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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
John Lewis Disgraces Himself
by John Perazzo
by John Perazzo
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Top Headlines
http://cached-assets.patriotpost.us/images/2017-01-24-e965f4c0_large.jpg" unselectable="" />Trump signs order to freeze federal hiring in order to reduce bureaucracies. (Government Executive)
Trump advancing Keystone, Dakota Oil pipelines today. (Bloomberg)
A look at four of the GOP's liar-nObamaCare replacement plans. (The Daily Signal)
Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as CIA director. (The Washington Post)
Senate committee approves Tillerson for State. Now to the full Senate... (Associated Press)
DNC Chair candidates bash white people in racially charged forum. (News Grabien)
liar-Hillary Clinton plots her next move. How about retirement? (Politico)
President Trump restores ban on international abortion funding. (Alliance Defending Freedom)
liar-nObama quietly sent $221M to Palestinians in final hours as exec. (Fox News)
Israel approves huge expansion of West Bank settlements. (The Washington Post)
Satire — or is it? Survey says 100% of the people marching on the nation's capital for abortion rights as part of the "Women's March on Washington" were found to have not been aborted. (The Babylon Bee)
Policy: Jeff Sessions can help stop the "American carnage." (Real Clear Policy)
Policy: What science really says about sodium and hypertension. (Competitive Enterprise Institute) ~The Patriot Post
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Judge Napolitano – What Trump Just
Did Never Been Done Before, Revolutionary
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Stuart Varney invited Judge Andrew Napolitano in to explain what is going on in the case of the first executive order of President Trump, one targeting the liar-nObamacare mandate... Napolitano says he has “one word to describe it, revolutionary. I have never seen anything like it.” He says, “It basically says to the Department of Justice, Treasury and Health and Human Services, the three departments that, in one way or another, administer the Affordable Care Act, please be advised this will soon no longer be the law. So I don’t want you to assess any fines, penalties, set offs against the states, or taxes on individuals who didn’t comply with the individual mandate.” Napolitano continues his explanation, saying, “I don’t want you to disobey the law, I want you to enforce it while it’s still the law. But here’s the revolutionary part, when there’s a dispute between the individual an individual and the government, you will exercise your discretion in favor of the individual. That statement there is unheard of in American legal history.”... http://rickwells.us/judge-napolitano-trump-just-never-revolutionary/
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Schumer Looks Like A Wanted Fugitive
With Nowhere To Hide From Trump
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs sets the stage for his guests with a recap of the day’s White House activity. It took a while because it was a very busy day. Ed Rollins jumps in first, saying he thinks “it was an absolutely fabulous day for the President... I thought he showed great leadership when he made his inaugural address, he was strong and powerful and reinforced the issues that he talked about in the campaign.” He said that Trump looked the part and sounded the part of President, that “This is a guy who’s basically tough and going to show his leadership real quick.” Dobbs notes how we’ve seen President Trump meet with business leaders before, one of his meetings in the White House from earlier in the day. We haven’t seen him meeting with labor leaders as he did later on. He noted that both groups were given “top drawer” treatment. Michael Goodwin gives Trump high marks for keeping his promises at the first available opportunity and notes that everything we’ve seen him do to this point is something that Hussein liar-nObama could have done but didn’t. “He could have jaw-boned these companies to try to keep them in America.” Dobb points to the many in the liberal media who are dismissing his “jaw-boning” as an improper “intervention.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-schumer-looks-like-wanted-fugitive-nowhere-hide-trump/
.Darwinism Still Corrupts Culture
by crev.info
{crev.info} ~ The bad fruits of Social Darwinism are well known. Less well known are ongoing negative influences of modern Darwinian ideas on human behavior... How Do You Correct Behavior Based on Fake Science? Have you been led to believe that men are naturally more promiscuous because sperm cells are cheap? That women are more choosy because eggs are costly? It’s all bunk. Phys.org just published the following headline: “Data should smash the biological myth of promiscuous males and sexually coy females.” That’s strong wording: smash, myth. New findings are teaching the opposite: men can be coy, and women promiscuous. But both ideas, being based on Darwinian ideas that people are just animals, can have unspeakably horrible consequences for marriage, family, and civilization...
.Trump Freezes EPA – No Communications,
Contracts, Grants Pending Review
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump has taken actions to curb the activities at the predatory Environmental Protection Agency. They include a media blackout and a prohibition against the agency staff awarding any new contracts or grants... AP reports that press releases, blog updates and posts to the EPA’s social media accounts are also prohibited. There have been no new postings to any of the EPA websites or social media accounts since Friday, inauguration day. The Trump administration has put in place what it terms as a temporary suspension of all new business activities at the department. That suspension includes the issuance of task orders or work assignments to EPA contractors. The changes are expected to have a significant and immediate impact on EPA activities nationwide. Similar communication blackouts have been put in place in the last few days at the Departments of Agriculture and Interior as well. The EPA’s public affairs office has been instructed to forward all inquiries from reporters to the Office of Administration and Resources Management... http://rickwells.us/trump-freezes-epa-communications-contracts-grants-pending-review/
.Do Conspiracies Exist?
