Saturday, July 8, 2017
Dang, even the globalist WSJ agrees
White House Summary
Instapundit's Summary
Trump’s Defining Speech
Peggy Noonan:
Mr. Trump is taking a clear stand against the kind of gauzy globalism and vague multiculturalism represented by the worldview of, say, Barack Obama and most contemporary Western intellectuals, who are willing, even eager, to concede the argument to critics of the West’s traditions.WSJ Opinion
White House Summary
Instapundit's Summary
Rich Lowry/Politico
Trump Is Winning the Immigration Debate
Full article hereWith his penchant for tweeted insults and GIFs, Donald Trump will never be mistaken for a master of the sweet art of persuasion. Yet he is clearly winning the public argument on the issue of immigration.He isn't doing it through sustained, careful attention. He tweeted the other day that the media will eventually have to cover his success at the border, even though he himself has devoted more energy to his war with CNN than promoting the reduction in illegal border crossings.No, it is the sheer fact of his November victory, and the data showing the importance of the issue of immigration to it, that has begun to shift the intellectual climate.It had been assumed, even by many Republicans like Sen. John McCain, that opposition to amnesty and higher levels of legal immigration would doom the GOP to minority status forevermore. Trump blew up this conventional wisdom.Now, intellectuals on the center-left are calling for Democrats to rethink the party’s orthodoxy on immigration, which has become more and more hostile to enforcement and to any skepticism about current high levels of immigration.
Friday, July 7, 2017
I agree
The Smart-Medicine Solution to the Health-Care Crisis
Our health-care system won’t be fixed by insurance reform. To contain costs and improve results, we need to move aggressively to adopt the tools of information-age medicine
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Thursday, July 6, 2017
Dem Pollster Pat Caddell: Does CNN ‘Really Deserve to Be Called a News Organization Anymore?’
Caddell said, “What we have with CNN is the breakdown of the news network, which has become overwhelmingly a politically driven, ideological antagonist to a sitting president to the exclusion of everything else.”“This response that they did to this video thing and to the person who did it is really disturbing. It seems to border on some kind of journalistic blackmail, as far as I’m concerned.”
Caddell InterviewContinued Caddell, “It has damaged itself in the last month so much that you have to wonder: does it really deserve to be called a news organization anymore?”
National Review
CNN Is Breeding a Post-Millennial Generation of MAGA-Loving Rebels
It has become crystal clear that CNN still has no clue why Hillary and the establishment lost.. . . Much of the post-election reflection has focused on Trump’s popularity with the white working class, with whom the president’s populism and protectionism resonated. Most, however, have ignored the reactionary post-Millennials who, despite holding liberal values on many issues, voted en masse for Trump. (A Hispanic Heritage Foundation study backed up the voting data, which was limited to only the oldest of Gen Z. Their findings: of 50,000 teenagers, Trump would beat Clinton by 15 percent.)Full Article
Who'da thunk it?
Full Article
Shock Report: Trump’s Tough Trade Talk Is Working
As the G-20 summit gets underway in Germany, a shocking study out of Britain suggests — are you sitting down? — President Trump’s aggressive statements on trade may actually be working to the benefit of the United States. . .
But the Center for Economic Policy Research in London has just reported that the other 19 G-20 economies took 52 steps against United States commercial entities in the first six months of this year.And that, the Center reports, is — wait for it — down 29% from the first six months of last year when someone, let’s say, more aloof and less outspoken was president of the United States. These actions against U.S. interests include quotas, duties and tariffs on imports from the U.S., measures against dumping and tax incentives for exporters that could adversely U.S. companies.In public remarks and even tweets, Trump has ranted about the global trade playing field being tilted against the U.S. “The United States made some of the worst Trade Deals in world history,” he’s said. “Why should we continue these deals with countries that do not help us?”Simon Evenett, one of the authors of the Global Trade Alert and a professor of economics at Switzerland’s St. Gallen University, puts it this way:“The G20 countries that had hit U.S. interests more often before President Trump was elected are the very G20 countries that have cut back on protectionism the most in 2017,” said . “Why should [they] do that unless they feared being singled out for retaliation?”
Full Article
OBAMA-VOTER LAW PROF ALTHOUSE: CNN THREAT AIMED AT PRIVATE CITIZEN "ABSOLUTELY DESPICABLE"
Althouse BlogTuesday, July 4, 2017
On this day in 1863
CONFEDERATES SURRENDER VICKSBURG
On this day in 1863, the Confederates surrendered Vicksburg after a long siege by Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The Union's victory at Vicksburg was the biggest of the western campaign and allowed the Union to control the Mississippi, effectively split the Confederacy, and disrupt the Confederacy’s supply lines. The Union’s win at Vicksburg, combined with the Union’s victory at Gettysburg the day before, rendered a double body blow of the first order to the Confederate cause. Legend has it that the people of Vicksburg did not celebrate July 4th again until 1944 during WWII.
