op ed review 5/31
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Violent protests demanding justice for George Floyd spread
across the US Friday night, with the CNN headquarters under siege in Atlanta,
NYPD officers forced to fend off rioters at a police precinct in Brooklyn and the
White House forced to go into lockdown as demonstrators tried to scale the
walls.
CNN HQ? CNN Whips
Leftists into a Frenzy — Then they vandalize CNN headquarters.
Tucker Carlson monologue on the storming and torching of a police
precinct in Minneapolis: “A police
station in a major American city was occupied and looted and burned……No one in
authority seems especially interested in apprehending the people who did it.
All of it happened on camera, but the perpetrators just walked away…..Our
leaders have sided with the agents of chaos.
We are told the
crimes of the mob are our fault.”
Minnesota National Guard orders curfew, then disappears, nowhere
to be seen. ''The protesters rule the
streets'
232 business vandalized, looted, or destroyed. Black
firefighter 'devastated' after rioters destroy sports bar he spent life savings
to build.
Minneapolis hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1973. The veteran Minneapolis police officer charged
in the death of a man in his custody had 18 previous complaints of misconduct
against him, according to news reports.
Before she became a senator and a top contender for former Joe
Biden's VP spot, Amy Klobuchar spent eight years as the Hennepin County
attorney, in charge of prosecution for Minneapolis. While in that position,
Klobuchar declined to prosecute multiple police officers cited for excessive
force, and did not prosecute the officer
now charged with Floyd’s murder.
Minneapolis mayor top priority: urges protesters and rioters to wear masks and
practice social distancing
Two officers injured after confrontations with protesters in
Los Angeles Friday.
Rioters in Atlanta took their frustrations out on the
College Football Hall Of Fame, smashing out the windows, vandalizing the place,
and looting priceless memorabilia. Because somehow it’s racist symbol of white
supremacy. Somehow.
Not wanting to be outdone by the riots in Minneapolis and
Atlanta, terrorists in Portland had their turn to destroy their city. Rioters
stormed the Justice Center, looting and destroying the place. Then they set
fire to the building, as smoke billowed from the shattered windows.
Dem. Gov. of Minnesota blames undercover “White
Supremacists” for the Minneapolis riots.
Actually it appears Antifa groups have organized and
infiltrated activist and protest groups in Minneapolis and beyond.
Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter shows support on Twitter for antifa
group organizing riots in Minneapolis. Minneapolis
is part of Rep Omar’s district.
New York Times on Memorial Day Weekend: 'Why Does the U.S.
Military Celebrate White Supremacy?'
“If the passage of more than 150 years has not sufficed to
restore “reason and good feeling” between North and South, is there any hope
for the future? Why would the New York Times wish to stir up sectional
animosity at this late date? Probably for the same reason they published the
so-called “1619 Project,” a tendentious series about the history of slavery in
America.”
Stock Market Tells the Tale: Trump Set to Win in November
The swing voters who will decide the 2020 election oppose by
2:1 the inflow and hiring of more foreign workers amid the coronavirus crash,
according to a May 20-21 poll.
Not all polls are encouraging: “In 2020, be more skeptical than ever of
polls”
‘Reopen Movement’ offers new voters for Trump to tap
‘untamed’ patriots
Dems reportedly warning pre-election economic surge could
boost Trump
Pence: U.S. Will Not 'Tolerate' Big Tech Censorship of
Conservatives
President Trump Donates Quarter Salary, $100,000 to Health
and Human Services to Develop COVID Therapies
Manchurian candidate?
Old Joe Biden speech (2011) urged China expansion into “All Levels Of US
Govt, Classrooms, Labs, And Boardrooms'
Alzheimer Joe Biden Vows He’s “Going to Beat Joe Biden”
Biden adopts Bernie Sanders' free college-for-all plan. But only if your family make less than $125,000/year.
If you make more, you are “rich” and can afford it yourself.
