11 Ways President Obama Absolutely Destroyed the Democratic Party

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Analysts argue that Trump won because Hillary didn’t win like Obama did, or something like that. Obama argues that he was a better campaigner than Hillary was. But across the nation, it was clear that many former Democratic voters backed Trump in key areas.

Hillary Clinton has been controversial since college, and nominating her certainly did the Democrats no good. Looking back, you can see that she didn’t promote outlandish things while on the stump. She sounded like an old-time Democrat, a God-fearing white pantsuit-wearing smiler of smilers.

It’s just, well, America wasn’t fooled.

But it wasn’t just that Hillary was so bad that Republicans won. It was that Obama was so bad, America couldn’t see how they would improve with four more years of numbskull policies that didn’t benefit regular Americans to begin with.

While Barack Obama has less than two months left in his failed presidency, let’s review why so many traditional Democratic voters have abandoned the Democratic Party.

1. Cash for Clunkers

Cash for Clunkers was a grand plan that was supposed to increase the number of cars on the road with higher fuel efficiency. To the Obama administration, this program — one of the first down the pike — was offered as a fix for the poor. The theory was these consumers could use the money they got for their clunker to buy a better, more fuel efficient car. This worked for some in the middle class, who buy new or close to new vehicles every few years. For the working poor, however, it didn’t fix anything. In fact, the program cost three times its estimate, and the unseen consequences hit them the hardest.

See, when a clunker was turned in, it was made inoperable by dealers, (per instructions from on high) by filling the engine with liquid glass — literally destroying the engine. From there, the car was parted out for up to six months and then had to be destroyed completely. The government had to be notified when each car was dead. I mean, looking back on this massive waste now it seems so ridiculous that there was ever such a program that hurt lower middle class and low income earners the most. Think of all the used cars that were removed from the market.

If you needed a car with high miles and a little rust to get to your $9.00 an hour job seven miles away, finding a cheap one after this stupid program became a lot more difficult. Clunkers still on the market were few and far in between. Thanks to Cash for Clunkers, they were also more expensive and not better in any way.

2. Made getting to our jobs harder

Gas prices during the Obama administration were so high that all the fuel-efficient cars they tried to put on the roads didn’t matter much to people’s pocketbooks. Gas prices spiked in 2008 then dropped to almost nothing the month after Obama was elected, then steadily increased and stayed high for four full years spanning both Obama’s terms. Between 2011 and 2015, Americans filled up their trucks at about $80 a tank for gas. Gas prices between $3.50 to $4.10 hurt the working men and women trying to get to their jobs.

Of course, this increase in gas prices increased the cost of shipping of food to grocery stores, thereby raising the cost of groceries. When you have bills to pay and a budget for gas and groceries as most families do — and you need gas to get to your job — there isn’t much stretch to that budget. As a result, food quality suffers.

3. He told us we didn’t build that

Part of Obama’s campaign slogan in 2012 included telling mom and pop entrepreneurs across the countryside that they would be nothing if not for the government. It was as much a slap in the face as Hillary’s “deplorables” line was, but perhaps much more.

When a president who accomplished nothing in his life, and never had to keep his business going in tough times, produces the tough times that these entrepreneurs had to react to and overcome, a slow-burning intense passion begins to fester for outlasting such a vile enemy to producers. Small businesses are the back-bone of this economy, and Obama acted a punk to people whose hands were calloused and had to scrimp and save all they had, and use creative ways to stay open during a terrible economy.

4. Claimed wind and solar power was the wave of the future

Working Americans know that wind and solar power cannot replace coal and oil. There is no possible way that using the sun and wind could produce as much energy as burning something. It’s just logic, or basic science, if you will.

But the Obama administration did one foolish and wasteful thing after another to try to prove they were right anyway, and ended up wasting billions of your tax dollars on Solyndra and other fiascos like it.

The Ivanpah Solar Plant in Nevada, for example, is the largest solar farm in the world and is producing no where near the promised amount of power. The power it is producing is on the market at about $200 a megawatt hour compared to about $35 for natural gas. Oh, and the plant and those like it are killing birds and causing airplane pilots glare issues. Recently, a computer failure at the plant caused part of the farm to burn itself up, because the mirrors were directed the wrong way.

At a solar plant, birds who fly between the mirrors and the energy towers get burnt to death, which is horrible. All the plant seems to have done is create heat in the desert. Leave it to limousine liberals to spend your money to create heat in the desert.

Wind power is a joke, but what is irritating is that they notoriously kill birds. Stories of windmills killing eagles are numerous, and your government has protected wind farms from prosecution for killing bald eagles for 30 years. If I were to kill one eagle, I’d get prison time.

5. Poisoned an entire river in Colorado

The Animas River in Colorado was turned a disgusting shade of orange-yellow when the Obama administration’s do-gooders caused a massive flood of toxic waste including arsenic and lead to enter the river flow and poison local water systems. The administration then forgave itself without penalty. It doesn’t take a genius to understand what would have happened to a group of citizens who did the same thing.

6. Made building anything or increasing our comfort more expensive

Environmental regulations increased the cost of everything needed to build, repair, or make improvement on homes, and a flood of new lower-cost pipes and compounds caused problems for homeowners. If the Obama administration had not clung to a foolish agenda of controlling how we build things, much of the headaches involved with implementing an environmental agenda could have been avoided. It seems everything involved with helping the environment, as implemented by the government, hurt the working man and woman.

7. Did not make a stand for Christians

In the lifetime of most Americans, it is hard to recall such antagonistic reproach toward Christians as President Obama and his administration has projected. From denying Christian refugees to turning a blind eye to the mass genocide in the Middle East and Africa of Christians, to the insistence of the president to downplay the role Christianity has with the founding of America, Obama has seemed to be the most anti-Christian president we’ve ever had.

