op ed review 9/22
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Ukraine’s government has been trying since summer 2018 to
hand over evidence about the conduct of Americans they believe might be
involved in violations of U.S. law during the Obama years. The Ukrainians say their
efforts to get their allegations to U.S. authorities were thwarted first by the
U.S. Embassy in Kiev, then by US attorneys in New York……allegations involved
both efforts by the DNC to pressure Ukraine to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election
as well as Joe Biden’s son’s effort to make money in Ukraine while the former
vice president managed U.S.-Ukraine relations.
Bernie Sanders: 'I Would Be Positively Disposed to'
Expanding Asylum to Include Climate Refugees
Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car
Ownership
Buttigieg Doesn’t Want His Ties To Horrifying Abortion
Doctor Politicized
Beto O'Rourke demands banks, credit card giants 'cut off'
firearms sales to law-abiding citizens
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/12/beto-orourke-demands-banks-credit-card-giants-cut-/
Biden promises more jobs for women than there are U.S.
citizens
Democrats promote unionizing entire industries with
'sectoral bargaining'
Poll: 3-in-4 Swing Voters Oppose Democrats' Driver's
Licenses for Illegals
Never Trump Republicans plotting to back Biden
The Church of the Environment: NBC News Asks Americans To Confess Their
Climate Change Sins
New York’s non-denominational Union Theological Seminary
held a ceremony where members of the community placed plants in the center of
the chapel and confessed their sins to them.
Alaska government meeting allows ‘Pastafarian’ pastor with a colander on his
head to lead opening prayer on behalf of the “Church of the Flying Spaghetti
Monster”. The Pastafarian invocation is the latest episode in a bizarre saga
that stems from a state supreme court ruling allowing fringe religions to
participate.
China forces churches to replace Ten Commandments with Xi
Jinping quotes.
School cancels football game days after cheerleaders are
punished for pro-Trump banner
Number of Unaccompanied Alien Children Entering US Reaches
Highest in History
Data: At Least Quarter of a Million DACA Anchor Babies
Living in 37 States
Illegal Aliens Sue Trump Administration To Ensure They Can
Get Taxpayer Money Via Welfare
Hispanic Americans Side with Trump on Immigration: 'I
Believe in the Wall'
Duke denies Young Life student organization for LGBTQ policy
House Democrats call for stripping tax-exempt status from 60
‘hate groups’, mostly socially conservative organizations, anti-immigration
entities, and religious groups.
Twitter suspends entire leadership Team of Latinos For Trump
Critics blast new 'Rambo' movie as “racist and pro-Trump”
for daring to show border violence and drug cartels.
Texas mass shooting survivor lobbies Congress for less gun
control. "I reached for the gun in my purse on the floor next ot me…..then
I realized that my gun was 100 yards away, dutifully left in my car to obey the
law because at that time in the state of Texas, carrying a handgun was
illegal.”
Father of Parkland shooting victim: 'Guns didn’t kill my
daughter, Democratic policies did'
Prosecutors now say American Airlines mechanic accused of
sabotaging flight has ties to ISIS. It
was first reported that Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was just frustrated
over stalled union contract talks.
Hillary Clinton Donor Ed Buck Arrested After ANOTHER Male
Overdoses in His Seedy LA Apartment.
Weinstein, Epstein, Buck, nice donors!
The city of Phoenix cannot compel an art studio owned by two
Christians to design wedding invitations for same-sex couples, the Arizona
Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 4-3 decision. “…the guarantees of free speech
and freedom of religion are not only for those who are deemed sufficiently
enlightened, advanced, or progressive."
Mormon leader reaffirms church's opposition to gay marriage
Distinguished Johns Hopkins Professor of Psychiatry who has
studied transgendered people for 40 years, believes that patients suffering
gender dysphoria need psychological care – not gender reassignment treatment.
