The Patriot Post Digest 8-29-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 8-29-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Aug. 29, 2016

THE FOUNDATION

“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.” —Alexander Hamilton (1775)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Colin Kaepernick’s Unsportsmanlike Conduct1

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick signed a six-year, $114,000,000 contract, as well as a $12,328,766 signing bonus, $61,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $19,000,000. On Friday, he refused to stand for the National Anthem before the preseason game, later declaring he is “not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” He neglected to mention that the vast majority of murdered people of color are killed by other people of color. He also neglected to mention that he was adopted by white parents.

Naturally, the 49ers took the position that it’s Kaepernick’s “right” to not stand for the anthem. “The national anthem is and always will be a special part of the pre-game ceremony,” the team said in a statement. “It is an opportunity to honor our country and reflect on the great liberties we are afforded as its citizens. In respecting such American principles as freedom of religion and freedom of expression, we recognize the right of an individual to choose and participate, or not, in our celebration of the national anthem.”

Of course they’re right as far as it goes — no one said it wasn’t Kaepernick’s “right” to be an idiot. But that doesn’t make him any less an idiot to show such contempt for the nation that made him a wealthy man.

Also, just a reminder: Kaepernick plays for the same NFL that doesn’t mind2 when Rams players take the field in the “hands up, don’t shoot” posture, but refuses3 to let the Dallas Cowboys wear a helmet sticker showing solidarity with Dallas police.

Obama’s Patronizing Police4

Not content to wage a war on cops5 over trumped up charges of racism, Barack Obama has a new training program for police. Officers will learn how to treat transgender individuals through the Social Justice™ Department’s Community Relations Service. “In one of the [training] examples,” according to the DOJ, “the video demonstrates an officer laughing [at] a transgender individual who appears to be the victim of a crime, and the officer’s partner pulls him aside to correct his behavior. Afterwards, the offending officer apologizes for his prior conduct and approaches the rest of the interview with the necessary respect and professionalism. This illustration not only highlights how officers should act with members of the transgender community, but also addresses the need for officers to say something to their peers when they see problematic behavior.”

Sgt. Brett Parson, who narratives the video, says, “If someone feels disrespected, they’re less likely to trust us or cooperate.” Well, yes that’s pretty much true of anyone in any walk of life. But the reason Obama’s DOJ feels the need to train police in this way says a lot more about Obama’s agenda than it does about actual policing practice. Are police fallible? Absolutely. But cramming the homosexual agenda down their throats isn’t going to make anything better. Just look at the effect such “tolerance” has had in other sectors…

In related news, Obama issued an incredibly patronizing reminder to emergency personnel responding to massive flooding in Louisiana: “Care must be taken to ensure that actions, both intentional and unintentional, do not exclude groups of people based on race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency), religion, sex, or disability.” One particular response6 to this tripe was pure gold (grammar errors in original):

Dear Mr President,

I want to thank you for reminding us in South Louisiana not to discriminate against anyone based on race or religion. Had you not reminded us of this I don’t know what we would have done. See we rode around in a boat saving people and well race or religion never entered my mind. Not once. It didn’t enter my buddies mind or my wife’s. Just saving people.

I understand you may be miss informed because of all the race baiting that the media did a couple months ago here is South Louisiana. But I assure you that’s not what we stand for in South Louisiana. We love each other when the times get hard. We look out for our own. Now I know this doesn’t fit your agenda. But facts are facts.

Thanks
The true citizens of Louisiana

On NPR: Climate Alarmists Say ‘No More Kids’7

Climate alarmists have put forth myriad propositions they claim will reverse the damage supposedly being caused by man-made global warming. Whether it’s onerous regulations like the Clean Power Plan8, policing air conditioning9 or attempting to alter our diets10, there’s no shortage of things “experts” say can save our beleaguered environment. One of the ideas they inculcate is population control — a topic that NPR delved into in a recent article, “Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?11” In it, Johns Hopkins University’s Travis Rieder12 tries to make the case for a “small-family ethic.” Rieder proposes, “Maybe we should protect our kids by not having them.”

