The Patriot Post Digest 8-11-2015

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Aug. 11, 2015

THE FOUNDATION

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” —George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Obama Staffer Fires Gun at Boyfriend in Dispute1

A special assistant to the president — the president who recently lamented that an inability to pass gun control was one of the great failures of his administration — was arrested Friday after she allegedly fired a pistol at her boyfriend during a domestic dispute. Barvetta Singletary, 37, didn’t help advance her boss' crusade against gun violence when she invited her boyfriend, a Capitol Hill police officer, over to her house for sex. Afterwards, she accused him of seeing another woman and demanded to see the texts on his cellphones. When he refused, Singletary reached into her boyfriend’s bag, according to the arresting documents, and pulled out the two cellphones and his service weapon, a .40-caliber Glock 23. She demanded he tell her the passwords to the phones. He refused. “Your phone is more important than me holding the gun on you,” she said, shooting the couch where he was sitting. Singletary was the Obama administration’s House legislative affairs liaison and was paid2 $125,000 a year. Let’s just say she wasn’t a low-level staffer. And her purposeful gun crime while working for this gun-hostile administration is more important than the time Dick Cheney accidentally shot a friend while hunting. But which one received more news coverage?

Just When the Science Was Settled…3

In a move reminiscent of the tobacco industry evoking science4 to move its product, Coca-Cola has turned to science5 to prove that soda is not the cause of obesity — the lack of exercise is. The New York Times reports, “Health experts say this message is misleading and part of an effort by Coke to deflect criticism about the role sugary drinks have played in the spread of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.” It’s yet another attempt to use Science™ as propaganda to advance a cause — just like the government has said “the science is settled” when it comes to the issue of global warming. But while the government insists human industry is the cause of rising temperatures and government must restructure the economy as a result, keep in mind that government science can’t even decide if skipping breakfast is good or bad. While the government has said in the past that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, one that would stabilize the body’s metabolism, a recent study6 found that those who skipped breakfast either lost or maintained their weight. While the government is questioning its stance on eating bacon first thing in the morning, remember: You can trust them on global warming.

Seattle Imposes Gun Tax for the Sake of Public Health7

It’s a bad time to be poor and living in Seattle. Not only is the city’s minimum wage starving out its restaurants8, the city passed an ordinance that makes it that much harder for people to buy guns and ammo in city limits — a policy that will disproportionately affect those with limited means. First they target job prospects, then they take away the ability of those in the lower income brackets to defend themselves. The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a measure Monday that will impose a tax of $25 on every gun and 5 cents on every round of ammunition sold in the city. The excuses by the council9 are weak. They say the tax will rake in anywhere from $300,000 to $500,000 a year. With that, Seattle plans on either directing it to covering the medical expenses in the city that occur because of firearms — a $17-million-a-year expense — or using the money to study gun violence as a public health issue. But half a million dollars does not fix the problems Seattle’s council raises. As the NRA-ILA notes10, “Persons of means will simply drive outside the city to purchase firearms and ammunition, while those without such options will be forced to go forego their rights or pay the tax. This is especially egregious considering how those at the lower end of the economic scale also tend to reside in areas where violent crime is the highest. One wonders whether this type of social engineering on the downtrodden is an intended feature of the legislation rather than an unfortunate consequence.”

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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Christian Refugees Get the Cold Shoulder13

By Lewis Morris

One of the great traditions of American foreign policy has been to protect the oppressed against those who would do them harm. Yet throughout Barack Obama’s presidency, we have seen time and again how that policy has been abandoned for the sake of politics and The One’s own personal aggrandizement.

The most recent example is the revelation14 that 28 Chaldean Christians have been sitting in a San Diego immigration detention facility while bureaucrats decide whether to let them seek asylum in America or be returned to Iraq, where Christians are facing widespread persecution under the Islamic State and an indifferent and corrupt Iraqi regime.

