No, Michael Moore, Hillary Will Never Be ‘America’s Pope Francis’

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Activist filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Michael Moore in TrumpLand,” has been the trending talk of both Hollywood and Washington, DC, since its release last week. In the film, Moore discusses Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence, then lays out a case for a Hillary Clinton presidency.

And because I know most won’t subject themselves to an hour-long Hillary PR fest — after all, you could just watch the mainstream media if you were looking for that that — I watched it to see what all of the hype was about. Much of it is what you’d expect from a Moore film: hyperbolic, foul-mouthed hippie socialism. But there was one part that absolutely confounded me: when Moore compares Clinton to Pope Francis.

The filmmaker suggests that Francis “kept quiet” on controversial matters like the LGBT movement (he didn’t) and his criticism of capitalism while he was a cardinal during the junta era in Argentina. But on the day he was appointed, Francis became the “people’s pope” — a universal symbol of unity (read: progressivism) in the church.

“He must have kept quiet all those years,” Moore says. “But he’s thinking, he’s planning. He gets all these other cardinals to think he’s some conservative a**hole from some South American dictatorship.”

Pope Francis rose to eminence, according to Moore, because “he bided his time.” Clinton, he argues, has done the same, allowing her husband and even President Barack Obama to take credit for her political ideas. But this presidency could be “her Pope Frank moment.”

“What if Hillary becomes our Pope Francis?” Moore asks his audience. “What if all this time … this has been part of her long game?”

The multi-millionaire filmmaker claims that Clinton was never taken seriously as a young politician. She was ridiculed for her appearance and discriminated against because she was a woman. Until now, the American people have simply failed to notice all of the good things she’s done to improve the lives of citizens.

Moore goes on to paint a picture of a President Hillary Clinton who champions radically progressive issues by signing executive order after executive order — from allowing all illegal immigrants to remain in the country, to releasing all nonviolent drug offenders from prison, to banning high fructose corn syrup. But none of this will happen, he warns, unless the American people “get behind her” and don’t “abandon her” like they have in the past.

Moore’s portrayal of Clinton as a holy figure stands in clear contrast with his depiction of Donald Trump as a fiendish tyrant, more diabolical and dangerous than any individual the country has ever witnessed. He calls Trump a “human Molotov cocktail” that appeals particularly to lower-class white men because he challenges “the system that stole their lives from them.”

According to “TrumpLand,” male Trump supporters are like dying dinosaurs, roaring at the top of their lungs because they believe having a woman in the White House will secure their demise. But there’s good news, he claims: Hillary — and all women, for that matter — are harmless. Moore claims that men are responsible for all that is wrong with the world. They built the first smokestacks, after all. They’re more likely to commit murder, rape, or carry out mass shootings.

“Whatever you’re afraid of does not wear a dress … Or a pantsuit,” he says.

I have news for Michael Moore: Hillary Clinton will never be “America’s Pope Francis.” It’s not because she’s a woman, or because she wears pantsuits, or even because she’s unlikeable. It is because Hillary Clinton has a thoroughly documented history of cronyism and class warfare, of attacking religious freedom and dismembering the family, of money-grubbing and power-grabbing.

Moore’s therapeutic, spiritual, secularist approach may convince some Americans to vote for his saintly rendering of the Democratic presidential nominee. But anyone who dares to hold Moore’s claims against the real Hillary Clinton will see how utterly absurd this comparison truly is.

Clinton is not some wild-card candidate with an obscure past who’s full of surprises. She’s revealed her character time and time again — and it’s been consistently terrible. If there’s one thing Pope Francis and Hillary have in common, it’s the fact that they both have public track records. Those who really want to research the truth about these public figures can readily do so. Those who don’t are free to blindly wander around Michael Moore’s “Lala land.” (For more from the author of “No, Michael Moore, Hillary Will Never Be ‘America’s Pope Francis'” please click HERE)

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There Is No Place for Me in Hillary’s America

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I consider myself a patriot, someone who believes in the Constitution, the rule of law and representative government.

Under a President Hillary Clinton, none of those will any longer exist.

Electing Hillary will mean, quite literally, the end of the United States as it was originally designed.

The Constitution will be de facto obsolete; the rule of law will be arbitrarily applied dependent upon one’s financial status or political clout; and we will have a government driven by crony capitalism and political expediency, benefitting only the rich and powerful, and one conspicuous for corruption, fraudulent elections and pseudo-representation.

Under Hillary’s open borders policy, the United States of America will be neither United nor America. It will not be a melting pot, a nation guided by the notion of E Pluribus Unum, but a collection of simultaneous arguments, where the only thing we have in common is our differences.

It will mean a president, who is, without any doubt, hopelessly corrupt and a pathological liar.

