New Critics of Trump

"The strongest argument — indeed, the only argument — for voting for Trump is Hillary Clinton. For both candidates, the danger is not simply that we might have one bad administration to live through. The far greater danger is that either of them can create an irretrievable catastrophe."

Thomas Sowell  . . . "Now 50 prominent Republicans with foreign policy and national security experience have taken the unprecedented step of publicly and collectively announcing that they cannot vote for Donald Trump because they believe that he would be “the most reckless president in American history.”

"Why? Not only because he has “demonstrated repeatedly that “he has little understanding” of the nation’s “vital national interests” but because “Mr. Trump has shown no interest in educating himself.”

"Indeed, Donald Trump has shown little real interest in anything besides Donald Trump.

"His response to these criticisms has been completely predictable. Trump has not even tried to answer the charges or to assure the American people on something as important as their survival and the survival of this nation. Instead, there is the standard Trump tactic of launching unsubstantiated charges against his critics.

"Even if all his charges against his critics were 100 percent true, that is no assurance to the American people on the vital issues they raised— and for which there are innumerable examples of Trump’s own words and deeds to make people worry about what he would do in the White House." . . .

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"Republicans opened this game with the stronger hand. But they played that hand into what looks like a defeat at the polls in November — a defeat not only for Trump but for other Republican candidates tainted by the immature and repellent behavior of the man at the top of the ticket.

"One key misstep by the Republican establishment was agreeing, once again, to so-called “debates” in which a stage full of candidates had time for only short and superficial sound bites. Trump was, and is, the king of superficial sound bites."

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Trump vs. Trump

"To negate Trump’s advantages, the Democrats had a simple strategy: bring out the demonic Trump. Hillary Clinton would simply lie about her e-mail records ad nauseam. In possum style, she would snore about the economy. She would avert her eyes from the world order’s breaking apart. She would ignore the populist furor with a corrupt Washington and media establishment.. Against this stultifying backdrop, the ego-driven Trump would be allowed to grab the headlines, and the headlines would be petty and embarrassing."

Victor Davis Hanson  . . . "The termed-out incumbent Democratic president can win approval ratings of 50 percent only by staying quiet, out of the public eye, and doing as little governing as possible. Whenever Obama emerges from his hip cocoon and talks off his teleprompter, he reminds us that he is typically petulant, untruthful, and rambling. Witness his latest pathetic assurances that sending cash on pallets at night to obtain simultaneous release of hostages was not ransom. Even the obsequious pajama-boy D.C. press corps did not quite buy that. As so often, Obama’s soft-spoken prevarication comes across as being as coarse as Trump’s crudity.

"Hillary Clinton is the weakest Democratic candidate since her moral superior Jimmy Carter in 1980. She reminds us of her liabilities daily, whether lying repeatedly that the FBI director had not systematically stated she had been untruthful about her unlawful e-mails, or, in a screeching voice, proclaiming her determination to raise taxes on the middle class — not to reduce the $600 billion deficit but to add more entitlements." . . .

The news cycle of the next 100 days also favors Trump: weekly more of the same of Islamic-inspired international terrorism, coupled with Chamberlain-like, politically correct Western appeasement. Black Lives Matter, with the sanction of the Democratic party, will only grow more brazen. (But how does one top disrupting a moment of silence for slain policemen or using a bullhorn to segregate journalists by race?)

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The choices made by she-who-would-be-president

Clinton Sought Support of Black Lives Matter, Spurned Law Enforcement Union

Hillary Clinton speaks to Lesley McSpadden, the mother
of Michael Brown

. . . "She's “a straight-up cop hater” who sympathizes with the “criminal element” of the Black Lives Matter movement, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke explained with characteristic bluntness on "Fox and Friends" Monday morning:

"Via The Washington Times:

“It’s a huge miscalculation, a huge political miscalculation on the part of Mrs. Bill Clinton,” the sheriff said. “Look, everyone running for public office, at any level, knows that you want and you have to have the support of not only law enforcement but other first responders. But she has made it clear from the convention that she is all in with the criminal element. She doesn’t care about victims of crime, she’s a straight-up cop hater, and so she is, like I said, rolling the dice on not having the support of law enforcement."

“The problem for her is that middle America, mainstream America, does not share her sentiment in having sympathy for criminals,” he said. “You’re talking a potential 3, 4, 5 million votes that she’s willing to risk just to get in bed with criminals." . . .

Lady Gaga agrees with Hillary

Black Votes Matter to the DNC; Black Lives Don't

 Orlando night club shooter's father spotted is spotted grinning behind Hillary Clinton at rally in Florida  "Mateen, a pro-Taliban political activist, later said he was there because he's a member of the Democrats and had been 'invited'.

"On Tuesday, a source in the Democratic party told DailyMail.com he wasn't invited and he was not on any of their email lists."

Like, those folks behind Hillary and Obama aren't vetted thoroughly before being allowed to be there?  

