The Patriot Post Digest 07-19-2016

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Mid-Day Digest

Jul. 19, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808.)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

GOP Convention Highlights, Day 11

On Day One of the unconventional GOP convention2, the slate of speakers was interesting. Here are a few choice quotes:

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry: “Making America great again starts with taking care of our veterans.”

Marcus Luttrell, former Navy Seal: “We’ve got to make sure the hell the veterans return from is not the hell they come home to. … Who among you will love something more than you love yourself? I challenge all of you to fight for this country and each and every one of us. … America is the light.”

Pat Smith, mother of Sean Smith, who was killed in Benghazi: “We lost four brave Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country they chose to serve. And the American people lost the truth. For all of this loss, for all of this grief, for all of the cynicism the tragedy in Benghazi has wrought upon America, I blame Hillary Clinton. I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son.”

Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson: “We need a president who will have our back. … If you’re looking for a job or trying to grow a business, Donald Trump will have your back. If you’re a serviceman fighting overseas or a cop keeping us safe at home, Donald Trump will have your back. If you’re an average American who feels like you’ve been forgotten, neglected by faraway leaders, that the deck is stacked against you and you just can’t win, Donald Trump will have your back.”

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke: “From attacks on our own soil and overseas to the tragedy in Benghazi, the policies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have left us vulnerable. Our immigration system is broken, leaving our country open to security threats and the negative consequences of illegal immigration. A Donald Trump administration will listen to and learn from our nation’s heroes who have put themselves in harm’s way and pursue a national security strategy and foreign policy that will strengthen our military and make America safe again.”

Melania Trump: “From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect.”

    Unfortunately, in a speech widely hailed as a homerun, it soon came to light that Melania seems to have lifted that line and one other passage3 almost verbatim from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech. Did the Trump camp really think such plagiarism wouldn’t be noticed?

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: “Who would trust [Hillary Clinton] to protect them? I do not. Do you? … Hillary Clinton is for open borders. She is in favor of taking in Syrian refugees, even though the Islamic State has told us they are going to put their operatives in these groups so they can carry out terrorist acts against us and our allies. We can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of the past.”

Sen. Tom Cotton: “Our warriors and their families don’t ask for much. But there are a few things we’d like. A commander in chief who speaks of winning wars and not merely ending wars, calls the enemy by its name, and draws red lines carefully but enforces them ruthlessly. And politicians who treat our common defense as the chief responsibility of our federal government, not just another government program. This isn’t much to ask for, but eight years without it is more than enough.”

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn: “Tonight, Americans stand as one, with strength and confidence to overcome the last eight years of the Obama-Clinton failures such as bumbling indecisiveness, willful ignorance and total incompetence that has challenged the very heart and soul of every American, and single-handedly brought continued mayhem, murder and destruction into our neighborhoods and onto the world’s streets.”

Sen. Joni Ernst: “Hillary Clinton cannot be trusted. Her judgment and character are not suited to be sitting in the most powerful office in the world. She has already failed us too many times before. … We need a commander in chief who will stand up to our enemies, support our allies, and stand up for our veterans. We need a leader who will ensure America remains a strong, stabilizing force around the globe, and who will keep us safe here at home. Our country cannot take another four years just like the eight we’ve just had.”

Clinton Bemoans ‘White Privilege’4

The GOP assembled Monday in Cleveland for the start of the Republican National Convention, but that wasn’t the only political event happening in Ohio. Hillary Clinton attended her own confab in the southwest corner of the state — the NAACP’s 107th Annual Convention, which is taking place this year in Cincinnati.

Clinton took advantage of a speaking slot to emphasize what she believes is a “need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice,” adding, “We cannot rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African-Americans.” She also lampooned “white Americans” whom she says “need to do a better job of listening when African-Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers [blacks] face every day.” She went on to lecture, “We need to recognize our privilege and practice humility rather than assume that our experiences are everyone’s experiences.”

It’s worth recounting the words of Mark Alexander5, who, after the death of Michael Brown in 2014, summed up the growing problem of black privilege: “I would argue that there are to varying degrees undeniable societal biases based on all those human traits and attributes we are supposed to ignore — race, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, etc. Do I think those biases are so pronounced that some groups experience more privilege under some circumstances than others? Yes. Is it worth discussing? Yes, but only if that discussion includes the whole color spectrum of privilege. …

"In Ferguson, black privilege meant that a drug-using 300-pound black man was entitled to walk into a convenience store, brazenly steal merchandise and physically assault a tiny store clerk. It means he was entitled to walk down the middle of a street taunting traffic. It means that when a police officer told him to get out of the street, he was entitled to punch the officer through his patrol vehicle window and attempt to take the officer’s weapon. It means that he was entitled to defy lawful police orders to stop when he turned and charged toward that officer to assault him again. It means when the officer shot that black man, it was, by default, racist. It means that you can adopt a ‘hands up’ symbolic gesture, though the assailant’s hands were not up. It means that race trumps facts, even as determined by a grand jury. It means that, in the name of ‘civil rights,’ black people are entitled to riot and loot small businesses, most owned by responsible and hard-working black residents.”

