1. Lowell Ponte: Democrats Try “Gerrymandering” Elections by Age
and Ethnicity
2. Michelle
Seiler-Tucker:
The Weinstein Company on Track to File for
Bankruptcy
3. Michael Stumo: Trump Rightly Puts Foot Down on Steel Cheating
4. Kerry Lutz: Make Florida Drivers Great Again
5. Jeff Ferry: Why We Need Tariffs on Steel
6. James Hirsen: Huckabee Withdraws from the Board after Haters Intimidate
the CMA
Democrats
Try “Gerrymandering” Elections by Age and Ethnicity
By Lowell Ponte
In 1812, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry
tried rigging elections by redrawing district boundaries so that his
Democratic-Republican Party (the forerunner of today’s Democratic Party) would
win more seats. One such district was shaped like a salamander, which critics
called a “Gerrymander.” The Democrats ever since have used trickery to
win. Pennsylvania Supreme Court judges, all Democrats, have replaced the
legislature’s power to draw congressional districts. In 2000, Democrats tried
to throw out overseas ballots of Florida soldiers, and the far left Center for
American Progress this February proposed making it harder for Americans in
uniform to vote overseas, because soldiers tend to vote as conservatives. In
2016, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order giving votes to
more than 100,000 felons, who vote up to 88 percent Democratic. [more...]
The
Weinstein Company on Track to File for Bankruptcy
Following the Harvey Weinstein allegations, the company began to
see a backlash in its business operations. Many business partners cut ties with
the studio and new business opportunities were cut off. Fearing the end of the
studio, executives sought a buyer that would keep the doors open and protect
their employees. A group of investors, led by Maria Contreras-Sweet, the former
head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, saw this as an opportunity to
start a movie studio that was headed by women. However, a letter from the Board
of Directors of the Weinstein Company stated that the buyers were unwilling to
provide interim financing while the deal was being finalized. As a result, the
company is on track to filing for bankruptcy. The deal hit its major snag a few
weeks ago when New York’s Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, filed a suit
against the company and Weinstein. [more...]
Trump Rightly Puts Foot Down on Steel Cheating
In the world of international trade, countries like China
continually use their own version of “steroids” to gain an advantage. Trade
cheating has been particularly evident in the global steel market, with
overseas competitors pushing the U.S. steel industry to the brink of collapse. Thankfully,
President Trump is willing
to strongly confront such cheating, as evidenced by his decision to impose
tariffs on “dumped” imports of both steel and aluminum. The president’s
announcement is particularly commendable since it takes a broad approach to
global trade. [more...]
Make Florida
Drivers Great Again
By Kerry Lutz
The much vaunted self-driving car has a problem; it doesn’t
drive very well and often suffers from poor judgment. Whether it’s a Tesla, Google
Car, Mercedes or any other number of products attempting to dominate the
American Highway, they just can’t seem to stay out of trouble. People have been
killed or injured in while proving out these technological marvels. However,
there’s an easy way to speed up the research and development process, designate
the entire state of Florida as a self-driving car testing site. Florida has
earned the distinction of the nation’s worst drivers. With this kind of record,
the state must become the epicenter of self-driving vehicle technology
development. This designation will provide many benefits. [more...]
Why We
Need Tariffs on Steel
By Jeff Ferry
Are we going to defend the U.S. steel industry from the decline
caused by the growth of uneconomic foreign competition? Or, are we going to
allow the industry to fade away and become dependent on other countries for
this ubiquitous product, vital to our military and civilian economy? We believe
the answer has to be an effort in favor of defending America’s steel industry.
Too much is at stake. America’s national security depends on a reliable supply
of steel. America’s infrastructure, much of it urgently in need of renewal,
depends on steel. Great American industries, including automobiles, aerospace,
and many others, depend on a reliable supply of high-quality, low-cost steel.
Thousands of jobs also depend on the steel industry. [more...]
Huckabee Withdraws from the Board after Haters Intimidate
the CMA
By James Hirsen
Left-wing hatred, in of all places
Nashville, has just politicized a country music institution. Rather than learn
a lesson from the NFL and Hollywood, a small but highly vocal group of people
in Music City has managed to pressure the Country Music Association (CMA) into
having former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee withdraw as a board member from
the group’s educational arm, the CMA Foundation. Last week, the CMA announced
two new members of the board of this charitable foundation, Huckabee and singer
Chris Young. Following the announcement, the CMA was the recipient of a
hate-filled backlash over its choice of Huckabee because of the former
governor’s political and religious views and solid support of President Donald
Trump, as well as the fact that he is the proud father of President Trump’s
current press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. [more...]
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