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IS THERE AN EXPERT IN THE HOUSE?
by Burt Prelutsky
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U.S. Natural Gas Exports to Add
500,000 Jobs, $73 Billion to Economy
by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The latest estimate from API, the energy trade group, is that increased exports of LNG (liquefied natural gas) over the next 20 years will add nearly 500,000 jobs to the American economy... and $73 billion to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Marty Durbin, API’s chief strategy officer, stated, “This report confirms that increasing U.S. LNG exports would bring great benefits to American workers and consumers and to the U.S. economy. Increasing the use of U.S. natural gas throughout the world means more production here at home, cleaner air, and increased energy security for our nation and our allies.” The revolution taking place in natural gas has been almost completely overlooked. Most of the focus is on crude oil — its drop from $100 a barrel in 2014 to under $60 today, and how that is threatening the very existence of the OPEC cartel. Indeed, lower gasoline prices get a lot of coverage, while cheaper natural gas shows up in lower utility bills, which is much less exciting. But the fracking revolution that has transformed the development of America’s crude-oil reserves is also revolutionizing the production of natural gas... https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/27141-us-natural-gas-exports-to-add-500-000-jobs-73-billion-to-economy
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liar-Clinton Attacks America Overseas, Backs
NFL Thugs, Urges Resistance To President
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton is continuing her “They were supposed to vote for the elitist criminal” book tour with a pass through the UK... She had a few words to say about the despicable misconduct of the NFL players, who have attacked their nation from London repeatedly by disrespecting our national anthem and in general. The comments came Monday morning, US east coast time, when liar-Clinton mimicked the disgusting conduct of Hussein liar-nObama as she trashed the United States from foreign soil. She told an audience of the British counterpart to America-hating libtards at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival that disrespecting America is a wonderful thing. In delivering the indoctrination of how the act of blatant disrespect is “supposed” to be perceived, liar-Clinton said, “So you have to resist what are very clear, what we call dog whistles, to that base. That’s what the black athletes kneeling was about.”... https://rickwells.us/clinton-attacks-america-overseas/.
Sessions and DOJ Give Sanctuary
Cities “Last Chance” to Comply
by Warren Mass
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Justice Department posted a press release on October 12 noting that the DOJ has provided a “last chance” for “sanctuary cities” to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373... “Communication between government agencies and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.” The first paragraph of the law reads: Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual. The DOJ statement named five jurisdictions that have preliminarily been found to have laws, policies, or practices that may violate 8 U.S.C. 1373...Now, go get liar-Hillary. https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/27138-sessions-and-doj-give-sanctuary-cities-last-chance-to-comply.
11 Year Olds Forced to Listen to Social
Justice Activist Without Parental Consent
by Amelia Hamilton
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Do you know who is speaking to your kids at school? Teachers, administrators, their friends; maybe an activist who is facing both felony and misdemeanor drug charges. Wait, what?... Indeed, one of these things is not like the others, but that was the case at Sky Vista Middle School in Denver recently. Parents were upset to find out after the fact that a social justice "peace activist" going by the name Queen Phoenix (real name Dezy Saint-Nolde) came to speak to sixth graders. The teacher of the class, Asia Lyons, is now on administrative leave while the district conducts "an investigation into a possible policy violation related to instructional materials." If they aren't sure this is a violation of the policy, the purpose of which is to engage students in real-world learning, they need to change the policy. People with charges pending should not be allowed into the classroom without parental consent. However, the school district told Denver 7 that there is no such rule in place regarding people with criminal records unless the speaker in question is a sex offender. “We feel like the district and school have let the families down,” said one parent... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/11-year-olds-forced-listen-social-justice-activist-without-parental-consent.
Promoting Sharia With Your Grocery Purchases
by Truth Revolt
{truthrevolt.org} ~ On this new special edition of The Glazov Gang, we feature the Kirralie Smith Moment with Kirralie Smith, president of HalalChoices.com.au... Kirralie discusses Promoting Sharia With Your Grocery Purchases, unveiling how Islamic Supremacism is being funded with your shopping. http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/kirralies-moment-promoting-sharia-your-grocery-purchases.
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IS THERE AN EXPERT IN THE HOUSE?
by Burt Prelutsky
It might be my imagination, but I don’t believe we have ever had so many people in America pretending to be experts bloviating on so many topics at one time.
It would be bad enough if those passing themselves off as the last word when it comes to guns, climate and race relations, were simply mistaken. But they all have an agenda, and none of them seems even slightly concerned in the well-being of their fellow Americans.
Those who are claiming that the answer to violence in America is to have stricter gun laws have to pretend they’re unaware that the cities with the strictest gun laws (Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.) have the most murders. They must also pretend that the cause of the murders is somehow the National Rifle Association (NRA), even though none of the homicides has been committed by even one of its four million members.
When it comes to climate change, the ones shouting the loudest about the havoc caused by the recent hurricanes have to pretend that the world has never experienced such natural disasters, thus ignoring reports that Hurricane Maria, to take a handy example, was the most powerful storm to hit North America in 70 years. Inasmuch as our carbon footprint has presumably grown steadily over those seven decades, how do they explain we had to wait this long to experience a hurricane of near-equal strength?
The answer is that they don’t explain it. They don’t need to because truth doesn’t matter to them or to those left-wing idiots eager to further disseminate the lies. The amateur climatologists have various motives for enlisting in the adolescent, Al Gore-inspired, ecology movement, including a dislike of America’s industrial power, a distaste for modern life, a desire to turn the earth into an imaginary Eden and even, for geeky guys, a way to meet stupid girls.