Clinton and her sycophants will never acknowledge this when they’ve got a political agenda to peddle.

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Pentagon’s New Transsexual Manual6

Commanding officers in the U.S. military must be wondering if they have entered bizarro world after receiving the latest procedural manual from the Pentagon — the sex-change manual. In the midst of all the challenges the U.S. military faces, from budget constraints to the continued war in Afghanistan and the fight against terrorism, the most challenging and outright absurd is that of Barack Obama’s social engineering via his recent order to end the ban on transgendered service members7.

The Washington Times reports8, “Commanders must hold training sessions to indoctrinate troops on transgender issues and nondiscrimination.” As to the reason for this new manual, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said, “We have transgender soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines — real, patriotic Americans — who I know are being hurt by an outdated, confusing, inconsistent approach that’s contrary to our value of service and individual merit.”

Retired Army officer Robert Maginnis responded that Carter is “delusional if he believes our military needs transgenders/transsexuals to remain in the ‘finest fighting force in the world.’” On the contrary, Maginnis said, “Transsexuals suffer from more psychiatric pathologies than the general population, and active suicide ideation9 and major depression episodes occur more frequently within this group.” He continued, “Creating a bureaucracy to sort out transgender issues will go down in the history of our Armed Forces as the worst waste of defense dollars ever.”

Not only a waste of money, it will be a waste of time as a person deemed to have gender dysphoria will need an extended leave time of stability of 18 months after completing medical treatment. Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon stated, “We have transgender members in the military services today. We believe that we have the same obligation to them that we have to our other service members. Allowing these transgender individuals to serve openly does not bring new medical problems into the military. It brings these medical problems into the open and enables us to treat them in a way that promotes the readiness of the force.”

Obama is more committed to “transforming” the U.S. military into a socially engineered puppet designed to further his agenda of fundamentally transforming the country rather than in providing the needed funding and support allowing them the means of successfully fulfilling the role for which they were originally established — the defense of the United States.

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BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

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FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Unconventional GOP Convention2

By Robin Smith

The Republican National Convention commenced Monday, and, predictably, it has been anything but conventional. Concluding Thursday with what should be the presidential nomination of Donald Trump and his VP selection Mike Pence20, the quadrennial ceremony is on track to mirror the departure from the GOP’s playbook that drove the unusual presidential primary.

Parting from the consultant class’s holy screed resulted in the most primary/caucus votes cast in the history of the Republican Party — 31 million, 14 million of which went to Trump.

For decades, millions of dollars were spent to autopsy, focus group and poll the Grand Old Party’s ways to figure out how to increase voter turnout. Republicans want greater representation of the working class to dispel the “rich Republican” myth. They want to see black voters return to the political party that first fought for their freedom from slavery and right to vote. In fact, more working-class people and blacks voted GOP this year.

Is Donald Trump aiming to craft an event to appease political junkies and conservative ideologues? Nope. His campaign to date has been directed to the American people, not some organized partisan group. Therefore, his chosen speakers support his pledge to “Make America Great Again” with themed nights: Make America Safe Again; Make America Work Again; Make America First Again, and Make America One Again.

The speaker list is as unconventional as Trump’s campaign. It includes former Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell21; Pat Smith, whose son died during the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi; Marines Mark Geist and John Tiegen, who defended the consulate and the CIA annex in Benghazi; Kent Terry and Kelly Terry-Willis, relatives of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was slain with weapons from Barack Obama’s Fast and Furious gun-running scandal; and TV stars Scott Baio and Willie Robertson.

Is Trump a one-of-a-kind candidate who has not only shifted the political paradigm but also redefined it? Yes.

Has Trump exploited the anger of voters22 who have been lied to election after election about legal immigration, excessive federal spending and the declaration that “we’ll repeal ObamaCare and stop Obama”? Most certainly. The well-coiffed consultants missed that metric somewhere in their polling.

