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The Patriot Post Digest 5-16-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
May 16, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/63054-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/63053-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
If this is losing with “grace,” we’d hate to see the opposite.1
Demo debt derails major cities.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Democrats Lose With Anything but ‘Grace’10
“The grace with which she met that defeat on an unfair, unlevel playing field with the secretary of state perhaps rigging, in part, that election … is inspiring stuff at a time that our democracy is so badly broken.” So said Beto O'Rourke, the media darling who lost his bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas, about Stacey Abrams, the media darling who lost (and still refuses to concede) her bid to win the Georgia governorship last November.
Except that Abrams has been anything but gracious.
First of all, Abrams founded a nonprofit through which she flooded then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office with incomplete, inaccurate, and outright fraudulent voter applications — only to cry “racism!” and “voter suppression!” when some of those applications were thrown out. And that was before the election. In other words, she seeded the narrative for her loss even before her defeat.
Second, as our Louis DeBroux noted in November11, “Democrat Abrams lost her race for governor with more votes (1.9 million) than current Republican Governor Nathan Deal won reelection with in 2014 (1.3 million).” Yet she stubbornly clung to her “voter suppression” narrative, frequently airing her phony grievances since the election. Indeed, she now insists record turnout among minorities only “led to even more of those voters being subjected to voter suppression.”
And Beto calls that “grace”? He does need the 2020 votes from minorities, after all.
That brings us to Abrams’s New York Times op-ed just yesterday, titled “Why I Am Determined to End Voter Suppression12.” Spoiler alert: No she’s not; she’s committed to perpetuating and expanding the myth for nationwide political advantage.
She claimed, “My home state, Georgia, for example, suffered a vicious blend of electoral malfeasance, misfeasance and mismanagement during my race for governor last fall. But Georgia is not alone.”
Neither is Abrams alone. Democrats in general are sowing distrust13 in the American electoral system, all while claiming it is Republicans who are undermining elections. And Dems are pushing numerous rules changes — from dumping the Electoral College to blocking citizenship questions on the census — that would stack the deck in their favor14. Meanwhile, people like Elizabeth Warren are telling the American people that “if all the votes are counted, [Democrats will] win every time.”
If this is “grace,” we’d hate to see spiteful, divisive partisan bitterness.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63047-democrats-lose-with-anything-but-grace
Democrat-Run Cities Drown in Debt15
Truth in Accounting, an organization founded in 2002 “to educate and empower citizens with understandable, reliable, and transparent government financial information,” recently released its report16 on America’s 10 most populous cities and their corresponding taxpayer burdens. The report notes, “Collectively, taxpayers in these 10 cities face an average combined per-taxpayer burden of nearly $50,000, including county, state, and ‘off-balance-sheet’ city government entities. This compares to a per-taxpayer position of $19,000 for their city government alone.”
Topping the list of cities with the highest taxpayer burden is Chicago, coming in at a whopping $119,119 per taxpayer. New York City is a distant second at $85,600. The rest of the list is as follows:
Los Angeles: $56,390
Philadelphia: $50,120
San Jose: $43,120
San Diego: $35,410
Dallas: $33,490
Houston: $22,940
San Antonio: $16,660
Phoenix: $13,290
Much of this burden is due to unfunded retirement obligations that have accumulated over a number of years. In Chicago alone, it’s $39 billion in promised retirement benefits, including $28 billion in unfunded pensions, and $842.9 million in unfunded retiree health care benefits. Interestingly but not surprisingly, of these 10 cities only two — San Diego and San Antonio — are not currently run by Democrats. In fact, Chicago last had a Republican mayor way back in 1931. For Philadelphia, it was 1948. In other words, Democrats’ big-government polices are proving to be fiscally untenable and overly burdensome to taxpayers. And that’s to say nothing of the violence and cultural degradation in these urban poverty plantations.
Meanwhile, is it any wonder many people are fleeing these high-tax locales for lower-taxed, fiscally responsible states like Tennessee? In U.S. News & World Report’s new rankings17, Tennessee really is, as our Robin Smith wrote three years ago18, the “model for America.” In fact, of the top 15 states in the rankings, 12 voted for Donald Trump in 2016. And the top three — Tennessee, Florida, and South Dakota — have no income tax. The general lesson is that spendthrift Democrats lead their cities and states into insurmountable debt, while low-tax Republicans tend to be more fiscally responsible.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/63051-democrat-run-cities-drown-in-debt
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Selling Out American Exceptionalism19 — There are some serious implications for our 30-year trade war with China.
Dems Continue to Display Firearm Ignorance20 — Harris and Booker level false claims in their ongoing crusade against guns.
Foreign Leaders Don’t Respect the U.S. Constitution21 — New Zealand’s prime minister goes after guns, claims she doesn’t understand America.
American Spirit: Mom Who Lost Son to Illegal Now Fights to Save Others22 — Mary Ann Mendoza co-founded Angel Families to work with bereaved families.
Video: Kids’ Cartoon ‘Arthur’ Features Same-Sex Marriage23 — In the season 22 premiere of the beloved PBS kids’ show, Mr. Ratburn gets “married.”
Video: Birth Rates Are on the Decline24 — AEI’s Lyman Stone explains why this is a serious issue for future generations.
TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
ALABAMA ABORTION BILL NOW LAW: “Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed the bill to make abortion a felony in Alabama, the governor’s office announced. … The language in the bill says it will take effect in six months. But the sponsors said their intent was to trigger litigation that could lead to a challenge of abortion rights nationally.” (al.com26)
LOUISIANA, MISSOURI FOLLOW SUIT: According to the Associated Press27, “A proposal to ban abortions in Louisiana as early as the sixth week of pregnancy continues to speed through the state legislature.” Meanwhile, “Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has now passed a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy,” the AP also reports28. |