by Charles Scaliger
{thenewamerican.com} ~ To understand the workings of government, it is necessary to acknowledge the mostly unseen hand of conspiracy. Only seldom do historians mention it, and even less the majority of commentators on current events... the very word “conspiracy” has acquired overtones of hysteria and emotionalism. To be styled a “conspiracy theorist” is perhaps the ultimate reproach in media-driven discourse. Yet conspiracies, difficult to detect and even more difficult to prove, are as natural an element of politics as algae is of pond water. It is frequently assumed that political behavior and events are a manifestation of the laws of psychology and group behavior. This may sometimes be the case, but far more often than most of us suspect, politics is in fact a carefully orchestrated spectacle. Scandals that appear to erupt spontaneously into public view are often created at opportune moments. Acts of war and terrorism are sometimes encouraged and even concocted to serve cynical policy goals. Seemingly random swings in finance are timed to further political agendas. And most abominably, people of power and influence often work actively to subvert their own government and culture. Whenever men organize in secret to further any of these nefarious aims, they are acting conspiratorially...
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John Lewis Disgraces Himself
by John Perazzo
by John Perazzo
{frontpagemag.com} ~ If a good man turns bad, are we required to pretend, for the rest of his life, that he is still good? Do such a man's earlier good deeds render him strictly off-limits from any and all subsequent criticism until the end of time? Is he entitled to be revered indefinitely as a hero, an icon, or a saint, even if he has spent the past half-century proving himself to be a vile race-baiter, an ally of America's enemies, and a liar who repeatedly bears false witness against his fellow man?
We can answer all these questions by examining the track record of Democratic congressman John Lewis, who has vowed to boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on grounds that Trump is not “a legitimate president.” Incidentally, that was the same rationale Lewis used sixteen years ago, when he likewise boycotted the inauguration of George W. Bush.
Yes, we all know about Lewis's days as a good guy in the early Sixties, when he took part in the Freedom Rides that challenged segregation across the South, and when he was arrested and beaten for his participation in civil-rights actions in places like South Carolina and Alabama.
But in addition to that, are we, by any chance, allowed to also remember that from 1962-64 Lewis was a vice chairman of a Communist Party USA front group known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee? Trevor Loudon's extraordinary research has laid bare this fact and many others about Lewis's past.
How about the fact that in 1964 Lewis praised Norman Thomas—a six-time U.S. presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket—as a man who “has symbolized to millions of Americans the ideals of peace, freedom and equality”? Are we permitted to be unsettled by that?
Is it okay if we find it curious that in 1965 Lewis became the first honoree to receive the annual Eugene Debs Award, named for the founder of the Socialist Party of America?
Are we allowed to raise an eyebrow over the fact that in '65 as well, Lewis penned an article for a Communist propaganda magazine in which he lauded Paul Robeson, a Communist Party member who had been a devoted admirer of the late Soviet dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin?
Or must we, as proof of our moral virtue and good manners, dutifully turn a blind eye to all these things?
Is it permissible to be unimpressed by the fact that in the late Sixties, Lewis was listed as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization that served as a front for the Socialist Workers Party?
Are we allowed to wonder why, in May 1973, Lewis co-sponsored “A Call” for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a Communist Party front group that grew out of the movement to free the incarcerated Marxist revolutionary and Black Panther ally Angela Davis?
Are we permitted to think it less-than-wonderful that in 1989 Lewis was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies—a North Carolina-based spinoff of the Institute for Policy Studies—in light of the fact that the IPS was described in 1983 by then-Secretary of State George Shultz as an organization “which has for 20 years consistently supported foreign policy objectives that serve the interests of the Soviet Union”?
Would it be okay for some of us to take offense at Lewis's assertion in March 1995—four months after the Republican Party had won House and Senate majorities on the strength of its “Contract With America”—that Republicans were akin to Nazis intent upon exploiting and abusing “the children,” “the poor,” “the sick,” “the elderly,” and “the disabled”?
Or must we forever bow our heads and genuflect whenever Lewis's name is mentioned?
Are we permitted to wonder why Lewis in 2003 contributed an article to the Communist newspaper People's Weekly World?
Are we allowed to question why Lewis in 2007 was a special guest at the annual conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization whose explicit aim is to “radically transform” the American government and economy?
Are we permitted to find it disgraceful that when the House of Representatives in 2009 voted overwhelmingly to defund the notoriously corrupt, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN—which had elevated voter-registration fraud into a veritable art form—Lewis was one of the relatively few Democrats who voted to continue pouring rivers of taxpayer dollars into that moral cesspool?
Are we allowed to be outraged by the fact that in mid-July 2014, after scores of thousands of mostly unaccompanied Central American minors had crossed the southern U.S. border illegally since October of the previous year, Lewis called for open borders and proudly declared that “our doors are open”?
Or must we perpetually build shrines in Lewis's honor?
Are we permitted to be repulsed by the fact that in October 2008, Lewis likened Republican presidential candidate John McCain and and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to George Wallace, the former the segregationist former governor of Alabama who had “created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans”?
