alleged
campaign finance misconduct
AOC adrift without chief of staff Chakrabarti
?? Private and public organizations in the Seattle metro
area spend $1 billion each year fighting homelessness — $88,000 for every
homeless person.
Google blacklists conservative website American Thinker
Illinois governor, signs bill requiring LGBTQ history
curriculum for public schools
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/12/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-signs-bill-requiring/
California Introduces Radical Anti-Semitic High School
Curriculum
AFL-CIO Labor Union President Richard Trumka supports the
principle of illegal alien workers taking the jobs of American workers.
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An important exchange between Hoover Institution Senior Fellow
Victor Davis Hanson and Mark Steyn on Tucker Carlson show, 8/13:
VDH: We’ve got to remember where we are in this Jacobin
party that’s taken over the Democratic Party
They see open borders as central to their electoral college strategy,
and indeed if they can’t convince 51% of the electorate of their agenda, then
they want to change the electorate. I’m
trying to be blunt: they really do feel
that illegal immigration has flipped California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada
and it’s central to the future of the progressive movement…they’re pretty open
and candid about that.
Steyn: If they flip
Texas, they win the electoral college now and forever.
VDH: They do and one way of taking Texas is to say that
anyone who enforces border security or supports ICE is tantamount to a Nazi,
and it’s like you said, if you’re tantamount to a Nazi, we know what we should
do with you. They’re trying to prep the
battlefield so people don’t speak out about this.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
This isn’t normal politics. This is an inquisition
Jen Kuznicki · 8/9
Elijah
Cummings sits on a powerful committee in Congress. He is considering every
way he can to destroy the president and his family. The president told him in a
tweet to get his district under control, and all hell broke loose because
Cummings is a black man
and Trump is white.
Donald
Trump has been called a racist for telling a black congressman to pay attention
to his own district. Quickly, all of Trump’s supporters have been called
racists and are defined by the media and opinion-makers as somewhat less than
human.
A
congressman may be called upon to defend his life’s work, representing the
constituents of his district. The color of his skin ought to have nothing to do
with his ability to represent his district, just like his lung capacity or his
ability to walk. He is a human being, picked by the individuals in his district
to represent them, whose mind, common sense, and people skills will eventually
produce results. If the results are bad, he must account for them. If they are
good, he will tout them.
But
now, in America, if you are a person of color and a Democrat, nobody can
criticize you. The Democrat Party has made it clear that only racists dare
criticize you. The color of your skin has everything to do with the criticism
of your job; therefore, you will not be held to account. You have no ultimate
responsibility. In other words, if you aren’t white and you suck at your job,
it’s okay, because only racists will point it out, and you can continue to suck
at your job and lob insults at the guy who pointed it out.
Joaquin
Castro, brother of presidential candidate Julian Castro, sent out a
tweet identifying Trump
donors in the San Antonio area, saying those donors are “fueling a campaign of
hate.”
We
aren’t having a discussion on race in this nation; we are having an
inquisition. Every day, the Left spews hate-filled attacks on the president of
the United States, his family, and his supporters, and there is no reasoning
with them. Their blood is boiling, their veins are popping, their grimy hands
are pointing long, spindly fingers at all of us.
You
cannot criticize certain people of a certain party. It doesn’t work to
criticize policy any more, because policy is lumped together with race and
social justice. Therefore, any criticism of policy is actually construed as
wanting to put black people back into slavery. Policy is personal. These nasty
Democrats have destroyed our ability to maintain peace.
Think
of the lengths the Democrats are going to to try to win an election a year and
a half away. They are taking their message only to their side, to disqualify us
as worthy of any respect. Everyone who doesn’t agree with them is a racist, a
misogynist, a bigot. They won’t stop; this
won’t end. We are approaching an extremely dangerous point, and even if they
win, it won’t stop.
There
are no voices of reason on their side. There are no efforts at civility. They
appear to truly believe their irrational and hysterical actions are going to
save the nation, when they are actually leading us toward violence. And they
don’t care! They believe they can take over this nation by serving this
inquisition upon us, and we cannot ignore it. We must unite against this. We
must continue to use the rule of law to stop their violent forces on our
city streets.
They
have no authority over us, but once they get power, they will stop at nothing
to control us. The Democrat Party has become soaked in toxic wickedness, but
Americans are better than that.
Americans
are peace-loving people. We must see the Democrats as a force within the nation
trying to destroy it, and we must cling to our processes and our laws and our
own inner strength to repel it.
“In a nation afflicted by fads, crazes, manias, and rages,
mass murder is the jackpot for nihilists — begging the question: why does this
country produce so many of them? Answer: this is exactly what you get in a culture
where anything goes and nothing matters. Extract all the meaning and purpose
from being here on earth, and erase as many boundaries as you can from custom
and behavior, and watch what happens, especially among young men trained on
video slaughter games…..The old truism sticks: when nothing is sacred,
everything is profane, and what could be more profane than slaughtering your
fellow humans en masse, for no good reason? Just because you felt like it at
the time?.... One message from the culture of anything-goes-and-nothing-matters
comes through loud and clear: if it feels good, do it! And if you feel bad, do
something to make yourself feel better….It’s not hard these days to imagine the
political animus ratcheting up to something like a new civil war. If it works
out that way, it will be the most psychologically confused political event of
modern history.”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“My guess is if I ask which organization has more political
sway, the NRA or Planned Parenthood, many would say the NRA — probably because
of our left-wing media. But pull up OpenSecrets, the website of the Center for
Responsive Politics, which tracks money in U.S. politics. What you will find is
that in 2018, the NRA made political contributions of $873,071. Planned
Parenthood made political contributions totaling $7,183,139, more than eight
times greater than those of the NRA, 99.5 percent of which went to Democratic
candidates or to organizations supporting them.”