California adds Iowa to 'travel ban' over refusal to fund
gender transitions
“Transgender Surgery Is the Lobotomy of the 21st Century”
No question it's alive': In a California courtroom, an
abortionist exposes Planned Parenthood's deceit
Chick-fil-A has more than doubled sales since critics called
for boycott
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Victor Davis Hansen
9/19 “Trump’s Total Culture War”
Donald Trump is waging a nonstop, all-encompassing war
against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century
Germans once called a Kulturkampf. As a result, not even former President
George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now
directed at Trump. For most of his time in office, Trump, his family, his
friends and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected and
constantly attacked.
In 2016 and early 2017, Barack Obama appointees in the FBI,
CIA and Department of Justice tried to subvert the Trump campaign, interfere
with his transition and, ultimately, abort his presidency. Now, congressional
Democrats promise impeachment before the 2020 election.
The usual reason for such hatred is said to be Trump's
unorthodox and combative take-no-prisoners style. Critics detest his crude and
unfettered assertions, his lack of prior military or political experience, his
attacks on the so-called bipartisan administrative state, and his intent to
roll back the entire Obama-era effort of "fundamentally transforming"
the country leftward.
Certainly, Trump's agenda of closing the border, using
tariffs to overturn a half-century of Chinese mercantilism, and pulling back
from optional overseas military interventions variously offends both Democrats
and establishment Republicans.
Trump periodically and mercurially fires his top officials.
He apparently does not care whether the departed write damning memoirs or join
his opposition. He will soon appoint his fourth national security adviser
within just three years.
To make things worse for his critics, Trump's economy is
booming as never before in the new 21st century: near-record-low unemployment,
a record number of Americans working, increases in workers' wages and family
incomes, low interest rates, low inflation, steady GDP growth and a strong
stock market. Yet the real source of Trump derangement syndrome is his desire
to wage a multifront pushback -- politically, socially, economically and
culturally -- against what might be called the elite postmodern progressive
world.
Contemporary elites increasingly see nationalism and
patriotism as passe. Borders are 19th-century holdovers. The European Union,
not the U.S. Constitution, is seen as the preferable model to run a nation.
Transnational and global organizations are wiser on environmental and
diplomatic matters than is the U.S. government.
The media can no longer afford to be nonpartisan and
impartial in its effort to rid America of a reactionary such as Trump, given
his danger to the progressive future. America's ancient sins can never really
be forgiven. In a new spirit of iconoclasm, thousands of buildings, monuments
and statues dedicated to American sinners of the past must be destroyed,
removed or renamed.
A new America supposedly is marching forward under the
banner of ending fossil fuels, curbing the Second Amendment, redistributing
income, promoting identity politics and open borders, and providing free
college, free health care and abortion on demand. An insomniac Trump fights all
of the above nonstop and everywhere. In the past, Republican presidents sought
to slow the progressive transformation of America but despaired of ever
stopping it.
No slugfest is too off-topic or trivial for Trump. Sometimes
that means calling out former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for persuading
NFL stars to kneel during the national anthem. Huge, monopolistic Silicon Valley
companies are special Trump targets. Sometimes Trump enters cul-de-sac Twitter
wars with Hollywood has-beens who have attacked him and his policies. Trump
variously goes after antifa, political correctness on campus, the NATO
hierarchy, the radical green movement, Planned Parenthood, American
universities and, above all, the media -- especially CNN, the Washington Post
and the New York Times. For all the acrimony and chaos -- and prognostications
of Trump's certain failure -- a bloodied Trump wins more than he loses. NATO
members may hate Trump, but more are finally paying their promised defense
contributions.
In retrospect, many Americans concede that the Iran Deal was
flawed and that the Paris climate accord mere virtue signaling. China was long
due for a reckoning. Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation proved
fruitless and was further diminished by Mueller's bizarrely incoherent
congressional testimony. Some of the most prominent Trump haters -- Michael
Avenatti, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Antony Scaramucci and Rep. Adam Schiff --
either have been discredited or have become increasingly irrelevant.
