op ed review 11/10
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
The latest polling from Monmouth shows that President Trump enjoys
a higher favorability than every serious 2020 Democrat candidate. (In spite of the
impeachment frenzy)
Democrats worried: New York Times Upshot (LV) Poll: Trump
Sweeps Battleground States
Steven Moore: Trump economy is really experiencing a
middle-class boom -- this data doesn't lie
President Trump launches a 'black voters coalition' in
Atlanta.
President Trump to Make History as First President to Attend
NYC Veterans Day Parade
Trump restores Navy SEAL Gallagher to rank of chief again
Trump takes formal step to pull out of Paris climate
agreement; Left goes nuts.
Former CIA Analyst Says Brennan Created Secret 'Task Force'
To Destroy Trump
Former Czech Ambassador: CIA, FBI and Democrats Are Working
Behind the Scenes to Remove President Trump, "It's a Thing of
Dictatorships"
Nancy Pelosi Says ‘The Growing Climate Crisis is the
Existential Threat of Our Time’
Green New Deal Dems Toss Their Support Behind Report Pushing
To Fast-Track Population Control
Bernie Sanders: “Trump Is Racist, Sexist, Xenophobe,
Homophobe, Bigot”
Elizabeth Warren calls for freezing deportations until
congress agrees to mass amnesty
Sen. Sanders Says U.S. Will Admit ‘At Least 50,000 Climate
Migrants in His 1st Year in Office’
Republican Tate Reeves wins Mississippi governor race
Tucson voters soundly reject 'sanctuary city' initiative.
Texas Voters approve constitutional ban on state income tax
Washington voters reject affirmative action proposal
Republican Daniel Cameron makes history in Kentucky attorney
general race, amid Bevin drama
Kentucky's Real Lesson for Conservatives
The people of Seattle have spoken and what they’ve
apparently said is that they want more socialists on the city council.
Virginia is lost: Dems
Ride Big Money to Full Control of Virginia Legislature
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) (“blackface”, “keep the infant
comfortable”) says he will reintroduce gun control measures after Dems take
over state government.
Newly elected Virginia state senator (D), jailed in 2014 for
having sex with a teenager, wins with 60% of vote.
Fair question: Actor Rob Schneider mocks California voters:
'Would you vote for a bowl of s--- if it had D next to it'
Report: 84% of Women Fail New Army Combat Fitness Test
Child Rape Stories Are Too 'Stupid' for ABC News to Cover
Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy mocks Nancy Pelosi: 'It must
suck to be that dumb'
Pompeo to formally unveil Reagan statue in Berlin
Sanctuary County Rolls Back Its Anti-ICE Policy Following
String Of Illegal Aliens Charged With Rape
House of Representaties Votes to 'Enhance the Border
Security' of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia -- Not the USA
A pregnant woman is credited with saving the lives of her
husband and daughter after she used an AR-15 to fatally gun down a home
intruder,
Politicians seeking to confiscate guns from Americans
shouldn't share their plans with the public beforehand and should seek to
maintain an element of surprise, Joy Behar said on "The View" Monday.
Secret Service: President Trump and Donald Trump Jr. No. 1
and No. 2 highest death threats.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Victor Davis Hanson
11/7
Multiple
forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to
fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal
communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed
socialist chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Venezuela are unfree, poor
and failed states. Baathism -- a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism -- ruined the
postwar Middle East. The soft-socialist European Union countries are stagnant
and mostly dependent on the U.S. military for their protection. In contrast,
current American deregulation, tax cuts and incentives, and record energy
production have given the United States the strongest economy in the world.
So
why, then, are two of the top three Democratic presidential contenders --
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren -- either overtly or implicitly running on
socialist agendas? Why are the heartthrobs of American progressives -- Reps.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.) -- calling for socialist redistributionist schemes? Why do polls show
that a majority of American millennials have a favorable view of socialism?
There
are lots of catalysts for the new socialism. Massive immigration is changing
the demography of the United States. The number of foreign-born U.S. residents
and their children has been estimated at almost 60 million, or about 1 in 5
U.S. residents. Some 27 percent of California residents were born outside of
America. Many of these immigrants flee from poor areas of Latin America,
Mexico, Africa and Asia that were wrecked by statism and socialism. Often, they
arrive in the U.S. unaware of economic and political alternatives to state
socialism.
When
they reach the U.S. -- often without marketable skills and unable to speak
English -- many assume that America will simply offer a far better version of
the statism from which they fled. Consequently, many take for granted that
government will provide them an array of social services, and they become
supportive of progressive socialism.
