The Islamic militants understand how stupid political correctness is, they also understand that it is a weapon in their arsenal that helped them conquer Lebanon and get deep into Europe and the United States.
Abdul Razak Artan, the Ohio State University jihad attacker, recently appeared in Ohio State University’s The Lantern, in a feature entitled “Humans of Ohio State.” In it, he played the victim and spoke about being nervous about performing his Islamic prayers in public:
“I just transferred from Columbus State. We had prayer rooms, like actual rooms where we could go to pray because we Muslims have to pray five times a day. There’s Fajr, which is early in the morning, at dawn. Then Zuhr during the daytime, then Asr in the evening, like right about now. And then Maghrib, which is like right at sunset and then Isha at night. I wanted to pray Asr. I mean, I’m new here. This is my first day. This place is huge, and I don’t even know where to pray. I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be. If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen. But, I don’t blame them, it’s the media that put that picture in their heads so they’re just going to have it and it, it’s going to make them feel uncomfortable. I was kind of scared right now. But I just did it. I relied on God. I went over to the corner and just prayed.”
I will just say it up front that I am not a fan of Megyn Kelly’s “journalism.” She hypes conflict and controversializes subjects and people to benefit herself. Conflict bias and hype is one of the biggest problems in journalism today.
That said, when Kelly gets it right this writer will say so.
The idea that Ben Carson isn’t capable of stepping into a new policy area such as HUD is preposterous on it’s face. Why?
Carson was a top military ROTC student leader, he is perhaps the most innovative brain surgeon in the history of the world, he started the famed Carson Scholars Fund which helps disadvantaged children get a quality education, Hollywood did a movie about his life, in a short time he became an expert on various political philosophies and can quote and debate the most noted political philosophers with anyone. Carson has debated and lectured on economic policy, health care law, trade policy, foreign policy etc, all self taught.
Governor Huckabee rightly points out that Barack Obama had virtually no qualifying experience when he ran for president and those who pointed that out were called racists by the Democrats and their allies in the elite media.
The New York Times exposed the threat of fake news even before the election of Donald Trump two weeks ago, arguing that spreading faulty information is a threat to the Republic.
The paper highlighted alt-right conspiracy websites publishing outrageous lies masquerading as news in a piece headlined“Journalism’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News.” The Times interviewed journalists and “longtime critic of fake news” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) about how credulous Americans often fall for narratives that confirm their pre-existing biases without proper vetting from objective reporters.
“If you have a society where people can’t agree on basic facts, how do you have a functioning democracy?” asked one D.C. editor.
Times readers had the inside scoop that the nation was witnessing “Hispanics Surge to Polls,” which would serve as the mortar in Hillary Clinton’s blue wall. The surge would not have been possible without the Clinton campaign, which was “Looking to Expand Lead With Hispanics” through Spanish-language ads and get-out-the-vote operations, as the Times reported on Oct. 2.
The New York Times‘ report on “dangerously fake news” ran alongside a report that “Hispanic America has been mobilized like never before in the 2016 election, and is emerging as a formidable force with the power to elect a president.”
“Energized by anger at Mr. Trump and an aggressive Democratic campaign to get them to the polls, Latinos are turning out in record numbers and could make the difference in the outcome in several highly contested states,” the Times reported.
The Times did not just rely on shoe leather but on hard facts so often missing from fake news sites. Without data, those susceptible to fake news can be led astray, such as the Pennsylvania voters who insisted Trump would win the state—a belief shared only by those trapped in a “bubble of such devoted [Trump] followers.” If Trump supporters ventured outside of their bubble, they would have known that “Trump Can’t Count on Those ‘Missing White Voters.’”
“The surge is real, and it’s big. It could be enough to overcome Mr. Trump’s strength among white working-class voters in the swing states of Florida and Nevada. If it does, it will almost certainly win her the election,” the Times reported.
Hispanics represented 11 percent of the electorate in 2016, the same as its 2012 share of the vote. Trump performed better with those voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012, according to exit polls. The election results were no better for the other groups that Times promised its readers would flock to Hillary and rebuke Trump: He won 8 percent of black voters, not the 4 percent that the Times saidhe would. Hillary also failed to garner the 20-point edge among women the Times suggested she would win, nabbing only 54 percent of the female vote.