The Chaldean Christians hail from one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, and the more than two dozen people who now sit in a barbed wire compound in San Diego faced a perilous trek to avoid being jailed and murdered at the hand of barbarians who seek nothing less than their conversion to Islam or their death. Twelve have already been given deportation orders, though their final destination and fate remains unknown.

While illegal immigrants with horrendous criminal records run rampant on American streets committing heinous crimes that the administration and the Leftmedia try to downplay, Christians who want nothing more than the freedom to practice their faith are being detained.

“In Iraq, they only had three choices: convert to Islam, death by the sword or leave the country,” Mark Arabo, head of the Minority Humanitarian Foundation, told Fox News. “They’ve refused to convert, escaped slavery and death — only to be imprisoned by our broken immigration system.”

Arabo, whose parents came from Iraq to the U.S. in 1979, went on to note a sad truth under the Obama administration: “The disheartening thing is it seems that our border is open to anyone unless you’re a Christian fleeing genocide.”

Since Obama abandoned Iraq in 2009, leaving that country to the wolves15 and spitting on the graves of the 4,000 American soldiers who gave their lives16 to secure that country, more than a million Iraqi Christians have been exiled. Some 300,000 still remain, and they live in constant fear of displacement, rape, murder and a number of other brutalities at the hands of the Islamic State, which has made significant military gains in the absence of an American military presence.

John Sununu, former New Hampshire governor and chief of staff to George H.W. Bush, recently noted, “There seems to be an indifference in Washington to what is happening here.”

Sununu is being too kind.

Former Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia was more accurate, saying, “This administration is fundamentally anti-Christian.”

Obama is not just indifferent to the plight of Iraqi Christians or the Christians in Syria and Egypt and many other nations around the world who are being persecuted and murdered in record numbers by jihadis. We think his sustained record of inaction and turning a blind eye to the massacres taking place across the globe belies an underlying disdain for the Christian faith.

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Consider Obama’s words since taking office. From his inaugural “apology” tour in 2009 to mandating Christians pay for abortive drugs through health insurance to his open browbeating of Christians over the Crusades during the National Prayer Breakfast17 in February to his support for the Rainbow Mafia’s persecution of Christians over marriage, he has demonstrated not only ignorance of history but contempt for the Christian religion and its place in the world.

At every turn, Obama has chosen to play down the horrific actions of the Islamic State as it burns people alive, decapitates nonbelievers en masse, and drives people of other faiths from the homes their families have lived in for generations. Instead, he callously dishes out revisionist history of atrocities committed by Christians hundreds of years ago in an attempt to lay out some twisted morally equivalent worldview that is logically and morally bankrupt.

As Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said in February, “It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson… Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives… The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”

But that is not Obama’s M.O. He is acting on a lifelong contempt for Western values that was instilled in him by his mentors of hate18. He sees the threats that face America as some sort of punishment for a perceived injustice that our nation has perpetrated on the world.

It cannot be denied that some Christians acted poorly in the past (and sometimes the present), nor can it be denied that America has awful scars in its history. But our country learns from its mistakes, and it remains as always the single brightest beacon of freedom and hope for people around the world who want to practice their faith in peace and with dignity. Obama’s twisted worldview has done America no favors, and it has rolled back the march toward universal freedom. Who can say how long it will take to undo the damage he has wrought?

TODAY AT PATRIOTPOST.US

ANALYSIS: Black Lives Matter, but So Do All Lives19
Clinton Unveils Plan to Tackle College Sticker Shock20
Obama: ‘My Nuclear Deal Is Just Like Reagan and the Soviets’21
Democrats Seek to Punish Schumer Over Iran Deal Dissent22
Vets Against the Deal23

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Thomas Sowell: A Debatable ‘Debate’24
Stephen Moore: Obama’s War on Coal Targets Red States25
Michael Barone: A Tough Day for the President and His Party26

For more, visit Right Opinion27.

