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by Tom McLaughlin

How Democrats came to love 'coequal'

by Byron York

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The divided government of 2019 is a mirror image of the divided government of 2011. Back then, Democrats controlled the White House and Senate... while Republicans had recently taken control of the House with a big victory in the 2010 midterm elections. Today, Republicans control the White House and Senate, while Democrats have recently taken control of the House with a big victory in the 2018 midterm elections. It's the same situation, essentially. But today there is a vastly different public conversation about the balance of power in government. These days, we are often reminded that Congress is a coequal branch of government, and therefore, Speaker Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif., stands on an even level with President Trump. Back in 2011, when the two players were Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, there wasn't as much of that kind of talk. A comparison, from the Nexis database of newspapers, magazines, websites, and television transcripts: From Election Day 2010 until Jan. 20, 2011, there were 18 mentions of "Boehner" and "coequal." From Election Day 2018 until Jan. 20, 2019, there were 683 mentions of "Pulosi" and "coequal."Democrats have been saying it every day, starting with Pulosi the morning after the election. Congress' role is "not to be a rubberstamp, but a coequal branch," she said, adding that she and her colleagues had a "responsibility for oversight as an independent, coequal branch." Pulosi said much the same many more times by Jan. 3, when she officially won the speaker's gavel. In her first speech on the House floor, she said, "The legislative branch is Article I: the first branch of government, coequal to the president and judiciary."... She needs to read the constitution not what she feels or thanks.

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The Democrats Own the Shutdown

by William Sullivan

{americanthinker.com} ~ Chuck scumbag-Schumer may well have been pleased when President Trump signified his willingness to shut down the government to advance border security to fulfill his most politically charged campaign promise... Even some conservative pundits were aghast at Trump’s audacity in making such a proclamation, because, as everyone knows, Americans hate government shutdowns. But scumbag-Schemer and company don’t really hate government shutdowns. In fact, back in November, scumbag-Schumer threatened to shut down the federal government over his demand that the dirty cop-Mueller investigation be protected by Congress after the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. “If Trump’s interim Attorney General Whitaker does not recuse himself,” wrote Michele Blood at LifeZette on November 11, “scumbag-Schumer said he would attach a demand for Whitaker’s non-interference to “must pass” legislation such as the spending bill -- then risking another shutdown.” Where were all the headlines about scumbag-Schumer’s desire to shut down the government to protect dirty cop-Mueller’s investigation? To say that they were few and far between would be unjustifiably generous to the media. There are two things that are absolutely certain. First, “must-spend” legislation is far more common than it used to be, given that we now have a make-believe debt limit which is ignored “suspension” is the verbiage used more often, in an effort to feign fiscal responsibility and exceeded. In other words, most new spending legislation requires congressional agreement on how much will be spent, and on what, or the government will shut down. Second, Democrats believe that a government shutdown, for any reason, can be blamed on Republicans, and that the media will help advance that narrative... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/the_democrats_own_the_shutdown.html

The Race to the Far Left

by GEORGE NEUMAYR

{spectator.org} ~ scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton ran far to Donald Trump’s left and lost much of the country. It appears from the early crop of Democratic presidential contenders... that the party’s 2020 strategy is to offer an even starker ideological choice. They sound ready to run an even more bi-coastal campaign than scumbag/liar-Hillary’s, which will leave much of the center open to Trump and keep the right galvanized. The buzz around lowlife-Kamala Harris is this week’s window on the party’s far-left fixations. lowlife-Harris is so far to the left she considers membership in the Knights of Columbus a hate crime. A few weeks ago, she took a run at a Trump judicial nominee for that high offense, treating him as the moral equivalent of a KKK member. It appears that lowlife-Harris and her colleague Dianne Fein-stein are in a competition to see who can strike a greater blow for anti-Catholic bigotry. While Fein-stein worries about the “dogma living loudly” within Catholic judicial nominees, lowlife-Harris wanted to know if Brian Buescher was “aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization.” For lowlife-Kamala Harris, the only good Catholic is a bad one. But of course she has received almost no flak for her open display of anti-Catholic bigotry. Such radicalism barely even registers with the media, which has its own anti-Christian narratives to push, such as its ginned-up controversy about Karen Pence’s employment at an “anti-LGBTQ school.” CNN headlined one of its stories about the matter, “Pence Praises Wife Despite Controversy.” For the Democrats and the media, the mere participation of Christians in public life remains an ongoing “controversy,” which they feel entitled to protest or report until they have disappeared from public life. That such a stance has driven Christians into the arms of Trump doesn’t seem to bother them. lowlife-Kamala Harris thinks that she can seize upon this moment of secularist smugness. But it gives her even less national appeal than scumbag/liar-Hillary. lowlife-Harris is the prototypical San Francisco Democrat, for whom most of the country’s population falls into a basket of deplorables. She is running on a platform of socialism, secularism, and sanctuary cities... https://spectator.org/the-race-to-the-far-left/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=f305308e3b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_22_11_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-f305308e3b-104608113