The daunting poll numbers Trump faced led the Times to ask “Is This Election Over” on an Oct. 18 podcast, as Clinton’s chance of victory creeped up to 91 percent. The podcast came the same day the Times reported that the Clinton campaign aimed to turn a sure-fire victory into a blow-out with “its most ambitious push yet into traditionally right-leaning states.”
The GOP was in danger of losing statehouses across the country, while Clinton hoped a mandate and coattails would give Democrats control of the House and Senate. North Carolina was in play. So was Texas. Democrats were instructed “don’t gloat,” while reporters wondered how Republicans would address the “crucial and onerous decisions” to stonewall or negotiate with Clinton because “Mrs. Clinton is also viewed as someone capable of breaking the ice with congressional Republican leaders.”
With the race already decided, the Times turned its focus to the biggest storyline of the last two weeks of the election: Trump supporters rioting in the streets prompted by the billionaire’s insistence that the vote was rigged.
No one felt the threat of Trump’s looming fascism as acutely as the news media.
“Partisan Crowds at Trump Rallies Menace and Frighten News Media,” the paper reported on Oct. 15. Two days later the tone went from menacing to “sinister,” as news organizations began “providing security for staff members covering Trump rallies.” A child reporter from Scholastic was alarmed by the dangerous chorus of boos directed at the press by Trump. Meanwhile, “Hair Force One” was notorious for bumpy landings, “an apt metaphor for Donald J. Trump’s entire presidential run: chaotic, turbulent and skittering just on the edge of disaster.”
Times readers were also exposed to the human sides of each candidate. They learned how Trump was giving pre-school classes the opportunity to dialogue about bullying and fat shaming and toxic masculinity.
“She’s drenched now, her voice hoarse. The storm is mussing her hair. It’s time to leave the stage. But just before doing so, she turns and raises both arms, giving herself up to the storm and the moment—and the looming end of this adventure,” the Times reported.
The fake journalism that helped elect Donald Trump is now enemy number one for the fourth estate.
“The cure for fake journalism is an overwhelming dose of good journalism. And how well the news media gets through its post election hangover will have a lot to do with how the next chapter in the American political story is told,” one Times writer noted shortly before Trump’s massive victory.
Remember when CNN forged up the phony National Guard documents against President Bush? CNN was caught colluding with the Clinton Campaign and the DNC to generate false narratives to help Democrats win. Now CNN complains because Trump gives them the hand. Can anyone blame him?
Tucker Carlson takes on the New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd over continued bias allegations.
They both handle themselves very well here. It is too bad that so many at the NYT do not have the same regard for journalistic ethics as Carlson and Spayd show here.
We should all help him to keep his promises. It used to be SO easy to make money in this country and over the last 20 years that has changed. It is time to end the despair.
His standing up for the blue-collar workers who helped get him elected is no small feat, even for the very accomplished billionaire, who has a long record of delivering under budget and on time.
Sure, it’s unusual for a president-elect to interject himself in the economic mechanizations of a specific company — let alone the economy writ large — but everything about Trump being the next president is unusual.
The brutally battered blue-collar voters, long played for suckers as supporters of the Democratic Party’s false promises and phony hope, are no longer looking to their union bosses to tell them how to vote.
Mike Pence and Donald Trump Speak at Carrier Plant in Indiana!
This is Pat Condell, he has been speaking out about the massive crime wave in Europe as a result of mass unchecked refugees coming from the Middle-East.
It is difficult for normal, good people with a moral center to internalize this, but as the left says in their books such as “Rules for Radicals” or their other countless writings from Marx, Lenin, Gramsci and the Frankfurt School, to them the truth is anything that advances their own political power, period.
Lying is simply a non issue for the left as we have learned with the Democrats, WikiLeaks and now their reaction to Fidel Castro’s death which is quite frankly a denial of reality as if they are from another planet.
We saw Canadian PM Justin Trudeau praise Castro as if he is some beloved leader and humanitarian rather than the terribly corrupt dictator who lined up tens of thousands of civilians and political opponents in front of a firing squad.
