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The Patriot Post Digest 7-30-2018
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Jul. 30, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/57425-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary. It follows the substance like its shade; but while a man walks erect, he may observe that his shadow is almost always in the dirt. It corrupts, it deceives, it inflames. It strips virtue of her honors, and lends to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms, and in the end is its own enemy and the usurper’s ally, It would be easy to enlarge on its evils. They are in England, they are here, they are everywhere. It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.” —Fisher Ames (1807)
IN TODAY’S EDITION
NYT publisher chastises Trump for being “divisive” and “dangerous.”
Bernie’s “Medicare for All” would cost a pretty penny.
Noncitizen voting dilutes the rights of citizens.
Starving the socialist/Marxist campus beast will take time.
How Obama funded an al-Qaida affiliate.
Dems label Brett Kavanagh “evil,” then demand evidence to support the charge.
Daily Features: Top Headlines, Memes, Cartoons, Columnists, and Short Cuts.
IN BRIEF
NYT Publisher to Trump: Stop Being Divisive and Dangerous1
Nate Jackson
Some political rhetoric has become “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.” So said New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, not of the Leftmedia’s rabble-rousing, of course, but of President Donald Trump’s tweets. Speaking of a July 20 meeting between Sulzberger and Trump, the newspaperman said his purpose in the meeting was to “raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.” In fact, he said of phrases like “fake news” and “enemy of the people” that he “told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”
So would that be dangerous like Rep. Maxine Waters’s angry admonition to harass Trump administration officials2? Or would it be dangerous like the Democrat/Leftmedia rhetoric that preceded the attempted murder of several Republicans3 last year? Sulzberger didn’t address either incident, so we’re left to guess — though his fellow travelers did blame Trump for the murder of five journalists4 in Maryland last month.
Trump responded to Sulzberger’s backstab, “[Ninety percent] of media coverage of my Administration is negative, despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving, it’s no surprise that confidence in the media is at an all time low!” He added, “The failing New York Times and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements — and they will never change!” He’s right on all counts.
He also said, “When the media — driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome — reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic! Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news accurately.” And they’re not ever going to do that as leaders of the #Resistance.
Yes, Trump has a habit of using heated rhetoric, but he was absolutely right to call a few chief Leftmedia outlets our nation’s “biggest enemy5.” And as PowerLine’s John Hinderaker observes6, “Recall that it was leftists who first used the phrase ‘fake news’ in complaints about Facebook stories during the election. Trump has now co-opted ‘fake news’ and made it his own.”
Trump was elected by voters fed up with being scorned by the coastal-elite press — voters who knew no one but a brash fighter would stand up for them. Eighteen months in to his presidency, he shows no signs of moderating that fight for the sake of Sulzberger’s hurt feelings.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57417-nyt-publisher-to-trump-stop-being-divisive-and-dangerous
Bernie’s ‘Medicare for All’ Cost: $32.6 Trillion7
Thomas Gallatin
One of the central policy planks of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign platform was his “Medicare for All8” plan — a plan he continues to trumpet with his newest Millennial socialist acolyte9. In short, the plan would expand the current governmental insurance plan for seniors to include all Americans. As even Sanders openly argues, it’s a means of creating de facto single-payer health care. “Health care must be recognized as a right, not a privilege,” he insists. “Every man, woman, and child in our country should be able to access the health care they need regardless of their income. The only long-term solution to America’s health care crisis is a single-payer national health care program.”
A free lunch is all fun and games until someone gets the bill.
On Monday, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University released its study10 on the overall cost of Sanders’s single-payer legislation, the “Medicare for All Act (M4A).” The study found that the “M4A would place unprecedented strain on the federal budget” — to the tune of $32.6 trillion in added cost over the first 10 years of its implementation. The Associated Press noted11 that “after taking into account current government health care financing, the study estimated that doubling all federal individual and corporate income taxes would not fully cover the additional costs.” Yikes! Study author Charles Blahous writes, “Enacting something like ‘Medicare for All’ would be a transformative change in the size of the federal government.”
Sanders was quick to push back against the study, claiming that the libertarian policy center was being bankrolled by the Koch brothers — as if that undermines the merits of its argument. “This grossly misleading and biased report is the Koch brothers’ response to the growing support in our country for a ‘Medicare for All’ program,” Sanders groused. And yet a spokesman for Sanders admitted that his office has not conducted a cost analysis on the plan. Ideology trumping reality.
But the Mercatus Center’s study isn’t the only one to conclude that Sanders’s plan would create astronomically high taxes to cover the federal costs. Kenneth Thorpe, a former health policy adviser in the Clinton administration and current professor of health policy at Emory University, authored another study that arrived at a similar conclusion. “If you are going to go in this direction, it’s going to cost the federal government $2.5 trillion to $3 trillion a year in terms of spending,” Thorpe stated. “Even though people don’t pay premiums, the tax increases are going to be enormous. There are going to be a lot of people who’ll pay more in taxes than they save on premiums.”
As Democrats continue to veer hard-left, these outright socialist polices like M4A are increasingly becoming the litmus tests candidates must embrace. But Democrats need to be forced to address the actual cost of this socialist ideology and not simply blame the Koch brothers for math they don’t like.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57421-bernies-medicare-for-all-cost-32-dollars-6-cents-trillion
Top Headlines12
Trump threatens government shutdown over border security (The Hill13)
The IRS14 has rehired hundreds of fired employees (The Daily Signal15)
VA whistleblowers disciplined 10 times more than peers; managers investigate themselves (The Washington Post16)
China, Russia, Iran engaged in aggressive economic cyber spying (The Washington Free Beacon17)
U.S. military begins arduous job: Identifying remains from Korean War (The Wall Street Journal18)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg hopes to serve on Supreme Court for at least five more years (Washington Examiner19)
Les Moonves and CBS face allegations of sexual misconduct (The New Yorker20)
Study: “Trigger warnings” are harmful to college students (The Daily Wire21)
Good News: Honest kids (Fox News22)
Humor: Democrats slam Trump for booming economy (The Babylon Bee23)
Policy: Trump moves in the right direction on trade with Europe (The Daily Signal24)
Policy: Price transparency in health care will save trillions (E2125)
For more of today’s news, visit Patriot Headline Report26.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57424-monday-top-headlines
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Fight for the Value of Your Citizenship30
Robin Smith
Has there been a constitutional change recently that we’ve all missed? Recent news articles report that Democrats are working to allow noncitizens to cast ballots in elections around the country.
Yep. You read that correctly.
In the U.S. Constitution and our Bill of Rights, the rights guaranteed for voters are directed to citizens of the United States of America. |
