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| Happy Friday from Washington, where President Trump amplifies the stories of communism’s millions of victims over the years. Fred Lucas reports. Today, uninformed advocates of socialism threaten America, Jarrett Stepman writes. And too many on the left don’t actually respect the rule of law, Rep. Andy Biggs argues. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation scholar Dakota Wood explains why a stronger military is so important. Plus: what Antifa wants, and the danger of pension bailouts. Twenty-five years ago today, the “Republican Revolution” occurs as the GOP wins control of both the House and the Senate for the first time in 40 years. Enjoy the weekend. |
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Commentary Next Generation of Americans Will Embrace Socialism If We Lose ‘War on History’ By Jarrett Stepman A new survey finds that only “57% of millennials … believe the Declaration of Independence better guarantees freedom and equality over the Communist Manifesto.” More Commentary The Left Doesn’t Really Believe ‘No One Is Above the Law’ By Rep. Andy Biggs For the left, lots of people are above the law—Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and illegal aliens. More Analysis The Decline of America’s Military, and Why It Matters By Katrina Trinko “Near the end of the Cold War, we had 770,000 soldiers in the active-duty Army. Today, we have less than 480,000. We had nearly 600 ships in the Navy; today, we have 290,” says Dakota Wood, lead editor of The Heritage Foundation’s Index of U.S. Military Strength. More Commentary Pension Bailouts Could Raise the National Debt by $7 Trillion By Rachel Greszler Unbeknownst to most Americans, Congress is considering legislation to “fix” underfunded private union pension plans that have promised at least $638 billion more in benefits than they’ve set aside to pay. More News At the White House, Victims of Communism Share Stories About Finding Freedom in America By Fred Lucas Trump meets at the White House with five survivors of communist regimes, two years after he became the first president to proclaim Nov. 7 as National Day for the Victims of Communism. More News Antifa’s Ultimate Goal Is Communism, Journalist Attacked by Adherents Says By Rachel del Guidice “Antifa is a far-left ideology and movement which brings together radical communists and anarchists seeking a revolution that would result in communism,” says Portland, Oregon-based journalist Andy Ngo, who was attacked recently by members of the group. More | ||
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The Morning Dispatch: Will a Late Entry Scramble the Democratic Primary?
Bloomberg and Sessions jump in, plus the latest in trade, and a look at Facebook and Twitter’s conflicting advertising policies.
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Happy Friday! If you are a multibillionaire and want to run for president, reminder that today is the final day to get on the primary ballot in Alabama!
Quick Hits: What You Need to Know
- Attorney General William Barr reportedly declined President Trump’s request to state publicly that he had broken no laws in the Ukraine affair. (The president vociferously denies the story.)
- Two former Twitter employees have been arrested on charges of spying for Saudi Arabia.
- William Roebuck, our top diplomat in Syria, chastised the Trump administration for not pushing Turkey harder not to attack the Kurds.
- A judge ordered President Trump to pay $2 million in damages after he admitted to misusing money raised for his charitable foundation for personal ends.
- House Democrats release the transcript of their interview with former top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor, who testified in the most explicit terms yet about a Trump/Ukraine quid pro quo.
- The House will begin open impeachment sessions next week, Rep. Adam Schiff said.
- White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has been subpoenaed as part of the impeachment inquiry, but is unlikely to appear before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday as requested.
- A Warning, a book by an anonymous Trump administration official, alleges that Mike Pence would support invoking the 25th amendment if a majority of the Cabinet agreed and that senior officials considered resigning en masse last year in a “midnight self-massacre.”
El Bloombito Might Finally Take the Plunge
For years, billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has toyed with the idea running for the Oval Office. He came close in 2016, and bowed out earlier this year due to Joe Biden’s perceived strength. But in a development that could immediately scramble the Democratic primary, the New York Times reports that Bloomberg is calling top Democrats to let them know he is seriously considering jumping in and is taking steps to get on the ballot in Alabama, which has a Friday filing deadline.
The news comes as Biden, whose moderate lane Bloomberg would hope to occupy, has struggled to run away with the race. He currently holds a high-single-digit lead over Elizabeth Warren in polls, but has lagged behind his opponents in fundraising, remained as gaffe-prone as ever, and become embroiled in a Ukraine scandal that will likely see President Trump impeached.
Many Democrats view this vulnerability as an opening for a more progressive candidate like Warren or Bernie Sanders. But plenty others are worried such a leftward shift could imperil the party’s chances come November, a view seemingly supported by New York Times/Siena College polling earlier in the week. Hence, Bloomberg. (“What about us?” Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar shout into the oblivion.)
Whether Bloomberg, 78 in February, can catch on and can compete with the existing crop of Democrats is anybody’s guess. But he’s old, Jewish, and he used to be a Republican—a perfect combination of the current three frontrunners. What he also has is name recognition, and $50 billion. And as we discussed in an earlier Morning Dispatch, money like that does count for something.
Back in Session
Mayor Bloomberg wasn’t the only candidate to throw his hat into the electoral ring Thursday. A year after he was unceremoniously booted from the Trump administration, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced he’ll try next year to recapture his old Senate seat, which is currently occupied by Democrat Doug Jones.
There’s one problem, of course: Trump and Sessions no longer get along. Although the former senator was one of Trump’s earliest and fiercest supporters during the 2016 campaign, Sessions committed an unpardonable sin in the early days of the Trump presidency: recusing himself from the Russia investigation. As that investigation swelled over the following months, Trump grew increasingly resentful that Sessions had abdicated what was, to the president’s mind, his central responsibility: Being a bulldog for the bossman.
Sessions is coming out of the gate trying to defuse the tension. If you’d never heard of him before you saw his launch video, you’d be forgiven for thinking the most impressive thing he ever did was get fired with grace and good cheer. “When I left President Trump’s Cabinet, did I write a tell-all book?” Sessions begins. “No. Did I go on CNN and attack the president? No. Have a said a cross word about President Trump? No.”
It may not matter: President Trump rarely gives up a grudge.
And that may not matter: Jeff Sessions remains widely popular in Alabama.
Keep an eye on this one. These down-ballot races have frequently been interesting case studies in to what degree Trump’s word is gospel among his supporters. We’re certainly gearing up to see another representative sample now.
Better Trade Days Ahead?
A hint of good trade news Thursday: The U.S. and China, which are currently hashing out an interim ceasefire in the ongoing trade war, announced that their so-called “stage one” package would include easing off some of the tariffs the two nations have been bludgeoning each other with for the past two years.
This is undeniably an encouraging step for both countries, although questions remain about how large a step it really is. Skeptics will note that, although a modest preliminary agreement has been reached in principle, negotiators have yet to finish actually writing the document—a stage at which trade war negotiations have hit the skids before. And the White House is still pushing a deeply confused and conflicting set of trade policy aims: although his advisers insist that tariffs are merely a temporary tool to pressure China to stop its unfair trade practices, Trump continues to believe that they’re an unalloyed economic good worth employing for their own sake.
Nevertheless, anything’s better than the spiral of tariff chicken we’ve been dealing with up until now. And good news can’t come soon enough for the domestic manufacturers that President Trump promised the moon in 2016—and who have been suffering as the tariffs have piled up.
Trump Manufacturing: Rise and Fall
During his first two years in office, U.S. manufacturing boomed under Trump’s light regulatory touch and pro-business agenda. But that growth faltered as pressure from the trade war mounted late last year. Seeking to prop up the flagging domestic steel and aluminum industries, Trump inadvertently unleashed a wave of economic pain on the rest of the sector. Manufacturers by the thousands were slammed twice: first by the increased cost of imported materials, then, for companies that exported to China, by Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs slapped on their finished products. In the latter half of 2019, the manufacturing sector has actually contracted.
“The absence of a lot of new regulations and the certainty of knowing that there weren’t going to be a lot of new regulations, plus of course tax reform, really was rocket fuel for the American manufacturing sector,” Cato Institute scholar Scott Lincicome told The Dispatch. But once the trade war kicked in, “all the manufacturing data … they either plateau or they start going down.”
This trend has been particularly pronounced in the so-called Rust Belt—the Great Lakes states that were industrial powerhouses through most of the 20th century and where manufacturing still occupies a much larger portion of the regional economy than the rest of the country. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan have all lost thousands of manufacturing jobs this year. Consumer confidence has started to sag.
“I don’t think that there is, as of now, widespread public alarm in the state about the manufacturing sector,” Charles Franklin, a prominent Wisconsin pollster at Marquette University, told The Dispatch. “On the other hand, the job losses are pretty significant. And so if we have a second year in a row with those kinds of losses, then I think you will see the issue rise more on the public agenda, the public consciousness, and in political rhetoric here.”
What’s a Factory Worth, Anyway?
A couple points here. There’s a sense in which it’s unfair to Trump to get tunnel vision about manufacturing: The rest of the economy is still going gangbusters. Even in the Rust Belt, overall unemployment remains very low, although it’s crept up in recent months.
And yet, a big part of the president’s populist pitch was his promise to reverse this trend: to create economic conditions in which manufacturing wouldn’t continue to waste away, where laid-off factory workers in dried-up towns wouldn’t have to suffer the indignity of experts chirping at them to buck up and move to the city and reskill in a line of work more useful to the 21st-century economy. Wisconsin’s economy is still booming under Trump—but when you lose your warehouse job in Medford, it doesn’t do you much good to hear about how many new tech jobs there are in Madison.
Does all this run the risk of hurting Trump in 2020? It’s hard to say. On the one hand, Trump swept the Rust Belt only with razor-thin margins in each state: It wouldn’t take massive blue-collar defections to put his chances there in jeopardy.
On the other, plenty of Trump’s 2016 supporters in the region are still holding out hope that he’ll bend China to his will—which, in the long run, would provide another boom to American industry. Kurt Bauer, president and CEO of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, told The Dispatch that when they survey their members, almost half say they’ve been adversely affected by the U.S.-China tariffs—but that fully two-thirds support the tariffs anyway.
And, of course, many of the president’s supporters aren’t about to abandon him over a little economic pain, because it’s his cultural message that they were drawn to in the first place.
All of which is to say: The president needn’t panic over his manufacturing slump just yet. But if he was serious about his bombastic promises to usher in a new golden era for American manufacturing, it’s plain that something has to change.
Digital Double Standards
Let’s talk about political advertising. Whether it’s this health care-focused spot from Joe Biden or Donald Trump’s surprise World Series ad (which had seven figures behind it, a Trump campaign official told The Dispatch at the time), prepare your eyeballs and eardrums for a steady stream of dramatic lens flares and “I’m _____, and I approve this message” emanating from your television over the next year.
But you might be seeing less of them on your phone.
Last week, Twitter announced, via CEO tweet thread, that it was banning all political advertising on the platform; the site will not allow ads promoting either candidates or issues after November 22. “A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet,” CEO Jack Dorsey said. “Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.”
The move came just weeks after Facebook made waves by neglecting to take down a Trump campaign ad that made some dubious claims about Joe Biden and his involvement in Ukraine. The ad was also running on MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBS, YouTube, and Twitter, but Facebook specifically rebuffed the Biden campaign’s request to take it down. “Our approach is grounded in Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is,” Katie Harbath, Facebook’s public policy director for global elections, told the Biden campaign in a letter obtained by the New York Times. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech the following week arguing that while tumultuous times can create calls to “pull back on free expression,” he believes we must continue to stand for it.
The blowback from Democrats was swift and severe. Mark Warner wrote a letter to the company demanding answers. Ron Wyden tweeted that the company should listen to its own employees and “stop microtargeting political ads without public transparency.” To demonstrate what she believes to be the policy’s absurdity, Elizabeth Warren even ran a fake Facebook ad herself, which was approved, claiming Zuckerberg had endorsed Donald Trump’s re-election.
So those were the headaches Twitter was hoping to avoid by banning political ads altogether. But the migraines have continued. In a statement provided to The Dispatch on Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called Twitter a “guinea pig for an experiment in restricting free speech,” arguing “the push to ban political ads appears to be an attempt to satisfy a loud minority that is interested in banning speech they do not like.” Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale called the ban “yet another attempt by the left to silence Trump and conservatives.”
Before you start to think these gripes about bias are baseless, check out this tweet from Dorsey: jack @jack@ewarren We haven’t announced our new rules yet. They come out 11/15. Taking all this into consideration.November 5th 2019102 Retweets960 Likes
That’s the CEO responding to Elizabeth Warren, who, despite criticizing Facebook for allowing misleading political ads, is also criticizing Twitter for not allowing them—because the restriction extends to liberal organizations as well. Dorsey’s reply—“Taking all this into consideration”—is foreboding. Ultimately, the ban will come down to what Twitter deems “political” and what it doesn’t; the company has promised to explain more fully its policy in the coming days, but don’t be surprised if groups like Planned Parenthood or Greenpeace are magically exempted.
And that’s the fundamental problem with any other approach to advertising and speech than the one Facebook has taken. It’s far from perfect. There’s a lot of garbage on the site, and misinformation runs rampant—particularly since truthfulness is asymmetrical betwixt various campaigns. But in placing minimal restrictions on advertising, Facebook has removed itself and its employees from the role of neutral arbiter having to make individual determinations over what is and isn’t political and what is and isn’t true. Twitter’s proposed method? McCarthy said it “implies Americans around the country are unable to think for themselves.”
The judgments these companies have to make are not always as straightforward as some like Elizabeth Warren might have you believe—particularly when there are potentially hundreds of millions of them every single day. Is a post pointing folks to a Catholic adoption agency “political?” What about a tweet celebrating Palestinian heritage?
Plus, current policy dictates broadcasters are “prohibited from refusing to run even obviously false political ads,” Berin Szóka, president of the free market internet policy think tank TechFreedom, told The Dispatch (italics ours). Why should social media be held to a different standard? Mark Warner argued “this comparison is inapt,” and that Facebook should behave like cable networks that face no such requirement. But Fox News isn’t facing nearly as much heat for running Trump’s campaign ad.
When asked by The Dispatch what standard or guideline she would implement were she in charge of Facebook and Twitter, Warren’s campaign declined to comment. Perhaps because the answer would seem to be: “People who share my worldview can run ads, but people who don’t can’t.”
Worth Your Time
- Christopher Collins and Sophie Novak dove deep on Clarksville, Texas’s, demise for the Texas Observer, asking why the town was starting to crumble. “When a rural hospital dies, the community around it starts to follow suit.”
- We’ve been covering this Ukraine business pretty heavily in The Morning Dispatch, but this piece still took our breath away. It’s the behind-the-scenes story of how freaked Ukrainian officials tried to figure out how to wheedle their promised and desperately needed military aid out of a mercurial president they didn’t know much about: scouring his Twitter feed for clues as to what would appease him and what might make him mad, debating whether they really ought to make their promised capitulatory announcement on CNN given Trump had denounced it as “Fake News,” and so on. It’s engrossing and darkly funny and worth reading to the end.
- Tom Junod wrote a piece in The Atlantic about his friendship with Mister Rogers in advance of the movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, being released. They just don’t make ‘em like Fred Rogers anymore. “Remembering him as a nice man is easier than thinking of him as a demanding one.”
Presented Without Comment
Robert Maguire@RobertMaguire_In his new book, Don Jr writes about a visit to Arlington National Cemetery before his father’s inauguration and compares the sacrifice of the soldiers buried there to “all the sacrifices we’d have to make to help my father succeed.” businessinsider.com/trump-jr-new-b…
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Something Fun
Presidential rallies are weird: Part policy lecture, part motivational speech, part tent revival, part goofy rock concert. Sometimes it’s hard to discern the correct way to behave. This kid, however, has it figured out. Richard Madan@RichardMadanThe kid doing “the worm” behind @Acosta is the best thing I’ve seen today November 6th 20199,345 Retweets51,401 Likes
Toeing the Company Line
- Jonah has faxed a fresh new midweek G-File down from his mountaintop yurt. Medicare-for-All, technobabble, the word “Brobdingnagian”—it’s all there. Give it a read!
- The French Press is back with a vengeance. Thursday’s edition delved into populism, and the dangers that lie therein. But if he keeps peddling this LeBron > Jordan nonsense, we’re going to have to stop plugging his pieces.
- And if that’s not enough Dispatch for ya, there’s a Remnant! Jonah had Fox News’ Chris Stirewalt on the podcast to discuss Tuesday’s elections and the impeachment saga. Check it out here.
Let Us Know
What dance move is likeliest to go viral next at a Trump rally?
- YMCA (Christianity is respected again!)
- High Hopes (If it’s good enough for Pete Buttigieg, it’s good enough for The Donald!)
- The Macarena (Record-low Hispanic unemployment!)
- Flossing (Let’s be honest: This is the winner.)
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AXIOS
By Mike Allen
🎬 Coming Sunday on “Axios on HBO” … The life-changing costs of being a whistleblower, told on-camera by five who risked it all (see a clip) … Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi talks to Dan Primack and me about the quest for profit … and an exclusive poll on America’s surging political anger.
- “Axios on HBO” also heads to the border for an on-the-ground look at President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, plus exclusive interviews with U.S. immigration officials Ken Cuccinelli and Mark Morgan. Tune in Sunday at 6 p.m. ET/PT.
1 big thing: Businesses stock up for expected recession
U.S. companies are holding off on major purchases and investments, paying down debt and stacking up cash as they look to position for an expected economic downturn in 2020, Axios Markets editor Dion Rabouin reports.
- Why it matters: Firms are trying to protect themselves from a recession, but their spending pullback could weaken the overall economy — and potentially help precipitate the very conditions they fear.
What’s happening … A slew of traditional recession indicators have shown up: The yield curve has inverted, the manufacturing and housing sectors have weakened, and income inequality has spiked to the highest level on record.
- Business investment has fallen for six straight months, and declined by 3% in the third quarter, the largest drop since 2015.
- The retrenchment by businesses helped turn Wednesday’s U.S. workforce productivity report — a key economic metric that compares goods-and-services output to the number of labor hours worked — negative for the first time in four years.
