op ed review 12/8
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
U.S. Jobs Report November: Hiring Tops Forecasts, Wages Up,
unemployment at 50 year low.
Cyber Monday spending hits record $9.4 billion, up 19.7%
On Thursday Speaker Pelosi announced that Democrats will
move ahead on impeachment of President Trump for not giving away US taxpayer
dollars quick enough to one of the world’s most corrupt nations. Democrats
believe this is grounds for impeachment. Meanwhile, “Ukrainians Find Misuse of
$5.3 BILLION in US Aid During Obama Administration”
Trump’s Approval Jumps to 52% Same Day Pelosi Announces
Impeachment Will Proceed
Three new polls: Trump's approval rating among black voters
has quadrupled
Poll Shows Voters Aren’t Buying The Progressive Pitch For
Socialism
President Trump’s Broward County Florida ‘Homecoming Rally’
– 1 in 4 Attendees were Democrats!
Ninth Circuit Lifts Injunctions Blocking Trump Admin’s
‘Public Charge’ Rule for Immigrants
“Congress convened a panel of legal experts on Wednesday to
inform the debate on the case for impeachment…. there can be no real question
that this is a microcosm of what is wrong with academia today. Four academics
showed up on the Hill, but only one scholar was present: Jonathan Turley of the
George Washington University School of Law. The other three, Karlan, Feldman, and
Gerhardt, were merely Democratic activists masquerading as objective academics.”
Turley (who is actually a Democrat): “I get it. You're mad. The president's mad.
My Republican friends are mad. My Democratic friends are mad. My wife is mad.
My kids are mad. Even my dog seems mad and Luna is a golden-doodle and they
don't get mad. So, we're all mad. Where has it taken us? Will a slipshod
impeachment make us less mad or will it only give an invitation for the madness
to follow in every future administration? That is why this is wrong...it's
wrong because this is not how you impeach an American president….”
Turley says he was attacked and threatened for his testimony
CNN’s pre-Thanksgiving civility lesson: Trump defenders
‘Should Be Laughed at, Ridiculed, and Scorned’
CNN ratings hit 3 year low.
Is this legal? House
Democrats subpoenaed the phone records of Rudy Giuliani. This also caught up phone
records of Rep Devin Nunes and journalist John Solomon.
Elizabeth Warren dismisses concern over funding an expensive
education program with the words, "… c'mon, there's always money. It's
there."
Kamala Harris drops out. “Angers Woke Scolds Over ‘Lack Of
Diversity’ In Democratic Field”
Hunter Biden’s ‘baby mama’ Lunden Roberts was a stripper at the
club he frequented.
Rocketman: The biographical film about Sir Elton John, which
contains a gay sex scene, was partly financed by an investment fund backed by
the Vatican.
Francis Effect: Catholic membership drops sharply in
Argentina
Xi Jinping Portraits Replace Catholic Symbols in Chinese Churches
Obamas pay $11.75M for Martha’s Vineyard home on nearly 30
acres, have net worth of $135 million.
ATF: 423M guns in America, 1.2 per person, 8.1B rounds of ammunition
a year
Gun
Confiscation Comes to Virginia : See
what happens when a formerly great red state turns very blue?
Rush Limbaugh producer 'Bo Snerdley' launches new PAC and
MAGA.BLACK to reach black conservatives
On Thanksgiving Day Hong Kong protesters sing the American
national anthem as a gesture of thanks for President Trump signing two bills
into law that condemn China. When they were done with "The Star-Spangled
Banner," the protesters chanted "USA, USA, USA."
Chicom Nightmare: Hong Kong protests spread to gigantic
Guangdong province
In a non-partisan speech to middle school and high school
students seeking to protect them from drug use, first lady Melania Trump was
booed by the kids, signaling just how bad the leftist school system is in
instituting manners.
Trump restored references to God in presidential
Thanksgiving proclamations after Obama abandoned them.
