op ed review 8/16
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
President Trump Announces Historic Peace Deal Between
Israel, UAE; 'Full Normalization'
Former White House staffer:
"likely the greatest foreign
policy achievement of any president in a generation." National security
advisor says the deal should make Trump a front-runner for the Nobel Peace
Prize.
Biden Tries to Take Credit for Trump Brokered Peace Deal
NBC Refuses to Credit Trump for Israel-U.A.E. Peace, then CBS
Evening News seemed to suggest the President was stealing credit.
Contact info here for NBC and CBS, if motivated.
If true, game over for Joe: Trump Holds a 36% Approval Rating with Black
Voters in the Latest Rasmussen Monthly Approval Summary.
Trump Forces Pelosi's Hand With Coronavirus Executive Orders
Trump donates $100K of salary to help repair national
monuments
GOP Convention Theme Announced: 'Honoring the Great American
Story'
Hopefully the first of many:
FBI Attorney Kevin Clinesmith Pleads Guilty To Falsifying Carter Page
FISA Warrant
9th Circuit (!) Panel Strikes Down California 'High
Capacity' Magazine Ban
Rioters Launch Ball Bearings, Golf Balls, Rocks at Officers
in Portland
Portlanders Worry as Protests Move from Downtown to
Residential Areas
Washington Post Praises Violent Portland Rioters' 'Stamina',
'Creativity'
District attorney says he will refuse to prosecute Portland
rioters for a list of offenses, including rioting.
Oregon State Police pull out of Portland after prosecutors
refuse to prosecute Antifa criminals
100 arrested after night of looting in downtown Chicago; 13
cops injured
Chicago looters smash Ronald McDonald House with sick kids
inside
‘We Will Not Prosecute’: Left-Wing Prosecutors, Many Backed
By Soros Cash, Implement Soft-On-Crime Policies Across America
Soros funded Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx dismissed over 25k
felony cases.
Seattle City Council approves plan to defund police
department, slashes jobs and salaries
In response, Seattle's police chief, stepping down.
Rioters Tear Down George Washington Statue at L.A. City Hall
Biden Picks Harris to Form America’s First All-Facially
Reconstructed Ticket
Senator Kennedy On Harris Becoming Biden’s VP Pick: She’s
AOC ‘Without The Bartending Experience’
This is no secret: she was once former San Francisco Mayor
and State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown’s mistress: “Why It Should Matter to Women That Kamala
Slept Her Way Up”
David Daleiden Explains Why Harris Is the 'Greatest Threat
to Civil Rights' in US History
Kamala Was Ringleader In Kavanaugh Character Assassination
Attempt
Kamala Harris Brings Gun Confiscation Support to Dem
Presidential Ticket
Flashback: Kamala Harris compared ICE to KKK in Senate
hearing
Flashback: Kamala Harris Said She Believed Biden's Rape
Accusers
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/11/flashback-kamala-harris-said-she-believed-bidens-rape-accusers/
Father of Kamala Harris Says Her Ancestors Owned Slaves in
Jamaica
Kamala claims her Tamil Indian mother to be “the truth I
hold dearest of all,” yet refuses to be listed as being of Indian ancestry. Instead, she invokes her dad’s Black heritage
despite the fact the two have not known each other since she was seven years
old.
Kamala Harris's Final Poll Number in Home State of
California: 7%
Poll reveals half of Democrats don't think Joe Biden would
serve all four years if elected president
Bidens used an S-corp to avoid paying more than $500,000 in taxes
for Medicare and ObamaCare.
Hunter Biden was hit with a $450,000 lien in July over delinquent
state income taxes, which he paid off in six days despite having no discernible
income.
Biden calls for 3-month national mask mandate.
Jill Biden's Ex-Husband Exposes Joe's Adulterous Affair,
Lies, And Campaign Bribery
Deep state resistance: State Dept. 'Guts' Trump's Curbs on Fortune
500's Visa Workers
GOP Senator McSally calls on China to repay $1.6T of
century-old debt
McSally could use some help:
Actual systemic racism:
Justice Dept. finds Yale Illegally Discriminated Against Asian American
and White Applicants.
Why did it take more than 2 months to stop the largest fraud
in Washington state history?
Nonprofit mails 587,638 erroneous absentee ballot
applications to Virginia voters
Sheriff Must Undergo Anti-Racist Training After Posting
Stories About Black Criminals On Social Media.
