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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Our Broken American Covenant
by Erick Erickson
by Erick Erickson
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Top Headlines
White House punts new travel order to next week. (The Hill)
Demos protest Trump enforcing liar-Clinton and liar-nObama immigration policies. (Investor's Business Daily)
Mexico says it will not help stop illegal immigration. (The Washington Times)
Canada's Trudeau: No, we won't be stopping illegal border crossings, either. (Hot Air)
Demo Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed. (Fox News)
Bernie Sanders minions are taking over the Democrat Party. (The Wall Street Journal)
F/A-18 Super Hornet pulls out of a sales stall thanks to Trump. (Bloomberg)
Democrat governor: Cut taxpayer funding for public broadcasting to zero. (The Daily Signal)
O'Keefe drops "bombshell" undercover footage from within CNN. (Zero Hedge)
MSNBC's Mike Brzezinski: Media's job is to "control exactly what people think." Houston, we have a problem. (Washington Free Beacon)
New Hampshire enacts constitutional carry. (Washington Free Beacon)
Policy: Federal court of appeals goes to war against the Second Amendment. (National Review)
Policy: The real nuclear news. (Real Clear Defense)
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Trial Beginning For Thug Who Called For
The Murder Of All White Cops
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Making racist and life threatening statements against cops is not a good idea, not even from the relative safety of a computer screen and a Facebook account... One hate-filled Detroit man is in the process of learning that lesson the hard way. Nheru Gowan Littleton, presumably a black man from the content of his rant, is headed to court, charged with making a terroristic threat and using a computer to commit a crime. In a July 9, 2016 post that appeared on Littleton’s Facebook page, he is alleged to have written, “F them racist a** cops!!! Kill them ALL. Black Lives Matter. Black people should start killing all white cops just like they are killing us!!! Then and only then will this s*** stop. Why you ask? Because white people will be dropping like flies!!!” His reason for making the posts is believed to be in response to the shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA, four days earlier. The same day as his post went up five Dallas Police Officers were killed by a lone gunman as they worked a racist anti-cop street protest in the city...This guy is sick and should be put away. http://rickwells.us/trial-beginning-thug-called-murder-white-cops/
.Chris Cuomo of CNN Shows Just How
Bigoted the American Left Can Be
by Erick Erickson
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ Chris Cuomo of CNN is objectively a liberal. I have friends who work at CNN who tell me they dread going on his morning program because they think he brings a liberal bias that forces them into awkward positions... His entire world view is liberal. He cannot relate to people outside his liberal worldview and he is indicative of the larger community of leftwing group think that cannot fathom anyone but bigots can disagree with them. I remember when I first joined CNN, several reporters told me they were glad to be rid of Lou Dobbs because they felt like they could finally be a straight news organization. Now they have Chris Cuomo engaged in leftist group think where Christians and conservatives are the backwoods enemies against enlightened Manhattan values. Chris Cuomo is, in fact, a bigot. Yesterday, a Twitter user asked Chris Cuomo a very succinct question. He asked “What do you tell a 12 year old girl who doesn’t want to see a penis in the locker room?”...
.'Chinagate' fundraiser feared
liar-Clintons would murder him
by wnd.com
Chinese-American businessman Johnny Chung (left)
with Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton
{wnd.com} ~ Stories of a liar-Clinton death list have circulated online for years, but a Chinese-American businessman at the center of the infamous “Chinagate” scandal truly believed the liar-Clintons would send a squad of assassins after him... Johnny Chung, a liar-Clinton fundraiser who was convicted of illegally funneling money from Chinese officials to the 1996 re-election campaign of Bill liar-Clinton, filmed a secret, tell-all video in 2000 as an “insurance policy”in the event of his assassination, according to London’s Daily Mail. He gave the secret footage to his friends and family, telling them to give it to the media if he turned up dead... http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/chinagate-fundraiser-feared-clintons-would-murder-him/
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Extremist Muslims' One-Way Street
by Burak Bekdil
by Burak Bekdil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ President Donald Trump's executive order of January 27, 2017, temporarily limiting entry from seven majority-Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen -- for 90 days, until vetting procedures can be put in place... has caused international controversy, sparking protests both in the Western and Islamic worlds, including in increasingly Islamist Turkey. This article does not intend to discuss whether Trump's ban is a racist, illegal order, or a perfectly justified action in light of threatened American interests. The ban, right or wrong, has once again unveiled the hypocrisy of extremist Muslims on civil liberties and on what is and what is NOT racist. Extremist Muslims' understanding of freedom is a one-way street: Freedoms, such as religious rights, are "good" and must be defended if they are intended for Muslims -- often where Muslims are in minority. But they can simply be ignored if they are intended for non-Muslims -- often in lands where Muslims make up the majority. A government statement in Tehran said that the U.S. travel restrictions were an insult to the Muslim world, and threatened U.S. citizens with "reciprocal measures." Many Muslim countries, apparently, already have travel bans against other Muslims, in addition to banning Israelis... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9935/extremist-muslims
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Our Broken American Covenant
by Erick Erickson
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ The story of the Old Testament is of a people chosen by God who continually reject him. Again and again, the Lord calls His people back and sends messengers calling His people to repent. Finally, the Lord sends them into exile. Their temple is destroyed, and they are scattered. Still, God remains faithful to His people even then. God keeps His promises. God keeps his covenant.
