op ed review 3/1
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
The Left tries to turn coronavirus into “Trump’s Chernobyl”
or “Trump’s Katrina:. “Let's call it Trumpvirus," urged a
New York Times opinion writer.”
Flashback: In 2009, Obama Waited Until 'Millions'
Infected and 1000 Dead in U.S. Before Declaring H1N1 Emergency
5 Reasons to Stop Freaking Out About Coronavirus
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/02/28/pollak-5-reasons-to-stop-freaking-out-about-coronavirus/
LA Times: Trump Has 'Flipped' the 9th Circuit, 'Shockwave'
of New Judges
Mississippi: Eight Democrats and Independents Switch To
Republican
Trump administration launches new unit to strip US
citizenship from foreign-born terrorists, criminals
Trump’s Las Vegas Rally: 18% of Attendees Were Democrats,
32% Didn’t Vote in 2016
Small business approval of Trump hits record high of 64%:
Poll
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/small-business-approval-of-trump-hits-record-high-of-64-poll
Trump Expands GOP Base As Dems Disintegrate
Medicaid and food stamps line vanishes as crackdown on green
cards for welfare recipients begins
Trump campaign to open urban field offices as part of
massive effort to win black votes
Bernie Sanders the Favorite to Win All Super Tuesday States
Except Alabama
Democrats hammer Bernie in final 2020 debate before South Carolina:
Circular firing squad
Joe Biden Claims A Whopping 150 Million People Have Been
Killed By Guns Since 2007
Pete Buttigieg military service pitch invites 'Swift Boat'
sequel
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/26/pete-buttigieg-military-service-pitch-invites-swif/
Bloomberg Has Now Spent Over a Half-Billion on ‘All Media
Types’
Bernie Sanders defends Fidel Castro's socialist Cuba:
'Unfair to simply say everything is bad'
Communist Cuba Praises Bernie Sanders On Front Page Of
State-Run Newspaper
Bernie Sanders Promoted Article Saying American Dream ‘More
Apt To Be Realized’ In Venezuela
Poll: Trump CRUSHES Sanders in Head to Head
Appeals court rules Trump administration can withhold grants
from 'sanctuary cities'.
Appeals court upholds Trump rules involving abortions.
Viral video draws horrified responses: shows a girl laughing
and apparently having fun as she reveals her pregnancy and heads to Planned
Parenthood for what appears to be her second abortion attempt.
Hypocritical Democrats Block Born Alive Protection
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal would cost $75K
per household in first year: Study
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-would-cos/
Harvard virtue-signals: DoJ brief finds that 45% of its
black and Latino admissions got in on race preferences.
Oregon House GOP joins Senate Republicans' walk out over
carbon bill
Fox News reaches highest viewership in network's history.
Teachers Union Wants Kids to Pursue Gender Transition
Without Parent Consent
'We can't be afraid.' In a Cincinnati church basement, black
women take a class together: learning how to fire guns.
Virginia State Senator says dems voted against raises for
cops as payback for defending 2nd Amendment
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
David Harsanyi 2/26
A number of pundits have recently argued that younger
voters, especially those under 30, are less inclined to be bothered when they
hear the word “socialism,” since they have no firsthand memory of the Cold War.
To some extent, this must be true. Those who weren’t alive
during socialism’s cruelest catastrophes — or even its many banal failures —
will be less put off by the idea. Then again, if a presidential candidate were
praising the excellent public transportation system of the Third Reich or going
on about the some alleged benefit to American slavery, they would rightly be
chased from the public square forever even though the vast majority of voters
have no firsthand knowledge of the Holocaust or slavery. Anti-Semitism and
racism haven’t disappeared, and neither has Marx, sadly.
For that matter, many Americans — including Bernie — lived
through Stalin and Pol Pot and Mao and they still champion the idea of
socialism. It’s completely unsurprising that Bernie once defended the Viet
Cong. Because many of us over 40 immediately recognize who Bernie is. I grew up
with people like him. In those days, though, adults generally didn’t take their
crazy disheveled Commie uncles who taught economics at the local commuter
college very seriously. Maybe that’s the problem.