The fake University of Farmington, set up by the Department
of Homeland Security, resulted in the arrest of 250 foreign students this year
and prompted outrage from leftists, but was actually a concept embraced by the
Obama administration, which engaged in similar operations.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Cynthia Lummis: Disruptor-in-Chief Donald Trump Has Changed Washington
for the Better
Disruption
used to be a buzzword. It was the label applied to Uber, Airbnb, and other
startup darlings. It was what every Stanford University graduate used in their
Silicon Valley funding pitch. Back in May CNBC released a list of 50
“disruptors…whose innovations are changing the world.”
However,
the day Donald Trump became president of the United States, disruption became a
bad thing in our nation’s capital. Washington, D.C., has long been in serious
need of a shake-up. But real disruption is unsettling for the status quo.
It
should come as little surprise that entrenched special interests and card
carrying members of what we now know as the deep state are balking at the
leadership of President Trump, Disruptor-in-Chief.
I
served on committees in the U.S. Congress where staffers on the Hill controlled
access to bills that lawmakers were to vote on. Seriously, you had to ask
committee staff permission to read bills that you were responsible for voting
on. Laws were implemented by unelected bureaucrats who took great liberties
with the interpretation of statute and sought the broadest authority possible
for federal agencies.
Take,
for example, the case of Andy Johnson. The Wyoming welder who had to sue the
Environmental Protection Agency over $16 million in fines they had assessed for
the construction of a man-made stock pond on his private property. (A pond that
he already had permitted with the state of Wyoming.)
Or
look at Nancy Pelosi’s infamous “we have to pass [Obamacare] so you can find
out what’s in it” line. Spoiler: what has been in it for Wyoming is crippling
costs, difficulties with access to rural health care, and an exchange that no
private insurer wants anything to do with. Obamacare is a bust for rural states
and I shudder to think what would happen to rural health care under Elizabeth
Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ con/plan.
All
these examples illuminate a broken system. A system ripe for disruption. So why
is everyone so upset that disruption is what Trump has brought to D.C.? The
shakeup of the deep state and the unceremonious unravelling of the status
quo is exactly what Americans wanted. And it is exactly what they
are getting.
It
is that very disruption and “no more Mr. Nice Guy” attitude that has Wyoming
people cheering the president on. Big government sucks and those of us who have
to fight the long arm of Washington couldn’t be happier to see regulations
reduced and power decentralized. President Trump implemented an
under-appreciated executive order in the first month of his Presidency. He
mandated that for every new regulation, two must be done away with.
Genius.
Since
the beginning of this administration, agency heads have been mandated to reduce
red tape and free the American economy. Without executive leadership like that,
layer after layer of bureaucracy will crush our system of government, our
businesses, and its citizens. We need more of this disruptive leadership in our
nation’s capital, not less.
America
could always rely on its newness as a nation and its spirit of manifest destiny
to drive it forward. But as our country has matured, our institutions
have calcified. When Trump won, our founding documents
and constitutional principles were on the razor’s edge of being
overcome by a centralized, command-and-control system buckling under its own
weight.
The
Trump presidency can frequently feel uncomfortable. And it should. No longer
can D.C. rest on its laurels. The role of government is to protect our rights,
not to expand government’s role over us. And disruption is bringing the will of
the people to the halls of Washington.
States
are ready to have the reins of government returned to them. The point of
Congress is to uphold the Constitution and represent the states and the people.
Today, Washington is more interested in expanding its own power than it is
interested in administering the Constitution.
I
support disruption as a vehicle to return the Constitution to its rightful
place as the guiding document for a nation and as a catalyst to empower states.
And I support President Donald Trump, our nation’s first elected
Disruptor-in-Chief.
Cynthia
Lummis served as Wyoming’s lone U.S. Representative in Congress from 2008-2016
where she helped co-found the House Freedom Caucus and Chaired the Western
Caucus.