On the contrary, columnist Jeff Jacoby writes13, “The notion that too many people are having kids, and that ‘overpopulation’ spells doom for life on Earth, has been an article of faith among environmental extremists since at least the 1960s.” Jacoby quotes former Sierra Club executive director David Brower, who “insisted decades ago that childbearing should be ‘a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license.’” That view is also held by John Holdren, an Obama administration adviser who “was writing in the 1970s about the catastrophe that would result if governments didn’t turn to forcible sterilization, compulsory abortion, or anti-fertility drugs in the water supply to shrink the population,” Jacoby explains. “Population misanthropes were freaking out about the disasters sure to come from making too many babies as far back as ancient Greece. But though babies keep being made … the disaster never comes.” The reason is simple: “That is because babies are more than carbon footprints. They grow up not merely to consume, but to produce.”

On that note, columnist David Harsanyi addresses the economic repercussions of population control. He writes14, “The real problem we face is sustaining population. The replacement fertility rate is 2.1, and in certain places where they fail to meet this threshold — parts of Europe and Japan, for example — they’ve suffered economic and cultural stagnation. Here in the United States we have, for a variety of reasons, long struggled with this problem, as the Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Last has argued. The success of developing nations also portends a similar slow-down. Here’s a provocative thought: Maybe it’s the best time in history to have children.” Indeed, God would not have directed us in Genesis 1:28 to “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” if He were concerned about man-caused environmental catastrophe.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Mark Hendrickson: The Fed Seeks to Postpone a Federal Government Default15
Ken Blackwell: Hillary Clinton: From Glass Ceiling to Crass Dealing16
Peggy Noonan: A Wounded Boy’s Silence, and the Candidates'17

For more, visit Right Opinion18.

TOP HEADLINES

Mylan Suddenly Finds Way to Offer Generic, and Cheaper, EpiPen19
Another EPA Spill in Colorado20
Little Precedent for Iran Cash Payment21

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report22.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
If Dems Don’t Win Senate, Thank ObamaCare23

By Robin Smith

If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency on Nov. 8, her running mate Tim Kaine will provide the tie-breaking vote in the Senate if Democrats win just four seats. Democrats will hold the White House and the Upper Chamber of Congress. But there’s a glimmer of hope for the Senate, and, ironically, we can thank Democrats for it.

While Donald Trump beat the entire field of polished résumés, Republicans have a strong field of incumbents and a deep bench of candidates and potential candidates due to the shift of political majorities in the states. The New York Times agrees as it frets24, “Democrats find themselves hobbled by less-than-stellar candidates in races that could make the difference in winning a majority.”

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It’s a simple fact that since 2010, from the courthouse to the state houses and to the governors' mansions, voters have placed their trust in Republicans. According to Ballotpedia in 2016, there are 23 states with a “Republican trifecta” comprised of state representatives, state senators and governors. Only seven states have a “Democrat trifecta.”

The statement’s been made before: Barack Obama has been the greatest thing for the GOP in a long time. Why? Obama’s failed policies and lawless approach have originated from a hard-Left view of the role of government — it’s the answer to everything! But when the solution doesn’t look much better than the problem, that hurts Democrats.

According to The New York Times, “Democrats are mired in their own struggle, as they try to identify future stars who can appeal to a base increasingly insistent on a progressive agenda.” Going further, The Cook Political Report’s senior editor Jennifer Duffy predicted, “Democrats are going to have their own Tea Party movement in 2018.” Why? The rigged primary for Hillary, shutting down Bernie Sanders' passionate crowd.

In the U.S. Senate races, the Democrat field is weak when assessing its recruits and institutional structure to support them.

But the personnel isn’t the Democrats' only weakness. Their record of failure during the Obama administration is hard to dismiss.

Obama will soon become the only president to never have a single year of GDP growth of at least 3%. Data will show that the rich got richer and the poor had to get more government hand-outs during the “fundamental transformation” of America. On the foreign policy front, the Middle East is a roiling cauldron of stew featuring beheadings, the rape of children and married women and, oh yeah, the arming of Iran with nuclear weapons.

But one issue alone should serve to solidify voters' movement away from Democrats in these Senate and House races. The predicted and absolute failure of the laughably misnamed “Affordable Care Act,” Obama’s “signature legislation,” has proven, again, that there’s never enough money for a government program and there’s always a negative consequence to a competing private sector entity.

