op ed review 7/26
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
This new video from Chicago shows a large group of “peaceful
protestors” injuring 49 police officers by throwing bricks, rocks, full metal
cans, frozen water bottles, explosive fireworks, and other items at them.
Chicago shootout at funeral home sends at least 15 to
hospitals.
Here’s the root of the problem in Chicago: Chicago has more gang members than any other
city in the United States: 150,000 !!
Black Trump supporter gunned down execution style in
Milwaukee
Violent Portland Rioters Chant ‘Every City, Every Town, Burn
the Precincts to the Ground’ During Black Lives Matter ‘Protest’
Portland Riot Organizer Claims Mission is the 'Abolition of
the United States As We Know It'
In Portland, “a federal agent’s hand was impaled by planted
nails, another federal agent was shot with a pellet gun, leaving a wound deep
to the bone, and tragically, three federal officers were likely left
permanently blinded by the rioters using lasers pointed directly into their
eyes.”
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Praises Rioters in Portland: 'The
Best of Our Democratic Ideals'
Portland: “This is how cities die. By electing ideologues
who don’t care about enforcing the law, who show contempt for average
taxpayers, and who impose leftist policies on the local community that damage
the economy. Businesses and residents have been leaving Los Angeles and San
Francisco, and now they’re walking away from Seattle. Portland may be next.”
But Oregon Democrat congressman says Portland protests are
‘not out of control’.
Of course they aren’t, they’re proceeding as planned: Portland Mayor joins rioters/protestors.
Antifa and Black Lives Matter Rioters Smash Amazon Store in
Seattle, Attack TV News Crew and Police Precincts, Start Arson Fires, 12 cops
injured.
Seattle and Portland in a race to see which city is more “progressive”. Seattle plans to shutter downtown jail,
juvenile detention centers after city council votes to defund police.
Seattle police will use “adjusted deployment” methods. Will not
act to preserve property in the midst of a violent crowd.
De Blasio Cancels Graffiti-Eradication Program in New York. “To a progressive, graffiti is a “political
statement,” as the New York Times recently put it, a courageous strike
against stultifying bourgeois values. It represents urban grit and resistance
to corporate hegemony. The property owner whose building has been unwillingly
appropriated is a nonentity; the “tagger” is the city’s vibrant,
anti-capitalist soul.”
Next step: Democratic
Socialists in NYC intend to 'cancel rent'. Seize private property?
Conservative
author and activist Michelle Malkin beaten by BLM thugs and prevented from speaking
at Denver pro-police rally. Colorado House minority leader also
roughed up, says the clash was 'the most
dangerous situation' he's been in since his Army combat duty.
Denver police union head: 'Stand-down' order was in effect
when pro-cop rally was attacked. “Inadequate police protection at a pro police
event”
Denver disgrace deepens as Michelle Malkin calls out perps
and enablers of attack on Sunday’s aborted pro-police rally
Trump, Barr announce Operation Legend, a federal law
enforcement effort designed to beef up safety in high-crime neighborhoods in
cities around the country that are being terrorized by failed Democrat
leadership.
Trump ends AFFH, a vast Obama social engineering project
that enabled the federal government to order more than 1,200 cities and
counties to rezone neighborhoods along income and racial criteria. Goal was to eliminate single family housing,
i.e., “the suburbs”.
Trump To Sign Executive Orders Aimed At Lowering
Prescription Drug Costs
Trump tele-rallies garner more than 2.5 million views online
in just a few days
Hillary Clinton Questions Trump's Cognitive Abilities ???
So President Trump takes cognitive test and gets perfect
score. Mainstream media scrambles to
claim it’s an easy test, means nothing. (But doesn’t suggest Joe take it)
Doctor Who Created Cognitive Test Says Only 10% Get Perfect
Score
Two Christopher Columbus statues in Chicago taken down by
the city. That’ll fix the violence!
Ronald Reagan statue vandalized near 'The Gipper's' boyhood
home.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/23/ronald-reagan-statue-vandalized-near-boyhood-home-/
Poll: Reports of Trump’s Defeat ‘Greatly Exaggerated’
He's back: Trump gains on Biden to near tie in new Rasmussen
poll
Most Presidential polls look as fake as the Russian
collusion narrative
‘Walking On Eggshells’: 62% Of Americans Are Afraid To
Express Political Views, Survey Finds
186,700 illegal immigrants from 130 nations stopped by
Trump’s coronavirus border closure
President Trump issues executive order to exclude illegal
aliens from being counted for purposes of congressional apportioning. Cal. Gov Gavin Newsom has a fit of rage.
Report: California Has Six Extra Representatives Because
Illegals Are Counted in Census
St. Louis' top prosecutor says she's charging couple who displayed
guns to protect their home.
