op ed review 12/25
THIS WEEKS NEWS
More inflation coming: House Passes $1.7 Trillion Omnibus with 9 Republican Votes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/23/house-passes-1-7-trillion-omnibus-9-republican-votes/
18 Senate Republicans Voted For Dems' $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill
Even Republicans Are All in on Washington's End-of-Year Spending Spree, by Stephen Moore
18 Wasteful Items in the $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill, LGBT projects, border security for other countries.
Here Are The Most Audacious Items Included In The $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Bill That's Supported By 21 GOP Traitors
Two Provisions in the Omnibus Bill Will Have You Breaking Things
$410M for Border Security -- in the Middle East
GOP Can't Be Successful Until Mitch McConnell Is Gone
https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/21/gop-cant-be-successful-until-mitch-mcconnell-is-gone/
Pride Centers And A Wax Museum: Here Are The Woke Projects Buried In Congress’ Spending Bill.
“As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees working at Twitter that they had created their own private Slack channel and a crib sheet to onboard new FBI arrivals.” It appears that Twitter still has 14 employees on the payroll who worked at the FBI and CIA. Should be a national scandal but nobody sems to care. Introducing new term: “sheep dipped”
The FBI Paid Twitter Millions of Dollars For Their "Influence Campaign"
Twitter Files Takeaway—The U.S. Government Is Now Full Soviet
Turley: FBI and Twitter formed a censorship alliance and they can't be allowed to get away with it
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/fbi-twitter-formed-censorship-alliance-they-cant-allowed-get-away
Pope Francis says you are a heretic if you oppose translating Gospel into modern “ways of thinking”
The Vatican defrocks a priest who speaks for unborn children
Archbishop Viganò: Fr. Pavone’s laicization is ‘unjust and illegitimate,' feeds 'a climate of terror' among clergy.
Portland throws out hundreds of criminal cases due to public defender shortage
The Man Who Smeared Half the Country as 'Domestic Terrorists' says he wants unity at Christmas
Biden admin funding AI research to detect and censor "microaggressions"
Biden investigates school library for removing child pornography
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/12/will-biden-make-gender-queer-required.html?m=1
‘Gender-affirming’ care, services part of Biden admin’s strategy to help homeless people
Bidenflation cost households an extra $10K
https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/the-pain-isnt-goin-away-inflation-cost-households-an-extra-10k/
Mexico's cartels are getting rich and powerful off of Biden's mass migration crisis.
String of errors in federal statistics favoring Democrats raising concerns of manipulation
NY Democrats give themselves 29% pay raise days before Christmas
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11570015/NY-Democrats-29-pay-raise-days-Christmas.html
Obama Judge Says School Hiding Kids’ Gender Transitions Doesn’t ‘Shock The Conscience,’ Throws Out Parent Lawsuit.
Kid gloves for the #2 biggest Democrat donor: Reports of a quarter billion dollar ‘bond’ for Bankman-Fried are almost as fraudulent as the crimes of which he is accused
“Ukraine President Zelenskyy Arrives at White House to Coordinate Next Round of Payments”
Everything Wrong With Congress's Plan To Gift Zelensky Cash
Mitch McConnell claims providing assistance to Ukraine is #1 priority for ‘most Republicans’
Gov. DeSantis takes aim at Florida teachers' unions with proposal to end automatic dues withdrawal
Dems Vote to Release Six Years of Trump Tax Returns in Stunning Invasion of Privacy
“….hundreds of years of precedent have been broken, with a private citizen’s tax returns being seized and released by congressional partisans for no other reason than to embarrass them. There was no legitimate legislative or investigative role here. And they did that for what? To show us that Trump uses the tax code like every other businessman?”
