Written by Jon Schweppe
If you’ve been paying attention to the rhetoric coming from elected Democrats and progressive activists in recent weeks, you’ve probably noticed a calculated effort to frame issues in the vein of morality.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared to reporters that building a border wall would be an “immorality.” Abortion activist Amelia Bonow told children in a viral video that aborting her baby was “part of God’s plan.” Even social media superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who apparently works part-time as a Member of Congress — clumsily invoked morality to excuse her aversion to the truth, telling Anderson Cooper that it’s more important to be “morally right” than factually accurate.… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amelia Bonow, Anderson Cooper, border security, Border wall, Democratic Party, Down-syndrome, March for Life, Nancy Pelosi, Obamacare, Planned Parenthood
Federal Elections, Political, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith |
January 22, 2019 7:30 AM |
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Written by Elad Hakim
Rep. Steve Cohen, (D-Tenn.), recently introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would eliminate the Electoral College. This was obviously done in response to the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election despite winning nearly 3 million more votes than President Trump. According to Cohen, the Electoral College is outdated and distorting.
In a recent Fox News article, Cohen was quoted as saying, “Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office. … Continue Reading
Written by Michael F. Haverluck
The left-leaning MSNBC was amazed when a new survey revealed that a surprisingly large percentage of Hispanics voted for Republicans in November’s midterm election.
In fact, the survey conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago divulged that nearly one in three of the 7,738 Latino voters surveyed casted their ballots for GOP candidates just over two years ago.
“In November’s elections, 32 percent of Latinos voted for Republicans, frustrating Democrats, according to AP VoteCast data,” The Associated Press (AP) announced in a report published by NBCNews.com… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Carlos Garcia, Donald Trump, Edison Research, Fernand Amandi, Hillary Clinton, Jens Manuel Krogstad, John McCain, Latinos, Mark Hugo Lopez, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, NORC poll, Pedro Gonzalez, Pew Research Center, Repubicans, The Associated Press
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith |
December 31, 2018 7:55 AM |
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Written by Shelby Steele
Even before President Trump’s election, hatred had begun to emerge on the American left—counterintuitively, as an assertion of guilelessness and moral superiority. At the Women’s March in Washington the weekend after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the pop star Madonna said, “I have thought an awful lot of blowing up the White House.” Here hatred was a vanity, a braggadocio meant to signal her innocence of the sort of evil that, in her mind, the White House represented.… Continue Reading
Written by Michelle Malkin
No matter how politically fractured the nation may seem, I believe that liberty-loving citizens of all ideologies can unite and agree:
Billionaire Nanny Michael Bloomberg — the soda-taxing, gun-grabbing, snack-attacking control freak — should keep his nose out of our lives and out of the 2020 presidential race.
On the eve of the midterms, the former New York City mayor dumped $5 million into a self-serving ad bashing President Donald Trump, promoting Democrats, decrying border enforcement and preaching about a “higher purpose” in Washington.… Continue Reading
Written by Ed Straker
Politico had a nice summary of all the things the Democrats are promising to do if elected. It was the usual mix of authoritarian-socialism.
1. Single-payer health care.
Single-payer health care. Isn’t that great? And only one payer! And I suppose that one payer won’t be any of us, right?
In reality, of course, all of us who pay taxes (and none of us who don’t) will end up being the single-payer.
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Tags: Abolishing ICE, Debt-Free College, Defense cuts, Global warming tax, Limiting executive compensation, minimum wage, net neutrality, open borders, Single-payer health care
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith |
October 15, 2018 7:00 AM |
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Writte by John Zmirak
America’s left showed its ugly intolerant face in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight. It’s only bound to get uglier as we approach the National Impeachment Referendum on November 6. (That’s the right term for what some call the “mid-term Congressional elections.” They’re about impeaching Trump and even Kavanaugh, and nothing else at this point.)
When you’re facing ruthless opponents who are in many ways stronger than you, you face a moral dilemma. How much should you “rise above” their blatant and brutal tactics, and hope to win converts and sympathy?
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Tags: Donald Trump, Kavanaugh, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Mazie Hirono, New rules, Steve Bannon, violence
Faith & Religion, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | Benjamin D. Smith |
October 12, 2018 6:00 AM |
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Written by Perry Bacon Jr.
In the days after Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the two people who seemed like the Democratic Party’s most obvious 2020 candidates, then-Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, hinted that Clinton had gone too far in talking about issues of identity. “It is not good enough for somebody to say, ‘I’m a woman; vote for me,’” Sanders said.
Other liberals lamented that the party had lost white voters in such states as Ohio and Iowa who had supported Barack Obama, and they said Democrats needed to dial back the identity talk to win them back.… Continue Reading
Tags: Al Franken, Barack Obama, basket of deplorables, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Identity Politics, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Lee Drutman, Obamacare, Planned Parenthood
Federal Elections, Political | Benjamin D. Smith |
July 28, 2018 4:00 AM |
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Written by Tom Trinko
Twelve Russians have been indicted for hacking the DNC and releasing DNC emails showing that the DNC had violated its own rules and worked against Bernie and for Hillary in the primaries.
Leftists are talking about the Russians meddling in the U.S. election as a result. The problem is that while hacking the DNC is illegal and the Russians should be prosecuted, how can telling the voters that the DNC conspired against Bernie be considered “meddling” in our election?… Continue Reading
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Christopher Steele, DNC, FBI, Hillary Clinton, NBC, President Trump, Russia, Russian Collusion, Watergate
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | Benjamin D. Smith |
July 18, 2018 3:00 PM |
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Written by David Limbaugh
I’ve repeatedly said that though President Trump gives his leftist enemies plenty of fodder in his tweets to attack him, they would malign any Republican president unless he totally capitulated to their demands — and switched parties. Indeed, they always have.
The liberals say Trump is such an awful person, which apparently excuses their monomaniacal obsession with destroying his presidency. Yet Vice President Mike Pence is one of the finest people around, and they can’t stand him, either.… Continue Reading
Tags: Che Guevara, David Limbaugh, Donald Trump, Joy Behar, Kim Yo Jong, Mary Magdalene, Mike Pence, New York Times, Omarosa Manigault Newman, Republican, Sunny Hostin, The View
Federal Elections, Media Watch, Political | David E. Smith |
February 20, 2018 7:27 AM |
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