Patricia McCloskey’s gun didn’t work so a St. Louis prosecutor
ordered it reassembled and then declared it lethal, so they could charge her
with “unlawful use of a weapon.”
Missouri AG: ‘I Won’t
Stand By While Missouri Law Is Being Ignored’
Meanwhile, St. Louis rioters not being prosecuted.
CNN Pushes Joe Biden As A 'Man Of Faith' Who Can Win Over Evangelical
Voters
Biden, at Muslim voters’ summit, says ‘I wish we taught more
in our schools about the Islamic faith’
Biden pressured to call for defunding the military, end space
force as president
Biden Unveils $775 Billion Plan For Universal Child &
Elder Care
Biden spending proposals near $10 trillion.
Joe Biden would criticize China less, says his own pick for
Chinese Ambassador.
Biden calls Trump “the first racist president.” ?????
Draft DNC Platform Declares White Americans Too Rich, Too
Privileged, and Too Evil.
Washington Post ordered to pay Covington student Nick
Sandmann after $250 million lawsuit
GOP Wins Court Case, Keeping Florida Ballot Harvesting Ban
in Place
China Orders Christians to Take Down Images of Jesus,
Replace With Chinese Leaders
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
America Is Hitting the Self-Destruct Button
Ben Shapiro, 7/23
On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal released the results of
a poll performed in conjunction with NBC News. The poll found that 56 percent
of Americans believe American society is racist. Seventy-one percent believe
race relations are either very or fairly bad. Most troubling, 65 percent of
black Americans say that racial discrimination is built into American society,
"including into our policies and institutions."
The notion that America is systemically racist bodes ill for
the future. It's also a dramatic lie. American history is replete with racism;
racism was indeed the root of systems ranging from slavery to Jim Crow. But the
story of America is the story of the cashing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s
promissory note: fulfilling the pledge of the Declaration of Independence to
treat all men equally and to grant them the protection of their unalienable
natural rights. America has worked to extirpate the nearly universal sin of
bigotry in pursuit of the fulfillment of the declaration. The story of America
is 1776, not 1619; it's Abraham Lincoln, not John C. Calhoun; it's Martin
Luther King Jr., not Robin DiAngelo.
It is particularly true today that American society does not
deserve the scorn being heaped upon her head. American society is decidedly not
racist. According to Swedish economists from World Values, America is one of
the most racially tolerant countries on Earth. American law has banned
discrimination on race for two generations and more than half a century; in
fact, the only racially discriminatory laws on the books cut in favor of racial
minorities, who have been granted special privileges in arenas like college
admissions.
The police are no longer instruments of racial terror,
contrary to popular media narrative; in many of America's largest cities,
police forces are either majority minority or nearly so, and police are not
more likely to shoot and kill black Americans than white Americans. Problems of
high crime in minority neighborhoods are generally a result of under-policing,
rather than the converse.
Some problems of wealth inequality are in part products of
history -- history always has consequences. But overwhelmingly, the pathways to
success are not barred by discrimination. Black Americans occupy many of the
most prominent positions in American society, from government, to
entertainment, to education, to finance. Responsible individual decision-making is
generally rewarded for all Americans, black and white. And Americans are more
than willing to fight those who would obstruct the possibility of success for
those who make the right decisions.
More and more Americans apparently believe that the American
system is endemically racist -- yet the system produces more wealth, freedom
and opportunity than any on Earth for millions of citizens of every color,
creed and religion. If a majority of Americans believe that society is racist
-- not just individuals, but a vast swath of friends and neighbors, and America's
institutions to boot -- then it will be quite difficult for Americans to
unify.
No country can survive its citizens seeing one another as
enemies rather than friends and seeing their country as a reflection of
continuing evil embedded in its history. America, like every other nation,
requires a common philosophy, culture and history to survive. And yet those
elements are being consistently eroded by those who would rather collapse the
American system in pursuit of some unspecified utopia.
That utopia will not come. All that will follow in the wake
of the dissolution of our common bonds is chaos. The principles of the
Declaration of Independence remain true; the promise remains durable. The only
question is whether we are willing to stand up for those principles and work
anew to fulfill those promises, rather than caving in the foundations of the
greatest nation ever conceived by mankind.
Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law
School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of
DailyWire.com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller
"The Right Side of History."
Important
read: “No country for old conservatives” “…. the growing divide between conservatives
who are willing and able to engage in the current ideological conflict and those
who are still ‘fighting the last war’…..The
blood-and-iron patriotic industrialists of yonder days that Hannity imagines
still predominate on the American financial scene are now nothing but a memory….
they have been superseded by a new hyper-capitalist Davos class composed of
brainy technocratic overlords and their pencil-pushing managerial cousins…….Conservatives
like Tucker Carlson have acted accordingly by moving beyond the old
"capitalist and commie" dichotomy.”
