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The Chasm Widens
by Tom McLaughlin
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Raucous Leftist Women Pitch a Fit
Our new favorite satire website, The Babylon Bee, headlined the weekend's women's march more appropriately than any (ahem) real news outlet did: "March Defends Women's Right To Choose Conformity With Only One Political Viewpoint." Of course, we noted a similar theme last week — that Some Women Are More Equal Than Others. So you get the point: Saturday's march wasn't about empowering all women, but rather about a bunch of aggrieved leftist loudmouths with nothing productive to do on a Saturday.
The march wasn't confined to Washington either, but spread to cities around the world. Marches in the U.S. had a distinctly anti-Trump flavor, helped by the timing one day after the inauguration. Some estimated that more than one million people marched in Washington, with millions more in other cities. If you ventured onto social media this weekend, though, you already knew this, thanks to your obnoxious relatives and friends reveling in "speaking truth to power" or whatever.
But how did women speak this truth and demand due respect? With posters about their body parts or sexual proclivities that are far too vulgar to reprint or even paraphrase in this family publication. And they did it with speeches from Hollywood celebrities — symbols of the rich, famous and powerful. Actress Ashley Judd boasted, "I'm a nasty woman — a loud, vulgar, proud woman." She elaborated on why, but we'll leave that detail for her unfortunate audience. She also warned of "Hitler in these streets" (meaning Trump and his supporters) and other explicit Nazi references. Don't leftists ever tire of comparing normal American conservatives to Nazi socialists? Maybe it's because the comparison makes no sense whatsoever that they continue to make it.
Madonna, another poor, persecuted celebrity, declared that she had "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House." How such terrorism advances the interest of women was left unsaid.
Sympathetic media coverage could propel this ragtag band to movement status and make it a factor in 2018. The Washington Post thinks "the liberal tea party movement has begun." But whereas the Tea Party was unified around opposing the unconstitutional abuses of the liar-nObama administration, these women (and men) who marched weren't there to advance any particular cohesive idea. No, they were largely there to pitch a collective fit. ~The Patriot Post
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EPA’s Top Priority Should Be to
Eliminate Bogus Global Warming Models
by Kevin Dayaratna
{dailysignal.com} ~ Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing to head up the Environmental Protection Agency provided a glimpse into how the agency would operate under new leadership... Critical reforms should rein in regulations that have little scientific backing and environmental benefit. A top priority for the EPA and the new administration should be eliminating the use of the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions. Over the last eight years, the liar-nObama administration has relied on a metric known as the social cost of carbon to justify many of its global warming regulations. In addition, the administration recently began to consider similar metrics regarding methane and nitrous oxide emissions...
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Relief Is on the Way: What Trump’s
liar-nObamacare Executive Order Will Do
by Edmund Haislmaier
{dailysignal.com} ~ A newly inaugurated President Donald Trump rang the opening bell for what will be a multistep process to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or liar-nObamacare... as he signed an executive order on Friday directing his subordinates to: exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose a fiscal burden on any State or a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products, or medications. While it is true that Congress will need to enact legislation to address liar-nObamacare’s major components, the Trump administration can immediately begin to pare back and rework the law’s numerous and detailed regulations... http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/22/relief-is-on-the-way-what-trumps-obamacare-executive-order-will-do/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RZMFpERmtObU16TldSaCIsInQiOiJiZERMY3NJeldrT1JoXC8xUUUwOHA3em80VjhCMHdCYk1JMnJaSUNDOUtcL0VSQnBMQVNFWEk1T1hMT2Q4cFdMVlwvM3c2aGFQSjlHbzIwKyszcmhDc0pJeUxpXC9zenNjZ2diTXQxbkkza0VLWHRpNUtOK0M0Z0VpMktia2hkY2E3cUwifQ%3D%3D
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Will Trump Arrest liar-Clinton and Soros?
