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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trumps-ridiculers-havent-learned-their-lesson/
The impulse to mock every word out of Trump’s mouth sometimes exposes his critics as the ignorant ones, as with recent reactions to his space-defense proposal.
Donald Trump has once again said something about space. And according to the former president’s reflexive critics, it is positively hilarious.
“One of my proudest achievements in my first term was to create Space Force, the first new branch of the armed forces in over 70 years; it’s a big deal,” Trump said in a Monday address to the National Guard Association conference in Detroit. With that legacy achievement in his pocket, Trump announced a plan to build on it. “I agree that the time has come to create a Space National Guard as the primary combat reserve of the U.S. Space Force,” he said. In addition, “We’re going to build a great Iron Dome for missile defense around our nation.”
Trump’s skeptics are enjoying a hearty guffaw over the former president’s latest proposal. “Trump’s campaign has earthly problems,” read Politico’s gratuitously impish headline, “but he’s focusing on outer space.” Trump “promises to waste BILLIONS of tax dollars,” the super PAC American Bridge remarked. Indeed, the former president backed the creation of a sixth branch of the armed forces devoted to low-earth orbit only “because he thought it sounded cool,” MSNBC’s Steve Benen posited. And what’s with the Iron Dome talk? “I have a hunch it’s because he likes the words ‘iron’ and ‘dome,’” he speculated.
This fits a pattern, but by now, Trump’s hecklers should have trained themselves out of exhibiting it. It was obvious from the moment it was proposed that a new branch of the armed forces devoted to exo-atmospheric operations was necessary, if only because space had already become a theater of war. Likewise, creating a “a Space National Guard as the primary combat reserve of the U.S. Space Force,” as Trump proposed, is a remedy to an unworkable proposal offered by Joe Biden.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/armed_with_heavy_firepower_venezuelan_gang_of_illegals_seizes_control_of_entire_apartment_complex_in_aurora_co.html
Is Aurora, Colorado home to our first official “no-go” zone?
“Disturbing new footage from Aurora, Colorado reveals that an illegal immigrant gang has completely seized control of an entire apartment complex. This gang, originating from Venezuela through the Biden-Harris open border policy, is deeply involved in human smuggling, brutal… Show more+”
Seeing as these men are reportedly from the socialist Venezuela, Tim Walz might just consider this “neighborly” behavior—but the American neighbors are fleeing as quickly as possible. Per a report from a local Colorado news outlet:
The video was shot in the building where Cindy and Edward Romero lived until Wednesday. FOX31 caught up with them as they loaded up their stuff and moved out.
‘It’s been a nightmare and I can’t wait to get out of here,’ former resident Cindy Romero said.
The Romeros say the trouble started when a large number of migrants began moving in.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/28/government-shutdown-possible-next-month-if-proof-of-citizenship-bill-added-to-must-pass-continuing-resolution/
Democrats are prepared to shutdown the government next month over common-sense voter security measures attached to a must-pass continuing resolution (CR).
The CR is required to keep to keep the government funded past Sept. 30, and House conservatives may use it to force consideration of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, the Hill reported. The bill, if passed, would make it mandatory for states to obtain proof of citizenship to register voters and require states to purge noncitizens from voter rolls.
Democrats strongly oppose all voter integrity measures, arguing that they aren’t necessary and make it harder for legal citizens to vote.
The House passed the SAVE Act on July 10 with a majority of 216 Republicans and five Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has yet to take the proof of citizenship bill up in the Senate.
“Today 198 House Democrats voted against preventing illegal aliens from voting in American elections,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after the vote last month. “Over the past four years, Joe Biden has welcomed millions upon millions of illegals into the country knowing that noncitizens only have to check a box to vote in a federal election.”
Earlier this month, the House Freedom Caucus urged Johnson to attach the the SAVE Act to next month’s spending legislation. With the November election on the line, Republicans in both chambers have joined the chorus.
Although the Democrat-led Senate is expected to reject the package, the Speaker is taking the idea seriously, telling the press last week that discussions are ongoing to “build consensus to come up with the final decision.”