8. Shut down coal production

Union members are told to vote Democrat to save their way of life. But that circle couldn’t be squared after the Obama administration systematically shut down coal production. By September, 2016, Obama had been able to shut down 400 mines and 83,000 jobs in the industry — an impossible thing to ignore for most union workers. Coal’s big sin was that it was cheap and “dirty.” But regular Americans prefer cheap energy to non-existent energy, and prefer smaller electric bills to larger ones.

9. Tried to demoralize our military

The Obama administration began an effort to use our military as a social experiment, and consistently worked to undermine its effectiveness, with insane rules of engagement. Similarly, the administration reversed the military’s main role as a force to be reckoned with simply because President Obama, as a leftist, despises it. We remember his “corpse-men” comment, and taking full credit for the death of Osama Bin Laden. This nation is proud of our military and all it has done to fight for our freedoms. Obama doesn’t know the people all over the nation whose families have sent loved ones, and his ideology showed.

After Obama was reelected in 2012, the facts swirled about Benghazi. To this day that incident remains as one huge, unforgivable sin in the minds and hearts of many Americans. The lies and cover-up it took to get Obama reelected — as well as the ongoing whiff from politicians in Congress — makes the American patriot royally ticked off. Americans just want to know just what happened, and — relying on their own powers of observation — hold both Hillary and Obama culpable for the deaths of four Americans that night.

10. Kept on golfing

President Obama didn’t work much. That is the impression he gave to millions of hardworking families all across the nation. Nobody who wishes to keep their job takes in 300 rounds of golf in eight years. That’s ten months a year, every year, every weekend. If the president worked a 9-5 job and got weekends off, it would be one thing. But he was golfing during some of the most important international and domestic crises we’ve had. Flooding in Louisiana, the beheading of James Foley, the funeral of a decorated war hero, the funeral of the Polish president and much of his government officials, are just some of the times when Obama seemed cavalier. But mostly, we are and have been at war, and President Obama didn’t seem to really care to make appearances that he was in charge of doing anything about it.

11. Obamacare

Obamacare is a fantastic and predictable failure, and Hillary would have doubled down on it if she had become president. There is no question that many American’s healthcare choices have diminished, doctor availability has dried up, and costs have skyrocketed. Even unions called out in outrage about it. Employers were put in a vice, and now, premiums and “shared responsibility” fees are going through the roof.

Obama, and all political leftists waste mountains of money and show little empathy toward the working men and women who make this country tick. All of these examples and more turned working Americans away from the Democratic Party, and the party seems to be doubling down on its losing ideology. As a regular American, it is wonderful to see that the anti-American sentiment that the Democrats insist upon holds so little political power.

The power the media had and utilized to continue promoting the Obama agenda without questioning really, any of it, has been exposed for all to see. But with a little less than two months left in his term, President Obama can still do a lot more damage. Let us make sure the Democratic Party is held responsible. (For more from the author of “11 Ways President Obama Absolutely Destroyed the Democratic Party” please click HERE)

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Road Trip! Check out What the Oil Industry Is ACTUALLY Doing to America

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The recent news of a large discovery of oil in Texas’ Permian Basin reminded me of how little everyday Americans know about the size and scope of the energy industry in this country. I certainly didn’t until I took a long trip across the country on backroads. What I learned is that there are working oil fields in places I never would have thought — all the way across this great land. Here is some of what I found.

But first, about that discovery. Earlier this month the U.S. Geological Survey announced that it had found 20 billion barrels of oil in the Wolfcamp Shale portion of the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin is where a young George W. Bush was an oilman. The discovery adds to the 264 billion barrels of oil that estimates place in the U.S. reserves. This means that because of recent advances in technology and discoveries the U.S. has more reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia.

As I found out, much of those reserves are in places you never thought they would be, unless you are from those areas. While Alaska, North Dakota, and Texas are the states that immediately come to mind when thinking about oil and energy, the truth is oil is being pumped out of the ground in places most people wouldn’t even think of. Crude oil is being pumped out of the ground in 29 of the 50 states. I saw a lot of this production first hand.

To get a great idea of the history of oil production in America, a must see is the Drake Oil Well museum. This museum, located in Titusville, Pennsylvania, is a monument to the oil industry and American spirit. It tells the story of the early oil industry in Pennsylvania — something that is taught in school, but you think is a thing of the past. With new discoveries Pennsylvania currently pumps on average 500,000 barrels of oil per month out of the ground. Coupled with the gas shale boom in the area, the economy is booming again in that part of the country. It has people excited again.

Leaving northwestern Pennsylvania, I traveled through Cleveland down to the Ohio River valley straight through to Missouri. All along the way, I found a peculiar thing I had no idea about. Oil wells on farmland almost the whole way along that trip. Ohio alone pumps on average over two million barrels of oil per month out of the ground.

Most of this oil is located in those red counties that voted for Donald Trump back on November 8th. It represents some of the good jobs that are left in those areas. As I wrote shortly after the election, visiting the rest of the U.S. would do everyone good, especially coastal liberals who see the oil and energy industry as evil. Go visit and see the benefits the industry has on communities across the country. The oil industry is just one facet of daily life in vast swaths of the country.

After leaving the Ohio Valley I travelled to the upper Midwest, and I wasn’t that far from oil production for very long periods of time. One of the highlights of the trip for me was a tour of the North Dakota Bakken oil fields. What you see when you visit is an industry truly cognizant of environmental stewardship. Where in the Ohio Valley there were small wells on individual farms for miles, in North Dakota, because of newer horizontal drilling techniques, the oil was pumped from super pads. That means a large pad with multiple pumps, brought oil out of the ground from wells scattered over a large area. With this, the oil industry is able to minimize the footprint of their drilling, and pumping sites. It saves them money, and gives a smaller environmental footprint.

