At Issue this week... Obama Presidency by Betsy McCaughey

August 12, 2015

Book Review President Obama’s climate hubris Jeffrey (22) Limbaugh (18) Clinton, Hillary his week, President Obama is lawsuit challenging the plan. They’ve got of the aisle are against the plan, and for Morris (10) hailing his Clean Power Plan as a strong case. Although the EPA bases its good reasons. Napolitano (8) “the single most important step authority on the Clean Air Act of 1970, Obama’s EPA has tried several end Confederate Purge AmericaT has ever taken in the fight against nothing in that law authorizes the agency runs around Congress, creatively inter- Saunders (21) global climate change.” Obama is posing to do more than require plants to use the preting the 45-year-old Clean Air Act to Dear Mark Levy (19) as the environment’s savior, just as he did best available technology — like scrub- suit its agenda. But it hasn’t always gotten Debates in 2008, when he promised his presidency bers — to reduce emissions. Congress away with it. In a stinging U.S. Supreme Thomas (14) would mark “the moment when ... the rise never authorized the EPA to force states Court rebuke against the administration’s Disparate Impact of the oceans began to slow and our planet to close coal plants and move on to nu- restrictions on mercury emissions, Justice Williams (4) began to heal.” Seven years later, that mes- clear, or wind and solar. “The brute fact is Antonin Scalia wrote that “it is not ratio- Double Standard Elder (9) sianic legacy is in doubt. Obama’s Clean that the Obama administration nal, never mind ‘appropriate’ to impose Farah (3) Power Plan has never had legislative sup- billions of dollars in economic costs” Economy port, even when his own party controlled when the benefits are so uncertain. Lambro (2, 23) both houses of Congress. Now he’s trying Betsy The same could be said for the plan Hawkins, Hannah to impose it without Congress, an auda- McCaughey announced on Monday. Defenders of the Olasky (27) cious ploy his old Harvard law professor new regulation predict falling energy costs Immigration (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Coulter (7) Laurence Tribe condemns as “burning the from renewable sources, but so far that is Thomas (6) Constitution.” pie in the sky speculation. Like the presi- Iran Deal failed to get climate legislation through dent’s prediction that the average family Barone (30) AS HIS presidency wanes, Obama is Congress. Yet the EPA is acting as though would save $2,500 because of Obamacare. Greenberg (5) desperately burnishing his eco-creden- it has the legislative authority anyway to Harsanyi (4) tials with environmental zealots like Pope re-engineer the nation’s electric generat- BUT LONG before the Supreme Court Limbaugh (29) Will (31) Francis and the leftists at the U.N. and in ing system,” says Tribe. “It does not.” weighs in on this new plan, presidential Jewish Americans the European Union. But here at home, politics is likely to determine its fate. An- Charen (6) his plan would be a disaster economically, DEFENDERS OF the president’s other example of how high the stakes are Killing Cecil which explains its failure in Congress. environmental agenda say he has to act in 2016. Lowry (18) Hillary Clinton is pledging to support the alone because the Congress is gridlocked. Prager (15) August 5, 2015 Saunders (15) plan, while Republicans vying for their That’s untrue. Lawmakers on both sides Media Bias party’s presidential nomination are vow- Bozell (24) ing to oppose it. The Clean Power Plan NEA will be a fiercely debated issue in coal- Schlafly (26) consuming swing states like Ohio, Ill. and Obama Presidency Pa. — where the race for the White House McCaughey (1) Tyrrell (27) is usually decided. Planned Parenthood Obama’s Environmental Protection Greenberg (25) Agency is imposing the Clean Power Plan Lowry (17) on all 50 states, requiring each state to Malkin (16) close down coal-burning electric plants, Will (17) and shift to other sources of electricity — Plot Against Nixon Buchanan (28) natural gas burning plants, nuclear plants, Political Parties solar and wind-power generators — in Barone (11) order to reduce carbon emissions by one Massie (24) third. Nationwide, about 40 percent of Politics electric power is produced by coal plants. Murchison (9) Forcing these utilities to close will burn Republicans Erickson (3) consumers with higher electric bills. It Trivia Bits will also send hundreds of thousands of Paquet (14) jobs a year up in smoke, as employers pay Trump, Donald more to operate their businesses, accord- Morris (13) ing to Heritage Foundation economists. Sowell (12) Towery (10) And for what? The purported benefit Turkey is to avoid an imperceptible 0.02 degree Bay (21) Celsius increase in global temperatures by Buchanan (20) the year 2100. That’s the official EPA esti- U.S. Presidency mate of the benefits of this Clean Air Plan. Shapiro (30) You must be kidding. Weidenfeld, George Krauthammer (12) That’s what as many as 25 governors are saying, and they are expected to file a 2 Conservative Chronicle ECONOMY: July 30, 2015 America’s faltering economy won’t grow under Clinton merica’s sluggish economy Gallup said 32 percent of the Ameri- still looms over our land like cans they surveyed told them that eco- a stationary dark cloud, show- nomic conditions were “poor,” while ingA no sign of moving away under the 57 percent said the economy is “getting Obama administration. worse.” Our nation’s second-quarter growth Meantime, in recent months there has rate, as measured by its gross domestic been in- creasing evidence of product, came in Americans cutting at a mediocre 2.3 Donald back on spending percent — bet- at stores and restau- ter than the first Lambro rants. three months of (c) 2015, United Media Services Spending cut- Former Florida governor Jeb Bush ing the wealthy “pay their fair share” in this year, when the backs in June, for has said that