The Front Page Cover
2016 The truth will set you free
Featuring:
New Critics of Trump
by Thomas Sowell
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Democrats and the Decline of Science
Paul Albaugh: Everyone who has had the opportunity to receive a decent education knows that science, in its pure form, requires observation and experimentation in order to reach a sufficient conclusion. It takes individuals with creative minds and a peculiar dedication to a certain subject to find out as much information as possible. Science is also responsible for incredible advancement in civilizations across the globe and has been a primary reason why we now know so much more about our planet, plants and people than ever before.
But what happens when science and politics collude to bring about "settled science" or "new evidence" that is disguised as science? Is it still science, or is it propaganda that uses "science" as an excuse to push for more laws, regulations and control over people?
Unfortunately, there is much snake oil being sold and told as science. Many people have succumbed to believing it without putting any thought into why a known fact has changed or not changed, or why something is bad for you that used to be good for you and vice versa.
There is a political party that is behind much of the so-called science we hear about these days. That of course is the Democrat Party. There is a major problem with the Party of Science™, though, and that is every time science doesn't jive with their worldview, they ditch the evidence.
We have witnessed for quite some time now how everything is hyper-politicized and people are more worried about being politically correct than they are about being correct. Political correctness may very well have led to or at least be leading to a decline in science and if it continues, future generations may not even think to question anything for fear of being reprimanded, humiliated or ostracized from the scientific field.
In fact, it's already happening. One example is Lawrence Summers. His tenure as president of Harvard was cut short because he merely suggested that there might be intellectual differences between men and women. The result of his punishment is that many researchers have held back on their research and have ceased investigating the differences between male and female brains.
What could possibly be wrong with researching and attempting to find differences between male and female brains? Could it be that the scientific research could prove that indeed there is a difference between the sexes — the way they think and feel, and how they are affected under certain circumstances? Why would anyone want to discourage scientists from discovering? Why indeed.
For one thing, we know that there are X chromosomes and Y chromosomes within DNA that biologically determine sex. Yet today some people claim that a person can "identify" as a male or female depending upon how they feel. But true science refutes that claim — and it has for centuries.
What about climate change? We are told by leftists and climate alarmists that fossil fuels are harmful for the environment and that the overuse of them is causing unwanted pollution. And of course the narrative that "we are killing our environment" by fossil fuel use is a major theme. But many scientists say the opposite is true. Alex Epstein, director of the Center for Industrial Progress, has shown that "burning fossil fuels has improved the lives of millions in the developed world by helping solve their biggest environmental challenges, purified their water and air, made their cities and homes more sanitary and kept them safe from potential catastrophic climate change."
Continuing under the mantra of "science," some leftists have proclaimed that climate change is the driving force behind refugees having to relocate. We're all familiar with the terms "global cooling" and "global warming" — now wrapped up under the more malleable term "climate change." Science has proven that, yes, the climate does change. But it has not proven that more government control over emissions will solve anything.
Then there is the science of life, which the Left still denies. Harvesting body parts from babies is immoral and unethical, yet many on the Left insist that it is necessary for the advancement of scientific research. This is proclaimed despite findings that for over 100 years of research on fetal tissue, there have been no medial cures that have been derived from it.
Let's take it further. Leftists are so warped in their view on abortion, that once ultrasound technology revealed that a fetus is actually a living human inside of a woman's body, they changed the abortion debate to being about a woman's "right to choose." You might say they declared, "Get your science off my body!"
Government and science can and should work together when constitutionally permitted, but the object should be to find and reveal the truth, not push a political agenda. The next time you hear the words "settled science," consider the source and look at who or what is behind it. You may be surprised to find that the only thing settled is an ideological goal. ~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Thomas Sowell: "We keep hearing that 'black lives matter,' but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media. What about black success? Does that matter? Apparently not so much. ... Black success is a threat to political empires and to a whole social vision behind those empires. That social vision has politicians like Bill de Blasio and liar-Hillary Clinton cast in the role of rescuers and protectors of blacks from enemies threatening on all sides. If politicians can promote paranoia, that means bigger voter turnout, which is what really matters to them. That same social vision allows the intelligentsia, whether in the media or in academia, to be on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. That's heady stuff. And a bunch of kids taking tests doesn't look nearly as exciting on TV as a mob marching through the streets, chanting that they want 'dead cops.' Black success has very little to offer politicians or the intelligentsia. But black children's lives and futures ought to matter — and would, if politicians and the intelligentsia were for real." ~The Patriot Post
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American Truckers Just Got BAD News
From nObama… This Is a Total Disgrace
by Clyde
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ American truckers, and the big rigs they drive, are literally the lifeblood of this nation, transporting food, raw materials and finished goods from one end of the country to the other and back again... delivering what is needed where it is needed when it is needed on a daily basis. But those truckers just had a major roadblock placed in their way, courtesy of President Barack nObama’s Environmental Protection Agency, and the consequences for not only the trucking industry, but America as a whole, could be devastating. According to The Daily Caller, the EPA just announced on Tuesday that it had yet again made changes to the fuel emissions standards that govern big rig semi-trucks, large work trucks, vans and buses, all in the name of fighting the ever-elusive “climate change.”...
