Time to Spank the IRS Read More »
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]]>Politico, the mouthpiece of the administrative state, on Friday reported this shocker: With the debt ceiling deal done, the Internal Revenue Service, which lost $21.4 billion in funding, fears it will be cut even further. It seems the agency that for decades has thrived on bullying the taxpayers for whom they work is afraid it will be similarly bullied for what IRS staffers feel is their lunch money.
To which I say, “Heck, yeah!”
Beyond the FBI, CIA, NSA, and any other national intelligence agency that either colluded with or was duped by Russia in the Russiagate scandal, no other federal agency deserves to have its budget, staffing, and overall existence more eviscerated than the IRS.
This is not simply about tax policy. This is about the classic triumvirate that represents why so many Americans hate Washington: the triplets of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.
Recall that Joe Biden—or, more likely, then-White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain—decided it would be a good idea to increase the IRS budget by nearly $100 billion to hire an army of 87,000 agents he claimed would be deployed only against the wealthiest Americans. It was a laughable claim then, and given what we know about the IRS since, it’s even more ridiculous.
Just as Democrats and their progressive tools have weaponized federal law enforcement and national security against the American people, the IRS has long been a weapon used to inflict fear, abuse, and financial harm on taxpayers. The agency has long been a willing participant in political abuse. And it has long received a free pass. Recall that the IRS under Obama was more than willing to target conservative organizations and individuals, auditing them and slow-rolling their tax-exempt status reviews.
After congressional hearings that made clear the IRS was targeting conservative nonprofits and individuals, the FBI launched a “review” that—surprise!—found no evidence of such targeting. Right. Even after what some might consider a congressional warning shot, the IRS hasn’t felt the need to be subtle about its proclivity for abuse.
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]]>Conservatism, Inc. Fiddles While the Republic Burns Read More »
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]]>While members of the conservative think tank elite, outfitted in black tie and ball gowns, sat celebrating themselves in a Washington, D.C., ballroom listening to Dierks Bentley and popping off fireworks over the Potomac, their opponents in Minnesota were pre-registering 16- and 17-year-olds to vote, enacting “motor voter” laws, and establishing pop-up polling locations wherever they expected a balloting hotspot might be (think drop boxes on steroids).
While the Left is actually working to achieve generational political power, elites on the Right seem satisfied to simply celebrate . . . what? The latest white paper? The sold-out conference on how the Left is beating them in the political arena? Another record fundraising year where 60 percent of the funds go to promote the institution rather than on-the-ground efforts to implement the ideas? It’s usually all of the above.
Anyone invested in liberty, free markets, and a fundamental respect for life should be horrified by the Left’s obsession with complete power. But this has been the trend for years. One should have a healthy, if only grudging, respect for the sheer force of effort, skill, and chicanery the Left perpetrates every day in the pursuit of its goals. The Left is wired for the pursuit of political power because they understand a very simple truism that my organization, American Majority, constantly emphasizes: politics is policy. The Left knows that if it has political power it gets to implement whatever hideous policy ideas they have—and, as we have seen, they have a lot of them.
Now juxtapose the Left’s pursuit and use of the sledgehammer of raw political power, with Conservatism, Inc. fiddling while the republic burns.
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]]>Dominion’s Lawsuit Against Fox News Is Unfounded Read More »
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]]>We truly are living in an alternative universe the founders of this republic would not recognize. It’s bad enough that the America-hating Left seeks to undermine the First Amendment as a means to crush dissent; in conservative circles that is now taken for granted. What is worse is the shameful abandonment of the freedom of the press . . . by the supposed press.
And yet again, America’s corporate media refuses to defend what was once considered a nonpolitical, nonnegotiable right when it comes to ideological differences with the Left.
Consider Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News for putting several individuals on air who claimed that rigged voting machines swayed the outcome of the 2020 election.
Here’s the problem: the individuals in question were the president’s lawyers. These lawyers repeatedly stated they had proof that Dominion’s voting machines were rigged to flip votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network simply aired the news that the president’s lawyers were making these claims. In some instances, the Fox host allowed the president’s lawyers to make the claims with little push back. In other instances, Fox hosts did push back and demanded evidence, and even suggested they stop making the claims without it. In fact, Fox News invited Dominion representatives to appear on air to give their side of the story, but the company declined all but one invitation. Instead of entering the public debate, Dominion began preparing litigation soon after the election.
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]]>A New Age of American Politics Read More »
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]]>The thing—the only thing—that truly matters now is a “ballots out, ballots in” machine.
With that perfected, you could elect a random name in a phone book, or a dead man, or a vegetable. Or both a dead man and a vegetable, as Pennsylvania recently demonstrated.
This epiphany is at once startling and obvious, particularly since we saw a prelude to this moment in the 2020 election cycle. So how was it missed by so many of us until after the midterms? Recent success leading to overconfidence is the answer. The Virginia results, in a blue state that went for Biden by 10 points in 2020, blunted my skepticism and made me over confident. Republicans won everything in Virginia in 2021: governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and the House of Delegates.
Coming out of Virginia, the conclusions—the wrong conclusions—were that we could beat whatever Democrats did in 2020 with a great focus on mid- to low-propensity voters, drive them to the polls, and overcome the rigging and manipulation. Not only did the Virginia success lead to the wrong conclusions for 2022, I’m convinced that Virginia, and even New Jersey for that matter, rang the Left’s alarm bells in a manner sufficient enough to stir them to amp up their efforts. They realized after 2021 it was time to dial in the 2020 mail-in, ballot-harvesting machine and so they did; and in all the right places.
That’s what the 2022 elections were all about. I don’t want to hear anyone crying, “Well maybe it was the abortion issue.” Nope. “Maybe it was candidate quality.” Nope (please see my previous comments on a dead man and a vegetable). “Do people really want lawlessness and inflation?” Nope. “Maybe it was extreme America First candidates turning off moderate Republican and Independent voters.” Wrong again.
It had everything to do with numbers, but not polling numbers or inflation numbers. It was about who got the most ballots sent out and who collected the most. That’s it. That’s the 2022 midterms in a nutshell.
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]]>Things Are Much Worse Than They Seem for Democrats Read More »
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]]>The general narrative—and this is the Cliffs Notes version—was that there is nothing to worry about as our economic house burns down, violent crime explodes, and our southern border collapses. In reality, it’s not that bad at all. Actually, it’s good for you! Those flames you see burning down the house, in fact, are a source of warmth to brighten your evening. And don’t worry, the foundations should still be intact when the flames die down. Maybe.
The most blatant attempt at shaping a rosy narrative for Democrats about the midterms has been the absurd push to take note of “registered voter” polls, which in the real world means almost nothing. The “likely voter” polls—that is, polls of people who are actually likely to vote in the midterms—paint a different picture across the board, from the congressional generic ballot to the Senate and gubernatorial races. Nevertheless, as is sadly and predictably the case, there are those on the Right who have fallen for this psy-op. If one really wants to get a snapshot of reality, look at the polls strictly focused on likely independent voters only.
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]]>Biden Administration’s Manipulated Energy Policy Demonstrates Ignorance of History Read More »
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]]>Yet here we are, looking at the possibility we could repeat the same mistakes Europe made in the late 90s and early 2000s when they failed to realize the real motivations behind the green energy propaganda they were being spoon fed as truth.
Back in the early 2000s, Russia did a phenomenal job with a disinformation campaign pushing anti-fracking in Europe. We know this because NATO admitted that this “green energy” advocacy was funded by the very people who stood to gain from the enacted policies: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) announced in 2014 that “I have met with allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-government organizations—environmental organizations working against shale gas—to maintain European dependence on imported Russian [natural] gas.”
The result was many European nations, like Germany, buying environmental propaganda—hook, line, and sinker—and committing to a fool’s errand of net zero and renewables. Since 2000, Germany will have spent several decades and almost $600 billion on what they have termed Energiewende, which is a complete and utter failure on every front.
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]]>Why Can’t Republicans Whip It Good? Read More »
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]]>You can promise to build the wall, take on the Chinese Communist Party and investigate their partner in crime Hunter Biden, even promise to stop risking American blood and treasure in pointless foreign wars. As inflation rises and American’s pocketbooks tighten—you can tell voters everything would be different if only they’d voted differently two years ago.
But, at the end of the day everyone knows Republicans can’t really really do anything because Speaker Pelosi or Majority Leader Schumer will put a stop to it. They can repeat “Drain the swamp!” ad nauseam when Democrats control the swamp because they know it’s safe to say it.
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]]>An America First Family Policy Read More »
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]]>When you consider America’s “margin of success” on fatherless homes, it’s almost as though there’s been a systematic plan to—in the words of Black Lives Matter—destroy the Western nuclear family, and in so doing destroy American society. It’s as if organizations, elected officials, and “thought leaders” spent the past 70 years doing everything in their power to remove fathers as authority figures in the home and replace them with the state: destroy the nuclear family, reshape society.
At its root, a fatherless nation is a rudderless nation, adrift and doomed to decline. A strong family with an authority figure is the foundation of society and is inextricably tied to our nation’s founding principle of self-governance. Our self-governing republic needs strong families raising people to govern themselves, but the founders intended far more: They intended every individual to govern himself or herself because if people self-govern as individuals it leads to greater freedom for the nation.
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]]>Finding Their Teeth, and Claws Read More »
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]]>Exhibit A: This FBI secured four illegal FISA warrants as a result of the Steele dossier, which they knew was bogus, all to spy on the duly elected president of the United States. The same FBI in 2020 used Twitter and likely Facebook to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. No big deal? More than nine percent of swing state voters indicated they would have switched their votes from Biden to Trump had they known of the laptop (which means Trump would have sailed to re-election).
The same FBI then raids the home of the former president of the United States in 2022, apparently for very spurious reasons, while the Justice Department refuses to release the affidavit as to why it felt it was necessary to take such extraordinary steps. Hint: it’s not justifiable. It’s about targeting someone they view as an existential threat to them and their beloved administrative state. This same corrupt Justice Department has spent $100 million pursuing Trump and his supporters, while almost nothing on pursuing the Black Lives Matter rioters who destroyed billions in property and killed dozens of people in 2020.
If you still think either of these institutions is trustworthy, you might actually be part of the problem.