One might forget that the anger of establishment folks is most likely rooted in the hidden truth that their plan to control the election cycle was completed destroyed. For years, their notions were to parade the incumbent class of Republicans at the convention, feathering their financial nests with easy convention cash from consulting and calling for “unity” once the establishment guy won. Now, the tables are turned.

Among those who seem to be the sorest of the losers are those who attempted to move the goal posts even after the contests were fought by changing the rules that govern the convention proceedings. Many of these same Republican National Committee voting members were likely the very ones who constructed the rules four years earlier that were implemented throughout this 2016 presidential primary. Others are conscientious objectors to Trump’s takeover of the conservative party. In any case, just because the outcome is not to your liking neither permits a fit-pitching tantrum nor a change of the game rules once the contest has concluded.

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At the same time, Trump’s people strong-armed the process Monday, circumventing a roll call vote to quash opposition to his nomination. That’s understandable, if ironic. Trump’s entire candidacy was supported by people wanting to oust the establishment23 and its rules. Now Trump is the establishment, and the establishment did what was necessary to enforce “unity.”

But, again, as we said, the last thing the GOP needs is to oust Trump. For good or ill, he’s the standard-bearer this year. And he’s not Hillary Clinton. That above all else should be the focus this week.

Voters must be reminded why Clinton will continue the wrong-headed, dangerous and divisive policies of Barack Obama. The minorities of all ethnicities and gender should welcome the embrace of America’s greatness with the focus on equal and true opportunity only found in our nation. At least that’s what we hope.

The unconventional Republican convention has the opportunity to highlight the working class party that is unashamed to dream of a great America again.

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OPINION IN BRIEF

Stephen Moore and Andy Koenig: “Protecting the 2011 Budget Control Act and its spending controls should be priority No. 1 for the hundreds of lawmakers who profess to want responsible government spending. Passed by strong bipartisan majorities and signed by President Obama in 2011, the act established spending caps on the one-third of the federal budget not devoted to entitlement or interest payments. These caps have been the only meaningful restraints on federal spending during the Obama years. And they have worked — when enforced. … Unfortunately, absent serious reforms to the three-quarter of the budget that goes to entitlements, deficits are now relentlessly headed back to the trillion-dollar level. The bad news is that a combination of Republican ‘defense hawks’ have partnered with Democrats who want more social programs to eviscerate the very spending restraints many of them voted for in the first place. They have successfully leveraged the threat of a government shutdown to increase the caps three times in the last four years, limiting the law’s success and increasing spending by $145 billion. But the Budget Control Act still remains the law of the land and promises more than $420 billion in savings between now and 2021, no matter who is president. Will they stick? Only if fiscally responsible members of Congress force their colleagues to live by the promises they made.”

SHORT CUTS

Upright: “We cannot have four more years of apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. America needs to be strong for the world to be safe.” —Mike Pence

The bottom line: “What’s the best case for Donald Trump? … The alternative is President Hillary Clinton.” —William McGurn

For the record: “As of the shooting in Baton Rouge [Sunday], 31 officers have been shot to death in 2016. That number is up 72 percent from 18 deaths this time last year, and 2016 is the first time in several years that shooting has been the cause of the majority of police deaths. Normally, that cause is traffic-related. Some additional context: only four Americans have been killed during the operation in Afghanistan this year, only one of whom was killed in hostile conflict. And the Israeli Defense Force … only had six operative deaths caused by violent activity in all of 2015.” —Andrew Badinelli

Braying Jenny: “The deaths of Alton [Sterling] and Philando [Castile] drive home how urgently we need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice, and how we cannot rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African-Americans.” —Hillary Clinton

It’s about Rule of Law, not the rule of men: “[Gov. John Kasich] could very easily do some kind of executive order [to ban open carry] or something. I don’t care if it’s constitutional or not at this point. They can fight about it after the RNC, or they can lift it after the RNC, but I want him to absolutely outlaw open-carry in Cuyahoga County until this RNC is over.” — Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association president Stephen Loomis

Doesn’t fit the agenda: “I don’t suspect that [lighting the White House blue] is something that we will do. … The president’s strong support for American law enforcement officers is crystal clear.” —Obama spokesman Josh Earnest

Circling the wagons: “I think it was wrong. I don’t care what that woman up there [Patricia Smith, mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith] has felt. Her emotions are her own, but for the country in choosing a leader it’s wrong to have someone get up there and tell a lie about Hillary Clinton.” —MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (Hillary is the one who’s lying.)

And last… “RNC showcases families of those lost to Fast & Furious and Benghazi. DNC has the mom of a convenience store robber who tried to kill a cop.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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