The Patriot Post Digest 8-18-2015

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Aug. 18, 2015

THE FOUNDATION

“A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” —James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, 1792

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Democrats Poison the Water Hole1

Back in 2012, Nancy Pelosi attacked Republicans for having “an ideology [that says] we shouldn’t have a government role.” She went on, “And I say to them, do you have children who breathe air? Do you have grandchildren who drink water? … If you could depend on the government for one thing it was that you had to be able to trust the water that our kids drank and the food that they ate. But this is the E. coli club. They do not want to spend money to do that.” Which brings us to the EPA spilling three million gallons of toxic waste2 in Colorado, wreaking havoc on a river system that flows in three states and is critical for the Navajo Nation. The American Action Forum estimates3 the cleanup will cost a bundle. “If we were to trust past agency estimates: between $338 million and $27.7 billion.” That’s quite a range because “there is no direct precedent for the toxic Animas River spill.” Sam Batkins, American Action Forum’s regulatory affairs director, cautioned, “I think it is more likely to be in the millions [than billions] because the high-end figures are based off of oil spills in the Arctic (a close comparison), however the total volume for this is less than the average major oil spill.”

Regardless of the cost, does anyone doubt that such a spill during a Republican administration would yield ‘round the clock Leftmedia coverage? But because Barack Obama “cares about the environment,” they’re content to look the other way. Just don’t tell Nancy Pelosi the government ruined some drinking water.

Sacked: Labor Board Declines Football Players’ Attempt to Unionize4

The National Labor Relations Board blocked the unionization attempt by a group of football players at Northwestern University by saying it didn’t have authority to regulate state-run schools. While Northwestern is a private school, “every school in the Big Ten, except Northwestern, is a state-run institution,” said an NLRB statement on the decision5. “As the NCAA and conference maintain substantial control over individual teams, the Board held that asserting jurisdiction over a single team would not promote stability in labor relations across the league.” While this decision overrules a March 2014 decision6 by an NLRB regional director, it leaves the question unresolved, as the board said it might reconsider the issue in the future. It used to be that college sports were the sideshow to the pursuit of knowledge. We’ve arrived at this point because we’ve elevated college sports so much that the players are athletes first, students second. Still, if you have the physical prowess and discipline, it’s a good way to get an education in the age of skyrocketing college debt. Such an opportunity doesn’t entitle unionization.

Romney Was Right: Big Bird Heads to HBO7

“I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it,” Mitt Romney said in the 2012 campaign. He was referring to public funding for PBS in the current media age — such funding is a relic of a bygone era, on top of the fact that funding a guy in a big yellow bird costume is about as far from constitutional governance as one can get. But Romney took it on the chin from Barack Obama, who blasted him for refusing to “get rid of regulations on Wall Street, but he’s going to crack down on ‘Sesame Street.’” It was a clever line, and the millions of Americans who grew up watching Big Bird felt the emotional heartstrings pulled. Fast forward to 2015, and Sesame Workshop, the company that produces the show, has announced it will team up with HBO to produce twice as many episodes for this season of the 46-year-old show, and then release them to PBS later. Oscar the Grouch meets Game of Thrones? Not likely, but it is a sign of the times. Sesame Street co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said, “Over the past decade, both the way in which children are consuming video and the economics of the children’s television production business have changed dramatically. In order to fund our nonprofit mission with a sustainable business model, Sesame Workshop must recognize these changes and adapt to the times.” We realize that’s a novel concept for liberals still wearing capes and pretending to be Super Grover.

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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Obama Lied, Americans Died10

By Arnold Ahlert

The scope of the Obama administration’s utter fecklessness with regard to the Iranian nuclear deal has widened considerably.

Earlier this month, it was revealed11 that Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani made a recent trip to Moscow, where he met with a senior Russian official — for the purposes of conducting weapons deals. He did this despite the reality he has been subject to UN Resolution 174712 that froze the assets and restricted the travel of individuals engaged in Iran’s “proliferation-sensitive” nuclear activities since 2007. Soleimani was one such individual, and any country that abides his travel is violating that resolution. Since Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council, it is impossible for the Kremlin to feign ignorance in that regard. Nonetheless, the man suspected13 of orchestrating the failed 2011 assassination attempt14 on the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu.

During the Aug. 6 Republican presidential debate, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reminded Americans of the far more germane aspects of Soleimani’s thuggery, along with Russia’s thinly veiled contempt for the Obama administration Soleimani’s visit represents. “He’s directly responsible for the murder of over 500 American servicemen in Iraq and part of this Iranian deal was lifting international sanctions on Gen. Soleimani,” Cruz declared. “The day Gen. Soleimani flew back from Moscow to Iran was the day we believe Russia used cyber warfare against the Joint Chiefs15.”

