op ed review 8/25
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump order forgives student loan debt for
disabled veterans
Trump Defeats Planned Parenthood in Ninth Circuit
Trump moves to end Flores Settlement illegal immigrant
family loophole.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/20/donald-trump-moves-end-flores-settlement-illegal-i/
Cheap US energy leads to $1B Ohio steel mill expansion.
New York Times gives up on Russia hoax; the project from now
to the election is stirring up racial resentment with a ‘Reframe' of American
history. In the Times' view (which it hopes to make the view of millions
of Americans), the country was actually founded in 1619, when the first Africans
were brought to North America, to Virginia, to be sold as slaves.
The New York Times is trying to rewrite
history to fit its biases (and defeat Trump).
And of course, “…there isn’t a solitary mention that slavery and segregation
were the party of Democrats.” This is a large in-kind
contribution to the Democratic Party, which benefits from racial division.
NYT is trying to counter this trend: Zogby: ‘Poor performances’ of Democrats boost
Trump’s approval to 51%, up with blacks and Hispanics.
Poll: Trump Ahead in 2020 Matchup Against Top Democrat
Candidates
Not exactly a ringing endorsement: “Jill Biden Is Begging
You to Hold Your Nose and Vote for Her Husband”
DNC Chair Tom Perez fundraises in Mexico
Rep Dan Crenshaw: “In Hong Kong, Protesters Wave American
Flags. In America, Antifa Burns Them”
Americans Apply for Jobs Left Open by ICE Raids in
Mississippi
Justice: 64% of federal arrests are noncitizens, with a 200%
increase in the last 20 years.
New York City mayor makes it easier for illegal immigrants
to live in affordable housing.
New Jersey Awarded $3.8 Million in College Financial Aid to
Illegal Aliens
The Obama Family Is Purchasing Massive Martha’s Vineyard
Mansion. 29 beachfront acres, 7
bedrooms, listed at $14,850,000.
“So while President Obama was lecturing the country about
the “excesses” of capitalism and how we don’t need
large mansions, expansive property, and a multimillion dollar bank account,
it’s become patently obvious that private citizen Obama wasn’t talking about
himself —just us.”
And wait a minute! We’re
told rising temperatures will melt the polar icecaps and the sea levels will
rise to never-before-seen levels, resulting in massive flooding and loss of
life. So why would the Obama’s plunk down a cool $15 million on a beachfront property
instead of a mansion high atop a mountain somewhere?
Bernie Sanders proposes nationalizing
the energy industry at a cost of $16.3 trillion.
After Tulsi Gabbard destroyed Kamala Harris at the last
debate, Democrats have found a way to remove her from the next debate.
Maybe he’ll have more time for Washington now: Gov. Jay Inslee drops out of the 2020
presidential race.
San Francisco board rebrands 'convicted felon' as
'justice-involved person,' sanitizes other crime lingo.
California’s Biggest Cities Confront a ‘Defecation Crisis’
Democrats in Congress want to solve homelessness by
expanding Section 8 housing.
Harvard professor crudely calls Trump a 'racist' who wants
to 'reverse outcome of the Civil War'
Rob Reiner (AKA ‘Meathead’): ‘The President of the United
States is a Lying Racist Criminal’
No big deal, just a simulated assassination of President
Trump at a fundraiser for an Illinois Democrat
MSNBC: Border Enforcement is a 'White Supremacist Domestic
Terror Campaign'
Reporter wastes 2 days trying to show how easy it is to buy
a gun; finally gives up.
?In what is perhaps the biggest collective virtue signal in
American history, the CEOs of 180 U.S. companies issued a “statement of purpose” in which they claim that
corporations should prioritize social responsibility over profits.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Mystery Solved: Why Evangelicals Support Trump
Bryan Preston, PJ Media
Why do some evangelical Christians support President Trump?
What's the appeal, to people who profess family values, of a man whose life
includes multiple marriages and affairs and who tends to be crude? Let's dive
into this alleged mystery.
Turn with me if you will to the book of Isaiah, chapter 45.
We come to the story of Cyrus the Great. He was not a king of Israel or Judah.
