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The Patriot Post Digest 3-30-2016
From The Federalist Patriot
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Mid-Day Digest
Mar. 30, 2016
THE FOUNDATION
“Newspapers … serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.” —Thomas Jefferson (1802)
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
Obama to Media: You Shouldn’t Let Pols Lie1
The lecturer in chief is at it again, telling a group of journalists how to do their jobs. “A job well done is about more than just handing someone a microphone,” Barack Obama pontificated. “It is to probe and to question, and to dig deeper, and to demand more. The electorate would be better served if that happened. It would be better served if billions of dollars in free media came with serious accountability, especially when politicians issue unworkable plans or make promises they can’t keep. And there are reporters here who know they can’t keep them. I know that’s a shocking concept that politicians would do that. But without a press that asks tough questions, voters take them at their word. When people put their faith in someone who can’t possibly deliver on his or her promises, that only breeds more cynicism.”
He just perfectly described his rise in 2007 and 2008, though he pretty clearly meant his remarks as a rebuke for the unending media attention2 given to Donald Trump over the last year. Who promised “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”? Who swore he’d bring about the best recovery we’ve ever seen? Who insisted he would withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq and declare mission accomplished? And who not only got away with these phony promises, but won re-election after serving up such lies? Obama did, largely thanks to a Leftmedia that circled the wagons.
So for Obama to lecture his own sycophants about truth-telling against the other side, to borrow a phrase, “only breeds more cynicism.”
Nation’s Last Handgun Ban Shot Down3
The U.S District Court for the Mariana Islands struck down the nation’s last handgun ban4, ruling that permanent residents of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. “The Second Amendment, as well as the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, are the law of the land in the CNMI as if it were a state,” wrote5 Chief Judge Ramona Manglona. “The Second Amendment, made applicable against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, protects the fundamental right of armed self-defense, and prohibits any state from completely banning handguns.” David Radich, a Navy veteran of the Gulf War, and his wife, Li-Rong Radich, took the commonwealth to court after Li-Rong was attacked and beaten when she was at home alone in 2010. When they applied for a weapons identification card to get a gun to protect themselves, they were ignored.
This isn’t the only Second Amendment win of late. Last week, Idaho became the ninth state6 to institute constitutional carry, codifying that any resident 21 years or older has the right to carry without a permit. And earlier this month, the West Virginia legislature overrode its governor’s veto7 to institute constitutional carry in that state. Such developments show that from the Appalachians to the furthest islands in the Pacific Ocean the law recognizes everyday Americans have the right to self defense, a right that is becoming harder for the Left to erode.
GOP Primary: Broken Pledges and Sharpened Knives8
All three remaining candidates in the GOP primary said at a town hall event Tuesday night that they no longer stand by their pledges to support the eventual nominee. In September, Donald Trump and the rest of the 17 candidates signed loyalty oaths9 to the eventual nominee. Trump, though, gave himself an out by saying he would break his oath if he felt he was being treated unfairly10. When asked Tuesday if he considers himself bound to the loyalty oath, Trump responded, “No, I don’t anymore,” adding that he felt he had “been treated very unfairly.” He can dish it out but he can’t take it. What is Trump’s word worth? Not much more than a certificate from Trump University11.
Then again, the loyalty oath isn’t exactly holding the other candidates. Ted Cruz said he would not support a candidate who attacked his wife, referring to Trump’s tweet comparing their wives' appearance. John “Prince of light ‘n’ hope” Kasich said he wants “to see how this thing finishes out.”
Red State’s Caleb Howe wrote12 regarding the broken pledges, “I will tell you this, and if you fail to accept it, then you fail at truth: It’s Trump’s fault. Every other candidate would have supported the eventual nominee were it not for the poisonous Donald Trump campaign destroying all it touches. That’s just a fact y'all.”
In related news, Marco Rubio has contacted13 Republican Party officials in states where he won delegates and asked that those delegates remain committed to him at the GOP Convention in July. In essence, he’s trying to ensure a contested convention and block Trump from winning the nomination on the first ballot. This deep division doesn’t bode well for a party that must rally around a candidate in order to defeat Hillary Clinton in November.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Ryan Anderson: NBA’s Threatening North Carolina Is Textbook Cultural Cronyism14
Rich Lowry: Yes, the Delegates Can Decide15
Michelle Malkin: Nuclear Jihad: The Threats Are Inside Our Tent16
For more, visit Right Opinion17.
FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
How Obama Facilitated More Islamic Terror18
By Arnold Ahlert
Most Americans are well aware of the Islamic terrorist attack in Brussels19 last week that left 35 dead. That awareness level probably declines, however, regarding the Easter Sunday attack20 in Pakistan. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, slaughtered 72 people, mostly children, and reminded the world their “target was Christians.” Despite these atrocities, progressives here and in the EU invariably assure us21 the threat of terrorism is overblown. Such despicable nonsense cannot withstand a terribly inconvenient reality: There are far more Islamic attacks occurring than being reported by the media.
“This list of terrorist attacks committed by Muslims since 9/11/01 … is incomplete because not all such attacks are picked up by international news sources, even those resulting in multiple loss of life,” explains22 a website dedicated to chronicling violence committed by the Religion of Peace™. “These are not incidents of ordinary crime involving nominal Muslims killing for money or vendetta. We only include incidents of deadly violence that are reasonably determined to have been committed out of religious duty — as interpreted by the perpetrator.”
What has been picked up is nothing short of astounding. In the last 30 days alone, there have been 136 terrorist attacks in 25 different countries. Those attacks have killed 1,122 people and injured another 3,111. And the website is quick to remind us that undercounting remains an ongoing problem, citing November 2014 as a month where they accounted for 284 attacks and 2,515 deaths, even as a BBC analysis23 of the same time period tallied 664 attacks and 5,042 deaths in 14 different countries.
For perspective, BBC notes those totals came to “a daily average of 168 deaths, or seven every hour.”
Yet for many progressives and their media enablers, questioning or criticizing Islam results in reflexive accusations of Islamophobia. Leading the charge are organizations like the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR) despite its continuing status24 as an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror-finance trial against the Holy Land Foundation and several officials of that organization found guilty of funding the terrorist group Hamas.
CAIR is joined by Obama, who can’t put the words “terrorism” and “Islamic” in the same sentence, yet assures us that the Islamic State is “not an existential threat25” to the United States. This despite FBI director James Comey’s revelation last October that there are at least 900 investigations of suspected ISIL operatives, recruits and individuals currently occurring, putting his agency under a strain. “If that becomes the new normal,” Comey said, “that would be hard to keep up.” |
