op ed review 10/20
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Real Income Expectations Rise to Record High, Boosting
Trump's Re-Election Chances
Blue-Collar U.S. Workers Enjoy Highest Wage Growth in Trump
Economy
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/low-income-american-workers-enjoy-highest-wage-growth/
After First 1,000 Days in Office President Trump Holds 50%
Approval Rating -- 5 POINTS HIGHER THAN OBAMA - Despite Impeachment Scam!
Harry Reid admits he was wrong, warns Democrats Trump is 'a
very, very smart man'
Trump: Our Soldiers Should Not Be Guarding the
Turkish-Syrian Border When We Can’t Guard Our Own Border
“Trump's Syria plan reveals a master strategist in the White
House”
President Trump sends a simple, blunt letter to Turkey
President Erdogan. Deep state has a
meltdown. “Shows President Is 'Deeply
Unwell,' Says Historian: 'So Threatening, So Unhinged, So Bizarre'”
ABC News aired fake Syria bombing video, blaming President Trump
for “the situation rapidly spiraling out
of control in northern Syria.” Turns out the mayhem was filmed at the Knob
Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky, where they have an annual “machine gun
shoot”.
On Wednesday, the House voted to condemn President Trump for
withdrawing the U.S. military from Syria.
This included 129 Republicans….. “It is important to note the entire
Republican leadership in the House voted against President Trump. All.of.them….
While the democrats are trying to impeach him. Think about it…” Sundance issues call to action: We Will Remember The 129 Republicans Who
Refused to Stand With President Trump…
Vote Results for Roll Call 560. Washington Republicans Beutler, Newhouse and
Rogers shamefully voted against the President, joining Democrats to support
endless wars in the middle east.
I sent them emails telling them to support the President or
they will never get another dime from me.
Here’s House of Representatives - Member Telephone Directory
Tell them about this poll: Majority of Republicans Back
Trump's Syria Decision
Democrats Decimated in Louisiana after Trump rally: GOP
Gains Senate Supermajority, Dem Governor Now on the Ropes
Democrats now holding 'Soviet-style' impeachment hearings.
CNN Whistleblower Reveals Network 'Vendetta' Against Trump,
Obsession With Impeachment
CNN Supervisor Wishes For Trump’s Death: “Hopefully Soon”
Bill Barr's Brilliant Touchdown Run at Notre Dame” “Secularists
Using ‘All the Forces of Mass Communication…in Unremitting Assault on Religion’”
AG Barr: ‘New Secular Religion’ Inverts Christian Morality,
Employs ‘Inquisitions and Excommunication’
The primary themes of Barr’s speech were social decline and
the attack on religious liberty by certain progressive forces in American life. Here’s the full speech.
Chick-fil-A Sales Continue to Climb Despite LGBT Boycott --
No. 3 Restaurant in U.S.
According to a new analysis: The Democrat Party now
represents the nation’s wealthiest citizens, while working-class Americans have
flocked to the Republican Party over the last decade.
Is this a joke? UN
member states give Venezuela and Mauritania seats on the Human Rights Council. Mauritania still practices slavery: one
organization estimates 600,000 slaves.
Abortionist Woos Patients with Post-Abortion Service of
‘Holding’ Dead Baby
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
I&I Editorial Board
10/18
Who’s Going To Pay For Elizabeth Warren’s $43 Trillion
Agenda?
Elizabeth Warren has been taking heat lately for her refusal
to state the obvious — that paying for her $34 trillion (and rising) Medicare
for All plan would require a huge tax hike on the middle class. Americans for
Tax Reform has helpfully gathered up 17 video clips of the Massachusetts
senator dodging the question. It’s
obvious why Warren doesn’t want to utter the words “middle-class tax hike.”
She’s smart enough to know Republicans would play that quote on an endless loop
in every battleground state up until Election Day. But by focusing on Medicare
for All, Warren’s critics are letting her off too easy. That’s because Medicare
for All isn’t the only massive new government program she would impose on the
country.
Here’s a rundown of what she’s listed … so far … and the
10-year costs:
Green New Deal:
$4 trillion “in green research, manufacturing, and exporting,” emission-free
buildings, electricity, and so on.
Social Security expansion:
Warren wants to dramatically expand benefits, which will cost taxpayers at
least $1.8 trillion. She claims it’s all paid for by imposing a 14.8% tax on
incomes above $250,000. But that income threshold isn’t indexed, so the hike
will eventually bite the middle class.
Free college and debt
forgiveness: $1.25 trillion.
Universal Child Care and
Early Learning plan: $690 billion.
Housing:
$500 billion to “build, preserve, and rehab units that will be affordable to
lower-income families.”
Opioid crisis:
$100 billion in additional spending.
Election “security”:
$20 billion.
Broadband:
$85 billion federal grant program “to massively expand broadband access across
the country” and $2.5 billion “to help states develop digital equity plans and
launch digital inclusion project.”
Job training:
$20 billion on apprenticeships and training programs “for people across rural
America.”
Then there are the various other billion-here-billion-there
programs, such as the $7 billion fund “to close the gap in startup capital
for entrepreneurs of color,” relief for Puerto Rico’s $120 billion in debt and
pension obligations, and so on. Add it all together and it comes out to roughly
$42.5 trillion over a decade. In other words, Warren plans to nearly double
the size of the federal government.
If Warren were to take every penny from everyone making more
than $200,000, she wouldn’t have enough money to pay for all these programs,
much less tackle annual deficits that will be topping $1 trillion. She could
double everyone’s income taxes as well as corporate taxes and not have enough
to cover just Medicare for All’s costs.
The wealth tax she’s depending on is an absolute abomination
that would — if there’s any hope left for this country — be found wildly
unconstitutional, and if not, would crash the economy.