He was emperor of Persia from 539-530 BC. Persia tended to be an enemy of the
children of Israel. It's now called Iran, and continues to be an enemy of
Israel. But Cyrus himself was not; God called Cyrus "my servant" and
Cyrus followed through. Cyrus decreed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon could
return to their homes and re-establish their country. He also allowed them to
rebuild the temple. This was a big deal; Judah had been subjugated and exiled
for 70 years, their ability to worship disrupted by the destruction of their
temple in Jerusalem. Yet here was Cyrus, who was not one of them, playing a
major role in fostering the Jews' return home…
NeverTrumper Ben Howe has a book out called “The Immoral
Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values.”….The
thesis smears evangelicals.
It's fair to say Donald J. Trump is not an evangelical. He's
never been called one and has not called himself one. Technically, he's
Presbyterian. As a New York liberal for most of his life, he had no
conservative credibility prior to 2016. This conservative evangelical was very
skeptical of him, and did not support
him in the 2016 primary. I initially thought his candidacy was Seinfeldian —
about nothing. But by the time he won the Republican primary in 2016, and he
wasn't my first or second or third choice then, a few things were clear. One:
Donald Trump could win the presidency (though it looked unlikely).
Two: He seemed to have grasped a fact that eluded Jeb Bush
and John Kasich; namely, that if you run as a Republican you shouldn't spend
most of your time insulting Republicans. Not, at least, if you want them to
vote for you (or applaud your speeches). You should probably spend the bulk of
your time articulating a positive conservative vision and lambasting the left's
rage and socialism. Trump did that. His passion suggested he might actually put
up a fight against the left. The worse they treated him, the more he seemed to
be readying for a fight.
Three: However flawed Trump might be, and he is, he was
obviously better for the country and for evangelicals than any Democrat would
be. Recall that Trump was running after eight years of President Obama. Those
eight years saw the federal government attempt to force nuns, literally the
Little Sisters of the Poor, to violate their consciences and fund birth
control. Obama took 'em to court over that. The eight years of Obama saw
activist leftists haul Christian cake bakers to court and destroy their
livelihood. The eight years of Obama saw a very emboldened left vent its hatred
for everyone to their right, and evangelicals knew we were in their crosshairs.
They went after Christian-owned Hobby Lobby, they used our tax dollars to fund
abortion, they made their disdain for our faith abundantly clear. The
Democrats' 2016 appeal to us amounted to "Vote for us, you stupid, racist,
bucktoothed haters!" That's terrible marketing anywhere outside the New
York Times newsroom.
Their 2020 message is worse. They're pushing failed
19th-century socialism paired with anti-Semitism (while calling us "racist"),
along with the policy plan that just finished killing Venezuela. They want to
erase our borders and take away our guns. They'll betray Israel at the first
opportunity…Plus: they still hate evangelicals and want us to pay for abortion
on demand.
Hillary Clinton did not offer a break from any of that. She
called us "deplorable" and relished cranking Obama's hostility up a
notch….So Trump emerged as a kind of Cyrus figure: Not necessarily "one of
us," but not someone who would not go out of his way to smear or hurt us
either. Somebody is going to misread that previous line, so as Obama would say,
let me be clear: Trump would be benign toward evangelicals, and might even be
helpful, as Cyrus was helpful toward Israel…
Speaking for myself and the evangelicals I know, Trump
earned our votes by articulating many of our ideals fearlessly. This suggested
he might actually follow through, unlike many who have called themselves
"conservative" for their entire lives but "grow" left once
they get to Washington. If we got some policy wins out of him, all the better.
Trump has been strongly pro-life, strongly pro-American,
strongly pro-Israel, strongly pro-capitalism, and he has pushed back against
the freedom-robbing regulatory state. He cut taxes and he left evangelicals
alone. He didn't sue the nuns. He doesn't want our guns. Voting for Trump is
not "trading Christian values for political power." It's voting in
self-defense against the radical, evangelical-hating left and hoping for the
best - and getting more than expected.