Trudeau is not alone in this Orwellian rewrite of history.
Jimmy Carter:
Rosalyn and I share our sympathies with the Castro family and the Cuban people on the death of Fidel Castro. We remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.
In many ways, after 1959, the oppressed the world over joined Castro's cause of fighting for freedom & liberation-he changed the world. RIP pic.twitter.com/ReOLnMCxE7
President Obama issued a statement that is so milk-toast that it essentially said nothing.
The usual cadre of dishonest far left “journalists” who willingly serve as mouthpieces for the DNC issued similar fawning rewrites of history for this brutal murderer. Newsbusters is amassing a collection of it HERE.
In the mean time actual Cubans are cheering as if it was the death of Emperor Palpatine:
Cuban American members of the Senate had something to say.
President Obama issued a pathetic statement on death of dictator #FidelCastro with no mention of thousands he killed & imprisoned. #Cuba
A dictator is dead. But his dark, repressive legacy will not automatically follow him to the grave. Change can come to Cuba, but only if America learns from history and prevents Fidel’s successor from playing the same old tricks.
Senator Cruz also penned “The Truth About Fidel and Raul” – HERE. Be sure you read it.
Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.
While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve.
Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty. I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.
The United States in many ways in the anti-Europe. No where is this more so than in the freedoms enumerated in our Bill of Rights. Many countries pay lip service to human rights until you practice them in such a way that makes the far left uncomfortable. No matter how accurate or truthful one is, they will seek to persecute and silence such truths.
Wilders is being charged with…and bust out the Orwell for this one folks….”Inciting discrimination” for the “crime” of accurately pointing out the murders, rapes and massive problems unchecked Islamic immigration has caused in parts of Europe, none of which is in serious factual dispute.
Wilders is the leader of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands and serves as a member of parliament. His party is growing in popularity and to say that this “trial” is political is perhaps the understatement of the century. The globalist elites are desperate to shut him up.
We here at Political Arena are quite pleased with this pick. KT McFarland would be described by Donald Rumsfeld as a “Known, known”.
Most know McFarland as a national security pundit on Fox News and Fox Business, she authors a regular column, and maintains a great web site.
McFarland has held national security appointments in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations. She has been an aide to Dr. Henry Kissinger and Caspar Wienberger. She has held various posts on the Defense Department and authored several major policy papers for President Reagan.
In our view she is a solid choice for such an important role and is very capable of being the voice of the administration when it comes to national security. .
While Little Havana breaks out in huge celebration over Castro’s death, the new, young, leftist, and profoundly misinformed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised Castro as someone who brought prosperity to his people.
Educated people might ask, “How did a pinhead like Trudeau actually get elected in Canada?” Then I remembered that the United States did indeed elect Obama twice.
For the United States this is an end to an error. In spite of the dead voting and millions of non citizens voting, the American people gave enough support to Donald Trump to overcome Democrat election rigging, dozens of reporters who working with the Clinton campaign behind the scenes, and big money interests who had given Clinton a huge spending advantage.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro:
“It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President.
“Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.
“While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”.
“I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba.
“On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”
The Cuban people are not mourning, they are cheering just like in Star Wars after the death of Emperor Palpatine, even CNN managed to get this story right – LINK.
Fidel Castro was not just a left wing dictator, he was a mass murderer who killed or locked up most anyone who critiqued him. Castro brought a very wealthy Cuba to poverty and ruin. The GDP per person in Cuba is $10,200. War ravaged Iraq is $7,100.
Our Canadian friends have their own error to end. Our Cuban friends have much work to do after Castro’s brother Raul passes.
Donald Trump’s media and political strategist Steven K. Bannon has a long history of being a champion for Israel and has hired several Jewish Americans, some orthodox, into senior positions of his organization. So of course CNN and the rest of the Democrat media complex is calling Bannon an antisemite with no facts to back it up that can withstand the most basic cross examination.