There is a civic, religious strand that runs through American culture that suggests we have some divinely intended covenant. Our nation is on the planet for something great. It was once a manifest destiny to stretch from sea to sea. Then it was that we were set apart as the torch bearers of liberty in the world, bringing light to darkness.
What set our nation apart was that we were not tied to blood and soil, but to an idea and truth. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The United States had always been a nation of many different people working together to advance liberty and reveal those self-evident truths. Our two-fold motto is “In God We Trust” and also “E Pluribus Unum,” or “out of many, one.” Anyone could come here, and so long as they committed themselves to the idea of America, they could become American. Our demand on them was then to contribute to advancing American society.
We, as a nation not tied to blood and soil, could chart new paths through history. We had no aristocracy. The merit of men raised them up in society. The poor man with a good idea could best the rich man with a bad idea. The immigrant who came from nothing could die a wealthy American. Each generation then committed itself to our American covenant.
Something though has gone wrong. No longer are we a nation that looks to America the idea, but to America the blood and soil. If you don’t sound like us, don’t have the right skin tone, don’t have the right religion, or are from the wrong part of the world, some would say you cannot take part in our American covenant. The American dream is to be restricted.
Beyond that, those who would restrict this covenant to those already here would then build up protectionist walls to stop competition, capital, and merit from freely flowing. That protectionism breeds aristocracy. The United States becomes like Europe. The irony here is that many of the people embracing a blood and soil nationalism do so to preserve our unique American identity. But in doing so, they become exactly like the European nations they are trying to avoid us becoming.
As the nation moves forward through the present turmoil, we should recommit ourselves to policies that embrace our American covenant of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We should open our shores to any who come here through legal processes and make plain those processes, ending long bureaucratic delays in obtaining citizenship. We should secure our border, but we should also encourage the best and brightest throughout the world to not just come to America but to become Americans and commit themselves to our great experiment in individual liberty.
More importantly, we should again embrace the idea that we are better than other nations because we are not a nation rooted in blood and soil, but a nation rooted in an idea, a meritocracy, and an experiment in the advancement of individuals. When we make this nation about what it was and not what it can be, we break our founding covenant. When we make America about the collective or the mob and not the right of the individual to succeed or fail on his own in freedom, we break our covenant.
“A republic, if you can keep it,” said Mr. Franklin. We fail him and our founders when we uproot our flag from America as an idea and plant it among blood and soil, anchored to visions of former glory.
There is a civic, religious strand that runs through American culture that suggests we have some divinely intended covenant. Our nation is on the planet for something great. It was once a manifest destiny to stretch from sea to sea. Then it was that we were set apart as the torch bearers of liberty in the world, bringing light to darkness.
What set our nation apart was that we were not tied to blood and soil, but to an idea and truth. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The United States had always been a nation of many different people working together to advance liberty and reveal those self-evident truths. Our two-fold motto is “In God We Trust” and also “E Pluribus Unum,” or “out of many, one.” Anyone could come here, and so long as they committed themselves to the idea of America, they could become American. Our demand on them was then to contribute to advancing American society.
We, as a nation not tied to blood and soil, could chart new paths through history. We had no aristocracy. The merit of men raised them up in society. The poor man with a good idea could best the rich man with a bad idea. The immigrant who came from nothing could die a wealthy American. Each generation then committed itself to our American covenant.
Something though has gone wrong. No longer are we a nation that looks to America the idea, but to America the blood and soil. If you don’t sound like us, don’t have the right skin tone, don’t have the right religion, or are from the wrong part of the world, some would say you cannot take part in our American covenant. The American dream is to be restricted.
Beyond that, those who would restrict this covenant to those already here would then build up protectionist walls to stop competition, capital, and merit from freely flowing. That protectionism breeds aristocracy. The United States becomes like Europe. The irony here is that many of the people embracing a blood and soil nationalism do so to preserve our unique American identity. But in doing so, they become exactly like the European nations they are trying to avoid us becoming.
As the nation moves forward through the present turmoil, we should recommit ourselves to policies that embrace our American covenant of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We should open our shores to any who come here through legal processes and make plain those processes, ending long bureaucratic delays in obtaining citizenship. We should secure our border, but we should also encourage the best and brightest throughout the world to not just come to America but to become Americans and commit themselves to our great experiment in individual liberty.
More importantly, we should again embrace the idea that we are better than other nations because we are not a nation rooted in blood and soil, but a nation rooted in an idea, a meritocracy, and an experiment in the advancement of individuals. When we make this nation about what it was and not what it can be, we break our founding covenant. When we make America about the collective or the mob and not the right of the individual to succeed or fail on his own in freedom, we break our covenant.
“A republic, if you can keep it,” said Mr. Franklin. We fail him and our founders when we uproot our flag from America as an idea and plant it among blood and soil, anchored to visions of former glory.
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