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Hollywood's Secular Clerics
by David Limbaugh 
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Tuesday Top Headlines 
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McCabe’s pension is worth about $1.8 million (The Washington Free Beacon)
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House Intel votes to release controversial surveillance memo to the public (Fox News)
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Ginsburg will not attend Trump’s first State of the Union (The Hill)
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Immigrants will be a big part of Trump’s State of the Union address — and live audience (The Washington Times)
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They have a dream: Two DACA recipients arrested on suspicion of human smuggling (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
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More tax reform benefits: Exxon Mobil announces $35 billion in new U.S. investments over five years (CNBC)
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Democrats stand with brutal regimes in China and North Korea, block 20-week abortion ban (Washington Examiner)
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Anti-humor: Senate Democrats refuse to grant legal status to children dreaming of being born (The Babylon Bee)
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U.S. military revising its rules after fitness trackers exposed sensitive data (The Washington Post)
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Couldn’t happen to a “nicer” bunch: Grammy Awards TV ratings hit all-time low (Variety)
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liar-nObama’s presidential library ripped as “ugly waste of taxpayer resources” by Chicagoans (The Washington Times)
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Policy: Nationalizing 5G would mark the end of wireless innovation (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Policy: The Trump growth machine (Hoover Institution)  ~The Patriot Post
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Chuck Todd – OK To Release FAKE Trump DOSSIER,
Just DON’T RELEASE Nunes MEMO 
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Leftist propagandist Chuck Todd always asks his questions in such a way as to include multiple attacks... within what should have been just an unbiased question for a network “news” guy. In his interview with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Todd is up to his usual tricks, including cutting off answers he doesn’t like or replacing them with new questions that might prove more “productive” for him in his endeavors to advance the globalist cause. He asks, “Do you want the President to declassify this memo that was written by Republican staff on the House Intelligence Committee?” He could have phrased it as “exposing corruption at DOJ” or being based upon information provided by the FBI and DOJ, rather than attempting to give the impression that it is made up garbage along the lines of the Democrat’s fake dossier...  https://rickwells.us/nbc-todd-dossier-memo/
House Intel meets Monday and could vote 
on memo release — is Jeff Sessions 
softening his stance?
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by Byron York 
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The House Intelligence Committee meets at 5 p.m. Monday in the Capitol... The meeting will give the committee its first opportunity to vote on the question of releasing the so-called "FISA abuse" memo that has captured Washington's attention in recent days. Since the GOP holds a 13 to 9 advantage on the committee, the overwhelming likelihood is that if there is a vote, the panel will decide, along party lines, to release the memo. At that point, House rules call for the committee to await a decision by the president on whether he supports or opposes release of the memo. President Trump has made clear he supports release, so the memo could be made public quickly. The public might also learn committee Democrats' plans for a counter-memo. Ranking member Rep. scum-Adam Schiff has accused Republicans of cherry-picking and distorting the intelligence underlying the GOP memo, and last Wednesday announced that Democrats would "draft our own memorandum, setting out the relevant facts and exposing the misleading character of the Republicans' document."...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-house-intel-meets-monday-memo-vote-possible-sessions-softening/article/2647342 
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Republicans need a plan to broaden 
enrollment in more affordable insurance 
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by Joseph Antos and James C. Capretta 
Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration failed to fulfill their commitment to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 201... but they did succeed in repealing the tax penalties enforcing the law’s individual mandate, starting in 2019. The GOP still might try again to fully repeal and replace the ACA in 2018, perhaps with a modified version of the Graham-Cassidy legislation. However, with Republicans now down to a 51-seat majority in the Senate and some House and Senate members facing difficult mid-term elections this November, it will be even more challenging to get a sweeping rollback of the ACA through Congress in 2018 than it was in 2017. Republicans would have a better chance of getting something passed if they lowered their sights and used the possibility of enacting bipartisan market stabilization legislation to achieve more limited objectives. Senator RINO-Susan Collins (R-ME) and others are pressing GOP leaders to pass the compromise plan sponsored by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) early this year, along with additional reinsurance funding. That legislation could serve as the vehicle for Republicans to pursue additional changes in current law to move the overall system in their preferred direction...  https://www.aei.org/publication/after-the-mandate-republicans-need-a-plan-to-broaden-enrollment-in-more-affordable-insurance/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWldOa05qVmlZMlUyTXpkbCIsInQiOiJvejFyNnUzT2NjeTByN0FvMHJ0NnRSZmMxZzdqQ0xHRGtwcCtLQ3ZSeWdlNmtGRG9VK2FCSVo4amVTZ2lNck9TTlVwTnM2eE95UHF2Q0lZR2w3UnM0b3JFSmpERTdSTFllZEFDOXlBOENtUDNjek1nYk5OYkVSak1WMDE0MUJsMiJ9 
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Palestinians are taking a huge risk by 
ignoring Trump’s threat to cut off US aid 
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by Jonathan Schanzer, Grant Rumley 
{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to cut off as much as $700 million in annual U.S. aid to the Palestinians... if their leaders don’t begin serious peace negotiations with Israel, but the Palestinian leadership remained defiant. Defiance might make Palestinian leaders feel good momentarily, but it doesn’t make much sense to deliberately antagonize their largest donor and the only arbiter of the peace process with Israel. From all appearances, the Palestinians are now digging in for a fight with the Trump administration, and they don’t seem to be interested in deviating from their hardline position anytime soon. Tensions have been running high between the U.S. and Palestinians since President Trump’s Dec. 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and eventually move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. The decision did not technically change the status of Jerusalem in final bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, but it certainly made it clear that America would no longer wait for negotiations to make its positions known...   http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-palestinians-are-taking-a-huge-risk-by-ignoring-trumps-threat-to-cut-off-us/ 
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House panel poised to vote on surveillance
memo release, as FBI boss pays visit to Hill
by Joseph Weber 