“We immigrants know the America-bashers are ridiculously
wrong”
Dr. Glenn Loury - A conversation about race: “People cry, ‘structural racism’. Is that why
the homicide rate is an order of magnitude higher among young black men? They
say structural racism. Is that why the SAT test-score gap is as big as it is?
They say structural racism. Is that why two in three black American kids are
born to women without a husband? Is it all about structural racism? Is
everything structural racism? It has become a tautology explaining everything.
All racial disparities are due to structural racism, evidently. Covid-19 comes
along and there’s a disparity in the health incidence. It’s due to structural
racism. They’re naming partners at a New York City law firm and there are few
black faces. Structural racism. They’re admitting people to specialized exam
schools in New York City and the Asians do better. This has to be structural
racism, with a twist—the twist being that this time, the structural racism
somehow comes out favoring the Asians. This is not social science. This is
propaganda. It’s religion. People are trying to win arguments by using words as
if they were weapons…”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“I don’t know how in the WORLD anyone can look at what’s
going on in Democratic cities and ever vote blue again.”
-Allie Beth
Stuckey
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TUCKER CARLSON
Tucker monologue explains the method to the madness of riots
and the lockdowns: “The most basic
question in political polling never changes, is your country on the right track
or the wrong track? In a reelection campaign especially that is always the
central question, and every political consultant in America knows that……On
March 3rd, more than 40 percent of Americans thought the country was headed in
the right direction, and for the Biden campaign that number was way too high……By
the end of April, the right track wrong track number inverted. Just
22 percent of those polled believe the country was on the right track, and
yet for the people pushing Joe Biden for president, that number was still too
high. So, we had riots……..Democrats understand that the unhappier Americans
become, the more likely they are to win. Unhappy people want change. It is not
complicated. So every ominous headline about the state of the country makes it
more likely that Donald Trump will lose his job. The more that people
suffer, the greater Joe Biden's advantage. Democrats have a strong
incentive, therefore to inflict as much pain as they can and that's what
they're doing.”
New York Times trying to shut Tucker down. Assigns an investigator to locate and publish
Carlson’s address. That last time this
happened his wife was threatened and he had to move. “NY Times Threatening to Reveal Where I Live
-- 'To Hurt Us, to Injure My Wife and Kids '”
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BLACK VOICES
America loses a great conservative voice, Lloyd Marcus, 71,
the “unhyphenated American.” From his
last column, three days ago: “We have
so much work to do. This is all hands on deck. This election is our last stand
to save our Founding Fathers’ divinely inspired vision of America. Please talk
to your neighbors, family, and friends encouraging them to vote for Trump. Let
them know what is at stake.”
“The Conversation About Black Lives Must Stop Focusing On
White People: public discourse about the obstacles facing
blacks in America is dominated by things white people must fix — like “systemic
racism” or “unconscious bias” — rather than things black people can control,
such as their culture and values. This perverse line of thinking gives the
impression that black problems only matter when white people cause them, and
that white thoughts are more important than black actions.”
Rob Smith: 5 words Trump can use to help win the African
American vote in 2020
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BLM
Cisco Fires Employees That Question Black Lives Matter
During Company-Wide Racism Discussion
California city washes away BLM mural after Trump supporter
requests ‘MAGA 2020’ display
This 'anti-racism education' sure looks awfully racist.
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
“White Fragility” Comes to Washington
“If there is one non-conservative writer who you should read
right now, it's Matt Taibbi. The Rolling Stone editor has been a surgeon in
dissecting the Left's uncontrollable descent into insanity.” Why ‘White Fragility’ May Be the ‘Dumbest
Book Ever Written’
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead
racialism
It's not an exaggeration to compare methods of new 'woke
movement' to Mao's Red Guards
Ironically Proving the Point – Amazon Bans Censorship
Documentary “Killing Free Speech” – and Democrats Shut It Down on Capitol Hill
Shhhhh…no one’s supposed to know this: New York Times Owners Descended from
Slave-Holding Family, Published Pro-Lynching Articles Claiming ‘Republican
Party Committed Great Public Crime’ When Giving Blacks The Right to Vote.
UConn student government leaders resign because they’re
white. “White people shouldn’t lead”
City board ends partnership with Christian church over
pastor ‘liking’ conservative memes
Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional
grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives Matter’
Michigan newspaper chain will stop publishing mug shots, “foster(s)
negative perceptions of minorities.”
Dark Money Network Conceals $20 Million in Liberal Donors'
Election Funding
Colin Kaepernick Comes for Baseball
*!#%&! RINO: Ohio's
Former “GOP” Gov John Kasich Set To Endorse Biden - Will Speak At Democratic
Convention
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COVID
CNN roots for the virus, boasts pandemic is ‘beating’ ‘irrelevant’
trump ‘badly’.
