op ed review 5/17
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
CNN commissioned poll shows Trump crushing Biden in 15 battleground
states.
GOP clinched major victories in two
special elections held on Tuesday; largely ignored by the mainstream media. Mike
Garcia is first Republican to flip a district in California since 1998.
Manufacturing coming back:
Taiwan chip maker TSMC, supplier to Apple and more, to build Arizona
plant.
Border Wall System Update: 181 miles completed 190 miles
under construction 360 miles under pre-construction.
A report in Communist Chinese state media outlet asserts
that they will target various GOP politicians for being critical of China. Rep Crenshaw’s (R-TX) response: “So apparently I’m on the Chinese
government’s radar now. Good. Bring it.”
Port of Seattle police officer's youtube post urges police
officers to respect the Bill of Rights; goes viral. Now his bosses want him fired, for “violating
policy”.
A friend of his family set up a gofundme for his legal
defense, after interview with Laura Ingraham, quickly raised $400,000.
Looks like President Obama himself ordered up the phony the RussiaGate
scandal.
John Brennan Suppressed Intel Saying Russia Wanted Hillary
Clinton to Win.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/05/12/fox-news-john-brennan-russia-hillary-clinton/
List of officials who sought to 'unmask' Flynn released:
Biden, Comey, Obama chief of staff among them.
Liar. Biden Claimed
No Knowledge Of Flynn Case, New Doc Shows He Requested the Unmasking
Constitution Requires Judge’s Lawless Order Against Flynn Be
Overturned
House Democrats pass NEW coronavirus relief bill. $3T, equal
to the entire US yearly tax bill. …1,800-page bill was “the largest bill in the
history of Congress”
Tucker examines the Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus
relief bill: billions for illegal aliens,
amnesty for illegals, extend guest worker visas, expedite visa processing,
cannabis mentioned 68 times, financing help encouraging minority owned cannabis
businesses, orders the release of all prisoners who have asthma, diabetes, or over
50, voter ID requirement loopholes, funding to study coronavirus“ misinformation”,
repeal of the cap on state and local income tax deductions for blue states, lobbyists
eligible for small business loans.
Tucker lists and explains them all in 10 minutes; worth watching. “When
the smoke clears, only China will be able to bail us out from our mountain of
debt.”
Dems working on $2,000-a-month payments for high-schoolers; 16-year-olds
could apply simply by filling out an online form. The cash would be delivered
via Paypal, Venmo or a bank. Future
voters introduced to socialism.
NY Gov. Cuomo Bizarrely Calls COVID-19 a 'European Virus'
$1.6T in century-old Chinese bonds offer Trump unique
leverage against Beijing
Biden taps AOC to lead campaign's climate change task force
Just Like Obama: Biden Says He'll "Fundamentally
Transform" America.
“Destroying America’s economy is the Democrat plan for
stealing a presidency. They can live with the toll a closed economy will take
on the lives and well-being of Americans -- it’s a small price to pay for the
fundamental transformation of the United States of America they seek.”
Sen. Patty Murray Turns Pandemic Hearing into Partisan
Circus. “Winston Churchill… is famously quoted as having said: “The best
argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average
voter.” The quote is exactly half-right. The best argument against democracy is
actually a five-minute conversation with (Sen. Murray)…..She first got elected
to the Senate on a platform of wearing tennis shoes. I wish I were making that
up, but I am not.”
Rumor that Sleepy Joe is considering Susan “Benghazi” Rice for VP.
With Oregon considering an economy-threatening
50-cent-per-gallon tax to combat "climate change," Art Robinson
contends it's time for a scientist to join the state legislature.
Talk radio WMAL, home to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, takes
No. 1 in liberal DC market
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Julie Kelley 5/15
There’s a weird cognitive dissonance happening right now
that is as revealing as it is alarming.
Just as we learn more details about all the ways Barack
Obama and his henchmen weaponized powerful federal agencies to punish Donald
Trump, Americans, oddly, are surrendering their own power to the same type of
god-like government authorities under the guise of the common good.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the
good of its victims may be the most oppressive,” C.S. Lewis wrote. “It would be
better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The
robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be
satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end
for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
The effort to stop coronavirus, much like the attempt to
stop Donald Trump, has been presented by ardent defenders as their call to
duty, a selfless act undertaken not to gratify their lust for power but to
protect the public’s best interest. There is no discernible difference between
the high-minded hectoring of former FBI Director James Comey and that of
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer—their decisions are above scrutiny because,
as they often scold their lesser subjects, these decisions are made for your
own good. (“Everything I’m doing is trying to save your life,” Whitmer just said
in an interview.)
Let’s begin with what now is appropriately called Obamagate.