As for race relations, black Americans have allowed themselves to be sold a bill of shoddy goods by both black and white race hustlers. They have eagerly glommed onto the notion that they have been victimized by white people as a way to rationalize their own failure to get an education, to avoid drugs both the use and sale, to learn a trade and get a job, to avoid having children out of wedlock, to get married and to raise their kids in two-parent families.
If they put their minds and hearts to it, they could raise their status, although probably not as quickly as Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, liar-Bill Clinton and Barack liar-nObama, managed to diminish it. Worst of all, the Democrats had been motivated solely by a desire to ensure that the darkies returned to the plantation and remained there, unshackled slaves who could be counted on to vote against their own best interests every election day.
● Although the entertainment industry is rife with left-wingers, uneducated ignoramuses and sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein, there is the occasional exception. Such a person is my friend, the star of “Wheel of Fortune,” Pat Sajak.
It is a shame that most people only know him as a TV game show host. If his TV talk show had not been victimized by a lousy time slot and a lack of promotion, everyone would realize how bright the guy is.
Although I don’t twitter, one of my subscribers, Patrick Miano of Phoenix, shared one of Sajak’s recent tweets: “OK, let me explain this again. We’re celebs. We’re wiser & more empathetic than you. We are famous. Please take our opinions more seriously.”
It takes a celebrity to properly put other celebrities in their place. Unfortunately, as I said, Sajak is one of the very few who has his head screwed on straight. That’s why I wasn’t surprised to read the eloquent commencement speech he delivered to the 11 members of the first graduating class of Founders Classical Academy in Leander, Texas, earlier this year. Not too surprisingly, the Academy is one of the 16 classical K-12 charter schools operating under the auspices of Hillsdale College.
Sajak opened by admitting there probably wasn’t much he could say to a group of youngsters who had spent years in such an ideal academic setting, but thought he might at least point out a potential pitfall, a pitfall not merely for them, “but for everyone in every corner of American society today. It has altered the way we talk to one another and perceive one another. It has perverted the notion of free speech and poisoned the academic environment. It has turned the American political system on its head, creating a situation where opposing views are not only unwelcome, but are deemed to be signs of evil intent. It has pitted friend against friend and has caused rifts among families.
“I’m talking about identity politics, the attempt to divide Americans and set us against each other. The attempt to classify and categorize us by all sorts of measurements and standards. To a great degree, those who are making these attempts are succeeding. And their efforts are changing our country in fundamental ways.”
After expanding on those thoughts, Sajak concluded with: “I urge you to resist those who would try to undo the basic truths you learned here and to say no to those who try to classify and divide you into opposing identities. You are not Generation Z or whatever they want to call you. You are Bianca and Colton and Chase and Ashton. You are Claire and Ari. You are Jasmine and Ray and Emma. You are Basil. You are Natasha. You are the first graduating class of Founders Classical Academy. I congratulate you, and I thank you.”
● Going from the sublime to the ridiculous: the way that so many Hollywood figures have defended Harvey Weinstein reminds me of the scandal in the 1970s involving David Begelman, the head of MGM. If you’re not old enough to recall, actor Cliff Robertson blew the whistle on the movie executive when he discovered that Begelman had forged his name to a check.
In the aftermath, Hollywood treated Begelman as if he were a martyr. Robertson, on the other hand, was treated like a leper and found himself blacklisted.
Understand, this isn’t hearsay. A short time after the scandal broke, I was seated in a restaurant frequented by Hollywood types. When Begelman entered, nearly every other person in the place either rose and moved to greet him or reached out to shake his hand or pat his back as he passed by on the way to his table. The way the town went out of its way to console him, you would have thought he was the injured party.
If you didn’t know better, you would have thought the Pope had just entered a gathering of priests and nuns, all of them eager to kiss his ring. It was, instead, a case of a felon entering a gathering of toadies, all of them eager to give his rump a great big smooch.
● Speaking of disgusting public displays, on a recent “Tonight Show,” Miley Cyrus, together with all the female writers on Jimmy Fallon’s staff, were allowed several minutes on camera in which to express their love and admiration of that evening’s guest, liar-Hillary Clinton.
Which has led me to ask what is the difference between MSNBC’s politically partisan Rachel Maddow and the likes of late night talk show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon? Answer: She is far more masculine and, on occasion, is even amusing.
● As we all know, if liberals didn’t have double standards, the two-faced hypocrites would have no standards at all.
One such example of their hypocrisy is the way they will endlessly prattle on about free speech while at the same time destroy anyone who voices an opinion contrary to their own.
Years ago, I interviewed actor James Wood for one of my books. When I suggested he was one of Hollywood’s few conservatives, he vehemently denied it. A few years later, he came out of the political closet. When I contacted him, he readily confessed he had lied to me. He elected to wait until he had made up his mind to retire, realizing that the industry would have retired him prematurely if he had dared to tell the truth.
● In a recent article about the role that money has or hasn’t played in my life, I mentioned that I had once passed on a network assignment to write a TV movie about a black man who had gone to jail and, upon his release, became a major league baseball player. I had explained to the network executive that I would prefer writing about a black man who hadn’t been a heroin addict and who hadn’t gone to prison for having committed armed robbery.
It was one thing to write an inspiring script about someone who had valiantly overcome a physical or mental handicap, as I had with a couple of sports-related docudramas, "Aunt Mary" and "A Winner Never Quits: The Pete Gray Story,"and one who had merely been lucky enough to have born with athletic ability.
At the time, I couldn’t recall his name, except that he was fast and had stolen a lot of bases for the Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos and Chicago White Sox.
My friend, the eminent physician and baseball scholar, Harry Maller, reminded me in an email that the guy’s name was Ron LeFlore and that he had stolen 455 bases during his major league career, and, what’s more, that most of them were never found.
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