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Patriot Headlines | Grassroots Commentary Daily Digest
July 9, 2015
THE FOUNDATION"No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." —James Madison, Federalist No. 47, 1788TOP RIGHT HOOKSPolitical Winds Shift Against Obama's Immigration PoliciesThe death of Kathryn Steinle has galvanized the political opposition to Barack Obama's non-enforcement of the nation's immigration laws. Congressional Republicans are heavily criticizing the Obama administration's tolerance of sanctuary cities that protect illegal aliens from deportation. In going after these "safe" havens, GOP lawmakers are going after the culture in the upper levels of the administration. In March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldana was asked in congressional testimony if she would support a law requiring local governments to cooperate with ICE. "Thank you — amen," was her reply. But she must have received a call from the White House, because the next day ICE released a statement "clarifying" her remarks to say she supported sanctuary cities.Meanwhile, in the suit against the federal government over Obama's executive actions on immigration, Judge Andrew Hanen ordered Obama's bureaucrats to court Aug. 19. He wrote, "Each individual Defendant must attend and be prepared to show why he or she should not be held in contempt of Court. … The Government has conceded that it has directly violated this Court's Order in its May 7, 2015 Advisory, yet, as of today, two months have passed since the Advisory and it has not remediated its own violative behavior." Say, here's a novel idea: What if there were sanctuary cities from the federal government? Comment | Share Hillary: Check Your Subpoena FolderIn her first interview on national television news since she announced her candidacy, Hillary Clinton told CNN Tuesday, "I think it's kind of fun" that she's releasing 50,000 pages of her emails. When interviewer Brianna Keilar pressed Clinton about Congress' subpoena of her emails, Clinton responded by attacking the reporter and catching herself before she gave us a really juicy quote: "You're starting with so many assumptions that are — I've never had a subpoena. There is no — Again, let's take a deep breath here. Everything I did was permitted by law and regulation" There are two lies right there. In response to the interview, Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy wrote, "[S]he was personally subpoenaed the moment the Benghazi Committee became aware of her exclusive use of personal email and a server, and that the State department was not the custodian of her official record. For more than two years, Clinton never availed herself of the opportunity, even in response to a direct congressional inquiry, to inform the public of her unusual email arrangement designed to evade public transparency." Either Clinton doesn't care when she's caught in a lie, or her web of lies have become so complex that she can't keep her story straight anymore.Comment | Share Racist Republicans Hate Children"GOP has knives out for school lunch rules," headlines The Hill. "First lady Michelle Obama's signature school lunch regulations are ... a pillar of the first lady's initiative to curb childhood obesity in the United States," The Hill informs us. And who could be against healthy kids? Or the first lady? Evil Republicans, that's who. Never mind that top-down regulation virtually never works, or that kids universally hate the new lunches to the point that schools are dropping them and/or demanding changes. The bottom line is that the 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) expires on Sept. 30, and Republicans are holding hearings to determine if it's worth more than the $3 billion already spent to dump unwanted food in the trash. In 2014, Michelle lectured, "The last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids' health." But playing politics is the name of the game. The first lady — an honorary and not official position, by the way — can't federalize school lunches and then insist it's not political.Comment | Share Don't Miss Alexander's ColumnRead A 'Gay Parody' of Marine Sacrifice, on how two pictures side by side speak a million words about "gay culture."If you'd like to receive Alexander's Column by email, update your subscription here. FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSISWelcome to Mr. Obama's NeighborhoodBy Allyne Caan
It sounds ominous because it is. But it’s hardly surprising from the narcissist who pledged to “fundamentally transform” America. Under the new Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule (AFFH), announced by Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro this week, the federal government will amass and centralize nationwide public data on communities, including “patterns of integration and segregation, racially and ethically concentrated areas of poverty, disproportionate housing needs, and disparities in access to opportunity.” Big Brother doesn’t just want to look over your shoulder; he wants to move into your home. HUD claims the rule will “equip communities that receive HUD funding with the data and tools that will help them to meet long-standing fair housing obligations.” In truth, however, AFFH is a stealth move to socially engineer every street in America and to force compliance with what Obama thinks communities should look like — namely, more "affordable" housing in affluent neighborhoods. But as political analyst Marc Thiessen noted, “[W]e believe in diversifying communities, too, as conservatives. The way you do that is through economic opportunity. ... It’s not by building more affordable housing in the affluent communities. It’s by helping