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Therefore, Trump is saying give me enough votes to control both The Senate and House so I can bring about the necessary changes American Voters seek.
He has exposed Pelosi's support of radicals, the Antifa crowd, those who want to substitute Capitalism with Socialism and you know the list of inane ideas progressives support and the majority of Americans reject.
The call for impeachment has risen and the passing of the censure of Trump's Tweet is sheer hypocrisy. and Pelosi looked foolish in her support (See 1 and 1a below.)
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Avi's book now in Spanish. (See 2 below.)
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Franklin Graham speaks my sentiments and does so far better than I can. (See 3 below.)
And:
This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader: "WHY DO JEWS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE DEMOCRSTIC PARTY? ALL THE CANDIDATES HAVE TO “KISS-UP” TO ANTI-SEMITES GROUPS LIKE THIS. THE ANALOGY HERE IF YOU HAD A POISONOUS PET SNAKE & YOU THOUGHT IT WASN’T GOING TO HARM YOU , YOU ARE BRAIN DEAD!"
https://pjmedia.com/trending/
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Planned Parenthood implodes. (See 4 below.)
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Iran Caught Smuggling Nuke Materials Out of U.S.
'Carbon fiber has many aerospace and defense applications'
By Adam Kredo
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Race card worn thin? (See 5 below.)
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Race card worn thin? (See 5 below.)
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Dick
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Overshadowing the battle against anti-Semitism
The feud between Trump and “the squad” ensured that a DOJ summit was largely ignored and instead helped legitimize those who have spread Jew-hatred.
The U.S. Department of Justice devoted a day to a summit this week about combating anti-Semitism. With other government agencies taking part, the event represented a significant commitment to deal with an issue of growing concern across the country.
Just as important, the program reflected a recognition that contemporary anti-Semitism is being driven by three main factors: traditional right-wing Jew-hatred, such as the ideology that motivated synagogue shooters in Pittsburgh and Poway, Calif., in the last year; the anti-Zionist sentiment of the far left; and radical Islam, with the latter two resulting in the creation of a hostile atmosphere for Jewish students on many college campuses. As such, it was more than just the usual lip service given to this problem.
But even in a normally slow July news cycle, coverage of the anti-Semitism summit was buried underneath the avalanche of attention devoted to the spat between President Donald Trump and the “squad” of left-wing members of Congress whom he told to “go back where they came from.”
The ironies here abound. On a day when his administration should have reaped some credit for devoting attention to the fight against anti-Semitism, much of the organized Jewish world was joining with other Trump critics to denounce the president for attacks on a group of four women—two of them guilty of anti-Semitic statements and positions themselves.
Any discussion of this issue must start with an acknowledgement that no American should be addressed in the manner that Trump tweeted about the squad, no matter how egregious their behavior might be.
With the exception of members of Native American tribes (whose ancestors crossed into North America eons before the dawn of recorded history), all Americans are descended from people who came from somewhere else. There is a long and unfortunate history of Americans seeking to single out groups or individuals as not belonging here. Such rhetoric—no matter its source or motive—is xenophobic and at odds with the basic principles on which the American republic was founded.
Attorney General William Barr rightly noted in his keynote address at the summit that identity politics that seeks to divide Americans is fueling anti-Semitism. The same can be said about any statement—let alone one from the president of the United States—that can be interpreted as supporting the notion that some citizens should be deported. What Trump tweeted was profoundly wrong and should be retracted.
That’s true whether you think Trump was merely playing his usual role as Internet troll-in-chief or if you believe he was playing three-dimensional political chess, in which his true purpose was to bind mainstream Democrats ever more closely to the Squad so as to convince the country that his opponents are led by radicals.
The latter does seem to be the net effect of this contretemps since moderates, as well as liberals, have been rushing to the defense of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), the sole immigrant in the quartet.
That’s unfortunate both from the point of view of the effort to preserve civility in public discourse and the fight against anti-Semitism.
One of the most discouraging political events of 2019 was the way that both Tlaib and Omar managed not only to escape accountability for their anti-Semitism, but to actually gain support for it. Both spread anti-Semitic memes about Jews using money to buy political power and for being guilty of dual loyalty. Both are supporters of the anti-Semitic BDS movement that seeks not merely to promote discriminatory conduct towards the one Jewish state on the planet, but is also aimed at isolating and silencing its American Jewish supporters.
Yet not only did they evade direct censure by Congress and held on to their committee assignments. Much of the mainstream media also bought their claims that they were victims of bias because of their status as minorities. They managed to emerge from these scrapes acclaimed as the young rock stars of their party—a distinction that earned them the cover of Rolling Stone magazine alongside their sometime antagonist House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in addition to fawning interviews on the late-night comedy shows.