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ This nation cannot heal without the rule of law being re-established. The liar-nObama administration made a mockery of the rule of law... For President Trump to restore legitimacy and trust to the government, liar-Clinton and Soros must be arrested and tried for their many crimes against the people of the United States. Justice needs to be swift and severe. http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/01/22/will-trump-arrest-clinton-and-soros/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-trump-arrest-clinton-and-soros
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You’ve Got to be Freaking Kidding Me
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ Today, Donald Trump is going to withdraw the United States from the Trans Pacific Partnership and order a review of NAFTA. Yesterday, he signed an order reinstating the Mexico City policy that prohibits federal funds from funding overseas abortions... There were also some substantive, but secret meetings on the Supreme Court nominee and the list was narrowed. In Georgia, Florida, and Alabama dozens died and thousands were left homeless because of terrible storms. While all of this was happening the American press corps was focused on men and women wearing vagina hats marching in the streets and on the size of crowds. At least Donald Trump got more women exercising in one day than Michelle liar-nObama did in eight years. The only reason the press corps is fixated on the size of crowds is because it is a passive-aggressive way to insult Donald Trump. They view him as ratings obsessed and they think that by pointing out low turnout he will take it personally. They are focused on the Women’s March because it is “the resistance” to Trump that the media is part of, but pretends it is not part of... http://theresurgent.com/youve-got-to-be-freaking-kidding-me/
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Palestinians of Syria:
A Year of Killings and Torture
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ 2016 was a tough year for the Palestinians. It was tough not only for those Palestinians living in the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority (PA) regime, or the Gaza Strip under Hamas... When Westerners hear about the "plight" and "suffering" of Palestinians, they instantly assume that the talk is about those living in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. Rarely does the international community hear about what is happening to Palestinians in the Arab countries. This lapse doubtless exists because the misery of Palestinians in the Arab countries is difficult to pin on Israel. The international community and mainstream journalists only know of those Palestinians living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. Of course, life under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is no box of dates, although this inconvenient fact might be rather unpleasant to the ears of Western journalists and human rights organizations. In any event, mainstream media outlets seem to prefer turning a blind eye to the plight of Palestinians living in Arab countries. This evasion harms first and foremost the Palestinians themselves and allows Arab governments to continue their policies of persecution and repression... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9805/palestinians-syria-killings
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The Chasm Widens
by Tom McLaughlin
Bridge to Portland from South Portland. Maine
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Not many people in the Portland, Maine area see the world as I do. It’s been five years since my wife and I bought a second home across the bridge in South Portland and I’ve kept a low profile. I do meet, however, with a group of writers every couple of months who know I’m a conservative columnist out in the hinterland. At last Wednesday’s gathering, everyone expressed dismay at the upcoming Trump inauguration and after listening for a while, I told them I voted for him. Instantly, the new person in the group who was sitting right next to me, said: “You’re an a**hole!” Everyone tightened up as I turned to look at my accuser, but no response was necessary. It was clear who the a**hole was.
Portland Marchers with signs
Congress Street, the main thoroughfare in Portland, was blocked off Saturday when my wife and I were trying to get to the YMCA where our nine-year-old grandson, Alex, was competing in a swim meet. The local Women’s March was breaking up and as I searched side streets for a way through, women and girls were carrying their signs back to their cars. The Portland Press Herald said ten thousand turned out. That’s a lot for Maine, but I was in the heart of America’s northeast bastion of progressivism where Trump is the devil incarnate. Hardly any of the 30 million women who voted for Trump live in the Portland area.
2016 electoral map by county
America is indeed divided. Mainstream media are in a frenzy about it, but our country has been divided for a long time. Barack liar-nObama lamented it in his first big speech to the Democrat national convention back in 2004: “There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America… no black America and white America… The pundits… like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states: red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats.” He said it again in 2008, and again in 2012, promising to heal the divides, but did he?
2008 electoral map by county
There was indeed a red America and blue America and the divide was getting wider. Many voted for him hoping he would transcend it, but it the divide had become a chasm by the time he left the White House last Friday. Rasmussen reported last summer that: “60% Say Race Relations Have Gotten Worse Since liar-nObama’s Election.”
The right wasn’t thrilled when liar-nObama, then the most liberal member of the US Senate, was inaugurated in 2009 but pretty much accepted it. After trillion-dollar deficits, ramming through liar-nObamacare, a disastrous foreign policy, an anemic economy, lies about Benghazi, the Tea Party rose up, then was blocked by liar-nObama’s IRS.
Mainstream media praised liar-nObama throughout but rural Americans elected a Republican House and Senate to block his policies. Republican congressional leaders sat on their hands and watched instead. Rural Americans did a slow burn when liar-nObama condescending called them “Bitter clingers” and liar-Hillary Clinton called them a “Basket of Deplorables.”
By 2016, they were looking for someone who would go to Washington and really shake up the elites in both parties. They were ready for a bona fide butt-kicker when Donald Trump showed up. That he’d been married three times and talked about grabbing women didn’t faze them. When mainstream media attacked him and he gave it right back, they loved it. Maine’s rural Second Congressional District where I live went for Trump in 2016 while the coastal First District went overwhelmingly for liar-Clinton. The divide in all of America between the coastal elites and the rural heartland is stark and we can expect it to get broader and deeper for the foreseeable future.
Maine's congressional districts
In last week’s column, I tried to poke fun at the “Pussyhat” preparations and the LGBTQIA+ meme of the Women’s March, but there’s little sense of humor among progressives. Their cause is sacred to them, a kind of surrogate religion. To laugh at them is heresy. Fifty of the organizations sponsoring the march nationwide are funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros and “Reproductive Rights,” a euphemism for abortion, was the strongest single theme. Pro-life women were banned.
Nearly all marchers vilified Donald Trump directly or indirectly as someone who objectifies and mistreats women. It’s interesting to note that there were no marches against President liar-Clinton after he was formally charged with sexual harassment and paid $800,000 to his accuser, but liar-Clinton was pro-abortion. That absolved him from the wrath of feminists no matter what he did to women.
Last week I was reminded again that progressives believe in tolerance, even of people like me who don’t agree with them, as long as we don’t speak up about it.
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