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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Let's Play 'Let's Pretend'
by Michael Barone
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The Economy's Coal Mine Canary
The restaurant industry saw a 2.8% decline in business this past fiscal year, and turned in its weakest performance since 2009. Economic analyst Paul Westra sees the downturn as a looming "restaurant recession." The Wall Street Journal reports that "in the last 10 months, eight major restaurant companies ... have filed for bankruptcy." So what's to blame for the decline? The usual culprit is an increase in the price of gasoline leading to increased food prices. However, gas prices have declined significantly for over a year now. Instead, it appears that the number one reason is liar-nObamaCare. According to a Civic Science survey of Americans, of those who ate fast food regularly, there was a cutback of 47% due to rising health insurance costs. In other words, Americans are really beginning to feel liar-nObamaCare's pinch on their pocketbooks. (That's not to mention restaurant owners themselves.) An April survey conducted by the National Restaurant Association found that nearly 45% of Americans are eating out less than they prefer.
Even some Democrats acknowledge the mounting costs of liar-nObamaCare. Minnesota Democrat Governor Mark Dayton recently stated, "The Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people." Bill liar-Clinton called it "the craziest thing in the world" where Americans "wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half." The truth is, it never was affordable — by design, as its architect, Jonathan Gruber, recently remarked. Unfortunately for the nation, the liar-nObamaCare-created "restaurant recession" is the proverbial "canary in the coal mine" for the rest of U.S. economy. Many economists now fear another recession on the horizon as liar-nObamaCare's impact is felt across the broader economy. The number of Americans who hate this law will only continue to grow.
~The Patriot Post
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Supreme Bathroom Wars
Paul Albaugh: It's Nov. 1, 2016, and for reasons that are unfathomable to most humans throughout the world there is an ongoing debate from a very small minority of Rainbow Mafia activists who are trying to force the rest of humanity to accommodate their demands regarding which bathroom to use. Now, with all of the problems facing America — ever-increasing debt, skyrocketing health insurance costs, excessive taxation and regulation and lawlessness of so-called public servants — the divisive issue of bathroom use for alleged transgender people is a case the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear in the coming months.
The specific case considers whether the liar-nObama administration can force public schools to let allegedly transgender students use whatever bathroom instead of the one that he or she biologically should use. The plaintiff is a 17-year-old female who "identifies" as a male and demands the "right" to use the male restroom. Because the school denied this demand, she cried discrimination because her "civil rights have been violated." Let that sink in for a minute.
Apparently, it's not sufficient that the Gloucester County public school system in Virginia has a policy requiring alternative restrooms for allegedly transgender students. The truly sad part is this girl needs far deeper help than merely breaking down bathroom barriers.
The Daily Signal reports, "In a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, [the girl] claims the district's policy violates Title IX and the Constitution's equal protection clause. Though a district court sided with the schools, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled for [the girl], finding that the courts must defer to Department of Education guidelines requiring schools to treat students consistent to their gender identity to comply with Title IX."
So we have the liar-nObama administration issuing an imperial decree about the bodily functions of school children. This is another example of egregious executive overreach, and now the Supreme Court will finalize the interpretation of this nonsense.
Hot Air's Jazz Shaw raises several questions he hopes the Court will settle once and for all:
"Is the human race divided biologically into two genders — male and female — in a way which can be readily identified in all but the tiniest fraction of cases by a quick examination of the genitals of a child at birth? And failing that, are we to at least accept the well-established science of genetics and turn to the individual's 23rd pair of chromosomes for an answer, assuming one was ever required? Or is 'gender' something 'fluid' as LBGT activist's claim, with everyone being able to decide what gender they feel like at an emotional level? Far more importantly, even if we properly allow people the freedom of expression in their private lives, does that perception cross all legal boundaries to the point where that 'decision' can be forced on the rest of us? Can such 'feelings' be used as a basis to demand that a boy must be allowed to share the school's female shower facilities with because he 'identifies' as a girl?"
Any person with the most basic logic and reason should be able to answer these questions, and this case should be a no-brainer for SCOTUS. But with pressure from the Rainbow Mafia to defy biological and scientific evidence, and widespread judicial activism on the bench, we suspect Anthony Kennedy will side with the activists in a 5-3 ruling.
