The Patriot Post Digest 10-12-2016

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The Patriot Post Digest 10-12-2016
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Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 12, 2016

IN TODAY’S EDITION

    Would jailing Clinton usher in a banana republic?
    Clinton dispatches Gore to win over Millennials with warming talk.
    Voter fraud does happen … says a Democrat election commissioner.
    Hillary’s campaign ignored warnings about the $15 minimum wage.
    And more news, policy and opinion.

THE FOUNDATION

“How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.” —Joseph Story (1833)

TOP RIGHT HOOKS

Clinton-Gore Team Up to Save the Planet1

Hillary Clinton isn’t assuming an election victory just yet, as she’s still angling for the Bernie Sanders/Millennial crowd by dispatching … Al “Jazeera” Gore to Miami to talk voting and global warming. (And if anyone knows about hot air, it’s Al.) What better reason to scare Florida voters about climate change than last weekend’s monster hurricane? “Elections have consequences,” Gore told the crowd. “Your vote really, really, really counts. A lot. You could consider me Exhibit A of that truth.” That would be a reference to his defeat in 2000. “For those of you who are younger than 25, you might not remember the election of 2000 or what happened here in Florida and across the country,” Gore said. “For those of you older than 25, I heard you murmuring just now but take it from me it was a very close election.”

And why is voting for Clinton important? Gore says it’s because Donald Trump “take us toward a climate catastrophe,” while Clinton will make fighting climate change a “top national priority.” After all, fearmongering about the climate is a great way for Democrats to advocate government power. It’s the primary reason the “care” about the planet at all.

Democrat Admits Voter Fraud Is a Real Problem2

Project Veritas just released another undercover video3 — this one featuring an inconvenient admission from Alan Schulkin, a Democrat elections commissioner for New York City: “There is a lot of fraud — not just voter fraud, all kinds of fraud.” In the video from a conversation at a party last December Schulkin confirms the problem of voter fraud that many conservatives have warned about for some time. When questioned about asking for ID cards to vote, Schulkin’s replied, “The law says you can’t ask for anything, which they really should be able to do. You know I don’t think it’s too much to ask someone to show some kind of an ID.”

He also referenced the problem with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ID card program. Schulkin said, “He gave out ID cards, de Blasio. They don’t… that’s in lieu of a driver’s license, but you can use it for anything. But they didn’t vet the people to see who they really are. Anybody can go in there and say, I’m Joe Smith, I want an ID card. It’s absurd.” He even opined, “This is why I’m getting more conservative as I get older.”

Indeed, this is further evidence of the need for voter ID laws. Those on the Left who rail against them are at best unconcerned with the integrity of the U.S.’s electoral system or at worst actively defrauding, and therefore disenfranchising, honest Americans.

Votes for $154

Paying workers at least $15 an hour may damage the economy, but who cares so long as it gets the votes? WikiLeaks recent release of Hillary Clinton’s emails reveals a remarkably callous attitude from her campaign in regard to the negative impact a $15 federal minimum wage would have on the economy. First, a little back story. Hillary, who in her primary campaign had initially supported a $12 minimum wage, made a play for Bernie Sanders supporters by jumping on the $15 minimum wage bandwagon. Barack Obama’s own economic adviser Alan Krueger, who has called for incremental increases to the minimum wage, warned in a New York Times op-ed that a $15 minimum wage would result in “severe” economic consequences, with much of the country not able to absorb such a significant wage hike.

In an email to four top Clinton campaign staffers, Neera Tanden, head of the Center for American Progress, warned against the $15 minimum wage policy, writing, “Substantively, we have not supported $15 — you will get a fair number of liberal economists who will say it will lose jobs.” Not only was there no push back against that suggestion, but neither did Clinton’s campaign change policy course. Evidently, Hillary is fine with Americans losing their jobs so long as it favors her politically. Here is yet another example of the problem with socialism. Those in power may say they care more for the plight of the poor than do capitalists, and yet their actions betray that they are primarily concerned with consolidating power — often at the expense of jobs and freedom.

BEST OF RIGHT OPINION

    Ben Shapiro: The Astounding Hypocrisy of Hollywood, the Media and the Democrats5
    Jonah Goldberg: When Republicans Wish Upon a ‘Star’6
    Star Parker: Whole Foods and Chicago Partner to Fight Poverty7

For more, visit Right Opinion8.

TOP HEADLINES

    Court Curtails Consumer Board’s Power9
    WikiLeaks Drops 1,100 Podesta Emails10
    Clinton Campaign Boasts About Media: ‘Every Single Interviewer Was for Her’11

For more, visit Patriot Headline Report12.

FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS
Would Jailing Clinton Usher in a Banana Republic?13

By Lewis Morris

Donald Trump’s promise to assign a special prosecutor14 to investigate Hillary Clinton’s email shenanigans might be the single biggest moment that people took away from Sunday’s debate15.

“If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation,” he said. That led to an exchange that featured his best line of the night. Clinton responded, “It’s awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”

Trump shot back, “Because you’d be in jail.”

