op ed review 8/23
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
A series of anti-poverty billboards sponsored by a Black
conservative group urged young people to finish school, get a job, get married,
save money, and give back to your neighborhood.
Apparently, that advice was too inflammatory for Milwaukee, site of the
DNC Convention. The “Tired of Poverty” billboards, were removed this week by
Clear Channel Outdoor after complaints and “fears for the safety of their
employees and property”.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/20/anti-poverty-billboards-urging-people-get-job-fini/
“4 Days of Misery” “Watching
the Democrat Convention left me with one thought: My goodness, Democrats are
angry. Every speech at the DNC was vile and filled with the most terrible,
awful, nasty anti-American rage.”
“In watching the DNC Convention one thing strikes me over
and over again – Democrats really don’t like this country and the people in it…..it
was surprising to see them be so open about it; proud of it, really.”
A speaker at the DNC Monday evening advised viewers they
could either “rise or kneel” for the playing of the National Anthem.
Whoops. The illegal immigrant mother whom Democrats used at
their convention this week as a case study of cruelty in President Trump’s
policies was deported under the Clinton administration and flagged for
deportation under the Obama-Biden administration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/19/alejandra-juarez-illegal-immigrant-dnc-was-put-pat/
There’s
an unwritten but widely followed rule in politics: When you can’t win an election on the
issues, lie. When lying doesn’t work, lie until it does. On the night Democrats
officially nominated Joe Biden, they presented America with a two-hour marathon of misleading
claims, outright lies and hypocrisy.
DNC LGBTQ Caucus Member Says: 'We're Talking About
Abolishing Police, Abolishing ICE and Abolishing Prisons'
Sen. Kennedy: “Democrats Message Is 'Work Hard So We Can
Take the Money You Earn & Give It to Someone Who Didn't'”
This is rich: Hillary
Clinton Implies 'Foreign Adversary' Could Help Trump Steal Election
On the same night he speaks to DNC, new photos show Bill
Clinton getting massage from Epstein accuser.
Real classy people at DNC:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on
'Hot Mic': mouths the word “Motherf******”
Can’t make this up: DNC
Includes Elizabeth Warren in Native American Caucus
"I Am Joe Biden's Husband", declares confused Joe at
DNC.
Joe Biden acceptance speech: 'There’s Never Been Anything
We’ve Been Able to Accomplish'
Bizarre. Biden gave
essentially the same speech to the DNC in 2008.
Plagiarized himself.
First two nights of Democratic convention down 48% in
broadcast viewership from 2016
Tuesday's TV Ratings: 'America's Got Talent' gets better
ratings than 2020 DNC Night 2
One word was mysteriously absent from DNC Convention: “impeachment”
China state media makes it clear they back Joe Biden.
Collusion? Chinese
Consulate in Houston used data to identify people who might participate in the
Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA’s protests and then created and sent them
customized videos on how to organize riots and how to do promotions.
ABC/NBC Stoke Conspiracy: Trump Creating 'Mail-In Voting
Scandal,' a 'Crisis'
But here’s the real scare, read carefully: Why We Can’t
Trust Postal Workers With Our Ballots. “In
Washington State the local postal workers attach partisan campaign material to
mail-in ballots.”
California pays stealth Dem activists to manage
‘non-partisan’ mail-in ballots
Official Democrat Party Organization Urges Foreign Ex-Pats
to Mail In Two Ballots – “It’s Okay” – They Claim
New election ordered in NJ race marred by voter fraud
charges.
Tinfoil Hat: Oregon Dem Congressman Chains Self To USPS Drop
Box To Save It From Donald Trump
His GOP challenger is Paris train attack hero Alek Skarlatos. “Skarlatos' fundraising surge may signal
tough race for Oregon's DeFazio”
Want to contribute? I
did.
Trump says his biggest opponent in 2020 is the media. He’s
right.