It will mean that the organs of government will not be used to enforce the law, but to enforce the political whims of Hillary Clinton, courtesy of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service.

Because, when blatant and outrageous lies are no longer sufficient to soothe the electorate into complacency, such a government must begin to curtail freedom and oppress the people in order to pursue its policies and remain in power.

For me, one who traveled in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, Hillary’s approach to government has a familiar ring.

In “Mountain of Crumbs”, a memoir of childhood in the 1960s and 1970s propaganda-soaked Soviet Union, Elena Gorokhova explains the meaning of “vranyo”, the Russian word for “a white lie or half-truth:”

“In Russia we played the ‘vranyo’ game on a daily basis. The government lied to us, we knew they were lying, they knew we knew they were lying, but they kept lying anyway and we pretended to believe them.”

“In practice vranyo provided a coping mechanism for both unbearable tragedies and petty annoyances. Can’t feed your starving children? Tear up a piece of bread to make a mountain of crumbs and declare it an abundance of food.”

Or declare: the failed Obamacare a success, a moribund economy as booming, a world wracked by Islamic terrorism as safer, illegal immigration as beneficial or the Clinton Foundation as honest.

Angelo Cordevilla provides an insightful comment about the 2016 election:

Never before has such a large percentage of Americans expressed alienation from their leaders, resentment, even fear. Some two-thirds of Americans believe that elected and appointed officials — plus the courts, the justice system, business leaders, educators — are leading the country in the wrong direction: that they are corrupt, do more harm than good, make us poorer, get us into wars and lose them. Because this majority sees no one in the political mainstream who shares their concerns, because it lacks confidence that the system can be fixed, it is eager to empower whoever might flush the system and its denizens with something like an ungentle enema.

Hillary Clinton represents that wrong direction, the constipated status quo, while Donald Trump provides a laxative.

The United States under Hillary Clinton will become ungovernable. Millions of Americans, those “basket of deplorables,” who are the bedrock of the country will simply “tune out” the federal government and the media.

Without the Constitution, the rule of law, representative government, a recognizable culture or even defined borders, there is no reason to be patriotic and little reason to participate.

America will become Hillary’s dystopia, the ideological and the incompetent leading the unwilling to do the undesirable. (For more from the author of “There Is No Place for Me in Hillary’s America” please click HERE)

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Sellin holds a Ph.D. is a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, a command and control subject matter expert, trained in Arabic and Kurdish, and a veteran of Afghanistan, northern Iraq and a humanitarian mission to West Africa. He receives email at [email protected].

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Donald Trump and the Alt-Right: How Dead Is That Moose?

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As I said on a recent British Christian radio show, I would vote for a dead moose strapped to a car hood to stop Hillary Clinton. She has told the UN that Christian beliefs on abortion will have “to be changed” because they threaten the “fundamental rights” of women. That’s legal language, a promise that the U.S. will correct a human rights “violation” under international law. Her profoundly corrupt foundation has taken tens of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, where rape victims are tortured. Her closest aide, Huma Abedin, is a Muslim Brotherhood ally. Clinton’s policies would flood America with jihadists and “rapefugees.” Her team is trying to infiltrate and destroy my church. Do I really need to go on? Voting to stop her is an act as justified as halting a home invader.

That said, we need to know just how long the moose has been dead, since it’s oozing all over our car. Yes, there is Donald Trump’s personal squalor. But the only difference between him and John F. Kennedy is a live microphone — and the lack of reporters willing to turn aside as the president’s mistresses shuttle back between him, his brother, and various Mafia dons. Bill Clinton has credibly been accused of forcible rape. So let’s have no lectures about the “dignity” of the presidency. That beast died in the barn a long time ago. If you want a respectable head of state where grabby demagogues can’t sully that elevated office, set up a constitutional monarchy. The Brits, Swedes and Danes seem pretty fond of theirs. I bet we could snag a Habsburg.

The Alt-Right: Trump Whisperers

What really worries me about Donald Trump is what some of his most fervent Alt-Right supporters may be telling him: That Christianity is a self-destructive suicide cult that’s destroying Western society. It demands open borders, affirmative action, massive welfare programs that transfer wealth to recent immigrants, legal or not, and will end up exposing any Christian country to mass colonization by thuggish, theocratic Muslims.

Where would the neopagans and atheists of the Alt-Right get such crackpot ideas? Maybe from the words of some U.S. Catholic bishops, “progressive” evangelicals funded by George Soros, and a goodly number of orthodox evangelicals who take most or all of the stances I listed above, but who are also pro-life and pro-marriage. (That’s nice of them!)

The Alt-Right is the repulsive shadow cast by the preening of left wing Christians — the equal and opposite heresy such as Screwtape loves to gin up, to make sure that half of our ship is under water, while the other half is on fire.