When compared to the large wind farms scattered across the country, the North Dakota oil fields have a much less noticeable visual impact. It was truly surprising to see.

More important than seeing the individual wells, and production across the country, was talking to people that were involved in the industry or affected by the booming micro economies in oil producing areas. In northwest Pennsylvania for instance, the new shale finds have put many, in a formerly economically depressed area back to work. It is especially noticeable after driving through the central part of the state and seeing economic malaise and then driving through the shale-affected areas and see houses freshly painted, new cars in driveways, and other markers of a thriving economy.

There are countless stories to be uncovered by visiting the parts of this country off the beaten path. When you travel to these places you uncover things about your own country you can’t really grasp by reading about them. Boring data, from the Department of Energy, becomes real life, with real people.

Do yourself, and America a favor. Get in your car and drive, and don’t worry about the oil. We got plenty. (For more from the author of “Road Trip! Check out What the Oil Industry Is ACTUALLY Doing to America” please click HERE)

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Trump, the Alt-Right and White Racialism: A Mainstream Media Myth

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There’s a national hissy fit at the moment about the threat of white racialism. D.C.-based reporters who somehow miss the 200,000-plus citizens each year that make the March for Life right past their offices have discovered … a room full of marginal losers in second-hand blazers who rented a room at a bistro and made Hitler salutes, claiming to “honor” Donald Trump. And these journos know a story when they see one!

No, none of the moral midgets in that room had anything to do with the Trump campaign. None of them wrote for Breitbart. None of them, in fact, had any national platform until these reporters gave them one, and catapulted the small-souled Richard Spencer into the highlight. (Like the producers of Springtime for Hitler, something tells me they’ll regret it.)

So what’s the proper journalistic response? For the leftwing media, it’s obvious. You need to cover this obscure gathering as if you’d infiltrated the Wannsee Conference, then demand that Donald Trump denounce these cranks (as he rightly did), and that he fire his strategist Steven Bannon (which he didn’t, shouldn’t, and won’t).

Imagine if a White Racist Organization Captured a Presidential Candidate

Like Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood, Spencer runs a national organization founded to advance white racial dominance. Unlike Richards’ group, Spencer’s has never succeeded in killing anyone, much less 300,000 a year, focused in poor and non-white neighborhoods. Spencer has not helped to pass mandatory sterilization laws of the genetically “unfit.” He has not helped a totalitarian government (China’s) enforce a brutal policy of forced abortions. No, compared with Planned Parenthood, Spencer and all his crew are about as important as the Bronies.

Hillary Clinton campaigned with Cecile Richards on behalf of her eugenics organization. Clinton accepted the Margaret Sanger Award, named for its Nazi-linked founder. How many mainstream reporters demanded that Clinton renounce the racist legacy of that group which she openly, proudly supported? Not one. But let’s make Donald Trump answer for total strangers whom he has never heard of. That’s journalism, folks.

There are deeper issues here than brain-bleedingly obvious bias. While Spencer represents almost no one, there has been a shift inside the Republican party and the American electorate, and it is in fact important.

Jacksonian Nationalism Comes in from the Cold

There are many intellectual movements represented within the big tent that is the Republican party. Libertarians, religious conservatives, Jacksonian nationalists, and pro-business incrementalists all co-existed for decades. Back when the fear of Communism united them, these movements largely cooperated, making trade-offs where appropriate that compromised their ideological “purity.” The collapse of Communism provoked a widely noted “crack-up” within the broad conservative movement. The balance among these competing forces shifted, and major elements within this coalition began to feel less and less represented.

One of the most important “outsider” factions — and the one that Trump and Bannon speak for — is Jacksonian nationalism. This brand of politics values the interests of the nation viewed as one vast community over the promotion of abstract, intellectual projects, however appealing, such as promoting social justice, shrinking government, or spreading democracy abroad.

Jacksonians hold citizenship precious, akin to membership in a family. They view with suspicion international agreements, mass immigration from starkly different cultures, multinational coalitions, and promises that cooperation with other nations will prove as “win/win” as internationalists and libertarians insist. In fact, Jacksonians suspect that such promises are political cover for policies that benefit elites at the expense of the common man and the common good. There is nothing essentially racial about the Jacksonian worldview, so long as membership in the nation is open to all who are willing to assimilate to its culture and play by its rules.

For a fascinating (if lengthy) account of the conflict between Jacksonian nationalism and various forms of globalism, see Steve Bannon’s own essay contrasting Ted Cruz’s foreign policy with Marco Rubio’s, published at Breitbart during primary season.

We’ve Got Spam, Eggs, Sausage and Spam …

On the Jacksonian view, starting around 1992, the Republican party began to freeze out its concerns, in favor of a more ideologically coherent program that was dubbed neoconservatism. Jacksonians such as Patrick Buchanan described this newly dominant worldview concisely as “Invade the world, invite the world.” I noted in 2003 that for leading neocons, it seems that America is not actually an historic country in a fallen world, with both gifts and limits. Instead, it is a kind of ideological virus, which our military can spread around the world, and which every immigrant catches upon arrival. Jacksonians see our culture of freedom, hard work, ordered liberty and religious tolerance as the precious and fragile fruit of centuries’ struggle in England and America. For neoconservatives, that culture is the inevitable outcome of our creed, which could flourish equally among 319 million people from any other heritage. America is an abstraction.