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]]>Trump Should Announce His Candidacy Before the Midterms Read More »
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]]>Trump is an asset—and not, as beltway insiders like to assert—a liability on the campaign trail, especially in key Senate and gubernatorial races. Donald Trump revitalized a crumbling, corporatist Republican Party and began making it his own America First party, which reinvigorated it. He turned it into a party that welcomed the working class, Hispanics, black Americans, and Asian Americans. Now these groups are voting red, or at least leaving the Democratic Party, in staggering numbers; there’s a reason a million voters have changed parties in the last year from Democrat to Republican. It’s not because of anything Mitch McConnell or most other top Republicans have done. It’s Trump and his policies which finally reshaped the GOP.
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]]>Trump in 2024? Bet on It! Read More »
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]]>Perhaps that sounds crazy at first, but it shouldn’t. Democrats are already spending millions to defend incumbent senators in states like Washington and Colorado—states Biden won by 19 and 14 points, respectively. Why? Because they’re seeing the same dynamics I am. I’ll be very surprised if on the low end Republicans don’t pick up 40 seats in the House and three or four Senate seats. On the high end? Depends on how badly Grandpa Dementia’s administration implodes over the next four months or so. Looking at the current trajectory, we haven’t seen the bottom yet.
We’re still months away from the November midterms—which will be devastating for Democrats at the state and local levels, too—and we’re already seeing people looking ahead to the presidential election in 2024 and more specifically who is going to run and represent the Republican party.
We should start with the fact that Donald Trump is going to run again. He’s 114-10 in his endorsements so far in 2022, in great health, raising significant amounts of money and will no doubt announce by January 2023, if not before (I suspect in November, post-midterms). Other names are being tossed about: Mike Pence, Kristi Noem, Nikki Haley, random names from the phone book . . . essentially an assortment of political pygmies. None of them stand a snowball’s chance in hell against Trump.
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]]>Yes, They’re Coming for Your Guns Read More »
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]]>The most recent example comes from the gaping maw of Elie Mystal on MSNBC, where he claimed that, like everything else in this country apparently, the Second Amendment is the creation of long-dead, racist white supremacists who supported it for the sole purpose of putting down slave revolts keeping the enslaved populations in bondage. Of course, there is as much “truth” to that as there is in the 1619 Project. Progressives use such revisionist history to discredit the founders so that they can dismantle the founders’ republic.
The basic history lesson the Left seems to have missed while being indoctrinated in our schools is this: the founders believed in natural inherent rights—ones that were given to human beings by their Creator. As these were rights given by a transcendent source. They understood that no earthly power—say, a despotic British empire—could legitimately take them away. Among those rights were life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and property, but that was just a start to their list. In fact, Alexander Hamilton didn’t think a Constitution could ever be written that could fully enumerate all human rights.
In this discussion of rights, understand that the founders also viewed as inherent the right to property. As Madison wrote, “There is a right to property and a property in rights.” These beliefs informed the founders’ construction of the machinery of government in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which are really nothing more than an attempt to spell out and codify higher, transcendent law so it can be formed into a workable form of earthly government. Because of that, the founders also believed that a free populace had the right, if not the responsibility, to protect their God-given rights with anything and everything at their disposal; to not defend their natural rights was to shame their Maker.
It was to that end the Second Amendment was written. When all arguments and words failed in the defense of natural rights, the last defense is an armed one. The Second Amendment is for when the talking is done and the shooting begins. A “well-regulated militia” did not mean, as Progressives insist it does, some formal government entity, the membership of which is determined by the government. The founders simply meant that citizens needed to have the right to possess weapons sufficient to organize themselves into militias. In no way did they imagine government regulation of who gets a gun or who doesn’t.
The founders defined a well-regulated militia as one well armed with the best muskets, supplied with copious amounts of ammunition, and regularly drilled to maintain proficiency with those weapons. Again, revisionists want to define words in terms suited to their altered telling of history, but that’s antithetical to the historical method, real history, and the founders’ use of the terms.
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]]>Beware of Fake Polls and Paid Endorsements Read More »
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]]>This figure, of course, discounts lingering questions about Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Technology and Civic Life’s work in retirement homes, among other irregularities. In other words, the ABC/Washington Post pollsters were either terrible at polling, which is quite possible. Or (and?) perhaps something else was at play: polls being used as more of a psyop intended to suppress Republican turnout.
Indeed, fake polls masquerading as reality are actually meant to project an illusion perceived as reality to influence and manipulate behavior.
Fast forward to 2022.
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]]>The Left’s Intellectual Inconsistency on Life Read More »
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]]>No single factor explains the cratering fertility rate, but among the causes include: diet, cultural issues in which life is not appreciated or respected, and young men acting like perpetual Peter Pans. But also, as Dr. John Rowe of Columbia School of Health pointed out a few years ago: “Women are participating in the workforce more and women are leaving their home later, launching their careers later, developing what we call family formation—finding a partner and having offspring—later. If you started all that five years later, you wind up with one less child.”
But I would argue there is another reason for the decline in our population: abortion. It’s hardly a coincidence that Roe v. Wade was decided at the same time we started to see a fairly rapid decline in fertility rates in the United States. To be fair, while it’s hard to get a precise figure on how many babies need to be born in order to maintain the U.S. population, it’s somewhere north of 4 million babies per year. Regardless of the number, without a doubt we sure could have used the more than 70 million babies who have been murdered in this country alone since 1973.
What would the United States and the world look like if we hadn’t allowed each of these lives to be snuffed out in the womb? What strides would we have taken as a society? What inventions will we never have? Did it not occur to big-government, pro-abortion Democrats that the United States needs a broad tax base to pay for all the programs they love so much? Who will be around to support them in their old age through Social Security payments?
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]]>Trump’s Vance Endorsement Shows He’s in the Game Read More »
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]]>We got our answer on Friday: J. D. Vance was the winner of the Trump sweepstakes, with the president sending out his official endorsement.
It was a fantastic endorsement. Among other things, it showed that Trump understands various dynamics, especially in light of his likely presidential run in 2024. First, he needs more outsiders like himself, people who are not beholden to the D.C. establishment and willing to think outside the box in a constitutional and populist way. Trump needs true allies in Congress, not the same hacks committed to a tired, corporatist Republican orthodoxy.
Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were rarely in sync with Trump during his first term—highlighting the glaring fissure in the Republican Party between the Chamber-of-Commerce wing of the party and the America First/constitutional populist wing. One might even be forgiven for thinking that Ryan and McConnell were fighting Trump most days and on most issues.
This is one of the reasons Trump is putting pieces on the chessboard now. If he runs and wins in 2024, he does not need a replay of his first term when it seemed that at least half of his priorities, like immigration reform and southern border security, were thwarted by Republican leadership on the Hill. What Trump needs in January 2025 are Republican majorities in both chambers, yes. But more importantly, he needs America First majorities within those Republican majorities.
That can only be achieved by playing an active role in Republican primaries in 2022 and 2024, using his undeniable clout to support and promote America First candidates.
And good for him: a party is what people say it is, and the people who say what it is are those who win primaries and show up at conventions. You get an America First Republican Party by winning Republican primaries with America First candidates, which is exactly what J.D. Vance is. To further the American First “revolution” inside the Republican Party, Trump will need to be even more insistent about making sure the RNC is run by and filled with America First loyalists, but that is a battle for post-January 2025.
Trump’s endorsement of Vance makes total sense. It is abundantly clear in the Ohio primary, Vance is the only candidate saying the right things about the important issues of the day from an America First perspective. Vance gets it.
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]]>Renewable Energy Is an Abundant Source of Self-Deception Read More »
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]]>Of course, Russia’s efforts to undermine natural gas production are not limited to Europe. In December 2019, Fiona Hill testified during the ridiculous Trump impeachment hearings that Russin President Vladimir Putin “saw American fracking as a great threat to Russian interests” and that a U.S. fracking ban would “play into strengthening Putin’s hands.” As Forbes contributor Dan Eberhart noted at the time, “That’s because natural gas supplies are central to European economic markets. Not only do more abundant gas supplies make the U.S. stronger, but they make us more capable of supplanting Russia as a key supplier of European gas.”
Fast forward to 2022.
Many EU countries are fully committed to adopting renewable energies. Germany will decommission its last nuclear power plant by the end of the year. And Germany, France, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Bulgaria have effectively banned fracking, even though Europe has more recoverable shale gas than even the United States.
But despite a nearly $600 billion investment in renewable energy, Germany finds itself importing most of its energy needs, in the form of natural gas and oil, from Russia. Germany has been punched in the face by reality: renewables will never meet the energy needs of a large country. In fact, not even close. After years of anti-fracking environmental activism in Europe, EU nations pay Russia over $1 billion per day for energy. Many European countries, and even the United States, are being completely manipulated and played on the energy front.
All of this should lead people to ask a legitimate question, based on the proof already available: How many of the environmental and renewable energy organizations have received, and are perhaps still receiving, funding from Russia? How many of the leftist environmental groups beating the drums for the fairy-dust dreams of solar and wind energy to “save the planet” are, in fact, Putin’s useful idiots? Are leftist environmental groups, knowingly or unknowingly, colluding with Russia in an effort to prevent the United States and Europe from regaining energy independence?
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]]>Hindsight Is 20/20, Unless You’re a Democrat Read More »
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]]>But this kind of recklessness reaches the next level when they play political arson with another country that borders a nuclear power and then act like they had nothing to do with it. There are serious consequences in the real world outside of this country where the corporate propagandists can’t run interference for the Democrats and where someone with his trigger finger on thousands of nukes might not like what they’re doing.
I’m referring to the “incident” in 2014 in Ukraine when Barack Obama’s State Department decided it would foment a coup and help install a “friendly” government, essentially turning Ukraine into something of a client state to use it as a tool to destabilize Russia and Vladimir Putin—perhaps to the point of bringing about regime change in Moscow. Now, some people are horrified that their countrymen might question the wisdom of this maneuver. That’s not allowed. Instead, we are expected to nod in agreement like drones: “We must support Ukraine for democracy and freedom!” or else you are a Putin stooge and, somehow, unpatriotic.
To those people, I kindly and humbly say: Get bent.
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]]>‘Ivan McMuffin’ Rides Again! Read More »
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]]>But have no fear! After face-planting into the brick wall of reality six years ago, McMullin is back, this time running for the U.S. Senate seat in Utah as an independent against Republican incumbent Mike Lee. The good people of the Beehive State should know McMullin has no business running for that office, or even dogcatcher for that matter.
Let’s start with the self-dealing behind McMullin’s past races and political activism that provide numerous examples of unethical behavior.
