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The Patriot Post Digest 11-30-2015
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Nov. 30, 2015
THE FOUNDATION
“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” —George Washington, 1786
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
Evil Acts at Planned Parenthood1
An Iraq War veteran, a woman, and a police officer were murdered Friday by a psychopath2. Each victim leaves behind two children. Yet because those murders took place not in the streets of Chicago but a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, the Left immediately began attacking pro-lifers and pushing its anti-gun message. Even Barack Obama weighed in, though he ignores most of the murders that take place on Democrat poverty plantations3. The deranged killer reportedly said something about “no more baby parts,” a seeming reference to the string of videos4 revealing Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts trafficking. The nation’s largest abortion mill and its Leftmedia sycophants call these videos “discredited,” but that’s wishful thinking. None of the victims was a Planned Parenthood worker, and, in fact, the officer was a Christian and an outspoken pro-life advocate who died defending abortionists.
Instead of blaming the evil actions of a sick individual, Planned Parenthood blamed the “hateful rhetoric” of conservatives “that reportedly fed this shooter’s rage.” Yet that “hateful rhetoric” is merely describing what Planned Parenthood is doing — killing babies and selling their organs in apparent violation of federal law, all while reaping $500 million a year from taxpayers.
Meanwhile, the same leftists so eager to smear all conservatives with the terrible actions of one man refuse to acknowledge the radical Islamic rationale for terrorism worldwide. They also weren’t exactly quick to take blame for the man who opened fire at the headquarters of the Family Research Council after the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center accused FRC of being a “hate group.”
According to5 the National Abortion Federation, 11 people have now died in “antiabortion violence” since 1977. Since 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision, nearly 58 million children have lost their lives.
There’s no defending what this man did in Colorado. If he was truly upset about fetal-organ harvesting, the answer isn’t violence. You don’t defend the sanctity of life by taking it away. And every truly pro-life person will say the same thing, condemning murder no matter the age of the victim.
Paris, Reeling From Terrorism, Blames Global Warming6
The UN’s much-anticipated COP21 — a 12-day climate summit that promises to reduce chronic health issues, quash terrorist groups, usher in social justice and all-around save the planet — gets underway today in Paris. Did we mention it’s the key to stopping the raucous bloodshed from groups like the Islamic State? “I will be joining President Hollande and other world leaders in Paris for the Global Climate Conference,” Barack Obama proclaimed last week from the White House before burning through an ungodly amount of fossil fuels on his way to France. “What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.” Actually, they couldn’t care less, because it’s blood and dominion they’re after, not a stable climate that’s never existed. It’s incredible the things Democrats purport will be solved by the summit. They’d say the snowstorm blanketing the Midwest this week is actually CO2 falling from the sky if it makes reaching an agreement more attainable.
But we digress. What, exactly, will the conference accomplish, assuming a deal is even reached? Even regulatory advocates aren’t entirely sure. The Wall Street Journal reports, “The single most important benchmark underpinning this week’s talks in Paris on climate change — two degrees Celsius — has guided climate-treaty discussions for decades, but scientists are at odds on the relevance of that target. … Policy makers tend to assume the two-degree target expresses a solid scientific view, but it doesn’t.” In fact, the IPCC’s own studies say nothing about this supposed benchmark. And here we thought the science was settled! “Still,” adds the Journal, “many scientists back the goal because they see it as giving policy makers a clear-cut target to shoot at in the fight against global warming.” Translation: Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Delegates have a lot going for them — perhaps not-so-coincidentally. Last year was (wrongly7) declared the warmest on record, and a powerful El Nińo virtually guarantees this year will be even hotter (based on NOAA’s methodology; again, satellite data suggests otherwise). You could easily argue that things line up a little too well. As we reported8 earlier this year, the government is fudging global temperature data to fit the narrative, which London Telegraph writer Christopher Booker rightly says “is the biggest science scandal ever.” And as Investor’s Business Daily editorializes, “No one knows, nor will ever know, if man-made climate change even exists outside of imaginative thinking and flawed computer models. So no one can ever know if it’s defeated or not.” What a powerful message it would send to jihadis if world leaders would use all that energy in Paris to annihilate the real enemy — radical Islamic terrorism.
Deal or No Deal? Iran Never Signed It9
Remember how Barack Obama’s brilliant nuclear deal with Iran was supposed to protect the world from the radical mullahs obtaining the bomb? Well, it’s always been the sum of all lies10, but the most recent revelation is a doozy: Iran never even signed the deal and it’s not legally binding. That isn’t just the maniacal ranting of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, either, but the admission of Obama’s own State Department. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) wondered in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry whether Congress had received the final version of the deal, given it had not been signed. Kerry’s underling, Julia Frifield, the State Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs, replied, “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document.”
So not only is it not a treaty, but it’s not even an executive agreement or a signed document. It’s nothing more than a handshake between liars. But don’t worry, says Frifield: “The success of the JCPOA will depend not on whether it is legally binding or signed, but rather on the extensive verification measures we have put in place, as well as Iran’s understanding that we have the capacity to re-impose — and ramp up — our sanctions if Iran does not meet its commitments.” There is no chance Obama re-imposes $100+ billion in lifted sanctions, and the same goes for Europe. Obama did nothing to secure U.S. national security interests. Worse, he undermined them in exchange for an unsigned piece of paper and self-congratulatory high fives all around the State Department. The good news is a Republican president can simply toss Obama’s piece of paper where it belongs — in the garbage.
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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Chicago Murder in Black and White13
By Robin Smith
“Black Friday” in Chicago was marked by protest in the heart of the retail district — the Magnificent Mile of North Michigan Avenue — over the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a Chicago Police Department patrolman. The chum in the waters of publicity drew the “Reverend” Jesse Jackson, the Chicago Teachers Union president and the district’s own elected Democrat, Rep. Bobby Rush. But that exposed the truth: Black lives matter only when the blame falls on law enforcement or another “enemy” of the Left’s “community.” |