Rabbi Dennis Prager and David Horowitz, perhaps the two most prominent Jewish American activists alive today, discuss the hit job being done to Bannon HERE:
By contrast, Cong. Keith Ellison, who has a life history of antisemitism and Jew hating with Louis Farrakhan, CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood etc. is virtually ignored by the Democrat media complex.
Also interesting is the rank hypocrisy coming form the Democrat media as they praised the Iran deal President Obama made and throughout the process Iran was vowing to wipe Israel from the face of the Earth. Apparently abetting genocide isn’t antisemitic enough for them.
Hypocrisy Watch: Networks Pound Bannon, But Ignore Democrat Ellison’s Radicalism
Since Sunday evening, ABC, CBS and NBC (along with a host of other establishment media outlets) have been engaged in a feeding frenzy over Donald Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon, with reporters relentlessly employing phrases such as “white nationalist,” “white supremacist,” “extremist,” “racist” and “anti-Semitic” to solidify the image of Bannon as a dangerous pick for a top White House position.
But since Friday, those same networks have been blind to the controversies surrounding the top candidate for Democratic National Committee Chairman, Rep. Keith Ellison. Ellison has been accused of ties to the radical Nation of Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood, and once suggested the 9/11 terrorist attacks were akin to the infamous Reichstag fire used to propel Hitler’s Nazi party into absolute power in 1933 Germany.
From Sunday night through Wednesday morning, MRC analysts found the Big Three had already churned out 41 minutes, 46 seconds of coverage devoted to Bannon’s appointment. An analysis finds that nearly three-fourths (74%) of all references to Bannon were negative; the only positive comments viewers heard came from interviews or soundbites with other Trump campaign officials or Republican officeholders.
Reporters threw everything at Bannon, including the kitchen sink. On ABC’s World News Tonight on Monday, correspondent Tom Llamas labeled him “a champion of the alt-right, a conservative movement many say is fueled by racism, sexism and anti-Semitism.” NBC anchor Lester Holt said Trump was “lifting a man with ties to white nationalists into the heart of the White House.”
When is this kind of Orwellian persecution going to end? Perhaps it is time to amend the civil rights laws.
Scarlett Fakhar seems like the typical local television news personality and in most ways she is, except one. She told some of her friends in a private Facebook post on her locked down private page that she was glad Donald Trump won. Somehow Fox26 was given access to her private account and they fired her the next day.
We could go on forever about the rise of antisemitism in the Democratic Party and the far left, but for the moment we are going to trust that you already understand that and move right to NPR, who is paid for by the taxpayers.
We are also going to trust that you know how NPR executives were caught on tape trying to take money from known terrorist organizations in order to fund programming smearing conservatives, TEA Party groups etc.
It is long passed time to cut NPR off. Their programming is something beyond biased, many of their featurettes are little more than dishonest smear jobs and some of their programming such as Code Switch, is overtly racialist in nature.
Joel Pollack is an orthodox Jewish American and is an editor at Breitbart News, which like good journalism used to, actually accepts columns and features from people they do not agree with at all, as they say that doing so is just simple journalism. The Democrat media establishment such as CNN is now throwing every one of those guest editorials in his face as if he wrote them or is somehow responsible for them.
National Public Radio ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen has recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives who may have controversial views, following an interview Nov. 16 with Breitbart News’ Joel B. Pollak.
To far left media outlets like NPR that are literally an extension of the Democratic Party any view other than their own is deemed “controversial.”
It is pretty hard to cut someone off and/or cut out the substantive parts of their answers when the interview is live.
Quite a bit of hoopla over Trump’s wanting his family members to have clearance for access to him in the White House.
The Media/Dems have made an issue of this claiming Trump is trying to get his family Top Secret security clearances, which is a misrepresentation of the facts — as usual.
It’s not as if Trump wanted to have his maid to have access to Top Secret – Codeword Intelligence information — as did Hillary [oh wait, Hillary just granted her Philippine maid full access to all that silly classified stuff on her server, and had her print it out so she could provide hard copies to her friends and staff — NONE of whom were cleared.
Yet, the Media/Dems/Press not ONCE, repeat NOT ONCE!, chose to report on Hillary’s mishandling of her security access.