Indeed, McMullin’s entire career as a NeverTrumper leaves many with the impression that it was nothing but a get rich quick scheme. According to documents obtained by ProPublica, McMullin paid himself a $45,000 salary as president of his “nonprofit” Stand Up Ideas and then, indirectly, sent himself consulting fees of $222,305 in 2017 and $1.5 million in 2018, which went to his for-profit consulting business.
What makes the situation even more appalling is that McMullin still has hundreds of thousands of dollars left in outstanding invoices that he’s refused to pay from his 2016 presidential election debacle. It stands to reason that after he loses this race for Senate he will monetize his fundraising list into some other grift. These transactions may not be illegal per se, but they should raise red flags with voters. Perhaps McMullin isn’t in this race because he cares deeply about the people of Utah but because he is thinking about the cash he can make on the back end when he loses.
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]]>Wokeness on Energy Is Weakness Read More »
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]]>Fact is, this country is now being “led” by a man who absolutely will go down as one of the worst presidents in our history. In just over a year, Biden has brought inflation roaring back to levels not seen in 40 years, has destroyed our southern border as millions of illegal aliens, along with Chinese fentanyl, flood the country, and now we have been involved in two major international debacles with Afghanistan and Ukraine. The list could go on, but perhaps that’s too depressing.
Rest assured, however, it’s not going to get better. Biden is like the anti-Midas, turning everything he touches into crap.
With every opportunity to make the right decision, Biden and his administration choose the most asinine choice possible, leading one to ask, “Is this a clown show led by an imbecile? Or do you just completely hate this country?”
Answer: both.
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]]>Honk! Is the Freedom Convoy a Teachable Moment for the American Right? Read More »
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]]>Just take a moment to reflect on how much this activism has changed the debate and brought to the surface the fascistic tendencies of the Left in Canada and in the United States. Prime Minister Justin “Low-T” Trudeau has invoked draconian emergency powers in Canada, while all across the United States, school boards are digging in—essentially telling parents and taxpayers to pound sand when they object to mask mandates and critical race indoctrination. The arrogant, out-of-touch responses to the protests has been illuminating for many and it has had and will continue to have real-world consequences.
The political realignment of parents because of school boards’ behavior was on display recently in Virginia. The state flipped by 12 points in a year due, in large part, to the activism of parents who stood up and simply said, “No more.” But the arrogant, ham-handed reactions from people in power would never have been on display for all the world to see without that activism triggering those responses from the powers that be.
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]]>The Court Needs to Throw a Wet Blanket on this Outrageous Lawsuit Read More »
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]]>I’m not pointing fingers at say, Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, but certain esteemed members of the court who had less than smooth sailing in their confirmation battles and for whom conservatives stormed the ramparts (figuratively speaking of course), have left us wondering if they were worth the battle scars. Here’s some low hanging fruit for them to pick off and make everyone breathe a little easier. All they have to do is vote to take a certain case.
The case involves a long-running dispute brought by the inventor of a special warming blanket called the Bair Hugger (now owned by 3M) which has proven to reduce post-operative infections and other complications and has been used in over 300 million surgeries worldwide to maintain patients’ body temperatures. The inventor, Dr. Scott Augustine made a fortune on this device but lost his rights to the product and its proceeds when he pled guilty to Medicare fraud in an unrelated matter. Dr. Augustine then invented a competing device and waged a campaign to discredit the Bair Hugger claiming that it caused infections. He then hired “experts” and funded studies to back up his claim. Except one of the actual authors of the studies called those studies “marketing rather than research.” As in not based on facts. The FDA admonished Dr. Augustine to stop the false campaign. And not a single physician who uses the Bair Hugger, or a single epidemiologist or any public health officials have supported Dr. Augustine’s contention.
But then Augustine hired a plaintiffs’ law firm to instigate litigation hoping, no doubt, that 3M would buckle. But 3M chose to fight in court and won at the district court level. Augustine and his trial lawyers decided to appeal and that’s where this takes on bizarro world characteristics. Several weeks ago, the 3M corporation filed a petition for review of a plaintiffs’ suit out of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Eighth Circuit, doing its best imitation of the nutty Ninth, reversed the lower court decision in favor of 3M based on a finding that while the district court correctly found the plaintiff’s expert witnesses to be unreliable, i.e. unfactual, they weren’t “so fundamentally unsupported as to offer no assistance to a jury.”
Basically, the appeals court agreed with the lower court that the experts didn’t actually do any real studies of the product in question or its track record and were reduced to hypotheticals. Nevertheless, the court declared the computer models Augustine’s experts created and relied on could in some alternate bizarro universe make sense to a bizarro world jury.
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]]>The Real Pandemic Is the Fascist Left Read More »
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]]>The far-Left Democratic Party doesn’t care about your essential freedoms—from speech and the free flow of ideas to freedom of assembly—particularly when those freedoms stand in the way of their pursuit of power.
This is the party, after all, who opposed Abraham Lincoln and stood in the way of integration well into the 1960s. Where Democratic hatred of freedom has become glaringly apparent in recent times is with their obsession with COVID vaccine mandates and mask mandates, most especially for school-aged children. This “pandemic” has exposed what is truly afoot here, fascist authoritarianism at its most potent and dangerous.
And why not? After all, Joe Biden and his son clearly have felt comfortable accepting money and favors from businesses in China and other authoritarian nations around the globe, so why shouldn’t Biden bring this unique brand of fascism home?
What’s also become clear is that the little fascists on the Left would like to punish all who dare to exercise their freedom and refuse to comply with their unscientific mandates.
A Rasmussen report recently revealed that many Democrats even support fines, home confinement, and prison sentences for not complying with their ever-changing, anti-science COVID restrictions, regulations, and mandates. Specifically, 75 percent of Democrats want Biden’s vaccine mandate for companies with over 100 employees, 55 percent support fines for unvaccinated people, and 48 percent were in favor of jail sentences. In fact, 29 percent of Democrats say they support taking children away from parents who refused to get them vaccinated.
That’s right: if there were no restraints, no consequences at all, and they could get away with it, roughly half of the Democratic Party would send you to jail for not complying with the arbitrary rules which might or might not change next week.
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]]>It Sucks To Be a Democrat Right Now Read More »
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]]>According to a recent McLaughlin and Associates study, 65 percent of likely voters believe that the United States is on the wrong track. That’s hardly surprising considering the multitude of poor decisions the fascists in charge have made since taking power.
The McLaughlin study also showed that Joe Biden’s approval rating has crumbled to 41 percent, which is high compared to Quinippiac’s 33 percent. NBC poll numbers were so bad that noted corporate propagandist and regime cheerleader, Chuck Todd, who masquerades as a journalist for that network, admitted that Biden’s numbers put Democrats in the “shellacking” range for the midterms. Todd noted that the overwhelming majority of voters think Biden is “no longer seen as competent and effective.” Of course, it’s been many decades since anyone in their right mind saw Biden as anything resembling competent and effective. But it is noteworthy that others are catching on.
For some perspective on how bad Biden’s numbers are for the fall, in 2010 Obama’s approval rating was down in the mid-40s. In those midterms Democrats lost 63 seats in the House and seven in the Senate. Now take Biden’s numbers, which are anywhere from five to 12 points worse than Obama’s and you get the picture. In short, Grandpa Dementia is the proverbial albatross around the necks of Democrats who were already wearing concrete boots and standing on the edge of a watery abyss.
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]]>Maintaining Well-Being Through Stressful Times Read More »
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]]>Can nutrient therapy boost your energy? Read More »
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]]>Freedom at Stake in the Emerging U.S.-China 5G Fight Read More »
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]]>Above all, we are talking about the coming global 5G cellular networks. By all accounts, 5G is set to revolutionize industries. The question is who will control the networks and set the standards for 5G when it comes to privacy and the free flow of information.
China’s proxy in the fight is Huawei, which is really just an extension of the Communist government. One of our proxies in the struggle is the chipmaker giant Qualcomm. Yet in spite of the willingness of the Trump Administration to take this question seriously, one real danger to U.S. leadership on 5G is our own Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and its baseless lawsuit against Qualcomm.
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]]>What Does it Mean to be Moral in the Public Arena? Read More »
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]]>So what does it mean, then, to be a moral public official?
Mitt Romney, otherwise known as Senator Pablum, came out yet again and informed the world how terrible he thought Donald Trump’s behavior was in light of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report—you know, the political document that spells out the failed soft coup against a duly elected president.
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]]>The America First Agenda calls for questioning and examining everything our government is faced with, with one central guiding principle: do what is best for America, its workers and taxpayers, and what is best for America’s future standing in the world.
Nowhere is this more evident than the president’s willingness to stand up to China on trade, intellectual property theft, forced technology transfers and – most importantly – cybersecurity.
One of the areas of competition that the Trump administration needs to focus on is the struggle for global leadership in developing the fifth generation of wireless technology – known as 5G technology.
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]]>The critical 5G war Read More »
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]]>By announcing a broad deployment of 5G networks and financial incentives for American companies to keep pace with China and other competitors, Trump is continuing his administration’s push on the 5G front. This is just the next step in the battle over who will control the future of 5G. Congress, our executive branch, and American companies need to understand what’s at stake with the development and implementation of 5G networks, especially as it relates to China.
We’re on the cusp of the next revolution in internet connectivity. The fifth generation of cellular technology, or 5G, is upon us. 5G isn’t just an incremental advance in technology: it’s a giant leap forward. If done right, we’ll see significantly faster speeds not only on our cell phones, but also for Internet of Things devices.
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]]>Unable in their last Senate interrogation to make headway against a real attorney general, William Barr, Democrats have resorted to their favorite strategy: pretending they don’t understand what words mean and carefully forgetting inconvenient facts that everybody knew the day before yesterday.
Asked by Senator Jean Shaheen (D-N.H.) whether there was spying on Trump campaign, Attorney General Barr accurately replied, “I think spying did occur.” Democrats and their allies in the media have now spent the past few days wearing out their fainting couches and creating a run on the pearl industry after clutching so many and so hard.
There’s a word that shorthands the use of the surveillance state, human assets, foreign intelligence assets, wiretapping, electronic surveillance, and such all secretly collecting information on unwitting targets. It’s a very simple two syllable word: spying.