For Jacksonians, from 1992 until the rise of Donald Trump, the GOP was like that Monty Python restaurant where, whatever you ordered, what you were actually getting was Spam. Supposedly “hardline” conservative leader Paul Ryan was working with radical left-wing Democrats to pass immigration amnesty. Republican president George W. Bush was inviting thousands of “refugees” from Central America, to compete for jobs that Bush’s big business allies were outsourcing to foreign countries, or else to subsist on American welfare. Bush also pretended that the intolerant dictates of the Quran itself were “perversions” of Islam, which in his mind was apparently Unitarianism, plus hummus. None of these policies were acceptable to Jacksonians. But none of their objections had anything to do with crank theories of race.

Are Human Beings Interchangeable Parts?

Racialism is evil, and if actually put into practice would devastate America, as tribalism shattered Yugoslavia. But globalism as practiced by leftist internationalists and blithe neoconservatives is equally destructive. It pretends that human beings are interchangeable, or instantly malleable to economic or government incentives — that they can be controlled by the kinds of levers that smart, prosperous people with prestigious college degrees learn to manipulate. The geniuses who ran the European Union decided that a million Muslim colonists would fit right in to Germany, Sweden and Denmark — and accused the terrified citizens who objected of being — you guessed it — racists!

Both racialism and globalism are toxic and destructive. Which one is more powerful in America? Which one is respectable, from the U.N., the EU, and the Vatican to every major university? Which one gets people attaboys and cushy jobs? Answer those questions, and you know which heresy is more dangerous right now.

Cheap Grace Isn’t Worth its Price

It doesn’t take much courage to read the transcripts of the Nuremburg Trials and tell the world, “I am against this!” Of course, you should be against it, along with dog-fighting and kiddie porn. But you don’t deserve any laurels for “taking a stand” on such issues. Sorry, snowflakes. You’ll have to find another way to win those merit badges.

C.S. Lewis wrote (in the voice of Screwtape) about the danger of picking up “cheap grace” by following moral fashions, instead of seeking and serving the truth:

The use of Fashions in thought is to distract the attention of men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on the virtue nearest to that vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

It’s much tougher, and therefore more important, to ignore fashion and instead question the ideologues who are currently in power, from worldwide bureaucracies and federal agencies to posh colleges and self-serving church hierarchies. Jacksonians are right to fear the globalism which these elites are promoting, especially in the form of mass colonization of Western countries by newcomers with alien values. But to fight this globalism, you’ll pay a price. Part of that might be that you’re slandered as a racist, as Steve Bannon and Donald Trump have been. If you care for the common good, you will just have to soldier on. (For more from the author of “Trump, the Alt-Right and White Racialism: A Mainstream Media Myth” please click HERE)

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Can We Please Stop With This Nazi, Hitler, Name-Calling Stuff?

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Adolph Hitler and the Nazis committed some of the most horrific acts known to the human race, systematically murdering millions of Jews — including one and a half million Jewish children and babies — along with other ethnic and social minorities, not to mention sparking a war that killed many millions of others. In light of the depths of their evil, we had better be very careful before we label others Nazis or call our opponents Hitler.

Most recently, Howard Dean labelled Steve Bannon, President-elect Trump’s Chief of Staff, a Nazi, explaining, “It’s a big word and I don’t usually use it unless somebody’s really anti-Semitic, really misogynistic, really anti-Black.”

Earlier in the month, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, tacitly compared Hillary Clinton to Hitler, saying, “Mrs. Clinton backed the crime bill and then called our young people super predators. Of course she apologized, but just a minute. See, Hitler could’ve said to the Jews after Auschwitz, ‘I’m so sorry.’ Would that be enough to satisfy you?”

Back in June, a headline on the Daily Kos claimed that “Jeff Sessions endorses Nazi style fascism.” (Sessions is now Trump’s nominee for the position of Attorney General.)

But this is nothing new.

In June, 2004, John Leo reported that comparing President George W. Bush to Hitler was “no longer confined to loonies,” pointing to the comments of Judge Guido Calabresi, “former dean of the Yale Law School and a moderate liberal,” who “said Bush’s rise to power was strikingly similar to the rise of Hitler and Mussolini.” Leo also noted that “Senator Robert Byrd, for example, says George Bush reminds him of Hermann Goering, thus forfeiting much of his heralded reputation for political seriousness.”

With the election of Donald Trump, a whole new wave of rhetoric has been unleashed. Typical are the comments of Frank Navarro, a Holocaust scholar who is now a high-school teacher, who stated that “there are remarkable parallels between Hitler and Donald Trump.”

On a more grassroots level, those of us in the pro-family movement are used to being called Nazis and Hitler on an almost daily basis, a proven (and effective) strategy of gay activists for more than 25 years. As someone with the screen name of Astral Haze posted on one of my web pages back in March, “all homophobic people are hitler.” (Of course, if you do not affirm any of the goals of gay activism, you are homophobic, and therefore you are Hitler.)

This horrific name-calling needs to stop, not only because it defames the living but also because it mocks the dead — specifically, the victims of Hitler and his henchmen.

Of course these days, it seems that the left is branding almost all of its political and ideological opponents as racist or sexist or misogynist or Nazi or the like (Farrakhan’s attack on Hillary Clinton is in a class of its own), and the more that White Supremacist groups celebrate Trump’s victory (despite Trump’s constant disavowal of their support), the more the radical left will say, “You see! We told you Trump was a Nazi.”

We are also reminded that Trump was elected on November 8th, one day before the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass (November 8th, 1938), the date that many historians give for the beginning of the Holocaust. As Jennifer Mendelsohn tweeted, “Waking up on the anniversary of Kristallnacht to the news that America elected a demagogue. You can’t make this stuff up.”

Neither can you make up the extreme, destructive, and ugly nature of this rhetoric.