under his proposed poli- taxes. economy barely grew at a sickly 0.6 per- example, were broad-based and far more cies, the economy will be growing by But the IRS says they are doing that cent, but nothing to write home about. severe than projected. Building materi- four percent a year. already, because wealthy taxpayers pay als fell 1.3 percent, while online retail the lion’s share of all tax revenue. MANY ECONOMISTS were fore- businesses experienced a 0.4 percent HILLARY CLINTON hasn’t given Clinton talks of more investment in casting a stronger economic revival near- decline. us a clue about the level of economic research and rules to encourage share- er to three percent or more. But the econ- “It certainly is a case of ‘two steps growth she hopes to achieve. In fact, she holder activism, paid leave, paid sick omy was still being pulled down by the forward, one step back’ for the U.S. goes to great lengths to dodge the ques- days, paid child care, but paid by whom? economic undertow of anti-investment, economy,” economist Dan Greenhaus tion entirely. The government, taxpayers, employers? anti-growth, anti-job-creation policies. of BTIG said of last month’s weak retail Instead, she says the economy should She doesn’t offer much detail for her They include higher taxes on the sales. be measured by “how much incomes rise platonic agenda. economy, particularly investors, and the America’s economy grew only 2.4 for middle-class households, not an arbi- The U.S. economy, business expan- threat of more to come if Hillary Clin- percent last year, a growth rate that trary growth figure.” sion, new startups and job creation at ton is elected president. Plus increasing many economists would define as weak Voters may be surprised to learn that all income levels depend upon capital business regulation, from Wall Street to and underperforming. the frontrunner for the Democratic presi- investment. Tax it at higher rates, as she Main Street — from job-killing mini- It’s certainly performing significant- dential nomination thinks that the GDP proposes, and you get less of it. mum wage hikes to growing taxation on ly below the growth rate achieved in rate — the government’s broadest mea- The late Jack Kemp used to say that capital investment. the Reagan years of the 1980s and the surement of the U.S. economy’s growth you cannot have more employees with- None of this should come as a sur- post-capital gains tax cuts of the Clinton — is just an “arbitrary” number. out more employers. prise to most Americans in their daily years in the late 1990s. It is a disturbing sign that she doesn’t Clinton says she will raise taxes on in- lives. Consumer confidence fell in July Reagan had to deal with a severe re- know much about economics in general, vestment capital, impose sweeping new to its lowest level since September, said cession where the jobless rate rose to 10 and even less about what produces stron- regulations on the economy and vastly the U.S. Conference Board, a business percent. But in just the third and fourth ger economic growth and lifts wages. expand the size of government. research organization for our country’s years of his presidency, the economy If you listen closely to her speeches global companies. turned in fat quarterly growth rates of about this subject — about which it is THAT MEANS fewer businesses, The Gallup Poll this week announced 3.2 percent, 5.6 percent, 7.7 percent, 8.5 clear she knows nothing — you quickly fewer job opportunities, fewer work similar declines in its economic con- percent, 7.9 percent, 6.9 percent and 5.8 learn that she hasn’t a clue about how benefits, lower incomes and weaker eco- fidence surveys, saying that its index percent. to grow an $18 trillion economy, or in nomic growth — which, of course, she “continued its gradual downward slide, Compare that performance to John F. Kennedy’s words, “get America says is not important anyway. reaching minus-14 for the week end- Obama’s record in his fourth year in of- growing again.” ing July 26. This represents a 10-month fice, when the economy was growing by Here, in one of her speeches about low.” between two percent and 1.5 percent. the economy, lifting wages and creating jobs, is what she thinks will do it: (1) Raise the minimum wage, which the nonpartisan Congressional Bud- •USPS: 762-710/•ISSN: 0088-7403 Published by Hampton Publishing Co. get Office says will eliminate between (Established 1876) 500,000 and onr million jobs, as em- Division of Mid-America Publishing Corp. ployers are forced to cut their payrolls The Conservative Chronicle is published just to stay in business. weekly for $74.00 (U.S.) per year by Hampton (2) Invest in infrastructure. 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One big had cheated. storyA often seems to have a common Meanwhile, a Democratic presiden- denominator with another big story. tial candidate and former secretary of What’s remarkable to me is when the state stands accused of deliberately de- media judge the two stories with com- stroying emails she sent and pletely different received in the line standards. of duty that were il- Take, for ex- Joseph legally and inappro- ample, the NFL’s priately sent and findings that Pa- Farah received in the first The comparisons in the media be- tions at uncomfortable news conferences. triots quarterback (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate place. She stands tween Brady and Hillary Clinton are Claiming egregious transgressions are a Tom Brady prob- accused of sending starting to drive me crazy. private matter and faux controversy while ably had some knowledge of possibly and receiving classified messages on an sending out high-power lawyers and spin purposefully deflated footballs, perhaps unauthorized and insecure private ac- TAKE MAUREEN Dowd of the New doctors to deflect and minimize. Two to give him an unfair advantage in a key count. And these emails could shed pub- York Times, for example. She