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]]>Zuckerberg’s Regulation Gambit Is a Scam Read More »
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]]>Facebook’s litany of failures finally generated enough heat to push Zuckerberg to publish a call for regulation of his company and the social media space in general. I’ve long called for better oversight and accountability for these social media giants and the role they play in our public life, but Zuck’s suggestions ring hollow; like the words of a man whose hand has been caught in the cookie jar, arguing for more sustainable distribution of the cookies he’s already stolen. It’s time to treat these companies not as the plucky startups they pretend to be, but as the corporate behemoths they’ve become.
Zuckerberg argues—unconvincingly—that “we” need additional regulations on speech, more restrictions on how Americans are able to influence their own elections, data regulatory schemes, and “data portability.” There are more than a few problems with this.
First, our representatives have abdicated their role in representing the people, particularly when it comes to their duty to protect and defend our First Amendment rights. Because of that, these tech companies have filled the void and elected themselves the arbiters of “hate speech.” Memo to those reading: corporations run by and filled with leftists are bound to have a different definition of “free speech” than you or I do.
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]]>Trump is having the best week — ever Read More »
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]]>First, Mueller and his partisan pack of wolves ended their witch-hunt, realizing that even with the awesome power of the special counsel and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars they couldn’t turn a fairytale into fact. The abbreviated report released by Attorney General Bill Barr showed that Mueller cleared Trump of any charges of collusion.
While some on the left and in the Democratic Party think that there is some hope for obstruction of justice, someone should probably tell them that was always the weakest of the potential charges against Trump. The president can’t be accused of obstruction for firing someone within the executive branch.
Furthermore, one happy by-product of the Mueller investigation is it revealed just how poorly James Comey performed as FBI director. Even many of the most fevered members of the swamp accept that President Trump had every right to fire him. Mature people know when to take the loss and move on. The good news for Trump is that most of the Democrats in Congress aren’t in that group.
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]]>The shame of it is that the Mueller investigation—driven by hyperpartisanship and using the power of the legal and justice system to litigate political and policy differences by those who refused to accept the 2016 election results—spent $35 million, employed 19 attorneys, 40 FBI agents and staff, issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed more than 500 search warrants, got 230 orders for communications records, and made 13 requests to foreign governments, and interviewed roughly 500 witnesses to prove there was no collusion.
While some on the Left have tried to spin all of this and say the last two years of investigations were never really about collusion, that of course would be a lie: this was always about the hazy concept of collusion, that our duly elected president somehow conspired with a foreign power to win the White House, that he was potentially a puppet or stooge for Russian President Vladimir Putin. While preposterous on its face, many in the mainstream media, the Democratic Party, and the Left—driven by absolute derangement—fervently believed it was real.
Consider how absurd that is for just a moment.
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]]>Information Darkness Is Coming (Unless…) Read More »
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]]>That future has arrived.
In the last week alone we’ve seen Google attempt to make a co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, “disappear.” Why? Moore is an unrepentant skeptic of man-made global warming. He’s been extraordinarily critical not only of the radical greens that have taken over the environmental movement in general but also specifically critical of Greenpeace.
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]]>There is a reason that Nancy Pelosi lacks the courage to forcefully denounce Omar’s rhetoric, and lacks the will to remove her from the Foreign Affairs committee, as the GOP did to one of its own who engaged in racist rhetoric. It’s called the politics of self-preservation and expediency.
A not insignificant amount of the progressive base, the small donor base, and grassroots workers of the Democratic Party adhere to the BDS movement. This movement is not simply a movement that disagrees with some of Israel’s policies. It is a militant anti-Semitic movement that ultimately seeks to bring down the state of Israel. No other state is targeted the way Israel is, and it is targeted because it is a Jewish state. Apparently Muslim states are fine with the BDS movement, but a Jewish state is not.
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]]>How Ballot Harvesting Corrupts Elections Read More »
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]]>The real threat moving forward is the practice of ballot harvesting.
Observers of our elections know something fishy went on in Orange County, California and in Arizona last fall, and they know that there are strange happenings in North Carolina. For most, however, the details remain fuzzy. These happenings have to do with the practice of ballot harvesting: that is, the practice of having union members or partisan volunteers coordinate and go house to house to pick up absentee ballots that haven’t been returned and then drop those ballots off at a polling place or precinct board within the voter’s correct jurisdiction.
Mind you, these volunteers or activists don’t have to be election officials. They can be literally anyone. It feels like a complete understatement to ask, but what could possibly go wrong in this scenario? In a word, everything.
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]]>We cannot allow China to set the standards and control the technology for 5G Read More »
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]]>The fight between the United States and China is about who will control the technology of the future and the implications of who controls it: Will it be the world’s largest authoritarian police state? Or will it be the world’s greatest free-market economy?
While our past leaders, both Republican and Democrat, were miserably mistaken about China’s ultimate goals, Donald Trump has been very clear-eyed about China’s desire to replace the United States as the center of the global economy.
A very real part of that equation is who will control future technology and networks. He recently issued a challenge to America’s innovators to not fall behind our foreign competitors.
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]]>The Biggest Lie of the Green New Deal Read More »
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]]>But in it we do catch a glimpse of the everyday stupidity being preached aggressively on campuses across the country: it’s hard to deny that in our capitalistic country, college campuses are the last bastions of failed ideologies like socialism that are taught by failed ideologues with tenure. When those ideas are brought forth from the campus cocoon into the real world, the detachment from reality is on full display.
If the Green New Deal were ever implemented in a real way, it would incinerate the U.S. economy. Ascendant competitors such as China, India, Brazil, and Russia would laugh in triumph over the smoldering ruins of what used to be the world’s greatest economic and political power.
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]]>Shutdown Revelation: Essentially Nonessential Employees Read More »
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]]>According to a Fox News poll, 66 percent of the American people considered themselves unaffected by the shutdown, but you would never have known that from the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments on cable news
The fact most Americans weren’t affected is a good thing; the federal government should not play an omnipresent role in our daily lives. Unfortunately, the massive growth of the bureaucratic deep state, Congress soaking up responsibilities best left to state and local governments, and the ever-expanding role of the presidency have combined to make our federal government an overbearing behemoth.
Rather than 50 laboratories of democracy, running their own states the way those voters think is right, we have in many ways accepted a coastal ruling elite, set on siccing a big, top down, invasive government on the rest of the country. And yes, the blame for this must include many Republicans.
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]]>Trump’s address is a call to greatness — will we answer it? Read More »
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]]>From the very beginning, Trump set the tone of greatness and unity in his speech. He called on Congress not to govern as two parties but to govern as one nation, asking its members to reject the ideas of revenge and resistance and to give way to compromise and the common good. What a unique concept.
That’s been the message of Trump all along that people keep missing: Trump isn’t about Republicanism or Democratism but Americanism. As in, how do we have policies and a government that prioritizes and benefits, first and foremost, the American people, regardless of race or gender or party.
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]]>The Party of Death, Out in the Open Read More »
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]]>President Bill Clinton in 1996 told Americans abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” That was then. Now the cult of death, pro-abortion movement has taken over the Democratic Party whole-cloth, and the result is the infanticidal law passed in New York on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Now the party line has shifted to abortion on demand, paid for by taxpayers, at any time, even up until moments before birth: witness what just took place in New York state. The Empire State no more; New York is now the Abortion State.
The laws just signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo are as vile as they are expansive. New Yorkers are now legally able to end the life of their unborn child up until the moment of birth. In cases which threaten the health (even the mental health) of the mother or when the unborn child isn’t considered “viable,” a woman now has the right to have lethal injection performed on the child, ending its life just moments before it would enter the world.
And you don’t even need a doctor to conduct this abortion; New Yorkers can have physician assistants and even midwives perform some abortions. New York’s new abortion laws put it in the same class as China, Vietnam, and North Korea, where abortion is available at most any point.
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]]>The troubling reality is that there is a deeply disconcerting lack of transparency and accountability as extremely wealthy, powerful, self-interested people – looking no further than adding many more billions of dollars to their personal balance sheets – are making decisions that will affect a great many of us. More disturbing still is the fact that in many cases they are envisioning a future that most Americans do not desire and for which we remain woefully unprepared.
Here is only one example: A 2016 Obama White House report estimated that 83 percent of all jobs that pay under $20 an hour can be, and likely will be, automated. A 2013 study by the University of Oxford showed that nearly 50 percent of all U.S. employment is automatable.
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]]>Why the Democratic Party Will Become More Anti-Semitic Read More »
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]]>Of course she refused. This is hardly surprising for someone with Mallory’s history and relationships. She has close ties to one of the most virulent anti-Semites in America today, Louis Farrakhan. She called Farrakhan “the GOAT” (as in “Greatest of All Time”) on her Instagram feed. Mallory and others in the leadership of the Women’s March attend Nation of Islam events, even using the Nation of Islam for security in the past.
In light of her comments and relationships, people have wondered why the Women’s March hasn’t distanced itself from Mallory. The fact is, the organization won’t because it doesn’t see a need to: Mallory’s comments are consistent with others in the leadership of the march and as well as with a great many march participants.
Don’t believe me? Consider Linda Sarsour, another Women’s March co-founder with close ties to Louis Farrakhan. Sarsour also has a history of making comments perceived as anti-Semitic.
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]]>Department of Commerce Pushes Online Open Borders Read More »
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]]>Take, for example, the fact that many of us have probably received one of these calls: caller ID shows the number is strangely similar to yours, the call comes around dinner time, and if you happen to answer you’re immediately greeted by an angry, accusatory voice explaining the IRS is coming to kick in your door and arrest you. The only thing that will stop them? iTunes or Google gift cards of course, the normal legal tender accepted by all federal agencies.
It might sound ridiculous, one degree less silly than the email from the Nigerian prince who wants to send you his personal gold for safekeeping if only you will send him your bank account information, but it works. I’ve had friends and relatives taken in by similar scams; otherwise smart people can be caught off-guard by a convincing thief.
Last year saw an estimated 19.2 billion scam robocalls. In 2016, one report estimated Americans lost $9.5 billion to scammers, a 56 percent increase over 2015. Make no mistake: this is big business, and it’s not just happening on telephones.
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Pellentesque nec finibus metus. Proin quis velit id neque suscipit imperdiet nec a nibh. Quisque eget cursus erat. Sed in faucibus magna. Nunc blandit dapibus lorem, ut malesuada lectus rhoncus non. Maecenas volutpat cursus mi, nec consequat odio congue eget. Sed mattis, nunc at egestas consequat, metus purus congue risus, nec ullamcorper justo urna et turpis.
