op ed review 1/26
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump becomes first U.S. President to attend the
annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., “a march sure to be ignored by the
mainstream media or downplayed as a gathering of white supremacists.”
“The Most Pro-Life President In History”
Trump administration approves Keystone pipeline on US land
President Trump’s approval rating climbs three points in one
week.
Joe Biden Claims DACA Recipents ‘More American than Most
Americans’
Biden Says He'd Fire ICE Agents for Arresting Drunk Driving
Illegal Aliens
Biden Still in Denial, Says 'No One Has Suggested My Son Did
Anything Wrong'
Hunter Biden renting $12,000/month home in Hollywood Hills,
but refuses to pay child support.
Warren Faces Her 'Joe the Plumber' Moment on Student Loan
Forgiveness
Warren promises to put “non-binary” people in her cabinet.
Adam Schiff warns of Russian attack on US mainland, as Day 2
of Trump's Senate impeachment trial concludes.
Schiff Tells Senate: Alan Dershowitz Not a 'Reputable
Constitutional Law Expert'
Schiff: Remove Trump, Because He Didn't Follow the Deep
State Talking Points
Schiff’s Whistleblower Was Overheard in '17 Discussing With
Ally How to Remove Trump
Lindsey Graham 2.0 is back: Goes OFF on Dems and Media: 'I'm
Exposing Your Hatred of This President!'
Rush Limbaugh says Democrats are 'looking for four Jeff
Flakes' in Trump Senate impeachment trial
State AGs urge Senate to reject impeachment in stinging
letter: 'A dangerous historical precedent'
Impeachment drives 1,000 GOP candidates to run for House
Fake news: CNN
Analyst Fabricated Senators' Quotes to Slam Trump
DNA Tests at Border Reveal Many Cases of Deception by
Illegal Immigrants
Sweden Sex Offences on Teen Girls Up 51 Per Cent Since 2015..Sweden
has seen several high-profile cases involving the sexual abuse of children,
many of which have involved migrants and asylum seekers such as a case in the
summer of 2018 that involved a migrant raping an 11-year-old and getting her
pregnant twice.
Washington Senate Democrats pass sex education bill that
failed last year. Bill would start “comprehensive
sex ed” in kindergarten for Washington students. You just know this will include gender
fluidity, transgender promotion, etc.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
To See America’s Democrat Future, Look At California Now
Don Chambers 1/21
If
Americans wonder what will happen if the far-left takes control of the entire
country, they have no need to look any further than to California. California
is a disaster headed nowhere but down. Even four more years of economic growth
from a second term for Trump will not save California from its folly.
California has fallen victim to the far-left’s hatred for our country’s
founding principles and its ignorance regarding the benefits of competitive
markets.
Consider
the current condition of this state that once had the wisdom to elect Ronald
Reagan to two terms as their governor. The horrible problems of homeless
concentrations in San Francisco and Los Angeles (including increasing public
health dangers) are out of control. California’s state and local governments
are helpless at best and responsible for many of the problems at worst.
Consider
the scorecard. California has the highest poverty rate in the country.
According to a recent Congressional study, California has over 40% of the
U.S.’s welfare recipients despite having only about 12% of its population.
Every
instinct of the leadership of California is wrong. Those who consume more than
they produce are rewarded while those who produce more than they consume are
punished. The state keeps raising taxes and wasting the money. The politicians
generate waste wherever they take control.
Take
for instance the huge debacle of California’s attempts to build a high speed
rail line between LA and San Francisco. According to bizjournals.com “In 2008, California voters approved $9
billion […] to begin construction on high speed rail between San Francisco and
Los Angeles. [...] Today, only a small section of rail is under construction in
California's Central Valley, falling far short of its promise to connect San
Francisco and Los Angeles. The initial estimated completion date of 2020 has
been pushed to 2033, and the estimated cost has more than doubled.”
I
believe that by the time this boondoggle is actually completed
electrically-powered self-driving automobiles (working in tandem with very
smart ride-sharing software) will make all such over-centralized public
transportation projects obsolete. But who in California cares? The government
boondoggles are viewed as creating jobs (albeit unproductive jobs) and, more
importantly, they line the pockets and pad the power of the state’s political
elites and corrupt businesses.
Consider
the horrible inner-city messes of LA and San Francisco. LA is in the midst of a
massive low-income housing program supposedly designed to address its homeless
problems. In truth it is an economic debacle transferring wealth from taxpayers
to politicians and businessman. Reports indicate average costs for each
low-income unit exceeding $500k. The construction projects are experiencing
huge delays and have completed astonishingly few units.
Let’s take a look at how well California has done in making
sure that its population receives cost-effective and reliable electricity.
California’s ridiculous oversight and over-regulation of its electric utility
company has been, literally, disastrous. According to the Wall Street Journal,
“PG&E’s electric lines, after years of deferred
maintenance, were threatening drought-parched California. When the Camp Fire
started to burn in late 2018, eventually killing 85 people, it was the first of
four fires that PG&E reported it sparked that day. It was its 408th of
2018, and the 1,961st since record-keeping started in mid-2014.”
The
net result of years of government oversight and regulation is a bankrupted
utility (PG&E) and regular intentional outages of power to hundreds of
thousands of homes and businesses to avert wildfires. California’s leaders do
not understand simple economics. When everybody owns an asset nobody takes
responsibility for it. How can California’s taxpayers and government officials
be so ignorant of basic economic principles?
Given
California’s abysmal record of leftist economic policies, one would think that
some common sense or humility would temper the state’s enthusiasm for
additional economic boondoggles. But leftists do not see through time.