So, to set the record straight, the day that Steve Bannon or Hillary Clinton begin putting Jews (or women or blacks) on cattle cars, sending them to the gas chambers to be exterminated, is the day you can call him a Nazi and call her Hitler. (As much as I deplore the abortion policies of Hillary Clinton, I will not call her Hitler.)

And the day that Jeff Sessions begins rounding up minorities, forcing them into crowded ghettos, putting them on starvation diets and depriving them of virtually all human rights, is the day you can accuse him of endorsing Nazi style fascism.

And the day that Donald Trump rounds up hundreds of thousands of Mexicans or Muslims or blacks or Jews, forces them to dig ditches, strip naked, and then take a bullet to the back of the head, or the day he throws the babies of these minorities into burning pits (why waste a bullet on a baby?), or the day he authorizes medical experiments to be performed on minority twins (without anesthesia), or the day he uses the carcasses of his victims to make soap and lampshades is the day you can compare him to Hitler.

Until then (and I trust God that such days will never come in our country), we do well to watch our words.

All this Nazi-Hitler rhetoric is beyond insulting. It is downright dangerous and terribly incendiary. (For more from the author of “Can We Please Stop With This Nazi, Hitler, Name-Calling Stuff?” please click HERE)

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Why the Mainstream Media Is Responsible for Fake News

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Liberal elites are running out of excuses for why Hillary Clinton lost.

They have now gotten around to blaming an upsurge of “fake news” sites and headlines. To hear them tell it, we are now living in a “post-truth” age of politics. Surely, this is not Hillary’s fault. And surely the liberal media itself cannot be blamed for being desperately out of touch with the country it so badly seeks to control.

The fake news defense is particularly exasperating. There is nothing new, or specific to this election, in terms of dramatized click-bait or untrustworthy publications. And there is no credible evidence that one party benefits from it more than the other. But perhaps we are asking the wrong question. Perhaps we should wonder not what effect these sites have had on the election — likely minimal when compared with countless other factors — but rather why so many people believe, or continue to visit, these fake news sites. Why are they working?

In the barrage of WikiLeaks’ Clinton campaign emails, Americans saw yet additional examples of what they have long suspected: The mainstream media itself is a fake.

For years, our major news outlets have tried hard to maintain the facade of objectivity. It is, of course, easier for them to look disinterested and nonpartisan when it costs their party very little. But when tensions rise and ideological victories are on the line — as in, say, election season —the veneer of honest journalism comes tumbling down. And in its place comes the corruption of ethics, collusion with political players, and unsubtle agenda peddling.

People so long ago caught on to this dynamic that it is hardly a wonder how markets for alternative journalism sprung up across the net. In many ways, this explains the demand for conservative media emissaries — not to alter, misreport or even tint the news; simply to tell the other side of the story, the only viewpoint people are being systematically denied. There would be no need, and indeed no demand, for Conservative Review or CRTV if the media did not leave such a monumental gap in its coverage of American life. An astonishing portion of this country — and the way that portion thinks about and experiences the world — is simply disregarded in the ivory tower broadcast stations and newsrooms of the elite.

But when liberals now lament the rise of fake news, they unknowingly lament their own partisan allegiance. Do they not see that people have stopped distinguishing between mainstream integrity and the integrity of that which they find on their Facebook feed?

Take a look at your standard Buzzfeed, Times or network website headlines. Then click and read the article, and the source material on which it was based. Did the headline give you any true sense of the reality your own investigation revealed?

Here is the Washington Post roster of “news” as of 4 p.m. ET on November 18:

Sessions is known for his hard line views on immigration

CIA pick fiercely partisan on national security

Trump’s national security adviser has said incendiary things online

Flynn – “Make up makes women look more attractive”

Put simply: No one believes it anymore. Just like with obscure internet sources, reading these headlines induces the same automatic eye-roll at the blatant hyperbole and lack of context. Hypersensitivity and liberal orthodoxy have been so factored in to the American psyche that people simply assume (correctly!) that the real story is not as stark, troubling, or evil.

The media of our time has gone way beyond the sensationalism of yore. It is not merely a matter of accounting for embellishment anymore; we also add to every header the salt-grain of progressive outrage.

It seems unlikely that our journalistic betters are going to come to any sort of self-awareness on this score, especially if they haven’t yet, in the face of a national referendum on their “fact-based” coverage. But while broad change is unlikely, you can see whispers of the truth starting to creep into the media discussion.

On some level, the elite pundits know that even when they do their absolute best to elect the most well-funded candidate in history, they are no match for a people disgusted by the centers of power in this country, the press high among them.

Perhaps that knowledge belies some of the recent demands upon Google and Facebook to “do something” about these alt-news sources. It is not difficult to see where this may be headed. If history is any indication, liberals will have a slew of helpful prescriptions for how organizations can help us weed out sites we ought not be seeing! How the powers that be really ought to start labeling information that should not be confused with the real “official” news. Wouldn’t this process be just the thing to help elites succeed where they have too recently failed: in silencing opposing views.

The media industrial complex created the conditions for a revolution. Now that the revolution has arrived, they would like you to believe that fake news is responsible.

They have arrived at a truth greater than they realize. (For more from the author of “Why the Mainstream Media Is Responsible for Fake News” please click HERE)

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Levin: ‘Will Trump Be Nixon or Reagan?’

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“I have a serious question,” said Mark Levin on his radio program Tuesday night. “Will Trump be more Nixon or Reagan?” His question focused on the policy positions of the two former Republican presidents.

Some of Trump’s recent comments should have conservatives wondering — perhaps not quite worrying — but wondering. The new president-elect has walked back or been silent on many major campaign promises, including the building of a border wall, cancelling the Paris climate agreement, and prosecuting Hillary Clinton.