So in one fell swoop, Trump not only united the chattering classes in outrage against yet another of his outrageous statements, but more importantly, validated the notion that these four radical members of Congress are heroines to be supported, rather than destructive and hateful extremists who ought to be shunned.
That’s troubling because it also obscures what was significant about the summit convened by his administration. The discussions were not just focused on hate crimes like the murderous attacks on synagogues. They also drew attention to the way support for anti-Zionism in academia, the media and even in Congress has legitimized anti-Semitic attitudes and beliefs.
The Trump administration has prioritized the fight against anti-Semitism on college campuses by reversing the decisions made by his predecessor not to pursue efforts to force institutions to prevent anti-Semitic incitement rooted in discrimination against Israel and its supporters. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s declaration at the summit that “BDS stands for anti-Semitism” is a statement that Americans have needed to hear from their government for years. This is particularly important because young Jews are now far more likely to face anti-Semitism than their elders—something that is the product of the way the BDS movement has entrenched itself on college campuses.
Nevertheless, it’s likely that the majority of Jews will ignore not only the content of the summit, but the substantial policies pursued by this administration on both foreign and domestic fronts aimed at combating anti-Semitism. All they know about Trump and anti-Semitism is his damaging conflation of opposition to removing Confederate statues with an infamous neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Va., which his critics have blamed for every incident of violence against Jews, even as they largely ignore or rationalize the increasing Jew-hatred on the left.
If that is so, then Trump has no one to blame but himself.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
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Speaking of values, House rules say that Members may not call a President racist. Rep. Doug Collins (R., Ga.) rose to ask the Speaker to “rephrase” her comments. She refused, saying the House parliamentarian had approved them in advance. A flurry of conversation followed, with a Democrat even abandoning the chair presiding over the House lest he have to strike the Speaker’s words from the record. No one can remember that ever happening.
Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer eventually took the chair to say the Speaker’s words were “out of order.” But the Democratic majority then voted 232-190 not to strike Mrs. Pelosi’s words from the record, and it voted again by a similar margin to override House rules so she wouldn’t be banned from speaking on the House floor for the rest of the day as she should have been when a Member’s words are “taken down.”
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Nancy Pelosi’s Glass House
The Editorial Board
In condemning Trump, the Speaker violates her own rules.
If you're going to condemn someone else in politics, or any other walk of life, you should have your own house in order. Nancy Pelosi learned that the hard way on Tuesday as the Speaker violated House rules by accusing President Trump of sending “racist” tweets.
“Every single member of this institution, Democratic and Republican, should join us in condemning the President’s racist tweets,” Mrs. Pelosi said in teeing up a House resolution to denounce Mr. Trump that passed Tuesday evening largely along party lines. “To do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and a shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the American people.”
Speaking of values, House rules say that Members may not call a President racist. Rep. Doug Collins (R., Ga.) rose to ask the Speaker to “rephrase” her comments. She refused, saying the House parliamentarian had approved them in advance. A flurry of conversation followed, with a Democrat even abandoning the chair presiding over the House lest he have to strike the Speaker’s words from the record. No one can remember that ever happening.
Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer eventually took the chair to say the Speaker’s words were “out of order.” But the Democratic majority then voted 232-190 not to strike Mrs. Pelosi’s words from the record, and it voted again by a similar margin to override House rules so she wouldn’t be banned from speaking on the House floor for the rest of the day as she should have been when a Member’s words are “taken down.”
What a farce. In her zeal to play to the media chorus that Mr. Trump is a “racist,” Mrs. Pelosi violates her own House rules on appropriate speech. But rather than apologize, she and her party override the rules to spare her embarrassment. All of which proves again that Donald Trump, for all of his excesses, has no monopoly on violating political norms.
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| Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am delighted to announce the Spanish language edition of Thou Shalt Innovate (entitled Innovaras), published by Nagrela (www.nagrelaeditores.es). Please circulate this to your Spanish-speaking friends and colleagues. And if you have contacts in the Spanish-language media and/or with government policymakers I would be grateful if you would forward this to them and have them get in contact with me. Thank you all for your continued support.
Avi
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You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, when he said America will not come back. He wrote:
"The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012. The second term of Barack Obama has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind.
A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the "forever needy," the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other "fellow travelers" have ended Norman Rockwell's America.
You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status.
People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.
The Cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard The American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod along with international socialist George Soros have been pulling the strings on their beige puppet and have brought us Act 2 of the New World Order.
The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has been told.
Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness.."
IN GOD WE TRUST
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Planned Parenthood Intends to Make It Harder for Women to Get Healthcare
By Erick Erickson
It was very interesting last night to see Planned Parenthood fire its CEO, Leana Wen, a doctor. In a statement, Wen said, "I came to planned parenthood to run a national healthcare organization... the new board has determined that the priority of Planned Parenthood moving forward is to double down on abortion rights advocacy."
