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Title: The Patriot Post Digest 10-3-2016 Post by: nChrist on October 05, 2016, 10:09:13 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 10-3-2016 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://patriotpost.us/subscription/new) ________________________________________ Mid-Day Digest Oct. 3, 2016 IN TODAY’S EDITION October Surprise No. 1 — the New York Times' Trump tax return “bombshell” October Surprise No. 2 — What will WikiLeaks drop on Hillary Clinton? Obama targets Judicial Watch because the watchdog is so effective Entertainment as indoctrination, and how two ABC shows reveal a lot about fundamental transformation. And more news, policy and opinion. THE FOUNDATION “Excessive taxation … will carry reason and reflection to every man’s door, and particularly in the hour of election.” —Thomas Jefferson (1798.) TOP RIGHT HOOKS The New York Times Knows a Thing or Two About Not Paying Taxes1 It was revealed2 by The New York Times on Saturday that Donald Trump may have avoided paying taxes for years. According to its report, “Mr. Trump’s 1995 records said that tax rules … would have allowed Mr. Trump to use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-year period.” The headline blared, “Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found.” But the headline is deceptive in that it doesn’t factor in Trump’s payments of property taxes, sales taxes, real-estate taxes, state taxes and other federal taxes. And it also builds a story not around what did happen, but what could have. The irony of the Times making hay over Trump having (legally) not paid income taxes is that the paper itself did not pay taxes in 2014. As Forbes reported, “For tax year 2014, The New York Times paid no taxes and got an income tax refund of $3.5 million even though they had a pre-tax profit of $29.9 million in 2014.” Kettle, meet pot. Reports like this reveal far more about the Times' own leftist ideology and Clinton super PAC behavior than anything else. Nearly half of Americans do not pay federal income taxes. Remember Mitt Romney’s infamous 47% comment, which was accurate in its assessment although it proved to be toxic for his campaign. It was toxic because of the Democrat playbook of class envy politics. Harry Reid exploited this by falsely accusing Romney of not having paid taxes. The Times got his memo. Hillary Clinton, herself a very wealthy woman, hypocritically pushes class envy, while championing herself as somehow an exception to the Left’s class warfare rule. She is the one who cares about the poor and middle class, blaming the wealthy for not “pay their fair share,” all while she shelters income in the Clinton Foundation. For the amount of time the Democrats have been banging this drum, you’d have thought by now they would have fixed the “problem” with all the tax increases they have implemented over the years, but cities like Detroit highlight the flaw in their logic. Their message assumes that those who have become wealthy have done so only by taking advantage of others. But what is even more sinister is that the Left is primarily committed to providing for the government. Where the wealthy provide the monetary fuel for growing the economy — creating jobs, which in turn spreads wealth and raises the standard of living — government tends toward over-regulation and over-taxation, often creating greater inefficiency and economic stagnation. Anyone remember the last eight years under Obama? WikiLeaks Delays October Surprise?3 “October surprises,” as they have been termed, are a last ditch effort to throw out a shocking story intended to derail an opponent’s campaign, and they have become regular political theater. As this political season has been unlike any other in recent memory, with both candidates polling with very negative favorability ratings, one would be wise to buckle up for what might prove to be quite a sling fest of political “gotchas.” The New York Times got the ball rolling on Saturday with its reveal of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax records1 under the juicy headline, “Donald Trump Tax Record Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades.” This story may have been an attempt to pre-empt the promised release of presumably damning documents on Hillary Clinton by WikiLeaks. Interestingly, however, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced that an anticipated Tuesday document leak would be postponed due to “security concerns,” though he may reveal something via video. Speculation has swirled as to what these “security concerns” could be — after all, people who cross the Clintons do have a habit of turning up dead4. Assange continues to be holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, which has protected him from extradition demands made by Sweden over a rape charge that he claims is a dubious attempt to silence his organization. In any case, Assange is no altruistic citizen. It is yet unknown how damaging the information on Clinton might be. However, Assange and WikiLeaks deal in hacked information from nefarious sources, and conservatives should not be cheering this man and his organization — even if it’s at the expense of Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch Targeted for Exposing Corruption5 Just how effective is Judicial Watch in extracting information buried by the Obama administration? We need only look at how the White House has tried to quash its efforts for a clue. On Thursday the General Services Administration’s Office of Inspector General published a November 2015 audit on its website, “Letter to Senator Johnson About GSA’s FOIA Process6,” that criticizes the agency for, among other things, violating Freedom of Information Act protocols regarding a GSA video enquiry in June 