“Of course, we are told to ignore this,” Levin said. “I want [Trump] to succeed, but I want him to do the right thing.”

Listen to the full clip below:

Now, before the inauguration, is the time to hold Trump to his word and pressure him towards conservative policies. Once he is president it will be very difficult to influence him. So, why are so many in conservative media ignoring Trump’s softer rhetoric? (For more from the author of “Levin: ‘Will Trump Be Nixon or Reagan?'” please click HERE)

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3 Things Congress Must Do to Prepare for a Trump Administration

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Earlier this month, voters all across the country shocked the political and media establishments. America’s message was simple: We are tired of corrupt insider dealing in Washington and the self-serving nature of the establishment political class.

This didn’t happen by chance. Millions of Americans found a reason to engage in the political process. Whether it was opposition to massive unconstitutional government, a desire to drain the corrupt swamp, or an understanding of how much progressivism is hurting our nation, these Americans rallied around Donald J. Trump.

Congress will be making decisions on the budget and will have the opportunity to lay the groundwork for a full repeal of Obamacare under a Trump administration.

Historically, Congress has used lame-duck sessions—the short period between an election and the beginning of a new Congress—to pass bad and unpopular policies without being held accountable.

In 2008, we saw the automotive industry bailout; in 2010, the nuclear treaty with Russia; and in 2012, a New Year’s Day vote on $620 billion of tax increases.

But this year, Democrats must come to terms with the fact that the American people have spoken, and said no to the liberal policies of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The president and his congressional allies have no mandate to legislate, and Republicans have no excuse not to lead.

It is imperative conservatives take up three major initiatives in the remaining months of 2016:

1. Pass a continuing resolution, not a bad spending deal. With only two months left in Obama’s presidency, Congress should not negotiate any massive spending deal with him.

Instead, it should pass a simple, short-term continuing resolution that will fund the government into the beginning of Trump’s presidency. This would allow the newly elected Congress to present Trump with a principled, conservative budget.

2. Take the first steps toward fully repealing Obamacare. Earlier this year the House and Senate failed to pass budgets, which means the fiscal year 2017 budget can be used as a vehicle to begin the process of repealing Obamacare through reconciliation.

Heritage Foundation expert Paul Winfree outlines the process:

Last year, Congress failed to pass a budget for fiscal year 2017, creating an opportunity for Congress to pass two budgets next year, rather than just one. This gives Republicans two shots at getting filibuster-proof reconciliation bills to Trump.

The first budget is simple. The spending and tax levels include one assumption: The ACA [Affordable Care Act] is repealed. That ACA repeal budget should also include instructions to the relevant committees in Congress. Congress should be able to easily pass a budget resolution with these criteria with simple majorities in each chamber and begin the process of work on the reconciliation bill before Inauguration Day. This will set up the ability for Congress to pass a reconciliation bill repealing all the budgetary components of the ACA immediately after Trump is sworn into office.

A successful reconciliation process will set the stage for a full and total repeal of Obamacare under a Trump administration.

3. Prepare for a principled Supreme Court nomination: Conservatives led the charge against Obama nominees earlier this year and called for #NoHearingsNoVotes on Obama’s Supreme Court nomination. It was the right thing to do because it allowed the American people to have a voice in ensuring the next justice is willing and able to uphold the Constitution.

In the coming weeks, conservatives must understand the purpose and mechanics of the “two-speech rule”—a device that can be used to defeat the filibuster and ensure a conservative is appointed to the Supreme Court.

The American people have ushered in a new day in American politics, and Republicans have no excuse but to offer a bold and positive agenda. It’s time to raise our gaze in defining the art of the possible in order to repair the damage Obama has done in the last eight years. (For more from the author of “3 Things Congress Must Do to Prepare for a Trump Administration” please click HERE)

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Here Are the 5 Most Egregious Things Congress Has Done in Lame-Duck Sessions

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With the 2016 election finally over, you probably feel like you crawled the last 100 meters of a marathon that you looked forward to and then totally regret doing. But the race didn’t really end on Nov. 8. The most perverse, wasteful, and costly session of Congress started right after the election: the lame duck.

This year, you’ll feel like you crawled across the finish line and met with a punch in the face; Congress will have to vote on a massive spending bill to avoid a government shutdown by Dec. 9. Again.

While the lame-duck session will most certainly be bad this year, it won’t be unprecedented. Let’s take a look back at the most egregious things Congress has done in lame-duck sessions past.

1. Harding and vote buying

In 1922, President Warren Harding was accused of buying votes to pass the Ship Subsidy Bill. As the Heritage Foundation’s James Wallner and Paul Winfree noted in their recent study on lame-duck sessions, “Republicans who were defeated in their bid for re-election were more likely to vote for the [ship subsidy] legislation than those who were not.” The controversy over the bill prompted progressive, Republican Senator George Norris of Nebraska to propose a constitutional amendment to shorten the lame duck. A decade later, in 1933, the 20th Amendment was ratified, shortening the lame duck by three months.

2. The notorious DHS

In 2002, Congress created a massive new government agency — a Cabinet agency, no less — when it created the Department of Homeland Security, with the 9/11 attacks as the backdrop and justification. Paul Light, then-director of Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, noted that the creation of DHS was “the largest government reorganization since 1947[.]” The department had 240,000 employees as of 2015 and its 2016 budget was over $40 billion.

3. Auto bailouts

In 2008, the House of Representatives attempted to put taxpayers on the line for $14 billion to bail out the auto industry. The measure couldn’t pass the Republican Senate, so days before Christmas President George W. Bush unilaterally bailed out the auto industry by transferring over $17 billion from the TARP program (the Wall Street bailout) to the auto industry.

