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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest Apr. 6, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/55205-mid-day-digest
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Is “Christian privilege” even a thing? Yes, but not in the way this university means. Correction: It’s liberals, not conservatives, who are crazy. CFPB’s chief wants to rein in his own bureaucracy. Elizabeth Warrens wants to stop him. As Trump faces Russia, China and North Korea, he’s using chaos to his advantage. The thought police take out another conservative. Plus our Daily Features: Top Headlines, Memes, Cartoons, Columnists and Short Cuts.
THE FOUNDATION
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly.” —George Washington (1788.)
IN BRIEF
George Washington University Tackles ‘Christian Privilege’1
By Jordan Candler
Multiculturalism is rearing its ugly head at George Washington University (GWU), where students are being indoctrinated in 15 workshops ostensibly geared toward destroying various forms of “privilege.” We’re accustomed these days to hearing terms like “white privilege,” but GWU’s Multicultural Student Services Center is going even further by demeaning all God-fearing people with a workshop called, “Christian Privilege: But Our Founding Fathers Were All Christian, Right?!” The workshop was scheduled for Thursday.
Earlier this week, The College Fix reported2, “The event will teach that Christians enjoy a privileged, easier life than their non-Christian counterparts, and that Christians possess ‘built-in advantages’ today, according to its online description. The workshop will also discuss how Christians receive ‘unmerited perks from institutions and systems all across our country.’” In what alternate universe?
Interestingly, the Fix goes on to note, “By the end of the training, the organizers want participants to be able to name ‘at least three examples of Christian privilege’ and ‘at least three ways to be an ally with a non-Christian person,’ the website states.” As Christians already know, one core tenant of genuine Christianity is to show grace and mercy (i.e. “be an ally”) toward sinners and unbelievers. Meanwhile, some Islamists, particularly in the Middle East, systemically enslave women, rape them and treat them like garbage. They also kill or persecute “infidels” and perpetuate jihad. Where’s the denunciation of this extremely violent form of privilege?
The workshop could only redeem itself if it pointed out, as Peter Heck does3, that “Christians are privileged to join as heirs in a Kingdom that was not ours and that we’ve done absolutely nothing to earn.” But of course that’s not the angle George Washington University planned to take, and it’s a shame. As Heck notes, “You want to know what privilege is? True privilege? It’s that ‘while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.’ The truth is you can’t really know privilege unless you are a Christian.” What a refreshing and thoroughly Christian take on the subject.
In 1788, George Washington wrote, “The hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.” Something for the students at George Washington University to think about.
Correction: Turns Out Liberals ARE Crazy4
By Thomas Gallatin
The American Journal of Political Science recently issued a correction to a 2012 study that contained “an error.” And what was this error? Well, to put it succinctly, the Journal reversed its conclusion that politically conservative individuals exhibited traits most associated with “psychoticism,” whereas those of a liberal bent did not. The Journal explained, “The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed. The descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.”
That’s one heck of an “oops.”
The Journal insists that the correction matters little to the paper’s overall conclusion and downplays the new results, stating, “Personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes.” But professor Steven Ludeke of the University of Southern Denmark argues that the error “matters quite a lot.” Ludeke says, “The erroneous results represented some of the larger correlations between personality and politics ever reported; they were reported and interpreted, repeatedly, in the wrong direction.” We’ll go out on a limb and predict that the correction gets swept under the rug or ignored entirely by the mainstream media.
Our own Mark Alexander has long argued that, politically speaking, the true pathology resides on the Left5. As Alexander explained in 2007, “Generally, liberals tend to be mentally rigid and closed-minded because they are insecure, the result of low self-esteem and arrested emotional development associated, predominantly, with fatherless households or critically dysfunctional families in which they were not adequately affirmed. They exhibit fear, anger, and aggression — the behavioral consequences of arrested emotional development associated with childhood trauma (primarily rejection by a significant family member of origin as noted above). They display pessimism, disgust, and contempt for those who are self-sufficient for much the same reason. They believe that conforming to a code of non-conformity is a sign of individualism, when it is nothing more than an extreme form of conformism for those who are truly insecure.”
Long story short, a lot of liberals are kind of crazy.
Top Headlines6
103,000 jobs created in March, vs. 193,000 jobs expected (CNBC7)
U.S. trade deficit hits 10-year high (National Review8.)
Trump orders review of $100 billion more in tariffs on China (The Washington Times9)
U.S. sanctions billionaire Deripaska and other Russian oligarchs (Bloomberg10)
Democrats cry foul as GOP eyes move to cancel spending (The Hill11)
Facebook’s data crackdown has two winners: Facebook and Google (Bloomberg12)
Target’s $3.7M settlement in lawsuit alleging discrimination against blacks and Latinos (USA Today13)
Kamala Harris attempts joke about killing Trump, Pence, or Sessions: “Does one of us have to come out alive?‘ (The Washington Free Beacon14)
Colorado students hold pro-Second Amendment walkout (The Daily Signal15)
Humor: Fuming Rachel Maddow spends entire MSNBC show just pointing wildly at picture of Putin (The Onion16)
Policy: The implications of tariffs to combat unfair Chinese trade practices (American Action Forum17)
Policy: Trump’s pressure against North Korea is the best way to avoid war (Hudson Institute18.)
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FEATURED ANALYSIS CFPB Chief Wants to Rein in His Own Bureaucracy21
By Brian Mark Weber
The head of a powerful government agency wants Congress to take action. But the action he wants may come as a surprise. Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, who’s also the Trump-appointed director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau22, wants Congress to reduce that agency’s power and make it more accountable.
That’s not a misprint. Call it "draining the swamp” or whatever you like, but clearly there’s a paradigm shift taking place in the nation’s capital.
But could a federal agency that’s only been around since 2010 really be out of touch with its mission? Recently, Mulvaney escorted23 a Daily Caller reporter “through a 2,660-square-foot athletic facility with two huge locker rooms, offices with electric height-adjustable workstations, a library with a sofa and lounge chairs but few books, a roof deck with spectacular views and motorized cantilevered umbrellas, and a courtyard with lavish fountains. The images recalled the familiar spectacle of triumphant soldiers touring a deposed dictator’s opulent palace.”
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