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Dakota Access Pipeline Temporarily Halted
In Response To Protests
by Derrick Broze
{activistpost.com} ~ On Thursday construction of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline was temporarily halted near the Standing Sioux Reservation... Cannonball, North Dakota – After two weeks of protests and arrests at the site of construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, local law enforcement announced that the pipeline would be temporarily put on hold. In a press conference on Thursday, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirschmeier explained that the decision was related to safety concerns. A spokesman for the company that is building the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, told The Wall Street Journal that “construction has been halted at the protest site” ahead of a court hearing next Wednesday, but that “it continues elsewhere.”...These protesters are being mislead and given false information.
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Iran releases images of new missile defense system
by Netanel Katz
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Iran has released the first photos of its home-made air defense system, nicknamed "Bauer 373."... According to Iran, they developed the system as an alternative to the Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile system, which they never received as a result of international sanctions imposed on Iran in 2010. Iranian media released photos taken during an official ceremony, when the system was presented to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani....
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Hezbollah Threatens to Invade Israel,
Destroy Jewish State
{israeltoday.co} ~ A top Hezbollah leader this month said that the Lebanese terrorist militia is now capable of not only firing missiles at Israel, but can also launch a ground invasion of the Jewish state... “Israel is closer than ever before to its demise,” Lebanese cleric Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, said in an interview with Mayadeen TV. Asked by the host if Hezbollah had the capability of waging a ground war on Israeli soil, Safieddine insisted that it did...
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Judge Jeanine – Democrats Ruined US
Inner Cities, Talks Solution With Trump
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine sets the stage for her upcoming interview with Donald Trump, saying, “Democrat inspired government support, for the last century, has become the most abusive form of suppression and oppression in our inner cities... It is keeping African-Americans and minority communities from attaining not only the American dream, but a normal, safe, secure and productive life.” She says, “As supposed well-intentioned support system is chaining our minority communities to an inter-generational cycle of poverty, dependency and depression. Now I’ve spent more than three decades in the criminal justice system, watching crime, drugs and gangs ravage our inner cities; drawing no distinction between children, the weak and the elderly.”... http://rickwells.us/jeanine-dems-ruined-inner-cities-trump/
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Unbelievable – Gitmo Terrorist nObama
Released Now Top ISIS Recruiter
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ No one could have expected this would happen, it’s really just so bizarre and unlikely, at least according to the Islamic terrorist who is running America into the ground, Hussein nObama... He saved Congress and the American people from their ignorant selves by relying upon his personal feelings that this guy was no longer a threat to the United States. He’s not going to return to terrorism if nObama lets him out. Mongo like Sheriff Bart. But that appears to be exactly what has happened. According to reports, the same week that fifteen rehabilitated and 100 percent America-loving terrorists were released from Gitmo, and another nineteen given the green light for release because they too no longer posed a threat to Americans or our war effort, the folly of Hussein nObama’s gut instinct has been demonstrated. He’s either not a good judge of character or just conducting an Islamic version of one of his infamous jailbreaks... http://rickwells.us/gitmo-terrorist-obama-released-top-isis/
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Does the liar-Clinton Campaign Really
Want to Make Benghazi an Issue?
by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ The Benghazi scandal should be a significant campaign issue in this year’s presidential race. It goes to the heart of the many questions about liar-Hillary Clinton’s integrity, judgment and values, as it does also for President Barack nObama’s... Together they sit at the center of this grand fiasco of botched decision-making, the refusal to provide adequate security in Libya, and the cover-up blaming the video in the aftermath. Questions still remain, such as how much of this was ideological, as opposed to just bad judgment. Why was the decision made to not send available air power into Benghazi while there was still time to save at least two of the four lives? As we have reported, the nObama administration and Secretary of State liar-Clinton not only switched sides in the war on terror by pushing for the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and aiding al-Qaeda-linked rebels, but they also betrayed those Americans in Benghazi by leaving them on the ground to fend for themselves while under attack. This was unquestionably a dereliction of duty. Our Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi dealt with all aspects of this scandal at a press conference we held back in June at the National Press Club... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/does-the-clinton-campaign-really-want-to-make-benghazi-an-issue/
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Senator Jeff Sessions Refutes Recent Media
Reports of Trump Immigration Position...