Companies are taking action:
- U.S. corporate balance sheets are holding more than $2.2 trillion in cash, according to the latest figures from global accounting firm PwC. It’s the highest number in decades.
- Companies have added to their holdings since that survey, and are “absolutely” preparing for a downturn, PwC’s U.S. deals leader Colin Wittmer tells Axios.
- “They’re building cash reserves in their balance sheets like we haven’t seen in a long time.”
Investors also are getting ready for the good times to end:
- Data from the Investment Company Institute shows that even though the stock market has risen by nearly 25% this year, investors have been net sellers of stocks, pulling $100 billion out of equity funds.
- They’ve moved more than $3.5 trillion into money market funds, which are essentially savings accounts; it’s the highest level since 2009.
2. Why Mayor Mike jumped in
Photo: Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP
Mike Bloomberg is jumping into the Democratic presidential race because he believes that Joe Biden is fading, opening the moderate lane next to Elizabeth Warren, sources close to the former New York mayor tell Axios’ Margaret Talev and me.
- Why it matters: “Mike will spend whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump,” a Bloomberg source said. “The nation is about to see a very different campaign than we’ve ever seen before.”
- I’m told there’s no way he’ll later run as a third-party or independent candidate, partly because of ballot-access hurdles.
Theory of the case: Bloomberg, who according to Forbes is worth $52 billion, will self-fund, allowing him to run an essentially national campaign at a time when the rest of the field is raising money and focusing on early states.
- Bloomberg, who will make a final decision “soon,” isn’t expected to seek or accept campaign contributions, according to a second source.
- Bloomberg had been focused on how he could best influence 2020 from the outside. But he increasingly became concerned that all the leading Democrats have weaknesses Trump could exploit in the general election.
- Bloomberg sees himself as an anti-Trump: practical and pragmatic, a self-made business leader, committed to issues such as climate and guns, and someone who recognizes the value of multilateralism and coalitions over isolationism.
What’s next: The Bloomberg buzz ignited yesterday with the news that he’ll file today to qualify for the primary in Alabama, which has an early filing deadline.
- I’m told he’ll quickly ramp up in other states with deadlines approaching, including Arkansas, New Hampshire, Florida, California and Texas.
Reality check: Given the progressive tides in the Democratic Party, there’s no sign that a 77-year-old billionaire is what primary voters are pining for.
- Biden is sucking wind on money, and now Bloomberg is moving into his lane with unlimited cash.
3. Takeaways from impeachment’s closed-door phase
Graphic: AP
House Democrats head into next week’s public stage of the impeachment inquiry armed with closed-door testimony from witnesses who mostly corroborated each other — and the whistleblower, Axios’ Zach Basu writes.
- Why it matters: Democrats said this week they have no intention of pursuing subpoenas for former national security adviser John Bolton or his deputy, signaling they already believe they have enough evidence to proceed without hearing from White House witnesses who have refused to cooperate.
- In fact, instead of fighting that defiance in court, Democrats plan to use the refusals as evidence of obstruction for a likely article of impeachment.
Here are the common facts we learned from the six transcripts released this week:
- Career officials were disturbed by an irregular foreign policy channel toward Ukraine driven by Rudy Giuliani.
- They largely viewed the allegations that led to the ouster of Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch as a baseless smear campaign promoted by Giuliani, his associates and members of the right-wing media.
- Witnesses acknowledge that there appeared to be a quid pro quo involving a White House visit for Ukraine’s president, conditioned on the announcement of investigations into President Trump’s political opponents.
- They differ on whether military aid was also used as leverage. But key diplomats intimately involved in discussions with Ukraine believe it was.
4. Pic du jour
Photo: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images
Spot, a “nimble robot” from Boston Dynamics that can climb stairs, struts onstage at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, which draws 70,000 attendees (including Axios’ Sara Fischer and Felix Salmon).
5. “Midnight self-massacre”
Graphic: Axios
The WashPost’s Phil Rucker obtained “A Warning,” the book coming Nov. 19 from the author of the N.Y. Times’ “anonymous” op-ed. Rucker’s lead:
Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a “midnight self-massacre” to sound a public alarm about President Trump’s conduct, but rejected the idea because they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government.
🔪 In a review, N.Y. Times nonfiction book critic Jennifer Szalai writes that everything in the text suggests “Anonymous” is “a dyed-in-the-wool establishment Republican”:
[T]o judge by the parade of bland, methodical arguments (Anonymous loves to qualify criticisms with a lawyerly “in fairness”), the ideal reader would seem to be an undecided voter who has lived in a cave for the past three years, and is irresistibly moved by quotations from Teddy Roosevelt and solemn invocations of Cicero.
6. 2020 Dems promise clean car agenda
While President Trump is moving to ease Obama-era tailpipe emissions rules, Democrats running to unseat him want to accelerate the shift to electric cars, trucks and buses, Axios’ Joann Muller and Alayna Treene report.
- Why it matters: The 2020 presidential race could produce two vastly different outcomes for the auto industry, and that regulatory whiplash is hampering carmakers’ long-term investment decisions.
Worth noting: Major pieces of the Democrats’ plans, such as expanded electric vehicle tax credits and major new spending on charging infrastructure, would require congressional action.
- Even if their most aggressive plans don’t come to pass, the Democrats would likely reverse Trump’s efforts to weaken efficiency and emissions rules.
7. 📱Could be a novel or movie: The night of the wayward texts
If you woke up to a weird text yesterday, you aren’t alone: A mysterious wave of messages swept America’s phones overnight, delivering puzzling messages from friends, family and the occasional ex, AP’s Tali Arbel writes.
- Friends who hadn’t talked in months were jolted into chatting.
- The best explanation seems to be that old texts sent in the spring suddenly went through.
Mobile carriers offered unhelpful explanations for the weird-text phenomenon, which appeared to be widespread, at least according to social media.
- A Sprint spokeswoman said it resulted from a “maintenance update” for messaging platforms at multiple U.S. carriers and would not explain further.
- T-Mobile called it a “third party vendor issue.” Verizon and AT&T did not answer questions.
8. “An astonishingly bleak picture for a centrist European politician”
Courtesy The Economist
In his Élysée Palace office, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to The Economist in apocalyptic terms:
The instability of our American partner and rising tensions have meant that the idea of European defense is gradually taking hold. It’s the aggiornamento [updating] for a powerful and strategic Europe. I would add that we will at some stage have to take stock of NATO. To my mind, what we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO. We have to be lucid.
Why it matters, from The Economist’s lead editorial: “[I]n a dramatic plea to all Europeans,” Macron is warning “that America is cutting Europe loose.”
9. Ivanka Trump talks women’s economic empowerment in Africa
Ivanka Trump told AP’s Darlene Superville in Rabat, Morocco, that the whistleblower’s identity is “not particularly relevant” to the impeachment inquiry.
- “This is a third party who was not privy to the [Ukraine] call and did not have firsthand information,” Trump said.
- “Rather than wait, under a year, until the people can decide for themselves based on his record and based on his accomplishments, this new effort has commenced.”
The president’s daughter and adviser is wrapping up a three-day visit to Morocco, where she’s promoting a U.S. program aimed at helping empower women in developing countries.
10. Lin-Manuel Miranda: “All Art Is Political”
Courtesy The Atlantic
Lin-Manuel Miranda debuts in The Atlantic with an essay in the December issue, “What Art Can Do: The power of stories that are unshakably true”:
I believe great art is like bypass surgery. It allows us to go around all of the psychological distancing mechanisms that turn people cold to the most vulnerable among us. …
We keep revisiting Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” because ruthless political ambition does not belong to any particular era. We keep listening to Public Enemy because systemic racism continues to rain tragedy on communities of color. We read Orwell’s “1984″ and shiver at its diagnosis of doublethink … And we listen to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, as Lieutenant Cable sings about racism, “You’ve got to be carefully taught.” It’s all art. It’s all political.
How’s this for a bio line? “Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Pulitzer Prize–, Grammy–, Emmy–, and Tony Award–winning composer, lyricist, and actor.”
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POLITICO Playbook: Inside Trump allies’ impeachment hearing calculations
By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER
11/08/2019 05:50 AM EST
DRIVING THE DAY
THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF CHATTER in the Trump-aligned White House world that House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY should dump a bunch of members of the House Intelligence Committee — the panel holding the public impeachment hearings next week — and swap in people like Reps. MARK MEADOWS (R-N.C.) and LEE ZELDIN (R-N.Y.), two staunch Trump allies that have been the public-facing defenders of the president during the closed deposition phase of impeachment.Rep. JIM JORDAN (R-Ohio)is already being swapped in.
THE THINKING in Trump world is that President DONALD TRUMP could use his strongest allies because he needs as much backup as he can get in the high-profile hearings that begin Wednesday.
BUT WE ARE TOLD this big-time committee lineup change is not in the cards. There are nine Republicans on the panel — including DEVIN NUNES (R-Calif.), the ranking member. Adding Jordan, Meadows and Zeldin would mean dumping a third of the committee’s GOP roster.
THERE ARE A FEW people who sources say are all but untouchable on the committee: Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe (close to Trump, considered the best questioner), Texas Rep. Will Hurd (has intel background), New York Rep. Elise Stefanik (the only woman, and an emerging power center internally in the House Republican Conference) and Nunes.
GIVEN THAT, adding three people would mean turning over three remaining Republicans — a heavy lift given internal caucus politics. Not to mention, the committee has spent months on this topic, so a bunch of members are not going to be willing to just jump off when the topic gets hot.
PLUS, if Republicans try to swap out a huge chunk of the panel, they could get crosswise with Democrats, who could potentially cause procedural problems.
SO … Jordan will get his moment during these hearings — and that’s sure to please the Trump circles. AND … the House rules also dictate that MCCARTHY himself can jump onto the panel, should he want.
JUICY READ … TIM ALBERTA: “Who Will Betray Trump?”: “The administration, working in concert with its allies on Capitol Hill, has been hard at work identifying potential turncoats in the party and monitoring their activities to catch any sign of slippage. Believing that a unified party-line vote is needed in the House to prevent any narrative of Republicans abandoning Trump when action moves to the Senate, the president’s allies are determined to stay one step ahead of any lawmaker who might be going soft, gaming out scenarios for who could desert and why.
“It amounts to a preemptive game of political whodunit, with Trump’s enforcers seeking to solve a mystery of political betrayal before it occurs. Naturally, there is no bigger fan of this game than the president himself.” POLITICO Magazine
THE NEW GOP TALKING POINT? — “House GOP looks to protect Trump by raising doubts about motives of his deputies,” by WaPo’s Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade: “House Republicans’ latest plan to shield President Trump from impeachment is to focus on at least three deputies — U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Trump’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and possibly acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney — who they say could have acted on their own to influence Ukraine policy.
“All three occupy a special place in the Ukraine narrative as the people in most direct contact with Trump. As Republicans argue that most of the testimony against Trump is based on faulty secondhand information, they are sowing doubts about whether Sondland, Giuliani and Mulvaney were actually representing the president or freelancing to pursue their own agendas.” WaPo
FWIW … TRUMP held a fundraiser for Senate Republicans at the Trump Hotel on Thursday night, and said nothing about the Alabama Senate race, which JEFF SESSIONS just entered. The president is apparently still angry about how Sessions, when he was A.G., recused himself from the Russia probe.
SESSIONS told FOX NEWS’ TUCKER CARLSON on Thursday night that he has not yet spoken with the president about supporting his Senate bid. CARLSON: “He has your strong support. Do you have [the president’s] strong support?” SESSIONS: “Well, I hope so. I think he will respect my work. I was there for the Trump agenda every day I was in the Senate. No doubt about it; I was the first Republican — first senator to endorse him.”
— ON TALKING WITH TRUMP ABOUT HIS BID … SESSIONS: “Well, I do — I will, and I look forward to having that opportunity. It hasn’t been provided at this moment, but I would like to be able to go to the people of Alabama and tell them, with all honesty, ‘I believe in this agenda.’ I was for this agenda before President Trump announced.” Full interview, including his new ad… More from James Arkin, Alex Isenstadt and Marianne LeVine on Sessions
— BUT KEEP AN EYE ON THIS: Will Trump take either TOMMY TUBERVILLE or Rep. BRADLEY BYRNE (R-Ala.) to the LSU-Alabama game Saturday in Tuscaloosa? Neither went to Alabama — Byrne went to Duke, but returned to Alabama for law school, and Tuberville is an Auburn guy.
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TRADE WARS — REUTERS’ JEFF MASON in Washington and YAWEN CHEN in Beijing: “China, U.S. agree tariff rollback if phase one trade deal is completed”: “China and the United States have agreed to roll back tariffs on each others’ goods in a ‘phase one’ trade deal if it is completed, officials from both sides said on Thursday, sparking division among some advisers to President Donald Trump.The Chinese Commerce Ministry, without laying out a timetable, said the two countries had agreed to cancel the tariffs in phases.
“A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the rollback would be part of the first phase of a trade agreement that is still being put to paper for Trump and President Xi Jinping to sign.” Reuters
Good Friday morning. HAPPENING TODAY — IVANKA TRUMP is sitting down with the AP’s Darlene Superville in Morocco for her first interview since the impeachment inquiry started.
NEW … ANOTHER BOOK FOR SUSAN GLASSER and PETER BAKER! … The New Yorker’s SUSAN GLASSER and the NYT’s PETER BAKER are writing a book about “impeachment and the transformation of Washington,” which they see as a marriage of the sequel to Baker’s first impeachment book, “The Breach,” and Glasser’s “Letters from Washington” in The New Yorker.
THE BOOK will be published in 2021 by Doubleday, which published Baker’s “Days of Fire” about the George W. Bush White House. Doubleday will also publish the long-awaited “The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III” in May. Rafe Sagalyn — who represented Baker on “The Breach” two decades ago — handled this book as well.
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2020 WATCH — NYT’S ALEX BURNS: “Michael Bloomberg Actively Prepares to Enter 2020 Presidential Race”: “Michael R. Bloomberg is actively preparing to enter the Democratic presidential primary and is expected to file paperwork this week designating himself as a candidate in at least one state with an early filing deadline, people briefed on Mr. Bloomberg’s plans said.
“Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and billionaire businessman, has been privately weighing a bid for the White House for weeks and has not yet made a final decision on whether to run, an adviser said. But in the first sign that he is seriously moving toward a campaign, Mr. Bloomberg has dispatched staffers to Alabama to gather signatures to qualify for the primary there. Though Alabama does not hold an early primary, it has a Friday deadline for candidates to formally enter the race.
“Mr. Bloomberg and his advisers called a number of prominent Democrats on Thursday to tell them he was seriously considering the race, including former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the retired majority leader who remains a dominant power broker in the early caucus state. Aides to Mr. Bloomberg also reached out to Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, the chair of the Democratic Governors Association.” NYT
— WAPO’S MATT VISER and MICHAEL SCHERER: “The move marks a major reversal for Bloomberg, who announced in March that he would not run for president, and also serves as a public rebuke of the performance so far of former vice president Joe Biden, who has attempted to build a coalition of the same moderate Democrats that Bloomberg would court.” WaPo
— ELIZABETH WARREN clapped back on Twitter, welcoming Bloomberg to the race and linking to her “calculator for billionaires.”
‘ANONYMOUS’ LEAKS … WAPO’S PHIL RUCKER: “Book by ‘Anonymous’ describes Trump as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation”: “Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a ‘midnight self-massacre’ to sound a public alarm about President Trump’s conduct, but rejected the idea because they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government, according to a new book by an unnamed author.
“In ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous, obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its release, a writer described only as ‘a senior official in the Trump administration’ paints a chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation he was elected to lead.” WaPo … NYT’s review… NBC
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— “Impeachment Inquiry Tests Ties Between Barr and Trump,” by NYT’s Peter Baker, Katie Benner and Maggie Haberman: “For a while at least, he seemed to have found his Roy Cohn, a lawyer to defend him against his accusers and go after his enemies. But the relationship between President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr may be growing more complicated with the rising threat of impeachment.
“Rather than publicly join the fight against House Democrats pursuing the president, Mr. Barr has remained out of the fray, resisting requests by intermediaries from Mr. Trump to go before the cameras to say no crime had been committed. While Mr. Barr exonerated the president in the spring at the end of the Russia investigation, he has been more reticent in the current matter.
“The reluctance hints at a new distance between the two men, according to people who have spoken with them. Mr. Trump, angry with his coverage, is aggravated with Mr. Barr for urging him to release a reconstructed transcript of the telephone call with Ukraine’s president at the center of the impeachment drive. For his part, Mr. Barr was bothered that Mr. Trump on that call lumped him together with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s private lawyer, like interchangeable parts of his personal defense team.” NYT
— THE LATEST TRANSCRIPT — “The words Trump had to hear: Investigations, Biden, Clinton,” by AP’s Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Eric Tucker: “There were three words President Donald Trump wanted to hear from the Ukraine president: Investigations, Biden, Clinton. That’s according to the transcript, released Thursday, of an impeachment inquiry interview with career State Department official George Kent.
“‘Potus wanted nothing less than President Zelenskiy to go to the microphone and say investigations, Biden and Clinton,’ Kent testified. ‘Basically there needed to be three words in the message, and that was the shorthand.’” AP
— “Impeachment investigators subpoena Mick Mulvaney,” by Kyle Cheney: “House impeachment investigators late Thursday subpoenaed Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, demanding that he testify about his knowledge of President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine.
“Mulvaney had already signaled he would probably refuse lawmakers’ demands to testify, and the White House has issued a blanket order against cooperating with the impeachment inquiry. But Mulvaney’s Oct. 17 news conference in which he said Trump withheld aid in part to get Ukraine to initiate investigations against his political rivals — a comment he later walked back — has fueled Democrats’ impeachment push.” POLITICO
TRUMP’S FRIDAY — The president will leave the White House at 9:45 a.m. en route to Marietta, Ga. He will travel to The Whitley hotel in Atlanta, where he will hold a roundtable with supporters at 12:45 p.m. Afterward, he will speak at a fundraiser. Trump will then head to the Georgia World Congress Center. He will speak at a “Black Voices for Trump” coalition event at 3 p.m. before returning to Washington.