2012. The report says “GSA had granted Judicial Watch press status in the past,” which should have made it exempt from fees. In this case, however, JW was “denied the fee waiver request.” Moreover, the clearly orchestrated obfuscation is linked directly to the White House. The report says the Office of General Counsel “received an email containing guidance for determining Judicial Watch was not a media requestor. In the email, captioned ‘Judicial Watch Found Not A Media Requester,’ the sender, Elliot Mincberg, advised he had gathered this information at the request of GSA’s White House Liaison, Gregory Mercher.” Judicial Watch eventually prevailed, though it took nearly a year for the videos to be released and the parties were forced into a settlement. JW president Tom Fitton says, “It’s outrageous but not surprising. Welcome to our world. This is what we put up with all the time from the agencies.” The Washington Times importantly notes7: “President Obama promised an era of transparency when it came to open records requests under the Freedom of Information Act, which is the chief way for Americans to pry loose data from the federal government. Despite the president’s exhortations, the government is increasingly fighting requests, forcing the public to file lawsuits to look at information.” Just image how much worse this administration’s cover-ups would be without JW’s unparalleled work in exposing them. It’s not just the IRS targeting conservative groups. BEST OF RIGHT OPINION Peggy Noonan: The Politics of ‘The Shallows’8 Burt Prelutsky: Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Hackers!9 Tony Perkins: Dems Try to Hyde Agenda10 For more, visit Right Opinion11. TOP HEADLINES Clinton Hits Sanders Followers in Leaked Recording12 Obama Wants New Racial Category13 Baltimore Mayor Knocks Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby14 Colombians Reject Historic Peace Deal With Rebels15 For more, visit Patriot Headline Report16. FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS Entertainment as Indoctrination17 By Robin Smith In October 2008, when presidential candidate Barack Obama declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” few had the imagination of how radically dramatic and devastating that would prove to be. Just a few days ago, Bernie Sanders joined Hillary Clinton at her rally to woo the impressionable youth with the right to vote with the familiar rhetorical posit, “Is everybody here ready to transform America? You’ve come to the right place.” Title: The Patriot Post Digest 10-3-2016 Post by: nChrist on October 05, 2016, 10:10:07 PM ________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 10-3-2016 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription (http://patriotpost.us/subscription/new) ________________________________________ Clearly, “progressive” means the ever-progressing destruction of traditional American values. This includes fundamentally transforming family, church and synagogue, neighborhood, schools, marriage, authentic Liberty and, sadly, even the truth. And the Left regularly chastises the Right for not going along with this “tolerance.” Such chastisement comes from Saul Alinsky’s Rule # 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” For example, we’ll look at two TV shows that show how our entertainment industry seeks to affect the outcome of redefining marriage and a sense of self. Brent Bozell and Tim Graham offered the case in point in their analysis18 of the ABC TV show, “Modern Family.” The gents framed up what we’ve long called entertainment as indoctrination19 quite nicely by walking readers through the liberal success of portraying same-sex marriage as commonplace. Despite about 500,000 same-sex marriages as reported by USA Today in June this year, compared to the more than 60 million traditional marriages reported in 2015, a 1% occurrence has been defined as commonplace on TV. Until the 1970s, entertainment mirrored our society. Today, entertainment works to chisel away at the bedrock of morality, decency and even commonsense, to have society model its sad display of everything from excessive sexuality and objectifying women to the outright disdain for manhood. The writers of “Modern Family” weren’t satisfied with portraying same-sex marriage as common, so they’re now introducing a transgender character — and a child, no less. In their scrutiny, Bozell and Graham noted the Disney-owned ABC, along with many other hard Left activists who dominate the entertainment industry, is exposed as a cultural deconstructionist with an agenda not to entertain but to indoctrinate. An eight-year-old Atlanta actor selected to “play” the transgender boy will allegedly press the homosexual characters of the show to examine if their tolerance is elastic enough. Translation: The new normal is not only same-sex marriage but the further reaches of gender disorientation pathology20. “Modern Family” doesn’t stand alone. Arguably more insidious is ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” because it’s a show marketed to families. The show features fairy tale characters transported into our world, and it’s a clever jumble of Snow White, Prince Charming and the Evil Queen, along with Rumpelstiltskin, Hook, Robin Hood and the Wicked Witch of the West, to name a few. Most of the fun is harmless. Except when it’s not. In an episode that originally aired this April, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz shared a romantic storyline with Little Red Riding Hood, ending with “true love’s kiss” breaking a sleeping spell. In an interview with “Entertainment Weekly,” the co-creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz lay out the lesbian-themed story plainly and clearly: It was “just another example of how in a fairy tale, as in life, love