op ed review 2/16
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Gallup: A solid
majority of Americans say they are better off now than they were three years
ago. The 61 percent “better off” rating
is the highest percentage recorded during the re-election year of any incumbent
president since Gallup first asked the question in its surveys in 1992.
Trump
will propose big boost for NASA to return astronauts to the moon
More than 18 years after the United States invaded
Afghanistan, President Trump has conditionally approved a peace deal with the
Taliban that would withdraw the last American troops from the country, potentially
beginning the end of America’s longest war,
Brutal!
Is Joe Biden's New Ad About Mayor Pete Homophobic?
Pete
Buttigieg, Interior Decorator?
In
NH, Pete Buttigieg Speaks Spanish to Illegals: ‘This Country Is Your Country
Too’
Mayor Pete: Red Diaper Baby
Biden
to New Hampshire Voter: 'You're a Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier!’
Joe Biden shocked a group of black mayors last year when he
told them black parents “can’t read or write themselves.” The liberal
mainstream media only decided to report on this on Thursday as Joe Biden’s
campaign circles the drain.
Bernie
Sanders Excommunicates Pro-Life Democrats: Being Pro-Choice Is ‘Absolutely
Essential’
Man
Deliberately Rams Vehicle Into GOP Tent Full Of Volunteers
Harvard, Yale under investigation over foreign gifts
totaling hundreds of millions of dollars
Say
goodbye to womens’ sports: A
biologically male marathon runner who identifies as a transgender woman is set
to compete in the USA Olympic trials later in February.
Red
States Increasingly Hold Economic and Demographic Advantage
But
don’t get too cocky Republicans: the Turnout Numbers Say Democrats are Jazzed
Trump
and RNC raise $117M over impeachment outrage.
Locking
in their advantage: Virginia Dems Advance Bill to Give Driver's Licenses to up
to 300K Illegals
Pompeo
warns governors of Chinese infiltration into US: 'It's happening in your state'
Former
Romney Campaign Spokesman Says Romney's Impeachment Vote All About Jealousy
& Bitterness
Nevada Union Refuses To Endorse A 2020 Democratic Candidate “They
All Suck”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Trump:
The Hero Modern America Needs
JB
Shurk 2/10
Somewhere
in the darkness, where private thoughts can be snuffed out before spoken out
loud, there is a Democrat who understands that President Trump is now
legend. After the State of the Union, one woman in Carthage, North
Carolina said it clearly: "We need to put a cape on his back, an 'S' on his
chest, and call him Superman. No mortal man could take what he has
took in the last three years and do what he has done." The
entire diner where she was being interviewed exploded in enthusiastic
cheers. She seemed to have expressed a feeling that others were feeling,
too. Can you hear that John Williams score in your
mind? Is it getting louder and louder? I can assure you
that the Democrats are beginning to hear its beats. They've
dedicated their lives to destroying President Trump one way or another, but in their
all-consuming hatred and rage, they misapprehended what they were doing:
through their villainy, they created a hero.
You
can't have a hero without hardship. If descending a golden escalator
conferred greatness, if no adversity were required to prove a man's worth, then
"hero" would lose all meaning. It is the struggle of
the journey that separates the successful from the heroic. In
rejecting the 2016 election results, sabotaging the transition of power, and threatening
the president's life and freedom daily, the Democrats have made President Trump
Heracles by their own hands. He is the warrior slaying the
nine-headed Hydra of the federal government, the swamp-drainer clearing the
mass of dung piled high within the bureaucrats' Augean stables, and the defiant
spirit who rages against the Democrats, NeverTrump Rump, and Deep State trying
to bury him by bringing their three-headed Cerberus back from the gates of hell
and mocking the beast in celebration before the assorted media in
mourning. Donald Trump won the presidency all by himself, but the
Democrats made him legendary, and every labor they throw his way simply adds to
his growing mythology. They want him gone; they've made him
immortal.