“I can verify for you that the SAVE Act is a big part of this conversation,” Johnson said. “And it is not just the Freedom Caucus—it is members across the conference who share the same concern that we do about this. And we believe it’s one of the — perhaps the most urgent issue, the most imminent threat facing the country, is the integrity of this election cycle.”
On the GOP Senate side however, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) office, according to Axios, has been privately pushing against attaching the SAVE Act to the September spending bill.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) said this week that he disagrees with Senate GOP leadership on this, arguing there is no good argument against it.
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The word freedom is inherent to our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It is ingrained in what it means to be an American: “And so let freedom ring,” spoke Martin Luther King on August 28, 1963, “from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire…” The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word: “The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint,” which is not too different from the definition Noah Webster assigned the word in his 1828 Webster’s Dictionary: “A state of exemption from the power or control of another.” Freedom from fear and freedom from want (two of FDR’s “Four Freedoms”) are offerings of the state, but they do not meet the classical definition of freedom.
Democrats see the state as providing the conditions, through rules, laws, and regulations, that allow individuals opportunities – what are now called “positive” freedoms. The Swiss-French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that men are born free but “everywhere he is in chains.” So the state exists to guarantee his liberty and freedom from the restraints of society. Without the state, he believed, there is no freedom. Voltaire disagreed. The state can be a trap: “It is difficult to free fools from chains they revere.”
Republicans define freedom, in accordance with John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, as natural rights, characterized by the absence of external (the state) constraints on individual freedoms. These freedoms are now referred to as “negative” freedoms. Locke, two generations earlier than Rousseau, had argued that people are naturally free and equal, and have a right to life, liberty and property that are independent of society’s laws, ideas borrowed by Thomas Jefferson in 1776: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” The Bill of Rights, adopted in December 1791, exemplified individual freedom. The colonists had lived under a tyrannical king. Fearful of autocracy that could stem from a strong central government, they desired a limited, federalist government, one composed, as Lincoln later said, “of, by and for the people.” In a September 25th, 1961 address to the United Nations’ General Assembly, President Kennedy warned: “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
Adam, founder of Open the Books was a friend and most admirable person. rsk
One-of-a-kind. Relentless optimist. Fearless visionary.
These are a few of the descriptors I’ve heard over and over again in the days since we lost our founder and CEO, Adam Andrzejewski.
It’s with a heavy heart that I tell you he passed unexpectedly last weekend, but he leaves behind a tremendous legacy.
Adam was a leader in business, a family man, a marathon runner, and unmatched in his advocacy on behalf of taxpayers. We’ll miss him for his good nature, his ability to motivate, his optimism, his collaborative spirit, and so much more.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-progressives-long-march/
The “long march through the institutions” is the name given to the left’s turn towards Cultural Marxism as the means for taking control of the political order and shifting it to the left. For many conservatives, this movement in the Sixties accounts for the subsequent changes in political ideology, government policies, sexual mores, culture high and low, history, and revisions of school curricula from kindergarten to universities.
That narrative is accurate to a point, but it often suggests that before the Sixties our culture and politics were still firmly grounded in the Constitutional order, and Western culture defined by its Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian civilizational origins. But the way for the left’s “long march” was prepared by the Progressives’ “march” that began over a century ago. The Democrats’ policy platform unveiled during their convention and endorsed by Kamala Harris is a good starting point for seeing Progressivism’s continuity with the Marxist march to the modern center-left Democrat Party that has been taken over by their expanding and hardening leftist caucus.
The platform obviously endorses the Dems’ technocratic, hypertrophied Federal Government, and the greater centralization of power necessary for their utopian ambitions. As the Wall Street Journal puts it, “the platform is also a peek into an economic worldview in which the government is the answer, almost no matter the question. While private businesses are always ‘gouging’ or adding ‘junk fees,’ or otherwise trying to rip somebody off, Washington’s wise men are capable of providing for the American people, if only they have the power to pass the laws and regulations.”
