The Patriot Post Digest 10-6-2016

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Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 6, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

DC’s new Black History Museum ignores Clarence Thomas while celebrating his accuser.
Obama wants diversity mandates for law enforcement, and to categorize “Middle Eastern” as a race.
Democrats say unemployment’s low, but that’s not the best economic measure.
The UN rushes the Paris Climate Agreement into place before the U.S. election.
And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.” —Thomas Jefferson (1816)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Black History Museum Ignores Clarence Thomas1

Washington, DC, was abuzz with the opening of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in September. Both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama attended the opening, and Bush was a keynote speaker due to his instrumental role in getting the museum started. The media fawned over the hug Michelle Obama gave to Bush — the “embrace seen around the world,” as The New York Times called it2. But the bipartisanship appears to have been a phony veneer.

There’s a glaring and outrageous omission from the museum’s displays: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. To add insult to injury, an exhibit on blacks in the 1990s includes prominent placement for Anita Hill, who accused Thomas of sexual harassment and was a key pawn in Democrats' shameful “high-tech lynching” of Thomas during his confirmation hearings.

Kevin Daley highlights3 Thomas' biography: “Thomas was born in Georgia’s coastal lowlands among impoverished Gullah-speakers. By his own account, he did not master the Queen’s English until his early 20s. He came of age in Jim Crow Savannah, where he was in turn ridiculed by white neighbors and classmates for his unpolished style, one of many indignities typical of his adolescence in the racist south. The startling racial injustices of his youth, by discipline and sheer force of will, gave way to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. and Yale Law School.”

And there’s so much more to his inspiring story. His omission from the museum was a deliberate decision based upon the abhorrent leftist narrative that blacks who aren’t Democrat really aren’t authentically black.

Diversity = Racism4

Yesterday Barack Obama ordered the implementation of diversity measures for national security agencies based on standards recommended by a Justice Department report for “Advancing Diversity in Law Enforcement5.” The report highlighted the racial disparity within law enforcement when compared to the demographics of the communities which they served. The Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will engage with law enforcement across the country to host “Diversity Dialogues.” Clearly, this is part of Obama’s narrative about racism.

It was also learned on Wednesday that Obama is proposing a new racial category, that of “Middle Eastern,” be added to the official lexicon of races recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau. If the proposal is adopted, this new racial identity will available for the 2020 census. One wonders if this is not a means of codifying Donald Trump as a racist for his desire to limit immigration from the Middle East. It would certainly make such restrictions more difficult to implement, because “race” would be a factor.

The continued push for the politically correct ideal of “diversity” is in reality a form of soft racism. If the means of determining whether or not an individual should be hired for a position within law enforcement is based upon that person’s race, then by definition that is racism. What makes America unique is our history of defining ourselves as a nation, however imperfect, not based upon some ethnic group, but upon a Constitution which recognizes all citizens as having equal rights under the law. This constant push by the Left to divide citizens into various racial categories and then pit them against one another by suggesting that if one group is prospering then it must be at the expense of another is absolutely un-American.

IMF Downgrades U.S. Economic Outlook6

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate7, Tim Kaine touted the economic rebound he claimed Americans have enjoyed under Barack Obama — including that 15 million new jobs were created. Two things: That depends on whether you start measuring in 2010, and jobs created are far from the only measure of economic health. The reality is that Americans have endured one of the slowest periods of economic growth in our nation’s history.

On Wednesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded to 1.6% the economic outlook for the U.S. in 2016. This is a 38% drop from last year’s already underwhelming growth rate of 2.6%. This is the largest one-year drop for an advanced economy ever seen, according to the report. The report stated, “The weakness in business fixed investment appears to reflect the continued decline in capital spending in the energy sector, the impact of recent dollar strength on investment in export-oriented industries, and possibly also the financial market volatility and recession fears of late 2015 and early 2016.”

The reported noted that the decline in the unemployment rate, which often has been touted by Obama and Clinton as a sign that the economy is healthy and recovering, can be somewhat deceptive because it can act as a false barometer overstating the actual condition of the economy. As Mike Pence said, “The policies of this administration, which Hillary Clinton and Senator Kaine want to continue, have run this economy into a ditch.” He’s right.

Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column

Read Jefferson’s Enlightened Liberty v Clinton’s Elitist Statism8. Jefferson feared that Liberty would decline if the people could not distinguish “between truth and falsehood.” Clinton and her media are accelerating that decline.

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BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

Victor Davis Hanson: From Greek Tragedy to American Therapy10
Cal Thomas: A Taxing Situation11
George Will: The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ of Men Choosing to Not Seek Work12

For more, visit Right Opinion13.

TOP HEADLINES

NSA Contractor Charged With Stealing U.S. Secrets14
Feds Rehire Company Linked to Massive OPM Breach15
Obama’s Army of PR Staffers Costs $500 Million Per Year16

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report17.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
The Paris Climate Deal Is About Acquiring Power18

By Allyne Caan

When Friday, Nov. 4 hits in a few weeks, headlines may be so hijacked by the impending presidential election that they miss the other news set to happen that day — the UN’s Paris Climate Agreement will take effect. Or, if you’re Barack Obama, the world will embark on the “best possible shot” at saving the planet. Because planetary survival has always hinged on UN-dictated meteorological engineering.

The Paris Agreement is the UN scheme under which participating countries must work to cut greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures increases “well-below” two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times. By comparison, the UN has predicted19 that based on current trends, temperatures will rise by at least three degrees by 2100. In other words, the UN is hamstringing the global economy for the sake of one degree.

