"Since the article is behind the Journal‘s paywall, a couple of excerpts:'
. . . More broadly, what has happened is that a generation of American politicians who came of age during Saul Alinsky’s lifetime has moved into positions of institutional power that he so often derided as “the enemy.” They are showing an inability to leave behind Alinsky’s tactics that were intended for the weak against the strong. Civil discourse and academic freedom suffer while the “Prince” becomes more powerful. " . . .
Another Alinsky technique: don't confront opposition with reasons; mock them, and fabricateb"straw man" arguments.
Victor Davis Hanson: The Drought: California Apocalypto "The proverbial thin veneer of civilization has never been thinner in California, as if nature has conspired to create even greater chaos than what man here has already wrought. What follows below was a fairly typical seven-day period in the land of the highest sales, fuel, and income taxes that have led to the nearly worst freeways, schools, and general infrastructure in the nation." . . . . . . "Even those in Malibu, Bel Air, and Old Pasadena must use the unusable 405. Even Hetch Hetchy and other water projects cannot supply the Bay Area’s voracious appetite for water. Putting phase one of high-speed rail down among the yokels of Central California does no good unless it is linked up with a messy, smelly, dirty construction site in the Bay Area." . . .
A hot water issue in the California drought discussion . . . " In addition, simple ideas like increasing our total water storage by building three new dams have been mired in unnecessary environmental legal challenges for years. California voters recently passed the Proposition 1 water bond, which despite promises will likely never result in actual construction of additional water storage – just more money for pet projects and empty rhetoric from the Democrats in Sacramento." . . .
Marijuana Plants Soak Up Billions of Gallons of Water in California. . . " California’s terrible drought has become -- like just about everything
else in the United States -- a political issue. Many liberals have taken
to blaming anthropogenic climate change for the drought, while some
conservatives have placed the blame at the feet of “liberal
environmentalists.” The political point-scoring is tiring and just plain
silly, given that the drought is almost certainly a result of natural processes -- processes that we humans, conservatives and liberals alike, have precious little to do with" . . .
. . . "Second, campuses encouraged edgy speech and raucous expression — and
exposure to all sorts of weird ideas and mostly unpopular thoughts.
College talk was never envisioned as boring, politically correct
megaphones echoing orthodox pieties.
. . .
" There are far too many special studies courses and trendy majors —
and far too few liberal-arts surveys of literature, history, art, music,
math, and science that for centuries were the sole hallowed methods of
instilling knowledge.
"Administrators should decide whether they see students as mature,
independent adults who handle life’s vicissitudes with courage and
without need for restrictions on free expression. Or should students
remain perennial weepy adolescents, requiring constant sheltering,
solicitousness, and self-esteem building? "Diversity might be better redefined in its most ancient and
idealistic sense as differences in opinion and thought rather than just
variety in appearance, race, gender, or religion." . . .
Rand Paul comes out swinging...at interviewers "In a round of interviews yesterday, Rand Paul took on questions he found unfair, and got into an argument with Savannah Guthrie of the Today show. The predictable result was return fire from talking head pundits, unhappy over his refusal to play the game on the ground rules the media likes to set. In the words of T. Beckett Adams of the Washington Examiner, it was a “media pile-on.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., became the target of media criticism Wednesday after he accused NBC News' Savannah Guthrie during an interview of "editorializing" her questions. . . .
Megyn Kelly to Male Reporters: ‘Butt Out’—Women ‘Don’t Need Your Help’ Handling Rand Paul . . . “I, as a female reporter, will say to Chuck Todd and the Guardian: We don’t need your help,” Kelly said. “You are entitled to push back on the interviewer just as much as you would if it were a man, so these male commentators can butt out. We can give as good as we get.” “To me, it’s ironic that the people trying to step in and ‘protect’ these female interviewers are themselves being sexist while they’re suggesting you were being sexist because you didn’t kowtow and you weren’t polite enough to your female interviewers,” she added.
"But Philip is a MAN who can handle a Rand Paul without having MEN parachute in to protect his precious little snowflake status. "Sadly, even women in the mainstream media seem to be admitting they are the weaker sex. Todd was talking to Andrea Mitchell, who claims to be a feminist. She did not, though, reach across the desk and slap Todd. She agreed with him." . . .
"Why don't you ask the DNC, 'Is it OK to kill a seven-pound baby in the uterus?'"
"You go back and you ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she's okay with
killing a seven-pound baby that is just not yet born yet. Ask her when
life begins, and you ask Debbie when she's willing to protect life," he
said. "When you get an answer from Debbie, come back to me."
" He didn't have to wait long.