Recently, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom proposed that California be the
first state to “make” and sell its own generic prescription drugs. Yes,
California’s government sees itself as being far more capable than free
enterprise to meet consumer demand at attractive prices.
California’s
past is identical to the future being proposed by leftist candidates: 1. Regulate
a problem into existence, 2. Seize the means of production, and 3. Displace
economic efficiency with political expediency.
California
should change its motto to: Frequently wrong, but never in doubt -- and its
state bird to the dodo bird.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“The only cover-up that I’ve seen is actually Adam Schiff
and his team’s cover-up on their coordination with the whistleblower.”
-Rep. Mark
Meadows
“I think that this
[impeachment] will go down as one of the greatest historic blunders of a House
of Congress."
-constitutional
scholar Jonathan Turley
“I can’t overstate how undermining what the Democrats are
doing is to our democracy. [They] say that the president didn’t legitimately
win in 2016, and now … put the argument forward that he’s trying to steal an
election in 2020. The reality is the Democrats are trying to steal the election
from the 63 million voters who elected Donald Trump.”
-RNC
Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
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BOOKS
“Age of Entitlement” by Christopher Caldwell. VDH says, “In this landmark cultural and
political history of the last half-century, Christopher Caldwell brilliantly
dissects the new progressive establishment, and shows how the reforms of the
sixties gradually devolved into intolerance, self-righteousness, and the
antithesis of what had started out as naive idealism. A singular analysis by a
masterful chronicler of the sixties dreams that have gone so terribly, but
predictably, wrong.”
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LEFTIST WATCH
AOC Demonizes Business Owners: They’re Lazy Slave Owners,
Employees are ‘Literally Dying’
'Guillotine the rich': Project Veritas exposes another
radical, pro-gulag Sanders staffer
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/21/guillotine-rich-project-veritas-exposes-another-ra/
The terrible cost of hipster socialism.
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PROGRESSIVE AMERICA
On January 20, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, conservatives
marched in Seattle in what was billed as a “MAGA March against Racism and
Bigotry.” That prompted the Vice Chair of the 37th LD Democrats, who
was standing with Antifa activists, to shout at the racially diverse group of conservatives
that they should “die in a fire!”
Hillary Clinton complains that Democrats Don't Have Enough
Control Of Media ?
People’s Republic of Virginia: New bills include criminalizing criticism of
the Governor and his associates, no photo ID to vote, voting rights for felons,
and Electoral College votes go to popular vote winner.
Oakland Becomes First California City To Ban Background
Checks For Prospective Renters…. “landlords will no longer be allowed to turn
down potential renters because of criminal convictions.”
In America’s future? In Canada, government threatens to withdraw
all funding from a facility that refuses to euthanize dying patients.
Study shows Democratic professors outnumber Republicans 9 to
1.
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GLOBALONEY
Prince Charles flies to Davos on a jet emitting six tons of
carbon to launch sustainable project
Michael Moore: We're Done in Four Years if We Don't Fix
Climate Change
“Noticeably absent from Ms. Thunberg’s Davos screed was any
country other than America. Sure, she blasted America from withdrawing from the
Gospel of the Paris Climate Accord. But there was no mention of the world’s
largest polluters of poisonous Sulphur Dioxide: China, India, and Russia. China
emits more carbon dioxide than the US and the EU combined. China and India are
also world leaders in ocean pollution, dumping plastics directly into the
waterways. How cozy to blast America in neutral Switzerland about the pollution
caused by China. Makes one want to compose a folksong.”
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ARTICLES
“Neither of the
impeachment charges against President Donald Trump is indictable. As such,
neither is impeachable. The Constitution compels the Senate to acquit President
Trump as a matter of law. There are three critical reasons for the principle
that impeachable offenses be indictable offenses First, the plain text of the
Constitution requires it; second, the protection of the people’s right to
select the president cannot make the president serve at the pleasure of
Congress; and third, the due process rights of the president prevent nebulous,
vague undefined “offenses” being the basis of punitive impeachment.”
Law prof Jonathan Turley predicts Dems’ impeachment ‘will go
down as one of the greatest historic blunders’
“By some marvelous
coincidence, dozens of major news organizations were able to conjure but one
word to describe (Adam Schiff) : “masterful.” Indeed, this adjective has been
used so frequently by so many outlets during the past 48 hours about Schiff’s
soporific speeches that a cynic might draw the conclusion that it came straight
out of a blast email sent by the Democratic National Committee….”
“In a world of elective abortion, children are no longer a
gift…As the slogan goes, giving birth to your child is a choice. It’s an
option, one to be exercised only when it makes sense, is convenient, and (above
all) won’t hinder your goals. Living within such a framework, why on earth
would any mother (or father) want to have a child who wasn’t “perfect”? …..Why
not also ensure that your child is the right sex (as they’ve been doing for years
in China)? Why not guarantee that your offspring has the greatest possible
athletic or academic potential? Yes, this is crazy talk. And yet, it isn’t.
Designer babies are the new frontier. What are we to do?”
Trump Is Using Obama’s Money Model To Win
Five facts about student loans
Buttigieg’s Hollow Military Bragging
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OTHER STUFF
Time lapse video reveals hundreds of thousands at March for
Life
The chart the Trump campaign should be 'plastering absolutely
everywhere'
Powerful NRSC Ad Exposes Democrats' Impeachment Sham
WinRed, new GOP donor platform, reaps impeachment windfall,
raises millions since probe launch.
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WISE
WORDS
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be
shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so
contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much
easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual;
he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing
him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time
depraves all its good disposition.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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