But, let’s look at other Presidents who brought in family members to act as advisors.
Dwight Eisenhower
brought his brother Milton in to the White House to advise him on foreign affairs and domestic economic issues. That worked quite well and Milton, who headed up a variety of universities — to include Johns Hopkins, was well respected internationally as one of the finest minds in academia, and business.
John F. Kennedy
brought in his brother, Robert [aka: Bobby] as both a personal advisor and later as Attorney General. Bobby busted up the Mafia and eliminated the corruption on Wall Street and pursued organized crime like no other Attorney General, before or since.
Jimmy Carter
Brought his brother Billy into the White House, but Billy ran afoul of the law and the Press, which outed him as both a buffoon and a huckster. That didn’t end well.
Bill Clinton Gave his wife, Hillary, access to highly classified material, to include the classified personnel files on Members of Congress and the Senate — which she then reportedly “lost” but which the Secret Service found in her bedroom.
Woodrow Wilson
Notable for being the most racist President in US history, authorized his wife full access to all classified material; she became the intermediary to Wilson’s Cabinet during his extended illness, and effectively became the de facto President.
Bottom line here folks is that, if Trump wants to bring a relative whom he trusts in to advise him on strategy and specific issues, that’s fine with me. However, Congress has passed legislation preventing the President from appointing a relative to the Cabinet.
Here are links and a video to various polls of Muslims in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Indonesia.
Keep in mind that these are polls where Muslims were perfectly willing to admit this to a pollster. There is no spinning or coercion. This is simply what they feel willing to say about themselves.
As far as the video. Ben Shapiro reviews these polls. Shapiro is a known Trump hater, so he is no surrogate for the upcoming administration.
Wentzel Strategies 2012 poll of American Muslims – LINK – LINK.
Tucker Carlson grills smear artist Jonathan Allen who accused Jeff Sessions of being racist based on nothing but sloppy innuendo.
Senator Jeff Sessions, by the way, is the man who broke the back of the KKK in Alabama. The Weekly Standard:
As a U.S. Attorney he filed several cases to desegregate schools in Alabama. And he also prosecuted the head of the state Klan, Henry Francis Hays, for abducting and killing Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random. Sessions insisted on the death penalty for Hays. When he was later elected the state Attorney General, Sessions followed through and made sure Hays was executed. The successful prosecution of Hays also led to a $7 million civil judgment against the Klan, effectively breaking the back of the KKK in Alabama.
Zara-Jayne Moisey, 25, from Widnes, has spoken about her “nightmare” and is facing jail in the Middle East after reporting that two men allegedly attacked her in a hotel.
A British woman facing jail for extra-marital sex after reporting an alleged gang rape on holiday in Dubai has told of her “nightmare” and said she’s “petrified”.
Zara-Jayne Moisey, 25, told police in the United Arab Emirates she was violently raped by two British men in the city last month.
But instead of being treated as a victim, Zara, from Widnes, who is single after splitting from her husband, was reportedly locked up on suspicion of extra-marital sex and later charged with the offence.
Her passport has been confiscated and she now faces a trial, claim her family and friends.
Her desperate family have now launched an online appeal to raise £25,000 for the legal fees needed to pay for her defence. So far nearly £15,000 has been raised.
According to a report from the Nikkei Asian Review, the Cupertino-based company requested that Foxconn and the other iPhone manufacturer explore moving their smartphone production stateside.
“Apple asked both Foxconn and Pegatron, the two iPhone assemblers, in June to look into making iPhones in the U.S.,” a source told Nikkei. “Foxconn complied, while Pegatron declined to formulate such a plan due to cost concerns.”
But the change wouldn’t come cheaply, according to the report.
This is why Trump intends to make it cheaper to do business in the United States.
Donald Trump continues to make choices that are favorites of policy reformers while those who are struggling to protect the failed status quo are having tantrums on CNN.
On CNN and the rest of the Democrat media complex say the same thing they always say about anyone who opposes them, they name call – racist, sexist and every other “ist” the conflict theorists can come up with.
Unfortunately for them search engines and social media allow people do do some pretty good homework and pretty fast.
