op ed review 9/8
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
CNN's 7-Hour 'Climate Change' Town Hall was a man-made
disaster for Democrat presidential candidates
For their next trick, CNN will Host LGBTQ Democratic Presidential
Town Hall
Trump goads GM to shift its operation back to ‘HOME’ from
China
Trump allies raise money to target reporters at top outlets
ahead of 2020
Union Bosses Fear Workers Will Stick with Trump: 'It's a
Serious Problem'
Dems explicitly vote to condemn 'religious liberty'
Mad Dog Mattis: You won't believe how Obama and Biden
bungled Iraq and allowed the rise of ISIS
Obama Swept Iran Terror Plot Under the Rug
AOC to Small States: Drop Dead (And What Small States Can Do
to Stay Alive)
Ilhan Omar: Turn the US-Mexico border over to the UN
Sources: Omar's husband confirms she was married to her own
brother
AOC denounces Republicans for “trying to scare people away from
socialism”
Major League Soccer Team Bans Betsy Ross Flag, Calls it a
'Symbol for Hate Groups'
California Gov Newsom signs bill, citizens may now refuse
police officers' request for help.
AOC Squad Democrats Raise Money to Help Activists Arrested
in Boston, Including Antifa Goons Who Assaulted Cops
San Francisco Declares NRA a 'Domestic Terrorist
Organization'
Bernie Sanders says he supports worldwide funded abortions,
global population control to combat climate change
Elizabeth Warren comes out against nuclear power
Buttigieg: Climate Change Fight Maybe Worse than World War
II
Fracking has made America energy independent, but Sanders calls
for a 'Full Fracking Ban'
Julián Castro Wants Conservative Ideas Expelled From Schools
Poll: Increasing Immigration is Most Unpopular 2020
Political Position
Four years after allowing universal ‘concealed carry’ law,
Maine rated the safest state in the nation for crime
HBO Producer Asks God to Wipe Out Mar-a-Lago with Hurricane
Dorian
Deal With the Devil? Vatican Caves to China’s Demands on
Bishop Appointments
Patients in China Forced to Divulge Their Religious Faith before
receiving hospital treatment
ABC Whines: Texas ‘Moving in the Opposite Direction’ on ‘Gun
Reform’
NASCAR Begins To Inject Left-Wing Politics Into Racing
Six Illegal Aliens Accused of Stabbing 21-Year-Old Man to
Death Maryland
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Ann Coulter
Couldn’t
America have a little self-respect? Japan, Denmark and Israel do.
Year
after year, for decades, America has accepted more refugees than the
rest of the world combined. No country we admire does anything close to this.
These
aren’t immigrants the host country specifically wanted. We’re not saying, "You
know, this country could use some people who know how to restore 17th-century
woodwork" or "Wow, this guy and his wife are both
neurosurgeons!" Refugee admissions to America are so reckless that
this country has taken in Iraqis who deployed IEDs against our own
troops and, in at least one case, one of the perpetrators — not victims — of the Rwandan genocide.
The
idea of humanitarian immigration is that people are being persecuted in their
own countries and must immediately seek safety elsewhere. Naturally, therefore,
most nations accept refugees from their area of the world. The transport is
shorter, the climate and culture are similar, and it will be easier for them to
go home once conditions improve.
Since the civil war in Syria, for example, millions of
Syrians have sought refugee status abroad. The majority resettled nearby, in
the Middle East and North Africa. About 20 percent headed for Europe’s generous
welfare states. But the U.S. also took in Syrian refugees — more than 21,000 of
them. Why did we take any?
We’re two oceans away! "Help me! Help me! Just get me anyplace but here —
actually, I think I’d like to go to Los Angeles. I want a house like in 'The
Fresh Prince of Bel Air."
How
about this? The U.S. will admit as many Syrian refugees as France takes in
Central American asylum-seekers. Why is it unthinkable to send Central
Americans to France but perfectly logical for Eastern Europeans, Middle
Easterners, Asians and Africans to resettle in the USA? Japan is closer to
Syria than America is. Guess how many Syrian refugees Japan has granted asylum?
Twelve. Not 12,000. Twelve.
In
fact, Japan barely allows in any immigrants at all. Less than 2 percent
of Japan’s population is foreign-born — and most of those are Chinese and
Koreans. No one denounces
Japan for “racism.” To the contrary, Business Insider rushed to explain that Japan had
reasons for refusing refugees that are more “complex” than they appear. (Not
really.) The
New York Times explained Japan’s highly restrictive immigration policies as
proceeding from “a desire to preserve their culture, a goal echoed by some conservative
groups in the United States.” (Duh.)
And
National Geographic clarified that Japan’s policy was simply a matter of the
Japanese preferring “a racially unique and homogenous society.” Luckily for the Japanese, they aren’t
white, so this utterly logical, natural position on immigration didn’t trigger
“white nationalist” alarm bells in our mainstream media.
Denmark
is white! That happy, homogenous country is hailed by American liberals such
as Bernie Sanders as a socialist paradise. Of course, the precise reason
Denmark has been able to maintain those munificent social welfare programs is
that it shut the door to immigrants with low “integration potential.” For nearly a decade, the “integration
potential” test effectively operated as a Muslim ban — long before the Muslim
ban was a twinkle in Trump’s eye. Eventually, Denmark dropped the “integration
potential” — and soon thereafter suspended its participation in the
United Nations refugee resettlement quota program (apparently after noticing that it was a country and not a
subdivision of an international debating society).