Trump Jr.: Michael Cohen wasn’t taken seriously

on Trump Tower Moscow project

by Diana Stancy Correll

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen wasn’t taken very seriously when he worked to secure a Trump Tower deal in Moscow... and wasn’t a “deal guy,” according to Donald Trump Jr. Despite Cohen’s efforts, Trump Jr., who is an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said there were many unknowns for the project, including the developer and the site, but didn’t disclose when the deal was last discussed with Cohen. “Ultimately, it was Michael Cohen essentially trying to get a deal done,” Trump Jr. told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday evening. “He was there for a long time, he wasn't exactly a deal guy. He didn’t bring too many to the table, so I don't think anyone took it all that seriously. That is the reality of what went on.”The comments follow BuzzFeed News' bombshell report that claimed Trump Jr, along with his father President Trump and his sister Ivanka Trump, requested Cohen to move forward on a Trump Tower in Moscow and check in with them about the potential project throughout the 2016 election. The report claimed Trump told Cohen to lie when the deal was being discussed to Congress, but in a rare public statement special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office disputed the story. BuzzFeed has stood by its reporting...

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Male Issues

by Tom McLaughlin

At the Women's March

{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Men aren’t doing well here in the 21st century. Male life expectancy has always been lower than that of females by about five years but lately, it is declining further. Researchers cite what they call “deaths of despair” in non-college-educated white men aged 45-54. “The mortality rate for that group… increased by a half percent each year from 1999 to 2013,” according to NPR, mostly because of suicide, drugs, and alcohol, yet progressives insist men should renounce their “white male privilege.” It would appear that white men are feeling anything but privileged.

Fifty years ago, 60% of those with bachelor’s degrees were men. Today the reverse is true. Boys are behind girls in primary and secondary schools as well and according to a 2002 60 Minutes report they’ve been falling behind for along time. Increasingly, boys simply don’t like school. For many parents, it’s a fight to get their sons to school every morning.

During my teaching career, it was clear that the culture of most public school classrooms suited girls much more than boys, many of whom found it confining and restrictive. They needed more active, hands-on activities such as a vocational school environment would provide. Unfortunately, those were reserved for high school boys only — by which time many had developed profoundly negative feelings about school and themselves that were very hard to penetrate.

Men who do go to college might be considered part of a “rape culture,” especially white men. Ask the Duke Lacrosse team. Ask the University of Virginia’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity about “rape culture.” With no evidence, and only on the word of a single woman in each case, two large universities made these young men’s lives hell because both institutions denied the men any presumption of innocence and automatically assumed the worst. The same phenomenon led to the Kavanaugh Hearings debacle.

At the Women's March

This is not to deny that a lot of men behave abominably toward women and always have. Such men have little or nocontrol over their sexual urges and don’t think they need to either, no matter who is hurt by their actions. Relatively recent laws against sexual harassment were much needed and overdue, but presumption of innocence and due process must be enforced at all times.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPPf3sZIo-Q

Last week’s news included articles on “toxic masculinity” and a Gillette commercial titled: “Is This The Best A Man Can Get?” Several conservative pundits objected but I saw little problem with it. It dramatized examples of men and boys bullying others and disrespecting women, but also of good men speaking up and acting to intervene.

Conspicuous by its absence in any of this was the plague of pornography to which so many men and boys have become addicted, and which contributes enormously to the dehumanization of women. That scourge was never mentioned.

At the March For Life

Last weekend there were two women’s marches in Washington. Friday saw the 44th March for Life. It was attended by a hundred thousand or more conservative women and a few men marching against abortion. Saturday it was the 3rd annual Women’s March with liberal women and many themes: Mostly it was a march against President Trump because the 1st march occurred the day after his inauguration. Second to that was a pro-abortion theme. Then there were climate change, black lives matter, and an anti-male theme. One sign called for the extinction of old white men.

At the Women's March

Numbers were down at the Women’s March after a controversy over anti-Semitism — especially that of Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. One of the March’s organizers, Tamika Mallory, has a close association with Farrakhan and refused to denounce his Anti-Semitic statements. Ironically, it was Farrakhan who organized the Million Man March which drew more than 400,000 in 2005 and pushed themes of black unity, personal responsibility, and respect for black women — all good things it would seem. Anti-semitic remarks by Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian Muslim, drove down numbers as well.

At the Women's March

Meanwhile, $4.4 million in taxpayer money funded an American Psychological Association study that purports to define “traditional masculinity” and especially what it sees as negative aspects of it. Psychologists from Clark University and other institutions contributed to the "First-Ever Guidelines for Practice with Men and Boys," which includes, for example, a "Male Role Norms Inventory-Short Form” by former APA President Ronald Levant — an analysis of how much “toxic masculinity” men have as determined by questions like: “Do you think men should be macho, or do you lean more to the metrosexual?” That is the highlighted question on his web site.

At the Women's March

Levant discounts biological differences between men and women, believing masculinity is entirely a social construct. I suspect that when men learn more about the APA’s new guidelines, even fewer will seek counseling from guys like Levant. They’d rather kill themselves.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2019/01/male-issues.html

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