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The Patriot Post Digest 5-19-2016
From The Federalist Patriot
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Mid-Day Digest
May 19, 2016
THE FOUNDATION
“Judges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.” —John Adams (1776)
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
Facebook’s Been Targeting Conservative Individuals for Years
Facebook is in damage control following allegations that its curators purposely suppressed conservative opinion in the trending topics section. But another equally if not even more troubling issue the mainstream media is “overlooking” is that this isn’t Facebook’s first time censoring “unsavory” opinions.
For years now, individual conservatives have had their pages shut down for espousing the Right ideals. The Media Research Center chronicles numerous examples here, including anyone from the conservative group “Chicks on The Right” to the Center for Medical Progress to even “a Canadian page critical of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”
One of the victims happens to be Fox News commentator Todd Starnes, who writes about his being blacklisted from Facebook in 2013: “Facebook blocked my page and removed a message I had posted that invoked Paula Deen, the National Rifle Association and Jesus Christ. … Had I been reading Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules For Radicals,’ wearing a Planned Parenthood ball cap and smoking a joint, Facebook would’ve left me alone.” He says his page is still “subjected to random censorship by the Facebook gods."
Facebook claims this is all just a misunderstanding and that it would never stoop to such a low. Indeed, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg met with 16 Republican pundits and politicians Wednesday to smooth things over. Yet the evidence suggests employees have been censoring conservatives for years. If media outlets were truly concerned about the implications, they’d include the years-long attack on conservative individuals in their coverage.
Lt. Gen. Boykin Fired for Free Speech
Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry” Boykin spent 13 years of his 36-year military career in Delta Force, two years as commander, and finished in 2007 as George W. Bush’s Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. Our publisher, Mark Alexander, knows Boykin personally and confirms he’s an outstanding patriot. Boykin’s not a fan of Barack Obama’s PC potty policies, saying on social media, “The first man who goes in the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery.”
He was subsequently fired by Hamden-Sydney College. Here’s his story, as told by Boykin himself:
Hampden Sydney is the 10th oldest college in America and is one of the two Men’s colleges left in America. Let me begin by saying that it is a fine school with some very good young men who give me hope for the future. There are also a few very good faculty members who I consider to be good friends and true patriots. They stood with me through this whole situation as the school made the decision to terminate me and I appreciate everything that these friends at the school did to try and help.
The bottom line is that I oppose these so called “Bathroom” bills that let men go into women’s locker rooms, showers, and toilets and I have been very public about it. When I said in Orlando that “…the first man who goes in the restroom with my daughter will not have to worry about surgery”, the LGBT community once again came after me, claiming that I was calling for violence against transgender people.
Well, that is simply not the case and I have never called for violence against anyone. I was referring to perverts who will use these policies to get into locker rooms with girls and women, and I object to that. My statement was meant to be humor and not a call for violence, which everyone in my audience understood as humor.
Nonetheless, I gave the LGBT community just what they needed to pressure the college leadership to terminate me and they did.
Such views will be silenced by the “tolerant” Left in their quest for total power.
TSA Stands for Terminally Slow Agency
Memorial Day weekend is coming, and with it the beginning of the summer travel season. And the Transportation Security Administration is the headache in your vacation plans. Recently, the screening lines in major airports have become unbearable. Some 4,000 passengers at Chicago O'Hare International Airport missed their flights because they were waiting for hours in TSA security lines. About 400 of them missed their flights in the last weekend alone. As every bureaucracy is wont to do when confronted with ineptitude, the TSA blames Congress' budget cuts. According to the TSA’s numbers, the number of TSA agents declined while passengers rose since 2011. Combined with a social media campaign, the pressure is on Congress to fix the problem.
But the TSA hasn’t exactly been frugal with its resources. The agency recently spent $1.7 million on marketing, money on new uniforms and even a female hologram to manage passengers. This doesn’t sound like an agency that’s cutting costs to focus on its mission — a mission it’s performing poorly, by the way. Last year, a Department of Homeland Security audit found that the TSA could not detect threats 95% of the time. As Investor’s Business Daily rhetorically asks, “If a private company wasted billions of taxpayer dollars, hired workers who failed to do their job 95% of the time, and then forced people to wait in line for hours, how long do you think they’d be in business? So why is the TSA being treated any differently?” IBD adds, “It’s almost as if the nation’s airports have turned into mini-Soviet Unions, where instead of waiting for bread, people stand in line for hours to be poked and prodded.”
To better serve the American people, Congress should abolish the agency and re-outsource the security duties to private companies. No private company would be allowed to fail like this. Only the government is too big to fail.
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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
What to Make of Trump’s Justice League
By Nate Jackson
The 2016 election is a four- or maybe eight-year proposition. The Supreme Court, on the other hand, is a generational one. And that makes the stakes quite high in choosing a president, because the next one will pick as many as four new justices. No pressure.
We know Hillary Clinton will nominate only leftists to the bench, just as Barack Obama has. We also know that the Republican Senate is gambling by not confirming Merrick Garland, because if the GOP loses the chamber and Garland is not yet confirmed, Obama or Clinton may yank his nomination in favor of someone even further left. |