Are we allowed to think badly of Lewis for having lied in 2010 when he said that conservative Tea Party protesters on the steps of Capitol Hill had shouted the “N-word” at him as he walked past them?
Is it permissible to be disgusted by Lewis's claim—in a speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention in September 2012—that Republicans were eager to bring back the days of Jim Crow segregation and bloody violence against blacks?
And are we allowed to wonder why Gary Dotterman, a prominent Communist Party member in Massachusetts, described Lewis in 2015 as “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend”?
The great scholar and author Thomas Sowell, writing about the grotesque moral decline which the NAACP had undergone over a period of decades, once noted that “in time even monuments can become overgrown by weeds,” and “even a great crusade can degenerate into a hustle.”
Once-respectable individuals can likewise degenerate into malevolent hustlers. If you need proof, just look at John Lewis.
We can answer all these questions by examining the track record of Democratic congressman John Lewis, who has vowed to boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on grounds that Trump is not “a legitimate president.” Incidentally, that was the same rationale Lewis used sixteen years ago, when he likewise boycotted the inauguration of George W. Bush.
Yes, we all know about Lewis's days as a good guy in the early Sixties, when he took part in the Freedom Rides that challenged segregation across the South, and when he was arrested and beaten for his participation in civil-rights actions in places like South Carolina and Alabama.
But in addition to that, are we, by any chance, allowed to also remember that from 1962-64 Lewis was a vice chairman of a Communist Party USA front group known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee? Trevor Loudon's extraordinary research has laid bare this fact and many others about Lewis's past.
How about the fact that in 1964 Lewis praised Norman Thomas—a six-time U.S. presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket—as a man who “has symbolized to millions of Americans the ideals of peace, freedom and equality”? Are we permitted to be unsettled by that?
Is it okay if we find it curious that in 1965 Lewis became the first honoree to receive the annual Eugene Debs Award, named for the founder of the Socialist Party of America?
Are we allowed to raise an eyebrow over the fact that in '65 as well, Lewis penned an article for a Communist propaganda magazine in which he lauded Paul Robeson, a Communist Party member who had been a devoted admirer of the late Soviet dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin?
Or must we, as proof of our moral virtue and good manners, dutifully turn a blind eye to all these things?
Is it permissible to be unimpressed by the fact that in the late Sixties, Lewis was listed as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization that served as a front for the Socialist Workers Party?
Are we allowed to wonder why, in May 1973, Lewis co-sponsored “A Call” for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a Communist Party front group that grew out of the movement to free the incarcerated Marxist revolutionary and Black Panther ally Angela Davis?
Are we permitted to think it less-than-wonderful that in 1989 Lewis was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies—a North Carolina-based spinoff of the Institute for Policy Studies—in light of the fact that the IPS was described in 1983 by then-Secretary of State George Shultz as an organization “which has for 20 years consistently supported foreign policy objectives that serve the interests of the Soviet Union”?
Would it be okay for some of us to take offense at Lewis's assertion in March 1995—four months after the Republican Party had won House and Senate majorities on the strength of its “Contract With America”—that Republicans were akin to Nazis intent upon exploiting and abusing “the children,” “the poor,” “the sick,” “the elderly,” and “the disabled”?
Or must we forever bow our heads and genuflect whenever Lewis's name is mentioned?
Are we permitted to wonder why Lewis in 2003 contributed an article to the Communist newspaper People's Weekly World?
Are we allowed to question why Lewis in 2007 was a special guest at the annual conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization whose explicit aim is to “radically transform” the American government and economy?
Are we permitted to find it disgraceful that when the House of Representatives in 2009 voted overwhelmingly to defund the notoriously corrupt, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN—which had elevated voter-registration fraud into a veritable art form—Lewis was one of the relatively few Democrats who voted to continue pouring rivers of taxpayer dollars into that moral cesspool?
Are we allowed to be outraged by the fact that in mid-July 2014, after scores of thousands of mostly unaccompanied Central American minors had crossed the southern U.S. border illegally since October of the previous year, Lewis called for open borders and proudly declared that “our doors are open”?
Or must we perpetually build shrines in Lewis's honor?
Are we permitted to be repulsed by the fact that in October 2008, Lewis likened Republican presidential candidate John McCain and and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to George Wallace, the former the segregationist former governor of Alabama who had “created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans”?
Are we allowed to think badly of Lewis for having lied in 2010 when he said that conservative Tea Party protesters on the steps of Capitol Hill had shouted the “N-word” at him as he walked past them?
Is it permissible to be disgusted by Lewis's claim—in a speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention in September 2012—that Republicans were eager to bring back the days of Jim Crow segregation and bloody violence against blacks?
And are we allowed to wonder why Gary Dotterman, a prominent Communist Party member in Massachusetts, described Lewis in 2015 as “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend”?
The great scholar and author Thomas Sowell, writing about the grotesque moral decline which the NAACP had undergone over a period of decades, once noted that “in time even monuments can become overgrown by weeds,” and “even a great crusade can degenerate into a hustle.”
Once-respectable individuals can likewise degenerate into malevolent hustlers. If you need proof, just look at John Lewis.
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