The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
The Not-Yet-Emerging Democratic Majority
by Michael Barone
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Targeting Cops
Over the weekend four police officers were shot in three different states. One of the officers, Detective Benjamin Marconi, who was shot while he was writing a traffic ticket, did not survive the attack. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus stated at a news conference, "I feel like we were targeted… I think the uniform was the target." Officer Marconi's death marks the 20th police officer killed this year in ambush attacks, the highest total in over two decades.
President of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Craig W. Floyd said, "Clearly, our officers are facing horrendous and growing risks while serving and protecting our communities." Even ultra leftist Attorney General Loretta Lynch stated on Monday that it has been "an especially dangerous year for police officers."
Law enforcement has always been a dangerous job. Those men and women who willingly put on the uniform and bravely stand in that gap to protect the innocent and law-abiding against the criminal and the lawless deserve our sincerest respect and admiration, not the vitriol fomented against them from groups like Black Lives Matter and the Leftmedia that have done nothing but falsely vilify police officers as being solely motivated by racism.
Democrat leaders, especially Barack liar-nObama, have done little to combat this false narrative and have even contributed to it, often by legitimizing the complaints of these leftists and racially motivated groups. Is it any wonder police officers fear they are being targeted? Indeed, they are. Remember to thank those brave men and women in our communities who willingly stand up to serve, protect and sacrifice themselves for us. And pray that God would protect them. ~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Dennis Prager: "[N]o decent man or woman opposes the concept of equality of the sexes. But people who do not call themselves feminists have a problem with the feminist notion of equality: Most feminists have conflated equality and sameness. And that’s a huge mistake; the sexes are equal, but they are different. ... In America today (as opposed to, let us say, Saudi Arabia, where it does take strength to be a feminist), the more stridently a woman identifies as a feminist, the less strong she is. Feminism has created what is undoubtedly the weakest generation of women in American history. My grandmother, who never heard the word 'feminist' and never graduated high school, was incomparably stronger than almost any college-educated feminist I have ever encountered, or the many I have listened to and read. My grandmother (and I suspect yours) would never have felt the need to retreat to a 'safe space' when encountering an idea with which she differed. ... You want to know what women are strong? Here’s an example: any young woman who announced in a college class that as much as she may want a career, she is more interested in finding a good man to marry. In other words, any young woman who announced that she isn’t a feminist." ~The Patriot Post
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Trey Gowdy Pitches Legislation To
Prevent Another Future Outlaw liar-nObama
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Those who are somewhat familiar with the views of Rep Trey Gowdy know that he has long been an advocate of allowing local law enforcement to handle federal immigration cases in cooperation with the Federal Government... He’s been frustrated by the limitations of the system as it is currently structured and subject to the exploitation that is taking place under the outlaw in charge in the White House. Gowdy opens the video by stating his belief that, “Our country’s immigration system is broken. Our laws are not being enforced and most Americans are weary of the so-called reforms coming out of Washington. For nearly thirty years Americans have been promised and an immigration system that works for all Americans. Those promises have not been kept and both political parties bear responsibility for that.” It is vital that Americans take advantage of this opportunity, having the Republican numbers that we do and the affronts to our Republic that have been waged by the crooked anti-American liar-nObama regime. This is our chance to fix what’s broken. If we fail to capitalize on this opportunity now, and another corrupt Democrat regime comes into power, we have every reason to believe that the offenses we’ve endured for the last eight years and more will once again be inflicted upon us. This is a great beginning, but there is a lot of repair work that needs to be done, and some preventative maintenance...
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Japanese Intelligence Tells Pentagon China
Engaged in Multi-Year Takeover
Attempt of Senkaku Islands
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ China is escalating a campaign of military maritime coercion against Japan’s Senkaku Islands, according to Japanese intelligence data disclosed as part of a joint Pentagon-Japan research program... Additionally, China is doubling the size of its coast guard forces over the next five years to prevent the disruption of oil supplies that travel from the Middle East through the Indian Ocean and South China Sea, according to Pentagon-sponsored reports about the joint U.S.-Japan collaboration. Two reports produced by a contractor for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, a secretive research group, provide a rare glimpse of Japanese intelligence assessments of Chinese military activities in the East China Sea and South China Sea. In addition to adding large numbers of new coast guard and navy ships to its fleets in Southeast Asia, China is building military facilities on newly created islands in the South China Sea. It will eventually militarize the East China Sea using floating oil rig platforms, according to analyses provided by Japan’s Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office, known as CIRO... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/japanese-intelligence-tells-pentagon-china-engaged-multi-year-takeover-attempt-senkaku-islands/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bcd53bfb75-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bcd53bfb75-45611665
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CAIR Leader: Overthrow the U.S. Government
by DANIEL PIPES
by DANIEL PIPES
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) successfully presents itself to the media as a benign civil rights organization, comparable to the NAACP or the ADL, a description that conservatives ineffectively rail against... In this light, perhaps a tweet sent out just after midnight EST on Nov. 9 by Hussam Ayloush, long-time head of CAIR's Los Angeles office, will help awaken the press to CAIR's true Islamist identity. Ayloush wrote: Tweet by CAIR's Hussam Ayloush just as Donald Trump's victory became apparent That second line is Arabic ("الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام") for "The people wants to bring down the regime." In other words, Ayloush unambiguously and directly called for the overthrow of the U.S. government... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/cair-leader-overthrow-the-us-government?f=must_reads
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Federal Judge Issues Crushing Injunction Against
liar-nObama Labor Regulation
by Gerry Urbanek
{westernjournalism.com} ~ The liar-nObama administration faced a crushing blow on Tuesday after a Texas federal judge issued a nationwide injunction against one of the president’s top regulatory initiatives enacted by the Labor Department... According to a 20-page order issued by Texas U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant, an liar-nObama appointee, implementation of the controversial overtime regulation is to be postponed immediately, despite rapidly approaching deadlines. “Due to the approaching effective date of the Final Rule, the Court’s ability to render a meaningful decision on the merits is in jeopardy,” wrote Mazzant...