"Here's an answer," she said in an emailed statement. "I support
letting women and their doctors make this decision without government
getting involved. Period. End of story. Now your turn, Senator Paul."
"CNN's Wolf Blitzer read Wasserman Schultz's statement to Paul later that afternoon, to which Paul offered a translation:
"Sounds like her answer is yes, that she's okay with killing a seven-pound baby."
Snopes "The following statement was attributed to Czech politician Václav Klaus, who served as the second President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013"
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President."
"Origins: An item circulated in November 2012 supposedly reproduced an article critical of those who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, supposedly published in "the Prague newspaper, Prager Zeitungon." That mention appeared to be a misspelled reference to Prager Zeitung ("Prague Newspaper"), a German language weekly newspaper from the Czech Republic which is also circulated
in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
"However, the version of this item circulated online provided no other contextual information (such as a publication date or headline) to help track down if and when it was actually published in Prager Zeitung. A search of that newspaper's web site at that time pulled up only one article that mentioned Barack Obama, and that article included only an incidental reference about the level of security provided to a U.S. president. " . . .
Marine Times "The two-and-a-half year period in which the Marine Corps' Infantry
Officer Course became gender-integrated for research will end without a
single female graduate.
"The final iteration of IOC to accept
female Marines on a volunteer basis began April 2 with two female
participants. One was a volunteer and one was a member of the newly
integrated ground intelligence track.
"Both were dropped that same
day during the grueling initial Combat Endurance Test, said Capt.
Maureen Krebs, a spokeswoman for Headquarters Marine Corps. Nine of the
90 men who began the course were also cut." . . . "In an effort to achieve their goal of 100 female volunteers cycling
through IOC, the Marine Corps opened the course to female company-grade
officers in October 2014, making hundreds more Marines eligible for the
course. The Corps also began requiring that volunteers get a first-class
score on the male version of the service's Physical Fitness Test in an
effort to better prepare them for the rigors of IOC." . . .
Bishop E.W. Jackson, President of Ministers Taking A Stand, is accusing the President of turning the black church into a cult of personality serving him rather than God. This comes on the heels of the President's remarks at an Easter Prayer Breakfast held in the White House. Mr. Obama said he is "concerned" about Christians speaking "unlovingly." This was an apparent reference to Christian support for the Indiana law protecting business owners from having to serve same-sex ceremonies. Says Bishop Jackson, "Black Christians are Bible believing people. That faith brought us through slavery, segregation and the civil rights struggle. The black church has had unswerving faith in God and the truth of the Bible. This President has done more to undermine that than any figure in the history of the black community." In the background of the President's remarks at the Easter Prayer Breakfast, ministers could be heard saying Amen as he once again slammed Christianity. "When supposed ministers of the gospel say 'Amen' to a politician's criticisms of Christianity and support for same sex marriage," says the Bishop, "it suggests their allegiance is to him rather than to Jesus. Mr. Obama is trying to fundamentally transform Christianity in the same way he promised to fundamentally transform America." Bishop Jackson also pointed out, "The President never acknowledged the murder of 150 Christian students in Kenya by Islamic terrorists, nor has he ever uttered a word of criticism of Islam. Even in his famous Cairo speech in Egypt, he declared that America is not a Christian nation. It is odd behavior for a Christian." Jackson says, "Pastors should be declaring the truth and holding politicians accountable, not catering to them, even if it's the first black President. Those who 'amen' anything the President says are like the false prophets condemned in the Bible for telling the King what he wanted to hear instead of telling him what 'thus saith the Lord.'"
E.W. Jackson is a Marine Corps Veteran, graduate of Harvard Law School, retired Attorney, President of STAND [Staying True to America's National Destiny - parent body of MINISTERS TAKING A STAND], Bishop over THE CALLED CHURCH and Senior Fellow for Family Research Council
If you listen to what the president says in public appearances, it’s as if he hasn’t been the incumbent for nearly four years. He repeats promises that have already been broken, and speaks of his ideas for the country as if they are new, and haven’t already resulted in failure. - See more at: http://bernardgoldberg.com/how-obama-has-kept-his-cult-of-personality/#sthash.02wi12O0.dpuf
But when you strip away his cult of personality, you’re forced to recognize the reality that our nation is in deep decline, and may very well be broken beyond repair if drastic changes aren’t made very soon. - See more at: http://bernardgoldberg.com/how-obama-has-kept-his-cult-of-personality/#sthash.02wi12O0.dpuf
If you listen to what the president says in public appearances, it’s as if he hasn’t been the incumbent for nearly four years. He repeats promises that have already been broken, and speaks of his ideas for the country as if they are new, and haven’t already resulted in failure. - See more at: http://bernardgoldberg.com/how-obama-has-kept-his-cult-of-personality/#sthash.02wi12O0.dpuf
1. The Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 to abolish slavery.
2. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 to give Negroes citizenship and protect freed men from Black Codes and other repressive legislation.