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]]>Phasellus hendrerit. Pellentesque aliquet nibh nec urna. In nisi neque, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Hendrerit. Pellentesque aliquet nibh nec urna. In nisi neque, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Hendrerit. ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Hendrerit.
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]]>Phasellus hendrerit. Pellentesque aliquet nibh nec urna. In nisi neque, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Hendrerit. Pellentesque aliquet nibh nec urna. In nisi neque, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti, aliquet vel, dapibus id, mattis vel, nisi. Sed pretium, ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Hendrerit. ligula sollicitudin laoreet viverra, tortor libero sodales leo, eget blandit nunc tortor eu nibh. Nullam mollis. Ut justo. Suspendisse potenti. Hendrerit.
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]]>Vivamus ligula dui, posuere id tempus non, efficitur in nulla. Aliquam elementum faucibus metus. Aliquam eros elit, varius id laoreet in, suscipit sed mi. Sed ac eros posuere, tempor enim vitae, mattis tortor. Pellentesque scelerisque, dui in imperdiet condimentum, massa est posuere mi, sit amet hendrerit augue sem quis velit. Vivamus mi dolor, aliquam et nisi quis, feugiat imperdiet est. Quisque dignissim est non lorem malesuada, id varius purus malesuada. Aenean ornare erat sed maximus consectetur. In lacinia, odio eu vestibulum imperdiet, mauris libero dictum lacus, ac blandit nisl sem vitae lorem.
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Nullam eleifend, risus at venenatis condimentum, quam ante suscipit nisl, vitae accumsan orci velit egestas dolor. In mollis, sem nec rutrum malesuada, odio ipsum luctus augue, nec ornare nisl metus sed nulla. Aliquam feugiat enim sed consequat placerat. Donec scelerisque mauris non ante porta dignissim. Donec mi tellus, aliquam et dui sit amet, commodo convallis augue. Nam eget dignissim eros. Morbi sit amet arcu maximus, bibendum arcu vitae, fringilla velit. Proin sagittis, nibh vitae consequat molestie, urna nisi finibus nisl, sed euismod risus dolor vel risus. Vivamus vel neque consequat, dignissim eros vel, porttitor augue. Etiam eget volutpat leo. Donec tortor dolor, pellentesque et turpis non, mattis fermentum nisl.
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]]>Question the Ruling Class and Embrace Common Sense Again Read More »
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]]>In the real world of common sense, any sovereign nation would, and should, assert its right to secure its borders. It would assert that it had the right to understand who wants into the country and to ask why those people are coming. It would then make a judgment as to whether it was in the nation’s best interests, economically or otherwise, to accept any of those seeking entrance, or whether it was, in fact, detrimental. Would the new immigrants make the country better? Would they strengthen the social fabric of the country or help to tear it apart?
Ultimately, every decision regarding immigration would be made to further the interests of the actual and current citizens of that nation—the ones who fund every last penny of the government and its elected officials. This is because the priority of every nation and its leaders should be to promote and protect the interests of its people, whether in trade or immigration or national security.
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]]>That verse has been bouncing around in my head the last few weeks as I’ve wondered what it means in the Christmas season. We of course, all of us, get caught up in the trappings of the season: the gifts, the parties, and understandably so.
It’s truly one of the best times of the year as we celebrate with friends and family. But often we forget what we’re celebrating and why. Sometimes we must step back and very intentionally focus on why the season of Christmas is truly amazing.
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]]>2019 is going to be a tough year for Nancy Pelosi Read More »
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]]>Pelosi (D-Calif.), the presumed next House speaker, is doing a tight-rope act — somehow trying to balance high on the wire while two factions hang off either side of her, attempting to pull her off. The radical, progressive Democratic base, represented by the likes of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), are clawing for power and representation, while the more moderate members of the caucus are starting to feel hot under the collar about the direction this new revolution is taking.
One wing is pushing for party and legislative radicalism, popular in the deepest-blue enclaves of the East and West coasts, while the other is watching in fear that they will go too far because, in 2020, the GOP might pick off those who’ve masqueraded as centrists and blue-dog Democrats.
The fact of the matter is, Pelosi’s position is untenable. She won’t be able to fend off attacks from both directions, satisfy her base and big-dollar donors, protect her moderate allies and still make substantive policy in the House.
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]]>So it’s time for the Trump Administration to break up the Alphabet, Inc. monopoly. But unlike the Ma Bell monopoly, Alphabet, Inc.’s monopoly—which includes the search-engine behemoth Google—isn’t just about greater competition and more choices for the American people. It’s about so much more: free political discourse and our privacy rights as citizens.
Last week in Washington D.C., the House called in Google CEO Sundar Pichai to question him about the bias against conservatives at his company, but also about data privacy and Google’s plans for working with China. Every last one of those issues should trouble every last American.
The mainstream media, as the mindless propagandists of the deep state and Democratic Party, are still trying to maintain the miserable hoax of Russian collusion to cover up their own misdeeds and incompetence in the 2016 election. Yet they are willfully ignoring Google’s role. Google employees and executives were caught discussing in leaked emails their desire to boost turnout and manipulating information flow in the 2016 elections in order to hinder candidates they opposed and support others. This is more far-reaching and frightening than Russia taking out small ad buys on Facebook.
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]]>It, of course, didn’t use to be this way.
In 2006, Chuck Schumer, along with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, voted for the funding of the Yuma Sector Wall, which after being built decreased the crossings in that sector by over 90 percent.
But that was then. This is now. Now the hard-left open border-types have seized control of the Democratic Party. No one in leadership can be seen voting for building a wall: it would be sacrilegious to the left and potentially a career-ending move. Never mind the fact that in so doing the Democratic Party leadership has demonstrated very clearly it’s not interested in prioritizing the interests of the American taxpayer.
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]]>There have always been questions about the Clinton Foundation’s actual purpose and behavior over the years. Of course we can’t forget the Uranium One situation during the Obama years in which, while Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) board approved giving Russia the rights to 20 percent of our uranium and then magically, $145 million shows up in the Clinton Foundation from interests with ties to Uranium One.
What is not as well known is that there were other concerning business transactions while Hillary was Secretary of State: between 2010 and 2012, Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to nearly two dozen foreign countries, whose governments had conveniently given anywhere from $54 to $141 million to the Clinton Foundation.
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]]>Mueller’s probe doesn’t end with a bang, but with a whimper Read More »
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]]>The words could just as well have been written about independent prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian collusion and interference in the 2016 presidential election and potential obstruction of justice. While Mueller, his team and the mainstream media don’t seem to quite understand just yet, the investigation is essentially over.
To date, Mueller has shown no evidence of Russian collusion in the campaigns of either Donald Trump or Hillary Rodham Clinton, but has gained indictments of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and one of his business partners, Rick Gates, for activities and financial issues unrelated to the 2016 campaign.
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]]>To me it is very clear: It is the moral responsibility and obligation of every elected official, funded by the American taxpayer and entrusted with the taxpayers’ monies, to prioritize the interests of the American people first and last. To prioritize anyone else above them is deeply immoral.
Why, exactly, is it humane to demand that American taxpayers pay for the costs of those coming in illegally? Why is it humane to demand that our children bear the cost of the impending economic disaster that our current quasi-open borders and essentially open social welfare systems will bring about? What about the humanity of our American veterans who sacrificed in defense of our country? Why should we be spending tax dollars on illegal immigrants for “humanity’s sake” when many of our veterans are not given the care, and even respect, they are due?
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]]>Stop Pretending Big Tech Companies Are Neutral Platforms Read More »
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]]>For years social media executives have been telling the public that their platforms are neutral. They assure us they are not content creators or publishers or telecommunications companies. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told Congress that Twitter “does not use political ideology to make any decisions” going on to state “from a simple business perspective and to serve the public conversation, Twitter is incentivized to keep all voices on the platform.” The executives from Facebook and Google have said much the same after being questioned by Republican legislators.
Yet this last week has provided more evidence to the contrary, as Twitter banned prominent conservatives, ostensibly for holding conservative viewpoints. Jesse Kelly, a radio host, writer for The Federalist, and a veteran, was banned from Twitter on Monday, seemingly with no explanation. Kelly is certainly one who enjoys stirring the pot, but he’s far from an abusive or threatening Twitter user, and he certainly isn’t calling Jews “termites” as some leftists are. As of yet no justification has been provided for his ban from the platform.
Then magically, Twitter reversed this ban, doing so without providing any explanation for its actions. This frustrating exercise cuts to the core of Twitter’s issues; the company is flying by the seat of its pants, unsure what rules, actions, and principles should prevail, reacting instead to the leftist outrage machine that fuels their platform and likely drives the thinking of many of their employees.
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]]>Americans Need Protection from Chinese Hackers Read More »
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]]>Recently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned U.S. firms to be vigilant about potential cyber-threats from Chinese firms that either solely or with U.S. partners offer managed services, such as IT support for American companies that choose to outsource their IT needs. At the same time, the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), which provides disaster response and warnings about serious cybersecurity issues, published an alert that un-named countries are using cloud services to steal data and trade secrets from U.S. companies.
US-CERT did not identify the nation-states that were launching the attacks or the companies that were victimized, but China has long been known to be a sponsor of government- and military-backed hacks. US-CERT indicated that the cyber-attacks targeted information technology firms, health-care companies, telecommunications and Internet providers, and manufacturers—all entities that Chinese cyber-attacks have previously sought to undercut.
At the same time these warnings were being released, Bloomberg published a stunning investigation showing that Chinese hackers most likely backed by the Chinese government, inserted chips into network servers used by U.S. government entities—the Defense Department and CIA—and more than 30 major U.S. corporations. Despite significant pushback from some parties, Bloomberg stood by its story which found that the motherboards for the servers where the chips were found were built by a company bought by Amazon in 2015, but may have been in place before Amazon’s purchase.
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]]>Florida Recount Fight Is a Preview of 2020 Lawlessness Read More »
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]]>The most basic principles of our constitutional republic would mean nothing without free and fair elections, along with the rule of law, to support them. Yet what we’re seeing with the Democrats in Broward and Palm Beach Counties is the Clinton approach to the law: the law is more a series of suggestions that can they choose to follow, or not, as suits their convenience. And they do find laws so terribly inconvenient. In their minds, the idea of free and fair elections is a quaint idea that’s for suckers. Keep the votes flowing like manna from heaven until they win is the Democrats’ mantra.
