Musings on the Week
Musings on the Week
September 17, 2016
Immigration
–
“In the first place, we should insist that if the
immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates
himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for
it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in
every facet an American, and nothing but an
American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an
American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for
but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that
is a loyalty to the American people.” Theodore
Roosevelt.
Politics
– Today
Republicans control 30 state legislative chambers,
and Democrats control 11, and thirty-one governors are Republican, and only 18 governors are Democrats.
Politics
- This week’s
distractions from the economy, ObamaCare,
and terrorism: Hillary
Clinton’s failing health and Iranian gunboat harassment of U.S. naval ships in Persian
Gulf.
Politics
– Hillary
Clinton’s health is just a distraction
from defending her latest lies and failing political campaign, trying
to generate some personal sympathy for this pathetic candidate.
Politics
– Hillary
Clinton could cut her campaign staff in half if she would
just tell the truth and release her staff from FOIA requests and subpoenas on
her perpetual lie cover-ups.
Politics
– We have reached the point that no one believes what Hillary Clinton says, since she is incapable of telling the whole
truth, so the test is to try to figure out what she is hiding.
Politics
– Hillary Clinton insulted and degraded
the majority of Americans voters (“basket
of deplorables”) who clearly see the
nation’s problems and disagree with her failed policies.
Politics – With no
end in sight of the drip of bad news about Clinton’s
e-mails and evidence of a slipshod FBI investigation, new efforts to
help her carry a heightened sense of urgency.
Politics – The
Democrat National Committee is considering who to replace Hillary
Clinton with if health precludes her running, but VP, Tim Kaine, and primary challenger, Bernie Sanders, are
being bypassed for party elite choices such as Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren.
Politics
– Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorable” insult probably cost her the election as the proud Americans turn
out to vote for Donald Trump and
“Make America Great Again!”
Politics
– I still have a hard time putting Donald Trump
and Republican in the same sentence, and a harder time putting Conservative
in the same paragraph, but I will still vote for
him!
Politics
– If Donald Trump is elected President, one of the first
things he will do is hire a new Attorney General to
investigate the Clinton Foundation and its culture of corruption.
Media
- Americans'
trust and confidence in the press "to
report the news fully, fairly, and accurately" has
dropped to its lowest level (32%) in polling history, down 8% from last
year.
Media
– Trump Derangement
Syndrome has
caused mainstream media to reveal contempt for their
own traditions and the millions of Americans who don’t agree with them.
Immigration
-
“There is
overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally
secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal
immigration.” Ted Cruz.
Income – “Income inequality” is an
artificial, contrived term that has no meaning in the real world, because the relative income
of two people is irrelevant except for purposes of envy.
Economy – Socialism is a form
of economic poison that destroys prosperity and is the biggest generator of
poverty, from
bread lines in the Soviet Union to rented coffins in Venezuela.
Healthcare – Aetna is the latest insurance
provider to exit ObamaCare exchanges, but desperate Democrats claim
the real reason is due to DOJ rejection of Humana merger.
Immigration
– The U.S. is not required to
accept refugees or potential immigrants, and the country has passed laws
to restrict immigrants to those who would benefit the country.
Elections
– Only about six in 10
Americans are confident that votes will be accurately cast and counted in the coming election
Welfare – Census reports that 43.1 million Americans, or 13.5% of us, were officially poor
in 2015, but measures of poverty don’t take into
account government welfare and aid.
Gun Control – There are now eleven
states that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons without a permit, and four others allow
concealed carry under certain circumstances.
Education – When there is academic success in black ghettos, they come disproportionately from schools outside the iron
grip of the education establishment and the teacher’s
unions.
Education – Education Savings
Accounts, kept in
accounts controlled by parents supervised by the state, empower parents to design the best educational experience for their children.
Civil Rights - Slavery is an
ancient practice dating from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as early Amer-Indian empires in Mexico and Central America; also
well established and ideologically sanctioned in the Muslim world from the days
of Mohammed.
Civil Rights – BlackLivesMatter, the racial hate
group, is revealed as a leftist front that
protests global warming, endorses BDS against the Jewish state, and denounces
charter schools.
Sexuality – One’s sex is
biological and determined at birth,
while one’s gender is a matter of choice and can change, and is not a
constant.
Abortion – Planned Parenthood
commits over 30% of America’s abortions, 887 abortions per day, and aborts 160 children for
every one child it refers out for adoption.
Immigration – “'Know your
enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our
immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our
borders.” Michelle Malkin.
Trade – Free trade is
good for both parties concerned,
but not if it surrenders political sovereignty to
unchecked, unelected global bureaucrats and courts.
Defense – The President who came into
office promising to end wars has made war more likely
by diminishing America’s strength and deterrence ability.
State - Secretary of State John Kerry is also enriching his family at taxpayer expense
with more than $9 million
of Department of State money being funneled through the Peace Corps to a
nonprofit foundation started and run by Secretary of State John Kerry's
daughter,
GWOT – Obama’s strategy is a head-in-the-sand approach to easily accessible proof that the
threat is rooted in Muslim scripture that stretches back over a
millennium.
GWOT – The United States will never win the war without succinctly identifying who the
enemy is and attacking the religion-based ideology of the enemy.
United Nations – Security Council
resolutions, economic sanctions, and resumption of
negotiations, who have repeatedly broken previous
agreements, will not stop rogue states.
Iran – The Iran
nuclear agreement is based on the 1994 North
Korean agreement to end nuclear proliferation: designed for peaceful use
of nuclear power, included secret side deals, never ratified by the Senate,
inspections delayed indefinitely, and ultimately paved
the way for the production of nuclear weapon testing and threats to neighboring
nations.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/