Hillary's media

Media photoshops Hillary crowd to make it look larger  "The Hill newspaper is being accused of Hillary favoritism after it used a fake photoshopped crowd to promote a live video stream of Clinton’s rally in St. Petersburg."

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“ 'A couple of hundred people showed up [door count puts the number at 171] within a St. Petersburg venue capable of holding in excess of 4,000 without seating,” points out the Conservative Treehouse.

"The media’s apparent effort to artificially inflate the size of Hillary’s crowds is noteworthy given that Donald Trump has consistently accused the press of refusing to show the huge attendances at his own rallies." . . .

NBC Quietly Scrubs ‘Discredited’ Smear of Bill Clinton Rape Accuser  "Following the receipt of a retraction demand, NBC News has quietly edited the Internet edition of a segment that aired on the highly-rated “Today Show” in which anchor Andrea Mitchell claimed Juanita Broaddrick’s rape accusation against Bill Clinton had been “discredited.' ”

Pat Caddell: Media Protects Clinton with ‘Biggest, Most Secure Bubble I Have Ever Seen’  .  .  . “ 'This is the most united effort by the press, certainly in the 45 years that I’ve been on the national political presidential stage of analysis, that I’ve ever seen them united with this kind of fierceness — against one person who they are trying to destroy, where there are no rules, which is Donald Trump,” he said, describing the crucial advantage that might help Clinton overcome her poor campaign performance. " . . .

Teaching Tolerance

"Politically Correct Segregation. I think all of these university African American Centers and Hispanic Centers are uniformly pathetic. The NAACP won the war against segregation. Then the diversity movement started to re-segregate – all the while asking the taxpayers to support it in the name of “tolerance.” The next thing you know the diversity crowd will be demanding separate “colored” and “white” restrooms."

Mike Adams

Author’s Note: The following is my planned class introduction for all three of my courses this fall semester at The University of North Carolina – Wilmington. My first-day-of-class remarks are reproduced here for your reading pleasure. It is not a word for word reproduction.  But it’s pretty close. So enjoy!

"Welcome back to another semester at UNCW! I am excited to have each and every one of you in my class. However, some of you may not be excited to have me as a professor. Each semester, I get at least one bad teaching evaluation from a student who never heard of me before enrolling in the class. Usually the student is a “progressive” who later finds out who I am and then wants to drop the class because he/she/undecided lacks the requisite tolerance to be in the presence of someone who holds different ideas. Since this discovery is often made after the drop date has passed, the student cannot get out of the class. Being stuck with a single non­leftist professor is just too much for them to handle both emotionally and intellectually.

"Although I will not be discussing my political views in class, I thought I would just give you all a basic run­down of all things these thin­skinned leftists support that I don’t believe in – just in case you are one of them and simply cannot bear the thought of having even a single conservative professor in college. If your view of tolerance causes you to be intolerant of any of the views I express then feel free to go pick up a drop slip. I would not want to force you to stay in my class any more than I would try to force you to bake a cake for my wedding." . . . 

Study: Obama issued $743B in regulations

The Hill

"Since President Obama took office in 2009, the federal government has issued 600 major regulations totaling $743 billion, according to a new study from the conservative American Action Forum.

"The Obama administration issues an average of 81 major rules, those with an economic impact of at least $100 million, on a yearly basis, the study found.

"That’s about one major rule every four to five days, or, as the American Action Forum puts it, one rule for every three days that the federal government is open.

“ 'It is a $2,294 regulatory imposition on every person in the United States,” wrote Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, who conducted the study.

"At the current pace of rulemaking, the American Action Forum estimates the Obama administration will issue a total 641 major rules before the president leaves office, bringing the nation’s regulatory bill to $813 billion.

"By contrast, President George W. Bush issued 426 major rules during his tenure in the White House.

Public interest groups often dispute studies from the American Action Forum, which they say do not accurately take into account the economic benefits of regulations.

Hillary's health and mental state

Roger L. Simon: A Hillary Clinton Presidency Would Be An American Tragedy

. . . "Many do not think Clinton is even a moral human being. Any person who could lie to the parents of the dead over the fresh caskets of their sons, as Clinton has apparently done with the Benghazi victims--if you believe the testimony of the parents themselves as many of us do--has lost contact with basic human values.' . . .

The Cost of Trump’s Letting Hillary Get Away with Repeated Mistakes

Michael Barone  "Opportunity cost. That’s an economist’s term for what you lose out on when you divert your investments and attention to something less profitable. It’s also a good term for the losses Donald 

"Trump has incurred in the last six days — more than 6 percent of the 94 days between the close of the Democratic National Convention and the election in November. Trump has spent much of that time attacking the father and mother of a Muslim U.S. serviceman killed in Iraq. He has made a point of refusing to support Paul Ryan or John McCain in their upcoming primaries. He accepted someone else’s Purple Heart and said that his business investments amounted to “sacrifices.”
. . . 
"In other words, the nominee of the challenger has a target-rich environment here. But instead he launches a Hatfield vs. McCoy–type feud against two Gold Star parents. 