4. The story of Boehner and the reindeer farmer

Then there was that time a lame-duck former reindeer farmer changed his vote to help pass a massive $1 trillion spending bill: In 2014, House conservatives almost defeated a $1 trillion continuing resolution. When then-Speaker John Boehner realized the spending bill was going down, he convinced Michigan’s lame-duck Rep. Kerry Bentivolio (a former reindeer farmer by trade) to change his vote, along with then-Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman. The spending bill passed, and Bentivolio retreated back to Michigan. He has tried to reenter politics since then, albeit unsuccessfully.

5. 20 trillion (with a “T”)

Finally, we’ve had 20 lame-duck sessions since 1940. Congress has passed reckless appropriations bills and continuing resolutions in 12 of them. They are a big reason we have a nearly $20 trillion national debt. (For more from the author of “Here Are the 5 Most Egregious Things Congress Has Done in Lame-Duck Sessions” please click HERE)

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7 Things Sessions Can Do Immediately to Restore the Law of Justice

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Talk about change we can believe in! Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. (C, 78%) as attorney general would be nothing short of a game changer for the rule of law, sovereignty, and our security.

There is no part of the federal government that is more vital to our system of government, yet more damaged by the Obama years, than the Department of Justice. Whether it’s immigration law, domestic crime, jailbreak, crushing the states with lawsuits, or religious liberty concerns, the Justice Department stands at the nexus of the most important issues of our time. If there was ever an agency that must be cleaned out from top to bottom, it’s the DOJ. And no man is better suited for that job than Senator Jeff Sessions. He will promote equal justice under the statutes passed by Congress. Moreover, he can serve as a watchdog to ensure that other areas of the federal government are following the letter of the laws passed by Congress.

While some systemic reforms will have to come from Congress, there are some immediate steps that Sessions can take on day one to implement triage on the rule of law.

1. Clamp down on voter fraud

There is nothing more critical to the rule of law and our democracy than having free and fair elections. Federal judges, acting on lawsuits promoted by Obama’s DOJ, have been misinterpreting statutes in order to prevent states from cleaning their rolls of dead, fraudulent, and non-citizen voters. We are seeing those consequences play out now in the North Carolina governor’s election. While some of the statutes need updating from Congress, Sessions can act on day one to clean up the mess, according to J. Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation:

Sessions can begin to enforce federal election laws the Obama administration deliberately stopped enforcing. Motor Voter requires voter rolls to be free of foreigners, the dead and ineligible voters. Obama’s Civil Rights Division lawyers stopped enforcing that law because they disagree with the law. Sessions already understands the problems in the Civil Rights Division so I am overjoyed by his nomination.

2. Terminate all of Obama’s lawsuits and appeals

On the first day of his tenure, Sessions should call in all unit heads and have them suspend every onerous lawsuit against states who enforce immigration law, election integrity, or implement laws pushing back against the transgender agenda, such as North Carolina’s HB2. He should also suspend the racially-charged lawsuits against local police departments. Sessions must reverse the growing trend of federal involvement in local law enforcement that does not relate to federal law.

3. Allow states to enforce immigration law and punish sanctuary cities

As AG, Sessions can interpret the immigration statutes as properly written to allow states to help enforce immigration law. At the same time, they could cut off law enforcement grants (Byrne JAG, COPS, and SCAAP funds) to localities that designate themselves as sanctuary cities and refuse to cooperate with the Secure Communities program, which helps ICE identify illegal aliens housed in local jails and state prisons.

4. Defang the U.S. Sentencing Commission

While some on the Right disagree over the scope and jurisdiction of some federal criminal statutes, it is clear that this determination must be left in the hands of Congress. Sentencing for federal crimes should be determined by federal judges, as dictated by guidance pursuant to congressional statutes. Yet, in recent years, the unelected U.S. Sentencing Commission, housed within the Department of Justice, has essentially operated autonomously to commute the sentences of 46,000 criminals. As attorney general in charge of the personnel within the department, Sessions can prevent the Sentencing Commission from executing its massive jailbreak agenda beyond its statutory mandate.

5. Replace immigration judges

Why do we have so much amnesty even though the congressional statutes call for illegal aliens to be deported? The immigration judges within the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EIOR) have granted de facto amnesty by overturning deportations and letting criminal aliens roam free. The administrate judges within the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which serves as the appellate body of EOIR, have the ability to overturn a deportation order from a lower administrative judge and can review all enforcement actions taken by ICE and the border patrol. As Ian Smith of the Immigration Reform Law Institute warned, many of these administrative judges were former lawyers for illegal immigrants or organizations funded by George Soros. Given that they all work for the DOJ, Jeff Sessions can clean out the agency of Soros-affiliated immigration judges so that the foxes are not guarding the hen house and countermanding the intent of immigration statutes.

6. Immediately seek deportation for all illegal re-entrants

Deportations have become encumbered in a myriad of civil proceedings. There is definitely a long-term need to tighten up some enforcement statutes. But one low-hanging piece of fruit is for the DOJ to immediately seek expedited deportation for those who have re-entered illegally for a second time. Illegal re-entry is automatically a criminal prosecution, not a civil case. Moreover, many of the re-entrants are criminal aliens and should be immediately deported anyway.

7. Properly interpret the Constitution to protect states from liberal judges

There are three separate branches of the federal government. The judiciary does not have a monopoly on interpreting the Constitution. Even John Marshall’s controversial concept of judicial review only meant that the Supreme Court also has the right to interpret the Constitution for its own purposes in the cases and controversies that come before it as a co-equal branch of government. But the notion that the other two branches can’t push back on precedent and make a good faith attempt to interpret the Constitution for their own functions, is an ignorant misnomer among the political elites. As I noted in my piece on judicial reform, Congress has many tools it can use to fight back against the judiciary. But the executive branch also has the right to use its own interpretation when exercising its proper scope of power. That prerogative rests with the attorney general, under the orders of the president.