3. The First Reconstruction Act of 1867 to provide more efficient Government of the Rebel- or Democrat-controlled states.
4. The Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 to make all persons born in the United States citizens. Part of this Amendment specifically states “No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; or deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
5. The Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 to give the right to vote to every citizen.
6. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 to stop Klan terrorists to terrorized black voters, Republicans, white teachers who taught blacks, and Abolitionists.
7. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights and to prohibit racial discrimination in places of public accommodation.
8. Freedmen’s Bureau was a social program established by Republicans to feed, protect, and educate the former slaves.
9. The 1957 Civil Rights Act and the 1960 Civil Rights Act were signed into law by President Eisenhower who also established the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in 1958, a commission that was rejected by Truman during his administration.
10. The 1964 Civil Rights Act which key Republicans pushed law through while key Southern Democrats like Al Gore Sr. debated against its passage. More Republicans (in percentages) voted for this law than Democrats.”
"I was on my way out of class when my social welfare and policy professor casually called me over to tell me this. The friendliness of her tone did not match her words, and I attempted a shocked, confused apology. It was my first semester at the Hunter College School of Social Work, and I was as yet unfamiliar with the consistent, underlying threat that characterized much of the school’s policy and atmosphere. This professor was simply more open and direct than most. "I asked if I had said or done anything inappropriate or disrespectful, and she was quick to assure me that it was not my behavior that was the problem. No: It was my opinions. Or, as she put it, “I have to give over this information as is.” "I spent the rest of that semester mostly quiet, frustrated, and missing my undergraduate days, when my professors encouraged intellectual diversity and give-and-take. " . . .
"Here’s a story of triumph. "Anyone who’s been paying even limited attention to national news for the past couple of weeks knows about the Indiana religious freedom law and the subsequent fallout that ensued. Among the temper tantrums from the left over the law, none was more hateful and pig-ignorant than the invective directed against Memories Pizza in Walkerton after the owner’s daughter said that her store wouldn’t cater a gay wedding. "Because of the outcry, Memories Pizza closed down for a while. However, the owner got the last laugh when a GoFundMe campaign raised more than $800,000 for the pizza parlor. Conservatives know how to support the oppressed. "Today, Memories Pizza will officially reopen.
. It’s a story of good overcoming evil, of freedom trumping bigotry.". . .
Yesterday, up on the stair,
I saw a rape that wasn't there,
It wasn't there again today!
Oh why, oh why did it go away ...
. . . "You know who else Rolling Stone's story kind of did a disservice to? I
think, personally -- as long as we're ranking victims -- a very close
second to the woman who lied about being raped, as well as all the
unnamed college rape victims who might have their claims taken less
seriously in the future, are THE INNOCENT FRATERNITY MEMBERS WHO WERE
FALSELY ACCUSED OF A VIOLENT GANG RAPE.
"The UVA fake rape is even worse than the Duke lacrosse team fake
rape. The accused fraternity hadn't even courted danger by hiring a
stripper. They were going about their lives, minding their own business,
when, out of the blue, Rolling Stone, the president of their
university, and a fiendish coed decided to accuse them of a monstrous
crime.
. . . "Again, isn't someone missing from all that delicate "balancing"?
I'm thinking of: the men falsely accused of rape. Colleges might want
to consider adopting a concept that's been around since the second
century: "innocent until proved guilty."
"Sorry this column is late. I got raped
again on the way home. Twice. I should clarify – by “raped,” I mean that
two seductive Barry White songs came on the radio, which, according to
the University of Virginia, constitutes rape."
"When President Obama announced on March 31 that he intends to ensure that the U.S. will slash its “greenhouse gas emissions” 26% below 2005 emissions levels by 2025 in order to keep pledges made to fulfill the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, he failed to mention that such levels would be comparable to what they were in our Civil War era, 150 years ago. "He also failed to mention that the U.S. has made no such pledges as regards the 1992 “Kyoto Treaty” which was resoundingly rejected by the U.S. Senate when then Vice President Al Gore brought it back from the U.N. conference. "There is no need, globally or nationally, to reduce such emissions. It would be a crime against humanity, especially for the millions that would be denied electrical power or would see its cost rise exponentially. “The President has no credible evidence to back up his claims,” said H. Sterling Burnett, a Research Fellow with the free market think tank, The Heartland Institute. “Obama’s climate actions are likely to cause far more harm to people, especially the poor, than any purported threats from global warming.' ” . . .