PLAYBOOK READS
SUNDAY SO FAR …
- FOX “Fox News Sunday”: Panel: Karl Rove, Donna Edwards, Josh Holmes and Mo Elleithee. Power player of the week: The U.S. Army Old Guard’s Caisson Platoon.
- CNN “State of the Union”: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Panel: Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.), Linda Chavez, David Urban and Karine Jean-Pierre.
- CBS “Face the Nation”: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) … Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.). Panel: Stephen Hayes, Margaret Talev, Jeffrey Goldberg and Antjuan Seawright.
- ABC “This Week”: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.
- CNN “Inside Politics”: Panel: Julie Pace, Mike Shear, Abby Phillip and Jackie Kucinich.
- NBC “Meet the Press”: Panel: Yamiche Alcindor, Hugh Hewitt, David Ignatius and Hallie Jackson.
- SINCLAIR “America This Week”: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) … Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) … Hogan Gidley … James Rosen.
— CBS will also air Norah O’Donnell’s interview with Nikki Haley on Sunday. O’Donnell tweeted out a clip Thursday.
DANIEL LIPPMAN: “EPA chief of staff under investigation in document destruction, sources say”: “The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general is investigating whether chief of staff Ryan Jackson was involved in destroying internal documents that should have been retained, according to two people familiar with the matter.
“The IG’s office is asking witnesses whether Jackson has routinely destroyed politically sensitive documents, including schedules and letters from people like lobbyist Richard Smotkin, who helped arrange a trip for then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to Morocco when he was in office, according to one of the sources, a former administration official who told investigators he has seen Jackson do that firsthand.
“The previously unreported allegations add to the controversy around Jackson, a former aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) who has been at EPA since the early days of the Trump administration. EPA’s internal watchdog accused Jackson earlier this week of refusing to cooperate with other ongoing investigations.” POLITICO
— “Betsy DeVos at risk of subpoena after refusing to testify before House education panel,” by Bianca Quilantan and Nicole Gaudiano: “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is refusing to testify before the House Education and Labor Committee about her department’s collection of student loan debt from former Corinthian Colleges students, despite a threat of a subpoena from House Democrats.
“‘Secretary DeVos has declined to testify and we are reviewing our options, including a subpoena,’ a committee aide told POLITICO Thursday night. Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) had given DeVos until Thursday at 6 p.m. to respond to the committee’s request that she appear.” POLITICO
OOF — “Trump boasts that his landmark law is freeing these inmates. His Justice Department wants them to stay in prison,” by WaPo’s Neena Satija, Wesley Lowery and Josh Dawsey: “The president has repeatedly pointed to the First Step Act as one of his administration’s chief bipartisan achievements and one for which he is personally responsible. But cases like [Gregory] Allen’s expose a striking rift between the White House allies who supported the law and the Justice Department officials now working to limit the number of inmates who might benefit from it.” WaPo
CNN’S PAUL LEBLANC: “Lawyer for Ukraine whistleblower sends White House cease and desist letter to stop Trump’s attacks”
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — “U.S. diplomatic cables expose divide over immigration,” by AP’s Joshua Goodman: “U.S. ambassadors from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti sent urgent cables to the White House in the early days of the Trump administration, pleading with them to abandon plans to send hundreds of thousands of migrants back to their home countries.
“The cables, made public Thursday, expose the divide between career diplomats and a new administration eager to push through major hardline immigration policies even as it apparently weighed possible fallout on the 2020 presidential race.
“Facing legal challenges, the Trump administration later backed down from its hardline position and last month it extended protections for at least a year as U.S. courts work through the disputes.”AP
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SCOOP … NANCY SCOLA in Menlo Park, Calif.: “Facebook considering limits on targeted campaign ads”: “Facebook is considering restricting politicians ability to use highly detailed demographic and personal information to narrowly target would-be voters with ads, policy chief Nick Clegg confirmed Thursday in an interview with POLITICO — in a sign of potential softening of the social network’s broadly permissive policy on political advertising.
“The possible reining in of political ‘microtargeting,’ part of a broader reassessment of Facebook’s policies around campaign messaging, comes just weeks after CEO Mark Zuckerberg made two trips to Washington to defend the company against attacks from Democrats who say its hands-off approach distorts democracy. Google is also considering changes to its political-ad policy, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, while Twitter last week angered Republicans by announcing it’s ending political advertising on its platform altogether. …
“Democrats have been especially harsh on the company’s refusal to fact-check political candidates’ ads, which Zuckerberg has called a matter of free expression. The company is standing by that approach. But it’s actively discussing making other tweaks to its political ads policy, said Clegg, Facebook’s head of policy and communications.” POLITICO
MEDIAWATCH — Leah Askarinam is joining National Journal as editor of the Hotline and Hotline’s Wake-Up Call. Askarinam, who most recently was at Inside Elections, replaces Kyle Trystad.
— WaPo’s Carlos Lozada and The New Yorker’s David Remnick are joining the Pulitzer board. Announcement
— SPOTTED at the International Center for Journalists’ 35th anniversary dinner Thursday night: Kurt Volker.
— “CNN host Fareed Zakaria was set to interview Ukrainian President until scandal took shape,” by CNN’s Caroline Kelly: “‘We had been negotiating with President Zelensky and his office for a while, for months, to try to get an interview with him anyway, ever since he was elected President,’ Zakaria, host of ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS,’ told [anchor Brooke] Baldwin. Once news of the whistleblower’s complaint surfaced, ‘it became clear to us that the interview was off.’” CNN
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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Jose Maheda last week left DHS, where he was acting press secretary on detail, and has returned back to doing strategic communications in the Tucson sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Washington Examiner reported in July that the Border Patrol tried to fire him in the 1990s for “faking a crime against himself” when he allegedly lied about accidentally leaving his loaded gun in his vehicle. But he kept his job and has had a career working for the Border Patrol.
TRANSITIONS — “Earl Matthews, a senior National Security Council official who attended several of the meetings now at the center of the congressional impeachment inquiry, will depart from his job on Friday,” via Meridith McGraw: POLITICO
— Brad White will lead the transition for Mississippi Gov.-elect Tate Reeves. He is currently COS to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), where he will be replaced by Doug Davis.
WEEKEND WEDDING — Molly O’Toole, an immigration and security reporter for the L.A. Times, and Timothy Bowden, a senior project engineer at Robert Silman Associates Structural Engineers, got married Saturday in Leesburg, Va. They met over a decade ago on the college track team, and were close friends for years before dating. Pic
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Weston Loyd, White House director of regional communications. A fun fact about him: a fun fact that people in Washington might not know about you? “I once invited SEC Nation — Tim Tebow, Kaylee Hartung, Paul Finebaum and Marcus Spears — to my house in college to trick or treat. It was the night before the Kentucky-Tennessee football game, and they actually showed up. Kentucky lost that game, but I’m always looking forward to basketball season. Cats by 90!” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: “ABC World News Tonight” anchor David Muir is 46 … Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is 55 … ABC’s Shushannah Walshe … Casey Hernandez (h/t husband Paul Rosen) … Anthony Reedy … WaPo’s Tory Newmyer … Peter Kadzik, partner at Venable, is 65 (h/ts Tim Burger) … Karen Sherman, president of the Akilah Institute (h/ts Jon Haber) … POLITICO’s Roger Jeannotte … Jackeline Luna … Erin Galloway … Lucy Bradlow, VP at the Glover Park Group … Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight (h/t John Jones) … Matt Sandgren … Erin Cohan, COS and VP at CAP … Jay Nelson, director of government affairs at the Council of State Governments Justice Center (h/t Ed Cash) … Rich Taylor … Ira Magaziner is 72 …
… Wayne Berman, Blackstone senior managing director and head of global government affairs … Ashley Balcerzak, staff writer at The Record in North Jersey … Michael D. Brown … John Hishta, senior VP for campaigns at AARP (h/t Chris Lapetina) … Kelsey Suter, VP of communications at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner … Carolyn Walser … Frank Jimenez … POLITICO Europe’s Ivo Oliveira … Courtney Stamm … Nicholas Swails … Tom Connors … Charlie Posner … Samantha Sher … Latham and Watkins’ Christopher Martin is 38 … Gail Shea Nardi … Bob Jones, co-chair of the federal government law and policy practice at Greenberg Traurig … Richard Socarides is 65 … Laurie Moskowitz … George Twigg … Beth Bernard (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Katt Riley (h/t Alice Lloyd)
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Friday, November 8, 2019 Kamala Harris’s School Plan On Wednesday, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) introduced a bill which would “collaborate with community partners to develop high-quality, culturally relevant, linguistically accessible, developmentally appropriate academic, athletic, or enrichment opportunities for students from at least 8 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday during the school year, with no closures except for Federal holidays, weekends, and emergencies.” Senate.gov From the Left The left supports the motivation behind the plan, with some arguing that Harris should have gone further to help working parents. “The majority of schools days end around 3 p.m., two hours before the end of 70 percent of parents’ workdays. And most schools don’t have a way to make up the difference. Fewer than half of all elementary schools—and fewer than a third of low-income schools—offer after-school care. Beyond that misalignment, schools shut down, on average, for 29 days during the school year, the majority of which are reserved for professional development, parent-teacher conferences, and myriad vacations and minor holidays the federal government doesn’t recognize… “That’s a full two weeks’ worth of days more than what the average American has in holidays, vacation, and paid leave combined. And then, of course, there’s summer vacation, a two- to three-month break that leaves working parents scrambling for day-long care… The mismatch between the school day and work day presents a real burden to working Americans with families.” Kara Voght, Mother Jones “Harris’s plan is not only designed to provide child care, but to provide actual enrichment for kids — physical activity, reading, tutoring, and other beneficial activities that affluent parents can pay for through camps, private programs, babysitters, and tutors. This objective is also part of what rankles Harris’s critics [on the left]… “[One such critic attacks] Harris for designing a program that assumes many parents will continue to put in eight-hour days, with some commuting time, instead of a socialist paradise where they clock out at 2:30. ‘Rather than reshaping society to accommodate the needs of workers,’ he writes. ‘Harris’s plan is designed to keep more people working for longer, suiting the interests of their employers’… “The first part of that sentence — ‘Rather than reshaping society …’ — is so perfect. Why would Harris try to give low-income students a better education when she could simply reshape society?… It’s certainly true that the left has long advocated a shorter working day and more vacation time. But even blue-sky left-wingers tend to settle on an eight-hour day as a standard, with vacation schedules still much shorter than what most schools use… To demand Harris address this entirely through workplace reforms is to demand she institute not only a maximum eight-hour day, but also end work for parents around 2:30 or so, plus a full day off every day school is out that isn’t a national holiday (there are a lot of them), plus ten weeks or so over the summer.” Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine Some argue that “While Harris’s school-day extension program may not be the flippant neoliberal fluff that its most vociferous critics first suggested, it’s also far from a serious solution to the chronic overworking of both teachers and parents. The childcare deficit for working families sits at the intersection of frozen wages, longer workdays, and skyrocketing private childcare costs. And Harris’s plan and the reaction to it, if anything, offer an object lesson in why Band-Aid approaches to such a multi-factored problem won’t work… “After-school programs already exist en masse for wealthy school systems with wealthy parents filling up wealthy PTAs. The idea of delivering a sense of equity to schools that service lower-income communities is full of potential. But that potential is undercut by its demand that the participating schools find a non-federal partner to match at least ten percent of the federal grant… Any proposal that relies on private funding is almost guaranteed to widen the gap between affluent and more cash-strapped communities.” Nick Martin, The New Republic Harris’s plan is “a great start, but it’s not enough. We need a voucher system for people who work late nights and early-morning shifts. Parents need real dollars and quality options they can choose from… An after-school care allowance would enable low-income families to find safe and beneficial environments for their kids until the workday finishes. A voucher system would be flexible enough to work across the gamut of potential after-school activities — allowing parents to pay for tutoring, arts, dance, karate, and so forth — instead of forcing kids’ participation in only the activities provided by their particular school, as Harris’ plan would obligate.” Andre Perry, Medium From the Right The right is critical of the plan, arguing that the federal government is not an adequate substitute for families and local communities. “The first question here is whether we want federal taxpayers helping to engineer a deep change in the expected role of schools. Education is a local priority, and the non-educational functions of schools should especially be left to local control. If states and cities want to ensure that schools make child care available all year, they’re free to fund that with their own money rather than hitting up federal taxpayers… “The policy also puts the government’s thumb on the scale when it comes to parents’ decision of whether to both work or have one parent stay home. One natural consequence of working parents is that kids need care from someone else, and the cost of that care should be factored into this decision. But Harris would have the public shoulder the cost instead. This also means that when parents do decide to have an adult stay home, they’ll still be stuck paying the extra taxes to fund everyone else’s child care… If we want to make life easier for parents, we can just give them money, rather than expanding the reach of schools into families’ responsibilities and discouraging stay-at-home parenting.” Robert Verbruggen, National Review “Harris’s program forgets that education doesn’t just happen at school. It happens in the home. A good education will provide more than book knowledge. It will also provide social interaction and, hopefully, character formation. These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a public school equipped to offer all of the above. That’s why it’s important for children to spend time in their neighborhoods, with their friends and family. Locking children up in a school building all day will keep them from the community that will ultimately influence and shape them… “There are real problems facing U.S. families, but Harris’s program is another attempt to replace community with big government. Instead, communities should make this a priority, with the promotion of the family at the forefront. Cities such as Chapel Hill, North Carolina, have already begun to make progress, offering parents tax credits and scholarship programs to help pay for child care close to their homes. Reasonable steps like these relieve parents of undue stress without sacrificing the social and moral development of their children.” Editorial Board, Washington Examiner “I had a single working mother who rarely if ever was able to pick me up, or be available for extra events imposed by the school. I remember ‘the gap’ quite well. It would have been strange for us even to think of using [paid] child care. The institutions of our world filled the gap: neighbors, friends, and family. I remember the phrase ‘it takes a village’ made some sense to me at the time… I instinctively recoil at the idea of using schools for after-school work. My own childhood experience taught me a great deal of independence and responsibility. It gave me confidence to call on neighbors and friends for help. This is good practice for offering it back in the future.” Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review “The candidates all have admirable aims with these proposals, like helping working parents, giving kids more education, and fostering volunteerism and social cohesion. But the result in practice is young people spending more time in controlled, institutional settings and less time with their families or on their own, building the skills of independence they need for adulthood. Children need to be let alone sometimes. These plans eat up what little freedom they have… “Kids’ free time is already shrinking, being consumed by longer hours of instruction, after-school care, and other scheduled activities. Unstructured recess time is on the decline, contrary to pediatricians’ recommendation, and where recess persists, it is often hedged into inactivity by onerous rules and heavy homework loads. And parents are increasingly subject to scrutiny, including from law enforcement, for statistically safe behavior that was considered perfectly normal a decade or two ago, like leaving a child in the car for five minutes while running into a store or letting them play at a park alone. Making the school day 10 hours long is a huge jump down this road whose destination we frankly do not know.” Bonnie Kristian, The Week On the bright side… Internet smitten with a betrayed cat observing its owner bonding with new kitten. Time Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. Any support you can provide is greatly appreciated! Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here. |
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Senate talks on crafting bipartisan Violence Against Women Act break down
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst says she’ll introduce her own version of the Violence Against Women Act that can pass the Republican-controlled Senate and gain the support of President Donald Trump, accusing Democrats of “putting politics ahead of people.” Read More…
As states with legal weed embrace vaping bans, black-market risks linger
Health officials nationwide are still puzzling over why some who vape come down with a severe respiratory illness and, in some cases, die. Many cases have been traced to vape cartridges filled with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis — cartridges the users found on the black market. Read More…
High-ranking Capitol Police official admits he circumvented protocol to fire female officer
The male Capitol Police official who recommended the firing of a female officer testified Thursday that he arrived at that decision without ever meeting with her or consulting her direct supervisor. Read More…Click here to subscribe to Fintech Beat for the latest market and regulatory developments in finance and financial technology.
