1. Kerry Lutz: Make Border Security
Great Again - Privatize it!
2. Adam Andrzejewski: Trump
Needs a “Bridge to Nowhere” Moment on Spending
3. Lowell Ponte: Who
Owns the Weather?
4. Daniel Greenfield: The Inauthentic
Flip-Flopping of Bernie Sanders
5. Bruce Thornton: Will Our Current
Political Conflicts Turn Violent?
Make Border Security
Great Again - Privatize it!
By
Kerry Lutz
The
media continually informs us that there’s a crisis at the U.S. southern border.
However, little is being done about it. President Trump has his ideas and the
Congress appears completely unwilling to act. Parts of the Wall are being
built, but it can’t happen soon enough to quickly impede the flow of illegals.
Therefore, it’s time to take an approach that always works when it’s tried - unleash
the power of capitalism to solve this intractable problem. It’s time to
privatize border enforcement. [more...]
Trump
Needs a “Bridge to Nowhere” Moment on Spending
By
Adam Andrzejewski, Author of “Operation Drain the Swamp”
There is no shortage of potential savings in today’s
bloated federal budget. Former President Ronald Reagan cut spending by $15
billion through 133 separate rescissions in 1981 and cut another $16 billion in
1986 through 245 separate cuts. Neither former Presidents Barack Obama nor
George W. Bush offered any rescissions packages, so Trump’s attempt at this
method should be welcomed. But the process doesn’t matter as much as the
product and end result. Voters want to see fiscal sanity in Washington. Trump
should use every tool at his disposal – from Twitter to rescissions – to change
the trajectory on spending. [more...]
Who
Owns the Weather?
By
Lowell Ponte
We
used to think of weather as an Act of God, and of terrible storms or droughts
as a sign that a nation’s rulers had sinned, lost the “Mandate of Heaven,” were
suffering divine punishment, and ought to be replaced. Iran, unwilling to
acknowledge God’s hand behind its current punishing drought, is blaming someone
else – Israel. The Jewish State, said Iran’s Civil Defense chief Brigadier
General Gholam Ridha Jalali days ago, has been using cloud seeding or other
technologies to steal Iran’s rain and snow. [more...]
The Inauthentic
Flip-Flopping of Bernie Sanders
"Open
borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal," Bernie Sanders snapped.
"You're doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don't think
there's any country in the world that believes in that." ... "What
right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. You know
what youth unemployment is in the U.S. today? If you're a white high school
graduate, it's 33 percent, Hispanic 36 percent, African American 51 percent.
You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-wage workers, or
do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids?" That was
three years ago. Bernie’s final surrender came after dodging a
question on CNN about abolishing ICE. After the backlash, he went even further,
issuing a statement urging that we "abolish the cruel, dysfunctional
immigration system we have today.” Open borders had gone from a right-wing
position to a Bernie position. [more...]
Will Our Current
Political Conflicts Turn Violent?
President
Trump’s recent string of wins - especially the victories in the Supreme Court
decisions - has incited the Democrat “resistance” to even loonier excesses of
rhetoric and rudeness. Celebrities indulging juvenile vulgarities, boorish
protesters harassing cabinet members in public spaces, the Twitterverse
smoldering with calls for violence and a “summer of rage,” and the buffoonish
Representative from California Maxine Waters calling for even more public
harassment: all have some people worrying that we are on the track of
escalating violence that will turn the “cold civil war” hot. Count me as
skeptical for now. As bad as today’s political discord may seem, American
history from its beginnings has been filled with worse political conflict and
violence, from Shays’ Rebellion to Bleeding Kansas, from the Wall Street
bombing to the Haymarket Riot. And having spent more than forty years in the
university, the nursery of leftism and today’s parlor pinks, I see few people
with the gumption to actually back their blustering threats with risky action. [more...]
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