“Now that death counts are dropping to the point that they
blend in with normal birth and death statistics, the media
have predictably pivoted to case counts as their new hair-on-fire
statistic to stoke fear, keep the economy shut down, and hopefully banish their
nemesis back to the land of Mordor, also known as Mar-a-Lago.”
“In
the rush to paint Florida as the epicenter of the “second wave” of the
coronavirus outbreak, government officials and their allies in the mainstream
media have stooped to ridiculous depths to maximize the death count. A
television station this weekend looked into two highly unusual Covid deaths
among victims in their 20s, and when they asked about co-morbidities they were
told one victim had none, because his Covid death came in the form of a fatal
motorcycle accident…..Washington state last week revised its Covid death
numbers downward when it was revealed that anyone who passed away for any
reason whatsoever who also had coronavirus was listed as a “Covid-19 death”
even if the cause of death had nothing to do with Covid-19……An analysis of reported daily Covid deaths last week
compared to actual day-of-death in Houston revealed that the recent “spike”
consisted largely of deaths that occurred in April through June. Why delay
reporting until now? We do know that based on this “spike” the Democrat mayor
of Houston cancelled the convention of the Texas Republican Party. Mission
accomplished?”
-Ron Paul
CDC Sides With Trump, Says Students Need To Go Back
To School
Science And Data Say School Reopening Is Safe, So Why Do Democrats
Oppose Science?
U.K. epidemiologist says that “Scientists are yet to find a
single confirmed case of a teacher catching coronavirus from a pupil anywhere
in the world.”
Rare moment of honesty:
Top Biden Advisor: Yeah, We Really Screwed Up Swine Flu and are Lucky
More Americans Didn't Die
Tanzania kicks out WHO after goat & papaya samples come back
COVID-19 positive.
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ARTICLES
Scary GOP gallery of nightmares: 10 policies Biden and
Democrats would ram through after axing the filibuster.
Systemic racism in law enforcement is a hoax. “I Looked Up Every Case Of An Unarmed Black
Man Shot By Cops In 2019. Here’s The Truth The Media And BLM Are Hiding.”
“We know how Democrats see the world. They — and the media —
have been telling us, for the past four years, that Donald Trump is the second
coming of Hitler. To them, anything Trump does is proof he is a racist, or a
dictator, or at least — with Russia “collusion” — the puppet of a racist
dictator. Theirs is an imaginary tyranny. But Trump supporters have lived
through a real tyranny: an anti-democratic effort to prevent
Trump from governing, and to oust him from office. 1: Hillarygate, 2, Spygate, 3: Michael Flynn,
4: Investigation, 5: Impeachment, 6:Pandemic, 7:Riots, 8:Censorship. That is the tyranny unfolding in
America, as seen by Trump supporters. Not an authoritarian regime, but a
left-wing tyranny, emboldened by the media and the “deep state.”
VDH: “Will 2021 Be 1984?”
VDH: “Not your parents' revolution — how today's anarchists
differ from 60s protesters”
"This is Already Getting Very Ugly - We Are Very, Very
Few Steps Away from Violence" - Former US Attorney Joe diGenova on Today's
Democrats
If Democrats win Texas it’s all over, Sen. Ted Cruz says.
Gensert: “Through
Antifa and BLM, the Democrats are preparing for war. The riots, looting, arson,
and public beatings taking place every day are merely practice for the coming
revolutionary conflagration. They are
war-gaming to see how best to seize control of the streets and intimidate
citizens into ceding their right to vote for the candidate they support.”
5 Reasons why Christians should feel comfortable voting for
Trump in 2020
For many Americans, the most painful consequence of the
coronavirus lockdowns was closing down church services. The grace and peace of
Sunday makes it easier to make it through the week. But our media and political
elites are indifferent to that pain, or openly hostile.
One of the emergent strategies on college campuses for
destroying the United States is describing it falsely as a racist
institution. America is not simply “not racist.” America is the most
important and successful anti-racist political project in human history.
We can grasp this important fact with an empirical analysis……
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SATIRE
Ceremony Honoring Governor Cuomo's COVID-19 Response To Be
Held At Now-Vacant Nursing Home
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OTHER STUFF
Eastern Oregon fed up:
Move Oregon's Border for a
Greater Idaho puts initiative on one ballot.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/19/move-oregons-border-greater-idaho-puts-initiative-/
Joe Biden’s bloopers, blunders, and gaffes, collected
together.
“Planet Earth: The Swamp” Hilarious.
No one seems to know who “Power Tie” is.
Window Swap - A Site That Lets You Experience the Views From
Total Strangers' Windows
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WISE
WORDS
"The news is like a ship. If you take hands off the
wheel, it pulls hard to the left.”
-Roger Ailes
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a
republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the
heart of its laws and constitution.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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