7 Big Stories Media Is Ignoring Because The Truth Might Help
Trump
Media Downplaying FBI Lawyer Guilty Plea To Hide Media Collusion
Mainstream media 150 TIMES More Negative News on Trump than
Biden
But it’s not working:
51% of Likely Voters approve of President Trump's Job Performance
Poll: Assimilated Second Generation Hispanics Prefer Trump
over Biden
New Poll: Trump Pulling Away In Texas
President Trump Pardons Susan B. Anthony on Centennial of
19th Amendment, Giving Women the Right to Vote.
Donald Trump Meets Minnesota Business Owners Affected by
Riots
US Catholic Bishops praise Trump administration for pro-life
aid policy
National Media Ignores Massive Pro-Trump Boat Parade Phenomenon
Sweeping the Nation
Double-amputee veteran skydives above Sturgis rally with
giant US flag, Trump 2020 parachute
7 year old Trump supporter gets call from White House after
being attacked by Biden supporters
CNN Poll: Trump, Biden Tied in 15 Battleground States
CNN Poll: Biden Lead Shrinks with Double-Digit Shift Trump’s
Direction
Democrats’ convention delivers 4-point poll boost to TRUMP.
Objects hurled from Seattle overpasses damage cars on I-5
and I-90
"Seattle Police Officer states Black Lives Matter won,
he’s resigning, and feels great about it.”
Tuesday night Portland Government office set on fire after
200 strong mob smash windows.
Friday night 200 demonstrators rampaged near a police
station in Portland, pelting a protective line of unoccupied police vehicles
with golf balls, softball-sized rocks, metal railroad spikes, paint-filled
plastic eggs and balloons filled with feces.
Portland BLM supports Biden, berates sleeping neighborhood: “Wake
up, motherf*****!”
Over 60 Portland 911 calls go unanswered overnight as police
respond to riot.
Portland companies plan to move out of downtown offices
because BLM protests have made area 'unsafe'
49 People Shot In 72 Hours As Wave Of Gun Violence Continues
In NYC
Operation Legend: More than 200 charged with federal crimes,
1,000 arrested, AG Barr announces
After Cutting NYPD Funding, De Blasio's Wife Gets $2 Million
a Year in Taxpayer Paid 'Staff'
Chicago Mayor bans protests, but only on her own block, citing
safety concerns for her family.
Broke California wants to fund youth sterilizations and sex
changes.
Gov. Abbott: Texas Cities That Defund Police Should Have
Property Tax Rates Frozen Forever
This life mattered too, but doesn’t fit the media narrative: Over $760K Raised for Cannon Hinnant's
Funeral Costs.
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COLUMN(S) OF THE WEEK
Frank Connor 8/19
Free to Suffocate
Whether
we like to admit it or not, most of us crave freedom from the responsibilities
of our lives. Freedom from having to pay the bills, from working all day, from
making dinner, and from the silent restraints we put on ourselves to be
respectable members of our communities.
Progressives
in this country believe not only that such responsibilities make them unfree,
but make them oppressed. Those who embrace organizations like Black Lives Matter—which,
according to its website, “disrupt[s] the Western-prescribed nuclear family
structure requirement”—believe motherhood is a burden imposed on women by
tyrannical husbands. They believe gender is the imprisonment of true individual
expression by an intolerant society and that America’s police forces are agents
of racism, Hell-bent on keeping people—mainly black people—in their place. They
subsequently support abortion on demand, the abolition of police forces, and
the perverted goals of the LGBT movement.
These
progressives believe that freedom from all restraints is true freedom and
should be the highest aspiration of American society. This, however, is the
freedom an astronaut would feel were he to remove his suit in the vacuum of
space floating freely towards the certainty of death.
Most
on the left may not even realize it, but the freedom they pursue is the freedom
of suicide. Progressives push to free us not from undue burdens, but from the
very necessary burdens of human existence. Yes, motherhood is hard, but it’s a
role more important than that of President of the United States. A man may be
uncomfortable in his body, but it is his body and he has no choice. Some people
might feel threatened by the police, but without police, all people would be
threatened by criminals.
A
man is defined not by his liberty, but by his burdens. A camel, as GK
Chesterton notes, free from his hump is not a freer camel, but free from being
a camel.