All of this reminds me of a conversation I had once with a friend who, among other things, is an excellent golfer. He told me once while we were playing, “The beauty of golf is that it’s a game of rules. If you cease to play by the rules, golf ceases to be a game.” If one does not abide by the rules, well then it becomes something that appears to be golf, when in fact it has nothing to do with the real game.
On a much grander scale, our social compact is undergirded by rule of law and the integrity of our elections. If those rules are annihilated, if we cease to “play by them,” then the social compact is over and all bets are off for society.
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]]>Trump vs. Macron: What the French president doesn’t understand about nationalism Read More »
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]]>The French president said, in a clear reference to President Trump: “Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. In saying ‘our interests first, whatever happens to the others,’ you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: Its moral values.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Nationalism is actually the epitome of morality for a national leader. It is the moral imperative for any national leader to prioritize the security and interests of his or her citizens above all else. To place any other nation before one’s citizens is in fact immoral and a betrayal of the nation. It is in fact unpatriotic.
Macron is mistaken on many points, but he’s not alone.
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]]>Midterm elections – A choice between GOP progress and dangerous Democratic socialism Read More »
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]]>The president and Republicans in Congress have a proven record of success in creating jobs and strengthening our economy with tax cuts and the elimination of excessive regulations that do far more harm than good. Wages are climbing and our unemployment rate of 3.7 percent is at the lowest level since 1969. American manufacturing jobs are coming back beyond all expectations, as if someone waved a magic wand.
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that it has left most Americans behind. The party no longer represents the views of the mainstream, but instead embraces radical policies that used to be held only by fringe extremist groups.
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]]>Memo to the media: Blame Bob Menendez for lack of US focus on human rights issues Read More »
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]]>The disaffection grows like this: An event that seemingly has little to do with President Trump is given massive coverage by the mainstream media, which finds a way to blame the Trump administration for said event. All the while the media fails to give the American people the full story.
The full story in the Khashoggi murder is that, for months, the Democrats have been blocking the confirmation of the key State Department official, who the president and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would otherwise be relying on to address what was clearly a violation of human rights.
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]]>In Defense of Americanism Read More »
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]]>This kind of thinking isn’t new to the Trump era. Rather, it is the ultimate expression of an idea that has been an undercurrent that has bubbled to the surface on the Left for decades. Michelle Obama made similar remarks in 2008. “For the first time in my adult life,” the future first lady said, “I am really proud of my country.” That was just after the Wisconsin primary, when the political fortunes of her husband began to improve.
And it’s a longstanding attitude across the country on college campuses. This is the kind of thing the Ward Churchills of the world safely have been spewing, all while hiding behind tenure. It’s the kind of faux-knowledge that has infected our public education system through the pseudo-histories of Howard Zinn and others. And so we can see the effects of this rot today in our public discourse.
Rather than cherish the lessons learned from the history of our imperfect nation, elements of the radical left and their allies in the media ravage our history, throwing out traditions, tearing down memorials, and questioning the fundamental nature of the American Project. It’s a shameful enterprise that not only spits in the face of the eternal truths undergirding our nation, but also at all we have accomplished as a people.
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]]>Turn the caravan around — the US is not a dumping ground Read More »
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]]>Like nails on a chalkboard, we keep hearing Democrats and left-wing activists talk about these desperate immigrants seeking asylum and refuge from dysfunctional societies. We are told that it’s about “humanity first” and that we have a moral obligation to take them in.
However, we should not be fooled by the emotional reactions (and political maneuverings) of those who claim to speak for the caravan. The United States is under zero moral obligations to take citizens from misgoverned countries around the globe.
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]]>Polls Are Political Weapons in Midterms Read More »
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]]>Strangely (or not!) these political realities are escaping the notice of mainstream media outlets. With the dynamics of this midterm shifted considerably in the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings (call it the Kavanaugh Effect), one could be excused for thinking that some entities are conducting psychological warfare via public opinion polls. This is especially true with congressional generic ballots. Most people only see or hear the blaring top line of a poll: “Democrats leading in congressional generic ballot by 13 points!” and assume that somehow those numbers are a legitimate and accurate presentation of political reality.
But that’s not always so.
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]]>America’s Crisis Is Three-Tiered Justice Read More »
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]]>First, there’s one application of the law for members of the powerful elite who have the right political connections. Here, the law is more a series of suggestions that might or might not be followed with almost no legal consequences for non-compliance.
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]]>Unleashing Self Interest Against Self Interest to Reform Healthcare Read More »
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]]>If you don’t believe me, look at the amazing run insurance companies’ stock prices have had over the past 10 years, or the record revenue nonprofit hospital systems are making these days. Doesn’t it strike anyone as odd that the entity sitting on the largest pile of cash in Oregon is not Nike, an international shoe company, but Providence Health and Services, the Oregon-based not-for-profit health system that had nearly twice as much cash on hand as Nike in 2016?
While what is taking place borders on the unethical, especially with the nonprofit hospitals, the actions of the insurance companies and healthcare providers are just an example of organizations doing that which is in their own self-interest within the parameters of current law and, until called to account, this kind of thing will continue.
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]]>The media’s real enemy? Themselves Read More »
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]]>In this conversation about who is whose enemy, the media needs to understand who their worst enemy actually is: themselves. And while they decry how Trump is endangering them and antagonistic to them, they should be happy he’s not doing to them what other presidents have done, like passing sedition acts against journalists or having the CIA wiretap them. I know in an age of snowflakes, a few tweets can be very hurtful, but people need to have perspective
Those who willingly and knowingly push false narratives in an attempt to undermine Trump should start looking at the polls. In 1976, Gallup’s poll regarding the trustworthiness of the mainstream media showed that 72 percent of the American people thought the media was either trustworthy or very trustworthy.
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]]>While everyone obsesses over Russia, China is stealing our data blind Read More »
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]]>Part of the strategy is being played out now in the battle over tariffs and trade policy, but far more important to the U.S. innovation economy is the ongoing battle over forced technology transfers and Chinese efforts to steal U.S. intellectual property and control as much data online as possible.
Over the past decade, Chinese hackers have launched cyber-attacks, stealing data from the U.S. Congress, the U.S Department of Defense, and the federal Office of Personnel Management, one of the largest data breaches and thefts of American worker identities in history. The Chinese have run sustained cyber operations against our oil industry, critical infrastructure and utility industries, and the entertainment industry. With trade tensions running higher, China’s interest in hacking U.S. private businesses for data, trade secrets and intellectual property has only increased.
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]]>Bread and Circus Politics Read More »
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]]>Now there are nearly a dozen Democratic gubernatorial candidates openly calling for a universal healthcare, single payer system, pounding the lectern and insisting that, by God, insurance is a human right.
But I’ll tell you what it really is: bread and circus politics.
Promise the voters anything and everything in the hope of gaining power, the consequences be damned. How one actually pays for the universal healthcare is a minor inconvenience to these socialists in the great bending arc of history. Onward to glory, comrades. Until of course the bill comes due. Loosely quoting the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, socialism is great fun until you run out of other people’s money.
The sad fact here is just how fast they would spend other people’s money. The costs are staggering with universal healthcare: for a national, Medicare for all approach, it could cost up to $32.6 trillion in the first 10 years, overshadowing our already massive $20 trillion national debt.
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]]>Americans Need Clear Answers on FISA Abuse Read More »
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]]>Understand what that means: a piece of partisan propaganda funded by the Democrats, compiled by an ex-British spy, filled with “intelligence” that has never been corroborated, let alone sourced, was used to justify spying on a U.S. citizen, on U.S. soil, in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. This behavior has more in common with Communist Russia and KGB tactics than with anything traditionally associated with our constitutional republic—though this shouldn’t be surprising with Commie-lover John Brennan’s fingerprints all over this entire process.
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]]>None Dared Call It Treason . . . When It Was a Democrat Read More »
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]]>Oh, how the times have changed!
Now, according to screeching harpies like Commie-lover John Brennan or many in the Democratic Party’s kept media, if you don’t say the right words during a press conference, you might be a traitor, worthy of impeachment, and probably Putin’s hand-picked agent sitting in the White House to bring about . . . well, that’s where the narrative gets a little fuzzy.
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]]>Never Trumpers don’t represent the Republican base Read More »
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]]>It’s no surprise that “Neville Chamberlain Republicans” are highly sought-after guests on mainstream TV and placements in the “best” newspapers in the nation.
Unfortunately, these Never Trumpers don’t represent the Republican base. Rather than provide valuable perspectives on a significant portion of the country that doesn’t have prominent advocates in mainstream media, Never Trumpers feed into the frenzy on the left. But their views and representation have very little to do with the real world.
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]]>Transparency Would Wipe the Smirk Off Strzok’s Face Read More »
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]]>Last Thursday’s hearing with FBI agent Peter Strzok followed the usual pattern, for the most part, with one key difference: the American people finally saw the truth about Strzok.
Strzok, the disgraced but somehow-still-employed-with-security-clearance agent, is a real piece of work. His behavior has been so shameful that he was booted from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. He became a prime focus of the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s political bias during the 2016 presidential election. Nearly an entire section of the report was devoted to Strzok’s actions, inactions, and (crucially) his text messages.
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]]>The animating forces behind the Democratic Party are true, radical leftists Read More »
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]]>No, these folks are socialists, unafraid to affiliate themselves with ideologies and beliefs that just about any Democrat elected since Ronald Reagan would have balked at.
And nowhere have we seen these ideals better distilled than in the campaign of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Democratic candidate Ocasio-Cortez unseated U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) in what was perhaps the biggest congressional upset since David Brat (R-Va.) took down then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in 2014.
Crowley has been a mainstay in the Democratic Party, gaining prominence in his 20 years in Congress. Crowley was seen by many as a major contender to take over as the Speaker of the House if Democrats are ever able to flip Congress.
Now Crowley’s congressional career is over, beaten by a 28-year-old socialist. Ocasio-Cortez is an avowed Democratic Socialist whose local New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America tweeted out just a few days ago what they believe: Abolish profits, abolish prisons, abolish cash bail, abolish borders, abolish ICE.
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has decided to abandon positions they held just a few years ago in favor of some of the most radically leftist positions their party has ever held.