Therefore, in cases where lower courts force states to infringe upon religious liberty rights of private business owners or force schools to place boys in female dressing rooms, Sessions can make it clear that his version of the Constitution mandates no such right on the states. Although he can’t overturn a particular case, he can make it clear that the executive branch will not send out the marshalls to enforce a flagrantly unconstitutional order of the court. This is exactly why the Founders vested the judiciary with no enforcement mechanism — because they are not the sole and final arbiter of the Constitution. It is then up to Congress to either push back, affirm support, or ignore such a determination by the attorney general.

Whether one agrees with Jeff Sessions on policy or not is irrelevant to his appointment as attorney general. The job of a president, most profoundly manifest through his attorney general, is to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” as stated in Art. II Sec. 3 of the Constitution. If liberals are upset about our statutes or our Constitution as adopted there are legitimate ways of changing them. As it stands now, they must be regarded as the supreme law of the land. Liberals will whine and moan about the politics of Jeff Sessions, but if they truly understood his commitment to the law, they’d seek to change the laws themselves — not the personnel faithfully executing them. (For more from the author of “7 Things Sessions Can Do Immediately to Restore the Law of Justice” please click HERE)

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Moving Freedom Forward

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God, in His mercy, has granted the American people an opportunity to correct our nation’s dangerous course and save the future of freedom born in the faith and wisdom of our founders.

As the Old Testament prophet Joel promised Israel, if the nation repents and returns to dependence on God’s wisdom, He will restore the blessings and fruitfulness that was lost when the people turned from God. He said he would “pour out the former and latter rain” and make up for “the years the consuming locusts had destroyed.” This is the healing of the land promised by God throughout the Old Testament and confirmed in history.

With all my heart, I believe God is giving us a chance now to repent and restore the foundation of freedom and the blessings it imparts.

God’s Opportunity Must Be Met With Our Action

The 2016 Republican platform promised a new direction, turning from terrible destructive actions taken by misguided leaders and many Americans. As an example of this change of course, Donald Trump boldly spoke out against partial-birth abortion, and tax-payer funding of it, while pointing also to the fierce assault on marriage and family. He also promised to appoint Supreme Court justices in the vein of the late Antonin Scalia.

The vast majority of Evangelicals and Catholics decided to give Mr. Trump a chance. In fact, they voted in record numbers. Based on post-election data provided by the Faith & Freedom Coalition, Evangelicals cast 32.76 million votes — the highest ever. An astounding 66.8% of Trump’s 60.9 million votes total came from Evangelicals and Catholics combined. Christians made a salt-and-light impact, just as Christ commissioned us to, by standing for sound principles essential to freedom.

However, impacting the ballot box isn’t the same thing as impacting the nation’s direction. You can start a car, but you’re not going anywhere until you actually put it in drive.

Faith-filled believers and all common-sense Americans who recognize the legitimate concerns facing our nation must become a strong force, boldly standing together to encourage and support the corrective action that must be taken.

Correction requires standing against, in part:

a manipulative political establishment
a biased, liberal, and corrupt media
the foolishness of political correctness
government excess and waste
ineffective federal programs
excessive regulations hindering small business and hurting blue-collar, hard-working families
economic instability
a lack of security
porous, lawless borders
a weak military
unfair trade agreements
a full-bore assault on religious freedom

Let’s pray that our national leaders will seek the wisdom that comes from above, surround themselves with people who are the best qualified to assist, and with determination address every area of national concern. If you happened to see Mr. Trump’s November 13 interview on 60 Minutes, you saw the demeanor of the man I have communicated with for seven months. Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee had told me, “When you talk to him in the heat of the battle, it’s amazing how calm, collected and thoughtful he is.” I’ve also found this to be true during our seven month journey together.

I have much reason to hope President-elect Trump, VP-elect Pence and their team will tackle our nation’s concerns with determination and wise counsel.

Our Greatest Hope and Source

Still, you can be assured that every good step to correct the foolish course will be resisted with anger, bordering on uncontrollable rage and threats on the lives of those who lead the necessary corrective steps. This re-establishing of freedom’s foundation and building the walls necessary to protect it will test even the strongest individuals.

Pray for shields of supernatural protection around our national leaders and all concerned Americans — and do not step down or back down. Speak the truth in love, and with humility invite those who disagree to come to the table of reason. The age of rage and potential violence can only be overcome by the power of God’s love and His truth.

As we work side-by-side in the days ahead, it is my prayer that the Christian community will reveal more effectively than ever the transforming power of the gospel of the Lord Jesus to those who do not have a personal relationship with Him. Empty religion is not the answer.

The church must become the united, healthy body of Christ, sharing the good news of Jesus faithfully and fearlessly with undeniable love and compassion. Jesus said, “the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.” Ambassadors of Christ must “go forth sowing, weeping” and, yes, “reaping a great harvest.” After all, the problem is not found in the harvest fields, but with the failure of the laborers to go into the fields. We must no longer just go to church; we must become the church and dedicated witnesses for Christ.

Move into the fields, and watch America change course. See redemption come not only to individuals, but to a nation.

Christians and all true lovers of freedom who understand that it has a principled foundation are witnessing the first move toward the next Great Awakening. The invitation Jesus offered Jerusalem when facing total desolation can be applied to America today: “Come like chicks to the wings of a hen.” We are invited by Almighty God to return to the shadow and shelter of protection and provision only He can offer.

It’s time to take serious His promise. “Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” (Jeremiah 33:3 NAS)

That’s what we must trust Him for. (For more from the author of “Moving Freedom Forward” please click HERE)

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