Outgoing U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno backed up that assertion. “Qassem Soleimani is the one who has been exporting malign activities throughout the Middle East for some time now,” Odierno said. “He’s absolutely responsible for killing many Americans. In fact, I would say the last two years I was there, the majority of our casualties came from his surrogates, not Sunni or al-Qaida.”

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Soleimani was initially designated a terrorist and sanctioned by the U.S. two years before the UN resolution went into effect. His presence in Moscow completely undercuts Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that Soleimani and the Quds Force will continue to face sanctions from the U.S. Treasury after UN sanctions are lifted. “Under the United States' initiative, Qassem Soleimani will never be relieved of any sanctions,” Kerry insisted on July 29, in response to a question posed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).

Really? Soleimani arrived in Moscow five days before Kerry made those assurances, but 10 days after the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers was announced. That deal includes the lifting of the Iranian arms embargo. Since Iran has freely acknowledged the visit, either Kerry’s assertion rings exceedingly hollow, or Iran is already defying the parameters of the deal.

And just in case Obama and company aren’t quite up to speed with regard to the contempt in which they are held by both nations, it should be noted that two Russian warships docked16 in Iran’s Anzali port on Aug. 9 for the purpose of conducting “joint naval exercises during the three-day stay of the warships in Iran,” according to a report in Iran’s state-controlled Fars News Agency.

The move follows other thumb-in-the-eye efforts aimed at the Obama administration, including Russia’s decision in April to sell17 to the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism an advanced S-300 air defense missile system in violation of a “red line” Obama established in 2010, and Moscow’s June decision to begin building a second nuclear power plant in that nation later this year.

Remember that when you hear Obama talking about how sanctions can be “snapped back” into place.

According to Politico18, one of the Left’s most reliable media shills, Obama could “effectively halt many U.S. sanctions on Iran” [emphasis added] using his power as commander in chief to do so. Why would Obama do that? As Politico asserts, “to persuade Tehran to meet its end of the bargain.”

Translation: if Congress rejects the Iranian deal as Bob Corker19 and Chuck Schumer20 advocate, Obama is prepared to kick the legislative branch of government to the curb and pursue it regardless.

As bad as that is, it gets worse. According21 to the Middle East Institute for Media Research (MEMRI), Obama’s original assertion for pursuing this deal is also an utter fabrication. Obama sold this deal to the public based on the idea that Iran had transitioned in 2013 from hardliner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the far more moderate Hassan Rouhani, thus opening the way for negotiation. In reality, negotiations began while the Holocaust-denying, “Israel should be wiped off the map”-spewing Ahmadinejad was still in power. Worse still, the administration sent a letter to the regime written by John Kerry, then a senator and head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recognizing its right to enrich uranium on its own soil. That enormous concession was a direct contravention of U.S. policy and numerous UN Security Council resolutions underscoring the reality Iran had no such right. Even more infuriating, Obama chose to double down on his timeline lie in his Aug. 5 speech22 at American University.

In other words, while Iranians were killing Americans in Iraq with explosively formed projectiles (EFPs), Obama and company were negotiating with their murderers.

“I was blown up by an Iranian bomb. … That’s who we’re making a deal with,” says sergeant Robert Bartlett23, critically injured while serving in Iraq in 2005. “Every politician who’s involved in this will be held accountable. … A vote for this deal means more money for Iranian terrorism.” Bartlett and his clearly scarred face are part of an ad campaign24 by Veterans Against the Deal. One is left to wonder if Obama believes men who have actually walked the walk are also making the same “common cause with Iranian hardliners” that he accused Republicans of in that same Aug. 5 speech.

In truth, it is the Obama administration itself that has come to an unconscionable alignment with Iran’s murderous mullahs, one best described25 by columnist Mark Steyn. “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, because conspiracies are generally a comforting illusion: the real problem with Obama is that the citizens of the global superpower twice elected him to office,” Steyn writes. “Yet one way to look at the current ‘leader of the free world’ is this: If he were working for the other side, what exactly would he be doing differently?”

TODAY AT PATRIOTPOST.US

    ANALYSIS: Now Hillary’s Lost Bob Woodward26
    Labor Department Considers Rule Regulating Investing27
    Fallen Vets' Dad Says ‘No’ to Iran Deal24
    Humor: Border Jumping28
    Quote: Thomas Sowell29

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

    Stephen Moore: Hillary Clinton Would Make College Even More Expensive30
    Dennis Prager: How Do You Know What’s Right and Wrong?31
    Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts32

For more, visit Right Opinion33.