is love. Our goal is to make it as we see it in the real world, just as normal and as a part of everyday life as it should be.” It’s the embodiment of the Left’s “love wins” slogan. They weren’t winning by claiming rights, so they had to change strategies. Once it became about love, they had a winning formula. Unsuspecting families watching “Once Upon a Time” find themselves identifying and sympathizing with two lesbian characters who are simply following their hearts. What could be so wrong with that? Every single day this battle for the minds of our children and culture at large is being waged. And, sadly, the militant Left is winning. They’re winning by portraying falsehoods as reality, even if it is fairy tale based. They’re winning by creating emotional narratives around a weakness in our society — the confidence in one’s own identity. The last few generations of our children have been exposed and trained up with the philosophy that self-esteem is the most critical element in the success of child-rearing and development. We now have millions of youth and young adults who believe they are, indeed, very important. So important that they should have free college tuition. They are entitled to a safe space where their “gender identity” is fluid and must be validated by everyone around them. And “love” — however they define it today — is an end in itself. In using the term “culture,” we connote it to be the anthropological composition of accepted values, habits, knowledge, beliefs and behaviors that are manifested in arts and entertainment, families, religions, government, business, the media and “journalism” and educational systems. Our culture has been inarguably changed over the years with these seven entities being weaponized to create a culture, instead of reflecting a society. Let’s for a moment view “culture” in the sense of an artificial medium rich with nutrients and resources in a controlled environment that feed organisms devoted to replication. Once this culture of like-minded creatures has colonized sufficiently and are introduced into a host environment — the aforementioned venues — the insult begins and the host can and will be overwhelmed. What’s the cure? Not more of the same! MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST Enslaving Doctors21 — Do physicians have conscience rights, or must they provide every service? Stealthy Wheeling and Dealing22 — More information about what Obama gave away in Iranian ransom deal. OPINION IN BRIEF Peggy Noonan: “The 24/7 news cycle and the million multiplying platforms with their escalating demands — for pictures, video, sound, the immediate hot take — exhaust politicians and staff, and media people too. Everyone is tired, and chronically tired people live, perilously, on the Edge of Stupid. More important, modern media realities make everything intellectually thinner, shallower. Everything moves fast; we talk not of the scandal of the day but the scandal of the hour, reducing a great event, a presidential campaign, into an endless river of gaffes. The need to say something becomes the tendency to say anything. It makes everything dumber, grosser, less important. This year I am seeing something, especially among the young of politics and journalism. They have received most of what they know about political history through screens. … They’ve heard the sound bite but not read the speech. Their understanding of history, even recent history, is superficial. … They learned through sensation, not through books, which demand something deeper from your brain. Reading forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect. It provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events. … If you can’t read deeply you will not be able to think deeply. If you can’t think deeply you will not be able to lead well, or report well.” SHORT CUTS The Gipper: “Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.” Village Idiots: “If I could I would take all the guns in America, put them on big barges and go dump them in the ocean. Nobody would have a gun. Not police, not security, not anybody. We should eliminate all of them. We could save 33,000 people a year if we didn’t have guns in this country. … They are a scourge of this country and no one should have one as far as I’m concerned. There’s no defense to guns. There’s just absolutely no reason to have them.” —Oregon Judge Kenneth Walker Braying Jackass: “[Colin Kaepernick] took a knee. And now he’s started a huge conversation about what it means to be American, what it means to be proud to be an American, what it means to salute the flag, because he took a knee.” —Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban How does throwing Americans on the government dole accomplish that? “I believe one of the jobs of the president is to encourage more service, to help more Americans answer President Kennedy’s call. You know it: ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.’” —Hillary Clinton Feel the Bern: “[Bernie Sanders' acolytes are] children of the Great Recession and they are living in their parents' basement. And so if you’re consigned to, you know, being a barista or, you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a lot and doesn’t have much of a ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing.” —Hillary Clinton And last… “Someone sent me an item that perfectly summed up Hillary Clinton to my satisfaction. The caption to her photo read: ‘Why can’t you people understand that the medical problems I don’t have are the reason I can’t remember the criminal acts I didn’t commit.’” —Burt Prelutsky Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis! Managing Editor Nate Jackson Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm’s way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. |