If
the American people continue to embrace this progressive trend, they will find
themselves increasingly miserable and unfulfilled. We will fail to see that our
full potential is realized when we live up to our responsibilities and
squandered when we live only for ourselves.
Americans must accept that true freedom lies, not in the ability to do
whatever we want, but in being allowed to do what we ought.
When
a man is free from everything, he has nothing.
Howie Carr: “I have compiled a list of some of what
transpired (at the DNC), the lowlights of an exceptionally dreary enterprise….”
Conrad Black: “The
Stench of Mendacity at the Democratic Convention: The virtual gathering was an unintended profession of the
total moral bankruptcy of the Democratic campaign. There were no positive
suggestions, nothing but hatred of President Trump.”
Robert Spencer: Reclaiming
Our Culture from the Left “Everyone
knows it: the death of George Floyd was just a pretext. The rioters who
continue every night to wreak havoc in Portland, and who are poised to engage
in new orgies of destruction all over the country don’t know much and care
less about Floyd. They’re quite open about engaging in a “revolution” with the
goal of destroying the existing order and replacing it with an authoritarian
Marxist regime. But what we are seeing today is not new. Its seeds were planted
decades ago. Now the question before us, if we want to preserve the United
States as a free society, is what we must do to counter this violent,
hate-filled movement.”
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BOOKS
Newt Gingrich reviews Lee Smith’s new book, “The Permanent
Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President”
Another Lee Smith review: Biden 'Certainly Part of the Set
Up' for the 'Permanent Coup'
Book Review: 'What's So Great About Christianity' by Dinesh
D'Souza
“In reading historian Paul Kengor's stunning new book on the
demonic roots of the socialist movement —"The Devil and Karl Marx”— I came
across one small section of the book that has the potential to deprogram the
young Marxists in your life.”
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TUCKER
Tucker Slams Lockdowns -- Dems Unwilling to Let Happiness
Return to America 'Until People Learn How to Vote Correctly'
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BLACK VOICES
Burgess Owens: US 'will see a true renaissance' with Trump
reelection and GOP-controlled Congress
‘A Star Is Born’: GOP Candidate’s Ad Trounces Michelle Obama
DNC Speech In Digital Metrics
“The following is an excerpt
from Diamond and Silk's new book “Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch
and Switch?--The Awakening of Diamond and Silk.”
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BLM
Not satire: “Black
Lives Matter Supporters Run Over and Brutally Beat Raccoon to Death, Claim Only
White People Worry About Animals”
Where Black Lives Matter Rioters Learned To Call Looting 'Reparations'
BLM groups are multiplying — and competing for donations
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
CNN's Tapper to a panel of RINO republicans: 'Is It Possible
That the Republican Party Is Now the Party of Deranged Bigots?'
So many creepy crawly things behind Chicago's looting. “…how Chicago's Democratic politicians are
working hand in glove with Chicago's gangs. The fact that the police could
never touch them based on their connections to Democratic political power was
why Chicago's violence was so high.”
Minnesota Democratic Primary Winner Calls to Burn ‘White,
Racist’ Town Down
Democrats Fully Embrace a Movement That Says It Will 'Burn
This Country Down'
AOC calls felon disenfranchisement a “legacy of slavery”
Lefties have emotional breakdowns after Trump ads appear on the
Washington Post’s website.
The Progressive War on Landlords Has Begun
Democrats have a Plan B:
“It is impossible to completely ensure the integrity of the coming 2020
election, given the way many election laws are unenforced and how the skids are
being greased for disruption. The media cannot be relied upon to oversee a fair
election. In fact, the media are a major part of the
problem. The best way, actually the only way, for Trump to get a
fair shake is by a large voter turnout on his behalf so as to overwhelm the
cheating. Plus, a GOP capture of the House and maintaining a Senate
majority will be necessary to thwart Plan B of the Democrats.