New video emerges with the usual footage showing Joe Biden
relentlessly pawing manifestly uncomfortable little girls. What makes this one
different is the way it's paired with statements from Professor Anthony Zenkus (ironically
enough, a die-hard leftist and anti-capitalist) who speaks in an old video
about how pedophiles groom children.
Biden tells African Americans if you don’t vote for me, “you
ain’t black.”
BET Founder Robert Johnson: Joe Biden ‘Should Spend the Rest
of His Campaign Apologizing to Every Black Person He Meets’
Pastor Scott at White House roundtable: 'I’ve lived under 12
administrations, Trump has been the most pro-black president in my lifetime'
Washington Gov. Jay “Adolph” Inslee is deeply offended by
the fact that so many Washingtonians refuse to blindly obey his emergency proclamations..
complains about his “insubordinate” subjects to the media. Reportedly, he was enraged when local sheriffs
refused to arrest anyone who defy his random orders and dictates (approved by
no elected body in the state), and this is why the Snohomish County Sheriff is
facing a recall election effort mostly from Inslee supporters.
New White House Press Secretary is sharp as a tack: “Is Kayleigh McEnany the best Press Secretary
in history? I think she may be…”
If the election is close, Republicans could lose the Senate: 10 Senate seats most likely to flip.
California Democrats Fight to Restore Racial Preferences in
higher education. “Should liberals in
California ignore the experience of their Washington State counterparts and
push for the return of racial quotas, they will be stepping into a hornet’s
nest.” John Carlson: “People…know the liberals can now be beaten.”
Dori Monson: Nigerian
scammers steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the Washington State Employment
Security Dept. All this after ESD says it spent $44 million on software that
should have caught such fraud. Besides Jay Inslee, who was the person in charge
as taxpayers got bilked? Her name is Suzi LeVine. How did LeVine get her job?
By being a democratic party fundraiser and insider.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Science Says: Lockdowns Could Kill More Of Us Than The
Coronavirus 5/26
We’ve listened intently as mainstream media outlets, both
print and broadcast, have lectured us and the rest of America on the lifesaving
virtues of the Wuhan virus lockdown. While it may well be true that it saved
lives from the virus, what about the lives lost to the lockdown?
The economic devastation from the lockdown has had brutal
consequences, in particular for small businesses, their owners and their often
low-wage employees. With 38.6 million suddenly unemployed and applying for
benefits, jobless rates shooting toward 20%, and bankruptcies crushing major
industries, such as retailing, the near-term outlook is grim if the lockdowns
continue.
Contrary to the now-trite progressive chant of “we’re all in
this together,” those at the struggling bottom rungs of our once-thriving
economy bear the brunt of the lockdown — not the privileged minority with
secure government jobs or stable stay-at-home telecommuting gigs impervious to
such things as shutdowns.
No, we’re not “all in this together.” And doctors,
economists and others are concluding that the costs in lives lost may actually
exceed the benefits, a classic case of the cure being worse than the disease. A
group of 600 doctors recently signed a letter sent to the president seeking an
end to the lockdown. These doctors braved the opprobrium and possible political
harassment from some of their fellow citizens to warn us all that the number of
suicides from the lockdown’s crushing economic and psychological effects
appears to be soaring.
“We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of
consideration for the future health of our patients. The downstream health
effects…are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an
order of magnitude error,” the letter said. “The millions of casualties of a
continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called
alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure,”
the letter continues. “In youths it will be called financial instability,
unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and
abuse.”
As Dr. Mike deBoisblanc, head of trauma at John Muir Medical
Center in the San Francisco Bay Area, recently told a local ABC affiliate:
“We’ve never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time. I mean,
we’ve seen a year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.”
Worse, badly needed medical procedures have been put off due
to shutdowns. A recent news story predicted “thousands”
of cancer deaths due to postponed cancer
surgeries in England. Expect nothing different here. Many Americas with
life-threatening ailments also have had treatments “postponed” so that we could
flatten the curve.