The Other Faction of Margaret Sanger Fans

The Alt-Right, unhinged from real Christian doctrines — like equality before God, the brotherhood of man, and charity toward all — has proved to be a nasty reptile indeed. Let’s set aside the online trolls who send Jewish conservatives little cartoons of those writers dying inside a gas chamber. Dismiss as sociopaths those who troll National Review writer David French and his wife, referring to the child they adopted from Ethiopia as a “simian” (or worse), and calling French a “cuckold” or “race traitor.”

Let’s focus on those who want to rehabilitate “eugenics,” and rejigger our country’s welfare policies to discourage the birth of children to blacks and Latinos. Or how about those who go ever further, and wish to keep abortion legal, because they want to cut down the number of non-white children? Just reading what these people write will make you want to take a shower. If they sound like Margaret Sanger, that’s because they admire her ideas and want to carry them out, with a slightly different emphasis than Hillary Clinton.

Could the Alt-Right Lose the Election for Trump?

That we know, but could it be that the Alt-Right also is having a deeply destructive impact on the struggling Trump campaign, by blocking the candidate from genuinely appealing to conservative Christians? How else to explain his failure to highlight the frequent attacks on religious liberty, which is a burning issue for millions of Christians? How else to explain his bizarre failure to show genuine contrition when caught on tape saying grotesque things about a woman? Has he no idea what effect this has on many millions of Christian voters?

We are one of his natural constituencies, as the former majority now targeted by elites for official discrimination. But will he listen to us and shape his policies accordingly? A number of evangelical leaders have worked long hours speaking to Donald Trump, explaining our deep concerns about religious liberty, the First Amendment Defense Act, and solid protections for Christian schools, hospitals, and charities. When pressed, he has promised to support us and denounced the Johnson Amendment. But it has always seemed slightly grudging — especially compared to Hillary Clinton’s full-throated support of partial birth abortion and transgender madness. Trump has never spoken out in defense of beleaguered North Carolina, for instance, whose women and girls might lose their last shred of privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms, if the rich and haughty LGBT movement has its way.

Despite media caricatures, there’s no evidence that Trump holds Alt-Right views. He held conventional liberal views from much of his adult life. But have Alt-Right-sympathizing staffers convinced Donald Trump that Christianity really is nothing but pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die? That, say, showing contrition and asking for forgiveness is not noble and endearing, but ignoble and effeminate?

This is admittedly speculative, but how else to explain why Trump has not said and done such obvious things to appeal to Christian voters? If this is right, then it’s past time for him to correct course, shove aside the embittered tribalists, and embrace the real concerns of people of faith. If he doesn’t, millions of us might decide to sit out this ugly, embittered election. (For more from the author of “Donald Trump and the Alt-Right: How Dead Is That Moose?” please click HERE)

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It’s Not a Choice: The Progressive Cult Must Be Crushed Now

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I do a live, nationally syndicated radio show five days a week, and currently have three contributors who regularly join me to discuss and debate the issues of the day. While they wouldn’t be on my show if we didn’t generally share a common world view, I have made clear to them from the beginning that not only are they free to disagree with me, but I expect them to.

Iron sharpens iron, and there is wisdom in a multitude of counsel. If I shut off the ability of my employees to question me — whether on or off the air — I would be guilty of slouching into a tyrannical mindset. And sooner or later, that would transform me into a man of caricature instead of character.

Unfortunately, it appears there are many who prefer tyranny these days. Certain elements of progressivism rely on tyranny as they rely on oxygen. It is their reason for getting up in the morning. Whatever their backward and broken cause, you will be made to care about it. If you are such a progressive, knowing your place in the pagan hive mind is paramount. There will be no dissent. There will be no questions. There will be no second opinions.

For never forget progressivism is the heresy of this era, and the spirit of the age. Seeking to replace the church with the state and God with the government. And political correctness is its inquisition.

Just ask New York University (NYU) assistant professor Michael Rectenwald.

His fear of the progressive thought police was such that he willingly suffered the indignity of posing as an anonymous Alt-Right professor on Twitter last month to speak his mind. All because he’d had it with trigger warnings and safe spaces. But he knew that if he tried to “engage in a dialogue” as progressives have long insisted upon, even among his own peers, he would be falling into a trap the likes of which turned the University of Missouri into an insane asylum within the last year.

Still, Rectenwald finally came forward this week to discuss the Tweets that had increasingly been getting under the skin of NYU students and staff. Which, of course, proved his point. As did the letter signed by many of them accusing Rectenwald of being “guilty of illogic and incivility.”

