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Leftism Is Not Liberalism
by Dennis Prager
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Thursday Top Headlines
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ICE: 14,000 detained illegal aliens getting free health care at 21 facilities in 10 states (CNS News)
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One-star reviews of liar-Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened” disappear on Amazon (The Washington Times)
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Last-chance liar-nObamaCare repeal bill includes waivers from insurance regulations (Washington Examiner)
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Stunning testimony: Voting machines can be hacked without a trace of evidence (The Washington Times)
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~The Patriot Post
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Dobbs and Shaffer – Comey Finally
Now Under Investigation By DOJ Inspector General
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs opens the segment with a reminder to his audience that they’ve been calling for an investigation into and the prosecution of James Comey for months... Dobbs announces, “And the Justice Department, we learned today, is now investigating Comey and the Department of Justice Inspector General leading the investigation on two fronts.” They’re looking at Comey’s role in the liar-Hillary Clinton “investigation” as well as any potential violations of the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act prohibits overt partisan political conduct on the part of our government officials. The White House is understandably pleased, though they might also be quite understandably exasperated at the length of time it took to get the investigation going... https://rickwells.us/dobbs-shaffer-comey-inspector/.
Menendez Helped Co-Defendant
on Visas, Ex-Aide Testifies
Dr. Salomon Melgen
by nbcnews.com
{nbcnews.com} ~ A former staffer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez testified Monday that the New Jersey Democrat was involved in helping with the visa applications of friends of a wealthy doctor who is on trial with him... Under direct questioning from the government, former senior policy adviser Mark Lopes testified that Menendez emailed him in 2008 authorizing a letter of support from Menendez to be sent to consular officials regarding the visa applications of two sisters from the Dominican Republic. One of the emails sent around the time had a subject line that read: "Dr. Melgen's request." When the applications were denied despite Menendez's signed letter, Lopes testified, Menendez instructed him to reach out to the U.S. ambassador... https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/menendez-helped-co-defendant-visas-ex-aide-testifies-n800426?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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Sorry, liar-Hillary, But Benghazi Isn’t Going Away
by JIM TREACHER
{dailycaller.com} ~ I’m glad liar-Hillary Clinton isn’t president, and I enjoy the despair of the poor souls who think she should be. But that isn’t sufficient justice for what she’s done... She gets to waddle around promoting her latest stupid book, she gets to bask in the adulation of Democrats and the media (pardon the redundancy), while her uselessness, dishonesty, and flat-out lawlessness continues to go unpunished. As this awful woman reminds America why we don’t like her as a person, it’s worthwhile to remember that she’s also inept and duplicitous in her professional life. Nothing is going to happen to this incompetent scofflaw, beyond the humiliation of losing and making ridiculous excuses for it. Trump isn’t going to lock her up. And you’re not getting your border wall either, incidentally. But she can’t make us forget what happened. That self-pitying loser can’t erase what she did, and what she didn’t do... http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/13/sorry-hillary-but-benghazi-isnt-going-away/?utm_medium=email
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Odd Nervous Laughter From Pulosi As
She Repeatedly Butchers Lib Honoree’s Name
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ On Tuesday House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi spoke from a prepared text, with the name of the recipient she was honoring written down right in front of her, as liberal playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda was being honored by the US Capitol Historical Society... Miranda is the author of the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” who was being presented with the Freedom Award. Speaking has been a bit of a challenge for Pulosi over the past year at times, but it shouldn’t be that tough of a name to negotiate. A speech coach might have told her to slow down, break it down into three parts. Read each one individually and she’d have gotten through it just fine. The guy’s a huge lib and his play is presented as a thinly-veiled attack on white Americans and Republicans. It’s nice to see something so basic and personal as his name thoroughly butchered by this lame-brained Democrat witch... https://rickwells.us/odd-pelosi-lib-name/.
liar-nOBAMA Back To Agitating –
RECRUITING and Training Drive For NEW RADICALS
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Once again we Americans are being given a reason to ask the nagging question, “Why won’t liar-nObama just shut up and go away?”... He had his time to destroy this nation and damn near succeeded. Can’t he leave us alone to recover? He probably could, but he won’t. We’re not supposed to recover and his work isn’t finished. Fundamental transformation can be started in 8 years but it couldn’t be completed in that time. And with President Trump being elected instead of liar-Hillary Clinton, the entire globalist timetable has been thrown off. But progressives never stop pressing, they’re always working to advance their communist agenda. We’re never going to be rid of liar-nObama as long as he’s a free man jetting around the planet, doing his communist community organizing... https://rickwells.us/obama-recruiting-training-radicals/.
