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The Patriot Post Digest 9-5-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Sep. 5, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/65285-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“The powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects.” —Joseph Story (1833)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/65284-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
CNN’s seven-hour platform for Democrat climate panic.1
San Francisco labels the NRA a “domestic terrorist organization.”2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Democrats Turn Up the Heat on Climate10
“CNN’s marathon town hall Wednesday night put the climate crisis closer to the center of a presidential election than ever before,” boasted CNN. Fortuitously timed to coincide with Hurricane Dorian’s sweep of the East Coast (the town hall was scheduled long before the hurricane), 10 Democrats took the opportunity of CNN’s seven-hour in-kind campaign contribution to make the case that the planet’s relatively slight warming justifies their real climate agenda11: fundamentally transforming the U.S. economy into a socialist enterprise.
In the days leading up to the town hall, several of the candidates released their “moderate” versions of the Green New Deal12 (GND). We say “moderate” because while the GND carries a staggering price tag of $93 trillion13, plans offered by the clown car of Democrat candidates range anywhere from $1 trillion to $16 trillion14 — completely reasonable by comparison, right?
Wrong. Every Democrat who participated last night either endorsed or cosponsored the outrageous Green New Deal, and their comparatively less expensive individual plans are still totalitarian. Here are just a few platform planks:
Onerous taxes on emissions
“Social justice” remedies for the supposedly racially disparate impact of climate
Expanded abortion for population control
Restrictions on consumption of red meat
Buy-back programs for gasoline-powered vehicles
The complete elimination of fossil fuels and even nuclear power in the near future
Those are radical proposals, which is precisely why Democrats and their Leftmedia super PAC continue screaming that climate is truly a crisis. “We are fighting for the survival of the planet Earth, our only planet,” Bernie Sanders declared. Elizabeth Warren likewise warned, “This is an emergency, and without rapid and widespread change, we will soon be unable to prevent the worst harms.” She also claims, “The future of our planet depends on it.”
No crisis, no need for radical transformation.
Yet that radical transformation wouldn’t even achieve the goal Democrats claim. “One hundred percent renewable energy defies the laws of physics,” said Tom Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research. “It would be impossible to achieve.” A study by the National Academy of Sciences three years ago agreed: “It is extremely difficult to achieve complete decarbonization of the energy system, even when using every current technology and tool available, including energy efficiency and wind, hydroelectric, and solar energy as well as carbon capture and storage, bioenergy, and nuclear energy.”
But, again, saving the planet isn’t the Democrats’ real objective. By their own admission15, Democrats are fomenting panic to justify a socialist power grab.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65282-democrats-turn-up-the-heat-on-climate
Labeling Law-Abiding Gun Owners ‘Terrorists’16
Ever since the 2017 school attack in Parkland, Florida, the anti-gun lobby has repeatedly called the nation’s oldest Second Amendment advocate and defender — the National Rifle Association — a “terrorist organization.” Well, on Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors sought to make this fallacious designation official, unanimously passing a resolution17 declaring the five-million-member NRA to be a “domestic terrorist organization.” The resolution states, “All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give the ready access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines thanks, in large part, to the National Rifle Association’s influence.” The resolution aims to “limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization.”
But its real intention goes far beyond one city or one organization, weakened as the NRA is by fratricidal infighting18. This is the Left’s direct assault against all law-abiding gun owners and Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
The resolution’s nonsensical claim that the NRA promotes terror because it supposedly incites “gun owners to acts of violence” is patently false, and the framer of this resolution, Supervisor Catherine Stefani, knows it. This is akin to blaming silverware manufactures for America’s obesity problem.
By labeling the NRA and by extension all law-abiding gun owners as terrorists who present a “threat to public safety,” the anti-gun Left hopes to so demonize the NRA that anyone associated with it is effectively labeled a danger to society. It’s not hard to imagine companies feeling pressured into refusing to do business with anyone who is an NRA member and eventually anyone who is a firearm owner. Look no further than Walmart’s recent decision19 to stop selling most ammunition. Such totalitarian results are what the anti-Second Amendment Left is really aiming for.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65281-labeling-law-abiding-gun-owners-terrorists
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Prof Penalized for Exposing Bogus Gender Studies20 — Portland State University looked askance at hoax studies, not the lie they revealed.
Pride in American History21 — Lessons from history are in jeopardy as leftists take over and revise the American education system.
Rebutting Revisionist History on Slavery22 — A Princeton alum takes on his professor’s fairly accurate interpretation of our Constitution.
American Spirit: ‘Team Patriot’: Wounded Vets Serve in Disaster Relief23 — One vet says that this service project has given him a “new purpose” and a “new life.”
Video: Crenshaw Crushes Anti-Electoral College Rants24 — The Texas Republican breaks down bad arguments for abolishing the Electoral College.
Video: Leftists Try to Define ‘Assault Weapon’25 — Shouldn’t you be able to define the thing you want to ban? We asked. They answered.
Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column
Read The Left’s Next Target: ‘Christian Nationalists’26. The Left’s latest straw man to label patriotic Christians as “haters.”
If you’d like to receive Alexander’s Column by email every Wednesday, update your subscription here27.
TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
TERROR WATCH LIST TAKES A BLOW: “The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as ‘known or suspected terrorists’ violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday,” according to The Washington Times29. “The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who had challenged the watchlist with the help of a Muslim civil-rights group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. But the judge is seeking additional legal briefs before deciding what remedy to impose.”
CAROLINAS BATTERED: The Weather Channel reports30, “Hurricane Dorian is now unleashing its siege of storm surge flooding, rainfall flooding, high winds and tornadoes as it tracks near the coasts of South Carolina, North Carolina and southeast Virginia through Friday. Dorian’s maximum sustained winds increased to the 115-mph threshold required to regain Category 3 status. Despite that, its damaging impacts are likely to remain the same as it hammers this part of the Southeast coast.” Meanwhile, at least 20 deaths31 are being attributed to Dorian in the Bahamas.
TRADE TALKS CONTINUE: “The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced Wednesday that the next round of trade talks with the U.S. will begin in October in Washington, D.C. ‘Both sides agreed that they should work together and take practical actions to create good conditions for consultations,’ the ministry announced.” (Washington Examiner32) |