Americans were warned, starting in the summer of 2016, that Donald Trump’s
campaign was in cahoots with the Russians to rig the outcome of the
presidential election. The basis for that claim, the media and top government
officials assured us, was that Russian hackers working on behalf of Vladimir
Putin breached the Democratic National Committee’s server, stole thousands of
emails, and gave the trove to WikiLeaks. Then Julian Assange, the story goes,
dutifully published those damaging documents on his site the week that the
Democrats would coronate Hillary Clinton in July 2016. It all was part of a
Trump-Russia plot to hurt Clinton and help Trump win, the intelligence
community later asserted.
After Trump won, all the smart people warned that the
incoming president posed such a threat to the country that any and all measures
to mitigate the spread of his Kremlin-tainted rule would be necessary. (See
where this is going?) Investigations into the Trump campaign, the Trump family,
the Trump Administration and the president himself were necessary to save the republic.
At first we were assured that the FBI did not spy on the
Trump campaign—then we found out it did. Top lawmakers insisted evidence of
collusion was in plain sight; then Special Counsel Robert Mueller, after two
years and $36 million, concluded there was no evidence of collusion in plain
sight or anywhere else.
Obama loyalists, many of whom once held the most powerful
and influential offices in the country, promised cable news hosts that they knew
for a fact Donald Trump conspired with the Russians to influence the 2016
election. But when questioned under oath by congressional Republicans, those
same professionals—so bold and confident in front of the camera—confessed
behind closed doors that they never saw any proof of such a conspiracy. The
so-called dossier was raw intelligence carefully collected by a respected
former British spy, the media reported. That material, Comey later
explained, did not comprise the bulk of the evidence presented before a secret
court to obtain permission to spy on Carter Page, a Trump campaign aide that
the FBI accused of acting as a foreign agent of Russia.
But then we found out that the dossier actually wasn’t
real intelligence but fabricated propaganda collected by a foreign
political operative who was paid by the Democrats and Hillary Clinton. Oh, and
by the way, the dossier did in fact represent most of the evidence in
Comey’s FISA application on Carter Page. And Page wasn’t a Russian agent after
all.
Unmasking U.S. citizens, top intelligence officials solemnly
promised, was a rare occurrence and was only allowed when the circumstances
were the most worrisome for the security of the United States. Now, those same
officials admit that unmasking the identity of U.S. citizens, including close
advisors to an incoming president, is of course a “routine”
affair—especially when that advisor endangers the well-being of the nation!
Joe Biden didn’t know anything about the investigation into
Lt. General Michael Flynn—but oops, turns out the former vice president made a
request to unmask Flynn in January 2017. And according to recently released
testimony from an executive of CrowdStrike—the Democrat-connected cybersecurity
firm that everyone swore had proof the Russians indeed hacked the DNC
server—actually never had proof the Russians hacked the email server.
Whoopsie. Everything—and I mean everything—government officials and
their media scribes promised was true about Russian collusion was not true. In
fact, it was a big fat lie. All of it.
So it’s greatly discomfiting, in the face of this massive
and destructive sham, to see millions of Americans submit to the whims of
government bureaucrats, elected officials, and “experts” who—much like the
collusion hoaxsters—have misled us on the coronavirus threat every step of the
way. They’ve leveraged fear and panic to bolster their own power grabs. And as
with the collusion ruse, the media breathlessly chases every horror story and
doomsday scenario while again predicting the end times for Donald Trump.
Dr. Anthony Fauci insisted in January we shouldn’t be too
worried about coronavirus. The lethality of the disease, he wrote in February,
was about the same as a bad flu. By March, Fauci claimed the fatality rate was
10 times worse than the flu. Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx showed President Trump
two scary models that predicted widespread death and disease, nationwide
shortages of hospital beds and ICUs, and a woefully inadequate supply of
ventilators. They urged the president, as he admits, to “shut everything down”
and extend unproven “social distancing” orders that subsequently crashed a
red-hot economy.
But the model issued by Imperial College has been roundly condemned
by scientists as “crude mathematical guesswork”; the academic responsible for
the now-debunked model has resigned in disgrace. The other model—produced by
Dr. Chris Murray—has been way off and subjected to multiple iterations with
wildly modified projections.
Americans initially were asked to help “flatten the curve”
so as not to overwhelm the healthcare system. That seemingly reasonable demand
then morphed into “slow the spread” and then “stop the spread.” Now many experts
claim our lives cannot return to normal until a vaccine or a cure is available.
Inexplicably, as those grave mistakes and shifting goalposts
are exposed, government commands for compliance become more oppressive and
destructive—yet many Americans are playing along. Even though Fauci and other
“experts” assured us several weeks ago that face masks wouldn’t prevent us from
infecting others; that, too, has changed. Americans, either willingly or for
fear of being shamed, are wearing useless homemade masks including while
driving a car . . . alone. Have we learned nothing the past three years?