Another good read: “Revolution
as a Mental Disease”: “People are
gradually getting used to living in an inverted world. For the first time in
our history, the upcoming elections are not about a better standard of living
or more freedom. They are about secular pietism, a collective devotion to an
apparently noble cause, which leads to less affluence and freedom….Illegal immigration
has a negative impact on the labor market, especially low-income Americans, by
keeping wages down. Nevertheless, half
of our fellow citizens believe that any action taken against illegals is
tantamount to sending them to concentration camps. Medicare for all would lead to long waiting
times, with the problem being compound by the coverage provided to an
undetermined number of illegals. In a
country where 85% of people have access to quality health care, this would
represent a major downgrade. Socialism
is another major electoral theme, and rejecting it in an affluent society would
normally be a matter of common sense. However,
part of the secular pietist mission is to fight inequality, even if that leads
to worse living conditions for the majority, provided that the object of their
envy is also harmed.”
Every once in a while, the “house conservative” at the New
York Times gets things right. He’ll probably
get hate mail for this: “I Was Once a
Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked.”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit
a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. If the House proceeds solely
on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among modern
impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record,
and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president. That does not bode
well for future presidents who are working in a country often sharply and, at
times, bitterly divided.”
-Prof.
Jonathan Turley
“The Democrats’ major complaint against Trump is that he has
abused his power, yet everything they’re doing is abusive of their power.”
-David
Limbaugh
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BOOKS
Conrad Black’s latest book is “Donald J. Trump, A President Like No
Other” Victor Davis Hanson says:
"Most readers, like myself, have never met either Conrad Black nor Donald
J. Trump. But after reading this engaging biography, those of any political
persuasion would wish to do both."
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LEFTIST WATCH
City of Portland considers requiring mandatory spaces for
homeless on private property.
Norm Eisen, Democrat Impeachment Counsel, Linked to George
Soros
Washington and Lee University Students Demand Removal of
Washington and Lee Photos from Diplomas
Univision Now Reporting That Trump Gives Immigrant Women
Heart Disease (because they are stressed over being here illegally)
Greta snaps, reveals something about her handlers: ‘Climate
Crisis’ About ‘Colonial, Racist, And Patriarchal Systems Of Oppression.”
CNN Guest: Trump is 'Destructive Cult' Leader, Uses 'Mind
Control'
Jeff Zucker’s fake news outlet is such a discredited failure
that even during impeachment far-left CNN could not attract a million average
viewers.
Moron Maxine Waters: “(Brain surgeon)Ben Carson Lacks the
'Intelligence' to Be HUD Secretary”
CNN, MSNBC Refuse to Carry Live White House Event for Conan
the Dog from the Baghdadi Raid
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ISLAM
???The popular Islamic name “Muhammad” has broken into the
top ten United States baby names for the first time ever in American history.
“Not all who claim to follow sharia really do. But sharia calls
for those who do not follow sharia to be murdered, mutilated, tortured, raped,
enslaved, repressed, and terrorized. American law prohibits almost all of what
is authorized by sharia. There is no moral equivalence between sharia and
Judeo-Christian morality. There is no place for sharia in America or in any
society that strives to advance civilization. Yet in America, criminally
negligent officials violate American law by unlawfully permitting adherents to
sharia to hold sworn office as congressional representatives, judges, police
officials, and other public offices.”
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GLOBALONEY
This naive Washington Post reporter can’t understand “When
did routine bad weather become such big news?”
Environmentalist Killjoys Are Coming for Your Football
10 Things Climate Alarmists Don't Want You to Be Thankful
For: Here are a few: In the past 60
years, global life expectancy has increased by 48 percent., hydraulic
fracturing has revolutionized American oil production, leading the U.S. to
become a net exporter of oil for the first time in decades. If the globe really
is warming, that may be something to be thankful for. Cold weather kills 20
times more people than hot weather.