Bryan Preston is a 5th generation Texan, a veteran, co-founder
of Hot Air with Michelle Malkin, producer of the Laura Ingraham Show, and a
former communications director for The Alamo and it’s exhibits.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The (New York) Times does not seek to tell the story of the
United States. Nor does it seek to add to the story. Instead, the Times has a
conclusion and is working backward to contort facts to fit the conclusion. This
is activism. The Times is not reporting but rather building narratives in which
they must ignore or fabricate facts. … Americans could use more knowledge about
slavery, but this effort is not it. Instead, the Times has chosen to reframe
American history to divide us along racial lines and exploit that division for
progressive politics. The Times is behaving as its editors claim the President
behaves.”
-Erick
Erickson
“….what Trump has
accomplished more boldly and triumphantly than he has anything else is his
exposure of the various vessels of the mainstream media — that most supercilious
and intellectually sheltered of institutions — for being the barely veiled
partisan hacks that they so manifestly are.”
-Josh Hammer
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LEFTIST WATCH
The unhinged left-wing reaction to Log Cabin Republicans’
Trump endorsement
Chicago Teachers Union group’s trip to Venezuela, praise of
socialist leader slammed as ‘propaganda tour’
The Ghost Of John C. Calhoun Haunts Today's American Left
Abortion industry hopes renaming abortion ‘reproductive
freedom’ will win over voters.
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GLOBALONEY
Mom of 3 in UK, Arrested, Jailed for Putting Recycling in
Wrong Color Bag
Government agency recommends setting home thermostats at 78
degrees to save the planet.
Two mass murders a world apart share a common theme:
'ecofascism'
“Green” Energy Is Sinister
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ARTICLES
Coulter: “Even before The New York Times
launched its "All Slavery, All the Time" project, no one could accuse
that paper of skimping on its race coverage, particularly stories about black
males killed by white(ish) police officers. Here's one you haven't heard about: Antwon Rose II was a 17-year-old boy shot by
an East Pittsburgh police officer in June 2018 after he bolted from a car that
had been stopped by the officer. The Times published about a half-dozen
stories on Antwon Rose -- or as the Times calls him, "Antwon, who
was unarmed." After the officer was acquitted on all charges in March of
this year, the Times ran an article on the
verdict. Here's what you would learn from the Times: Antwon was
unarmed, "was in his high school's honors program”, "played
basketball and the saxophone”, "volunteered for a local charity”, wrote a
poem which included these lines: I see mothers bury their sons, I
want my Mom to never feel that pain, a policeman stopped the car he
"was riding in" because it "matched the description" of a
car "involved" in a drive-by shooting minutes earlier, the jury
consisted of nine whites and three African Americans. If you read the Times
piece, all you would know is that an honor student who loved his
mom...was KILLED for the crime of riding in a car similar to one that had just
been used in a crime. Here’s what the
Times conveniently left out of the story…..(Example of outrageous journalistic
malpractice.)
LA Times joins the narrative: 'Getting Killed by Police Is a
Leading Cause of Death for Young Black Men.'
Gingrich spurns New York Times history project as
'propaganda'
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gingrich-spurns-new-york-times-history-project-as-propaganda
Jeffrey Lord: “New
York Times is ‘Stalinizing’ America, the left wants to re-write American
history on race.”
The true cost to American workers for allowing illegal
aliens to work here: $493.9 billion
annually, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine. Illegal aliens lower wages by that amount. It is a
5.2% payroll reduction, a tax if you will on workers. And unlike federal income
taxes that hit the 1% hardest, this payroll tax hits lower wage workers the
hardest.
STUDY: Cable News Is a Playground for Congressional
Democrats
Prager: “Imagine a
group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins
are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the
countries in the world, only Italy is illegitimate. And then imagine that these
people vigorously deny they are in any way anti-Italian. Would you believe
them? Substitute “Israel” for “Italy,” and you’ll understand the dishonesty and
absurdity of the argument that one can be anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic.”
Who
says China's social credit system isn't practiced here? Check out what 20% of
hiring managers are doing. “Twenty
percent of America's jobs are off-limits to people who voted for Trump.”
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WISE
WORDS
“Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there
are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it
with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion
as they feel that effect.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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