more Americans afford housing in affluent communities. And right now the problem is that people at the bottom of the Obama economy can’t get ahead.” Still, Washington wants to take over local zoning authority to impose racial quotas on communities. And as Ethics and Public Policy Center Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz warns, “Once HUD gets its hooks into a municipality, no policy area is safe. Zoning, transportation, education, all of it risks slipping into the control of the federal government and the new, unelected regional bodies the feds will empower." Nevertheless, Liberty aside, The Washington Post’s Emily Badger heralded the new rules as a way to “repair the [Fair Housing Act’s] unfulfilled promise and promote the kind of racially integrated neighborhoods that have long eluded deeply segregated cities like Chicago and Baltimore.” Funny she mentions those particular cities. While she points to Chicago’s “decades” of segregation as evidence that AFFH is needed, Badger fails to note those same decades were spent under solely Democrat leadership. Similarly, Baltimore has been led by the Left since Lyndon Johnson was president. Coincidence? We think not. Also not coincidental is the way the government and media have remained largely mum on what the administration’s real plan is. Kurtz notes, “Obama has downplayed his policy goals in this area and delayed the finalization of AFFH for years, because he understands how politically explosive this rule is. Once the true implications of AFFH are understood, Americans will rebel.” And rebel they should. As if Washington putting on a lab coat and stethoscope weren’t bad enough, now Obama wants to become zoning authority, landlord, realtor and public transportation chief combined. He's is leaving no racist rock unturned in his quest to undermine Liberty. Making matters worse, the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the Texas Fair Housing case — in which a liberal majority said groups claiming housing discrimination no longer need to prove their case on the merits but only to claim “intent" to discriminate — means the real implications of AFFH will be a racially charged free-for all, with no gray areas and everything defined in black and white (pun intended). Forget Martin Luther King’s noble notion of judging people by the content of their character. Obama wants to judge entire neighborhoods by the speciously calculated color of their skin. This is not the way of Liberty or of opportunity; it’s another giant leap down the road to statism, and it has no place in a nation that promises equal opportunity, not equal results, for all. Comment | Share
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OPINION IN BRIEFVictor Davis Hanson: "Barbarians at the gate usually don’t bring down once-successful civilizations. Nor does climate change. Even mass epidemics like the plague that decimated sixth-century Byzantium do not necessarily destroy a culture. Far more dangerous are institutionalized corruption, a lack of transparency and creeping neglect of existing laws. ... Mexico is a much naturally richer country than Greece. It is blessed with oil, precious minerals, fertile soils, long coastlines and warm weather. Hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens should not be voting with their feet to reject their homeland for the U.S. But Mexico also continues to be a mess because police expect bribes, property rights are iffy, and government works only for those who pay kickbacks. The result is that only north, not south, of the U.S.-Mexico border can people expect upward mobility, clean water, adequate public safety and reliable power. In much of the Middle East and Africa, tribalism and bribery, not meritocracy, determine who gets hired and fired, wins or loses a contract, or receives or goes without public services. Americans, too, should worry about these age-old symptoms of internal decay. ... Ultimately, no nation can continue to thrive if its government refuses to enforce its own laws."Comment | Share SHORT CUTSInsight: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." —Winston Churchill (1874-1965)Politically correct national security: "Here in the United States we have seen all kinds of homegrown terrorism, and tragically, recent history reminds us how even a single individual motivated by a hateful ideology with access to dangerous weapons can inflict horrendous harm on Americans. So our efforts to counter violent extremism must not target any one community because of their faith or background." —Barack Obama on the Islamic State (So he'll just target Christians who oppose same-sex marriage.) Braying Jenny: “When people diss the government, we’re really dissing ourselves and dissing our democracy.” —Hillary Clinton The BIG Lie: "I didn’t have to turn over anything. I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department system. And now I think it’s kind of fun. People get a real-time behind-the-scenes look at what I was emailing about, and what I was communicating about." —Hillary Clinton Race bait: "As a nation — I don’t think as a president — but as a nation, we have got to apologize for slavery." —Bernie Sanders And last... "A Mexican national shot a 32-year-old woman in San Francisco. It's a gun free zone and a sanctuary city. I know — let's focus on banning the Mexican flag." —Twitter satirist @weknowwhatsbest Comment | Share Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis! Managing Editor Nate Jackson Join us in daily prayer for our Patriots in uniform — Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen — standing in harm's way in defense of Liberty, and for their families. |
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