Climate derangement syndrome: Academic suggests UN use
military to enforce climate agenda
John Kerry Recruits Bill Clinton, DiCaprio for New Climate
Coalition
How to advise a teenage daughter on climate change
Beware Global Warming! Not because it will consume our planet in fire
but rather because it is a Trojan horse concealing a much more real threat, one
that will consume our economy, our democracy and our way of life.
Has there ever been a bigger assembly of scolds and
nattering nabobs of nonsense than those gathered at the United Nations
Conference Of The Parties 25 this week in Madrid? Spare us another of these
hootenannies of insufferable elitism.
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EDUCATION
U.S. Students Show No Improvement on International Tests
As Colleges Move To Do Away With The SAT In The Name Of
Diversity, Detroit High School Valedictorian Struggles With Low-Level Math at
MSU
Prestigious Scholarships: Conservatives Need Not Apply
Fraud in Higher Education
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TUCKER
Tucker Carlson: “Putin, for all his faults, does not hate
America as much as many in media do”
The Indispensable Tucker Carlson: The popular Fox News host has given voice to the most
basic—most common-sense—positions. And in return, he has a bullseye on his
back.
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ARTICLES
There’s something about the timing of Pelosi’s impeachment announcement
relative to next Monday’s release of IG Horowitz’s report that makes it seem
very possible she’s going for a grand bargain with President Trump. (you stop investigating
Democrat malfeasance, we will stop impeachment.)
Free stuff vs. AOC’s “public goods”
Walter Williams: Who Are The Racists? “According to leftist
rhetoric, whites pose a severe, if not mortal, threat to blacks…. that may have once been true, but it is no longer
so today….latest Bureau of Justice Statistics 2018 survey of criminal
victimization. there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding
homicide) between blacks and whites last year, including white-on-black and
black-on-white attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies,
or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent.”
The Democratic Cold War on Christianity Heating Up
Democrats to America: Be Grateful for Your Dispossession: “For a long time, immigration to the United
States was understood to be a privilege, not a right. It was understood that
American citizens came first, and that immigrants who come to the United States
should be grateful for the opportunity and pay it back. They would do that by
assimilating, by learning the English language, by being good citizens, and by
contributing their unique traditions to the “melting pot” of American
pluralism. All of that is gone now. Bloomberg’s (and the Left’s) formulation is
a complete reversal: it is no longer immigrants who should be grateful to
America, but America and its people who should be grateful for immigrants, no
matter the benefits or the cost.”
Pedro Gonzales on demographics: “Conservatives might quibble over the root
cause of minority voting patterns, whistle past the graveyard counting their
change, and settle for losing nobly, or they can use what time remains to wage
a full-spectrum war on this front….(for example) Democrats systematically have
taken control of every large city in Texas over the last decade. Worse, the
suburbs that supplied Republicans with large margin wins not long ago are
slowly but surely turning blue.”
Will There Really Be a 2020 Landslide for Trump? “Hillary
Clinton was far closer to winning than most realize, and whatever liar or crazy
Democrats nominate for 2020 will have the identical advantages Clinton enjoyed….Confidence
is necessary, and we should expect to win big. Hubris, however, is the cardinal
sin in sales and winning elections. We have an opportunity to win 35–40 states,
but only if we convince ourselves that we're losing 35–40 states. I've asked
dozens and dozens of Republicans to show me the pathway to a landslide, and
none has been able to. Winning teams
always play scared, urgent with a sense of urgency.”
Why Trump’s Ukraine demands weren’t remotely illegal
The Bidens don't get a free pass “Currently, Democrats in
Congress are attempting to impeach Trump because he suggested that the Biden
father-son duo’s corrupt deal with Ukraine be investigated. They are using the
“my dad is veep” privilege as a partisan weapon. They are asserting, or at
least implying, that people in the political class can’t be investigated for
wrongdoing.”
I Left England Because of Socialized Medicine. My Life
Depended on It.
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GOOD STUFF
New news site: The Bongino
Report
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WISE
WORDS
“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character
composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.”
-James
Madison (1788)
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