-Star
Parker
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BOOKS
“Still Winning: Why America Went All In on Donald Trump —
and Why We Must Do It Again” by Charles Hurt, opinion editor for The
Washington Times,
“Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the
Unfree World” by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell. “Why Younger Americans
Misunderstand True Socialism”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Democratic socialist convention erupts due to 'sensory
overload,' gendered pronoun usage
Democratic Socialist Convention Does Impression of Mental
Asylum
VIDEO: Democratic Socialists Convention Yields Comedy Gold
Poll: Elizabeth Warren Destroys Bernie, Becomes Biden's
Progressive Challenger
Here comes a new progressive crusade: University Women's
Studies Staffer: Milking Cows Is 'Sexual Assault'
Kunstler: Any decent
psychological detective can conclude why the Left, including especially the
Democratic Party — formerly a pillar of our political system — has gone insane.
Losing a national election two and half years ago traumatized the base. In the
process, the party made the rueful discovery that it was devoid of
reality-based political ideas. This prompted the adoption of reality-optional
excuses for failure masquerading as political ideas: Russia did it! Trump was
“Putin’s puppet.” That clinically paranoid meme, and the massive investigatory
activity it provoked, ended in more failure, so profound that the party still
can’t face it.
The Link between Today's Leftists and Yesterday's Nazis
Tucker: “What's the
point at which rhetoric forces action? When do words become incitement? At what
point do political attacks get so reckless and unhinged that you can no longer
heal the divide they create with politics? It's hard to know exactly, but the
left is getting very close.”
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GLOBALONEY
University bans hamburgers to save the planet.
Throwing cold water on extreme heat hype.
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ARTICLES
Candace Owens, founder of the Blexit movement, told Fox News
that white supremacy isn’t what’s harming black America - it’s “liberal
supremacy.” “The purpose for this is to distract black Americans from the fact
that Democrat policies are actually harming the inner cities. They don’t want
to talk about the illiteracy rates. They don't want to talk about what’s
actually harming black America, because let me tell you, it's not white
supremacy. It’s liberal supremacy.”
America Is Drowning in the Left's Lies About Trump
Democrats Believe Blood Buys 2020 Votes
Mass Shootings: The Elephant in the Room
Criminal and crazy control, not gun control.
FACT CHECK: The U.S. Doesn't Lead the World in Mass
Shootings
The link between pot, shootings may be closer than we think
Scientism is the enemy of science. The triumph of scientism
is the death of science. Scientism forecloses alternative theories and demands
totalitarian groupthink. No task ahead is more vital than exposing and
debunking the invented pseudo-science of scientism. Indeed, if we fail in this
task, we are doomed.
Former Dean of Yale Law School: “Diversity” is the most powerful word in
higher education today. No other has so much authority. Older words, like
“excellence” and “originality,” remain in circulation, but even they have been
redefined in terms of diversity. At Yale, where I have taught for 40 years, a
large bureaucracy exists to ensure that the university’s commitment to
diversity is rigorously enforced—in student admissions, faculty hiring and
curricular design. Yale has an Office of Diversity and Inclusion, a Dean of
Diversity and Faculty Development, an Office of Gender and Campus Culture and a
dizzying array of similar positions and programs. At present, more than 150
full-time staff and student representatives serve in some pro-diversity role. That
diversity should be a value seems beyond dispute. The existence on campus of a
range of beliefs, values and experiences is essential to the spirit of inquiry
and debate that lies at the heart of academic life. Who wants to go to a school
where everyone thinks alike? But diversity, as it is understood today, means
something different. It means diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual
orientation. Diversity in this sense is not an academic value. Its origin and
aspiration are political. The demand for ever-greater diversity in higher
education is a political campaign masquerading as an educational ideal.”
Dennis
Montgomery is a software designer and former CIA/NSA/DoD/DHS contractor.
Montgomery built a surveillance system known as “The Hammer.” Montgomery blew
the whistle on the Obama administration’s allegedly illegal use of that system
to wiretap Donald Trump. The Hammer allowed spying on Supreme Court Justices,
159 judges, elected officials, and 20 million other Americans. Says retired Air
Force General: “Hammer stunned me. It is something that will exceed anything
done before in the U.S. government…This is so far greater than Watergate.
Watergate was just nothing compared to, if Hammer is true, and someone needs to
verify it…This is a very serious thing. Everything about the Russians stealing
the election is tactical deception…This is a coup; the Trump Russian collusion
fake narrative is a coverup for “The Hammer.”
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WISE
WORDS
“If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the
liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions,
let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of
affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself
willing to part with my share of it.”
-Benjamin
Franklin
“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young
are taught in falsehood’s school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth
is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
-Plato
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