Here is an item from the platform predicated on a Progressive idea more than a century old: “Health care should be a right in America, not a privilege,” the platform asserts. “We’ll never quit fighting to protect and expand the Affordable Care Act.” The ultimate goal is to completely nationalize healthcare, which will no doubt make doctors unionized public employees, and lead to worse outcomes costing trillions of taxpayer dollar––as Britain’s National Health Service and Obamacare serially demonstrate.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20907/china-funding-fentanyl-murders
In a recent national poll, more than half of responding Americans believe that China is deliberately exporting fentanyl to the United States for the purpose of harming, or even destabilizing our nation.
Were that true, some might reasonably describe that strategy as an act of war.
For China, it would be historic payback time.
Having lost a generation, a nation, and an empire to opium introduced by Imperial Britain during the 1800s, no one knows better than the Chinese that a drug scourge can bring a country literally to its knees.
So, it should not surprise anyone that they have become a center of illicit fentanyl manufacturing, with drug traffickers exporting the killing chemical to the one nation China must strategically injure if they are to make good on their intent to dominate the rest of the 21st Century: the United States. More than simply turning a blind eye to those who are creating the drugs, the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party reported this spring that China is directly supporting the creation of fentanyl and other drugs by offering “tax rebates and other financial benefits” to those manufacturers, as long as those drugs are sold outside of China:
“According to the report, Chinese officials encourage production of precursor chemicals by giving ‘monetary grants and awards to companies openly trafficking illicit fentanyl materials.'”
One does not have to be a CIA analyst to appreciate the “why” behind such an action.
The cause and effect have not been lost on the American public. That recent poll, undertaken by the nationally respected polling company McLaughlin & Associates, revealed that a stunning 52.4 percent of Americans suspect that the Chinese are exporting the deadly drug for the specific purpose of destabilizing our society. Some 19.4% disagreed and 28.3% did not have an opinion.
Iran Wants Trump Eliminated by Election Day https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/iran-trump-election-day/2024/08/21/id/1177404/
The Garbage That Starts Off the Democratic Party Platform https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-garbage-that-starts-off-the-democratic-party-platform/?
Liar-in-chief: Joe Biden’s astonishing legacy of falsehoods, deceptions and slander https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/liar-in-chief-joe-bidens-astonishing-legacy-of-falsehoods-deceptions-and-slander/
*** DNC Livewire Night 1 *** Bidens to Sing Swan Song, Hillary Clinton to Crow About Glass Ceiling Eight Years After Defeat https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/08/19/dnc-livewire-night-1-bidens-to-sing-swan-song-hillary-clinton-to-crow-about-glass-ceiling-eight-years-after-defeat/
BIDEN’S ANGRY SWAN SONG AT DNC: ‘LIES AND SLURS HIS WAY THROUGH HIS ENTIRE SPEECH’ [VIDEO MONTAGE]
Craig Bannister : Aug 20, 2024 MRCTV.org
‘Bizarre performance’: Douglas Murray analyses Biden’s DNC address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bBcrg4QPAM
WATCH WND LIVE: Dumb and Dumber at the DNC https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/watch-wnd-live-dumb-and-dumber-at-the-dnc/
BIDEN AND HARRIS WERE COOKING THE BOOKS THE WHOLE TIME! 1 MILLION JOBS VANISH IN DOWNWARD REVISION; TRUMP RESPONDS TO FRAUDULENT JOBS NUMBERS (VIDEO) Cristina Laila : Aug 21, 2024 The Gateway Pundit
CNN commentator leaves panel stunned after blasting Democrats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZJt8pfp92U
Pure Evil: Planned Parenthood Reportedly Ends Lives of 25 Innocent Babies with Medicated Abortions Offered at the DNC https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/pure-evil-planned-parenthood-reportedly-ends-lives-25/
Hillary Clinton receives loudest cheers of the night — seemingly bigger than Kamala Harris — at DNC as she smirks at ‘lock him up’ chants https://nypost.com/2024/08/19/us-news/hillary-clinton-receives-loudest-cheers-of-the-night-with-booming-standing-ovation-at-dnc/