Sure, guys, the man who feels compelled to go into witness protection just to speak his mind is the guilty one. And what could he possibly be talking about anyway? It’s not as if protestors on the other coast, at the University of California-Berkeley, were just caught on video blocking the entrance to a high-traffic campus footbridge in support of transgender safe spaces. People of color were allowed to go, but chants of “go around!” were leveled at white people.

Or that the state of North Carolina is under siege because of perverse bathroom politics.

Or that a preacher in Georgia was asked by his government employer to turn over sermons he gave and was subsequently fired.

Or that radio host Dennis Prager has been censored by YouTube because God and the Constitution are deemed offensive.

Or that a University of Toronto professor is being treated like a heretic because he refuses to use gender neutral pronouns.

Rectenwald clearly has nothing to worry about. Except everything. It’s like that ‘how is my gay marriage going to affect you’ doozy from a few years back. Just smile and wave and they won’t even feel the knife slit their throat until it’s too late.

There I go, being illogical and uncivil, I guess. But like Rectenwald, I proudly own that. Because fighting this garbage isn’t really a choice. It is an existential command and a moral obligation. Either we defeat this beast, or we die at the hands of multiple devils of our own making.

“My contention is that this particular social-justice-warrior-left is producing the [A]lt-[R]ight by virtue of its insanity,” Rectenwald said in a discussion with the NYU student newspaper. He continued,

Frankly, I’m not really anti-pc. My contention is that the trigger warning, safe spaces and bias hotline reporting is not politically correct. It is insane. This stuff is producing a culture of hyper-vigilance, self-surveillance and panopticism. This kind of left that we’re talking about, the SJW — identity-politics left — it’s not political; it’s religious. A white, straight male like myself is guilty of something. I don’t know what. But I’m [expletive] sure I’m guilty of it. And I am very low on the ethical totem pole.

Preach, brother. And remember, that’s coming from somebody who actually claims to have an affinity for some degree of political correctness. But nuts is nuts, he says.

What’s nuts is we continue to tolerate this intolerance, while subsidizing it to boot. However, a culture capable of standing up to such nonsense probably wouldn’t have permitted it in the first place. (For more from the author of “It’s Not a Choice: The Progressive Cult Must Be Crushed Now” please click HERE)

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How Much Longer Can We Tolerate Illegal Aliens Stealing Our Sovereignty?

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The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it deriving validity from an external source would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction. All exceptions, therefore, to the full and complete power of a nation within its own territories must be traced up to the consent of the nation itself. They can flow from no other legitimate source.”
~ Chief Justice John Marshall 1812

Welcome to Absurdistan where Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces the prospect of jail time for enforcing federal immigration laws. Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is suspended indefinitely for not redefining marriage in his state. Meanwhile, illegal aliens are out in full force campaigning in a presidential election and blocking traffic on one of the nation’s busiest bridges. And nobody bats an eyelash.

Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that CASA In Action has mobilized groups of illegal aliens to organize ground game for the Clinton campaign in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania. What is particularly disturbing about this effort is that it is utilizing those who received Obama’s illegal executive amnesty. Which means that “crime pays” so to speak — Democrats are benefiting from the illegal violation of American sovereignty.

Let this observation sink in slowly: American sheriffs and state supreme court justices are being punished for upholding legitimate laws and sovereignty of the people, yet CASA can harbor illegal aliens and use them for get-out-the-vote efforts. Hence, people can break into this country and then organize publicly in order to sway an election and bestow themselves with citizenship rights against the consent of the people. We now have no control over our own destiny.

Fast-forward to Wednesday, when a group of illegal aliens chained themselves together across the George Washington Bridge, blocking traffic in New York at the peak of rush hour and delaying commuters for as much as 90 minutes. What are the odds a single protester will be deported?

No words can describe the depravity of our stolen sovereignty; no analogies can fully capture the moral and intellectual dyslexia playing out without understating the problem. One of the reasons why so many immigrants have flocked to our country over the years is because they respect the stability of democracy, the rule of law, and private property rights. Many of them have emigrated from countries that have no civil society or stable system of governance — countries where mob rule reigns supreme. Now, this generation of illegal aliens is bringing with them the mindset of the governments from which they have fled.

What we are witnessing today with the refusal of the federal government to enforce national sovereignty is the greatest mass trespassing of private property rights. Public property is paid for by the citizenry of the nation-state, and, for those here without the consent of the people, to takeover that property is the ultimate violation of property rights. And between illegal aliens campaigning to sway an election and some non-citizens registering to vote (and courts preventing states from weeding out non-citizen voting), they are stealing the most sacred right of a citizen — the franchise.