Senator Jeff Sessions, who they are calling a racist, is the man who broke the back of the KKK in Alabama. The Weekly Standard:
As a U.S. Attorney he filed several cases to desegregate schools in Alabama. And he also prosecuted the head of the state Klan, Henry Francis Hays, for abducting and killing Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random. Sessions insisted on the death penalty for Hays. When he was later elected the state Attorney General, Sessions followed through and made sure Hays was executed. The successful prosecution of Hays also led to a $7 million civil judgment against the Klan, effectively breaking the back of the KKK in Alabama.
General Flynn is a long time decorated military intelligence officer and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn bumped heads with President Obama for being critical of his soft stance on militant Islam and ISIS. After the government’s failures to stop the Orlando terrorist and other preventable domestic attacks, and after ISIS has spread across the Middle east and now enjoys oil revenue, it is obvious that Flynn’s critiques had merit. It is for this they call him an “Islamaphopbe”.
See a pattern developing ?
Congressman Mike Pompeo is called a “climate criminal” by Democrats because he actually researches and knows that the data does not support the long list failed doom and gloom predictions of climate alarmists who insist that the only way to save the world is by the spread of former Soviet style control of the economy and our lives, with themselves in charge and getting rich from it of course. There is a reason why climate alarmists always lose debates against those who care for real science as their alarmism became unhinged long ago.
OMG the HORROR of it all! Donald Trump want’s to know what Muslim immigrants are visiting our country by using a “”””””””registry””””””
Que the scary music…
The problem here is ignorance, and the media wildly spinning the story in a way to take advantage of said ignorance.
Setting invective emotions aside for a moment is the left actually proposing????:
1 – That we should keep no lists on who is visiting our country?
Should we not know who is here on a student visa and then never shows up to class and disappears?
Should we not find people who overstay their visas?
How many 9/11 hijackers were here illegally?
When cooler heads prevail, most citizens agree that Homeland Security should have a list of who is visiting our country.
Do we really want to let Muslims like THIS in the country?
2 – US code already demands that religion be a part of the test for who is allowed to come to the United States:
Under federal law, the executive branch is expressly required to take religion into account in determining who is granted asylum. Under the provision governing asylum (section 1158 of Title 8, U.S. Code), an alien applying for admission.
3 – Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 states: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
4 – ALL of the last six presidents have used that authority to prevent immigration of entire classes of people – Where were these critics then?
Jimmy Carter stopped all Iranians. Obama has used that authority several times just himself including anyone under a UN travel ban, anyone who “undermined the Democratic process” of various countries etc etc.
5 – The Constitution, under presidential war powers, gives the President king like authority when it comes to foreign threats and foreign intelligence threats.
6 – An Appeals Court decision upheld the President’s authority:
“The present controversy involving Iranian students in the United States lies in the field of our country’s foreign affairs and implicates matters over which the president has direct constitutional authority.”
“Distinctions on the basis of nationality may be drawn in the immigration field by the Congress or the executive. So long as such distinctions are not wholly irrational, they must be sustained.”
I will be the first to tell you that this is completely anecdotal. I have been talking with my gay friends, most of whom voted for Trump, about their hopes and concerns with the upcoming administration. I have seen patterns in their expressed views.
1 – Like most Americans, they want more economic opportunity and they see bringing an end to government “bigness” as a key to getting that done. Big Wall Street, Big Banks, Big Mega-Corps, Big Government Contractors, The Big Education Cartel, and all of it is strangling our economy with corruption, slanted rules and over regulation.
2 – While some are concerned about Governor Pence’s opposition to gay marriage, many gays also understand that the problem with getting a marriage license by judicial fiat, unconstitutionally by the stroke of a judge’s pen, is that it can be taken away just as easily by the stroke of a judge’s pen, hence the problem with judicial fiat.
3 – The gays I have spoken with understand that true empowerment is more money in your wallet, the choice of having a gun in your hand, and thank you WikiLeaks – access to public information. Without any of those we are all powerless.
Millions of Americans who are smart and want to work have simply been left behind since 1989. Let us never let America fall into such incompetent and corrupt hands ever again.
“If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” – Malcolm X
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