"So Trump is strengthening rather than weakening Democrats’ argument that he is too erratic, impulsive, and ignorant (doesn’t he know Russia annexed Crimea?) to be president." . . .

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If you are surprised #BlackLivesMatter joined war on Israel, you haven’t been paying attention

Also here:  Black Lives Matter Keeps Getting More Radical — Will the Media Care?

Legal Insurrection

"Anti-Israel activists played an active role in stoking violence in Ferguson, as I documented inIntifada Missouri – Anti-Israel activists may push Ferguson over the edge and Anti-Israel activist still stoking fires in #Ferguson.

"A good history also is in How The Black Lives Matter and Palestinian Movements Converged.

"No other country except Israel is used as pervasively as the connector for intersectionality. It’s a seedy tactic meant to exploit domestic U.S. racial tensions having nothing to do with Israel, and to turn those tensions into racial hatred of the supposedly “white” Israel. Underlying it all are anti-Semitic stereotypes of omnipresent Jewish manipulation, such as those spread by Oberlin College professor Joy Karega.

"There have been successes at the campus level, such as at Oberlin, of inserting anti-Israel language into list of Demands from Black Lives Matter protesters.

"Many of the leading Black Lives Matters leaders are also anti-Israel activists. They receive encouragement and support from people like Marc Lamont Hill for linking Israel to problems of black in the U.S.:" . . .

VIDEO: ABC CUTS LIVE STREAM WHEN TRUMP STARTS TALKING ABOUT HILLARY’S SUPPORT FOR ISIS

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Infowars   "Video from Donald Trump’s speech last week in Daytona Beach shows ABC News cutting the live fed as Trump begins to talk about Hillary Clinton’s connection to ISIS."

“ 'Take a look at Orlando, take a look at San Bernardino, take a look at the World Trade Center,” states Trump, before adding, “And we let ISIS take this position, it was Hillary Clinton that….she should get an award from them as the founder of ISIS. That’s what it…”

"ABC News’ live stream coverage then immediately cuts out and goes to background music.

"The video comes back in but with Trump muted before returning to full coverage.

"That may be about to change however, with Julian Assange’s promise that soon to be released Wikileaks emails will prove Clinton had a role in arming ISIS.

"This is not the first time in recent weeks that a major network has mysteriously cut the feed when negative revelations about Clinton are being discussed.

"Last month, CNN reporter Brianna Keilar began talking about Hillary’s support for anti-crime legislation in the 90’s which contributed to the “mass incarceration” of black people before the video was immediately cut.

Obama: Israel loves the Iran deal now! Israel: Say what?

Hot Air  "Alternate headline: Dr. Strangepresident, or How Israel Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Iranian Bomb. In his haste to defend himself from allegations that he paid a $400 million ransom to Iran in exchange for American hostages, Barack Obama made a curious counter-claim. After arguing that the payment to Iran had been disclosed at the time and was not connected to the release of Americans by Tehran, Obama then claimed that Israel had shifted its position on the Iran deal and was now supporting it . . .
Here comes the appropriate comparison to Munich in 1938:

The Defense Ministry made the Munich argument explicit:

“The Munich Agreement didn’t prevent the Second World War and the Holocaust precisely because its basis, according to which Nazi Germany could be a partner for some sort of agreement, was flawed, and because the leaders of the world then ignored the explicit statements of [Adolf] Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany’s leaders,” the ministry said.

“These things are also true about Iran, which also clearly states openly that its aim is to destroy the state of Israel,” it said, pointing to a recent State Department report that determined that Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism worldwide.

Netanyahu rejects Obama’s assertion that Israel now supports Iran accord

A top minister close to Netanyahu, meanwhile, directly contradicted Obama’s assertion that Israeli security officials now back the accord. “I don’t know to which Israelis he (Obama) spoke recently. But I can promise you that the position of the prime minister, the defense minister and of most senior officials in the defense establishment has not changed,” Tzachi Hanegbi told The Times of Israel.

Obama Has 'Secret' 55th Birthday With Celebs

NewsMax

"Guests invited to President Barack Obama's 55th birthday party in the White House reportedly included a star-studded roster from Hollywood, and the sports and music worlds — secret details that were leaked out via social media.

"Guests were asked not to tweet any pictures or spill any details when formal word of the Friday night party was announced, but "some did anyway," the New York Times reports.

"Magic Johnson tweeted a picture of he and his wife ahead of the party and the Rev. Al Sharpton took to Twitter to announce his departure at 1:10 a.m. Saturday from Obama's "last birthday as President."

"The Times reports others spotted at the event included the talk show host Ellen DeGeneres; former NBC star Grant Hill; and "Star Wars" creator George Lucas. Singer-songwriter Nick Jonas gushed in a tweet that he'd "never forget" the evening, while the Times said Paul McCartney was a guest and performed for the 55-year-old president and First Lady Michelle Obama. The Times didn't report its source."