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The Patriot Post Digest 4-6-2015
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Daily Digest
Apr. 6, 2015
THE FOUNDATION
“As a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favor of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.” –Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS
Poor Jobs Report Shows Need for GOP Alternative1
Over the long Easter weekend, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that job growth during March did not reach the 245,000 jobs economists predicted – not even close. While the unemployment rate stayed flat at 5.5% and the U-6 measure of labor underutilization edged down to 10.9%, the U.S. economy added only 126,000 jobs in March. Furthermore, BLS revised its job numbers for January and February down 69,000. To put this in perspective, 150,000 jobs must be added per month to keep up with population growth. And there were two times as many2 unemployed people as people who got a job. Barack Obama’s rosy rhetoric on his economic legacy has washed away with the snowmelt. Columnist George Will told Fox News, “If the workforce participation rate today were as high as it was on the day Barack Obama was inaugurated, the unemployment rate in this country would be 9.7%. We wouldn’t be complaining about the bad recovery because we wouldn’t call it a recovery.” We’ve had years of this tepid economy. It’s time for Republicans to champion an alternative. More…3
Indiana and Arkansas Concede to Politics in Religious Liberty Fight4
State-level conservatives confronted with the sea of change that homosexual rights activists bring to society must choose between what is moral and what is political. Bowing to national pressure, the Indiana lawmaking machine weakened its Religious Freedom Restoration Act5, essentially creating a protected class of “LGBT” people, writes Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson. Similarly, Arkansas6 weakened its RFRA bill Thursday. Matt Lewis7 writes in The Telegraph, “While conservatives tend to view this as nothing more than a power grab by gay rights activists, others truly view this as a great civil rights cause. In their minds, protections allowing a devout believer to decline to photograph a gay wedding would be tantamount to Jim Crow laws where African-Americans were turned away at lunch counters. While this analogy seems a stretch, the notion of comparing one’s own cause to the civil rights struggle is some mighty high moral ground to seize – and seize it they have.” Due to leftists' successful and emotionally evocative rhetoric, Republicans are stuck. Should they once again concede ground as the Left labels them bigots? Or do they stand firm to fight for Liberty? Lawmakers made their choice plain.
How to Make a Million Bucks Running an Indiana Pizza Parlor8
Maybe someone will blame this one on Hillary Clinton’s vast right-wing conspiracy. After a reporter asked Indiana pizzeria Memories Pizza9 if it would cater a same-sex marriage ceremony, the mom-and-pop pizza pie factory said no, they wouldn’t. Enraged that someone would dare utter a legitimate expression of religious conscience, leftists grabbed their pitchforks and torches to protest the restaurant into oblivion. In response, a producer from The Blaze set up a donation page on GoFundMe10. The producer, Lawrence Jones, said, “The intent was to help the family stave off the burdensome cost of having the media parked out front, activists tearing them down, and no customers coming in. Our goal was simply to help take one thing off this family’s plate as the strangers sought to destroy them.” To date, the page brought $842,592 and the Left can only explain the phenomenon as some sort of conspiracy11. The pizzeria knew it would make a killing by playing the controversy, they somehow reason. Or decent people, upset that the Left would go after anybody and everybody that disagrees with them, voted with their dollars, instead of staying silent. More…12
Rolling Stone Rolls Back It’s False Story13
Rolling Stone published quite the blockbuster story14 last November about an awful gang rape at a University of Virginia frat house. The only trouble was the story was false. Police investigated and found no evidence15 to support the story. Now even the iconic music magazine is admitting the gig is up and formally retracting the story. Fox News reports16 that a “review, undertaken by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism at Rolling Stone’s request, produced a 12,000-word report that documented lapses in standard journalistic procedure at every level of the magazine during the reporting and editing of the story.” But other than the retraction, it’ll be business as usual – no one will be fired or even disciplined, and no changes will be made. Writer (it’s hard to call her a reporter) Sabrina Erdely will even continue contributing after apologizing. When relaying a leftist narrative, sometimes a story is just too good to check, no matter what it does to the victims – in this case, the falsely accused young men in the fraternity.
NJ Gov. Chris Christie Pardons Mom Facing Stupid Gun Charge17
Even though common sense prevailed when New Jersey dropped the prosecution of two individuals who ran afoul of its gun laws, the state’s broken laws need a change. Shaneen Allen18 thought she was in the clear when she drove into New Jersey with her Pennsylvania-legal handgun. Instead, she faced years in a New Jersey jail. The state dropped the prosecution, but Allen still needed to attend a pre-trial intervention class. On Thursday, Governor Chris Christie pardoned Allen, and the move possibly sets a precedent for other out-of-state travelers caught in Jersey’s gun laws. “It was quite a fight for her down there in Atlantic County, and it led to significant changes. Hundreds of folks were helped by her case,” Allen’s lawyer Evan Knappen said. “It’s a little absurd to take someone who’s a law-abiding citizen in their home state but then put them into a New Jersey state prison for a mandatory three- to five-year sentence and make them a felon.” In February, the Garden State dropped the prosecution19 of Gordon van Gilder20, a former teacher who was caught with – the horrors! – an antique flintlock pistol. Some in the state realize there is a problem. But the problem now is that citizens only rely on the state’s benevolence, not a law that rules over everyone equally. More…21
For more, visit Right Hooks22.
RIGHT ANALYSIS
Good News: Peace in Our Time!23
On Thursday, Barack Obama announced his nuclear deal with Iran in a Rose Garden speech that gave new meaning to the phrase “putting lipstick on a pig.” The major assertion of his speech – “If fully implemented, this framework will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, making our nation, our allies and our world safer” – is categorically untrue. This deal will not prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and it will not make anyone safer. Heck, even the French basically called it a surrender24.
Obama praised the “tough and principled diplomacy” practiced by U.S. negotiators led by Secretary of State John Kerry over the last 18 months. Apparently, “tough and principled” meant tossing overboard one negotiating position after another until Iran finally agreed to something. As The Washington Post pointed out25, Obama went from “Iran must end its nuclear program and abide by UN resolutions” in 2012 to enshrining Iran’s right to become a threshold nuclear state and ditching the UN resolutions in 2015, leaving Iran never more than a year from being able to field a weapon. |