Hillary Clinton: ‘Kamala will restore abortion rights nationwide’ https://www.christianpost.com/news/hillary-clinton-kamala-will-restore-abortion-rights-nationwide.html?clickType=link-topbar-news
Megyn Kelly Exposes the Truth About First Lady Michelle Obama’s Speech at the Democratic Convention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7k3soyC6k
WATCH: Barack Obama mocks Trump’s ‘weird obsession with crowd sizes’ https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/watch-barack-obama-mocks-trumps-weird-obsession-with-crowd-sizes/
MICHELLE OBAMA ENDORSES PORN IN SCHOOLS AND TRANSING KIDS ON DNC DAY 2 Ben Johnson : Aug 21, 2024 The Washington Stand
Kamala would be our most pro-Hamas president https://www.wnd.com/2024/08/kamala-would-be-our-most-pro-hamas-president/
Pro-Israel Group, Denied Permit to March, Gathers at ‘Hostage Square’ in Chicago https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/08/20/pro-israel-group-denied-permit-to-march-gathers-at-hostage-square-in-chicago/
Pro-Palestinian Protesters Breach Wall at Democratic National Convention https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/19/pro-palestinian-protesters-breach-wall-at-democratic-national-convention/
Donald Trump Blasts Kamala Harris’s Economic Plan: ‘Can’t Answer How She’d Pay for It’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/19/donald-trump-blasts-kamala-harris-s-economic-plan-cant-answer-how-shed-pay-for-it/
UN exhibit memorializing terror victims completely ignores Jews, Erdan says https://www.jns.org/un-exhibit-memorializing-terror-victims-completely-ignores-jews-erdan-says/
By Ignoring the Bidenites’ Advice, Israel Managed to Eliminate Many Hamas Jihadis https://www.frontpagemag.com/by-ignoring-the-bidenites-advice-the-israelis-managed-to-eliminate-many-hamas-jihadis/?
Climate Meltdown: Ivy League Scientists Expose Climate Fraud https://libertysentinel.substack.com/p/climate-meltdown-ivy-league-scientists?
Keir Starmer accused of having ‘his head in the sand’ over migration crisis https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/keir-starmer-accused-of-having-his-head-in-the-sand-over-migration-crisis/video/189652d2aeea6abdd11c8bac8b09324f
‘Furious’ – Netanyahu refusing to meet British FM after UK embraces ICC arrest warrant – report https://worldisraelnews.com/furious-netanyahu-refusing-to-meet-british-fm-after-uk-embraces-icc-arrest-warrant-report/?
Exposing The New York Times: A Legacy of Antisemitism and Deception https://rairfoundation.com/exposing-new-york-times-legacy-antisemitism-deception/
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS REJECTS TRANSGENDER SURGERIES FOR MINORS Matt Lamb : Aug 19, 2024 LifeSiteNews.com
Danish Drugmaker Ready to Cash In with 10 Million Monkeypox Vaccine Doses Set for Production Following WHO’s Global Health Emergency Declaration https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/danish-drugmaker-ready-cash-10-million-monkeypox-vaccine/
South African group refutes WHO’s declaration of an mpox emergency and warns the public about the risks of the vaccines https://expose-news.com/2024/08/22/south-african-group-refutes-whos-declaration/
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-8-23-the-big-difference-between-the-us-and-venezuela-is-economic-policy
Here in the U.S., we are accustomed to economic growth almost every year. Look at a chart of U.S. GDP over the course of the last century, and the impression is of near-continuous and extremely robust growth. Here is such a chart from USA Facts, based on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (Commerce Department).
The so-called “Great Recession” of 2008-09 registers as barely a blip. Same for the Covid-related dip of 2020. (Note in the graph that backing out inflation flattens the slope of the curves to some degree, but does not change the basic form of robust and continuous growth.)
This pattern of continual growth is unfortunately not true for all countries. For an extreme case of the opposite situation, consider Venezuela. Venezuela elected the socialist Hugo Chavez in 1998, and he and his ideologically-aligned successor Nicolas Maduro have ruled ever since. It is not easy to get useful economic data from Venezuela. The best I can find for its GDP since the Chavez election and to the present is from Statista. Here is their chart:
