Sunday, November 24, 2019

op ed review 11/24


THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Very bad news for Democrats:  Several polls find 34% approval for President Trump among black voters.
Poll: Trump surges against nearly all Democrats in Wisconsin
Poll: Opposition to Impeachment Grows Among Independents
Confidence in Trump Economy Hits Highest Level Ever
Trump flips third appeals court to majority GOP appointed judges
But sobering thoughts from Sebastian Gorka:  “How President Trump Loses in 2020:  Donald Trump became the president despite the GOP, not thanks to it. If he wants to have a second term and cement his reputation as the most successful leader we have had since World War II, he needs to disrupt the Republican machine as much as he disrupted politics in general. MAGA hangs by a thread.”

Impeachment Day 4: Rep. Mike Turner Shuts Down Sondland, Shreds Democrats’ Entire Case
Mainstream media cheers Sondland ‘Directly Implicating’ Trump...Then Admit He Didn’t

Chief Justice Roberts now dragged into Democrat impeachment process.  He is in charge of the FISA Court, and responsible for its hijacking by the deep state.

Extensive Relationship Revealed Between Dossier Author Christopher Steele and Top Obama State Department Officials

Mayor Pete’s South Bend Record
Biden Family Corruption Allegations Metastasize
Hunter Biden the father of Arkansas woman’s baby, DNA test shows
More free money from Elizabeth Warren:  Would Consider a “Universal Basic Income”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren AWOL from Senate. “She’s missed at least the past 23 votes in a row..”  but still collecting $174,000 a year for what has become a no-show job.
Joe Biden: “Ban 9mm pistols just like we ban bazookas and machine guns”

More Virginia Counties Declare 'Second Amendment Sanctuary' Status
Armed citizen puts a stop to fatal shooting at Walmart by putting gun to suspect’s head

Netanyahu’s Indictment Is a Fraud.  Israel has a deep state too.

Pope Francis says he is thinking about adding “‘ecological sin’ against our common home” to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 
Pope Cites French Epic Poem to Prove Christianity Is as Violent as Islam
Pope Condemns ‘Catastrophic Bombing’ of Nagasaki, Hiroshima
Pope Warns: ‘Fundamentalism Is a Plague’

Sound Transit will keep collecting its car-tab taxes, despite I-976 vote

Eat Mor Capitulation: The Chick-fil-A Betrayal

The Most Important News Story Isn’t Impeachment, It’s Crisis In Mexico….Soon Mexico will be a failed state, driving refugees north.

“Biden and partners receive $16.5 million in payments stolen from Ukraine”
Ukranian MPs demand Zelensky, Trump investigate suspicion of U.S.-Ukraine corruption involving $7.4 billion.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Walter Williams  11/20
The absolute worst case of professional incompetence and dishonesty is in the area of climate science. Tony Heller has exposed some of the egregious dishonesty of mainstream environmentalists in a video he's titled "My Gift To Climate Alarmists." Environmentalists and their political allies attribute the recent increase in deadly forest fires to global warming. However, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, forest fires reached their peak in the 1930s and have declined by 80% since then. Environmentalists hide the earlier data and make their case for the effects of global warming by showing the public and policymakers data from 1980 that shows an increase in forest fires.

Climate scientists claim that rising sea levels are caused by man-made global warming. Historical data from the tide gauge in Lower Manhattan shows that sea levels have been rising from about the time when Abraham Lincoln was president to now. Heller says that sea levels have been rising for about 20,000 years. He points out that anthropologists believe that when the sea level was very low people were able to walk from Siberia to North America.

Hot weather is often claimed to be a result of man-made climate change. Heller presents data showing the number of days in Waverly, Ohio, above 90 degrees. In 1895, there were 73 days above 90 degrees. In 1936, there were 82 days above 90 degrees. Since the 1930s, there has been a downward trend in the number of days above 90 degrees. If climatologists hide data from earlier years and started at 1955, they show an increase in the number of above 90-degree days from eight or nine to 30 or 40. Thus, to deceive us into thinking the climate is getting hotter, environmentalists have selected a starting date that fits their agenda.

You might ask: "Who is Tony Heller? Does he work for big oil?" It turns out that he is a scientist and claims to be a lifelong environmentalist. From what I can tell, he has no vested interests. In that respect, he is different from those who lead the environmental movement, who often either work for or are funded by governments.

Once in a while environmentalists reveal their true agenda. Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the IPCC's fourth summary report released in 2007, speaking in 2010 advised: "One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world's wealth." U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said that the true aim of the U.N.'s 2014 Paris climate conference was "to change the (capitalist) economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution." Christine Stewart, Canada's former Minister of the Environment said: "No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits. ... Climate change (provides) the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world." Tim Wirth, former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs and the person most responsible for setting up the Kyoto Protocol said: "We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."

Not all scientists are dishonest and not all news reporters are leftists with an agenda. But one wonders at the deafening silence where there's clear, unambiguous evidence. For example, if ocean levels have been rising for some 20,000 years, why do scientists allow environmentalists to get away with the claim that it's a result of man-made global warming? Why aren't there any reporters to highlight leftist statements such as those by Edenhofer, Stewart and others who want to ride global warming as a means to defeat capitalism and usher in socialism and communism? I would prefer to think that the silence of so many scientists represent their fears as opposed to their going along with the environmental extremist agenda.

Here’s the referenced video by Heller:
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“In September 2018, The New York Times published an op-ed from an anonymous White House official who boasted of supposedly widescale efforts inside the Trump administration to nullify its operations and subvert presidential directives. Such efforts to oppose Trump are often self-described as ‘The Resistance,’ a reference to the underground French fighters resisting the Nazis in World War II. Trump’s opponents often have praised the deep state precisely because unelected career officials are seen as the most effective way to sabotage and stymie his agenda. A ‘coup’ is no longer proof of right-wing paranoia, but increasingly a part of the general progressive discourse of resistance to Trump. In these upside-down times, patriotism is being redefined as removing a president before a constitutionally mandated election.”
     -VDH

“If giving to Christian charities now bars you from opening a restaurant at the airport, our culture is beyond the point of no return. … America’s social fabric is already fraying. Politics has invaded everything from education to sports, from movies to fashion. Should politics now determine where we buy a chicken sandwich? A country that punishes restaurants because its founders don’t openly celebrate same-sex marriage is a country destined to bifurcate. And that’s pretty fowl.”
      -Ben Shapiro

“[Democrats] got caught trying to obtain nude photos of President Trump from Russian pranksters pretending to be Ukrainians. … That is the Democrats’ pitiful legacy in recent years: they got caught.”
         -Rep. Devin Nunes

“They’re trying to remove a president for having a better foreign policy than Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”
      =-House Minority Whip Steve Scalise
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BOOKS, FILM
'Ford v Ferrari' shows how masculinity can make the world a better place.
Liberals denounce ‘Ford v Ferrari’ “the climate change horror film nobody needed”….too much macho. Too much individualism…too much carbon consumption.

Another feminist movie bombs at the box office
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LEFTIST WATCH
Soros cash flows to pressure vulnerable GOP Congress members to impeach Trump
Documents reveal massive 'dark-money' group boosted Democrats in 2018
California Dems Flood Colorado With Cash Ahead of National Popular Vote Referendum

Michael Moore declares: 'I Am the Center. I Am the Mainstream Now of the Democratic Party'

From 1962:  The Black Friday Terror Plot Against US Shoppers by Leftist Heroes Fidel and Che

Arthur Laffer speech shut down by protesters at Binghamton University; two arrested

Prager:  Does the Left Hate America?

Grand Valley State University Kills Pledge of Allegiance Tradition

Leftist Activism Is A Requirement Of New Elementary School Curriculum
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ISLAM
CAIR's Goal: 30 Islamists Elected To Congress
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“PROGRESSIVE” AMERICA
Hillary Clinton: No Question Trump ‘Committed Impeachable Crimes’

The Hate and Anti-Intellectualism of the Modern Democratic Party

Some nasty anti-president quotes to offer perspective (actually said about another Republican president)

When villain is Obama, not Trump, news is suddenly not worth reporting

Does the Left Hate America?
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GLOBALONEY
Here he goes again:   Al Gore on climate-change threat: 'This is the Battle of the Bulge. This is 9/11'

Climate Myths Peddled by Alarmists Mislead the Public

Climate Scientists Reduced to Hiding from Climate Thuggery in Germany
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ARTICLES
From John Solomon: everything you need to know about the Ukrainian/Biden timelines.

Only Trump can save the US now

Why Everyone Should Fear Universal Healthcare

Defense Secretary Mark Esper fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer Sunday over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL who posed for a photo next to an Islamic State terrorist's corpse in Iraq, and the SEAL will be able to keep his Trident pin, a Pentagon spokesman said Sunday.
Obama Granted Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors, But We’re Supposed to be Angry at Trump's Pardons?

Trump Results v. the Mindless Resistance

The Story Of How U.S. Intel Agencies Tried To Undo Trump's Election

Attorney General William Barr recently gave two speeches that were rhetorical masterpieces.  The speeches could not have been given at a more critical juncture in the unfolding crisis, nor could the carefully researched and expertly developed arguments have been more needed, more appropriate.  The content of the two speeches form a solid basis of a case against the Resistance.  The passion and the masterful rhetoric of the speeches give them the potential for Barr to stand athwart history and determine the direction of the nation for the future.

“Female Student Breaks Down In Tears As School Board Grants Boys Access To Girls Locker Room. This Is Simply Evil.”

Mike Huckabee: Chick-fil-A ‘Betrayal’ Will Have ‘Far Broader’ Consequences
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GOOD STUFF
Intriguing:  “A simple proof of intelligent design”

'Bull-Schiff': Trump Campaign Releases New T-Shirts Mocking the House Intelligence Committee Chairman

Texans and Their Boots

Stunning image of the Milky Way captured using radio waves giving us a 'brand new view' of our galaxy.
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WISE WORDS
“If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”  (Today’s Left: “that was then, this is now”)
         -Justice William J. Brennan