Another
culprit for the new socialist craze is the strange leftward drift of the very
wealthy in Silicon Valley, in corporate America and on Wall Street. Some of the
new progressive rich feel guilty about their unprecedented wealth. So they
champion redistribution as the sort of medieval penance that alleviates guilt. Yet
the influential and monied classes usually are so well off that higher taxes
hardly affect them. Instead, redistributionist taxation hurts the struggling
middle classes.
In
California, it became hip for wealthy leftists to promote socialism from their
Malibu, Menlo Park or Mill Valley enclaves -- while still living as privileged
capitalists. Meanwhile, it proved nearly impossible for the middle classes of
Stockton and Bakersfield to cope with the reality of crushing taxes and
terrible social services.
From
2008 to 2017, the now-multimillionaire Barack Obama, first as candidate and
then as president, used all sorts of cool socialist slogans, from "spread
the wealth around" and "now is not the time to profit" to
"you didn't build that" and "at a certain point you've made
enough money."
Universities
bear much of the blame. Their manipulation of the federal government to
guarantee student loans empowered them to jack up college costs without any
accountability. Liberal college administrators and faculty did not care much
when graduates left campus poorly educated and unable to market their expensive
degrees. More than 45 million borrowers now struggle with nearly $1.6 trillion
in collective student debt, with climbing interest. That indebtedness has
delayed -- or ended -- the traditional forces that encourage conservatism and
traditionalism, such as getting married, having children and buying a home.
Instead,
a generation of single, childless and mostly urban youth feels cheated that
their high-priced degrees did not earn them competitive salaries. Millions of
embittered college graduates will never be able to pay off what they owe -- and
want some entity to pay off their debts. In paradoxical fashion, teenagers were
considered savvy adults who were mature enough to take on gargantuan loans. But
they were also treated like fragile preteens who were warned that the world
outside their campus sanctuaries was downright mean, sexist, racist, homophobic
and unfair.
Finally,
doctrinaire Republicans for decades mouthed orthodoxies of free rather than
fair trade. They embraced the idea of creative destruction of industries, but
without worrying about the real-life consequences for the unemployed in the
hollowed out red-state interior.
Add
up a lost generation of woke and broke college graduates, waves of impoverished
immigrants without much knowledge of American economic traditions, wealthy
advocates of boutique socialism and asleep-at-the-wheel Republicans, and it
becomes clear why historically destructive socialism is suddenly seen as cool.
Regrettably,
sometimes the naive and disaffected must relearn that their pie-in-the sky
socialist medicine is far worse than the perceived malady of inequality. And
unfortunately, when socialists gain power, they don't destroy just themselves.
They usually take everyone else down with them as well.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Elizabeth Warren is the Sheriff of Nottingham in a Robin
Hood mask, self-justified in her robbery because it victimizes only the richest
of the rich, all the while playing the part of the tax tyrant who endlessly
oppresses all the peasants.”
-Kylee
Zempel
“When you put the word ‘social’ in front of another word,
you’ve created the opposite of what that word originally meant.”
-Steve Green
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BOOKS, FILM
History, someone once said, is a lie agreed upon, and
nowhere is that more self-evident than in accounts of America’s racial history
as told by Democrats. Republicans are the party of racism and slavery when the
historical record shows just the opposite to be true. Harriet, just released in
theaters, tells the story of Harriet Tubman, an African-American slave who
frees herself and then returns south to retrieve 70 others and bring them to
freedom. Oh yeah -- Harriet Tubman was a gun-toting Republican and the people
she liberated these slaves from were Democrats.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/emharrietem_blows_away_democratic_racial_myths.html
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LEFTIST WATCH
San Francisco Supervisor Chants 'F*** the [Police Officers
Association]' During DA Candidate's Campaign Rally
London billboards call on White Britons to ‘get sterilized’
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“PROGRESSIVE” AMERICA
Protesters denounce Melania Trump's visit to Boston hospital
promoting cuddling program for babies born on drugs.
Ex-Planned Parenthood Trainer: Sex Ed Book Seeks ‘to Groom
Children’ for early onset of sex.
Fake whistleblower’s lawyer bragged about starting a coup
d’etat against Trump in 2017. “We will get rid of him”, then he predicts CNN
will play a key role.
UC Berkeley instructor calls rural Americans 'bad people who
have made bad life decisions’
Guess Who's Blaming Trump For a Lack of Civility? Jerry
Springer!