My hunch is that once we find the truth about coronavirus,
nearly everything we’ve been told to do will turn out to have been wrong. As
with Russian collusion, the dire predictions will never materialize. And the
public’s trust, once again, will have been shown to be not just misplaced
but exploited for political purposes. The moral busybodies working under
the pretext of the common good, as C.S. Lewis warned, will have prevailed once
again. And we will have been fooled—again.
In this compelling read, Rabbi Fischer has had it: “As a rabbi of 40 years and a person who
believes that most people have the potential for goodness, and who tries to
find the good even in people who disappoint until they absolutely close off the
possibility of goodness being discovered within them, I now have learned to
hate……I hate that Donald Trump never was given a chance to be president of the
United States for even one day’s honeymoon. I hate that, long before he won the
presidency — fair and square — corrupt crooks and criminals in the United
States Department of Justice, its Federal Bureau of Investigation, were actively
plotting to take him down. I hate that there are so few outlets in the media
that give voice to condemn the criminality and corruption that broke every
accepted societal norm by which we play the game. I hate that Obama was in on
it, yet continues to pontificate on what
is just and on what threatens freedom. I hate that they all keep getting away with it. Every single
one of them gets away with it. There is absolutely no price to be paid on the
left for perjury, for conspiracy to overturn a legitimate election, for
treason.”
“They have brought this calamity on
themselves. For some time now, the go-to progressive tactic has been
to oversimplify every controversy into a Manichean "narrative" that
pits absolute goodness against unspeakable evil. Among the other purposes that framing Mike
Flynn was meant to serve was to show the good angels of St. James Comey and the
Mueller team slaying the wicked and traitorous Trump appointee by sheer force
of righteousness. The problem now is that Flynn is looking less villainous all
the time, and Comey and the special counsel team are stinking more of brimstone
than they already did. Once you've seen
that note about "get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him
fired," it's hard to unsee it.”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Forget burning flags, lynching world leaders in effigy and
lying down in the street to stop traffic. The new act of civil disobedience is
going to your job. The world has gone completely up-side-down.”
-Jon
Caldara
“Journalism is about covering important stories. With a
pillow, until they stop moving.”
-David Burge
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Beyond parody: CNN taps 17 year old Greta Thunberg for
expert coronavirus panel.
CNN accused of 'egregious misreading' of data from
coronavirus survey
Joe Biden would be found guilty of rape under the Title IX
standard he supports.
Facebook Puts Soros, Muslim Brotherhood, Activists in Charge
of Censorship
Is Twitter Deleting #ObamaGate Tweets? Twitter Users Point
out the Hashtag's Odd Activity While It Trends
As the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs
advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internet. Atlantic magazine comments on the problems
free speech poses: “In the debate over
freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and
the U.S. was wrong.”
Lawsuit in Washington State blames Fox News for coronavirus. 3-year-old group of leftist provocateurs called
WASHLITE
“Price is Right” Donates Almost $100,000 to Planned
Parenthood Abortion Business
Bloomberg-Founded Gun Control Group Pledges $8M to Turn
Texas Blue
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COVID-19
Police State Dry Run a Huge Success: “When
the coronavirus landed on our shores, communist China came with it. We
have become part of a mass scale human experiment in government control and it
turned out that stripping away our freedom wasn’t all that difficult. Under the
guise of concern for our health and well-being, tyrants came out of the
woodwork. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our lives are being
destroyed as the left solidifies and expands their oppressive powers. We’ve
been herded around like cattle, threatened, isolated, confined, silenced, and
arrested. You name it, it’s happening.”
Wrecking the economy with discredited computer models: Neil Ferguson, a mathematical epidemiologist at Imperial
College London, panicked policy makers around the world when he released his
computer model projecting that the coronavirus pandemic would result in 500,000
deaths in the U.K. and 2.2 million in the U.S. It is hard to understand why his
pronouncement was accepted so uncritically when he has a history of being
wrong. Very wrong….Throughout the country, governors have lost track of the
intent of the social distancing guidelines, which were expected to slow, not
prevent the spread of the highly contagious virus…Instead of doubling down on
social isolation, governors must reopen the economy, protect vulnerable
Americans, allow people to get back to work, and provide for their families. Lockdowns,
unemployment checks, and federal bailouts are unsustainable and will bankrupt
the country. We should not continue wrecking the economy and mortgaging the
nation's future over excessive fears created by a discredited computer model.”
‘Unlawful, invalid, unenforceable’: Wisconsin Supreme Court
nukes Dem Governor’s lockdown extension
Why It's Ridiculous to Keep Students Home From School This
Fall: “..primary and secondary school students
across Europe are (already) returning to classes.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/13/why-its-ridiculous-to-keep-students-home-from-school-this-fall/
Poll: Two-thirds of college students want in-person classes
this fall even without COVID vaccine
John
Lott: US is dramatically overcounting
coronavirus deaths.
