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The Patriot Post Digest 5-15-2018
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
May 15, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/55966-mid-day-digest
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Iran threatens to unmask bribes that secured nuclear deal.
Dear Democrats: Stop attacking the Electoral College.
The Left just can’t quite playing sexism games.
If Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, why shouldn’t Donald Trump?
Plus our Daily Features: Top Headlines, Memes, Cartoons, Columnists and Short Cuts.
THE FOUNDATION
“Even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” —Thomas Paine (1776)
IN BRIEF
European Officials Bribed Into Accepting Iran Nuke Deal?1
Thomas Gallatin
After President Donald Trump’s decision last Tuesday to pull out2 of Barack Obama’s dubious Iran nuclear deal3, which was followed by threats to reimpose economic sanctions against the number-one state sponsor of terrorism, Iran’s foreign affairs minister issued his own threat via a bombshell revelation. H.J. Ansari Zarif stated, “If Europeans stop trading with Iran and don’t put pressure on the U.S. then we will reveal which western politicians and how much money they had received during nuclear negotiations to make #IranDeal happen.”
Now, the Iranians aren’t exactly the most trustworthy bunch. That’s a huge part of the problem with the deal. But Zarif’s charge that several European leaders were essentially bribed into accepting the Iran deal is entirely plausible.
Recall that after Obama completed the Iran deal back in 2015, Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer wondered, “The most astonishing thing [about the deal] is that in return, they [the Iranians] are not closing a single nuclear facility. Their entire nuclear infrastructure is intact. They are going to have the entire infrastructure in place either for a breakout after the agreement expires or when they have enough sanctions relief and they want to cheat and to break out on their own.”
Krauthammer’s observation was accurate. So what exactly did the rest of the world get from the Iran deal? Why did so many of Europe’s leaders sign on to such a bad deal? The answer is twofold: As far as reining in a rogue regime’s efforts to gain nuclear weapons, the West got nothing; as for opportunities for lucrative business deals, that was most definitely in the cards, as Zarif may have just alluded to. And this revelation might also explain why European leaders are scrambling4 to salvage the deal. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire argued, “Do we want to be vassals who obey decisions taken by the United States while clinging to the hem of their trousers? Or do we want to say we have our economic interests, [and that] we will continue to do trade with Iran?”
Memo to Le Maire: U.S. GDP ranks first in the world and accounts for 23% of the world’s GDP. Iran is 29th, accounting for less than 0.5%. What was that about economic interests again?
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55962-european-officials-bribed-into-accepting-iran-nuke-deal
Democrats Love Playing Sexism Games5
Hillary Clinton’s blame-everything-but-me tour is continuing in Australia, where she called a large part of America a bunch of sexists. Again6. In an interview Down Under, Clinton pontificated, “There is still a very large proportion of the population that is uneasy with women in positions of leadership, so the easiest way to kind of avoid having to look at someone on her merits is to dismiss her on her looks.” Clinton further opined, “There is this fear, there is this anger, even rage about women seeking power, women exercising power, and people fall back on these attacks like you’re a witch or you should go to prison.” She added, “It’s not a majority, thank goodness, it’s not, but it’s a very vocal minority, at least in my country. And sometimes these tropes are very much part of the press coverage.”
This latest Clinton excuse comes straight out of the Democrats’ gender warfare playbook. You see, the real reason Hillary lost was not because of her record of dishonesty and leftist politics, but because conservatives — a.k.a. the “vocal minority” — just didn’t want a woman to become president, full stop. It’s pure sexism at play, they say; nothing else could possibly explain it.
The trouble is the excuse is simply not true. There are numerous examples proving that the charge of sexism is fraudulent as well as that the reason for conservatives not voting for Hillary and Democrats in general is primarily due to character issues (especially when it comes to Hillary) and policy reasons. How else does one explain, for example, the popularity of Nikki Haley? A recent Quinnipiac University Poll showed that a whopping 63% of American voters approve of Haley and her handling of the job of U.S. ambassador to the UN.
Secondly, two can play this “blame everything on sexism” game. Are the vast majority of Senate Democrats opposed to confirming Gina Haspel7 because they don’t want a woman heading the CIA? Clearly, they must be uncomfortable with a woman leading an agency that has only always been directed by a man.
The truth is, Democrats seek to elevate the lowest and least significant factors of an individual, such as their sex or ethnicity, as the issue of primary significance, while lowering and degrading those uniquely meritorious aspects of an individual that should be the basis upon which they are judged. That mindset and political strategy8 explains why Hillary is so keen to direct attention away from her many glaring faults to focus on non-factors.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55950-democrats-love-playing-sexism-games
Top Headlines9
Top Senate obstructionists are all running for president in 2020 (Washington Examiner10)
How Elizabeth Warren is helping a checkered tribe in bid to rid her “Pocahontas” problem (The Washington Times11)
Nunes, Gowdy accuse DOJ of launching anonymous attacks on congressional investigator (Fox News12)
China really is to blame for millions of lost U.S. manufacturing jobs, new study finds (MarketWatch13)
North Korea starts to dismantle nuclear-test site (The Wall Street Journal14)
Iranian group offers $100,000 to blow up new U.S. embassy15 in Jerusalem (The Washington Free Beacon16)
Maverick cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s election upset could rattle U.S.-Iraq relations (The Washington Post17)
Huge new Facebook data leak exposed intimate details of three million users (New Scientist18.)
VA launches criminal investigation … against whistleblowers (Washington Examiner19)
NRA sues New York over pressure campaign against financial institutions working with the gun-rights group (The Washington Free Beacon20)
Policy: Priorities for the U.S.-China trade negotiations: Separating wheat from chaff (American Enterprise Institute21)
Policy: Supreme Court rules for federalism in sports betting case (The Daily Signal22)
For more of today’s news, visit Patriot Headline Report23.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55965-tuesday-top-headlines
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Dear Dems: Stop Attacking the Electoral College24
Lewis Morris
Connecticut became the latest state to break with the Constitution last week by joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The state Senate approved25 and Democrat Gov. Dannel Malloy vowed to sign a bill that would pledge the state’s electoral votes to the national popular vote winner in presidential elections.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact26 is a scheme developed by opponents of the Electoral College — generally leftists who would rather see the president of the United States elected by popular vote than via the Electoral College system the Founders established in the Constitution.
The Electoral College was designed to make the presidential election a truly national contest. It forces candidates to recognize all regions and not ignore small states and rural areas in favor of large states and major metropolitan areas. The process, Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 6827, “affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States.”
Democrats are not happy with the Electoral College, however. Hillary Clinton, as we are repeatedly reminded, won the national popular vote by roughly three million votes. If it weren’t for the Electoral College (and men, and women, and whites, and James Comey, and the Russia, and… and…), she would be president right now. Therefore, in the eyes of Democrats, the Electoral College is no longer relevant. |