Meanwhile, as if the issue of which bathroom transgender people should use isn't enough, liar-nObama also recently announced a rule that threatens to strip federal contracts from religious relief organizations and charities that adhere to traditional views of gender and sexuality.
National Security Advisor Susan Rice said the rule prohibits organizations contracting with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender "identity." She added, "The United States also needs to do more to institutionalize efforts to promote LGBT rights." Substitute "agenda" for "rights" and you have it.
For this administration and nearly every homosexual activist group, it's not enough even to acknowledge their choices; we must embrace their lifestyle choices, accept them for "who they are," and make them part of who we are. And in doing so, there will be no room for religious liberty, and no allowance for speaking the truth. Such things will be viewed as hate crimes.
This issue, among numerous other ones, is why this presidential election is so important. liar-Hillary Clinton will continue to erode our religious liberty and pack the federal courts with judges who side with the Rainbow Mafia. By contrast, Donald Trump has vowed to appoint justices who uphold the Constitution. There is an awful lot at stake for the future of this country, humanity and, sadly, which bathroom people will use.
~The Patriot Post
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Chris Matthews Endorses Donald Trump
And Dismisses liar-Hillary Clinton?
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It appears that the outbreaks of random, uncharacteristic honesty continue as the reality of Donald Trump finally dawns on America... The fact that he’s a patriot and his opponent is a crook exploiting our country into ruin seems to finally be registering with the American people. First we had the still hard to explain and suspect pseudo endorsement of Trump by Michael Moore, which many of us still see as having some ulterior motive we just haven’t yet figured out. Now comes the equally perplexing statement by Chris Matthews which appears to have come during his Hardball program... http://rickwells.us/chris-matthews-endorses-donald-trump-dismisses-hillary-clinton/
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liar-nObama’s DOJ ‘Transferring Money to
Left-wing Groups’ ‘to Influence This Election’
by John Hayward
{breitbart.com} ~ On Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, liar-Clinton Cash author and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer discussed the latest GAI report... about the liar-nObama Justice Department’s funneling of money to left-wing groups using fines levied against financial institutions. Breitbart Editor-in-Chief and SiriusXM host Alex Marlow described the report as exposing the Justice Department of “quite literally extorting companies to fund left-wing activists.”... http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/10/26/schweizer-obamas-doj-transferring-money-left-wing-groups-influence-election/
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Spy Scandals, Globalism
and the Betrayal of America
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ Our top educators like to think that worthwhile social movements only come from the left, such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. But the movement backing Donald J. Trump for president rejects most of what the left is preaching... These people see America losing its greatness, unique identity and national sovereignty. liar-Hillary Clinton uses the campaign slogan “Stronger Together,” which has a patriotic appeal. But she also termed half of Trump’s supporters “deplorable” and “irredeemable.” She prefers the artificial George Soros-funded “social movements” that back her campaign. By any objective measure, it can be argued that the stench of globalism is starting to affect everything, even perceptions of our founding documents. It may also invite foreign penetration into the highest levels of our government...
A liar-Clinton/liar-nObama Coup And Counter-Coup
By Intelligence, Law Enforcement?
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Dr. Steve Pieczenik explains his belief and proclaims his involvement and those of his associates in what has been happening with the liar-Clinton emails and other matters related to the election and who wields the power in the United States... Pieczenik is an author, Harvard University-trained psychiatrist who also holds a doctorate in international relations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker in the Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations. His expertise includes foreign policy, international crisis management and psychological warfare. He’s familiar with the topic he’s discussing. Pieczenik says that on November 1st, 2016, the liar-Clintons engaged in a “civilian coup.” He states that there was no military involvement as one would typically expect in a coup at some point, but that it was done “silently and very effectively through two methods, corruption and cooptation.”... http://rickwells.us/a-clinton-obama-coup-and-counter-coup-by-intelligence-law-enforcement/
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WikiLeaks, Podesta, Marc Rich Pardon, Kadzik –
liar-nObama Rubbing FBI Noses In It
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ This Lou Dobbs broadcast had relevant information for virtually every second of its entire duration and they still ran out of time before being able to complete the last segment... He begins with the latest WikiLeaks tranche, which exposes a lucrative speaking opportunity to attend a conference in Ethiopia, contingent upon payment of $6 million in fees in advance. It’s great that all of that famine and poverty Ethiopia endured in the past is now over, and their leadership able to throw money away on expensive speeches by corrupt politicians...