It’s true that Bernie’s fans aren’t acquainted with
socialism (and, incidentally, this is true only if we ignore the existence of
Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, China, etc.), but the fact is that most Bernie
supporters don’t seem to have a rudimentary grasp of basic economics much less
the “socialism” they think exists in Scandinavian nations. What they do have
are lots of feelings. And, like millions of other saps over the past
century-plus, they’ve been enticed by the collectivist “ethic” — its
revolutionary appeal, its religiosity, and its quixotic promises.
“Fascism is remembered as a crime,” John Hayward correctly points
out. “Communism is treated like a mistake.” I’d add that capitalism is judged
by its few failures and socialism by its few successes. Sanders will never
praise the “literary programs” of any non-tyranny. But if I’ve learned anything
from Twitter — or perhaps, more accurately, if Twitter has solidified any of my
existing suspicions — it’s that academia is teeming with hard-left apologists.
There are plenty of fantastic historians out there, of course, but many of
loudest academics, the ones media often relies on, are either apologists for
socialism or socialists themselves.
Actually, forget college. There are few more powerful
arguments for school choice than seeing a high-school kid bring home Howard
Zinn’s preposterous Marxist history of the United States. I suppose an
adventurous young reader could seek out Gulag Archipelago, Darkness
at Noon, or Animal Farm. How many do?
Actually, forget high school. When Bernie says he wants to
institute a universal “free” pre-K, I just picture little boys and girls with
red scarfs singing Pete Seeger songs because I’m pretty sure that’s exactly
what he pictures.
Education, or a lack of it, isn’t the only problem. As David
Bernstein notes, “the cultural elite in this country — Hollywood, the
universities, etc. — treats the Cold War as if the great world-historical crime
of the mid-twentieth century was not Stalinism and its aftermath, but
McCarthyism and its aftermath.”
Indeed, a person consuming culture during the last 20 years
of the Soviet Union’s existence, as I did, would be led to believe that
McCarthyism was the single worst crime perpetrated in the 20th century — and
capitalism its single most destructive idea. Though collectivism has rained
down more starvation and death on humanity than any other ideology, I can
recall maybe a handful of films that even took an oppositional position to it…..Most
educated Americans have not only seen movies depicting the Holocaust, but
they’ve seen the horrifying real-life pictures of that genocide. How many of
Americans have looked at pictures of the Ukrainian famine? Or the Great Leap
Forward? How many Americans have ever even heard of those events? Maoism was
responsible for 50 million or more deaths, and Stalinism another 20 or 30
million, but I can’t think of a single important American novel or film
depicting those holocausts….
No, Bernie isn’t Stalin. He claims to be a democratic
socialist. I get it. But there’s an array of good reasons no one says, “Hey,
let’s give democratic fascism a shot.” There are just as many good
reasons not to normalize socialism. At their core, both ideologies are
authoritarian. The only difference is that academics and our cultural stewards
have whitewashed one of them.
Sorry, Democrats: Party's Over – “If Joe Biden weren’t a
corrupt, crude, shallow, self-righteous fondler of people’s children I could
probably muster some sympathy for him. There he stands behind the bright
blue podium, almost dizzy under the lights, recounting past accomplishments no
one ever heard of. He is a creature beyond his time -- a sad figure who has
made the subtle crossover from predictable dishonesty into agonized dementia…..His
dementia only makes his ugly nature more apparent. I think they park him next
to Bernie mainly to ensure he doesn’t shamble over and sniff Amy Klobuchar’s
hair. Joe has fallen in the polls and he can’t get up.”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding that funding for the
border wall be diverted to efforts to fight the coronavirus. What Warren
doesn’t understand is that the border wall is protecting us from the
coronavirus. There was a surge of Chinese nationals coming across the southern
border just a few months ago. The last thing you want to do is slow down
efforts to secure the southern border.”