To
be extra sure their prelapsarian society would not be disrupted, during the
migrant crisis of 2015, Denmark suspended railroad service from Germany.
Government services for refugees were cut back, and an incentive was offered to
those who learned Danish. Indeed, a law was passed allowing authorities to seize
cash and valuables from refugees to help defray the costs of their resettlement. In
addition to the gushing tributes from American liberals, Denmark routinely
ranks as the No. 1 or No. 2 “happiest country.”
Another country with a basic sense of self-respect is
Israel. Syria is in Israel’s backyard. Guess how many Syrian refugees Israel
took? Zero.
A
few years ago, more than 20,000 Eritreans and Sudanese fled to Israel seeking
asylum —"they just wanted a better life!” Israel initially granted refugee status to a
grand total of seven Eritreans and two Sudanese. The rest were put
directly into detention camps and given a choice: stay locked up or leave.
Israel closed the camps in 2018 after accepting thousands with conditions and
deporting others to third countries or their homelands. Maybe Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez
(D-N.Y.) should have gone to cry at those camps.
The
Israelis, who seem to be fairly competent at running their own affairs, also
built a fence — 15 feet high —along their entire 150-mile southern
border. In year one, illegal immigration was reduced by 99.8 percent. After a
few more wall enhancements, the number of illegal immigrants crossing Israel’s
southern border was cut to — let’s see, checking my notes … ZERO. Why doesn’t House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) tell Israel
that a wall is “immoral” and “ineffective”?
Our
country is being inundated with 100,000 Latin Americans every month. That’s
in addition to the thousands of refugees being admitted each month from the rest of the world. Did we
vote for this? I’m fairly certain we did not. In fact, as I recall, Americans
have voted for the exact opposite every time they’ve been given the chance to
vote on immigration. We even chose an utterly implausible individual as president
of the United States — because he was a developer and he said he’d build
a wall.
Another good read: “A Republican president starts on day one with
a disloyal bureaucracy, a hostile media seeking to destroy him, and relentless
fire from the entire cultural heights. Every day of his presidency
is like Groundhog Day when it comes to this dynamic. (Every day) starts
with incendiary headlines and stories screaming his villainy. Within this context,
President Trump's counterpunches are a real act of courage. He is representing
and defending his many supporters and setting the example for other Republicans
to follow his lead. He is almost always
punching back against someone who has attacked either him or a supporter. While
I am concerned about how some of those counterattacks are perceived in the
suburbs, particularly when twisted by the media, Trump is almost never the
aggressor. Republican
presidents before President Trump have been unwilling to take on the liberals'
overwhelming control of the cultural heights. Trump has changed that dynamic by
turning one of their tools, Twitter, against them. He has inspired plenty of
other Republicans to join him in the fight..”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“For the richest Americans, Democrats want to shift toward
taxing their wealth, instead of just their salaries and the income their assets
generate. The personal income tax indirectly touches wealth, but only when
assets are sold and become income.’ … If raiding retirement funds occurs, it
will start at the extremes, as most outrages do. … After socking it to the
rich, Democrats won’t stop there. Having established a precedent….they will
ultimately find a way to come after your IRA and 401K accounts, which harbor
money you have earned for your retirement and pay taxes on as the funds are
withdrawn…..Irresponsible spending by both parties is sufficient reason not to
give politicians more of our money.”
-Wall Street
Journal
“Climate change is a
bunch of rich people telling poor people how they have to make their lives
worse so the rich people’s beachfront property doesn’t get messed up.”
-Frank J. Fleming
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BOOKS
“Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in
American Political History” by Gregg
Jarrett
“Still Winning: Why America Went All In on Donald Trump-And
Why We Must Do It Again” by Charles Hurt
“Unfreedom of the Press” by Mark R. Levin:
“Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left's Plot to
Remake America” by Jeanine Pirro
Power Grab: The Liberal Scheme to Undermine Trump, the GOP,
and Our Republic” by Jason Chaffetz
Review: ‘C.S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction' National Review
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LEFTIST WATCH
'Will & Grace' star calls for straight-up blacklist of
Hollywood Trump supporters
Saints quarterback Drew Brees denounced by the Left for
appearing in a Focus on the Family video promoting “Bring Your Bible to School
Day.”
Antifa Gives Progressives a Tin-Pot Dictator High
“According to Tom Perez, Chairmen of the Democratic National
Committee, socialist candidates are the future of that party. But anyone who
has paid attention lately knows that they are its present. Almost all of the
Democrat candidates for president support socialism.”
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GLOBALONEY
NOAA debunks assertions that global warming has spurred more
hurricanes
NASA admits that climate change occurs because of changes in
Earth’s solar orbit, and NOT because of SUVs and fossil fuels
Climate Theology
Stone-Age Democrats Are Crazy With the Heat
Swedish Scientist Proposes Cannibalism to Fight Climate
Change
Seattle Might Ban New Homes and Buildings From Using Natural
Gas
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ARTICLES
Rush: “The Democrat
Party Is the Largest Hate Group in America”
'Grey's Anatomy' Star Isaiah Washington Explains His
Decision To Leave The Democratic Party
Thoughts of a hungry but woke white man
National Right to Work Act: Union membership shouldn't be
forced
How Obama turned the military into a social-justice
experiment
John Lott: Twitter's Political Bias
The Lies of the 1619 Project
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WISE
WORDS
“The powers of the general government will be, and indeed
must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace,
negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal
operations it can touch but few objects.”
-Joseph Story
(1833)
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