Facebook's CCP-Linked Fact Checker, Lead Stories, Is
Censoring Articles About Chinese Influence in the U.S. Elections
China Expert: Beijing Determined to ‘Extinguish the Catholic
Faith’
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Another 'Time for Choosing': Reagan’s Call to Conservatism
Needs to Be Heard Again Today
Kay Cole James, President, Heritage Foundation 8/15
Today,
America has a choice of two paths. We can embrace the foundational principles
that created this nation of limited government and individual liberty. Or we
can veer down the path of bigger, more intrusive government that promises to
solve all our problems if we just turn over more of our freedom and our
paychecks.
The
difference between the two paths recently has become even starker as those on
the left have gotten more radical. They have sought to destroy the lives of
those who disagree with them, rewrite history to teach our children that
America was illegitimate from the start, and express solidarity with those
rioting across the country. This future-altering choice reminds me of 1964 when
Ronald Reagan spoke about a similar decision the American people faced. “A Time
for Choosing” was Mr. Reagan’s indictment of big government policies and the
deceptive lure of socialism. Amazingly, his warnings are just as applicable
today as they were nearly six decades ago.
He
gave “A Time for Choosing” shortly after President Lyndon
Johnson introduced his “Great Society” proposal, which created new welfare
programs, expanded food stamps, gave birth to Medicaid and Medicare, and
inserted the federal government into local education, among
other massive expansions of government. Like
conservatives of today, Mr. Reagan
expressed a grave concern that too many Americans saw
more government as the solution to their problems, even though by
1964, history had already shown that bigger government actually was the
problem. For example, he spoke of how government programs to
eradicate poverty hadn’t solved much of anything: “If government planning and
welfare had the answer and they’ve had almost 30 years of it,… shouldn’t
they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing
help?”
In
recent years, we’ve spent about a trillion dollars a year on federal
welfare programs. Divide that up among the 40 million or so
Americans considered poor, and we could have given a family
of four $100,000 a year. Yet, the poverty rate has stayed
about the same as it was when the War on Poverty began in
1964. Tragically, most welfare programs have only been successful
at creating perpetual reliance on government.
Mr. Reagan also pointed
out that, despite the fact that Washington
was collecting unprecedented amounts of money from taxpayers in
1964, it never seemed to be enough: “Today, 37 cents of every dollar earned in
this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to
spend $17 million a day more than the government takes in.”
Washington’s
poor fiscal restraint has only gotten worse. In 2019, the government spent $2.7
billion a day more than it took in, and currently, the national debt exceeds
$80,000 for every man, woman, and child. Yet today, despite years of
failures, just like back then, the left continues to promote policies that
usurp our freedom, harm our economy, endanger our security, and create an
unhealthy dependence on government.
Today, they’re proposing government-run
single-payer health care and cutting our military when
those who want to do us harm are increasing theirs. They want to defund the
police across America, putting out the neighborhood welcome mat for
criminals everywhere. They’ve proposed climate legislation
that would eliminate gas-powered cars, ground all airplanes, and forbid beef
consumption. Their proposals would guarantee every person in America
access to free health care, free college, and even a free
paycheck—paid for with massive tax increases. Mr. Reagan urged Americans to
resist the lure of these types of big government programs coming from their
leaders. He said that the issue was “whether we believe in our capacity for
self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that
a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us
better than we can plan them ourselves.”
As
polls show more Americans warming up to socialism, conservatives need to take a
few lessons from The Great Communicator. We must better convey how policy
solutions based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government,
individual liberty, traditional American values, and a strong national defense
are what made this nation great—and what will continue to make life better for
all Americans. This is another time for
choosing for America, and the path we choose will affect generations of
Americans to come.
Those
who promote socialism haven’t given up on their plans for America, and neither
can we. If we are able to succeed in taking a coherent, compelling argument to
the American people that spells out why free market, conservative solutions are
better for them than the false promises of socialist Utopianism, we will, in
Mr. Reagan’s words, “preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man
on earth.” That must be our mission, and the future of America surely depends
on our success.