Those arguing loudest for a continued shutdown of our cities
and towns and the enormous economy they represent are among the first to scream
“science!” when anyone questions their bad ideas, including the lockdown. Well,
doctors are on the cutting edge of health science. So why don’t lockdown
supporters heed their words?
In fact, we may be on the verge of a far more serious
long-term plague than COVID-19: a wave of what social scientists and doctors
now call “deaths of despair.“ How serious is it? An early May study predicted
75,000 added deaths from COVID-19 lockdown-related stress and depression. But,
if the economic recovery is slow and unemployment remains high, the number of
deaths, the study warned, could shoot as high as 154,037.
As we’ve said before, the predictions of disaster in states
reopening have been wrong. Georgia, Florida and Texas so far are doing fine,
and their economies are starting to perk up. Las Vegas, taking their lead,
plans to reopen casinos in early June. New data from the Centers for Disease
Control show that coronavirus infection
fatality rates (IFR) are basically only slightly worse than for a bad flu
season. The current IFR rate of 0.26%, based on CDC data, is way below the 3.4%
(and higher) rates that the World Health Organization and others used to scare
us and shut down much of the global economy.
The lockdown may turn out to be one of the worst policy
mistakes in American economic history. If so, it prompts the question: Did we
really need to shutter our powerful economic machine to control the virus? It
sure doesn’t look that way. Not only will we be saddled with lower incomes,
lost revenues and trillion-dollar deficits for years to come as a result of the
lockdown and uncontrolled government spending, but working Americans who had
made such nice economic gains in recent years will start slipping down the
income ladder.
That will lead to a tragic, but sadly predictable, uptick in
depression, drug use, alcohol abuse and suicide, among other outcomes, as we
recently wrote. It may well be those, and not COVID-19 deaths, will be the
lasting, tragic legacy of the Wuhan virus.
To repeat: It’s time we ended this insane national lockdown,
if only to restore some sense of normalcy to America. And maybe save tens of
thousands of lives while we’re at it.
Another good read: What
the 'Obamagate' Scandals Mean and Why They Matter, a guide.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Why is Twitter censoring the official White House account
of our government while allowing Iran’s supreme leader to tweet death notices
to Jews and Israel?”
-Charlie
Kirk
“The biggest casualty from the COVID-19 pandemic has nothing
to do with the disease. It’s the power we’ve given to politicians and
bureaucrats. The question is how we recover our freedoms.”
-Walter
Williams
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Democrats are going to hire 1000 college students to be “community
organizers in 8 battleground states. They
will be trained and paid full time to elect democrats (ballot harvest where
they can). Soros money?
Dems Paying 'Non-Political' Social Media Influencers to
Covertly Push Anti-Trump, Anti-GOP Agenda
Silicon Valley Billionaires Join Forces Behind Joe Biden;
Plans Include 'Partisan News Sites'
NYC City Council passes bill banning the word 'alien' in
local laws because it’s 'dehumanizing’
National Science Teachers Assn wants to introduce “Social Justice
in the Science Classroom”, led by a UW professor.
Wikipedia Co-Founder: Site’s Neutrality No Longer Exists,
Favors Leftism
https://www.dailywire.com/news/wikipedia-co-founder-sites-neutrality-no-longer-exists-favors-leftism
“I’m just saying, we fly over those states that voted for a
racist tangerine for a reason.”
-Twitter
Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, November 2016
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COVID-19
“In
2017, US doctors prescribed it 5 million times, the 128th most
commonly prescribed drug in the country. There have been hundreds of millions of
prescriptions worldwide since its inception. It is one of the cheapest and best drugs in
the world and has saved millions of lives. Then something happened to this wonder drug. From savior of the multitudes, redeemer and
benefactor of hundreds of millions, it transformed into something else: a
purveyor of doom, despair, and unspeakable carnage. It began when President Trump discussed
it as a possible treatment for COVID-19 on March 19, 2020. The gates of hell burst forth on May 18 when Trump casually
announced that he was taking it, prescribed by his physician. Attacks on Trump and this otherwise harmless
little molecule poured in. The
heretofore respected, commonly used, and highly effective medicinal became a major
threat to life, a nefarious and wicked chemical that could alter critical heart
rhythms, resulting in sudden cataclysmic death for unsuspecting innocents. Trump, more than irresponsible, was evil
incarnate for daring to even mention it. While at it, the salivating media trotted out
the canard about Trump’s nonrecommendation for injecting Clorox and Lysol or
drinking fish-tank cleaner to combat COVID. It was Charlottesville all over again.”