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]]>The Apostasy and Heresy of ‘Roeism’ Read More »
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]]>That heresy was put down in the Christian Church by St. Augustine, but in many ways, it continues to this day in our own society. The advent of technological and medical wonders combined with the modernists’ emphasis on the autonomy of the self, men and women as never before think they are fully in control of all facets of society, to the point that many now believe we can not only determine when life begins and when it ends, but who lives and who dies. And this “faith in man” has been bolstered by what what might be called “ Roeism.”
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a woman, or for that matter, a physician or politician or bureaucrat, could determine when a life begins and ends, our society set down a path that today’s culture now fully and willingly travels, if not embraces.
And the results of this journey are all around us. Unborn infants who can feel pain and are literally weeks from birth are killed in the womb in the most brutal manners possible—by medical acts even the Nazis or Stalinist Russians would not fully adopt in the mid-20th century. Young people and mentally unbalanced individuals heartlessly kill innocents for no other reason than a desire to do so. Homeless men are beaten to death or set on fire by teenagers who did not grow up believing in the dignity of every human life. Young girls are sold and bought into sexual slavery because of a society committed to the autonomy of the individual and the pursuit of pleasure and comfort, even if it dehumanizes another person.
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]]>Here’s how to solve the immigration crisis Read More »
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]]>By our nature, we are a generous and caring people. We are pained to hear the cries of children separated from their parents at our southern border, even when the parents have violated our immigration laws.
And we understand that the family separations that dominated the news in the past week were not the Trump administration’s finest moment; nor was the Obama administration’s dismal record on immigration anything to brag about.
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]]>Trump’s Message: Full Transparency to Restore Trust Read More »
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]]>It goes like this:
Today I am announcing as president of the United States and head of the executive branch, acting on behalf of and in the interests of “We the People,” that I am ordering my subordinates at the Department of Justice and FBI to turn over immediately all un-redacted, relevant documents and make all witnesses available to Congress related to the Hillary Clinton server and email investigation, the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Russian election influence investigations.
Under my Article II powers, there is no executive privilege or separation of powers issue for me in ordering these actions. This is not a capitulation to a coequal branch of government but rather an exercise of my constitutional authority.
It is abundantly clear from the inspector general’s report that high ranking officials at the Justice Department and FBI acted with extreme bias on behalf of Hillary Clinton and her associates when they investigated her private email server. These senior officials went so far as to order that the investigators go easy on Clinton as she would be the next president of the United States.
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]]>Dems allow separation of parents, children to continue, just to score political points Read More »
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]]>Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) bill looks to be the best and fastest solution. It mandates that families who immigrate illegally must be kept together; it authorizes new temporary shelters, doubles the number of federal immigration judges and provides for expedited processing of asylum cases to ensure cases are decided promptly and families don’t live in detention facilities for longer than necessary.The fact of the matter is, many on the center-right would prefer that families, when it is verifiable, stay together during deportation hearings and then be deported together.
Thankfully, President Trump signed an executive order to stop separation of families at the border. But it’s not a long-term solution. Congress does have to act.
Yet critics like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are dead set against such solutions. He and his Democratic cronies are suggesting that President Trump has the legal authority to immediately stop the separate detention of parents and their children at the border.
Rather than realize he’s part of a coequal branch of government, Schumer is rejecting all responsibility to manage the crisis at the border and, instead, would rather have these policies continue.
Republicans should call Schumer’s bluff and pass Cruz’s bill. Put the question to Democrats: Are you willing to let the separation of parents from their children continue to score political points? Apparently the answer is “yes.”
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]]>No, Christopher Wray, we don’t trust you Read More »
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]]>Nothing could be further from the truth.
Wray toed the same line as the Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, claiming that there was no political bias on display.
Yet, anyone with more than a few brain cells can skim a dozen of the 568 pages in that document and see it is replete with case after case of bias. Perhaps worst of all of those was FBI official Peter Strzok’s text message to fellow
FBI employee and reported lover, Lisa Page, that Trump wouldn’t become president because “We’ll stop it.” Strzok, who was involved in investigating both the Clinton email scandal and Russian meddling in the 2016 election, claims, of course, that his texts are misunderstood and he totally didn’t mean anything by it.
Similarly, another FBI lawyer, also part of the Clinton investigation, proclaimed “Viva la Resistance!” in a text message. Yet another FBI employee said Trump voters were “all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS.”
There’s a word for such behavior: Bias.
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]]>China is no friend to US — Trump’s putting a stop to these unfair trade deals Read More »
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]]>We need to remember where all of this tariff kerfuffle began. Trump, after a nearly year-long study by the Commerce Department, decided that for national security reasons, our steel and aluminum industries needed to be protected. While it’s apparently lost on some, no superpower for national security reasons would ever allow another country to decimate its steel and aluminum industries.
This is what China is doing by dumping artificially cheap steel on the world market. Nor would any superpower watch its allies bow to China instead of standing with it to oppose its unfair trade practices, especially when that superpower, in many cases, has been their strongest ally for decades.
The United States is under no obligation to let China decimate key industries and, while we’re at it, gut us with forced technology transfers. Not all wars are fought on battlefields; between China’s behavior on steel and aluminum, and the estimated trillions in forced technology transfers over the last decade, it declared economic war on us years ago. Our previous leaders were willing to naively sell us out to China, letting the proverbial fox into the chicken coop, and Trump is putting a hard stop to all of that by pointing out that in fact China is a fox, not a friend.
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]]>The Creepy and Creeping Power of Social Media Read More »
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]]>We should acknowledge social media has had a positive effect over the years in breaking the monopoly on information flow. The traditional gatekeepers can no longer stop conversations they don’t approve because social media platforms have been an extraordinary means for people and groups to connect and communicate locally, regionally, and internationally. They’ve allowed upstarts, outsiders, and disrupters like Donald Trump, or movements like Brexit, to break through and actually win.
For almost 20 years, the federal communications and competitive regulatory environment that was in place allowed companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google (and their many competitors that either no longer exist or that have been subsumed into the victorious behemoths) to operate more freely and with fewer regulatory impediments compared to other traditional communications companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon. For example, Facebook, Google and Amazon had far looser federal policies to adhere to related to the kind of personal data they could collect about their customers, how long they could store that data, and what they could sell or share with other entities. The “traditional” communications companies had to adhere to much more stringent rules.
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]]>If Trump team had done wrong, it would have leaked long ago Read More »
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]]>Instead of discussing presidential pardons or subpoenas, President Trump and his legal team would do well to focus on the legitimacy of the entire investigation because it is truly a house of cards built on a foundation of air.
The Mueller investigation began on a series of rumors, innuendoes, an unproven dossier funded by political opposition, apparent Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses, illegally leaked memos by a self-aggrandizing former FBI director, and the firing of said director based on a memo written by the person who then appointed the special counsel and still oversees him.
Only in a town like Washington, well-insulated from common sense and the real world, would any of this seem fine.
The investigation was spun up with the firing of James Comey. President Trump had the legal authority to fire Comey for any reason, whether it was his gross mishandling of the Clinton email investigation or just for being too tall. We know from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s letter that Comey’s firing was justified beyond the simple fact that every member of the executive branch serves at the pleasure of the head of the executive branch.
Comey’s flat refusal to acknowledge publicly — until he was testifying under oath — that the president was not under investigation for any potential Russia collusion meant the rumor mill was allowed to swirl and detract from the administration’s positive work. This allowed Comey’s his minions to leak to the media false information that Trump was under investigation for more than six months.
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]]>From Blue Wave to Blue Trickle to Blue Gurgle Read More »
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]]>But that narrative is completely detached from reality. The numbers now tell a different story.
Democrats entered 2018 with a double-digit lead in the congressional generic ballot, upwards of 15 points in some polls. Yet somehow in May, their lead in the RealClearPolitics average has shrunk to just four points. In some generic polls, such as the Reuters survey, the Democrats’ lead has disappeared entirely. In fact, in the most recent Reuters’ poll, Republicans are up more than six points generically.
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]]>The mainstream media — the lap dogs of the deep state and propaganda arm of the left Read More »
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]]>Over the last 18 months, many in the media have abandoned any appearance of objectivity and balance in favor of an all-out attempt to further the political agenda of the left — namely the impeachment of Donald Trump.
With every aggravating month that Trump stays firmly ensconced in the White House, it’s clear that Trump is the mainstream media’s Moby Dick and that they’re Captain Ahab in their deranged pursuit of the great white whale. However, they should be reminded that it didn’t end so well for Captain Ahab.
There have been excuses along the way that mistakes were made in some of the reporting, but at a certain point, systematic “honest mistakes” cease to be honest. They’ve become intentional.
Last week’s “reporting” that Donald Trump had somehow referred to all illegal immigrants as “animals” instead of simply referring to MS-13 gang members was so blatant it was laughable. It was a hit job that one would expect to see from a partisan campaign or campaign committee. Which furthers the argument that the mainstream media, is in fact, the opposition party.
A lot of us get the joke except apparently the media: We know that many of them masquerade as journalists when in fact they’re nothing more than partisan operatives with their own specific worldview and narrative that may or may not have anything to do with the truth.
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]]>The Democratic Party and its leftward drift Read More »
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]]>But, this past week, the former First Lady and failed presidential candidate took a new line of excuse. While in New York City at the horribly inaccurately named Shared Value Leadership Summit, Clinton made a stunning admission: Calling herself a “capitalist” during the Iowa caucuses hurt her election chances because “41 percent of Democrats are socialists or self-described socialists” in that state. Unfortunately for both Hillary Clinton and the country, she’s closer to the truth about the core of the Democrats’ party than many want to admit.
While many on the left decry the Tea Party, saying the Republican Party has shifted too far to the right, they’ve failed to acknowledge just how far their party has shifted to the left. Take Candidate Obama versus President Obama as Exhibit A: Candidate Obama’s stance on gay marriage in 2008 would have made him virtually unelectable by 2018 in a Democrat primary. In fact, Candidate Obama in 2008 would almost certainly have lost to Candidate Obama 2012 just because of his 2008 stance on gay marriage. And a Democrat presidential candidate running on that stance in the 2020 presidential primaries? Forget about it.
Just a little more than a decade prior to Obama’s election, Hillary Clinton’s husband signed the Defense of Marriage Act after it passed through Congress with the support of liberals like Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid. Imagine that happening today. Quite frankly, the only way it would happen today is if party financier George Soros ordered them to do it.