Trump judicial pick blows off Democrats’ questions on Ukraine
An appeals court nominee has ignored a request from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to say whether he played a role in White House events now at the heart of the accelerating House impeachment probe — and Republicans haven’t let that halt his move through the confirmation process. Read More…
Watch: Shelby endorses Sessions for return to Senate
Republican Sen. Richard C. Shelby endorsed former Alabama Senate colleague Jeff Sessions for an expected 2020 Senate bid. “I believe he will be a formidable candidate,” Shelby said Thursday. Read More…
Despite Ukraine heat, Pompeo seen as front-runner if he seeks Kansas Senate seat
Criticism of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for not stepping up to protect diplomats from White House political pressure over Ukraine isn’t likely to deter efforts to recruit him to run for Senate in Kansas next year. Read More…
Kennedy defends calling Pelosi ‘dumb’ at Trump rally
GOP Sen. John Kennedy defended calling Speaker Nancy Pelosi “dumb” at a rally with President Donald Trump in his home state of Louisiana on Wednesday evening. “I didn’t mean it as disrespectful, I didn’t mean it as disrespectful at all,” Kennedy said Thursday. Watch the video here…
Popeyes chicken is riding on the outcome of the LSU-Alabama game
Popeyes chicken is on the line for Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy in his wager with Alabama Sen. Richard C. Shelby over Saturday’s NCAA football game between Louisiana State University and the University of Alabama. Read More…
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Media: Protect Whistleblowers Unless It Makes Us Look Bad Amid impeachment fever in Washington D.C. stemming from a whistleblower claim that Trump invoked quid pro quo in a conversation with the Ukraine president, networks CBS and ABC have changed their tune that all whistleblowers should be protected. An as-yet-unnamed former staffer of ABC, who recently moved to CBS, was rooted out and dismissed from both networks after that individual leaked tape of an anchor complaining that a huge story about suspected pedophile/trafficker/monster Jeffrey Epstein was squished by ABC three years ago, long before his eventual arrest. More from Fox News: “CBS News has reportedly fired an employee after ABC News informed the rival network that the person who leaked hot mic footage of Amy Robach venting about her spiked Jeffrey Epstein story was now working on its staff. Reporter Yashar Ali cited ‘two sources with knowledge of the situation’ who claimed ABC News honchos “believe they know the identity” of a former employee with access to the viral footage. Earlier this week, the controversial Project Veritas published the damning video in which ABC News anchor Robach complained that the Disney-owned network killed a story that would have exposed the now-deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein three years ago. “The report sparked widespread outrage that ABC was going after the leaker and attempting to get them fired from CBS, while downplaying the fact that the network killed the Epstein story in the first place.” [Related: ABC Declares War on Epstein Whistleblower, Then Attacks Trump Jr. For Naming CIA Whistleblower, From The Federalist] ‘Destructive And Sinful’ Relationships With Women End Christian Comedian’s Tour A prominent Christian comedian, who has opened for Dave Chapelle, Jeff Foxworthy, and other mainstream comics, has canceled his tour after multiple women made allegations against him. More from the Washington Examiner: “Christian comedian John Crist has suspended the remainder of his 2019 tour dates after several allegations of sexual misconduct were reported. Charisma News posted multiple detailed accounts of the 35-year-old comedian behaving in inappropriate ways toward women including harassment, sexting, and pursuing sex with married and committed women. Following the report, which was published Tuesday, Crist admitted to having a sexual addiction and pursuing multiple ‘destructive and sinful’ conquests with women. ‘Over the past number of years, various women have accused me of behavior that has been hurtful to them,’ Crist said in a statement. ‘While I am not guilty of everything I’ve been accused of, I confess to being guilty of this—I have treated relationships with women far too casually, in some cases even recklessly. My behavior has been destructive and sinful.’” Sips, Pours, and Nibbles for the Weekend SIP: Orange juice is an all-American cocktail mixer with a terrible reputation. It’s time to give the citrus juice a fresh start in our everyday cocktails. (VinePair) POUR: One of the most common questions I get as a former wine pro is how to pair wine with food. The queen of wine herself, Jancis Robinson, has created a wonderful, easy-to-use, interactive guide here. (Janscis Robinson) NIBBLE: The wonderful, annual Thanksgiving Guide from Cook’s Illustrated has all the answers for how to make your holiday table special this year. (Cook’s Illustrated) Friday Entertainment Center Chris Evans, Elijah Wood and more criticize the casting of a CGI version of James Dean, who died over 60 years ago, in an upcoming film. “Magic City Films announced Wednesday that the late “Rebel Without a Cause” star, who died in a car crash in 1955 at the age of 24, would take the secondary lead role in their upcoming film Finding Jack… ‘This is awful,’ “Knives Out” star Chris Evans wrote on Twitter. ‘Maybe we can get a computer to paint us a new Picasso. Or write a couple new John Lennon tunes. The complete lack of understanding here is shameful.’” (The Hollywood Reporter) Paul Feig delivers the first new Christmas movie of the season with Last Christmas, which premieres today on Netflix. “The versatile and prolific director Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids,” “The Heat,” “A Simple Favor”) shelves his darker comedy instincts for a funny-with-a-heart tone and look, and it makes for a winning formula, even when you have to resist the urge to roll your eyes at some of the pretty shameless grabs for laughs and/or tears.”(The Chicago-Sun Times) Apple TV+ Doesn’t really deliver the goods with The Morning Show, a riff on the current #MeToo Drama that plagues network television, despite the hype and the A-list cast. “The only performer who really goes for it on “The Morning Show” is [Billy] Crudup, who is perfect as the creepy network president who says of Aniston’s character “watching a beloved American woman’s breakdown is timeless entertainment.” He is King Leer with a shark’s grin. 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FIRST READ: Bloomberg’s 2020 flirtation shows instability in the Democratic race
If you want to know why Michael Bloomberg is preparing to jump into the 2020 race and why some Democratic operatives and donors are fretting about the field, here’s your answer.
The Dem race feels more unstable and unsettled than it’s ever been.
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Just consider the current Top 4:
Joe Biden looks vulnerable as a frontrunner representing the pragmatic wing of the party.
Elizabeth Warren’s polling numbers have stalled, and there are worries about her Medicare for All support.
Pete Buttigieg has now become a co-frontrunner in Iowa, but there are doubts about his upside in more diverse states.
And Bernie Sanders just had a heart attack, even as his polling numbers have ticked up a bit.
Moreover, among this Top 4:
- Three are 70 or older; the other is 37.
- Three are from the East Coast/New England; the other is mayor of South Bend, Ind.
- And none has won a statewide general contest outside the East Coast/New England.
Now Democratic voters say they’re satisfied with their field – the most recent NBC/WSJ poll found a combined 85 percent saying they were “very” or “somewhat” satisfied. And most polling shows that almost any Democrat could beat President Trump next year.
But what seems to be missing for the party is a big-tent Democrat – at least in this Top 4 – who has the ability to unite a Democratic Party that’s increasingly divided by ideology (progressives vs. moderates) and age (younger Dems vs. older ones).
(Just think about the Top 3 of the 2008 Democratic field: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. All three were big-tent Dems.)
Bloomberg, of course, isn’t the answer to bridge these divides, since he’s in the moderate/older lane. (He’s also 77 and from New York City.)
And so his potential candidacy would likely hurt Biden and help Warren.
But the hunt to find someone who can unite the party is real.
How a Bloomberg candidacy affects Biden, Warren
If Bloomberg does enter the 2020 race – it’s not a done deal yet – it would put pressure on Biden to perform at a higher level than he’s been doing these last few months.
No more shaky debate performances. No more ducking interviews. He can’t afford to let Bloomberg out-perform him.
Bottom line: Bloomberg’s entry would either expose him or improve him as a candidate.
As for Warren, the timing couldn’t be better; Bloomberg allows her to talk about her wealth tax rather than Medicare for All.
And for Buttigieg, who was beginning to put together a nice coalition of mayoral backers, Bloomberg’s entry introduces one of America’s most famous mayors with a proven record in one of the hardest jobs in U.S. politics.
Oh, one other point: If Bloomberg runs, that means two of the biggest Democratic donors – Bloomberg and Tom Steyer – would be spending money on their presidential bids instead of for Dem causes and outside races.
That’s not a positive development for the party.
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … negative 11 points
Negative 11 points.
That was Michael Bloomberg’s net favorability rating among likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa, according to a Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll back in March.
Bloomberg’s underwater rating was the worst of the Democratic field in the poll, which found overwhelmingly positive reviews for Democratic frontrunners like Joe Biden (net +68) and Bernie Sanders (net +46.)
Just 27 percent had a favorable view of Bloomberg, while 38 percent said they had a negative one.
How Putin and Orban shaped Trump’s views of Ukraine
Turning to the impeachment inquiry, State Department official George Kent testified before Congress how Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Hungary’s Viktor Orban shaped President Trump’s negative views of Ukraine, NBC’s Josh Lederman writes.
“George Kent, a senior State Department official responsible for Europe, told House investigators that Putin and Orban, along with Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, had ‘shaped the president’s view of Ukraine and (President Volodymyr) Zelenskiy.’ He said Trump’s conversations with the two leaders accounted for the change in Trump’s view of Zelenskiy from ‘very positive’ after their first call on April 21 to “negative” just one month later when he met with advisers on Ukraine in the Oval Office.”
More: “Kent’s description of those conversations, included in the transcript of his deposition by the House released Thursday, feeds into longstanding concerns from national security experts that the president’s views on key foreign issues are being influenced by Putin and other autocratic leaders such as Orban.”
Folks, that Putin/Orban influence is just as big of a deal as Trump hunting for dirt on Joe Biden and 2016.
2020 VISION: Buy me love
Speaking of billionaires in the 2020 Dem race, this wasn’t good news for Tom Steyer’s campaign yesterday.
“A top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer in Iowa privately offered campaign contributions to local politicians in exchange for endorsing his White House bid, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the conversations,” the AP reported.
On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden and Andrew Yang file their paperwork to participate in the New Hampshire primary… Pete Buttigieg begins his bus tour through the Granite State… Bernie Sanders holds a rallies with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Council Bluffs, Iowa… Amy Klobuchar also stumps in the Hawkeye State.. Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Tom Steyer all participate in a forum on environmental justice in South Carolina… And Kamala Harris campaigns in Las Vegas.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: Candidates responded to Michael Bloomberg possibly entering the 2020 race, and Amy Klobuchar was asked by NBC’s Maura Barrett if she thought Bloomberg’s entrance could affect her candidacy in the moderate lane. “I don’t think that this is going to change my approach or who I am or what I do and maybe it’ll even make more highlighted when you got someone who’s normal who’s running, financially, who’s relying on help from everyone in the country,” Klobuchar said. “This is a stark difference from someone who can just come in and plop down checks and buy a bunch of ads. I think people are going to see through it.”
More progressive candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders attacked Bloomberg for possibly entering the race. Sanders tweeted, “The billionaire class is scared and they should be scared.” Warren went further, remarking in North Carolina, “Look, my view is that we strengthen our democracy when we get out and build a grassroots movement, that’s why I’m right here in North Carolina. That’s why I’ve been all across this country and to Puerto Rico, it’s why I’ve already done more than a 150 town halls and taken thousands of unfiltered questions and tens of thousands of selfies because it’s not enough just to have somebody come in – anybody – and say that they can buy this election.”
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Posted: 07 Nov 2019 09:13 PM PST
. . . Something more ancient and dangerous is going on than just the usual Democrat double standards.by Bruce Thornton:
The Democrats are furiously busy with preemptive damage control of the
ongoing investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham. As well they should.
This and other investigations of the origins of alleged Russian
electoral interference has morphed into a criminal probe that likely
will implicate members of the Obama administration’s FBI, DOJ, and CIA,
and tear off the veil of misdirection that the Democrats and their
lackeys in the media have draped over the dirty tricks they employed
during the 2016 campaign and Trump’s first years in office. If this
happens, the Democrats’ equally dicey attempts to impeach the president
will crumble. Once again, we are being subjected to progressive double standards and “projection” of their own sins onto others. But something more ancient and dangerous is going on: The links between tyranny and sophistry. With the hoax of Trump’s collusion with Russia to wound his rival Hillary Clinton debunked by the Dems’ hand-picked special prosecutor and his team of partisan Democrats, California Democrat Representative Adam Schiff has been attacking Durham and AG William Barr. Schiff’s joint statement with Jerry Nadler (D. NY), his accomplice in the House impeachment show-trial, is a masterpiece of jaw-dropping hypocrisy:These reports, if true, raise profound new concerns that the Department of Justice under AG Barr has lost its independence and become a vehicle for President Trump’s political revenge. If the Department of Justice may be used as a tool of political retribution, or to help the President with a political narrative for the next election, the rule of law will suffer new and irreparable damage.The glaring double-standard––this description more accurately fits Obama’s self-described “wingman,” AG Eric Holder, more than AG Barr–– is laid out in a Wall Street Journal editorial:Democrats know that the Hillary Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Mr. Trump, and Fusion hired former British spook Christopher Steele, who compiled a dossier of allegations about Mr. Trump from Russian sources that turned out to be false. Worse, Fusion funneled the dossier to the FBI, which used it to persuade the secret FISA court to issue a warrant to eavesdrop on Trump official Carter Page. Democrats now want to discredit any attempt to hold people accountable if crimes were committed as part of this extraordinary dirty trick.Moreover, as the Journal further points out, even if the charge that Trump demanded from the Ukrainian president an investigation of Joe Biden and his son in exchange for foreign aid is true, which it isn’t, it doesn’t compare to the Democrats’ very real Russian collusion. In Trump’s alleged attempt, he failed and the aid reached Ukraine even though there was no investigation. In contrast, the Democrats succeeded: “Russian disinformation was used by America’s premier law enforcement agency to justify investigating an American presidential campaign.” That “dirty trick” makes Watergate look like a jaywalking infraction. How do we explain this shameless behavior of the Dems? A lot of smart people are characterizing the Democrats’ behavior as “projection” which according to Psychology Today, “is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. The concept emerged from Sigmund Freud’s work in the 1890s.” In other words, a subconscious defense mechanism for people who can’t consciously acknowledge their own bad behavior. But there’s nothing subconscious about what the progressives are doing, and telescopic psychologizing is notoriously unreliable, not to mention it lets offenders off the hook for what they say. If speech is conscious, it’s not projection, it’s lying. The more likely explanation is that Dems are following the ancient roadmap for reducing a democracy to tyranny: using sophistical rhetoric to gull the masses into giving an elite power outside the normal political protocols. Plato, Aristotle, and Polybius laid out the conditions by which a democracy degenerates into tyranny. An ambitious man or faction, dissatisfied with the normal political processes for obtaining and using power, will win over the masses by redistributing property from the rich to the poor. Other instrument of this process are violence and sophistical rhetoric: The public speeches made during deliberations over policy. Once in power, a tyrant will concentrate more and more power in his and his faction’s hands, bringing about a regime based on violence and injustice. For a century we have been witnessing a slow-motion, “soft” version of this process. Starting with progressive Woodrow Wilson, the Federal government has grown ever larger and more intrusive, concentrating power in federal agencies at the expense of the states, local government, civil society, families, and individuals. Obama’s presidency was the next giant step down the road to tyranny, his policies, especially Obamacare, marking an advance in centralized, concentrated power. The ancient tyrant used violence to consolidate his power; our “soft despots,” as de Tocqueville called them, use federal investigative agencies and the instruments of political accountability to attack their enemies. Over the last three years we watched the FBI, DOJ, and CIA manipulate and abuse their powers to engineer the appointment of a Special Prosecutor armed with investigative and subpoena powers. Their aim was to destroy politically the duly elected president. Along the way they skirted and violated the law, just as ancient tyrants ignored the city-state’s procedures and protocols for using power. When the Mueller investigation failed and the Democrats took back the House of Representatives, they then abused their oversight committee powers to lay the foundation for bringing impeachment charges. Next the traditional protocols of impeachment established in the cases of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton have been abandoned. Rather than the House voting for articles of impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Luca Brasi Adam Schiff have used secret hearings and engineered anonymous “whistleblower” complaints based on second-hand information and mere personal opinion. I suppose it’s a civilizational advance that today our wannabe tyrants use procedure rather than the brutal violence the tyrants of old employed. Back then, another important tool for aggrandizing power was rhetoric. A persistent theme in Athenian literature of the fifth-century B.C. is the dangers of public speeches made by orators trained in the skills of rhetoric by sophists. The main complaint, copiously documented in philosophy and literature, is that the “art of persuasion,” as Aristotle called political oratory, “makes the worse argument the better.” Indeed, sophists had exercises called dissoi logoi that argued both sides of a question. Sophistical rhetoric, then, turns the false, the unjust, and the bad into the true, the just, and the good by manipulating the citizens’ emotions, self-interest, and factional passions. Many Athenians, especially those opposed to the democracy, warned of the dangers of sophistical oratory. For example, Euripides’ Medea, who has been abandoned by Jason for a more politically useful bride, becomes enraged when Jason to her face tries to argue that his betrayal will benefit Medea: “The plausible speaker,” she tells Jason, “who is a villain deserves the greatest punishment.” The dangers of being “slaves to the ear,” as Thucydides’ Cleon describes those who gape at a clever speaker, have been exponentially multiplied in our times. Today we are saturated with information and images 24/7, 365; we are now “slaves to the eye” as well as “slaves to the ear,” for the opportunities for sophistical rhetoric on social media, cable news, and twitter are unlimited, their effects magnified by the power of dramatic images. This explains the pronouncements coming from the House Democrats, echoed by their factotums in the media that quote and film them. Take their complaints, for example, about Trump’s alleged “quid pro quo” that he imposed on the Ukrainians. Yet Dems are silent about Joe Biden’s bragging on video about an actual quid pro quo: His threat to withhold foreign aid until a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company that was paying Biden’s son $50-80 grand a month was fired. This hypocrisy exposes perfectly the essence of sophistry, which is “the big lie,” one people believe despite its transparent falsity. And of course, the whole “Russia collusion” and “interference in our election” crimes were in fact perpetrated not by Trump and the RNC, but by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, with ample help from allegedly non-partisan federal agencies. Meanwhile, the House’s ongoing procedures for impeachment reek of Soviet-era show-trials, in which the accused cannot confront his accusers and cross-examined them––a model pioneered during the Obama era in our colleges and universities with their star chambers that tried accused sexual assaulter. This injustice was corrected by Trump and his Secretary of Education Betsy De Voss. Does anyone think a President Warren or President Biden will not turn back the clock to that ancient judicial instrument of tyranny? For true believers like the bipartisan NeverTrumpers, such blatant falsehoods and unjust procedures are irrelevant as long as they serve to overthrow Trump’s administration, either by a successful impeachment, or by damaging the president enough that he is defeated in 2020. In other words, regime change, the overthrow of a legally elected president, and the disenfranchising of his 63 million supporters. The more long-term cost, of course, will be a quantum leap in the century-long progressive aim of changing our Constitutional republic into a tyrannical technocracy. If that sounds extreme, just listen to the Democrat’s proclaimed policy goals: socialized medicine, gutting the First and Second Amendments, ceding more national sovereignty to the global technocratic elite, and appropriating through ruinous taxation more of the country’s wealth to finance more redistributionist schemes for their clients. Meanwhile, they shrug off the violence and verbal attacks on Republicans by Antifa and other goons, or, like Representative Maxine Waters, they even encourage them. If we allow this coup to happen, we will have proved de Tocqueville a prophet by creating a tyranny “more extensive and more mild [than ancient tyranny],” one that “would degrade men without tormenting him.” ——————- Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and writes for FrontPage Mag. Tags: Bruce Thornton, FrontPage Mag, Democrats, Tyranny, Sophistry To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Biden & Ukraine – Asa & China
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:50 PM PST