“For a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989,
most Americans and Europeans regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been
defeated once and for all. But they were wrong. A mere 30 years later, Marxism
is back, and making an astonishingly successful bid to seize control of the
most important American media companies, universities and schools, major
corporations and philanthropic organizations, and even the courts, the
government bureaucracy, and some churches.
Antifa Is Evil: “Portland
is a dead city”
‘Family Guy’ Creator Gives $700,000 To Pro-Biden Super PAC
Left-wing psychopaths celebrate the death of President
Trump’s brother
Professor Prohibits Students From Criticizing Abortion and
Black Lives Matter
Fordham Univ. Sent Cops To Investigate A Student For
Criticizing China and BLM on Instagram.
Here’s A List Of Corporations Funding The ‘Defund The
Police’ Movement
Many believe George Soros controls the Democrat party with
his accumulated wealth of 8.6B. But Carlos
Slim Helu from Mexico has $52.8B, owns 17% of the New York Times, was often
guest of the Obamas and Clintons. Obamaphones
made Slim millions of $.
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SUBURBS
The Left-Wing War on America's Suburbs
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COVID
Common sense from French president Macron says France
'cannot be put on hold' any further. "We can't shut the country down
because the collateral damage of lockdown is considerable….Zero risk never
exists in any society. We must respond to this anxiety without falling into the
doctrine of zero risk."
Doctors Worldwide Are Recording More Deaths Due to Lockdowns
Than to COVID-19
STUNNING PROOF That HCQ Could Have Saved Tens of Thousands
of Lives in the US from Coronavirus -- Jail Fauci!
When science is being characterized as “right-wing” because
it doesn’t fit the Democrats’ and the media’s preferred COVID-19 narrative, we
are living in a dangerous world. https://pjmedia.com/columns/stacey-lennox/2020/08/17/the-politicization-of-covid-19-science-is-dangerous-and-inexcusable-n800730
School Reopenings Linked to Union Influence and Politics,
Not Safety
College kids much more likely to die from car wrecks,
alcohol, or drugs than virus.
Calm Down! Despite Media Hype, Current Covid19 Numbers are
Dropping Fast
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ARTICLES
Convention Wrap Up: Dems Keep Joe Biden’s Agenda Hidden In
The Basement
“The Democrats’ convention is painful to watch — a display
of nonstop demagoguery about “saving the planet” from pols who can’t even save
America’s cities. Pundits purr that the Democrats offer a “return to normalcy.”
But almost everything about their agenda is abnormal — from leaving America’s
border open to defunding the police to imposing transgenderism on America’s
youth.”
VDH: Trumpism—A Look Backward and Forward to November
John Lott: Those who dislike Donald Trump may think it’s
OK to let the Democrats run things for four years. Never Trumpers might be
fearful of the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party but believe they could
always fix things four years later….But things are different this time... Senate
Democrats are promising to eliminate the filibuster. This would radically
transform the Senate…..
Kamala Harris: The Senator From Wall Street Who Wants To Be
President
I Was a Teacher. Here’s How Your Kids Are Indoctrinated by
Leftist Ideas.
How Google and Big Tech Killed the U.S. Patent System
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/03/21/how-google-and-big-tech-killed-the-u-s-patent-system/id=95080/
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SATIRE
Funny stuff: "Until
we develop comprehensive reparations and wealth redistribution, law enforcement
and the general public must learn to accept the spontaneous efforts toward this
objective that we have seen taking place in Chicago, Seattle, Portland and
other places. This is the only way we can move as one people united in a shared
goal of social justice……voters will face a choice between authoritarianism and
freedom this November. One of the candidates intends to impose a regime of
individualism that will stifle the human dream of collectivism envisioned by
Karl Marx. The other candidate offers a pathway to escape this dire fate."
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OTHER STUFF
Baltimore GOP Candidate Kimberly Klacik Lays Down an
Absolute Knockout With Stunning New Campaign Ad
What Rome's emperors looked like: From Caligula to
Tiberius... artist uses AI technology to reveal in great detail how legendary
rulers would have looked around 2,000 years ago.
NASA animation shows the Sun rotating
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