Trump has so enraged his Democratic adversaries that the
candidates to replace him have moved farther to the left than any primary field
in memory. They loathe Trump, but in their abject hatred he has goaded the
various Democratic candidates into revealing their support for the crazy Green
New Deal, reparations for slavery, relaxed immigration policies and trillions
of dollars in new free stuff.
In a way, the left-wing Democratic presidential candidates
understand Trump best. If he wins his one-man crusade to stop the progressive
project, they are finished, and their own party will make the necessary
adjustments and then sheepishly drift back toward the center.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“As for critics saying Pope Francis is “too communist,” I
shall leap to the Pope’s defense in this dispute. He is not “too communist.” He
is a standard-issue Peronist. He subscribes to the same garbage can of economic
and class beliefs as Juan Perón did years ago when he bankrupted Argentina.
Argentina was once a prosperous, productive country. Now it is a basket case
producing greedy minds like Pope Francis, who apparently believes wealth is created
by passing the collection plate. Any other way of creating wealth is utterly
beyond him.”
-Emmett
Tyrrell Jr.
“Justin Trudeau at one point chastised a young woman at a
townhall for saying ‘mankind’ instead of ‘people-kind’ when asking a question —
but didn’t think twice about dressing up in blackface at age 30. Just let that
sink in for a minute everyone…”
-Meghan
McCain
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LEFTIST WATCH
Self-described communist group torches US flag in protest of
Trump’s Los Angeles visit., chanting “America was never Great”.
Self described communists Protest at ICE Warden's Home: ‘No
Borders, No Nations!’
NYT Has Become A Dangerous Misinformation Tool Of The Left
The New York Times’ vile lies about Justice Brett
Kavanaugh were so flimsy, they couldn’t last the day. Yet even after the Times’
correction (which amounted to a retraction), Democrats kept shooting the fake
ammunition. That’s because their target isn’t actual investigations or
impeachment proceedings. The lie itself is the goal. Once out, even if
retracted, it serves their purpose: to smear and intimidate. Truth need not
apply.
Media Bias: Pretty Much All Of Journalism Now Leans Left,
Study Shows
The Newest Craze On College Campuses Is Barring White People
From Having A Voice While Claiming To Be For 'Diversity And Inclusion'
Unmasked: Secretive Arabella Advisors Really Behind
‘Grassroots’ Protest Movement Opposing Trump’s Judicial Nominees
A California bank robber could get extra time in prison
because social justice warriors said his mask was offensive
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GLOBALONEY
MUST SEE, best concise presentation ever on climate: : “Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics on
Climate”…how the alarmists cherry pick the data to fool the public. Send this link to your friends.
What
is the ulterior motive of the environmental movement? “To further
understand, we must examine the career of Canadian businessman Maurice Strong
(1929–2015). Strong once posed the rhetorical question: "Isn't the
only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations
collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring this
about?"
Climate 'Experts' Are 0-41 with Their Doomsday Predictions
Canada’s global warming models threw out actual historical
data and substituted models of what the temperature should have been
Democrats Invite Teen Activists to Testify on ‘Climate
Crisis’: “They Know The Science …”
10,500 Steaks at Democrat Steak Fry Despite Meat Consumption
Concerns
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ARTICLES
Affirmative Action and NASA
More Americans working their way out of poverty - Effective
Compassion
The US Export-Import Bank is China's cash cow
Analysis: Young White Liberals Helping to Turn Red State
Cities Deep Blue
Salon is worried: New
study: Trump's Electoral College win was no fluke — and is likely to happen
again
Perspective: Just
last month, 53 Americans died in mass shootings…while 40,000 died from obesity
Lewandowski: ‘Fake Russia Collusion Narrative Is the
Greatest Crime Committed Against’ Americans
Why Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream is dead
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WISE
WORDS
“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic.
We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.”
-Alexander
Hamilton
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