Fake news frenzy: “In
the 50 days since news consumers were told that a federal whistleblower was
expressing his disapproval of a presidential phone call, CBS News has aired or
published more than 100 stories on President Donald Trump and Ukraine. Counting
stories from local affiliates, the number rises above 200….But CBS hasn’t come
close to the wall-to-wall coverage offered by rival ABC News……687 results for
the last 50 days.”
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GLOBALONEY
Earlier this week, the world’s news media reported
breathlessly that 11,000 scientists had issued a report contending that the
Earth faces a “climate emergency.” Actually, there was no study, just a press
release. And it wasn’t 11,000 scientists, it was 11,000 random people who put
their names on a web page.
Archaeologists find the world’s largest ‘mass child
sacrifice’ site in Peru. Children were
sacrificed in the hopes it would prevent climate change.
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ARTICLES
Impeachment a winner for Democrats? Don’t bet on it
The reasons the IG report has been delayed will delight Trump
supporters
Great list, Democratic platform for 2020: "Fred Stevens, a welder and Joe Frisco, a
bartender, neither of whom went to college will have to pay off the student
loans for Eric, an Art History major and Emma, a Gender Studies major because
they cannot get jobs (Warren)…..Yusef Hussein, who killed 23 children by
bombing their school will be allowed to vote from prison. (Sanders)… Billy
White, age 16, who has trouble with subject/verb agreement in English class
still has trouble with fractions in math class and who thinks Judge Judy is on
the Supreme Court will get to vote(Gillibrand)….. Stan Billings, an avid deer
hunter, will have his semi-automatic rifle taken away, or go to jail, because
it looks like an AR 15….. Sven Johannson, whose grandfather immigrated to the
U.S. in 1953, will have to pay reparations to Sha'lyndia Jefferson because she
THINKS her great-great-great grandfather MIGHT have been a slave.(Booker)
Economist Jonathan Gruber famously attributed the passage of
Obamacare to “the stupidity of the American voter.” The MIT professor’s
assessment of the electorate’s collective intelligence is clearly shared by
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren if she expects us to take
her “Medicare for All” funding plan seriously.
The health care industry employs more Americans than any
other—more than manufacturing, more than retail. The 18 million health-care
employees include 2.3 million who work for the health insurance industry…..the
Massachusetts senator has just proposed, in a stroke, to upend a huge industry
and the lives of all those who work in it. She has drafted them, willing or
not, to serve her vision of the common good.
“Warren is peddling a health plan that, if it were
actually enacted, would devastate the economy, wreck the nation’s health
care, and put the government in control of just about every business
decision. And she has a good chance of claiming the Democratic party’s
nomination. That’s frightening.”
The AR-15: The Real Story
Steyn must read: Internal
Contradictions of the Multicultural Utopia: “Nine years ago I was interviewed
on Danish TV by one of the country's most eminent media bigshots, Kurt Strand.
I well remember the look of astonishment on his face when I gave my assessment
of Malmö, the first Christian city in what was then Denmark and now on course
to be the first Muslim city in Sweden. I in turn was astonished that he
appeared to be entirely unaware of what was happening just a half-hour train
ride across the Øresund Sound from where we were sitting…”
Important column by VDH: “The Military-Intelligence Complex…..Many
retired high-ranking military officers have gone beyond legitimately
articulating why President Trump may be wrong on foreign policy, and now feel
free to smear him personally or speak openly of removing their
commander-in-chief from office. And the media and the bipartisan foreign-policy
establishment are with them every step of the way.”
10 Reasons I Like Donald Trump, From A Former-Democrat
Immigrant
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HUMOR
Twitter makes fun of Washington Post 'Austere Religious
Scholar' obituary headline for al-Baghdadi. “Voldemort, austere wizard who
overcame a severe facial deformity to achieve dark lordship, dead at 71”. “Darth Vader, disabled single father of two,
passes away.” “Jeffrey Dahmer,
connoisseur of exotic and locally sourced meats, dies at 34” “Psychologist and Wine Connoisseur Hannibal
Lecter Dies After Lengthy Battle With Flesh Eating Disorder.”
“A group of angry penguins gathered today outside Warner
Bros. in Burbank to protest the movie studio's rumored decision to cast Colin
Farrell as The Penguin in the upcoming Batman flick. The penguins complain that
penguin actors are underrepresented and that it is not OK for a biological
non-penguin to play the role.”
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WISE
WORDS
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember
that virtue is not hereditary.”
-Thomas
Paine
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