Pat Buchanan, the man who presaged Trump
IS AMERICA STILL A NATION?
Full Buchanan Article. . . Could the Constitution, as currently interpreted, win the approval of two-thirds of our citizens and three-fourth of our states, if it were not already the supreme law of the land? How would a national referendum on the Constitution turn out, when many Americans are already seeking a new constitutional convention?All of which invites the question: Are we still a nation? And what is a nation? French writer Ernest Renan gave us the answer in the 19th century:“A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things … constitute this soul, this spiritual principle. One is the past, the other is the present. One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present consent, the desire to live together, the desire to continue to invest in the heritage that we have jointly received.“Of all cults, that of the ancestors is the most legitimate: our ancestors have made us what we are. A heroic past with great men and glory … is the social capital upon which the national idea rests. These are the essential conditions of being a people: having common glories in the past and a will to continue them in the present; having made great things together and wishing to make them again.”Does this sound at all like us today?Watching our Lilliputians tearing down statues and monuments, renaming buildings and streets, rewriting history books to replace heroes and historical truths with the doings of ciphers, are we disassembling the nation we once were?“One loves in proportion to the sacrifices that one has committed and the troubles that one has suffered,” writes Renan, “One loves the house that one has built and that one passes on.”Are we passing on the house we inherited – or observing its demolition?Happy Fourth. And God bless the USA.
Althouse: NYT Shows Its Hypocrisy Analyzing Trump CNN Takedown Video
By the way, I think if a politician the NYT liked — e.g., Obama — were depicted fighting his media opponents — e.g., Fox News — in a cartoonish, over-the-top video, the NYT would approve of the comic fun. Anyone who complained that the video encouraged violence would be deplored as not understanding humor and the difference between real and metaphorical fighting.Althouse Blog
Monday, July 3, 2017
On this day in 1863
UNION ARMY WINS BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG AFTER PICKETT’S DESPERATE CHARGE ON THE THIRD DAY RESULTS IN 7,000 CONFEDERATE DEAD OR WOUNDED IN LESS THAN AN HOUR
In what turned out to be the turning point of the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia’s invasion of the North was stopped at Gettysburg by Union forces led by recently-appointed General George Meade.
After two days of fighting, the Union and Confederate forces had suffered an incredible 35,000 fatalities. Lee tried to gain the initiative on the third day with a massive bombardment of Union positions. The Union responded with its own bombardment, reported to be the heaviest of the Civil War.
Mistakenly believing the Confederates’ artillery had softened up the Union lines, Lee ignored the advice of his subordinates and ordered General George Pickett and others to send 15,000 soldiers into what turned out to be a one mile long killing field to take the appropriately-named Cemetery Ridge. Pickett’s troops were mowed down one after another like sitting ducks and Pickett never forgave Lee for the slaughter of his men.
Realizing Gettysburg was unwinnable, Lee reluctantly withdrew his army. Meade’s Army of the Potomac was too battered to pursue and destroy the vulnerable Confederates as they retreated, but Lee never again attempted to invade the North and spent the rest of the war trying to fend off Union forces as they moved through the South to their ultimate victory.
Michael Goodwin
The Mainstream Media is Distorted by Intentional Bias and Hostility
I’ve been a journalist for a long time. Long enough to know that it wasn’t always like this. There was a time not so long ago when journalists were trusted and admired. We were generally seen as trying to report the news in a fair and straightforward manner. Today, all that has changed. For that, we can blame the 2016 election or, more accurately, how some news organizations chose to cover it. Among the many firsts, last year’s election gave us the gobsmacking revelation that most of the mainstream media puts both thumbs on the scale — that most of what you read, watch and listen to is distorted by intentional bias and hostility. I have never seen anything like it. Not even close.Michael Goodwin Speech at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Atlanta
Althouse: Your priorities may differ, but for some people even a full size flag pole is not enough to say how much they love America.
Dilbert on Trump's "Modern Presidential" Tweet
School Marms Unceremoniously Knocked Off Alleged Moral Highground
Scott Adams, Master Persuader, analyzes Trump's Master Persuader "High Ground Move."Scott Adams Blog
Sunday, July 2, 2017
On this day in 1964
JOHNSON SIGNS CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
On this day in 1964, Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House, the most sweeping civil rights legislation passed by Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public places such as schools, buses, parks and swimming pools. The bill also led the way for a number of other pieces of civil rights legislation–including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which set strict rules for protecting the right of African Americans to vote–that have since been used to enforce equal rights for women as well as all minorities.
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