On March 23, 2010, the flock of Democrats surrounding Obama at his bill-signing ceremony that enacted ObamaCare into law stood with plumage in full show. Today, the birds of that feather are being stuffed into the nests of insurance companies and hospitals that spent millions to lobby for the government takeover of America’s health care. Insurers are now reporting hundreds of millions in losses and crying for a taxpayer-funded bailout as they flee the exchanges. Hospitals are wailing for states to expand their Medicaid rolls to prop up their financial losses. Oh, and those oft-forgotten folks called the taxpaying public are seeing their insurance premiums rise annually up to 60%.

Not only have enrollees in the IRS-enforced ObamaCare seen their doctors and their plans change, but their out-of-pocket expenses are skyrocketing. On Saturday, Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, gave the GOP Weekly Address citing the “very near collapse” of the ObamaCare Insurance Exchanges with an “intolerable increase” in premium costs to be administered in 2017.

Will Senate Republicans effectively remind middle class voters that their budgets are busted by health care expenses thanks to the Democrats? Will they win hearts and minds by engaging in policy discussions of portable health savings accounts and price transparency that would drive consumerism in health care? Will the GOP articulate that the working class will be restored through work and personal savings, not government taxes and redistribution?

The quadrennial voting pool has every reason to support Republicans due to their own financial losses during the Obama “recovery,” and the prospect of better days ahead with effective policy.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

Trump on Immigration: Softening or Sophistry?25 — To understand his evolution, one has to examine his past record.
Accountability, Canadian Style26 — The Commanding General of Canadian Special Forces demonstrates “what right looks like.”
Remember When the Clintons Demanded a Wall?27
Obama on Ransoms: Do as I Say, Not as I Do28 — The administration warns others against doing exactly what it does.
Hillary’s Email Deletion Proves Good for Business29 — The company that wiped Clinton’s server receives spike in downloads.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Mark Hendrickson: “It doesn’t require exceptional vision to see that federal finances are on an unsustainable path. Nor is it a mystery why Obama would advocate such fiscal recklessness — politically, it is an election year, and so he will demagogue for votes, and ideologically, Obama is not just a big-government liberal, but his end game (I believe) is to bankrupt federal programs as the trigger event for the federal government nationalizing them. (It worked for Fannie and Freddie, so why not Social Security?) … Frankly, several generations of Americans have been swindling our youth by saddling them with an unconscionable debt burden, and younger Americans have every right to repudiate that debt. That is a radical assertion, I know, but remember that one of the reasons our founders rose in rebellion against Great Britain was over the principle of taxation without representation. Well, our youth did not have a say or vote in all the spending that has produced the debts that many now expect them to honor. Why should they? Not only did they not vote for it, they were not (in most cases) the beneficiaries of the deficit spending that generated all that debt. … The only way to avoid bankruptcy is not to spend oneself into it. Whether such fiscal restraint is possible in a democracy is debatable, but we are not in a position to avoid having to deal with this problem. We are trapped in the black hole of debt.”

SHORT CUTS

The Gipper: “I won a nickname, ‘The Great Communicator.’ But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: it was the content. I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn’t spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation — from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries.”

Upright: “Clinton is a poor choice to be a path-breaker. The image that best fits her time in politics is not breaking the glass ceiling but engaging in crass dealing. From the emergence of the Clintons in Arkansas politics to now, everything has been about them in the worst way.” —Ken Blackwell

For the record: “The FDA has pretty strict rules when it comes to labeling products. It will stop you in your tracks if you try to pass off ground chuck as ground sirloin or try to peddle something doused in sodium as being salt-free. But, unfortunately, there is no federal agency or even a law that can prevent people from mislabeling themselves.” —Burt Prelutsky

Braying Jenny: “There’s this thought that women are just too scattered, we’re too impulsive, we are too hormonal, we can’t make good decisions for ourselves. Therefore we need the state to tell us, we need the state to give us medical information, even if it’s incorrect. We need the state to give us an ultrasound because we must not really realize that we’re pregnant; we have to go away for 24 hours and think it over.” —Cecile Richards, saying pro-lifers just think women are “hormonal”

Village Idiots: “We often criminalize behavior that is normal. And it’s — I don’t — I don’t see what the smoke is.” —provisional DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile defending Hillary Clinton

And last… “San Francisco 49ers QB refused to stand for National Anthem ‘Because the USA oppresses blacks.’ He could not be reached at his mansion for further comment.” —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson

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