Gov. Asa Hutchinsonby Conduit for Action: Governor Asa Hutchinson is one of the few Republicans to join Democrats in calling for a probe of of President Donald Trump for urging the Ukraine government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. Now questions have arisen over whether Hutchinson and his son, Asa III, have their own Hunter Biden type situation, but instead of it being with the Ukraine… its China. Was the Hutchinson Chinese connection a factor in the Governor wanting to investigate the President and not Biden? You may recall, while Joe Biden was Vice President his son Hunter Biden got a sweetheart deal of $50,000 a month to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company despite no experience in the industry. When the Ukrainian government began investigating the company for corruption, Joe Biden and the Obama administration pressured Ukraine to drop the investigation. Enter President Trump, who urged Ukraine to restart its investigations, and since then the media focus has not been on the money making Biden scheme but on whether Trump offered something or withheld something to Ukraine in return for them investigating Joe Biden, a potential opponent in the 2020 election for president. Governor Hutchinson’s son, Asa Hutchinson III, posted this on his Linked-In social media on Tuesday, “Despite the tariff wars, state and local governments in China and the U.S. can still collaborate to strengthen our economic ties. Thank you Tianyuan Garments for bringing us together! #trade” His post included this picture of him and his father with the Chinese delegation. On Tuesday Asa III also posted about more Chinese connections. On Facebook,he posted he was in Beijing, China at the residence of the U.S. Ambassador. The posts by Asa III caused alarm bells to go off at Conduit because we keep seeing the Governor cozy up to China when other Republicans have looked at them with suspicion. We wondered whether Chinese companies were using Asa III like the Ukrainian company used Hunter Biden, only in this instance to get Arkansas taxpayer money through incentives, cut through the red tape of the Hutchinson administration, and perhaps to get Asa to okay the release of discretionary funds. Does it look like the Biden Family …. er … Hutchinson family is cashing in on the Governor’s power and influence and his control of piles of your money? Governor Hutchinson has championed Chinese business at a time when the Trump administration is trying to stop China’s unfair advantage in trade. At a time when Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford, who is on the House Intelligence Committee, is warning Arkansas businesses – Don’t trust China. And it comes at a time when China is still demolishing churches and mosques and arresting their followers. Did you know the Governor still has a law firm, the Asa Hutchinson Law Group? He and his son Asa III are listed as lawyers in the firm. The Governor’s ethics form does not show any income from his law firm, the Asa Hutchinson Law Group, so either he is not taking any money from the firm while he is in office or he is taking income below the reporting level. Even if the Governor is not taking a penny from the law firm right now, he is still lending his name to the business which benefits his son and growing the law firm for the future after he is no longer in public office. Next let’s look at who the firm lists as clients and see if there is any chance there are any Chinese clients. Oh, yes. The firm represents Ty Garments, a Chinese company with a factory in the Little Rock area and which has benefited from Arkansas incentives, in other words your tax money. And then there is Risever another Chinese company that recently located in Jonesboro after receiving incentives funded by your tax money. While Asa’s Arkansas Economic Development Commission is giving your money to Chinese companies to locate in Arkansas, the Asa Hutchinson Law Group is cashing in by representing the Chinese companies considering coming to Arkansas or wanting a smoother ride after locating here. Conduit News with Paul Harrell broke this Wednesday morning and some other media followed suit. It will be interesting to see how or if other media cover the issue. What will the Governor say. “Nothing to see here or ….. it is Trump’s fault somehow.” What do you think about the Bidens … er …. Hutchinsons cashing in on China and using your money to do it? What about the other clients of the Asa Hutchinson Law Group? First, there are other foreign companies and some big-name domestic companies. Are the Bidens … er …. Hutchinsons making money from any of these clients who want an easy path to Arkansas taxpayer money and an easy path through the regulations of the Governor’s administration? ——————- INSIST ON ETHICS REFORM! Despite all the corruption in the past few years, Asa never proposed ANY ethics reform. Humm??? —————— For further coverage of the Biden …. er…. Hutchinson-China relationship see these Conduit News videos. ———————- Conduit for Action promotes freedom and free enterprise policies by effective action that will create a better life for all Arkansas citizens. Tags: Conduit for Action, Biden & Ukraine, Asa & China, Asa Hutchinson, Asa Hutchinson III, Conduit for Action, Conduit News videos To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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5 Things to Watch in Tracking the Future of ISIS
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:18 PM PST
by Robin Simcox:
Almost as soon as it became clear that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
was dead, the revisionism began about whether this was actually a good
thing. Some analysts predicted that al-Baghdadi’s death as a “martyr” would inspire others, becoming a “propaganda bonanza” for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. We should not be so gloomy. The death of such a sadistic killer and serial rapist is unambiguously good news. It was also the last thing that ISIS needed. Caliphate relinquished, the group’s operations inevitably will be disrupted by the death of its emir, especially with Abu Hassan al-Muhajir—a potential successor—killed in a U.S. airstrike just hours later. Still, the demise of the Islamic State’s “caliph” does not mean the fight against Islamist terrorism is over; far from it. As the dust settles on the al-Baghdadi raid, here are five things to look out for in the days and weeks ahead. Firstly, to what extent was the intelligence gleaned from the al-Baghdadi compound sufficient to roll up other ISIS networks? President Donald Trump stated that “we took highly sensitive material and information from the raid, much having to do with ISIS’ origins, future plans” during the raid. It is unclear whether Abu Hassan’s death was linked to the al-Baghdadi intelligence haul, but we should look for signs of the U.S. and its allies across the world hitting ISIS hard in the weeks to come. Secondly, and conversely, we should be cognizant of the possibility of reprisal attacks in the West but not necessarily expect them. Already we have heard pundits speculate about “more attacks within coming days and weeks, as a retaliation for this very high-profile killing.” It can happen: Omar Mateen, the ISIS-inspired shooter who killed 49 and wounded 53 at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June 2016, told police negotiators that his attack was “triggered” by a U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Wahib, a senior ISIS figure, just weeks earlier. This may or may not be true, but as a general rule of thumb, when terrorists say they are doing something for a specific reason, it is often worth treating it seriously. However, we heard similar concerns about reprisal attacks when Osama bin Laden was killed (“Fears of al-Qaeda vengeance after U.S. kills Osama,” warned Reuters) and the same with Anwar al-Awlaki (“‘Revenge’ Strike Feared After al-Awlaki’s death, cautioned ABC News). Those fears turned out to be unfounded, and reprisals for al-Baghdadi’s death are unlikely as well. Believing that ISIS will look to majorly step up its attack planning now implicitly suggests that it has been pulling its punches so far. That’s a rather dubious suggestion. If ISIS can strike in the West, it will, regardless of the strength of al-Baghdadi’s pulse. Thirdly, how does al-Baghdadi’s death affect the future of ISIS strategically? As Hassan Hassan pointed out in The New York Times, ISIS is currently “caught somewhere between being a proto-state and a full-fledged insurgency” in Syria and Iraq. Reconstituting the caliphate in Iraq and Syria is a nonstarter for ISIS in the short term, which means it will surely have to revert to its insurgent roots. Hassan also suspects that the jihad will become increasingly localized following the fall of the caliphate, with less focus on Western attacks. This is certainly a possibility; attacks in the West are certainly down from their 2016-17 peak. Yet vigilance is still required. A U.N. Security Council report from earlier this year noted “the revival of links between individuals in various European countries” and ISIS’ leadership. Internal ISIS files discovered in Syria by The (London) Sunday Times earlier this year also hinted at ISIS having more command and control capacity than sometimes assumed. Fourth, can ISIS remain unified? That ISIS’ affiliates across the globe will remain loyal to al-Baghdadi’s eventual successor is not a given. As terrorism analyst Daveed Gartenstein-Ross pointed out to Voice of America, “The standard bayat [pledge of allegiance] is not to an organization … Bayat is on an individual to individual level.” Al-Baghdadi’s death is not guaranteed to lead to division—after all, al-Qaeda global affiliates stayed the course despite bin Laden’s death—but it is possible. Fifth, what does this mean for al-Qaeda and its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri? There is certainly an opportunity for al-Qaeda to exploit the problems that ISIS is very clearly currently facing by recruiting disillusioned fighters and fundraising off the back of ISIS’ failure to sustain the caliphate (as al-Qaeda warned it would). A possible ISIS and al-Qaeda merger remains speculated upon—speculation not quelled by the discovery that al-Baghdadi was being sheltered in Idlib by a commander in Hurras al-Din, the Syrian group operated by al-Qaeda loyalists—but remains a long shot. However, al-Baghdadi’s death also shines the spotlight more brightly on al-Qaeda’s leader. The U.S. nearly snagged al-Zawahiri on at least one occasion: The CIA narrowed his location down to a specific village in North Waziristan in the 2012-13 period. Now, with al-Baghdadi gone, al-Zawahiri reverts to being the most high-profile terrorist left and also perhaps the one with the most obvious name recognition in the U.S. That should matter to us if for no other reason than that it matters to Trump. As he stated: From the first day I came to office … I would say, ‘Where’s al-Baghdadi? I want al-Baghdadi.’ And we would kill terrorist leaders, but they were names I never heard of, they were names that weren’t recognizable and they weren’t the big names … I kept saying, ‘Where’s al-Baghdadi?’The threat from ISIS and groups like it will remain pronounced. We have become used to that and to reports of the latest suicide bombing, mass shooting, or vehicular attack perpetrated by al-Baghdadi’s acolytes. The past week has been a welcome change: one in which it has been almost exclusively bad news for ISIS. That cannot last. There will certainly be darker weeks ahead in this fight. But al-Baghdadi’s timely death at least presents an opportunity to make some headway in winning it. ———————— Robin Simcox @RobinSimcox is the Margaret Thatcher Fellow at The Heritage Foundation & authored this Article. Tags: Robin Simcox, The Heritage Foundation, 5 Things to Watch, Tracking, Future of ISIS To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. 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Coup Has Started, Order In The Courts, Misplaced Priorities, Needs Your Support
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 07:35 PM PST
Gary Bauerby Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: “Coup Has Started” Mark Zaid is not a household name. Not yet at least. But you’re probably going to hear a lot about him in the days ahead. Zaid is one of the lawyers representing the CIA leaker who colluded with Adam Schiff’s staffers on the House Intelligence Committee to trigger the impeachment of President Trump. As we noted in yesterday’s report, Donald Trump, Jr., named the alleged “whistleblower” in a tweet yesterday — Eric Ciaramella. But I want to focus on Mr. Zaid. Fox News has examined Zaid’s social media accounts and discovered a startling degree of hostility toward the president that began from the very beginning of Trump’s administration. Consider these few examples: On January 30, 2017, reacting to news that President Trump had fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama holdover, Zaid tweeted this: “#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately.”Zaid repeated his threat of a coup the same day in response to Trump naming Yates’ replacement, tweeting: “#coup has started. As one falls, two more will take their place. #rebellion #impeachment.”In May, Zaid tweeted about past presidential impeachments: “Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next up @realDonaldTrump (2017).”A few weeks later, he commented on Watergate, tweeting: “45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I’ll be old, but will be worth the wait.”On July 1, 2017, Zaid wrote that he’d rather be in Canada: “Since Jan 20th, I would much rather be in Canada. What a great country! We’ll be great again when @realDonaldTrump leaves.”Responding the same day to another anti-Trump progressive, Zaid tweeted: “It’s very scary. We will get rid of [Trump], and this country is strong enough to survive even him and his supporters. We have to.”A few days later, on July 4th, Zaid tweeted: “I predict @CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president.”Notice how Zaid’s contempt extends beyond Donald Trump and includes “his supporters.” You know, those 63 million “deplorable and irredeemable” Americans. Fox News adds that Zaid shamelessly pitched his anti-Trump efforts to left-wing Hollywood celebrities, including Cher, Debra Messing and Rob Reiner. He even attempted to offer his services to — wait for it — Michael Avenatti of Julie Swetnick fame. As you may recall, Avenatti is currently facing trial for defrauding his clients and attempting to extort Nike. I think that speaks volumes about Zaid’s credibility. Zaid’s call for a “coup” and “rebellion” should not be dismissed. This should be a huge story. It should be reported as such, but I’m not holding my breath. Zaid should be investigated, and the Deep State leaker should be investigated. It is likely that the alleged “whistleblower” broke the law by failing to disclose his contacts with Adam Schiff’s staff. Order In The Courts! I was honored to join dozens of conservative leaders at the White House yesterday for a ceremony celebrating President Trump’s record number of judicial appointments. So far, the president has nominated and the Republican Senate has confirmed more than 150 judges, including two Supreme Court justices, in less than three years! And there will be more in the weeks and months ahead. The president is ecstatic over these opportunities, and conservatives who care about the Constitution, the rule of law, religious liberty and the right to life should be grateful. When it comes to defending the values of faith, family and freedom, appointing the right judges is perhaps the most important thing any president can do. But there is a long way to go. You can’t undo eight years of Obama appointments in just three or four years. To fundamentally reform the federal courts and fully restore balance to the judiciary, President Trump needs a second term. And if he gets it, we have a tremendous opportunity. Two of the Supreme Court’s liberal justices are 81 and 86 years old. If President Trump gets four more years, we could have a 7-to-2 conservative majority! Misplaced Priorities Columnist Terry Jeffrey notes that we could be headed for a government shutdown due to the misplaced priorities of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats. President Trump is asking Congress for $5 billion in border security funding. But House Democrats have approved only $1.3 billion. And there’s a huge catch: The funds are specifically designated for enhancing “the border security of nations adjacent to conflict areas including Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Tunisia resulting from actions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.” In other words, Democrats will spend your money to secure the borders of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia, but not the borders of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Senate Republicans are offering the president the full $5 billion he requested to secure the southern border. Whether Pelosi and her squad of socialists are willing to compromise remains to be seen. Campaign for Working Familes PAC needs YOUR support today. On November 8, 2016, America dodged a disaster. Had Hillary Clinton prevailed, she would have filled the vacant Scalia seat on the Supreme Court and Anthony Kennedy’s seat a year later. Her appointments would have tipped the balance on the high court to a 6-to-3 liberal super-majority. Everything we care about — the sanctity of life, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, and so much more — would have been lost for a generation or more. Thankfully, Donald Trump and Mike Pence prevailed. We are making tremendous progress across the board! Historic tax cuts.Millions of new jobs created.Record low minority unemployment.Defunding Planned Parenthood.More than 150 judicial confirmations, including two Supreme Court justices.Building a wall to secure our border. But the battle is far from over. In fact, it never ended. The left refuses to accept the results of the 2016 elections. Led by a “Squad” of radical socialists, Nancy Pelosi is trying to impeach President Trump! The left won’t wait until 2020 to get rid of Trump. As the Democrat debates have demonstrated, the radical fringe is driving the Democrat agenda. The candidates are embracing extreme positions on every issue imaginable — from late-term abortion and infanticide to gun confiscation, massive tax increases to free healthcare for illegal aliens, banning fossil fuels to appeasing Iran. No position is too extreme for these candidates! Incredibly, some have even suggested that churches and faith-based organizations teaching and promoting the biblical definition of marriage and family should be stripped of their tax exemptions — fined for their faith! That’s how extreme today’s Democrat Party has become. I know some Republicans may be upset by the president’s tweets or put off by his aggressive style. I have even heard some suggest that losing in 2020 would allow our politics to “return to normal,” that Joe Biden “wouldn’t be that bad.” Perhaps you’ve had friends or family members say something similar. They couldn’t be more wrong! Joe Biden, the supposed “moderate” in the field, is calling for a $700 billion expansion of Obamacare, free healthcare for illegal aliens and taxpayer funding of abortion! In fact, the McClatchy news service recently ran this headline after analyzing Biden’s platform: “Biden Is Labeled A Moderate. But His Agenda Is Far More Liberal Than Hillary Clinton’s.” Just consider these excerpts from the McClatchy report: “On nearly every major issue, Biden has either exponentially increased the scope of what Clinton proposed or advocated for new ideas that most Democrats would have up until recently considered fringe. “The former vice president’s embrace of an unabashedly liberal agenda cuts against some perceptions of him. . . it also underlines just how much — and how rapidly — the Democratic Party has changed in the three years since Clinton was its standard bearer.” Think about this: How does a “President Biden” restrain the left? The answer is obvious — it doesn’t. Socialists would dominate his cabinet and key positions throughout the government. The radicals who smeared Justice Brett Kavanaugh and who are now demanding Trump’s impeachment and Kavanaugh’s impeachment would be emboldened. If the left prevails next November, everything we have accomplished would be undone. NO MORE CONSERVATIVE JUDGES, INCLUDING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.NO MORE PRO-LIFE LEGISLATION.NO MORE PROGRESS ON THE BORDER.NO MORE TAX CUTS.NO MORE REGULATORY ROLLBACKS.Here’s something else to keep in mind: The left’s rage isn’t just about Donald Trump. The progressive left despises you and me and every one of the 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump. Don’t forget that we are “deplorable and irredeemable.” The only thing that can hold back the progressive assault on America is another victory for the Trump/Pence team! And if we succeed, there are tremendous opportunities ahead. For example, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 86. Justice Stephen Breyer is 81. If President Trump makes two more Supreme Court appointments, we could have a 7-to-2 conservative majority! Of course, we also need to hold the Senate so we can continue to confirm President Trump’s conservative nominees. I am committed to doing everything I can to secure a conservative victory in 2020. We MUST reelect President Trump and Vice President Pence.We MUST hold the Senate.We MUST retake the House from Nancy Pelosi and her socialist Squad.But in order for us to continue educating and mobilizing conservative voters. . . Exposing the lies of the liberal media. . . And supporting pro-family, pro-life, pro-Trump candidates. . . CWF MUST rebuild our war chest now. ———————- Gary Bauer (@GaryLBauer) is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of theCampaign for Working Families Tags: Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, Coup Has Started, Order In The Courts, Misplaced Priorities, Needs Your Support To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Liberal Policy Failures Are the Reason for Socialism’s New Appeal
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:46 PM PST