{ foxnews.com } ~ A key House committee is set to vote as early as Monday evening on whether to make public a classified memo...
 that top congressional Republicans say details government surveillance abuses -- and has emerged at the center of a power struggle in Washington. Those who have seen the document suggest it reveals what role the unverified anti-Trump "dossier" played in the application for a surveillance warrant on at least one President Trump associate. While the White House seems to favor the memo's release, the Justice Department has pushed back hard. Sources told Fox News' Catherine Herridge that FBI Director Christopher Wray went to the Capitol on Sunday to view the four-page memo...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/29/house-panel-poised-to-vote-on-surveillance-memo-release-as-fbi-boss-pays-visit-to-hill.html
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Hollywood's Secular Clerics
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by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ Swell, our beloved Hollywood stars are busy crafting their politicized speeches for the Academy Awards program. I'll bet you can't wait.

Oscar-nominated English actor Daniel Kaluuya, in an interview with W magazine, opined that racism is more pronounced in America than in Britain. So happy to learn this and can't wait for his upcoming lecture.

Well, these mega-pundits might as well go three for three so far in 2018. Hosting the Golden Globes ceremony earlier this month, Seth Meyers caricatured President Trump as a xenophobe and lampooned him for alienating North Korea. A few weeks later, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, host Kristen Bell humorlessly jabbed first lady Melania Trump for failing in her mission to end cyberbullying. They must measure up to the Trump-bashing standards of 2017's Emmy Awards, where, following the lead of smarmy host Stephen Colbert, the actors launched merciless volleys against the president, including one from Lily Tomlin: "And in 2017, we still refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot."

I've attended many award ceremonies, and apart from politically related ones, I've rarely heard speakers wax political, not only because the events are nonpolitical but because they don't want to needlessly offend those with different views.

It's apparent that Hollywood actors don't have these concerns and therefore exercise no restraint. That they so openly spout off about politics shows they have no fear of offending their like-minded colleagues and couldn't care less about alienating anyone in the viewing audience.

A few examples. "Grey's Anatomy" star Ellen Pompeo tweeted, "News flash... I don't want trump supporters for fans Einstein." Olivia Wilde, starring in "1984" on Broadway, tweeted, "Trumpy Trolls defending racism as free speech and threatening to boycott my movies, PLEASE F---ING DO." Don Cheadle, after tweet-slamming someone for being "woefully uninformed and egregiously bereft of empathy and insight," smugly followed up with this: "If I lose fans over this, they weren't real fans. And I'm only bitter about what's happening to our country. You good with all this? Why?" Michael Shannon, while promoting his movie "Nocturnal Animals," said: "This country's filled with ignorant jackasses. The big red dildo running through the middle of our country needs to be annexed to be its own country of moronic a--holes. You can call it the United States of Moronic F---ing A--holes." He also said, "If you're voting for Trump, it's time for the urn." And last year, Meryl Streep blasted Trump, without mentioning his name, as a powerful bully whose "violence incites violence."

I've sometimes wondered what makes Hollywood so ideologically unimaginative. Is there some common DNA strain among film industry players that makes them liberal? Were most of those who have grown up to become part of that industry raised by leftist parents? Do actors new to Hollywood arrive as politically blank slates and become instantly converted? Are they shamed into toeing the party line?

Of course, there are Hollywood conservatives, and I'm proud to call some of them my friends, but we all know they are a fractional exception; at least, those willing to publicly admit it are scarce.

I can't think of a group of people more cloistered, more isolated from dissenting viewpoints. How can any group of people -- other than political organizations, whose members join specifically to support the particular cause -- think so uniformly?

They aren't just monolithic; they possess the self-certainty of religious cultists, who are contemptuous of those who disagree, thinking of them as lesser beings woefully ignorant and irredeemably immoral.

You've surely witnessed their judgmentalism, their preachiness, their superiority, their ontological certitude. They obviously haven't a single electron of doubt about their own righteousness and our unrighteousness.

But if they are correct in their worldview and we flyover denizens are as depraved as they think, what kind of supernatural coincidence could have caused all of them to assemble in one place and work in one industry? Is there something about the performing arts that draws moral paragons? As there can be no divine sovereignty in the absence of God, maybe it's rather that thespianism constitutes the most advanced form of Darwinian refinement. Excuse us for being unaware that evolutionary perfection resulted in astonishing close-mindedness.

It's noteworthy that their rejection of God doesn't deter them from mounting their secular pulpits to sermonize. Perhaps it's a blessing that they consider us such despicably lost causes that they merely scold us rather than try to proselytize us.

Are you curious as to whether any of them ever self-reflect or contemplate why, if they're such wonderfully kind and compassionate people, they are so filled with rage, rudeness, meanness and smug incivility?

Isn't it ironic that these actors engage in political commentary to demonstrate their intellectual gravitas but, in the very process, instead display that they are malleable sheep, pawns of the most pernicious sort of groupthink, people who are intellectually incurious and shallow and whose free will has been hijacked by the most unsophisticated form of industry-coerced mind control?

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