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The Patriot Post Digest 5-16-2016
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Mid-Day Digest
May 16, 2016
THE FOUNDATION
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.” —John Witherspoon (1776)
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
Roadblocks to Obama’s Tranny Edicts
Barack Obama isn’t exactly rolling through American culture unimpeded with his illogical obsession with transgender rights. It took decades for same-sex marriage activists to make the nation bend to their will, and even then it was through the courts, not popular opinion. Obama wants the process ripping gender designation signs from bathroom doors to occur almost immediately. What’s the cause of Obama’s obsession? Have the social justice warriors fixed all of the more pressing issues in the world?
Last week, the Obama administration decreed that all schools receiving federal dollars must open their bathrooms and sports teams to transgender students or else the schools might see that funding disappear. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick accused the Obama administration of engaging in blackmail, and . Patrick said, “This will be the end of public education, if this prevails. People will pull their kids out, homeschooling will explode, private schools will increase.” We’d call that the silver lining. The Lone Star State intends to push back against this encroachment, too, and we doubt it will be the lone state to do so.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is delaying the pivot toward a policy allowing transgendered Americans to serve openly in the military. It will take months for some form of “enlightened” transgender policies to govern the force meant to keep America safe because Pentagon officials disagree on how accommodating the military must become. Much like Obama’s executive overreach in other areas, whether it be states or the military chain of command, there is resistance to Obama’s totalitarian tranny agenda.
Rules, Rules and More Rules to Combat Climate Change
EPA head Gina McCarthy announced first-ever standards to reduce the amount of methane the oil and gas industry releases into the air. The announcement this week was days away from a supposed mid-May deadline to pass rules for the Obama administration, one last-ditch attempt to slow the economy down. The rules are yet another push by the Obama administration to further cement its climate change fighting chops — in other words, expand federal control. In her announcement, McCarthy claimed the rules are supposedly to help make the oil and gas industries safer, but that’s a transparent attempt to make the regs easier to stomach. Kyle Isakower, a vice president of policy at the American Petroleum Institute, said, “The industry is already leading the way on methane reductions, because it is good for the environment and good for business. Imposing a one-size-fits-all scheme on the industry could actually stifle innovation and discourage investments in new technologies that could serve to further reduce emissions.” But Obama is living out the twilight of his time in the White House, so what’s he got to lose?
Speaking of losing, this new rule came out on the day ObamaCare lost a big court battle. Lose one battle, begin another one, Obama says. Toss down a pile of regulation and let the bureaucrats in Washington sort it out. Maybe some of it will survive challenges in court. It’s a terribly cynical way of “fundamentally transforming America.”
Are Trump Tariffs the Way to Bring Manufacturing Back?
As part of his promise to “Make America great again,” Donald Trump essentially advocates starting trade wars with the countries that took the manufacturing jobs once held by Americans. To analyze the effects of imposing tariffs on countries like China and Mexico, the National Foundation for American Policy, a think tank that advocates free trade, studied Trump’s proposals and determined it could add a massive burden to the poor in America, who rely on cheap, imported goods. We’ve previously warned of the consequences of Trump’s plan in more general terms. And the think tank says his plan would cost the average American household $6,000 a year.
“Donald Trump’s populist-fueled ignorance about how world trade works makes economists tear out their own hair,” writes Reason’s Scott Shackford. “He thinks trade deficits between the United States and other countries mean we’re somehow getting screwed over and not the actual reality that we’re buying goods that we want more cheaply. You have a trade deficit with your local grocery store, but you’re not getting screwed over by them (well, maybe on that overpriced Greek yogurt).”
Furthermore, global trade benefits the high-quality goods made in the United States. Impose tariffs on China, and they’re likely to impose them back, further hurting U.S. manufacturing, destroying even the paltry gains in GDP that have occurred during Barack Obama’s “recovery.” And thanks to advances in manufacturing technology, there are fewer manufacturing jobs than in the past. To put Trump’s plan in perspective, one estimate said implementing all of Bernie Sanders' socialist plans would cost the average American household $5,000 a year. That Bernie is cheaper than Donald should give everyone pause.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Ryan Anderson: New ObamaCare Transgender Regulations Threaten Freedom of Physicians
Todd Starnes: We Must Defy Obama’s Transgender Decree — No Matter the Cost
George Will: Due Process Is Being Kicked Off Campus
For more, visit Right Opinion.
FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Salvation of States' Rights
By Arnold Ahlert
Barack Obama’s administration once again revealed its contempt for the Constitution last Friday. A letter signed by officials at the Departments of Justice and Education was sent to every public school district in the country, and it’s nothing less than federally inflicted blackmail: Either transgender students get to use whatever bathroom they choose, or those districts could be subjected to lawsuits and/or a loss of federal aid. Thus the stage is set for a battle that may ultimately decide the nation’s future. Either we restore the notion of states' rights, or we succumb to a federal leviathan with an insatiable appetite for power.
The Obama administration, and by extension the American Left, have made it clear they have little use for federalism. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, revealed to be every bit the ideological hack as her predecessor Eric Holder, is busy threatening North Carolina with a loss of Title VII and Title IX funding unless Gov. Pat McCrory dumps the recently passed “Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.” It requires people to use the restroom that aligns with the sex on their birth certificate. That there is no mention of “gender identity” anywhere in the Constitution — meaning either the states or the people themselves determine such issues — means nothing to our would-be federal overlords.
It is likely many Americans don’t frame the so-called “bathroom wars” in terms of states' rights vs. authoritarian federal overreach. But if the 2016 election cycle has made anything clear, it is the idea that millions of Americans are fed up with an Us vs. Them status quo best described as the People versus a cabal of pompous elites dedicated to a one-size-fits-all, top-down ruling apparatus ensconced in Washington, DC. |