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One can only hope the UN already has a pledge of cooperation from the sun for the next 84 years since evidence suggests20 sunspot activity may actually impact earth’s temperature more than human industry. Shocking, we know.

To go into effect, the agreement requires sign-on by 55 countries representing at least 55% of global emissions. The deal becomes effective 30 days from the date this threshold is reached. The U.S. and China, which together account for about 38% of the world’s emissions, had already signed onto the deal, with dozens of other countries doing the same. On Tuesday, the EU gave its assent, bringing 28 nations and pushing the tally above the deal’s requirement.

As we noted before21, the Paris agreement is merely one part — albeit a big one — of Obama’s effort to centralize control. A side benefit is that it will obliterate the coal industry via death by regulation. Of course, with the Paris deal, he’s gone global with his regulatory fanaticism. Sure, environmental scaremongers à la Al Gore may paint the issue as one of survival — after all, if John Kerry is to be believed, battling climate change is equivalent to fighting the Islamic State — but the real issue is power. Why else would global leaders trip over themselves in a mad dash to implement a deal that will save a measly degree in temperature?

But fabricate a crisis of cosmic proportions, identify government mandates as the only solution, and voila: power.

And that’s not the half of it.

In typical “I have a pen” fashion, Obama specifically avoided the Senate while climate cavorting with the UN. He never gained Senate approval for the deal, giving a thumbs up to the agreement with one hand while flipping the bird to the Constitution with the other. Not quite tickled at Congress being cut out of international treaties, some Republican leaders challenged Obama. But the White House of course claims22 the agreement isn’t a treaty so Obama can assent via executive action. A fast way to get around that pesky supreme law of the land.

Of course, since it’s “not a treaty,” the Paris agreement carries little enforcement mechanism in the U.S., the one bright spot if there is one.

Still, fast-tracking the deal to make sure it goes into effect before POTUS #45 takes office and possibly blocks it was, undoubtedly, intentional.

With Obama exiting the White House soon (but not soon enough), his successor could technically withdraw from the deal, since it was approved via presidential pen stroke rather than Senate ratification. Hillary Clinton, of course, wouldn’t pull out, but Donald Trump has said he would. But this might be easier said than done. Per the agreement, signatory nations can withdraw with one year’s notice only after three years from the deal’s effective date. Fortune reports23 that Trump could bypass this requirement by pulling out of the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, thereby withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris deal as well. Yet even this underscores the ridiculousness of pledging allegiance to the UN in the first place.

For now, suffice it to say that if a one-degree mark on a thermostat can trigger global mandates that kill industries and drive people out of work, it’s a clear sign the Left will use anything as an excuse to seize power.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

A Banana Republic, If We Choose to Keep It24 — Here’s what Americans have learned in the last two weeks alone.
Kaine’s Wrong: Clinton’s Nuclear Record Is Tarnished25 — The VP candidate’s defense is full of holes.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Cal Thomas: “The left’s narrative — stated and implied — is that everything government does is good, and so it is only right that taxpayers pay increasing amounts of taxes no matter how irresponsible government is in spending them. In this thinking, government has replaced God and taxes have replaced the collection plate, which at least amasses voluntary contributions. Politicians mostly like the tax code the way it is because they can tweak it in exchange for campaign contributions from lobbyists. For the rest of us, the tax code is a foreign language impossible for most to understand. Even the IRS doesn’t fully understand it. If you call the IRS for advice and the advice they give you is wrong, you can still be subject to penalties and interest. Republicans in high tax states and at the federal level should use the left’s ‘smoking gun’ on Trump’s taxes as a weapon to demand tax reform. Flat and fair taxes have been suggested. Anything is better than the current system. Real tax reform would ensure that Trump paid some taxes, though they would likely be lower for him than for everyone else who pays them. After that, maybe the conversation can shift to the real problem: government spending.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” —Mark Twain (1835-1910)

For the record: “The FBI and Justice [Dept.] gave Mrs. Clinton and her entourage special political treatment. No grand jury that the public knows about. Immunity. Special side deals. No hard digging into contradictory testimony. An FBI interview only at the last minute. Public exoneration by the FBI director when that isn’t his job. FBI summaries released on the Friday afternoon before Labor Day. No wonder millions of Americans think the system is rigged.” —The Wall Street Journal

Alpha Jackass: “Coalminers feel like they’ve been battered, and they often blame me and my tree-hugger friends for having created real economic problems in places like West Virginia, or parts of Kentucky, or parts of my home state of southern Illinois.” —Barack Obama (That blame is well earned.)

The BIG Lie: “There’s already some really interesting work … showing that the droughts that happened in Syria contributed to the unrest and the Syrian civil war. Well, if you start magnifying that across … a lot of nation states that already contain a lot of poor people who are just right at the margins of survival, this becomes a national security issue.” —Barack Obama

Braying Jenny: “Well, I don’t really, actually — I don’t know that there’s an exact answer for that.” —Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards when asked, “At what point does a baby get … constitutional rights?”

Belly laugh of the week: “People will look back on this period and they’ll give President Obama better economic marks than they do now because he took office just a couple of months after the worst crash since the Great Depression. … And he had a Congress determined to derail everything he wanted to do. But in the end, America’s coming back.” —Bill Clinton

And last… “Unfortunately, Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Islamic State and the Chinese have no particular sympathy for any American who lays claim to victim status. Nor do foreign buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the debt defer to America’s legions of victims. A nuclear bomb from North Korea or Iran will not sort us all out by race, class or gender, much less by victim and victimizer.” —Victor Davis Hanson

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