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Limbaugh: liar-Hillary campaign behind
push to 'threaten electors'
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ As the revolt against Donald Trump’s victory Nov. 8 takes another turn – with calls to challenge results in three states and more “faithless” electors vowing not to vote for Trump... liar-Hillary Clinton’s lecture to Trump after the third presidential debate on the virtue of accepting election outcomes comes to mind. When considerable attention was given to Trump’s reluctance during the third presidential debate to pledge that he would accept the results of the election, liar-Clinton went on record stating, “One of our hallmarks has always been that we accept the outcomes of our election.” “Our country has been around for 240 years, and we’re a country based on laws, and we have hot, contested elections going back to the very beginning,” she said, “But one of our hallmarks has always been that we accept the outcomes of our election. We do the best we can to have free and fair elections, which we do, and somebody wins and somebody loses.”...What a hypocrite and a liar. http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/limbaugh-hillary-campaign-behind-push-to-threaten-electors/
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The Not-Yet-Emerging Democratic Majority
by Michael Barone
{townhall.com} ~ What is to become of the Democratic Party? The world's oldest political party, which traces its roots to 1792, is in as dire straits as it has ever been.
It has lost a presidential election most of its followers expected to win. It failed to win a Senate majority, gaining just two seats in a year when it had nearly a dozen plausible targets. Its minimal gain in the House leaves it with just about as few House seats as it has controlled since the 1920s. It holds only 18 governorships and fully controls, through governorships and legislative majorities, only five state governments -- giant California, midsize Oregon and small Hawaii, Delaware and Rhode Island. The total party strength index calculated by Sean Trende and David Byler at RealClearPolitics has them at their lowest point since 1930.
Its congressional leaders are able but getting on in years. House leaders Nancy Pulosi and Steny Hoyer have held party or elective office since the 1970s and interned in Sen. Daniel Brewster's office in the 1960s. Senate leader Chuck Schumer was elected to the New York Assembly in 1974, when whip Dick Durbin was already a congressional staffer.
The Democrats' plight is all the more poignant because up to election night, many of them believed that the future would be forever theirs -- and with some reason.
Ruy Teixeira and John Judis' 2002 book, "The Emerging Democratic Majority," pointed the way, predicting that blacks, Hispanics and single women would produce increasing Democratic margins over time. National Journal's Ronald Brownstein and Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, in his 2015 book, "America Ascendant," thoughtfully elaborated on this theme.
But a vulgarized version of this idea got many Democrats -- apparently including the high command of liar-Hillary Clinton's campaign in Brooklyn, New York -- thinking that an eternal Democratic majority would be a dead certainty. Between 9 and 10 o'clock Eastern time on election night, it became clear that this was, in the title of Trende's shrewd analysis, "the god that failed."
Now it's beginning to seem possible that Barack liar-nObama's two electoral majorities were an exception to the rule. In 2008, when Republican foreign and domestic policies seemed in ruins, liar-nObama gave Americans the chance to do something many had been longing to do for years: elect a black president, a landmark in our history.
But the liar-nObama coalition turned out to be too heavily clustered to be easily replicated in an election decided by electoral votes and much too heavily clustered to make the party competitive in congressional and legislative elections conducted in equal-population districts.
liar-Clinton's campaign blithely assumed that rallying "people of color" and millennials would produce victory. They didn't figure that Midwestern non-college-educated whites, who had long voted Democratic as a bloc, wouldn't be dazzled by Lady Gaga concerts.
The Democrats' initial reflex seems to be to lurch further left. Schumer joined Bernie Sanders in backing Rep. Keith Ellison as Democratic national chairman. Ellison may be articulate and charming, but he's also a Muslim representing a Minneapolis district that went 73 percent for liar-nObama in 2012. Back in 2007, he said the 9/11 attacks were "almost like the Reichstag fire" in that they enabled a leader to "have authority to do whatever he wanted." That sounds uncomfortably close to 9/11 trutherism and equating George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler.
It's not likely to win votes for Democrats in Wright County, 40 miles outside Ellison's district, where Hubert Humphrey had a lakefront home and Donald Trump beat liar-Hillary Clinton 62-29 percent. A party with a leftist national chairman and congressional leaders from Brooklyn and San Francisco is not ideally positioned to appeal to voters where liar-Clinton fell short.
Exit polls showing Republican improvement among blacks, Hispanics and Asians suggest regression to the mean -- with people considered minorities behaving more like the national average. The results also suggest that when you keep telling white Americans that they soon will become a minority -- a message that sometimes sounds like "hurry up and die" -- then many non-college-educated "deplorables" may start acting like members of a self-conscious minority and vote more cohesively against your side.
The election results certainly don't guarantee an eternal Trump Republican majority. Trump's margin was thin, and it's reversible if events turn out badly or policies fail. But the results also suggest that the arrival of a leftist "ascendant" Democratic majority is not inevitable, either. The polarized partisan patterns familiar for two decades have been shaken up this year -- and not, so far, to Democrats' advantage.
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