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The Patriot Post Digest 9-1-2015
From The Federalist Patriot
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Daily Digest
Sep. 1, 2015
THE FOUNDATION
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.” —Mercy Warren, History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, 1805
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
Alaska Is More Than a Photo Op1
Barack Obama has no long-term, consistent strategy for Alaska. Well, other than his climate agenda2. He’s visiting The Last Frontier this week to plug for an even more aggressive approach to “man-made” global warming, as he spoke before an international conference in Anchorage Monday. As The Washington Post pointed out3, Obama simply used the wilderness as a visual aid for his arguments. Ahead of the conference, titled GLACIER, NASA said4 sea levels are rising faster than expected, and Obama matched that level of alarm. “We’re not moving fast enough,” Obama warned5. “None of the nations represented here are moving fast enough.” Obama’s comments quickly descended into adolescent sniping, as he completely belittled skeptics to his regulation-heavy, Big Government “solutions” to climate change. “The time to heed the critics and the cynics and the deniers is past,” he continued. “The time to plead ignorance is surely past. Those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone. They’re on their own shrinking island.”
If Obama wants to talk about shrinking islands, he should reconsider the threat Russia poses in Arctic waters. Just like the situation in Ukraine, Russia is pushing boundaries in the Arctic, trying to grab the natural resources that lie under the ice. Currently, Russia operates 40 icebreakers and is making 11 more. The U.S.? It has only two6 and Obama proposes the U.S. buy one more. But Obama ignores the long-term significance of Alaska and its waters for our nation’s security and energy policies to yammer about the temperature and to take a hike7 with reality TV star Bear Grylls.
About That Rad New Psych Study You Heard Of…8
Apparently, the psych science is not settled. The Guardian9 reports, “Of 100 studies published in top-ranking journals in 2008, 75% of social psychology experiments and half of cognitive studies failed the replication test.” There are many reasons why an experiment might fail to replicate, but more than this the study has highlighted some issues with academic publishing and modern science. University of Virginia psychology professor Brian A. Nosek, who led the effort to reproduce the experiments, told the Guardian, “The key caution that an average reader should take away is any one study is not going to be the last word. Science is a process of uncertainty reduction, and no one study is almost ever a definitive result on its own.” And while the media might want to breathlessly report on a study that displays some kind of psychological quirk, the real scientific process is much more involved than one study. Climate alarmists take note…
Think Canada Is a Model? Think Again.10
Some presidential candidates have pointed to Canada11 as a model for things like single-payer health care. (That would be Donald Trump, for those keeping score.) Of course, to keep a single-payer system running costs a lot of money, and that money has to come from somewhere. Or nearly everywhere, as it turns out. Reuters reports12, “Canadians spend more on taxes than on food, clothing and shelter combined, according to a report released on Thursday, as increases in an average family’s tax bill have outpaced the cost of basic necessities in the last five decades.” The Frasier Institute report says13 the average Canadian family brings in about $60,000 (in U.S. dollars), of which 36% goes to cover basic needs and 42% is confiscated by the government. Fifty years ago, those numbers were 56% and 33%, respectively. Oh, and by the way, Canada is now arguably in recession14. Call us old fashioned, but the new model doesn’t sound like the one best for America.
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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Lives Matter17
By Nate Jackson
Deputy Darren Goforth was gunned down at a Harris County, Texas, gas station Friday evening when he stopped to fill up his squad car. He was 47. The execution-style murder appeared unprovoked, though there is an unmistakable angle of racism and anti-cop hatred.
Security footage shows the murderer, who is black, come up behind and shoot 15 rounds into Goforth, who is white. Law enforcement has a theory to why the killer did it. In a press conference, an obviously emotional Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman pinned the blame for this murder on the angry rhetoric surrounding the Black Lives Matter protests. “This rhetoric has gotten out of control,” Hickman said. “We’ve heard ‘black lives matter,’ ‘all lives matter.’ Well, cops' lives matter, too. So why don’t we just drop the qualifier and just say ‘lives matter’?”
To be sure, blacks aren’t the only ones killing law enforcement personnel. A deranged white man in Louisiana brutally murdered18 a state patrol officer last weekend. Fourteen officers19 were killed in August by perpetrators of different races.
Barack Obama condemned the “completely unacceptable” targeting of police officers as “an affront to civilized society,” and he promised to “continue to highlight the uncommon bravery that police officers show in our communities every single day.” Yet he has also driven some of the anti-police sentiment with his irresponsible rhetoric.
Late last year, after the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, Obama and then-Attorney General Eric Holder launched the 21st Century Policing Task Force, which Mark Alexander labeled20 “a $265 million charade based on the underlying assumption that cops generally have racial biases.”
They claimed their goal is an “honest conversation” about disparate treatment of blacks by law enforcement. “When anybody in this country is not being treated equally under the law, that is a problem,” Obama said then. “And it’s my job as president to help solve it.”
After reading the Justice Department’s report on Ferguson21, it’s hard to conclude there isn’t a real problem in at least that police department, and likely many others. Police are human, after all. But, as Alexander also noted, “This ‘problem’ of ‘not being treated equally’ is Obamaspeak for ‘cops are racists.’” It’s far too broad a brush.
To further illustrate those assumptions, Obama said, “A combination of bad training [and] departments that really are not trying to root out biases, or tolerate sloppy police work; a combination in some cases of folks just not knowing any better, and, in a lot of cases, subconscious fear of folks who look different — all of this contributes to a national problem that’s going to require a national solution.”
So while it’s appropriate and welcome for Obama to express outrage at Goforth’s murder, it’s a stark contrast to his previous rhetoric.
Indeed, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke blasted Obama, saying, “I’m disgusted there’s been no sense of urgency by the president of the United States over these cop killings. Look, he breathed life into this anti-cop sentiment, this cop hatred, and he stands by as it goes on. He went out and visited a federal prison, for heaven’s sake — federal prisoners and he pardoned 46 of them.”
That said, it goes too far to lay the blame for these murders squarely on Obama’s shoulders. Each cop killer is responsible for his own actions. To argue differently falls into the same line of thinking that causes leftists to blame Sarah Palin’s Facebook page for the killer in Phoenix who wounded Rep. Gabby Giffords, or the race-baiting hoards that blamed a flag for the Charleston murders.
But there’s an unmistakable thread of racial hate being fomented among blacks by the nation’s first black president — a man whose election was supposed to herald a new age of racial harmony. Instead, our cities are suffering race riots reminiscent of the 1960s and tension between blacks and law enforcement is at a boiling point. A deranged and angry black homosexual just murdered two white journalists on live TV22 last week because he followed through on hateful racist sentiment. |