Victor Davis Hansonby Victor Davis Hanson: Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Venezuela are unfree, poor, and failed states. Baathism—a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism—ruined the postwar Middle East. The soft-socialist European Union countries are stagnant and mostly dependent on the U.S. military for their protection. In contrast, current American deregulation, tax cuts, and incentives, and record energy production have given the United States the strongest economy in the world. So why, then, are two of the top three Democratic presidential contenders—Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—either overtly or implicitly running on socialist agendas? Why are the heartthrobs of American progressives—Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.—calling for socialist redistributionist schemes? Why do polls show that a majority of American millennials have a favorable view of socialism? There are lots of catalysts for the new socialism. Massive immigration is changing the demography of the United States. The number of foreign-born U.S. residents and their children has been estimated at almost 60 million, or about 1 in 5 U.S. residents. Some 27% of California residents were born outside of America. Many of these immigrants flee from poor areas of Latin America, Mexico, Africa, and Asia that were wrecked by statism and socialism. Often, they arrive in the U.S. unaware of economic and political alternatives to state socialism. When they reach the U.S.—often without marketable skills and unable to speak English—many assume that America will simply offer a far better version of the statism from which they fled. Consequently, many take for granted that government will provide them an array of social services, and they become supportive of progressive socialism. Another culprit for the new socialist craze is the strange leftward drift of the very wealthy in Silicon Valley, in corporate America and on Wall Street. Some of the new progressive rich feel guilty about their unprecedented wealth. So they champion redistribution as the sort of medieval penance that alleviates guilt. Yet the influential and monied classes usually are so well off that higher taxes hardly affect them. Instead, redistributionist taxation hurts the struggling middle classes. In California, it became hip for wealthy leftists to promote socialism from their Malibu, Menlo Park, or Mill Valley enclaves—while still living as privileged capitalists. Meanwhile, it proved nearly impossible for the middle classes of Stockton and Bakersfield to cope with the reality of crushing taxes and terrible social services. From 2008 to 2017, the now-multimillionaire Barack Obama, first as candidate and then as president, used all sorts of cool socialist slogans, from “spread the wealth around” and “now is not the time to profit” to “you didn’t build that” and “at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” Universities bear much of the blame. Their manipulation of the federal government to guarantee student loans empowered them to jack up college costs without any accountability. Liberal college administrators and faculty did not care much when graduates left campus poorly educated and unable to market their expensive degrees. More than 45 million borrowers now struggle with nearly $1.6 trillion in collective student debt, with climbing interest. That indebtedness has delayed—or ended—the traditional forces that encourage conservatism and traditionalism, such as getting married, having children, and buying a home. Instead, a generation of single, childless, and mostly urban youth feels cheated that their high-priced degrees did not earn them competitive salaries. Millions of embittered college graduates will never be able to pay off what they owe—and want some entity to pay off their debts. In paradoxical fashion, teenagers were considered savvy adults who were mature enough to take on gargantuan loans. But they were also treated like fragile preteens who were warned that the world outside their campus sanctuaries was downright mean, sexist, racist, homophobic, and unfair. Finally, doctrinaire Republicans for decades mouthed orthodoxies of free rather than fair trade. They embraced the idea of creative destruction of industries, but without worrying about the real-life consequences for the unemployed in the hollowed-out, red-state interior. Add up a lost generation of woke and broke college graduates, waves of impoverished immigrants without much knowledge of American economic traditions, wealthy advocates of boutique socialism, and asleep-at-the-wheel Republicans, and it becomes clear why historically destructive socialism is suddenly seen as cool. Regrettably, sometimes the naive and disaffected must relearn that their pie-in-the sky socialist medicine is far worse than the perceived malady of inequality. And unfortunately, when socialists gain power, they don’t destroy just themselves. They usually take everyone else down with them as well. —————— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) is a senior fellow, classicist and historian at the and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution where many of his articles are found; his focus is classics and military history. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. H/T The Daily Signal. Tags: Victor Davis Hanson, Liberal Policy Failures, Are the Reason, Socialism’s New Appeal To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Schiff Bloviates on ‘Patriotic’ Impeachment Inquiry
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:33 PM PST
. . . “Whistleblower” attorney exposed as a leftist hack who called for a coup against Trump. by Thomas Gallatin: Eleven days into President Donald Trump’s presidency, the attorney currently representing the “whistleblower,” Mark Zaid, tweeted, “#coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately.” Zaid was responding to Trump having just fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates over her refusal to uphold his temporary travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries. Later in July 2017, Zaid tweeted, “I predict @CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president. We will get rid of him, and this country is strong enough to survive even him and his supporters.” Isn’t it amazing that Zaid’s client is now at the center of that impeachment effort? We have repeatedly noted ever since Trump won the election that Democrats have been committed to obstructing his agenda and, if possible, removing him from office. Following Robert Mueller’s investigation blowing up in their faces, Democrats determined that coup attempt 2.0 would be fully under their control. Thus the current orchestrated “whistleblower” impeachment push. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has been orchestrating this entire impeachment coup attempt from the very beginning, sought to defend his and Democrats’ actions in a USA Today op-ed. Schiff falsely claims to have engaged in this impeachment charade based entirely on nonpartisan motives. But as Zaid’s statements make plain, nothing could be further from the truth. First off, Schiff begs the question of Trump’s guilt, claiming that he abused “the power of the presidency.” Schiff then suggests that Trump’s attempt to investigate the origins of the Russian-collusion hoax (coup 1.0) is the president seeking his own “personal, political interests.” In fact, it is actually in the national interest of our republic that Trump investigate and ferret out those deep-state and foreign actors who sought to undermine a duly elected president. Defending the Democrats’ secretive impeachment inquiry, Schiff writes, “The interviews we have conducted have been thorough, professional and fair … in line with best investigative practices. … We have held these interviews in private to ensure that witnesses are not able to tailor their testimony to align with others at the expense of truth.” If this were the case, then why did Schiff and company regularly and selectively leak portions of these testimonies to the press? How does this not muddy the waters, especially when every Democrat runs around declaring the president guilty of an impeachable offense? Schiff then claims that all the witnesses are “dedicated, nonpartisan public servants” who “are American patriots and shining examples of what it means to defend and protect our Constitution.” That’s ridiculous, given that 99% of the political donations from these “nonpartisan public servants” within the State Department went to Hillary Clinton. That doesn’t appear very nonpartisan to most folks. Furthermore, calling deep-state actors who worked to resist and ultimately to impeach a duly elected president is anything but “patriotic.” Zaid was closer with his hashtags of “coup” and “rebellion.” ——————- Thomas Gallatin is a contributing author and staff analyst at The Patriot Post. Tags: Thomas Gallatin, The Patriot Post, Schiff Bloviates, Patriotic’ Impeachment Inquiry To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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‘Coup Has Started,’ Whistleblower’s Attorney Said In 2017 Posts Calling For Impeachment
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 05:35 PM PST
Sean Hannityby Gregg Re
Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the intelligence community
whistleblower at the center of the Democrats’ ongoing impeachment
inquiry, tweeted conspicuously in January 2017 that a “coup has started”
and that “impeachment will follow ultimately.” Then, in July 2017, Zaid remarked, “I predict @CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president.” Also that month, Zaid tweeted, “We will get rid of him, and this country is strong enough to survive even him and his supporters.” Amid a slew of impeachment-related posts, Zaid assured his Twitter followers that “as one falls, two more will take their place,” apparently referring to Trump administration employees who defy the White House. Zaid promised that the “coup” would occur in “many steps.” The tweets, which came shortly after President Trump fired then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates for failing to defend federal laws in court, are likely to fuel Republican concerns that the anonymous whistleblower’s complaint is tainted with partisanship. Trump’s call with Ukraine’s leader, which is the subject of the complaint, occurred in July 2019. “The whistleblower’s lawyer gave away the game,” the Trump campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, told Fox News. “It was always the Democrats’ plan to stage a coup and impeach President Trump and all they ever needed was the right scheme. They whiffed on Mueller so now they’ve settled on the perfectly fine Ukraine phone call. This proves this was orchestrated from the beginning.” Added House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy: “We should take [Zaid] at his word that this is a coordinated, premeditated plot to overturn the election.” Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats and partisans in the intelligence community of effectively plotting a coup against him, through selective leaks and lengthy investigations. #coup has started. First of many steps. #rebellion. #impeachment will follow ultimately. #lawyers https://t.co/FiNBQo6v0S— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) January 31, 2017“45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I’ll be old, but will be worth the wait,” Zaid wrote in June 2017. He emphasized his interest in impeachment in a variety of other posts. “Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next up @realDonaldTrump (2017),” he said in May. In a statement to Fox News on Wednesday, Zaid defended his posts as common sentiments. “Those tweets were reflective and repeated the sentiments of millions of people,” Zaid said. “I was referring to a completely lawful process of what President Trump would likely face as a result of stepping over the line, and that particularly whatever would happen would come about as a result of lawyers. The coup comment referred to those working inside the Administration who were already, just a week into office, standing up to him to enforce recognized rules of law.“ Fox News has previously reported on social media posts by Zaid that highlighted what appeared to be open animus toward the president. Although Zaid described Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as a “mature professional,” and circulated articles that touted the reliability of the largely discredited Steele dossier used by the FBI to surveil a former member of Trump’s campaign, Zaid has repeatedly unloaded on the president in no uncertain terms. And 45 years from now we might be recalling stories regarding the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump. I’ll be old, but will be worth the wait https://t.co/x6rvUIJJdL— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) June 20, 2017“I’m not a Trump fan,” Zaid said on a podcast last year. “I go out of my way on Twitter to say ‘#Resistance.’ It’s not a resistance against the GOP or a Republican — I don’t think [Trump] is a Republican, quite frankly.” (Zaid also boasted that he has sued “every” president since 1993, and pursues “them all,” regardless of party affiliation.) Also in the podcast, Zaid acknowledged that he had been fishing for plaintiffs to launch a lawsuit concerning the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., alleging unfair competition by the president and his associates. “The unfair competition becomes, when Donald Trump became president, he has exploited his use of the presidency, of the Oval Office. … to send business to the hotel. … We identified this as a cause of action, and we were looking for a plaintiff, and we finally found this one restaurant that was willing,” Zaid admitted. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit last year. Johnson (1868), Nixon (1973), Clinton (1998) impeachment hearings. Next up @realDonaldTrump (2017) pic.twitter.com/hdaxVIWSy9— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) May 9, 2017Zaid also had something of an open casting call for whistleblowers on Twitter as Trump took office, writing that CIA employees should “come to” his law firm “to lawfully challenge” the new president. Zaid publicly requested that celebrities Debra Messing, Nancy Sinatra, Cher and Rob Reiner help promote his whistleblower law firm. “@cher please check out our new whistleblower page,” Zaid wrote in one tweet, which garnered no response from the famed singer. In February, Zaid escalated his pitch to Reiner, asserting that “we have a chance to depose” Trump in court. At one point last year, Zaid even pitched his services to Michael Avenatti, after the now-embattled attorney mentioned that he was “now representing whistleblowers within ICE.” Another of the whistleblower’s attorneys, Andrew Bakaj, tweeted in August 2017 that Trump should be removed under the 25th Amendment, which applies to incapacitated presidents. Sen Corker (R-Tenn) bravely argues Trump hasn’t shown stability, competence needed in WH. His views deserve serious attn @cnn @AC360— David Gergen (@David_Gergen) August 18, 2017The posts have surfaced as Republicans demand that the anonymous whistleblower come forward and testify. On Sunday, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, rejected an offer from Zaid for the whistleblower to anonymously provide written answers to GOP questions. “Written answers will not provide a sufficient opportunity to probe all the relevant facts and cross-examine the so-called whistleblower,” Jordan said. “You don’t get to ignite an impeachment effort and never account for your actions and role in orchestrating it.” Zaid acknowledged in a statement in October that his client “has come into contact with presidential candidates from both parties” — but insisted that the contact involved the politicians’ roles as “elected officials – not as candidates.” Not shocking at all. I predict @CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president https://t.co/7QPOxATrBS— Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) July 4, 2017His abrupt disclosure came shortly after The Washington Examiner reported that Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson told lawmakers the whistleblower worked “or had some type of professional relationship” with one of the Democratic presidential candidates, citing three sources familiar with Atkinson’s interview with lawmakers last month. Zaid and the other whistleblower attorneys did assert that the whistleblower “has never worked for or advised a political candidate, campaign or party” — leaving open the possibility that the whistleblower did advise a current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate prior to his or her run for office. “The whistleblower is not the story,” the attorneys said. “To date, virtually every substantive allegation has been confirmed by other sources. For that reason, the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant.” Lawyer for the anti-Trump whistleblower: “we will get rid of” Trump pic.twitter.com/ZAU7aCeDfO— Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@MattWolking) November 6, 2019But Republicans have challenged that claim, noting that various statements in the whistleblower claim have seemingly proved inaccurate. For example, the whistleblower complaint stated that Trump made a “specific request that the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike” — a request that does not appear in the declassified transcript of the call released by the Trump administration. Trump mentioned CrowdStrike, but did not demand the server. Meanwhile, Democrats on Wednesday released a transcript of testimony from U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor in which he claimed to have a “clear understanding” that Trump wanted to leverage military aid to Ukraine in return for investigations that could benefit him politically — while acknowledging he didn’t have firsthand knowledge of “what was in the president’s mind.” “That was my clear understanding, security assistance money would not come until the President [of Ukraine] committed to pursue the investigation,” Taylor said. Taylor is a top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine who has emerged as a key figure of interest in the Trump impeachment inquiry, having alleged a quid pro quo was at play despite White House denials. The transcript shows that Taylor testified he had been told by other officials that the White House was willing to hold up both military aid and a prospective White House meeting with Ukraine’s president to extract a public announcement from Kiev that probes related to election interference and a company linked to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son were underway. The lawyer behind the so-called whistleblower has been calling for a “coup” against the President of the United States since January 2017. We should take him at his word that this is a coordinated, premeditated plot to overturn the election.https://t.co/RejktfqU4s— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) November 7, 2019“That’s what Ambassador Sondland said,” Taylor said, referring to E.U. ambassador Gordon Sondland. “He said that they were linked. They were linked.” But Republicans have countered that Taylor did not have primary knowledge regarding the key events in question, but rather based his testimony off conversations with others. In one exchange between GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin and Taylor during his deposition, Taylor was asked whether he had any firsthand knowledge of Trump conditioning an investigation into the 2016 election and the Bidens on military aid. Taylor said he did not speak to the president, or have any direct communication with the president regarding the requests for investigations. Instead, he said he was basing much of his testimony on what former United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker and Sondland told him. ——————- Gregg Re (@gregg_re) is a lawyer and editor based in Los Angeles and shared article on FoxNews.com. 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Misfire . . .
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:55 PM PST
. . . Trump releasing the Ukraine Phone transcript blew up Schiff’s quid pro quo coup impeachment plans. Editorial Cartoon by AF “Tony” BrancoTags: AF Branco, editorial cartoon, Misfire, Trump, releasing the Ukraine Phone transcript, blew up Schiff’s, quid pro quo coup, impeachment plans To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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America Should Take A Page From Israel’s Book On Mexico Cartels
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:46 PM PST
by Russ Vaughn:
The United States of America has long recognized the right of Israel to
defend its borders against terrorist incursions by deploying the
Israeli Defense Force, one of the most lethal military forces in the
world. Even more significant is that our country has also either green-lighted or turned a blind eye to Israel’s counter-terror operations outside its borders to include commando raids and aerial operations, both missile strikes and bombing raids. We have supported Israel in its forceful counter-terror efforts along its borders and within surrounding nations for good reason: Israel has real enemies who pose a real threat to the lives of innocent Israeli citizens. Well, guess what: so do we, as was made amply evident by the horrendous assassination of American women and children in northern Mexico this week by members of one of many out-of-control terrorist drug cartels operating with impunity in our socialist neighbor to the south. These drug cartels have been killing Americans by the tens of thousands with lethal drugs, for decades, and doing so with virtual immunity from American retribution because the chickenhawks in Congress would rather defend Kurds in Syria than Mormons in Mexico. Our federal government spends tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to protect murky, questionable national interests throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and who knows where else in the world, but for some unfathomable reason, it steadfastly refuses to protect our very real, very vital, crystal-clear national interests on our own southern border. The cartels rampage and pillage throughout Mexico because they rightly have no fear of the government there, which just recently released a captured cartel leader when cartel terrorists threatened the government with dire retribution if they refused. The spineless government in Mexico City caved, proclaiming their intent to win this internal war with the cartels with hugs — I kid you not. When our president offered to deploy American forces to assist Mexico’s war against the cartels, the socialist head of government rebuffed that offer while deploring the term “war” to describe the status quo. One has to wonder just what you call it when armed cartel troops are taking over cities within your nation if it is not war. But then, one also must remember that this is a Kumbaya lefty who intends to win with hugs. Like millions of Americans, I’m sick of this craven negligence by both governments, Mexico and ours, and am solidly supportive of our president deploying American military assets to engage these cartel terrorists, just as we would if we had the survival instincts of our courageous Jewish allies. Hit their known headquarters and their vehicle caravans with guided smart bombs fired from totally deniable stealth drones lurking offshore in the Pacific Ocean or Gulf of Mexico. Mexico’s air defenses mirror their government, laughably ineffective, so what can they do about it? If they appeal to the United Nations, we invoke our sovereign right to protect our citizens in the absence of Mexico’s refusal to do so. And we go right on smart-bombing those ruthless killers until they become like terrorists in the Middle East, afraid to move, to even raise their heads. Most importantly, we must emulate Israel in its determination to defend its borders by deploying highly mobile units of the Special Operations Command into a presidentially designated “national emergency operations area” for the purpose of intercepting cartel incursions across our southern border, with a standing mission assignment of inflicting maximum lethal casualties in every engagement. I wonder how Gen. George Patton, who served as an aide to General “Blackjack” Pershing on the Pancho Villa Expedition, would deal with these lawless, terrorist cartels that now have Mexico’s government and our Congress cowering in fear. Somehow, I think he might enthusiastically employ the Israeli option. ——————- Russ Vaughn shares his article on the American Thinker. Tags: Russ Vaughn, American Thinker, America, should take a page, Israel’s book, on Mexico Cartels To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Blue Colorado Big Spenders
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:25 PM PST
by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: “The Trump years may have cemented Colorado’s blue-state status — time will tell,” writes Alex Burness in the Denver Post, “but voters in the Centennial State continue to hold a hard line on anything that has even a whiff [of] new tax.” Burness is talking about Proposition CC, a measure placed on Tuesday’s ballot by the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature, which would have allowed state government to keep and spend $37 million annually coming into government coffers over the state’s constitutional spending cap, rather than refunding those dollars to taxpayers as required by the Taxpayer Bill of Rights passed back in the 1990s. The elite supporters of Proposition CC devoted more than $4 million to promoting the measure, outspending opponents better than two-to-one and arguing that government desperately needed the money for education and transportation. Opponents cried foul over the official ballot summary voters read, which began with the words “Without a tax increase . . .” “But the measure lost,” Burness informs, “and it wasn’t close.” “The measure’s failure amounts to a significant victory for supporters of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights,” Colorado Public Radio reports. “That constitutional amendment requires voter approval for all tax increases, sets a revenue limit for every government in the state and requires any surpluses be returned to taxpayers.” “Who’s in charge?” TABOR author Douglas Bruce asked years ago. “We, the people, who earn the money, or the politicians who want to spend it?” The answer from supposedly blue-leaning Colorado voters was unequivocal. This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. —————— Paul Jacob (@Common_Sense_PJ ) is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service. Tags: Paul Jacob, Common Sense, Blue Colorado, Big Spenders To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Kamala Harris Blames American Racism for Failed Campaign
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:02 PM PST
Daniel Greenfieldby Daniel Greenfield:
Senator Kamala Harris polled at 3% in last month’s Quinnipiac poll.