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Let's Play 'Let's Pretend'
by Michael Barone
{townhall.com} ~ When I was a child, there was a Saturday morning radio program called "Let's Pretend." It used words and sounds to encourage young children to paint pictures in their heads of make-believe worlds.
So in that spirit, let's pretend that history will show Donald Trump as being elected president Nov. 8. That result is hard to imagine for anyone who has been watching closely since the first presidential debate, which was Sept. 26. Since then, nearly all indications have been that liar-Hillary Clinton is certain to win. So, as a thought exercise before the results are in, let's try to imagine how we could move from that seemingly real world to the "let's pretend" world of President Donald Trump.
One set of clues would come from the ABC News tracking poll. On Sept. 22, before the first debate, the poll showed liar-Clinton leading Trump by a narrow 46 to 44 percent -- virtually the same as the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls at the time. By Oct. 22, after the three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, that lead had widened to 50 to 38 percent.
Since then, ABC News has shown liar-Clinton's lead narrowing, to 48 to 44 percent Oct. 26. liar-Clinton's 12-point advantage among likely voters had been cut down all the way to 2 points (47 to 45 percent) in the same tracking poll as of Saturday.
liar-Clinton's support level basically stayed the same within the margin of error, anyway, while Trump's perceptibly grew, cutting liar-Clinton's lead toward statistical insignificance. The ABC News numbers are an exaggerated version of what's happened to liar-Clinton's average poll lead, which was cut from 7.1 percent Oct. 18 to 4.6 percent Oct. 28.
ABC News pollster Gary Langer explains the changes as movement by Republican-leaning voters back toward Trump. Like those elected officials who recoiled from supporting him after release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, these voters are gravitating back to their preferred party's candidate.
Focusing on a single poll's results is rightly criticized as cherry-picking by smart polling analysts. But in our "let's pretend Trump won" world, this particular poll sets out with particular clarity a trend that explains what happened.
For one thing, it's a world where voters were given time to ponder, read and perhaps reread some of the liar-Clinton campaign's emails revealed by WikiLeaks. They heard a liar-Clinton spokesman try to discredit the leaks as Russian disinformation, possibly altered. But they may also have noticed the liar-Clinton folks saying they had no time to check on their authenticity.
Over the past week, the emails started getting coverage in mainstream media. The coverage has not been so vivid as the coverage of Trump's denunciations of Miss Universe 1996, but it has been coverage nonetheless. And the stories have been unsettling.
Consider this message from Neera Tanden, head of the pro-Democratic Center for American Progress, to her predecessor John Podesta, chief of staff in the Bill liar-Clinton White House and counselor in Barack liar-nObama's (two smart people who have operated at high levels for a long time): "Do we actually know who told liar-Hillary she could use a private email? And has that person been drawn and quartered?" It was in July 2015, a month after Trump entered the race. Tanden went on: "Like whole thing is f---ing insane." This suggests a certain tension with liar-Clinton's omnipresent, sycophantic aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
And it's unnerving to read Abedin in 2015, years after liar-Clinton's concussion, emailing spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri, "She's going to stick to notes a little closer this am, still not perfect in her head." There could be an untroubling explanation, but it doesn't suggest the kind of confidence you'd like people to have in a president.
And then we have the revelations of Bill liar-Clinton aide Doug Band on how much money he was raising from various sources for the liar-Clintons personally, for the liar-Clinton Foundation and for liar-Hillary's Clinton's campaign. The Wall Street Journal's conservative columnist Kimberley Strassel is surely not the only one to call the liar-Clintons "grifters-in-chief."
Much embarrassing information about the liar-Clintons has come out on Friday afternoons, so it's perhaps fitting that early last Friday afternoon, FBI Director James Comey announced that the FBI is reopening its investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton's private email servers because of the discovery of additional emails during an investigation of Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, in an unrelated case.