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Leftism Is Not Liberalism
by Dennis Prager
{townhall.com} ~ What is the difference between a leftist and a liberal?
Answering this question is vital to understanding the crisis facing America and the West today. Yet few seem able to do it. I offer the following as a guide.
Here's the first thing to know: The two have almost nothing in common.
On the contrary, liberalism has far more in common with conservatism than it does with leftism. The left has appropriated the word "liberal" so effectively that almost everyone -- liberals, leftists and conservatives -- thinks they are synonymous.
But they aren't. Let's look at some important examples.
Race: This is perhaps the most obvious of the many moral differences between liberalism and leftism. The essence of the liberal position on race was that the color of one's skin is insignificant. To liberals of a generation ago, only racists believed that race is intrinsically significant. However, to the left, the notion that race is insignificant is itself racist. Thus, the University of California officially regards the statement "There is only one race, the human race" as racist. For that reason, liberals were passionately committed to racial integration. Liberals should be sickened by the existence of black dormitories and separate black graduations on university campuses.
Capitalism: Liberals have always been pro capitalism, recognizing it for what it is: the only economic means of lifting great numbers out of poverty. Liberals did often view government as able to play a bigger role in lifting people out of poverty than conservatives, but they were never opposed to capitalism, and they were never for socialism. Opposition to capitalism and advocacy of socialism are leftist values.
Nationalism: Liberals deeply believed in the nation-state, whether their nation was the United States, Great Britain or France. The left has always opposed nationalism because leftism is rooted in class solidarity, not national solidarity. The left has contempt for nationalism, seeing in it intellectual and moral primitivism at best, and the road to fascism at worst. Liberals always wanted to protect American sovereignty and borders. The notion of open borders would have struck a liberal as just as objectionable as it does a conservative. It is emblematic of our time that the left-wing writers of Superman comics had Superman announce a few years ago, "I intend to speak before the United Nations tomorrow and inform them that I am renouncing my American citizenship." When the writers of Superman were liberal, Superman was not only an American but one who fought for "Truth, justice, and the American way." But in his announcement, he explained that motto is "not enough anymore."
View of America: Liberals venerated America. Watch American films from the 1930s through the 1950s and you will be watching overtly patriotic, America-celebrating films -- virtually all produced, directed and acted in by liberals. Liberals well understand that America is imperfect, but they agree with a liberal icon named Abraham Lincoln that America is "the last best hope of earth."
To the left, America is essentially a racist, sexist, violent, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic country. The left around the world loathe America, and it is hard to imagine why the American left would differ in this one way from fellow leftists around the world. Leftists often take offense at having their love of America doubted. But those left-wing descriptions of America are not the only reason to assume that the left has more contempt than love for America. The left's view of America was encapsulated in then-presidential candidate Barack liar-nObama's statement in 2008. "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America," he said.
Now, if you were to meet a man who said that he wanted to fundamentally transform his wife, or a woman who said that about her husband, would you assume that either loved their spouse? Of course not.
Free speech: The difference between the left and liberals regarding free speech is as dramatic as the difference regarding race. No one was more committed than American liberals to the famous statement "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Liberals still are. But the left is leading the first nationwide suppression of free speech in American history -- from the universities to Google to almost every other institution and place of work. It claims to only oppose hate speech. But protecting the right of person A to say what person B deems objectionable is the entire point of free speech.
Western civilization: Liberals have a deep love of Western civilization. They taught it at virtually every university and celebrated its unique moral, ethical, philosophical, artistic, musical and literary achievements. No liberal would have joined the leftist Rev. Jesse Jackson in chanting at Stanford University: "Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Western civ has got to go." The most revered liberal in American history is probably former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who frequently cited the need to protect not just Western civilization but Christian civilization. Yet leftists unanimously denounced President Donald Trump for his speech in Warsaw, Poland, in which he spoke of protecting Western civilization. They argued not only that Western civilization is not superior to any other civilization but also that it is no more than a euphemism for white supremacy.
Judaism and Christianity: Liberals knew and appreciated the Judeo-Christian roots of American civilization. They themselves went to church or synagogue, or at the very least appreciated that most of their fellow Americans did. The contempt that the left has -- and has always had -- for religion (except for Islam today) is not something with which a liberal would ever have identified.
If the left is not defeated, American and Western civilization will not survive. But the left will not be defeated until good liberals understand this and join the fight. Dear liberals: Conservatives are not your enemy. The left is.
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