TOP HEADLINES

    DC Agrees to Pay Legal Fees of Plaintiffs in Gun Carry Case34
    Army Ranger School to Graduate Its First Two Women35
    Hackers May Have Compromised 338,000 Taxpayers36

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OPINION IN BRIEF

Stephen Moore: “What is the solution to skyrocketing costs of tuition? First, it’s time to look under the hood of the ivory towers and find out where money is being wasted. Every state legislature should demand a full-scale audit of the public universities that they support. Colleges should be forced to open their books. … Another way for colleges to become more affordable is to start forcing universities with multibillion-dollar endowments — Harvard and Yale are at or above $20 billion — to use the money to lower tuition costs to students. There are dozens of colleges that could pay 80 percent of the tuition out of their endowments and not run out of money for many decades, if ever. Why do colleges have to be vast storehouses of wealth? … What is wrong with asking 19-to-22-year-olds to work at least 10-25 hours a week to help pay for their own educations? They’d probably get more out of their classroom experiences if they had to foot some of the bill. Many colleges do this already. … It’s a good bet that if the Clinton plan37 were implemented, colleges would respond to the rush of money by raising tuition even further. The days of the $100,000-a-year universities would be right around the corner. Someone needs to tell Clinton that, just as there’s no such thing as a free lunch, there’s no such thing as a free college education.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial — that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.” —Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973)

Upright: “One lesson of the success of the Trump for president campaign is that as long as you are not making sense with great certainty and forcefulness, no one will care too much that you aren’t making sense. For now, it’s part of the genius of Trump as communicator.” —Rich Lowry

The BIG Lie: “I did what other secretaries of state have done. I was permitted to and used a personal email and, obviously in retrospect, given all of the concerns that have been raised, it would have been probably smarter not to. But I never sent nor received any classified email, nothing marked ‘Classified.' … If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena.” —Hillary Clinton

Hyper hypocrisy: “It’s not about Benghazi. And you know what, it’s not about emails or servers either. It’s about politics. I won’t get down in the mud with them. I won’t play politics with national security or dishonor the memory of those we lost. I won’t pretend this is anything other than what it is: the same old partisan games we’ve seen so many times before.” —Hillary Clinton, who is guilty of exactly what she criticizes

Touché: “Can you imagine if after the bridge investigation began I came out and said, 'Oh, by the way, I’ve done all of my business as governor on a private email server and I have deleted now 30,000 of those emails, but trust me, none of it had to do with the bridge.’ Give me a break.” —Chris Christie

And last… “Barack Obama wrote a book titled ‘The Audacity of Hope.’ His own career, however, might more accurately be titled ‘The Mendacity of Hype.’” —Thomas Sowell

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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Links

1    http://patriotpost.us/posts/37046
2    http://patriotpost.us/articles/36969
3    http://americanactionforum.org/insights/what-will-epas-toxic-animus-river-spill-cost
4    http://patriotpost.us/posts/37041
5    https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-unanimously-decides-decline-jurisdiction-northwestern-case
6    http://patriotpost.us/posts/24409
7    http://patriotpost.us/posts/37032
8    http://patriotpost.us/humor/37021
9    http://patriotpost.us/manage/
10    http://patriotpost.us/articles/37040
11    http://nypost.com/2015/08/06/irans-terrorist-general-violated-un-travel-ban-with-visit-to-russia/
12    http://www.un.org/press/en/2007/sc8980.doc.htm
13    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/08/iran-confirms-trip-by-quds-force-commander-to-moscow-to-discuss-arms-shipments/
14    http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/10/us_uncovers_iranian.php
15    http://patriotpost.us/posts/36868
16    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-warships-dock-in-iran-for-war-training/
17    http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-missile-sales-to-iran-cross-white-house-red-line/
18    http://patriotpost.us/posts/36981
19    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-should-reject-the-bad-iran-deal/2015/08/17/0c983c78-44f3-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html
20    http://patriotpost.us/posts/36870
21    http://www.memri.org/report/en/print8700.htm
22    http://patriotpost.us/articles/36841
23    http://patriotpost.us/posts/36910
24    http://patriotpost.us/posts/37030
25    http://www.steynonline.com/6820/o-beautiful-for-specious-guys
26    http://patriotpost.us/articles/37042
27    http://patriotpost.us/posts/37031
28    http://patriotpost.us/posts/37045
29    http://patriotpost.us/posts/37043
30    http://patriotpost.us/opinion/37033
31    http://patriotpost.us/opinion/37038
32    http://patriotpost.us/opinion/37034
33    http://patriotpost.us/opinion
34    http://freebeacon.com/issues/dc-agrees-to-pay-legal-fees-of-plaintiffs-in-gun-carry-case/
35    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/18/army-ranger-school-to-graduate-its-first-two-women/
36    http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/irs-hackers-may-have-stolen-tax-information-additional-220-000-n411236
37    http://patriotpost.us/posts/36906