“It is..worth noting, especially by those who claim to value
liberty, that Biden and Harris eagerly desire to take much of it away, always
in the name of some greater good. Indeed, over the course of their campaigns,
the two have proposed either to outlaw or force so many things there’s not
enough room to list them all here. So, as a reader service, we’ve gathered up a
sampling of things they say they want to either ban or mandate should they gain
access to the White House……”
“Despair About Progressive Ideology Doesn’t Help. Action
Will. “Let’s stop lamenting. As a political
body, a force for good, and a constituency for sanity, let us resolve to erect
major institutions that exert influence on the populace with equal, if not
greater impact than the liberal cabal. Otherwise, prepare to have our ideas swamped by progressives. We must neutralize the mainstream media, the press rooms,
the airwaves, and our universities if we’re to ever recapture the vision, as
Ronald Reagan said, of that shining city on a hill. We know it is crucial, it
is within our grasp, and we even have the will. The key question is do we have
the plan?”
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“If the left and its enablers want to compare notes, we’ll
be happy to do so. A vote for Biden is a vote for anarchy, for the
disintegration of law and order, for economic paralysis, for stunning
intolerance and for the forfeiture of America as we know it, to the
incalculable detriment of Americans, especially the younger generations who may
not realize the full import of this would-be voluntary abolition of our
liberty.”
-David
Limbaugh
“President Trump is Western Civilization’s last chance
before the arsonists take power and destroy civil society as we know it.”
-Charlie
Kirk
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TUCKER
Tucker slams Democrats, media for their silence as residents
flee America's cities in droves
Tucker
rips lack of coverage of DC mass shooting, claims media silent to help Biden
campaign. “Dead bodies don't count unless they are
politically useful dead bodies'” "Twenty-one people were shot
in this single incident ... more than half of them were women. It was the single biggest mass shooting
in America this year and yet you probably heard nothing about it…"
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BLACK VOICES
Charles Love: Chicago
in Chaos….The solution
is simple: police must arrest offenders, and the prosecutor must prosecute
them.
Woodson: black leaders' silence on riots is devastating
Conservative commentator Candace Owens called out “the true
white supremacists” running the Democratic Party for destroying black America. “Black children are now
learning that the nuclear family, traditional values, and academic success are
tacit forms of “white supremacy”.
Larry Elder: “…if
racism were in America's DNA, Obama never could have got elected. Racism has
never been more insignificant a factor in one's success than right now….
Ousted ‘Diamond and Silk’ call on fans to ‘ditch and switch’
from Fox News after joining new network.
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BLM
BLM says looting is OK, just another form of reparations for
slavery.
BLM holds rally in Chicago to support those arrested after
looting.
Seattle BLM protesters to strangers: 'Give up your house.
Give black people back their homes.'
Leaked BLM School Materials Are Insane
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
Federally Funded Nuclear Weapons Lab Made White Male
Employees Participate in Racial Reeducation Training
Kids too: Pennsylvania
District Mandates White Supremacy Lessons for Kindergartners
PBS’s ‘Arthur’ Rolls Out Propaganda Video for Kids: 'It's
Not Enough to Say, I'm Not Racist'
Public university prosecutes student for using President
Trump as Zoom background… creating a “hostile environment,” causing “harm” and
cyberbullying.
MSNBC: Once Biden
Takes Office, Harris 'Can Help Us Impeach' Trump Judges
Report: Progressives Prepare To Take Over Courts If Biden
Wins
Hallmark Channel Proudly Presents New Film Featuring Lesbian
Wedding
‘Cancel culture’ distorts history to portray US as evil
nation that must be transformed
‘Abolish The United States Of America’: Radical ‘Youth
Liberation Front’ Active In Portland Encourages Violence, Explicitly Rejects
Peaceful Protesting
Not useful for the “social justice” narrative: NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN news blackout on the
5-year-old white child allegedly executed by black 25-year-old neighbor.
Princeton will pay students $1,500 grants to “fight racism.”
Petition calls for busts of Reagan, Thatcher, others to be
removed from Chapman U. campus
Brooklyn College Education Prof. Claims Mathematics Is
'White Supremacist Patriarchy'
L.A. Times Claims Camping Is Racist. Like a “a poll tax of $250……black people
don’t camp because in order to camp, it costs $250 to obtain the necessary
camping equipment.” ???