TOP HEADLINES

Seattle Restaurants Lose 1,000 Jobs After $15 Minimum Wage28
Judges Across the Country Are Saying ‘No’ to ‘Yes Means Yes’29
The Ridiculous New York Gun Law that Turns Tourists into Terrorists30

OPINION IN BRIEF

Stephen Moore: “Obama announced last week the toughest environmental regulations ever against coal. … But the pain from the new Environmental Protection Agency rules won’t be evenly distributed across America. Far from it. The liberal coastal states will feel relatively modest jobs losses because they rely less on manufacturing. … It’s time to label the Obama green policies what they truly are: steep taxes on red state America. … The de facto tax that Obama wants to impose on American coal is doubly dastardly because its impact will be felt hardest in relatively poorer states. And because Census Bureau data confirms that poor households spend four times more of their income on energy than rich families, the Obama policy will make income inequality much worse. … Even if the U.S. cut coal use to zero over the next 25 years, global emissions from coal will rise sharply. By 2040, China’s coal power capacity alone will be nearly 4 times the current U.S. capacity. So the Obama plan is all pain and no gain. It would be like trying to reduce unwanted pregnancies in the third world by having Americans use more birth control. Stupid.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.” —political theorist Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)

Upright: “After more than six years of Barack Obama in the White House, have we learned nothing about the dangers of choosing a President of the United States on the basis of sound bites, with no track record to check against his rhetoric? … Voting to put Obama in the White House was like flying a plane through mountains at night. If we manage to get through the next year and a half without crashing, should we try that gamble again?” —Thomas Sowell

Braying Jenny: “What Donald Trump said about Megyn Kelly is outrageous, but what the rest of the Republicans are saying about all women is also outrageous.” —Hillary Clinton (And what Bill Clinton DID to women is even more outrageous.)

Village Idiots: “I’m not sure how titties are worse than guns.” —Miley Cyrus

For the record: “Gay teens have higher pregnancy rates than their straight peers.” —headline from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (“Perhaps, just perhaps, sexuality is more malleable — more morality-driven — than we’ve been led to believe, with more sexually libertine cultures willing to explore a variety of different (and riskier) sexual behaviors. Perhaps, just perhaps, the campaign to normalize gay culture was a tad misleading about the habits and attitudes within that culture.” —National Review’s David French)

And last… “Top Democrat Chuck Schumer will oppose Obama’s Iran deal. He was unavailable for comment as he prepares for his IRS audit covering years 1973-2014.” —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest

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.

Links

1 http://patriotpost.us/posts/36918
2 http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/08/10/white-house-staffer-arrest-lead-kosinski.cnn
3 http://patriotpost.us/posts/36919
4 https://youtu.be/gCMzjJjuxQI
5 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/
6 http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/08/10/the-science-of-skipping-breakfast-how-government-nutritionists-may-have-gotten-it-wrong/
7 http://patriotpost.us/posts/36909
8 http://patriotpost.us/posts/33905
9 http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/08/05/council-firearms-tax-and-reporting-proposals-come-under-fire-but-final-action-set-next-monday/
10 https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150807/seattle-city-council-committee-advances-legislation-to-tax-gun-owners-abuse-taxpayers
11 http://patriotpost.us/humor/36893
12 http://patriotpost.us/manage/
13 http://patriotpost.us/articles/36917
14 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/06/iraqi-christians-held-for-months-by-ice-after-crossing-mexican-border-in-asylum/
15 http://patriotpost.us/alexander/29028
16 http://patriotpost.us/alexander/26943
17 http://patriotpost.us/articles/33004
18 http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2766
19 http://patriotpost.us/articles/36921
20 http://patriotpost.us/posts/36906
21 http://patriotpost.us/posts/36908
22 http://patriotpost.us/posts/36907
23 http://patriotpost.us/posts/36910
24 http://patriotpost.us/opinion/36914
25 http://patriotpost.us/opinion/36913
26 http://patriotpost.us/opinion/36915
27 http://patriotpost.us/opinion
28 http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/10/report-seattle-restaurants-suffer-worse-job-loss-since-the-great-recession/
29 http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/11/yes-means-yes-policy-coming-under-fire-from-judges/
30 http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422244/elizabeth-elderli-case-gun-laws-new-york