by theconservativetreehouse
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Following a Hispanic outreach meeting by the Trump campaign numerous media outlets began reporting that Donald Trump was changing his position on immigration, specifically deportation of illegal immigrants... The Trump campaign immediately rebuked the false media reports last night. Senator Jeff Sessions appeared on Fox News this morning to continue asserting the campaign message that illegal border crossing will be halted, deportation of illegal aliens will be enforced and there is no substantive change to Donald Trump’s immigration position. The media loves to use the term “deportation force” to manufacture an narrative of a new controversy. However, there is already a federal agency called ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) who routinely arrest and deport illegal aliens. Despite the media protestations to the contrary ‘deportation is not a new concept’, we have been deporting people for decades.
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Judge Jeanine – US New Energy Giant But
nObama liar-Clinton “Climate Con Men” Prevent It
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ One of Donald Trump’s economic advisors, Stephen Moore, is Judge Jeanine’s guest for a discussion of energy, specifically American energy. Moore has just written a new book, Fueling Freedom, which deals with the topic... Moore’s book describes our current situation, one of energy independence, if we only were to choose to pursue it. That means we Americans could return to having the highest standard of living in the world and stop empowering our Islamic enemies. Moore points out, “If you look at, because of the shale oil and gas revolution that’s happened, just in the last ten years in the United States, we now have the capacity to, in my opinion and many other scholars, within the next five years for the United States to become, not just energy independent, but the energy dominant country in the world. That is we can essentially be the new Saudi Arabia of the 21st century...
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Colin Powell Fights Back – Disputes liar-Clinton’s
Claim That Email is His Fault
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has finally responded to his successor’s attempts to drag him into her slime pit of treasonous misconduct with a denial... The former top diplomat at first reacted as one would expect, diplomatically, simply stating that he didn’t recall the conversation and the comments she was crediting him with. That exchange supposedly came at a dinner party at Madeline Albright’s house in which the several former Secretaries of State in attendance, including Henry Kissinger and Condoleeza Rice, each took turns imparting one bit of advice upon the current (at the time) Secretary, liar-Hillary Clinton. Maybe they recognized she was blowing it and were trying to help her diplomatically reel her back in. Although he claims to not recall the “advice over desert” rotation which was reported in an upcoming book by Joe Conason, Powell does recall sending her an email later, approximately a year into her tenure, on the topic in which he recommended a personal account for personal stuff and an official government account for the government related correspondence, specifically the classified correspondence...
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New Critics of Trump
by Thomas Sowell
{townhall.com} ~ A year ago, in August 2015, this column called "The Donald" the Democrats' Trump card. It is hard to imagine any other Republican candidate who could rescue a thoroughly discredited liar-Hillary Clinton from a devastating defeat in this year's election.
Now 50 prominent Republicans with foreign policy and national security experience have taken the unprecedented step of publicly and collectively announcing that they cannot vote for Donald Trump because they believe that he would be "the most reckless president in American history."
Why? Not only because he has "demonstrated repeatedly that "he has little understanding" of the nation's "vital national interests" but because "Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself."
Indeed, Donald Trump has shown little real interest in anything besides Donald Trump.
His response to these criticisms has been completely predictable. Trump has not even tried to answer the charges or to assure the American people on something as important as their survival and the survival of this nation. Instead, there is the standard Trump tactic of launching unsubstantiated charges against his critics.
Even if all his charges against his critics were 100 percent true, that is no assurance to the American people on the vital issues they raised-- and for which there are innumerable examples of Trump's own words and deeds to make people worry about what he would do in the White House.
The strongest argument -- indeed, the only argument -- for voting for Trump is liar-Hillary Clinton. For both candidates, the danger is not simply that we might have one bad administration to live through. The far greater danger is that either of them can create an irretrievable catastrophe.
With liar-Hillary Clinton in the White House, there is no question whatever that she will nominate candidates for the Supreme Court who will destroy both the First Amendment right to free speech and the Second Amendment right to armed self-protection. And that will undoubtedly be just the beginning of the dismantling of the Constitution.
liar-Hillary has already announced her desire to have an existing Supreme Court decision -- "Citizens United versus FEC"-- overturned because it said that both corporations and labor unions have a right to free speech.