Planned Parenthood largely confirms this. The organization lost several of its top political operatives after Wen arrived and now they're reversing course to become fully an abortion advocacy organization. But there is something really troubling about that.
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In William Julius Wilson’s 1978 book, “The Declining Significance of Race,” the sociologist argued that racial discrimination was no longer the biggest barrier to black economic advancement. His fellow liberals were outraged. Forty-one years later, Mr. Wilson is still right and the political left is still in denial.
Mr. Wilson’s observations about discrimination and black progress four decades ago weren’t novel—conservative scholars like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell already had been making similar points—but they were striking coming from a liberal academic. Mr. Wilson did not deny the roles that slavery and Jim Crow played in perpetuating disparities. Nevertheless, he wrote, “they do not provide a meaningful explanation of the life chances of black Americans today.” Mayor Pete has been wrong for longer than he’s been alive.
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The Race Card Has Gone Bust
America has never been fairer or more integrated, yet politicians obsess over wiping out discrimination.
By Jason L. Riley
In William Julius Wilson’s 1978 book, “The Declining Significance of Race,” the sociologist argued that racial discrimination was no longer the biggest barrier to black economic advancement. His fellow liberals were outraged. Forty-one years later, Mr. Wilson is still right and the political left is still in denial.
Accusations of white racism are all the rage in Washington these days. If you oppose school busing, you’re a racist. If you want immigration laws enforced, you’re a racist. If you’re against slavery reparations or support adding a citizenship question to the census or criticize minority members of Congress, you’re a racist.
One problem is that Donald Trump has adopted the kind of identity politics we usually associate with Democrats. Another is that Democratic presidential contestants in search of black votes have taken racial pandering to new lows. Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Ind., spoke for many of the candidates when he told National Public Radio last week that “white America” needs to come to grips with what he says explains today’s racial inequities. Namely, the “systemic racism all around us. It’s the air we breathe.”
Mr. Wilson’s observations about discrimination and black progress four decades ago weren’t novel—conservative scholars like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell already had been making similar points—but they were striking coming from a liberal academic. Mr. Wilson did not deny the roles that slavery and Jim Crow played in perpetuating disparities. Nevertheless, he wrote, “they do not provide a meaningful explanation of the life chances of black Americans today.” Mayor Pete has been wrong for longer than he’s been alive.
No reasonable person denies that racists still live among us or that racial discrimination can retard upward mobility. Still, evidence of racial bias in the past or the present is not proof that racism is responsible for current social disparities. After all, the pathologies we see in low-income black communities aren’t confined to those communities. As Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam wrote in 2017, “The white working-class family is today more fragile than the black family was at the time of the famous alarm-sounding 1965 ‘Report on the Negro Family’ by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.”
Liberals who insist that racial discrimination largely explains the black-white wealth gap are ignoring other plausible explanations. Black poverty and employment today, for example, seem to be more a function of family formation than of white racism. For more than 20 years, black married couples have had poverty rates in the single digits, and black married men have had a higher labor-force participation rate than white men who never married. According to The Wall Street Journal, last year the labor-force participation gap between blacks and whites virtually vanished, the first time that’s happened since 1972. Systemic racism may be “in the air we breathe,” but black unemployment rates are at generational lows.
“Family instability and fatherlessness collide with racial and economic disadvantage to create a negative feedback loop in black communities, hampering children’s potential and perpetuating racial inequality,” writes Kay Hymowitz in a recent City Journal essay. Citing new research by John Iceland, a demographer at Penn State University, she notes that “differences in family structure are the most significant variable in explaining the black-white affluence gap. In fact, its importance has grown over time relative to other explanations, including discrimination. Unable to pool earnings with a spouse, to take advantage of economies of scale, and to share child care, black single parents have a tougher time than their married counterparts building a nest egg.”
Government programs are no substitute for the development of human capital. If wealth-redistribution schemes lifted people out of poverty, we would have closed these gaps a long time ago. Liberal politicians and activists have little interest in addressing the ways in which black behavioral choices impact inequality. It’s easier to turn out voters and raise money by equating racial imbalances with racial bias and smearing political opponents who disagree.
Will it work in the end? It didn’t for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Telling people what you think they want to hear can be easier than telling the truth, but you also risk insulting them. And blaming bad outcomes among blacks on the malevolence of others is not only wrong but insulting to Americans of every race. This isn’t 1950. Attitudes have changed. Behaviors have changed. American neighborhoods and schools and marriages are more integrated. We elected a black president twice, and he won several of the nation’s whitest states both times. Racism has probably never been less significant in America, and blacks have never had more opportunities to seize. Liberals are pushing a narrative that many white voters don’t recognize and that many black voters know is false.
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