Here
is where President Trump's journey differs from Heracles or Achilles or
Odysseus, though. Almost all of his State of the Union address
immortalized not himself, but the American heroes all around us. He
redirected the spotlight away from himself to the wife and son who will always bear
the pain of an American soldier's sacrifice for our freedom; to the parents of
a devout Christian whose life was stolen, even as she saved the lives of so
many others around her; to a man who refuses to let his brother's murder go in
vain just because California cares so little for the lives of its own
citizens. Like a great storyteller passing our history from one
generation to the next, President Trump brought back to life the Tuskegee
Airmen from our past and connected them to the Space Force of our future. He
honored our military and our law enforcement officers and the men and women who
protect our borders, but he also honored the sacrifice of the military family
missing a loved one and the struggles of a twenty-one-week-old baby who fought
for life, of a drug-addicted American who fought to reclaim life, and of a
fourth-grade girl who fights for the right to seek an even better
life. He reminded us that friends of freedom are forever rare and
that the space between Venezuela's gulags and American liberty is fought by
those who exercise their free speech, even while facing a lifetime of threats
from those who want to control what can be said and heard.
Throughout
his presidency, President Trump has asked his fellow citizens to do two things:
(1) remember America's greatness and (2) believe in America's
destiny. In the not so distant past, these would have seemed like
unremarkable requests. Today, they are shots of adrenaline bolting
us awake from a nightmare we never chose. America's enemies have
spent so many decades distorting our history and shaming our heroes that we
have become a nation of walking wounded, uncertain about who we are as a people
or where we want to go. But ours is a magnificent
story. A story of sacrifice and hardship and struggle and great perseverance. A
story of the underdog who never submits, the bloodied hero who always returns
to his feet. A story of dreamers and builders and fighters and
winners. A story of freedom. We are being asked to remember
all we have accomplished as a people, and once you begin remembering, it
becomes easy to see. Our problem has never been too few heroes; our
problem has been a culture that blinds us from seeing them standing right
beside us. President Trump used his State of the Union address to
shine a bright light on who we are. He is indeed a hero, but he is a
hero leading a nation of heroes, too. More and more Americans are
remembering this truth and beginning to whisper it among
themselves. But the thing with whispers is that if you put enough of
them together, you get a roar. That may be President Trump's most
Herculean feat yet.
The
sage lady from Carthage is right to see shades of Superman in the president,
but I am reminded of another John Williams score growing in symphonic strength
in the background of his journey: Star Wars. When he decided
to sacrifice comfort for his countrymen, he became for many "A New
Hope." For four long years, we've endured while "The
Empire Strikes Back." But if the
State of the Union and the president's post-acquittal press conference told us
anything, it's that "The Return of the Jedi" has just
begun. He said it clearly last week while Speaker Pelosi protested:
"The best is yet to come." Best to believe a man who gave
America her very own Space Force.
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Another must read: Is
It Time to Call Democrats 'Evil'? You Decide
The
legendary Charlie Daniels warns against the socialism of Bernie, AOC, Warren
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Elizabeth Warren [on Friday] said that banning
semi-automatic firearms will work. A few minutes later, Warren says that
banning abortion does not work because people can still get abortions on the
black market.”
-Ryan Saavedra
“Did you know: The California homeless population grew by
around 21,306 people in 2019. This is more than the national increase in 49
other states…COMBINED! Mike Bloomberg
just said that California is a model for the rest of the nation. Is this what
he was talking about?”
-Charlie
Kirk
“Imagine if, 30 years after winning the Cold War, America
elects a communist as president. What a tragic farce that would be. The kind of
thing that will baffle historians for centuries to come.”
-Matt
Walsh
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FILM
New Film Shows How the War on Poverty Failed and the Real
Hope for America’s 'Forgotten' Cities
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LEFTIST WATCH
Far-left Democratic Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA)
declared on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday that women
are “still shackled” and not “free” in the United States because the U.S.
Constitution is “sexist by its very design.
Radical anti-American financier George Soros recently
unveiled a scheme to sink $1 billion into a new global university to fight
nationalism and climate change, twin phantoms he emotes are “threatening the
survival of our civilization.” Why is this a bad thing? Because global warming
is a hoax and nationalism--at least in a good nation like the United States--is
a good thing, and because Soros is a living, breathing malignancy who has
devoted the past several decades of his life to advancing evil in the world.
Leftist
thuggery: Political violence accelerates against Trump supporters
Breitbart News is updating its list of credibly reported
hate crimes against Trump supporters since September 2015.