Dershowitz: The Jan. 6 Committee's Referral Is Unconstitutional
https://www.newsweek.com/jan-6-committees-referral-unconstitutional-opinion-1768550
Banks Might Start Closing Accounts Of Customers Who Buy Too Many Guns Or Too Much Ammo
Fired Pro-Life Flight Attendant Calls Reinstatement the ‘Best Christmas Present’
ICE training videos reveal agency lost track of 150K illegal migrants due to Biden admin's lack of processing
Yuma Hospital Saddled With Massive Unpaid Bill for Taking Care of Illegal Immigrants
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GOOD COLUMNS THIS WEEK
Our President, the Pathological Liar
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2022/12/19/our-president-the-pathological-liar-n2617287
If you only know two things about progressives today, it is that they are obsessed with income inequality, and have a bad case of envy for Scandinavian socialism, endlessly suggesting Denmark or Sweden should be our model for social welfare policy. But guess which industrial democracy practices the largest redistribution of national income to the lower half of the income scale? Turns out to be . . . the United States.
VDH: Are Universities Doomed?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/12/22/are_universities_doomed_148637.html
If Conservatives Want To Win, The GOP Must Start Using Power
Not Your Grandfather's Election Day
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/12/not_your_grandfathers_election_day.html
Trump Was a (establishment) Mistake. “The success of Donald Trump’s presidency dealt establishment politicians a heavy blow. A second Trump term might kill them—and they know it.”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/19/trump-was-a-mistake/
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TUCKER
Tucker Carlson was asked whether he'd support Trump or DeSantis in 2024. Interesting answer…
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
American, grandfather, brave and master: words Stanford University includes in its index of 'harmful language' because they are 'ableist, sexist or racist'
Marine Corps considers ban on 'sir,' 'ma'am' out of fears recruits may 'misgender' superiors
Major Med School Pushes ‘Diversity, Equity And Inclusion’ Requirements For Faculty To Earn Promotion Or Tenure
https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/23/medical-school-diversity-equity-inclusion-faculty-tenure/
Activists target physics with 'decolonizing light' project
Woke science: DEI in science publications surges 4000 percent.
'Shoulder Width Reduction Surgery': The Latest 'Transgender' Aesthetic Mutilation Fad
J&B Whisky Goes Trans
https://pjmedia.com/culture/lincolnbrown/2022/12/19/jb-whisky-goes-trans-n1654861
Report: Nearly 40 Percent of Liberal Arts Students Now Identify as LGBTQ
George Soros Dumped $35 Million into Anti-Police Groups and Causes in 2021
Biden HHS: “Racism raises Alzheimer’s risk for non-white Americans”
https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/racism-raises-alzheimers-risk-for-non-white-americans-hhs-says/
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COVID
If You Don’t Want To Catch Covid, Stop Testing For It
Parents Still Masking Their Young Children Should Be Ashamed
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/12/20/parents-still-masking-their-children-should-be-ashamed/
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ARTICLES
Purchasing government. “These days you are wasting your money if you pour resources into lobbyists. These days you can directly buy government. Mark Zuckerberg spent his money in 2020 purchasing the actual mechanism by which elections are conducted; and while this was expected, I think we can be pretty confident that he was satisfied with the results of his purchase…..but that was not the most efficient use of his money, it turned out. …Eric Schmidt found a much more cost efficient way to achieve his goals: funneling money directly into White House Advisors. That is what I would call an efficient use of resources. Literally owning bureaucrats who have access to the president and his advisors.”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/23/purchasing-government-n519695
Traitors: “….there are only a few profane words to describe the obscene scene as the two women closest in line for the presidency hoisted the Ukrainian flag from the dias of the House of Representatives while swooning over Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as Congress cheered on December 21. (This appears to be the first time in history the flag of another nation essentially flew inside the U.S. Capitol building.)”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/12/22/traitors/
The Data Is In: Democrats Embrace 'Replacement Theory' in Plot to Displace Republican Votes
Trump Polls Mean Nothing Until Campaign Begins
Go woke, go broke. The sciences are going to die
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/22/the-sciences-are-going-to-die-n519581
Capabilities, at a cost: At sea with the Navy’s newest carrier
https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2022-12-18/uss-gerald-r-ford-capabilities-costs-8462639.html
You Have to Watch Rand Paul’s 'Twas the Week Before Christmas'
Schlichter: Will the Republican Party Tell the GOP Base to Go Pound Sand?