And none of this includes the vast amount of new, hidden
taxes her plans would impose on middle-class families. Most notably, her “clean
energy” plan — which would ban fracking, phase out nuclear power, and force the
country to 100% renewable energy in a matter of years — would cause utility
bills to skyrocket. Her plan to force electric cars on the market would force
sticker prices through the roof.
Warren would have to raise middle-class taxes. Massively.
And not just to pay for Medicare for All. She won’t say it. Reporters won’t
pressure her to, or hold her accountable for her attempt to deceive the public.
But there is no escaping it.
Another informative read:
Progressing toward Extinction
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“If Congress is so adamant that U.S. forces should be
fighting in the Syrian civil war, then Congress should vote to declare war.”
-Washington Times
French reporter: “You have very low unemployment rate in the
US and we have very high unemployment rate in France. How come? What the recipe
for?”
Trump: “Well maybe we have a better President than you do.”
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BOOKS
“Power Grab: The Liberal Scheme to Undermine Trump, the GOP,
and Our Republic” by Jason Chaffetz
Sara Carter: “Power Grab will leave you wanting more. Long
after you’ll be thinking about the implications of what Jason Chaffetz reveals
in this stunning new account of Washington D.C. politics. Readers will never
again take Democratic narratives at face value. The duplicity, the hypocrisy,
and the flippancy with which they sacrifice the very foundational elements of
our government must be fought on every level.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
Leftist Dark Money Group Pushes Scheme to Pack Supreme Court
with Liberal Justices
Soros-Funded ACLU Demands Trump Free Pregnant Migrants into
U.S.
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“PROGRESSIVE” AMERICA
College Dorm Hosts Drag Queens To Read And Dance With
Children
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/17/college-dorm-hosts-drag-queens-to-read-and-dance-with-children/
Disney Confirms 'Gay Couple' in Animated Kids' Show
Pa. school district approves plan to build gender-neutral
locker rooms
San Francisco Blacklists 22 States over Pro-Life Laws
UW professor condemns 'violent and racist' SpongeBob
SquarePants. This passes as scholarship
at UW: “..the whitewashing of violent
American military activities through SpongeBob’s occupation and reclaiming of
the bottom of Bikini Atoll’s lagoon…SpongeBob and his friends play a role in
normalizing the settler colonial takings of indigenous lands while erasing the
ancestral Bikinian people from their nonfictional homeland.”
GQ Magazine Says “New Masculinity” is Men Wearing Earrings,
Giant Sleeping Bag Dresses and Crying
Leftie Free Trader Paul Krugman Admits Failure of
Globalization for U.S. Workers
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GLOBALONEY
Environmentalists target Charmin toilet paper for not using
recycled materials
Men and women of science are supposed to be rational, sober
professionals. Yet a few hundred have decided to behave as rabble, having been
overtaken by global warming hysteria….aligning themselves with the Extinction
Rebellion, an organization that’s been described as a “loopy middle-class
doomsday cult.” The rebellion “wants to propel us backwards, to the Stone Age…to
reverse the most important moment in human history – the Industrial
Revolution,” and roll back its “liberation of mankind from the brutishness and
ignorance of life on the land.” The activists would “recreate that old,
unforgiving world in which we all ‘ate locally’, never travelled, danced around
maypoles for fun, and died of cholera when we were 38.”
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ARTICLES
Kurt Schlichter (trial lawyer, retired Army colonel, and
former standup comic--always a lively read): “The Elite Hates The Trump
Doctrine Because It Puts America First….Americans are sick of always getting
handed the bill for some lame ruling caste priority, whether it’s paying for
the privilege of defending Europe on behalf of ungrateful continentals or
funding the weird climate religion or letting China get rich off of gutting our
industries. Mostly, we are sick of shipping our magnificent warriors off to die
in ill-conceived, poorly-planned, ineptly-executed wars where we ended up
shedding our boys’ (and girls’) blood refereeing fights that go back a dozen
centuries.”
Good article, worth the click just for the graphic: “Anyone who thinks President Trump’s victory
is inevitable in 2020 is not paying attention. The entire weight of America’s
profiteering elites is arrayed against him. But what if he wins anyway? What if
enough voters realize they’re being conned by the Democrats? What if enough
voters decide they don’t want to feel like unwanted usurpers in their own
nation? What if men and women of all ethnicities realize that despite the
unrelenting avalanche of lies coming from the Left, America is a welcoming and
inclusive nation and that the only way a society can stay healthy is by
rewarding personal initiative?”
“Say what you want about the Trump kids, none of them have
been found with a crack pipe on them. The same can’t be said for Hunter Biden….For
years he has had a very expensive drug habit. Drugs aren’t cheap, and neither
are loose women — two of Hunter’s favorite pastimes….. Earlier this year,
Hunter got hit with a paternity suit by a woman in Arkansas. Then there are his
Ashley Madison troubles….. Hunter didn’t let his teaching stint at Catholic
Georgetown interfere with his extramarital hobbies. He also sits on the
advisory board for Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C. He is a chip off the
old block, wrapping himself in Catholicism while blowing off its teachings…”
“A million people are jailed at China's gulags. I managed to
escape. Here's what really goes on inside”
Why Sex And Gender Are Not Two Different Things
Elizabeth Warren mocks Christian men, delights Democrat base
“Tulsi Gabbard: Canary in the Democratic Coal Mine…If a
liberal like Tulsi Gabbard is too moderate for today’s Democrats, they have no
chance of beating Trump in 2020.”
You can’t make this up:
Now Hillary Clinton says Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset, groomed to
ensure Trump reelection.
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WISE
WORDS
“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means
of preserving peace.”
-George
Washington
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