His words have been perverted by Democrats to mean that he is advocating a “banana republic” form of government. The assumption established by Clinton’s Leftmedia super PAC is that Trump would use his presidential power to punish a political opponent, in this case Hillary Clinton.

Trump supporters are emboldened by his remarks, as the noisy crowd that Anderson Cooper admonished16 at the debate demonstrates. Promising to deliver justice to Clinton is red meat, but it’s also what she deserves. Yet there are a lot of undecided voters and Republicans with short memories who are in danger of being swayed by the Trump-as-Dictator rhetoric.

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We can’t forget where we have been as a country for the last eight years.

Before even becoming president, Barack Obama threatened to go after the Bush administration on its handling of terrorist detainees. He made good on his promise by assigning a special prosecutor, though no charges were ever brought.

Obama and his heavily politicized Justice Department, led by Eric Holder and now Loretta Lynch, learned fast, though. Throughout the course of his administration Obama has used the DOJ (as well as the IRS and other bureaucracies) to punish political opponents or keep them in check while he pushed his agenda, consequences to the wind.

There is a whole list of people and organizations17 that have been attacked, shut down, and ruined by the Obama machine. See if any of these scandals that the media shoved aside ring a bell: Little Sisters of the Poor; prosecutions against governors Rick Snyder, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Bob McDonnell and Mitt Romney; conservative nonprofits, Dinesh D'Souza, the list goes on. Even the filmmaker whose video was blamed for the “riots” in Benghazi in 2012 that led to four dead Americans was put away18 for a year. Clinton walked free, as did the actual perpetrators of the attack.

If the definition of a banana republic is one in which a ruler operates with impunity, shirking the law when it suits them, and punishing those who oppose them, then we are already living in a banana republic19.

The ultimate banana republic moment may well have been shutting down the investigation into Clinton’s email server. The FBI found an excuse to let Clinton off the hook because they could detect impropriety but not intent. Their definition of intent remains conveniently fluid as people of lesser stature have been treated far more harshly than Clinton for less.

The timing of how Clinton was exonerated played out like a bad movie. Bill Clinton pops up out of the clear blue on the tarmac to say hello to Attorney General Loretta Lynch20, promptly followed by the FBI washing its hands of the whole mess.

There are no such coincidences in politics, particularly where the Clintons are concerned. The many actions they have taken against their enemies over the years may have been what inspired Obama to be so cut-throat in the first place. And what he has done may have inspired Trump to make his jail comment.

If anything, Clinton might be secretly enjoying that Trump has promised to go after her. She didn’t seem too rattled when he said it, and she’s been gleefully watching as the media enforces her message about Trump’s dictatorial temperament.

If any message came out of Sunday’s debate, it should be that if voters want Rule of Law and want to avoid a (continued) banana republic, then they cannot vote for Hillary Clinton.

MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST

    Trump Must Fight Hillary, Media, GOP and Himself to Win21 — A year ago, the future looked very bright for the Republican Party.
    Haitians Board the Mexican Immigration Train22 — Mexican officials are complicit in exploiting Obama’s lax border enforcement.
    Hillary’s Quid Pro Quo Grows23 — The Clinton campaign distorted PAC rules for political gain.

OPINION IN BRIEF

Ben Shapiro: “Here’s the truth: Trump isn’t a Republican in anything other than name. His politics are statist, and he donated more money to Democrats than Republicans between 1980 and 2010. He’s a Hollywood insider, a man who appeared at the Emmy Awards alongside Megan Mullally of ‘Will & Grace.’ He’s a media member, too — NBC paid him for years. All of these groups knew what Trump was for decades. But they’ll punish him because he’s a Republican. That’s how social standards work for the left: If you have the right politics, you can get away with anything. If you have the wrong ones, it’ll ignore its own hypocrisy to nail you to the wall.”

SHORT CUTS

Insight: “Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Observations: “The candidates talk and talk, and there is so much they don’t say. Neither candidate will say much about how huge government bureaucracy has gotten. They never talk about the Constitution and what it says presidents cannot do. … Instead, we get promises. Trump ‘will make American great again.’ Clinton will ‘get your kids the opportunities they deserve.’ Platitudes. But voters prefer them to ugly truths. If you look at the details, you realize the candidates can’t be trusted to do very much. Our government is already broke. Someone should level with the public about that instead of promising new free stuff.” —John Stossel

The BIG lie: “Hurricane Matthew was likely more destructive because of climate change. Right now, the ocean is at or near record high temperatures, and that contributed to the torrential rainfall and the flash flooding that we saw in the Carolinas. Sea levels have already risen about a foot — one foot — in much of the Southeast, which means that Matthew’s storm surge was higher and the flooding was more severe.” —Hillary Clinton

Dezinformatsia: “[Hillary Clinton] held together a family while she had a young daughter. People tend to forget about that all the time. … Did Hillary Clinton sleep with any of these women? I mean, did she allegedly rape any of these women? This is so amazing that we’re talking about this and Hillary Clinton went through more than any woman should and she’s still here standing strong.” —CNN’s Bakari Sellers

Late-night humor: “Facebook has a new ‘secret conversations mode’ that lets you automatically set messages to delete — or as Hillary put it, ‘Like.’” —Jimmy Fallon

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