The media denounced Georgia for being first state to reopen.
Now Georgia reports lowest number of COVID patients in a month.
Wall Street Journal: The Economic Lockdown IS the
'Catastrophe'
“It
all boils down to one simple question. Has
the lockdown been worth it? That depends
only partly on science. There are also
three other factors that must go into that answer: 1) economic consequences, 2)
constitutional values and 3) moral judgements………This nation has made the biggest blunder in
its history. The time has come for the
politicians from the President to the Governors and Mayors to stop hiding
behind the scientist/bureaucrats and fully reopen the nation. Focus on that segment of the population most
at risk, without compulsory isolation or de facto imprisonment. And restore the civil liberties that have been
wantonly eroded.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/the_wuhan_virus_lockdown_is_a_colossal_blunder.html
Cuomo’s COVID-19 Panic Killed Thousands In Nursing Homes,
but he’s the media hero.
New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom. “Andrew Cuomo is having the time of his life.
His approval ratings are through the roof and he’s being talked about as a
replacement for Joe Biden should Joe wander off somewhere without his Visiting
Angel, never to be found again…… There is something deeply unsettling about the
way Cuomo’s handling of the epidemic has been lionized by the national media,
and treated as a reality show by his brother’s network; especially when it’s
viewed in tandem with attempts to delegitimize governors in other states who
have competently faced down similar challenges.”
Barstool Sports’s Dave Portnoy shutdown rant. Check it out before it gets removed by
Google. Warning: very colorful #*&$!#
language!
HOW BAD IS IT?
Jobless claims: ANOTHER 2.98 million Americans file for
unemployment benefits
New study shows staggering effect of coronavirus pandemic on
America's mental health.
Don’t Be Fooled By Official Unemployment Rate Of 14.7%; The
Real Figure Is Even Scarier
Study finds 42% of pandemic layoffs will become permanent
job losses.
Are Endless Lockdowns the Result of Malice or Stupidity? “the total loss of life from all societal
responses to this disease is likely to be more than 90 times greater than prevented
by the lockdowns.”
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ARTICLES
“It is impossible to overstate the intensity of the Trump
Derangement Syndrome that gripped Obama and his aides — a hatred that led to an
extraordinary level of entitlement. Out of nothing more than political spite,
they were determined to use the transition to get a political adversary fired
and prosecuted. Their gross presumption rested entirely upon the undemocratic
conceits of an elite that fools itself into thinking that the “rule of law” is
synonymous with its will and appetite for power. The media exists to make the
railroadings of the ruling class look respectable, but in truth they are no
different than those of third-world autocrats. Sober historians will look back
at the political espionage of the Obama administration against the incoming
Trump administration as the stuff of banana republics.”
Obama's Coup Attempt
Sebastian Gorka explains why Obama had to take out Gen Flynn.
Professor Turley, the last honest democrat: “There was once a time when this would be
viewed as the story of the century, including the unmasking of Biden himself in
this investigation. But these are not those times, and this cannot be the
story. Russian collusion is the story and, as Biden stressed, the rest is just
a diversion. It is up to the public to decide who has been ultimately unmasked
by the Flynn investigation.”
Good VDH read: Unbearable
Truths About Our Current Political Moment.
Lloyd Marcus: Deliver
Us from Evil Democrats
The stealth Trump voter: the president's secret weapon.
The 'Let's Roll' Election:
“I do not know whether the times
make the man or whether certain men and women rise to shape the events and
futures before them. What does seem
indisputable, though, is that Donald Trump has been an unexpectedly effective,
instrument for defending freedom from our attackers. Call him a blunt instrument, call him a president
like none before him, but his form of concentrated energy and indomitable
spirit have given us a battering ram against our enemies when no other tool
would suffice. If we are ever to achieve
any semblance of peace in this country, victory in 2020 is imperative. Only by
shocking the world a second time is there any hope that we might awaken a
global elite that still refuses to see that we exist. It has the potential to explode the corrosive
status quo once and for all. It will be
like detonating a nuclear bomb as a warning to try us no further.”
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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.
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OTHER STUFF
Funny Trump campaign site's 404 error page takes opportunity
to mock Joe Biden: “You're as lost as I am'”
Good ad by GOP research group America Rising: “Joe Biden IS the swamp”
Despite multiple warnings from U.S. intelligence officials,
multiple Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes still operate on American soil. Here are the Chinese 'propaganda' centers. University of Idaho and Portland State, it
figures, but Northwest Nazarene????
New Image of Jupiter Peers Beneath Its Clouds
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WISE
WORDS
“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by
some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic
enterprise and the state.”
-J. K.
Galbraith
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of
hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
-H.L. Mencken
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