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SUBURBS
Biden's hideous plan to make family life in suburbs
unbearably miserable
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COVID
“Humanity has fallen
into dystopian existence. Incessant media bombardment convince COVID to be the
Armageddon that will forever redefine the human race. Permanent radical
behavioral shifts, masks, social distancing, no restaurants, bars or theaters,
social seclusion, become the new future. Methodically, through all the
redundancy, a tectonic reposition of thought patterns occur. Bike riders secure
their face coverings, yet no humans stray within a hundred feet-Ditto to the
shrouded fools riding alone in their cars or solitary women with strollers.
Masked hikers on the mountain trails of Colorado assiduously avoid my uncovered
appearance. My advance reeks panic of approaching death. They move aside, bow
heads in prayer-like posture, and for extra protection, place their hands over
already camouflaged faces. Such demeanor presupposes COVID disperses from the
trees, the rivers, and mischievously lurks in crisp mountain air. People
transform to vapid souls listlessly wandering the landscapes now devoid of
internal electrical impulses remotely prompting they might question, much less
rebel against, directives mandated by public officials. Shunning or worse for
the pariah who dares resist the new orthodoxy. A complete indoctrination.”
What is the consequence of all this fear? New CDC report: One-fourth of young adults between the ages
of 18 and 24 said they had considered suicide in the past 30 days.
Tucker Carlson explains how Democrats use coronavirus 'as a
political weapon': “Terrified, unhappy
population wants change, and that's welcome news to the party trying to take
power'”
Swedish doctor’s perspective:– “If only 6000 are dead out of
five million infected (Sweden), that works out to a case fatality rate of 0.12
percent, roughly the same as regular old influenza, which no-one is the least
bit frightened of, and which we don’t shut down our societies for.”
Media breathlessly reports: “7-year-old boy in Georgia died
'from COVID-19”….Virtually all of the media repeatedly reported that the child
had "no underlying conditions.” Media
left out one key detail: “the child had
a seizure and fell in the shower and was unresponsive.”
New UK mega-study shows that opening schools brings almost
no COVID risk.
Officials in the UK "over-exaggerating” deaths from the
virus.
New York City councilman thanks Trump for raising awareness
about hydroxychloroquine after drug 'saved' him
Wisconsin Forces People to Wear Masks During Zoom Meetings
Anti-Lockdown Dr. Scott Atlas Joins Coronavirus Task Force:
Is Fauci Finally Out?
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ARTICLES
A winning slogan for Trump: Make America Normal Again
John Lott: “This
election will determine the future of private gun ownership in US”
Former Never-Trumper changes his mind. “Trump has been the
most pro-life president in my lifetime – including Ronald Reagan, who said many
of the right things but accomplished relatively little.”
You’ve heard of Rudy Giuliani’s “Broken Windows” policing? Now it’s “Go Ahead, Break Our Windows”
Policing
Kamala chose to have an affair with a married man, a powerful
politician, 30 years her senior. She got major political appointments to
California Commissions that paid her over $400,000 to start her career. What
would the media say if President Trump had an affair with a woman 30 years
younger and gave her two cushy government commission jobs- paying out hundreds
of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money. I can’t imagine the furor. I know
we’d be having impeachment hearings right now…..
“Americans who confess other people’s racism absolve
themselves inexpensively by a moral mechanism common to humanity: the more I profess
to hate evil, the more I showcase my own goodness. Such confessions, however,
have a particular history of tragedy in Christian civilization. Again and again
over the centuries, persons who have imagined themselves cleansed by ritual
confessions have believed themselves elevated above the rest of humanity and,
hence, entitled to oppress or even annihilate those around them.”
Why do blacks get hassled by the police so much? The Occam’s
Razor explanation is the one you are never supposed to mention in public…..
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SATIRE
Harris Starting To Think This Biden Guy Is Really Dragging
Down Her Campaign
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OTHER STUFF
The GOP has a powerful new Biden v. Biden campaign video
Trump Ad: Biden's Amnesty Will Give American Jobs to Illegal
Aliens
Beige Page is Becoming the 'Go To' Conservative News Source
Conservative News and Views the Media Doesn't Want You to
See
Fascinating: Sky
Hunters, The World of the Dragonfly
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WISE
WORDS
“We shall soon be in a world in which a
man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will
persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man
for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”
-G. K. Chesterton
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his
vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -
or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the
most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his
country.”
-Samuel
Adams
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