That must make the San Fran and Hollywood donors who stuffed $11.6
million in her pantsuit pockets this quarter feel good about giving to
charity. A quarter of Iowa Democrat caucus goers have a negative opinion of Harris. That’s up minus eleven points since June. So, Harris is making weekly trips to Iowa while claiming that she’s going to move there. Not even Democrats are stupid enough to believe that she’s going to leave her Brentwood mansion to move to a place where the temperatures are currently hovering around the low thirties. And her Iowa stump speech is now all about accusing anyone who doesn’t vote for her of racism. In her speeches, Harris claims that “electability”, the question of whether a candidate polling 3% nationwide can beat President Trump, is the “elephant in the room—but actually more accurately, the donkey in the room.” There’s a donkey in the room all-right. Or maybe it’s a jackass. “It’s been coming up in connection to my campaign: is America ready for that? Are they ready for a woman of color to be President of the United States?” Harris insists. When Harris tried this line in an Axios on HBO interview, a baffled Margaret Talev asked, “America was ready for a black man to be President of the United States.” And, in response, Harris spent 30 seconds spewing inane gibberish. But who are the sexist pigs who aren’t ready for a woman to be President of the United States? Senator Harris polls at 5% among men and only 2% among women. Either women aren’t ready for a female president. Or women just don’t like Kamala. And where’s the outpouring of support from black voters? Black voters aren’t as stingy with their support for Kamala as white voters. While only 3% of white voters support Harris, a whopping 4% of black voters are ready to choose her as their candidate. Maybe that 1% difference can be explained by racism? But that doesn’t explain why 20% of black voters rate her unfavorably. Maybe the 96% of black voters and 98% of women who aren’t backing Kamala just aren’t “ready for a woman of color to be President of the United States.” Or, and this is a stunning idea, maybe they aren’t ready for Kamala Harris. Or Kamala Harris isn’t ready. But, instead of blaming herself, Senator Kamala Devi Harris is blaming America. The vast majority of it which isn’t supporting her. And there’s only one possible reason they aren’t supporting her. Racism. Harris began her campaign ascendancy by accusing Joe Biden of racism. It’s only fitting that she’s wrapping it up by implying that her lack of support isn’t her fault, but the fault of an intolerant nation. Electability, a problem caused by her own poor poll numbers, is really a sign of racial unreadiness. In Iowa, Senator Harris claimed that the question of whether voters were ready for a “woman of color” is “a conversation that’s come up in every single time in every election that I’ve—now, here’s the operative word—won.” Kamala’s opponent in the 2016 Senate race was Loretta Sanchez, a fellow Democrat and “woman of color”. The two questions voters faced in that election was how California had turned into a one-party state, and whether to vote for the “woman of color” who had said racist things about the Vietnamese or the “woman of color” who had slept her way to the top courtesy of one of the state’s crookedest Dems. Since Kamala raised $15 million and spent $14 million, while Sanchez had about $4 million, it was easy. But, just as Kamala launched her bid with a revisionist history of growing in the segregated South, in Berkeley, her revisionist history of her 2016 election, has her fighting racist white male intolerance. It’s pathetic. This time around, she raised over $36 million, and spent $25 million of it, to poll at 3%. But that’s after an initial surge of enthusiasm that saw her break fundraising records and make it to the first tier. What happened? Kamala opened her mouth. Her unfavourability ratings now routinely poll in the negative forties. It’s not just the shameless race-baiting. It’s also her utter inauthenticity. Trying to pretend that she’s polling at 3% because Obama voters aren’t ready to vote for black people, and women aren’t prepared to vote for women, and black people aren’t willing to vote for black people, is exactly the reason why even Democrats hate her. Voters have gotten tired of the lies, the flip-flopping, and the constant racial appeals as if she had come out of a ghetto in Detroit, Newark or Chicago, instead of being a privileged woman who grew up with her Indian scientist mother in Canada. Kamala Harris bet her entire campaign on racial identity politics. She assumed that she could break off Joe Biden’s black support and combine that with white lefties yearning for another Obama. None of her bets paid off. Nor did the bets of the donors who lost $36 million on her campaign. Instead of laying out a vision, the former socialite relied on the personal charm that made her a hit among San Francisco’s wealthy lefties. But the transparent phoniness that won over her old social set hasn’t translated well to a national stage. And her constant transformations, pretending that she’s about to move to Iowa, and then complaining that Iowans are racist, just make it obvious how fake she is. But no matter how badly Kamala fails, she can always blame it on racism. This is a problem and it’s a bigger than Willie Brown’s former mistress playing her last race card. Kamala Harris blaming racism, instead of her bad decisions, means that she never has to take any responsibility. Instead, somehow, the entire country is to blame for not being “ready” for her historic candidacy. That’s a disgusting smear of millions of people, Democrats, Republicans, men and women, white people and black people. It cynically uses race and gender to divide the country while obscuring the actual problems of racism. And it shields perpetrators of racial divisiveness like her from accountability. Kamala Harris can never fail. Her failures are America’s failures. The worse she fails; the worse America must be. Instead of leaving the race having learned something, she stumbles to the exit, having learned nothing except that even if shameless racial huckstering can’t win a half-Indian politician from Brentwood the election, it can deflect attention from how she squandered her lead, alienated her voters, and wasted tens of millions of dollars of other people’s money to poll at 3%. ——————- Daniel Greenfield (@Sultanknish) is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an investigative journalist and writer focusing on radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Tags: Daniel Greenfield, Sultanknish, Kamala Harri, Blames American Racism, for Failed Campaign To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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How Trump Is Reshaping the Courts
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:48 PM PST
by Rob Bluey:
President Donald Trump’s two Supreme Court picks, Justices Neil Gorsuch
and Brett Kavanaugh, may be his highest-profile judicial nominations,
but they are just two of the 157 men and women who have reshaped the
federal judiciary. “One out of every 4 active judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals have been appointed by President Trump,” says Adam Kennedy, deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of communications at the White House, in an interview with The Daily Signal. “And the average age is actually a full 10 years younger for these justices than under President [Barack] Obama.” Trump celebrated his administration’s judicial appointments at a White House ceremony Wednesday. He gathered with U.S. senators and other supporters to mark the occasion. Kennedy spoke to The Daily Signal about Trump’s success and also provided an update on impeachment. Read the lightly edited transcript of the interview below, or listen on the podcast. Rob Bluey: We’re joined on The Daily Signal Podcast by Adam Kennedy, deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of communications at the White House. Adam, thanks for taking the time to do the interview. Adam Kennedy: Thanks so much for having me on. Bluey: We’re going to get to impeachment in just a few moments, but first, Adam, I want to ask you about some news that doesn’t get the attention that it deserves. Since President Trump took office, this administration has worked with Congress to confirm 157 federal judges. Again, that’s 157 federal judges. It includes 43 judges to federal circuit courts and two new justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Can you tell us why this is a priority for President Trump? Kennedy: I think what we’re doing really is reshaping the courts of this country that have long been dominated by Democratic appointees. Right now … 1 out of every 4 active judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals have been appointed by President Trump. And the average age is actually a full 10 years younger for these justices than under President [Barack] Obama. So I think what the president is doing is putting a lasting stamp on the courts that are going to go well past his second term. Bluey: The Heritage Foundation has a Judicial Appointment Tracker. It puts President Trump ahead of every president since Ronald Reagan at this point in their presidencies, including 54 more confirmations than President Obama had at this time. How has President Trump been able to accomplish this? Kennedy: Well, we’ve been pushing really hard and working hand-in-hand with the Senate to make sure that we have qualified judges on these courts, judges who are going to interpret the Constitution as written. And to make sure that they move at a quick pace, and that we have the most qualified people capable to sit on the benches. And then we’re seeing the results. We’ve actually already flipped two different courts. The [2nd] Circuit and the 11th have already flipped over because of this. … And we’re going to continue to make progress. Bluey: Last week, the American Bar Association came under fire for its rating of Lawrence VanDyke, who is a nominee for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The nominee was actually moved to tears during his Senate confirmation hearing. … Now for years, we’ve heard about the 9th Circuit being out of touch. Today, President Trump is close to having 13 judges confirmed for that circuit. How is that going to transform the judiciary? Kennedy: Those are actually some of the most important judges because only a few cases actually get picked up by the Supreme Court. The appellate level, the circuit level, those are where a lot of the cases are heard and where a lot of the lasting decisions are made, and where a lot of precedent is made. So by making progress there, the president’s really putting a lasting imprint on how the Constitution will be interpreted going forward, and it’s going to be interpreted as it was written. Bluey: Of course, these confirmations have happened despite obstruction from Senate Democrats. President Trump’s nominees have faced more cloture votes, more roll call votes, and greater opposition than any of his predecessors. Tom Jipping of The Heritage Foundation says Trump nominees have faced 18 times the amount of opposition as the judges appointed by his five predecessors at this point. What does that say to you? Kennedy: I think it’s pretty obvious that Democrats are trying to score political points, and they’re trying to hold up the process as much as possible. They failed repeatedly, and we’re going to continue to push forward. But obviously, this isn’t just about qualifications. This is about the fact that they see the president making so much progress and they want to get in the way. Bluey: You’ve had a couple of rulings go your way, particularly at the Supreme Court level, I think of when it comes to those who are coming into this country and also, you have some big immigration decisions that have gone your way. How important is it to maintaining the policies that this White House supports and have been carried out through executive actions to have these judges in place? Kennedy: Absolutely. What we’ve seen is that the actions that this president has taken have been entirely based in law, based in the Constitution, based on the power that is given to the president. And more and more, we need judges to uphold that and to see that the Constitution as written has … granted to the president these powers. And by having these judges there, we’re getting the results that we’ve been arguing for. Bluey: Finally on this topic, Adam, let me ask you, because we obviously all saw what happened to Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh and we see it to a lesser extent with some of the appellate court nominees and even district court nominees, what is President Trump’s message to these judges who want to serve their country and do their civic duty of giving back in this way? Kennedy: To stand strong, to stand by their principles and their beliefs, and to not let the Democrats try and tear them down. I think what we’ve seen is that time and time again, the Democrats have tried and failed to take shots at our well-qualified nominees. And time and time again, we’ve stood by them, we’ve stood with them through this process. Bluey: OK, Adam, thanks for bringing us up to speed on the judiciary. I’d like to shift gears to impeachment. What’s your reaction to some of the latest developments coming out of Capitol Hill today and earlier this week? Kennedy: I think it’s pretty clear now why they kept some of these secrets for so long, and it’s because there’s really not a whole lot there that’s supportive of the Democratic case. Just yesterday we saw a transcript from [Gordon] Sondland released, who is our ambassador to the EU. He clearly states that he does not know why or by whom the aid to Ukraine was held up. And so the idea that he could have knowledge of some quid pro quo but not know why the aid was held up seems a little preposterous. At the same time, you have [Kurt] Volker, who is our actual ambassador on the ground, say that there absolutely was no quid pro quo at any level. So I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the Democratic case, whatever it was to begin with, is quickly falling apart. Bluey: How is this administration preparing to fight the attacks being mounted by [House Intelligence] Chairman Adam Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Kennedy: I think we’re going to fight it every step of the way. We’re going to point out where the process is wrong, how poorly it’s been handled. This is a process that was started with a podium announcement. I mean, really the first time in history that Congress, really the Democrats in Congress, decided to use their exceptional power to try and impeach a president by holding a press conference, not holding a vote. [They] then went right into secret hearings where no due process was provided. They had a sham vote where the only bipartisan part of it was bipartisan opposition to it. And now we’re seeing with these transcripts that there is even less there than they were originally saying. The president’s been saying this whole time, they did nothing wrong. He released the transcripts showing he did nothing wrong. Yet, Democrats are pushing this because they want to overturn 2016 and now try to interfere in 2020. Bluey: You have a House speaker who has talked about the importance of it being a bipartisan effort, and, of course, as you referenced, the vote was hardly such. It was two Democrats voting with Republicans against starting the impeachment inquiry. What did it mean to this president to have that unified support among Republicans? Kennedy: I think it’s fantastic and I think the fact that Nancy Pelosi couldn’t even keep her party together on this shows how weak their case is. And Nancy Pelosi repeatedly said she wanted it to be a bipartisan effort if she was going to go forward. She went forward anyways, and it was a bipartisan effort against it. So I really think Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff have to take stock of where they’re at right now. Bluey: As the Democrats focus on impeachment, there’s still much work to be done. Government funding runs out on Nov. 21. … As the Democrats focus on impeachment, there’s still much work to be done in Congress. You have some pieces of legislation, including a government funding bill that needs to be done by Nov. 21. What are the prospects for getting this and other things done during an impeachment inquiry? Kennedy: We want to work with the Democrats to pass these important measures. And there’s other ones as well. There’s securing our border, there’s lower[ing] drug prices, there’s USMCA [the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement]. But time and time again, what we’ve seen the Democrats really interested in is try[ing] to win an impeachment [because] they weren’t able to win through an election, and that’s getting this president out of office. This president will continue to try and work with them. But at the end of the day, it’s up to the Democrats if they’re willing to put this politics aside and actually get things done for the American people. Bluey: You brought up USMCA. We recently heard from Vice President Mike Pence here at The Heritage Foundation about the importance of moving that forward. It seems that there would be the Democrats in favor of it to get this across the finish line. What are the prospects of having something like that come up for a vote here before the end of the year? Kennedy: We’re hopeful. We want Pelosi to take action on it. We’ve been asking for it for quite some time. We’ve seen our main trading partners, Mexico and Canada, take more action than the Democrats in Congress have been willing to. And we’ll continue to push them to make sure this gets passed. Bluey: Well, Adam, the recent events on Capitol Hill don’t seem to be slowing down President Trump, who was on the road again this week in Kentucky. As someone who has worked at the White House from the start of his administration, how is he handling these things and what are his prospects for what the future holds? Kennedy: I think he’s incredibly happy with his accomplishments. There’s still a lot more to get done and we’ll continue to push forward. But I think, of course, it’s frustrating when Democrats continually try to stand in the way, continually try to divert intention to impeachment. This president’s not going to be distracted, though, he’s going to continue to push forward and make sure he gets done for the American people what he promised. Bluey: This week we saw the tragic news coming out of Mexico about the cartel killing of a Mormon family. President Trump, of course, has talked about immigration throughout his presidency. What is his latest message as news of this surfaces? Kennedy: The president has been talking about it and warning about the dangers of cartels since his first campaign. He’s continued to throughout his presidency [on this]. He wants to work with Mexico and he wants to work with other partners to make sure we take a strong stance. What happened was a tragedy, an absolute tragedy, as the president said. He reached out to the president of Mexico and will continue to offer assistance and support however necessary. Bluey: Well, Adam, thank you so much for taking the time to visit with The Daily Signal today. We appreciate your giving us an update on these important topics. We look forward to talking to you again soon. Kennedy: Thanks so much for having me on. I appreciate it. —————– Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) is editor in chief of The Daily Signal, the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation. Tags: Rob Bluey, The Daily Signal, Trump, reshaping the courts To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Global Warming Alarmists Out Themselves — Again
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:23 PM PST
by J. Frank Bullitt, I & I Editorial Board:
The global warming true believers are convinced of their moral
superiority. In their minds, they’re just better people. But better
people don’t advocate thinning of the human population. The alarmists