If the government can make free speech illegal, there is virtually nothing else it cannot do, because people will no longer be free to expose their misdeeds. Mrs. liar-Clinton has a long record of concealing her misdeeds, going back to her husband's administration in Washington, and in Arkansas before that.
Why not vote for Donald Trump then, since he has no known agenda for undermining Constitutional freedoms?
There are few things worse than being deprived of our basic Constitutional rights, on which our freedom ultimately depends. But one of those few things is being deprived of life itself by the reckless decisions of a volatile, ill-informed, immature and self-absorbed President in a nuclear age.
All too many of Donald Trump's words and actions thus far make him a candidate for the title of the oldest man who has never grown up. Nothing he says against his critics can change that.
How did we get into the predicament where our choices for President are narrowed to a candidate who inspires distrust versus a candidate who inspires disgust -- and where both are dangerous?
The Democrats had few, and less promising, candidates at the outset. The Republicans, however, had a number of candidates with substantial achievements.
Republicans opened this game with the stronger hand. But they played that hand into what looks like a defeat at the polls in November -- a defeat not only for Trump but for other Republican candidates tainted by the immature and repellent behavior of the man at the top of the ticket.
One key misstep by the Republican establishment was agreeing, once again, to so-called "debates" in which a stage full of candidates had time for only short and superficial sound bites. Trump was, and is, the king of superficial sound bites.
Will the Republican establishment learn anything from all this? Very unlikely. Smug elites seldom learn.
Now 50 prominent Republicans with foreign policy and national security experience have taken the unprecedented step of publicly and collectively announcing that they cannot vote for Donald Trump because they believe that he would be "the most reckless president in American history."
Why? Not only because he has "demonstrated repeatedly that "he has little understanding" of the nation's "vital national interests" but because "Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself."
Indeed, Donald Trump has shown little real interest in anything besides Donald Trump.
His response to these criticisms has been completely predictable. Trump has not even tried to answer the charges or to assure the American people on something as important as their survival and the survival of this nation. Instead, there is the standard Trump tactic of launching unsubstantiated charges against his critics.
Even if all his charges against his critics were 100 percent true, that is no assurance to the American people on the vital issues they raised-- and for which there are innumerable examples of Trump's own words and deeds to make people worry about what he would do in the White House.
The strongest argument -- indeed, the only argument -- for voting for Trump is liar-Hillary Clinton. For both candidates, the danger is not simply that we might have one bad administration to live through. The far greater danger is that either of them can create an irretrievable catastrophe.
With liar-Hillary Clinton in the White House, there is no question whatever that she will nominate candidates for the Supreme Court who will destroy both the First Amendment right to free speech and the Second Amendment right to armed self-protection. And that will undoubtedly be just the beginning of the dismantling of the Constitution.
liar-Hillary has already announced her desire to have an existing Supreme Court decision -- "Citizens United versus FEC"-- overturned because it said that both corporations and labor unions have a right to free speech.
If the government can make free speech illegal, there is virtually nothing else it cannot do, because people will no longer be free to expose their misdeeds. Mrs. liar-Clinton has a long record of concealing her misdeeds, going back to her husband's administration in Washington, and in Arkansas before that.
Why not vote for Donald Trump then, since he has no known agenda for undermining Constitutional freedoms?
There are few things worse than being deprived of our basic Constitutional rights, on which our freedom ultimately depends. But one of those few things is being deprived of life itself by the reckless decisions of a volatile, ill-informed, immature and self-absorbed President in a nuclear age.
All too many of Donald Trump's words and actions thus far make him a candidate for the title of the oldest man who has never grown up. Nothing he says against his critics can change that.
How did we get into the predicament where our choices for President are narrowed to a candidate who inspires distrust versus a candidate who inspires disgust -- and where both are dangerous?
The Democrats had few, and less promising, candidates at the outset. The Republicans, however, had a number of candidates with substantial achievements.
Republicans opened this game with the stronger hand. But they played that hand into what looks like a defeat at the polls in November -- a defeat not only for Trump but for other Republican candidates tainted by the immature and repellent behavior of the man at the top of the ticket.
One key misstep by the Republican establishment was agreeing, once again, to so-called "debates" in which a stage full of candidates had time for only short and superficial sound bites. Trump was, and is, the king of superficial sound bites.
Will the Republican establishment learn anything from all this? Very unlikely. Smug elites seldom learn.
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