Let’s be clear: if Hillary wins this election, the outrage over stolen sovereignty will not abate. She would not have won based on this issue or any other policy initiative. She would have won by making this election a referendum on the personal character of her former donor. No election entitles a president to steal the sovereignty of her people. The citizenry will not tolerate this for much longer. (For more from the author of “How Much Longer Can We Tolerate Illegal Aliens Stealing Our Sovereignty?” please click HERE)

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Why ‘Never Trumpers’ Should Reconsider

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While Democrats perpetually circle the wagons, Republicans engage a perpetual circular firing squad. The same holds true for many evangelicals. Democrats and secularists count on it.

And we never disappoint.

Full disclosure: I went from a dogged “Never Trumper” to a “Maybe Trumper,” and, finally, settled as a “Reluctant Trumper.” I, like any God-fearing father of daughters was, and remain, appalled by Donald Trump’s sordid past, and his 11-year-old vulgar video in which he objectified women. His words are indefensible and I fully expect the Clinton camp to strategically release additional revolting and embarrassing opposition research about the Republican nominee before election day.

Still, I will be voting against Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8 in what is objectively and irrefutably the most effective way possible: by casting a vote, for better or worse, for the policies and promises of Donald Trump — and for the vice presidency of Gov. Mike Pence.

Regrettably, with many of my Never Trump friends I’m reminded of the fanatic who refuses his daughter chemotherapy and watches her die in an effort to convince himself (and others) of the strength of his own faith. Pride is an awful thing. We are to be “wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16). Foolishness called “faith” is just foolishness.

Even so, there are Christian Pharisees on both extremes of this Trump fiasco: those Trumpian cultists who buy the “Make America great again!” pablum and deride any person who, while not casting judgment upon others, makes, with all sincerity, what they view as the principled decision. The latter say they’ll sit this one out (or go through the motions by voting third party — a wasted vote by any objective standard). While I appreciate this milder strain of Never Trumper’s sincerity, I nonetheless believe it is sincerely wrong.

And then there are the self-righteous, plank-in-the-eye Never Trump prigs who slander as having “lost their saltiness,” “sinned against God,” and “compromised their principles,” brothers and sisters who recognize the empirical reality that a vote for a horribly flawed (Lord knows I’m the worst sinner of all) baby Christian as president is a vote against Hillary Clinton’s tyranny in perpetuity.

Hillary and the Horror of Partial-Birth Abortion

The Media Research Center has done America a tremendous service. In 2014 the watchdog organization released a video of an actual partial birth abortion — something Hillary Clinton stood on stage during the final presidential debate, stared into the camera with cold, callous eyes, and then both lied about and defended unequivocally. I plead with Never Trumpers to watch the video and then prayerfully reassess their plans for Nov. 8.

Mrs. Clinton’s beloved late-term abortion practice is one so brutal and needless that even the left-leaning American Medical Association has admitted that it is dangerous to the mother and never necessary under any circumstances, not the least of which is for “the life or health of the mother.”

During a partial-birth abortion, the abortionist pulls a fully “viable” child — often kicking and thrashing — feet first from her mother’s womb, leaving only the top of her head in the birth canal. This is so the abortionist can technically claim to be performing an abortion, rather than committing murder.

He then stabs the child through the base of her skull with scissors, piercing her brain until her kicking and moving about suddenly and violently jerks to a halt. Next, he opens the scissors to enlarge the wound as blood and brainstem fluid gush down his hands, inserts a vacuum tube and sucks out her brains, thereby collapsing her skull.

Her now limp and lifeless body is then cast away like so much garbage.

This is homicide, plain and simple. Hillary Clinton supports it. Donald Trump opposes it.

We deserve God’s wrath and judgment as a nation for allowing this abortion holocaust to occur on our watch. In my estimation, Mrs. Clinton is a bloodthirsty monster who enthusiastically supports this barbarity. Her Supreme Court appointees will ensure that tens of millions of precious babies like the one in the video are murdered in the same brutal manner.

My conscience tells me that I must vote in such a way that exercising my civic duty will have the strongest net effect against Mrs. Clinton and ensure that she is stopped. She must not be elected president. To not vote — or to vote for a non-starter third party candidate, which is effectively the same thing — while not an actual vote for Mrs. Clinton, still puts this Mengele in a pantsuit one step closer to the White House and the Supreme Court.

It’s simple math and it’s undeniable. The most effective thing you can personally do as a citizen is to vote against Mrs. Clinton by voting for Mr. Trump. This does the most electoral damage possible to Candidate Clinton and offers the best chance for life that you can provide future generations.

With its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court put the government’s official stamp of approval on mass murder. Since then, the battle lines have been drawn. This is war. “Pro-choicers” are the bad guys and pro-lifers, the good guys. It really is that simple — that black and white. It’s good versus evil.

History will reflect as much.

Under a President Hillary Clinton, millions more babies will be tortured and dismembered alive. Under a President Donald Trump, these millions might live.