-Gary Bauer
“If Liberals don’t believe in biological gender then why do
they march for women’s rights?”
-Charlie
Kirk
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FILM
‘I Still Believe’: Christian Movie Trailer Boasts 8.5
Million Views Before Opening
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LEFTIST WATCH
The Far-left’s National Strategy to Take Over Your Community
New Jersey Public Schools To Teach LGBT Ideology In EVERY
Subject
FRC: 'Keep Your Kids Home on Transgender Propaganda Day,'
Thursday, Feb. 27
PBS reboots ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ with character having
two lesbian ‘moms’
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PROGRESSIVE AMERICA
City of Paterson NJ Endorses Muslim Call to Prayer, Swearing-In
On Qur'an
Public School 'History' Lesson Compares Trump to Soviets,
Nazis
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BERNIE
Ronald Reagan warned us about Bernie Sanders – over 40 years
ago
“I Lived In Russia When Bernie Sanders Visited, And He's A
Dupe”
No, Fidel Castro Didn't Improve Health Care or Education in
Cuba
Bernie Sanders’ Road to Serfdom … And Corruption
The Rebranding of Socialism as 'Democratic Socialism'
New Harmony: America's failed 19th-century socialist
experiment
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GLOBALONEY
America continues to lead in cutting greenhouse gas
emissions.
The Academic Blacklist Climate Alarmists Don’t Want You To
Know About.
'Berkeley of the East' seeks to ban fossil fuels as part of
sweeping climate plan
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ARTICLES
The Democrats and the virus: Truth is hard, propaganda is
cheap!
Coronavirus For All: Dems’ Plans Would Make Us Sick
“California has lots of reasons to hang onto its roughly
2.2–3.5 million illegal immigrants. They provide cheap, easily
exploited labor. They swell the state's population, which matters
for electors and congresspeople, as well as the distribution of certain federal
funds. As illegal aliens are fed into the system, they provide
reliable (legal or illegal) Democrat votes. And they make
Californians feel virtuous even as they allow corrupt Latin American states to
continue exploiting their own citizens and destroying their economies by
relying on remittances from people illegally in America.”
The Next Coup Against Trump Has Begun
“Recently, A. Welderson wrote an article on American Thinker
arguing that engineers make lousy U.S. presidents. As an engineer, I
would like to defend the profession……I should give you some information about
engineers. Most of us are conservative. This is confirmed
in a poll in an engineering magazine. It is consistent with my
observations. In contrast, our managers are often
Democrats. Considering that I am in the defense industry and
Republican presidents are much more generous to the Defense Department than are
Democrat presidents, I find this strange. There must be a correlation
between wanting to manage others and wanting our government to manage the
American people.”
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OTHER STUFF
Strategic Long Range Cannon - Leaked Images Show Army's
Super Gun: 1000 mi range????
India Plays "Macho Man" by Village People Ahead of
President Trump's Rally at Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad in front of 125,000
(VIDEO)
7 Reasons the Left's Hatred of Trump Is So Deep:….. 1.
Nothing works in derailing this president, and it’s driving leftists crazy. 2. Leftists realize that many voted for
Trump because they wanted anyone but Hillary Clinton. But now, his supporters
are amazed at how much this street-fighting outsider has been able to get done! 3. The left has run up against a
president where name-calling doesn’t work. Trump doesn’t care if he’s not liked
by the left or the “fake” news. 4.
Trump bypasses the media and goes directly to the people. 5. Trump is piece by piece dismantling the
socialist, entitlement transformation President Obama started to build. 6. President Trump is taking on the task
of getting rid of the “deep state” bureaucrats embedded in the federal
government. 7. While Democrats talk
about giving benefits to illegal aliens, President Trump talks about continuing
to build his border wall and updating America’s immigration process.
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WISE
WORDS
“The republican is the only form of government which is not
eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
=Thomas
Jefferson
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