do. A group of “more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world” has declared “clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” and recommends leaving fossil fuels “in the ground,” replaced by low-carbon renewable energy sources. Nothing new there. Crackpots have been predicting the end of the world for probably as long as man has existed. This group, though, also believes that because the global population is “still increasing by roughly 80 million people per year, or more than 200,000 per day,” it “must be stabilized — and, ideally, gradually reduced — within a framework that ensures social integrity.” By what authority do these scientists believe they have the right to reduce the number of humans? And through what mechanism do they propose to use to reach their goal? Henry I. Miller, a physician, molecular biologist, and Pacific Research Institute senior fellow, as well as a contributing editor on these pages, says “the scientists’ assumption of a ‘climate emergency’ requiring policymakers imminently to introduce not only radical changes to energy, food, and economic policies but also population control, verges on the hysterical.” Others have already crossed that line. The urge to control human reproduction is more common than one might think. Wikipedia’s page for “population concern organizations” lists 12 groups just in the U.S., and another 11 around the world, with one network of academic researchers called Population Europe. These groups, and our 11,000 or so scientists, seem to have a common bond with the nasty people throughout history who have wanted to improve the genetic quality of humanity by selecting out less-desirable groups. In modern America, those groups might be the “deplorables” and “deniers” among us. Don’t think it couldn’t happen here? In our not-so-long-ago past, the 20th century, in fact, “roughly 70,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized” in the U.S., says Chelsea Follett, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute. It was done under the authority of “‘eugenic’ legislation,” and the horrors were justified as a means “to improve the population by preventing people thought to have inferior genes from having children.” This makes us wonder: Who would the 11,000 scientists target for population control? Their manifesto tells us they “stand ready to assist decision-makers in a just transition to a sustainable and equitable future.” Do they already have a gene pool in mind that they wish to pare down? Columbia University professor Matthew Connelly compiled a history of the population control movement that became “Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population.” Published in 2008, it is the story, says the author, “of how some people have tried to control others without having to answer to anyone.” “They could be ruthless and manipulative in ways that were, and are, shocking,” Connelly wrote. One striking example of the heartlessness behind population control comes from Garrett Hardin, an ecologist who supported sterilization. In 1968, he wrote an essay in which he declared “the freedom to breed is intolerable.” Decades later, he held out China’s population-control policy as something the U.S. might be able to learn from. “There is no talk in China of a woman’s ‘right’ to reproduce or of married couples’ ‘right to privacy,’” he wrote. The coercion used in that country to slow population growth — when “a woman who gets pregnant without permission is pressured by her sisters to have an abortion,” for example — “should be compared to forcing a Westerner to pick up the litter he or she has dropped on the ground in a public park.” Readers can draw their own conclusions as to whether or not he saw humans as no more than garbage dumped on the planet. Naturally the 11,000 will deny that their methods will be “ruthless and manipulative,” and at the same time swear their motives pure. But population control has been historically sought out of “kindness,” says climate justice activist Simon Butler, who reviewed Connelly’s book. Its traffickers insist it’s “a benevolent measure that can lift people out of poverty, hunger and underdevelopment.” But as H.L. Mencken famously said, “the urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” And we know that is exactly what drives the global warming alarmists. ——————– J. Frank Bullitt writes for the Issues & Insights. I & I Editorial Board’s new site is formed by the seasoned journalists behind the legendary IBD Editorials page. Tags: J. Frank Bullitt, Issues & Insights, Global Warming, Alarmists Out Themselves, Again To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Gang Green Lobbies to Abort More Kids
Posted: 07 Nov 2019 12:43 PM PST
by Tony Perkins:
Donald Trump is more committed than anyone to cleaning up the
environment — at least the one Barack Obama left behind. Mopping up an
eight-year mess is no easy task, but the new president kept at it on
Monday, starting the process to pull America out of a dollar-sucking,
job-crushing climate treaty that wouldn’t have made a degree’s worth of
difference in the earth’s temperature! What it would have done is put 2.7 million people out of work by 2025, costing the U.S. some $3 trillion in “lost economic output.” And for what? A manufactured “crisis” that crumbles under the weight of real-world evidence. With liberal theories on thinner ice than most polar bears, the president said he couldn’t support a deal that punishes the United States. And while the treaty “was designed to make it difficult for countries to leave the deal once it was ratified,” the Wall Street Journal explains, that didn’t deter Trump. The minute the three-year opt-out kicked in, the administration set the wheels in motion — keeping another promise and outraging the radical Left. But as far as environmentalists are concerned, it’s not just the climate we should control — but people. On the heels of America’s withdrawal from the Paris accord, thousands of “experts” released a letter calling for something more extreme. “We declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.” And how do they intend to deal with it? The simple answer: population control. The number of humans on our planet “must be stabilized — and, ideally, gradually reduced — within a framework that ensures social integrity.” Now, nothing about the call of population control is new. Environmental extremists have been carrying that banner for years. The only difference now is that the Democratic Party is embracing it. Just this past September, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) shocked people with the suggestion that third-world women should abort more babies — and the U.S. should fund it. “The Mexico City agreement, which denies American aid to those organizations around the world that allow women to have abortions, or even get involved in birth control, to me is totally absurd. So I think especially in poor countries around the world… where they can have the opportunity… to limit the number of kids they have — [is] something I very, very strongly support,” he said. Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley seized on that in a recent email, pointing out that “liberals continue going around the country touting their radical climate change agenda.” Front and center, she said, is the Green New Deal, which goes so far as to “promot[e] abortion in third world countries to control the population!” PolitiFact took issue with the suggestion, slamming Haley’s claim as “Mostly False.” That’s quite a leap from PolitiFact, considering that even the person behind the policy, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), was pretty clear that the last thing America needs is more children. “There’s scientific consensus,” Ocasio-Cortez argued, “that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, is it okay to still have children?” Abortion has been a mainstay of the Left’s “family planning” agenda for decades. It’s hardly a secret, especially when taxpayers are funding groups like Planned Parenthood to the tune of a half-billion dollars a year. The only thing that’s “Mostly False” is the need for any population control at all. As Christians, the idea that we should ignore God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” is a direct contradiction of Scripture. FRC’s David Closson, on Wednesday’s “Washington Watch,” warns that this whole mentality of “children as consumers” — not as blessings — is a repudiation of the Christian worldview. As believers, we don’t need to fear what might happen to the earth, while we are to be good stewards, we can no more save the planet than we can save ourselves. And historically, these calls for population control have been rooted in predictions that never came to pass. Paul Ehrlich’s book, The Population Bomb, predicted millions of people would die of starvation in the 1970s and 80s. That hysteria actually paved the way for the creation of the U.N. Population Fund — which was used to promote things like the one-child policy in China. Virtually nothing Ehrlich wrote came to pass. So I would ask those who are calling for population control because there is a climate crisis on the horizon, aren’t you concerned about being on the wrong side of history here? Because most of these claims have been proven false over time. As Christians, the only way to be safe is standing on the side of God and what He says about children and the earth we inhabit. Nothing else matters. ————– Tony Perkins (@tperkins) is President of the Family Research Council . This article was on Tony Perkin’s Washington Update and written with the aid of FRC senior writers. Tags: Tony Perkins, Family Research Center, FRC, Family Research Council, Gang Green Lobbies, to Abort, More Kids To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray November 8, 2019 Mexican Ambassador Blames Drug Cartel Violence On Addicted Americans By Tristan Justice The letter from the Mexican government insinuating American demand for illicit substances is a key driver for cartel violence comes a few days after an ambush that killed nine Americans on Monday. Full article Kamala Harris Proposes Warehousing Children In Public Schools Until Dinner Every Day By Joy Pullmann Harris’s proposal very visually falls in the category of making all parents into divorced dads, with visiting rights to their own children only on evenings and weekends. Full article Why Drug Legalization And Hugs For Terrorists Won’t Solve The Border Crisis By Sumantra Maitra At best, Mexico is a failed state. At worst, it is a rogue state, hostile to regional peace. The silence from politicians who would have otherwise cried intervention speaks volumes. 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| Why did Gavin Newsom skip slain deputy Brian Ishmael’s memorial? The answer may be hideous. Posted: 08 Nov 2019 05:49 AM PST When law enforcement officers die in the line of duty, it is customary for politicians, especially mayors and governors, to attend the memorial services. Sometimes, they speak at these services and express their gratitude for the sacrifices made while protecting citizens. But California Governor Gavin Newsom didn’t attend the memorial service of Deputy Brian Ishmael despite […] The post Why did Gavin Newsom skip slain deputy Brian Ishmael’s memorial? The answer may be hideous. appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| Thrice deported child sex offender Felix Canales-Padilla captured again by border patrol Posted: 08 Nov 2019 04:11 AM PST A Honduran national who has been deported three times after being convicted as a child sex offender has been captured again by border patrol. He’s now looking at up to 20 years in prison. People like Felix Canales-Padilla, 42, should be incarcerated. It’s unfortunate that deportation simply doesn’t work as these criminal illegal aliens continue to […] The post Thrice deported child sex offender Felix Canales-Padilla captured again by border patrol appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| The best cases against impeachment: Eric Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, and Mark Zaid Posted: 07 Nov 2019 03:06 PM PST If you get your news from CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post, or any of the multitudes of progressive mainstream media outlets out there, chances are you’re being inundated by story after story spinning every little detail that can be gleaned from the impeachment inquiry, its transcripts, and pundits claiming “damning evidence” against the President […] The post The best cases against impeachment: Eric Ciaramella, Adam Schiff, and Mark Zaid appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The View is garbage Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:53 PM PST After Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle went on the view today, conservative media turned into a slaughterfest as lies and inconsistencies emerged about hosts from The View and their unhinged nature as anti-Trump entertainers. While some on this site have called for a boycott of Hollywood altogether, I’ve been more reticent. You see, I love movies. I […] The post The View is garbage appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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11/08/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Presented by Fisher Investments: Fiery ‘View’; Bye, UCLA; Quote of the Week Good morning, it’s Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation from American history’s rich trove, a line meant to be uplifting. This being the first week of November — and Election Day being just one year away — this week we’ve looked back on previous presidential campaigns. On this date in 1892 Grover Cleveland became the first — and only — president elected to non-consecutive terms. Exactly 40 years later, Franklin Roosevelt won in a landslide over Herbert Hoover. On Nov. 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy prevailed in a squeaker over Richard Nixon. Just six years later to the day, movie and television star Ronald Reagan became governor-elect of California. George H.W. Bush was elected president on a Nov. 8. This morning, however, I’m focusing not a presidential campaign but on a congressional election in the great state of Montana, way back in 1916. On this date in that year, newspaper readers from coast to coast awoke to the news that the Treasure State was sending one of its own treasures to Capitol Hill. The new House member’s name was Jeannette Rankin, and she was the first woman ever elected to a seat in Congress. I’ll have more on her in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * Trump Jr.’s Feisty “View” Appearance Just a Preview, Associates Say. Phil Wegmann reports on yesterday’s daytime TV clash. DNC Dumps UCLA as Debate Site — a Self-Inflicted Calif. Wound. Susan Crabtree’s has this analysis of the decision, tied to union hiring complaints and a new state law. Epstein, Weinstein, Kavanaugh Coverage: What the Numbers Show. Kalev Leetaru lays out the data amid debate about ABC withholding a story on Jeffrey Epstein in 2015 while showing no hesitation when dubious accusations against Brett Kavanaugh were made. Democrats’ Deep-State Denial Morphs Into Deep-State Salute. Joe diGenova writes that a concept once dismissed by the left as a conspiracy theory is now being embraced as a real and beneficial check against Donald Trump. Embarrassed to Be a Republican: It’s the Precedent, Stupid! Myra Adams revisits her earlier concerns about the party she’s belonged to since 1975. Help for Parents When Violent Extremism Beckons the Young. Christianne Boudreau, whose son joined ISIS and died in Syria, shares information on support for those in similar situations. When Big Tech Buys Off Academia. In RealClearPolicy, Brian Maloney spotlights Google’s financing of research papers opposing regulatory challenges to its market dominance. The Story Behind “Jet Girl.” In RealClearDefense, John Waters interviews former F-18 flight officer Caroline Johnson about her memoir on coming of age in the United States military. * * * When remembering feminist pioneer Jeannette Rankin, it’s important to keep in mind something that no contemporary of hers could ever forget: She was not only a suffragist but a deeply committed pacifist. The two movements were closely intertwined at the time, so that’s no surprise. The view of most politically active women at the time was that more women in government would translate to fewer wars. It was an appealing idea and remains so. As for Rep. Rankin, she kicked off the 1918 House debate on the constitutional amendment guaranteeing women’s suffrage by invoking the language used by President Wilson to rally support for U.S. entry into World War I. “How shall we answer the challenge, gentlemen?” she told her fellow lawmakers. “How shall we explain to them the meaning of democracy if the same Congress that voted to make the world safe for democracy refuses to give this small measure of democracy to the women of our country?” As for the resolution authorizing Wilson to send troops to Europe, Rankin had no trouble answering that question. She voted no. “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else,” she explained. “I wish to stand for my country, but I cannot vote for war.” Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born in 1880 on her parents’ ranch outside Missoula, the oldest of six children. She graduated from the University of Montana in 1902 with a degree in biology and went into nursing, as did many women of her generation. But her restless spirit led her out of the Mountain West. She set out for San Francisco, lived a while in Washington state and then New York City, working at a hospital in a sprawling slum on the Lower East Side. It was there that her political views took shape, and one of the conclusions Rankin reached was that if women could vote, politicians would take a more active role in addressing the needs of the poor. That worldview reverberates forward to our time, to current elections, and helps explain the much-discussed “gender gap.” Rankin also extrapolated gender politics onto war: “The peace problem,” she said, “is a woman’s problem.” Her vote against U.S. entry into World War I was not a popular position, but Rankin explained: “I felt the first time the first woman had a chance to say no to war, she should say it.” As it would happen, she was briefly back in Congress when Pearl Harbor was attacked more than two decades later. Rankin also voted against entering World War II, a stubborn and impossible stance that effectively ended her congressional career. But she never wavered. After living abroad for many years, she returned to the Unites States, ending up back in the West, in the picturesque California seaside town of Carmel. From time to time, she’d be sought out by antiwar activists, newspaper reporters, and young feminists. She didn’t disappoint them. She died in Carmel in May 1973, a month before her 93rd birthday. Only a couple of years earlier, she’d dropped hints of a possible run for Congress as a peace candidate opposed to the war in Vietnam. She was half-kidding about running, but about war itself she was always deadly serious. Asked about whether it made sense for the U.S. to leave Vietnam after so much American sacrifice there, she replied: “Surrender is a military idea. When you’re doing something wrong, you stop.” And that’s our quote of the week. Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com For years, many pundits and politicians have claimed Internet behemoths are too powerful and monopolistic. Then, in June, the House announced they would launch a probe into several tech giants. Despite many possible outcomes, we don’t view these possibilities as a reason to avoid Tech now. Click here to read more of this message, brought to you by Fisher Investments. |
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Democracy
Dies in Darkness — Speak the Whistleblower’s Name
Atop feigning that the president’s namesake revealed Ciaramella as the
leaker, the narrative maintains that naming a whistleblower violates not
only law but also morality. Whistleblower statutes protect government
workers from repercussions. They do not command
journalists, or even most members of the government, to provide them
anonymity.
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Bloomberg Expected to Enter Democratic Presidential Primary
Alexandra DeSanctis
Making the click-through worthwhile: Former New York City mayor
Michael Bloomberg reportedly is prepping to enter the Democratic
presidential race; Kentucky’s Republican governor calls for a
recanvassing of votes after apparently being defeated by his Democratic
challenger; and a judge in Manhattan gives us the latest example of
outrageous legislating from the bench, striking down a
Trump-administration rule that would’ve protected the First Amendment
rights of health-care workers.
Bloomberg Mulls a Bid in the 2020 Democratic Field
According to multiple reports, former New York City mayor Michael
Bloomberg is laying the groundwork to jump into the fray of the
Democratic presidential primary. In fact, it seems he’s on the verge of
filing official paperwork to declare himself a candidate. Although some
of his advisers insist he’s still on the fence, Bloomberg has staff on
the ground in Alabama attempting to gather enough signatures to qualify
for the state’s primary.
Here’s more from the New York Times report …
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Men of Kentucky, &c.
Jay Nordlinger
On governors, presidential candidates, flaring redheads, ‘pistarckles,’ and more.
Arizona’s Success with Charter Schools Is a Model Other States Would Be Wise to Follow
Matthew Ladner
States would do well to take a long, hard look at
Arizona’s demand-driven education system. They’d like what they saw.
Pence Aide was Surprised by Political Nature of Trump’s Ukraine Call
Mairead McArdle
Jennifer
Williams told investigators Pence was not involved in any similar
conversations about political investigations, including discussions with
Zelensky.
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Dolemite Is My Name Honors a Surprising Cultural Pioneer
Armond White
Rudy Ray Moore’s struggle was different from Eddie
Murphy’s. Hollywood beckoned Murphy, while Moore had to scratch his way
up showbiz’s lower rungs.
We Need to Get Serious about Putting Our Fiscal House in Order
Mona Charen
When so much of our budget goes to debt service, we
are misgoverned. The federal government currently spends more to pay
interest on the debt than it does on the State Department,
transportation, employment, training, and social services.
How Warren Wooed the White Left
Peter Spiliakos
Warren’s candidacy has endured because she carefully & consistently
went after college-educated whites, while Beto and Harris misunderstood
and offended them.
Let’s Learn from Oklahoma’s Inmate Releases
Katherine Timpf
This means that hundreds would be given the chance
to have their lives back and contribute to society, and saves on
resources for Oklahoma taxpayers.
Beto O’Rourke Vows to Remain in Politics in Call to Supporters
Zachary Evans
During
his short-lived run, O’Rourke espoused positions that riled
conservatives, including a promise to confiscate certain firearms from
their legal owners.
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Arbitration Will Only Make Things Worse
The
last thing a patient needs after getting hit by a surprise medical bill
is to face a complex, confusing “arbitration” process. Congress can
protect patients from surprise bills and lower costs by avoiding
arbitration.
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