The Devil and Democrats: Oh, how they love derision and division within the body of Christ. (For more from the author of “Why ‘Never Trumpers’ Should Reconsider” please click HERE)

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Hillary’s Climate of Hate

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\Who are the haters? Who are the autocrats? Who are the serial abusers of power?

Only one presidential candidate has wielded the sledgehammer of government against personal enemies.

Only one presidential candidate has exploited a spouse’s public office to exact revenge on political dissenters.

Only one presidential candidate has a quarter-century track record of taxpayer-subsidized demagoguery and class warfare.

And as the most recent undercover investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas revealed this past week, only one presidential candidate has been directly linked to a scheme to foment chaos and violence at her opponent’s rallies.

Ignore the kindly grandma with the “Stronger Together” backdrop warbling about her happy family and singing the praises of diversity and inclusion. Look beyond the carefully manufactured semblance of bipartisanship and moderation.

Remember history — or rather, “herstory.”

Hillary Clinton isn’t just a nasty woman. She’s a ruthless hatemonger devoted wholly to two corrupt pursuits while on the federal teat: tearing down and cashing in.

To clueless millennials, “bimbo eruptions” might sound like a Trumpism. But it was vintage Team Hillary’s misogynistic moniker for horndog Slick Willie’s accuser outbreaks in the 1990s.

Respect for women? This is the snarling elitist who attacked Gennifer Flowers, a paramour of her cheating husband, as a “failed cabaret singer” whom she would verbally “crucify” if she had the chance.

Just how vindictive can Crooked Grandma be? Ask the people who know her best. David Watkins, a former top administrative aide from Arkansas in the Clinton administration, laid out the then-first lady’s central role in the crony-motivated White House travel office firings.

The Clinton’s old pal, Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, had pushed for wholesale dismissal of travel office staff in favor of their connected friends.

“We both know that there would be hell to pay,” Watkins informed Chief of Staff Thomas McLarty if “we failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady’s wishes.”

Indeed, Hill unleashed hell. Watkins was sacked under the guise of punishment for using a government helicopter as transportation to a golfing event — something that’s a privilege for presidents, not peons.

He was far from alone. Bill and Hill’s IRS (two for the price of one, don’t forget) targeted conservative think tanks and nonprofits. Bill and Hill’s FBI improperly and illegally accessed the files of countless citizens who inconveniently ruined the Clinton narrative.

And the woman who just weeks ago mauled millions of Trump supporters nationwide as “irredeemable” and “deplorable” is a pro at sweeping demonizations.

Remember: She made a name for herself attacking life-saving drug companies as greedy profiteers in the 1990s, even as she and her husband raked in their campaign donations.

Money-grubbers never change. While walloping drug companies again last year, she took more money from the nation’s top-15 largest pharmaceutical firms than all the other GOP candidates combined.

The two-faced, split-tongued politician who mocked Trump for calling out America’s rigged system came to power decrying the “vast right-wing conspiracy” to deflect from that blue dress her husband stained. She’s a menace to alternate media, to entrepreneurs, to honest, hard-working people, to the rule of law, public safety and national security.

When you tune out the manufactured noise and distractions, when you ignore the media squirrels and engineered scuffles, when you rip up the gender card and contemplate nearly 25 years of the politics of personal destruction and private enrichment — not to mention the standalone disqualifying scandals of Benghazi, Emailgate and the WikiLeaks disclosures — the choice should not be difficult.

You can take a gamble on the imperfect businessman who has never held public office. Or you can go with the guaranteed continuation of Hillary Clinton’s entrenched climate of hate and culture of corruption. Left, right or center, if you are opposed to Clintonian history repeating itself, you’ll take your chances with Trump. I am. (For more from the author of “Hillary’s Climate of Hate” please click HERE)

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How Hillary Pandered to the Press

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The WikiLeaks email trove is revealing more than the servility of “objective” reporters trying to please Hillary Clinton and her aides. It’s revealing the press strategy of Clinton and her aides — how they seek to praise reporters, even as they arrogantly stonewall them.

One internal campaign email exchange is salient. It discusses Clinton speaking at a Syracuse University event for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, which is so named for the deceased liberal New York Times political correspondent Robin Toner. Clinton had been invited as a keynote speaker.

Her aides discuss how she should try to please the journalists she’d been ignoring by mocking her tendency to avoid journalistic scrutiny. Press secretary Nick Merrill liked the draft of jokes that was sent around as a strategy that never surrenders, saying, “What I liked about it is that it provided a rare opportunity for her to show some contrition and self-awareness but do it under the guise of humor so as not to cede any ground.”

The Clintons never cede any ground and never relinquish their kung-fu grip on their own narrative and imagery. “Guise of humor?” Their contempt for their friends is astounding. The media may not like this, but it doesn’t stop their never-ending cooperation, hence the contempt.

Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri proposed that they “pretend everyone in the audience is a serious, on the level journalist trying to get the story right and cover serious issues in an absurdly difficult environment where speed and mass appeal are over valued.”

And she scripted the rest of the media-pandering approach: “Have her commend them on how hard they all work in this difficult environment to tell the facts, unearth important stories … if (Clinton) acknowledges that and says she and all thoughtful people appreciate the struggle the reporters in the room face, and how (important) it is that they keep at it, how needed they really are — (I) think that would go over really well.”

Clinton did exactly that. First, she admitted she was a control freak with the press, saying, “My relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated.” And she proclaimed: “I am all about new beginnings: a new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press? So here goes. No more secrecy. No more zone of privacy.” She joked that they all had a nondisclosure agreement from her lawyer under their chairs.

Clinton slathered on praise. “You are facing fundamental questions that may not fit into 140 characters but are nonetheless vital to our democracy,” she said. “Too many of our most important debates occur in what I call an evidence-free zone, ideology trumping facts, made-for-cable shoutfests, Twitter storms, drowning out substantive dialogue and reporting that often leads to shallower more contentious politics and even no, or not the best, public policy.”

Clinton closed her remarks with a pitch for the media elite. “We need, more than ever, smart, fair-minded journalists to challenge our assumptions, push us toward new solutions and hold all of us accountable,” she said.

The result? A standing ovation.

Never mind that the Clintons resist at every turn any half-hearted efforts to hold them accountable for all of their scandalous behavior. The only journalism they really respect is the “journalism” that rips their enemies apart or blatantly promotes them as they dishonestly see themselves — as incredibly smart and compassionate public servants with no moral flaws worth noticing. (For more from the author of “How Hillary Pandered to the Press” please click HERE)

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The Astonishing Ignorance of Young Adults

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Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, “Williams, how dare you say that?! We’ve mortgaged our home to send our children to college.”

Let’s start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.

Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn’t fare much better.

By the way, when I attended elementary school, during the 1940s, we were given blank U.S. maps, and our assignment was to write in the states. Today, such an assignment might be deemed oppressive, if not racist.

According to a Philadelphia magazine article, the percentage of college grads who can read and interpret a food label has fallen from 40 to 30. They are six times likelier to know who won “American Idol” than they are to know the name of the speaker of the House. A high school teacher in California handed out an assignment that required students to use a ruler. Not a single student knew how.

An article on News Forum For Lawyers titled “Study Finds College Students Remarkably Incompetent” cites a study done by the American Institutes for Research that revealed over 75 percent of two-year college students and 50 percent of four-year college students were incapable of completing everyday tasks.

About 20 percent of four-year college students demonstrated only basic mathematical ability, while a steeper 30 percent of two-year college students could not progress past elementary arithmetic. NBC News reported that Fortune 500 companies spend about $3 billion annually to train employees in “basic English.”

Reported by Just Facts, in 2009, the Pentagon estimated that 65 percent of 17- to 24-year-olds in the U.S. were unqualified for military service because of weak educational skills, poor physical fitness, illegal drug usage, medical conditions, or criminal records. In January 2014, the commander of the U.S. Army Recruiting Command estimated this figure at 77.5 percent, and in June 2014, the Department of Defense estimated this figure at 71 percent.

A few weeks ago, my column discussed the dishonesty of college officials. Here’s more evidence: Among high- school students who graduated in 2014 and took the ACT college readiness exam, here’s how various racial/ethnic groups fared when it came to meeting the ACT’s college readiness benchmarks in at least three of the four subjects: Asians, 57 percent; whites, 49 percent; Hispanics, 23 percent; and blacks, 11 percent.

However, the college rates of enrollment of these groups were: Asians, 80 percent; whites, 69 percent; Hispanics, 60 percent; and blacks, 57 percent.

What I am labeling as dishonest, fraudulent, or deceitful comes from the fact that many more students are admitted to college than are in fact college-ready. Admitting such students may satisfy the wants and financial interests of the higher education establishment, but whether it serves the interests of students, families, taxpayers, and the nation is another question.

To accommodate less college-ready students, colleges must water down their curricula, lower standards, and abandon traditional tools and topics.

Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein writes in his book “The Dumbest Generation”: Tradition “serves a crucial moral and intellectual function. … People who read Thucydides and Caesar on war, and Seneca and Ovid on love, are less inclined to construe passing fads as durable outlooks, to fall into the maelstrom of celebrity culture, to presume that the circumstances of their own life are worth a webpage.” (For more from the author of “The Astonishing Ignorance of Young Adults” please click HERE)

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What Does It Mean to Be Republican Anymore?