Yale Epidemiology Professor Urges Hydroxychloroquine &
Azithromycin Early Therapy for COVID-19
India backs hydroxychloroquine for virus prevention.
Epidemiologist: Sweden’s COVID Response Isn’t Unorthodox.
The Rest of the World’s Is
Norway health chief agrees: lockdown was not needed to tame
COVID
Denmark, Finland saw no increase in coronavirus after
schools re-opened
Even leftie Mother Jones questions the wisdom of school
closures.
Bombshell study: Could half the uninfected population already
be partially immune?
Just How Exaggerated Is The COVID-19 Death Count? “Must inflate
numbers to get people to care”
The CDC Just Gave Us the Biggest Reason to End the
Coronavirus Lockdowns
With 81% of coronavirus deaths in MN nursing homes, Gov.
Walz refuses to stop sending COVID patients there. “Killing Grandma”
Map of the Day: US counties divided by one-third of COVID
deaths
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ARTICLES
Gingrich on red-state reopenings vs blue-state lockdowns:
Will be 'one of the most vivid gaps' in economic history.
Former Acting ICE Director:
“Right now, because of President Trump, border crossings are down nearly
80 percent. How many lives were saved because 80 percent chose not to make the
journey? How many women were not raped? How many overdose deaths didn’t happen?
How many millions of dollars did not go to the cartels? Those willing to
see beyond the sensational partisanship in the media and Capitol Hill will
find that our president and our immigration enforcement agencies
are not only defending our nation’s border, but protecting human
lives on both sides of it.”
VDH: As a general
rule, when the New York Times, the Washington
Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS,
ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in
simply believing just the opposite. Put another way, the media’s “truth” is a
good guide to what is abjectly false.
Think about an election where a ballot is sent to a person
regardless of eligibility or to an address that person may not live at anymore;
signed by someone else; picked up and delivered by a Democratic campaign
operative; and still counted. If Democrats were to get their way, that is what
would happen in my home state of Nevada this June, and nationwide in the
November presidential election. This is clearly a trial run by Democrats to see
if they can get away with The Scam of the Century with which they have one goal
in mind: to steal all future U.S. elections.
Gen. Flynn’s lawyer: “The transcripts of General
Flynn’s calls with Ambassador Kislyak released today by Senator Grassley prove
there was no conceivable “Logan Act” violation—nothing wrong at all with
General Flynn’s conversations with the Ambassador……The
conduct of the FBI, certain members of the DOJ, the Special Counsel Operation,
and those in the House, Senate and elsewhere who have obstructed the release of
the truth have all obstructed justice and put this man, his family, and the
entire country through three years of hell—for their LIES and deceit. There are
no words sufficient to convey our disgust and disdain for all those responsible
in any way for this baseless and purely evil persecution.”
If the Flynn Saga Seems Too Complex? Read This
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REF 90 WASHINGTON
If you don’t act, schools will soon be teaching kindergartners
that they can be any gender they want. 129,811
valid signatures are due by June 10, 2020.
A little over halfway there currently.
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OTHER STUFF
New report reveals the crushing costs that federal
regulations impose on average households.
“Ten Thousand Commandments 2020: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal
Regulatory State.” $14,000 cost per family.
The Week in Pictures: Unlicensed Freedom Edition
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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WISE
WORDS
“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do
equal and impartial justice to all citizens.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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