Comey's July 5 statement that liar-Clinton, though "extremely careless," would not be criminally prosecuted hurt her in polls; this Oct. 28 announcement won't help. Whether it will send us hurtling into the "let's pretend" world of President Trump is unclear, but it may get us closer.
Do I think we'll get there? No. But I'm less certain than I was last week.
So in that spirit, let's pretend that history will show Donald Trump as being elected president Nov. 8. That result is hard to imagine for anyone who has been watching closely since the first presidential debate, which was Sept. 26. Since then, nearly all indications have been that liar-Hillary Clinton is certain to win. So, as a thought exercise before the results are in, let's try to imagine how we could move from that seemingly real world to the "let's pretend" world of President Donald Trump.
One set of clues would come from the ABC News tracking poll. On Sept. 22, before the first debate, the poll showed liar-Clinton leading Trump by a narrow 46 to 44 percent -- virtually the same as the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls at the time. By Oct. 22, after the three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, that lead had widened to 50 to 38 percent.
Since then, ABC News has shown liar-Clinton's lead narrowing, to 48 to 44 percent Oct. 26. liar-Clinton's 12-point advantage among likely voters had been cut down all the way to 2 points (47 to 45 percent) in the same tracking poll as of Saturday.
liar-Clinton's support level basically stayed the same within the margin of error, anyway, while Trump's perceptibly grew, cutting liar-Clinton's lead toward statistical insignificance. The ABC News numbers are an exaggerated version of what's happened to liar-Clinton's average poll lead, which was cut from 7.1 percent Oct. 18 to 4.6 percent Oct. 28.
ABC News pollster Gary Langer explains the changes as movement by Republican-leaning voters back toward Trump. Like those elected officials who recoiled from supporting him after release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, these voters are gravitating back to their preferred party's candidate.
Focusing on a single poll's results is rightly criticized as cherry-picking by smart polling analysts. But in our "let's pretend Trump won" world, this particular poll sets out with particular clarity a trend that explains what happened.
For one thing, it's a world where voters were given time to ponder, read and perhaps reread some of the liar-Clinton campaign's emails revealed by WikiLeaks. They heard a liar-Clinton spokesman try to discredit the leaks as Russian disinformation, possibly altered. But they may also have noticed the liar-Clinton folks saying they had no time to check on their authenticity.
Over the past week, the emails started getting coverage in mainstream media. The coverage has not been so vivid as the coverage of Trump's denunciations of Miss Universe 1996, but it has been coverage nonetheless. And the stories have been unsettling.
Consider this message from Neera Tanden, head of the pro-Democratic Center for American Progress, to her predecessor John Podesta, chief of staff in the Bill liar-Clinton White House and counselor in Barack liar-nObama's (two smart people who have operated at high levels for a long time): "Do we actually know who told liar-Hillary she could use a private email? And has that person been drawn and quartered?" It was in July 2015, a month after Trump entered the race. Tanden went on: "Like whole thing is f---ing insane." This suggests a certain tension with liar-Clinton's omnipresent, sycophantic aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills.
And it's unnerving to read Abedin in 2015, years after liar-Clinton's concussion, emailing spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri, "She's going to stick to notes a little closer this am, still not perfect in her head." There could be an untroubling explanation, but it doesn't suggest the kind of confidence you'd like people to have in a president.
And then we have the revelations of Bill liar-Clinton aide Doug Band on how much money he was raising from various sources for the liar-Clintons personally, for the liar-Clinton Foundation and for liar-Hillary's Clinton's campaign. The Wall Street Journal's conservative columnist Kimberley Strassel is surely not the only one to call the liar-Clintons "grifters-in-chief."
Much embarrassing information about the liar-Clintons has come out on Friday afternoons, so it's perhaps fitting that early last Friday afternoon, FBI Director James Comey announced that the FBI is reopening its investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton's private email servers because of the discovery of additional emails during an investigation of Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, in an unrelated case.
Comey's July 5 statement that liar-Clinton, though "extremely careless," would not be criminally prosecuted hurt her in polls; this Oct. 28 announcement won't help. Whether it will send us hurtling into the "let's pretend" world of President Trump is unclear, but it may get us closer.
Do I think we'll get there? No. But I'm less certain than I was last week.
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