Unhinged
leftist activist Michael Vall was arrested in Eureka, California after
vandalizing and apparently trying to burn down the Humboldt County Republican
party office. To no one’s surprise, it turns out dude is a Bernie supporter.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a social mental illness
that manifests itself in the refusal to accept the results of the 2016
elections. This ailment belongs to the category of political psychosis. Unlike
most other mental disorders, TDS is a contagious disease that can cause
epidemics and even pandemics. This syndrome is caused by the new
neuropathologic coronavirus Bacillus Anti-Trumpicus (2016-nCoV). The virus,
entering the human brain, selectively eats only those neurons responsible for a
coherent political worldview. Theoretically, the disease is incurable, although
some countries have announced successful attempts to combat the epidemic and
control the spread of infection....”
Survey Finds People Who Identify as Left-Wing More Likely to
Have Been Diagnosed With a Mental Illness
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PROGRESSIVE AMERICA
Liberal groups and high-powered New York attorneys swoop
into Detroit to help the city fight a lawsuit over its voter roll
irregularities, which included thousands of deceased individuals appearing on
the rolls.
Lefties
call for boycott of MSNBC after Chris Matthews goes off about Dems and
socialism: "I'm Seeing What
Socialism's Like. It's Not Only Not Free. It Doesn't Freakin Work!"
Bloomberg's
climate lawyers promote green agenda behind scenes in state governments
Never mind energy independence, AOC officially introduces a
national fracking ban in the House.
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GLOBALONEY
Global Warming In a Few Charts: Climate change hysteria has been dialed
up to 11 over the last year or two. Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who
knows little or nothing about the subject, apparently will continue being
nominated for a Nobel Prize until she wins one. But, hype aside, what is
actually going on with the Earth’s climate?
After three years of apocalyptic wailing and gnashing of
environmentalist teeth over President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the job
and economy killing Paris Climate Accord, it is ironic that the one country
that faces the brunt of criticism from climate change zealots such as Greta
Thunberg is leading the world and the European Union in lowering emissions and
promoting cleaner energy, such as natural gas, all the while not hurting the
economy:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/emissions_accomplished__trump_wins_on_fracking.html
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ARTICLES
If we didn’t have a “homelessness problem,” the left would
have to invent one. Which is what they’re now doing here in my town of Aspen.
The local lefties, which is to say nearly the whole town, have decided to throw
more taxpayer money at ending the homelessness epidemic here. “Epidemic” is of
course a relative term. Anecdotal and observational evidence suggests that this
very, very rich town of 6,500 people holds exactly one homeless person.
Everyone calls him “The Homeless Guy.”
“Democratic pols and media gasbags — not to repeat myself —
have finally found somebody they hate nearly as much as they hate President
Trump: Bernie Sanders. It really is amazing to watch the comfortable Democrat
poobahs wring their hands in agony as they watch Mr. Sanders rack up these
impressive wins in the Democratic primary.”
I know a couple of people who are going to be in trouble
with the Woke Science Community. Colin M. Wright, an evolutionary biologist at
Penn State, and Emma N. Hilton, a developmental biologist at the University of
Manchester, have collaborated on an article published in the Wall Street
Journal this week. They put forth the revolutionary and highly controversial
theory that human beings are born as one of two distinct sexes, male and
female. And no amount of philosophical meandering is going to change the
incontrovertible medical fact that sex is binary and does not exist on some
sort of “spectrum.”
Ben
Shapiro: Bernie Sanders is unstoppable -- even if Democrats won't admit it
Can
Trump (and Kanye) Vanquish ‘Identity Politics’?
Rush
Limbaugh's Heartwarming Account of the State of the Union
The Benefits of Being Joe Biden’s Brother
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SATIRE
In
Appreciation For Primary Win, Bernie Promises To Make New Hampshire The Site Of
His Very First Re-Education Camp
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OTHER STUFF
Hilarious
Pictures: Mega-Trumpy Edition, examples:
“You have to really admire Trump, does anybody realize he just made all
the Democrats attend Rush Limbaugh’s award ceremony.”
“If
you think about it, Trump is basically the new boss at a company where employees
have been stealing for years.”
“Bernie Sanders walks into a bar and yells ‘Free drinks for
everyone! Whose buying?”
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WISE
WORDS
“All socialism involves slavery. … That which fundamentally
distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another’s
desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form
of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole.”
-Herbert Spencer
“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should,
therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is
not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean
everything or nothing at pleasure.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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