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]]>China’s Clear and Present Threat Read More »
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]]>When Trump first brought up the issue of tariffs, a great wailing erupted from the free traders on the Right decrying that he was about to begin a trade war. While it’s a convenient narrative to say that this is about a trade war, it’s fundamentally not that at all. Sure, if tariffs really did kick in and goods were to go up in price, and if in response to this China slapped tariffs on American goods, there would be a trade war. But think of tariffs on steel and aluminum as an opening salvo, a skirmish, about something far bigger: we are already immersed in economic warfare with China, in a great struggle to see who controls the technology of the future and what our future as a country really looks like.
The reason Trump must play hardball with China on trade right now is that China doesn’t want to win an economic competition in a free trade arena and it doesn’t want trade partners: it wants to dominate and create tributaries.
What Does America Want to Be?
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]]>The mainstream media — the lap dogs of the deep state and propaganda arm of the left Read More »
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]]>Over the last 18 months, many in the media have abandoned any appearance of objectivity and balance in favor of an all-out attempt to further the political agenda of the left — namely the impeachment of Donald Trump.
With every aggravating month that Trump stays firmly ensconced in the White House, it’s clear that Trump is the mainstream media’s Moby Dick and that they’re Captain Ahab in their deranged pursuit of the great white whale. However, they should be reminded that it didn’t end so well for Captain Ahab.
There have been excuses along the way that mistakes were made in some of the reporting, but at a certain point, systematic “honest mistakes” cease to be honest. They’ve become intentional.
Last week’s “reporting” that Donald Trump had somehow referred to all illegal immigrants as “animals” instead of simply referring to MS-13 gang members was so blatant it was laughable. It was a hit job that one would expect to see from a partisan campaign or campaign committee. Which furthers the argument that the mainstream media, is in fact, the opposition party.
A lot of us get the joke except apparently the media: We know that many of them masquerade as journalists when in fact they’re nothing more than partisan operatives with their own specific worldview and narrative that may or may not have anything to do with the truth.
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]]>Mr. President, End the Collusion . . . in the Healthcare Industry Read More »
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]]>But the S&P 500’s performance pales in comparison to that of Aetna Insurance. The health insurance giant saw its stock value go up by 445 percent in that same time frame. However, Aetna was outshone by Humana, which saw its stock go up 608 percent. Not to be outdone, United Health saw its stock grow by 655 percent. But the real winner in that time frame was Cigna, whose stock value grew by a whopping 866 percent.
To put a fine point on it, insurance companies outperformed the S&P 500 by anywhere from 2.5 times up to five times over nearly a decade.
What a coincidence. Or not, actually.
Insurance companies have been making record profits, as have health providers in the United States, specifically non-profit hospitals (which a majority of our hospitals are) over the last 10 years; the largest 84 hospital systems in the United States generated $535 billion in revenue in 2017 alone. One might actually be forgiven for thinking that ObamaCare has caused massive windfalls for insurance companies and healthcare providers.
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]]>Dems’ dreams dashed — wishing upon a star doesn’t make the collusion fairytale true Read More »
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]]>While I suppose it was all a semi-useful process to do a nearly year-long investigation, as I stated nearly a year ago on MSNBC, there never was evidence, there is no evidence and there never will be evidence of collusion because it simply doesn’t exist.
Trump-Russia collusion was a fairytale with which the left put itself to sleep at night in hopes they’d wake up in the morning and Donald Trump would no longer be in the White House. But as the left has discovered, wishing on a star for a fairytale to be true doesn’t actually turn it into facts. It’s desperately hard to turn a fairytale into facts.
In fact, it’s impossible.
The shame of all of this is that, well over a year into the Trump presidency, we still have some people pushing conspiracy theories and a special counsel investigation in pursuit of a crime. Since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein lacked the moral fortitude to stand up to the left and the mainstream media’s demands for a special counsel, he spun up Bob “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime” Mueller and his pack of partisan wolves.
What he should have done was first let congressional investigators do their jobs. Now if there had been any evidence of collusion or a crime found by House Intel, or any other congressional committee (hint: there won’t be), then Rosenstein would have been justified in appointing a special counsel. (To be honest, Rosenstein shouldn’t have been doing the appointing, as he should have recused himself over the massive conflicts he has).
So now we have an illegitimate Mueller investigation spun up on false pretenses (“Trump is a Putin puppet!”), the rumor and innuendo of the Steele Dossier — a piece of partisan propaganda filled with Russian disinformation — and the illegally leaked memos of James Comey, a delusional and embittered fired employee seeking revenge. With no one seemingly willing to pull the plug on the special counsel, who knows when it will actually end; perhaps we’ll find Mueller assistant Anthony Weismann, decades from now, wandering about in a jungle thinking collusion is still real. We simply don’t know.
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]]>Democratic Party goes further and further left in its major flirtation with socialism Read More »
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]]>In the latest ABC/Washington Post Congressional Generic Poll, Republicans have closed the gap to just four percentage points, a 47 percent to 44 percent approval for Democrats over the GOP. In January, Democrats held double-digit leads in most generic polls.
But even more concerning for the blue team: The enthusiasm gap flipped. Liberals might be turning out to march and protest, but when asked if they are very likely to vote in the midterms, 74 percent of Republicans are answering that they will definitely vote, versus just 68 percent of Democrats.
Now, a snapshot poll six months away from the elections isn’t the end of the game. Republican candidates still have to run quality campaigns focused on winning over voters. Let’s be honest, the GOP has, on occasion, figured out a way to snatch an election or two from the jaws of victory.
It’s not inconceivable for Democrats to gain 15 to 20 seats in the House, lose seats in the Senate, and find themselves in the minority still in 2019. All of those marches, lawsuits, exposes and leaks will have all been feel-good distractions instead of soul-searching moments. Of course, if the left loses in 2018, they would want to finally drop Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House minority leader but, at that point, does it really matter?
She’d be replaced by someone just as left of mainstream Americans, maybe even more so, and the party will go even further left. It’s perhaps only when Democrats lose a soul-shattering presidential election in 2020 that there potentially will be a wake-up call, when all the excuses will be dropped and the adults step back into the room and make it the party of JFK again.
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]]>The Ever Shrinking James Comey Read More »
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]]>His carefully cultivated act of “The Last Honest Man, Boy Scout for the Ages” schtick is being shown to be just that: an act. Of course, truth be known, this entire image is a work decades in the making, stretching back to the days when Comey was the U.S. attorney in Richmond and hired a local reporter named Mike Kulstad to become his personal troubadour. And like all personal troubadours, Kulstad has gone with Comey from Richmond to New York and on to the Department of Justice and the FBI to be Comey’s personal press secretary, spinning the myth and legend of Comey’s noble quest for honesty and truth. But again, it’s just an act.
Comey’s press tour and his book show us what he really is. As Meghan McCain told Comey on “The View,” he “sound[s] like a political commentator.” Savannah Guthrie went even further saying that some are calling his bitterness and insulting comments about the president “catty” and noted they degrade the rest of his book. Comey’s “aw shucks” response rings hollow. Comey knew exactly what he was saying and the effect he intended it to have on his audience. Every day that Comey sits in front of a TV camera, caked in makeup, brings us one step closer to understanding his true partisan nature.
As with all facades, especially the very thin ones, they crumble quite easily when exposed to pressure and force. In fact, while Comey has portrayed himself as the honest one and Trump the liar, that’s not quite right. This past Sunday night, in his interview with former Clinton press flack turned “journalist” George Stephanopoulos, Comey acknowledged that he leaked documents, but claimed that none of them were classified.
That’s simply untrue.
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]]>Why the Leadership of Both Parties Is Lax on Immigration Read More »
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]]>Never one for subtlety when an opportunity for the dramatic presents itself, Trump used what some found to be incendiary rhetoric referencing Mexicans, drugs, rape, and criminality. Ever since, this important discussion is punctuated by the claim from the Left that “people can’t be illegal,” despite the fact that the term “illegal” refers only to immigration status which can, of course, be illegal. The point of that discussion-ending appeal to emotion is to insinuate that any human arguing against illegal immigration lacks compassion and that the Right rejects our shared and immigration-rich history, is therefore unpatriotic, and that any desire for secure borders is fundamentally based on racism.
This kind of idiocy serves only to anger all parties so that there is rarely any real scrutiny of the illegal immigration reality in this country. The issue is growing worse daily and we need to accept certain facts. First and foremost we must accept that illegal immigration is, in fact, illegal and that this is a problem. People who are not coming here through legal channels are breaking our laws. This is an exercise in the obvious. Our nation, like all nations, has a set of immigration laws that were designed to protect its citizenry from those who would not be additive to our society, might harm our citizens, or don’t demonstrate sufficient potential to be happy here among us.
America is a welcoming land, full of promise. One does not need to be the kind of entrepreneurial soul capable of founding an electric car company, or to serve in our military, or to become an expert in our history to come to America. But if one does come to this country, it is important that he loves it, understands what it represents, and does his best to make it better in whatever way God has made him able.
When an individual, regardless of the circumstances, breaks the immigration laws of this country, his immigrant status is illegal and he is an illegal alien. Calling it something other than illegal denigrates the value and importance of law in our society and, after all, one of the defining aspects of America that made it such a desirable destination for so many immigrants is our respect for the rule of law against the rule of men.
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]]>Trump Won the Schumer Shutdown, Time to Do It Again Read More »
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]]>On any given day, as the mood may move him, Trump does exactly that, whether on Twitter, or via an outside advocate, or on TV. But here is someone Trump absolutely needs to get tough with and not just on Twitter: Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Why?
Trump’s presidency depends on how tough and successful he is against Schumer.
Today, almost 300 presidential nominees remain unconfirmed. Many are holdovers from 2017 and have been re-nominated after prior confirmation votes out of Senate committees. The media in general confirms this may well be the highest number of vacancies across a U.S. administration. Senior management positions—deputy secretaries, undersecretaries, deputy undersecretaries—remain unfilled in virtually every crucial cabinet department, with the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, Education, Health and Human Services being the most prominent.
And holding down the forts? Obama-era careerists or less experienced political appointees who have no business managing offices. The vast majority of these appointees are awaiting full Senate confirmation votes. While some are being held up by Republican Senators with some minor axe to grind against the president or the department to which these nominees would go, or perhaps even hold some grudge against the nominees themselves, the vast majority are being held up by Schumer. Why? Because he can—and because Democrats believe there is a pound of flesh to be collected from a president they dislike and who is in dire need of all hands on deck as he enters a crucial period in his administration.
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