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There is not much that’s clear about this election cycle. The extreme rhetoric and the circus-like atmosphere, surrounded by a shadow of general disbelief that this is actually real life, have called much into question about our two major parties — and, for some, democracy itself.

But after November 8, one thing will be very clear: The Republican Party will need to change.

There are two major platform issues that the Republican Party used to whole heartedly defend — the principle of lower spending, and the protection of life.

If one considers those as litmus tests for the GOP writ large, it’s evident that the GOP of now reflects very little of the conservative ideology that once defined Republicans. To put it simply, this is a party that has become unmoored.

K Street priorities

When it comes to government spending, consider what GOP majorities in the House and Senate have given us. I’ve written about it here time and time again — instead of defending lower spending, fiscal conservatism, and sound economic principles, Republican majorities have supported agendas that increase spending across the board. In fact, not once has this Republican Congress abided by the Budget Control Act — the most significant spending reduction statute in modern history. Rather, this Congress has allowed it to be weakened to the point of insignificance. The same goes for any sort of meaningful attempts at reforming the main drivers of our debt — particularly Social Security and Medicare, not to mention the fiscal monstrosity that is Obamacare.

Instead, the House and Senate leadership have made excuses. The Democratic president will veto our bills, they say. We need to focus on what’s “achievable,” often uttered from the lips of Republican Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (F, 40%). We need to put “points on the board,” (whatever that means).

None of these excuses, however, answer this very basic question: How do you know what you can accomplish if you’re not even willing to try?

Rather than fighting for sound conservative — or even Republican — policy, this Congress has limped along to enthusiastic applause from K Street lobbyists, thankful that they can still get their pork-laden tax extenders, infrastructure spending, pipelines and export-import handouts from a Republican majority — even one that’s been effectively out-maneuvered by Harry Reid, D-Nev. (F, 2%). Indeed, even as Congress plans its agenda for the upcoming lame-duck session, press reports suggest that Senator McConnell plans to consider a health care research bill, nutrition standards bill, and maybe a trade bill — all priorities of K street — instead of using what may be the waning days of a GOP Senate majority to push forward conservative policy.

Sanctity of Life

However, the death knell for the GOP tolls the loudest for the total and complete surrender of the party’s decades-old charge to defend the sanctity of life.

The GOP has long stood for the belief that all life, be it in the womb, or disabled, or disfigured with age or disease, is worthy of dignity and protection. And for a long time, they’ve had credibility on this point. Because of that willingness to fight, the GOP served the larger role of keeping the moral compass of the nation intact — or, at the very least, on the front lines of the national debate.

But that credibility was destroyed last month, when the same GOP that has made pro-life policies a core mission for years put up little more than a whimper before allowing Democrats to send more money to Planned Parenthood — the abortion provider that, since its founding, has facilitated the termination of over seven million infant lives.

The Continuing Resolution (CR) — that “must pass” spending bill that Congress rushed through so they could return to the campaign trail — lacked a critical provision that would have blocked Planned Parenthood from accessing funds to treat the Zika virus. Zika, as you may recall, is a disease that causes birth defects in unborn children. Now that Planned Parenthood — which already receives over $500 million in federal funding each year — has access to new funds, we can easily imagine how they’ll treat the disease.

Republicans cared so little about this issue that they allowed the CR to sail through the House on a 342 to 85 vote, and in the Senate by a vote of 72 to 26. But in an even more craven move, they bragged about passing it, with Republican members congratulating themselves for keeping the government open and providing funding for Zika, Flint, and flooding in Louisiana.

The so-called “pro-life” groups were no better. Their silence on the issue resonated the loudest, as Family Research Council, National Right to Life, and even the Susan B Anthony list remained “neutral” on the CR. I guess some things just aren’t worth fighting for, even when 68% of Americans oppose taxpayer funding for abortions.

The sanctity of life used to be a motivating, centralizing issue for the GOP. Given their actions in September, it’s now no higher on their priority list than managing the budget of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The GOP is a shadow of the party it used to be; perhaps no other issue is more anecdotal that the party has lost its way. Republican members could squabble over many issues, but life was always a hard fought ideal within the Republican Party — especially when it came to federal funding. And while the nomination of Donald Trump has led to much angst-ridden searching and questioning of the state of the party, there is deeper soul searching that must be done. If the GOP no longer stands for fiscal conservatism, small government, and the sanctity of life, what does it stand for?

Without question, November will bring big changes to the national political scene. But if the GOP will survive in any form, it must seek changes that will resonate far past November. A new direction is a necessity, but beyond that, the party must seek to again moor itself to a set of principles it will reliably defend. Absent that, the GOP will be nothing but a blaring voice in the wilderness — and no one will answer back. (For more from the author of “What Does It Mean to Be Republican Anymore?” please click HERE)

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