wrote last controlling superstars with mutable hair playoff game that led him to the Super lic light on her scandalous behavior in weekend: “A pattern of cutting corners, and militant fans, married to two mag- Bowl. regard to the deaths of U.S. personnel, a patina of entitlement and inevitability, netic superstars who can make a gazil- including an ambassador, in the Beng- has led to this. Destroying digital messag- lion an hour for flashing their faces and WHEN IT was revealed that Brady hazi, Libya, terrorist attack, as well as es and thwarting official investigations who have been known to stir up trouble. had destroyed a cellphone the league her unethical conduct in using her office while acting all innocent about wiping A pair of team captains craving a champi- wanted to see, nearly all the media to raise money for her family’s private out sensitive material. Avoiding report- onship doing something surreptitious that pundits — led by those in New York foundation. ers after giving disingenuous explana- they never needed to do to win. It turns out Tom Brady and Hillary Clinton have REPUBLICANS: July 31, 2015 more in common than you would think.” First of all, it shouldn’t be necessary to point out that Brady was not a public servant assigned the responsibility of protecting America’s national security. With Republicans like these He’s a gifted athlete. Whether he had any he Export-Import Bank is the an effort to press media outlets to refrain they decide they cannot defund Planned knowledge of deflated footballs is of ob- height of crony capitalism. The from covering the story. Parenthood? Or will they fret over a vious interest to the public, but at the end bank uses taxpayer subsidies Perhaps it is no coincidence that with- presidential veto? of the day, no one died as a result. to Tmake it possible for some American in 24 hours of a lion being killed in Af- Ultimately, the question is whether Second, no one subpoenaed Brady’s companies to sell their manufactured rica, ABC, CBS and NBC combined had Republicans will risk a government shut- cellphone as Congress has rightly done wares overseas at a lower price. It leads given more coverage to the death of the down to cease funding an organization with Clinton’s emails. to absurd results like Boeing being able lion than they had given to the Planned that kills American children and harvests Third, Brady is not seeking the presi- to sell its planes to foreign airliners at Parenthood scandal in two weeks. Cred- their organs for money. What the nation dency of the United States or any other a cheaper rate than American aviation ible political operatives tell me that in is learning about Planned Parenthood is government position. He simply seeks companies can buy them. addition to firing up evangelical voters, that it makes a lot of money selling liv- to keep playing football, though he has the Planned Parenthood story angers ers, hearts, lungs, brains and other body already been suspended for four games THERE HAVE been indictments and Hispanic voters. Hispanic voters are, parts. Why should taxpayers fund it? next season as a result of “suspicion” of charges of corruption galore related to the after evangelicals, the most pro-life vot- Since the rise of Ronald Reagan, the cheating. Export-Import Bank. It disrupts the free ing constituency in the United Republican Party has been the pro-life What has happened to Clinton in the market, wastes taxpayer dollars and is States. party. But it has been more a legacy of meantime? Nothing. She hasn’t been in- overwhelmingly unpopular with Repub- Reagan than a desire of its party leaders. dicted. She hasn’t been docked any pay licans and even some Democrats. But Erick Republican leaders in Washington talk for her misconduct. She will receive all Washington lobbyists love it, and they a good game about pro-life issues, but her generous government benefits for the have been writing fat checks to Repub- Erickson they never really have been willing to rest of her life, thanks to her abbreviated licans to keep it going. Senate Republi- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate put points on the board unless pushed by stint as secretary of state and her years as cans in Washington are doing everything a Republican president. They throw the a U.S. senator from New York. Few in the in their power to fund the Export-Import But Republicans in Washington would movement occasional bones, but what media have called for her to quit her bid Bank. rather focus their energies on helping about now? for president or even shown an inclina- While Republicans in Washington lobbyists, not helping children. They The national media will not cover tion to investigate her behavior as thor- are doing everything in their power to will go to the mats for a crony-capitalist the savage butchery by Planned Parent- oughly as Brady’s has been probed. prop up a crony-capitalist regime for regime that uses taxpayer money to pick hood. Forcing this fight in Congress will Do I need to point out that what Clin- lobbyists, they are not putting even half corporate winners and losers. They will force coverage. They will spin it against ton did was not during a game? She was as much energy into defunding Planned not stop giving taxpayer dollars to an or- Republicans, but every member of Con- involved in matters of life and death, Parenthood. More videos continue trick- ganization that cracks open the skulls of gress who speaks up could stand sur- besides matters of national security and, ling out about Planned Parenthood. The children to remove and sell their brains. rounded by the images of butchered chil- quite possibly, the use of her office to latest video showed Planned Parenthood dren so that all Americans can see what shake down contributors for her own pri- employees actually taking people into THIS IS where rubber meets road they are fighting for. vate gain. rooms full of children’s harvested organs for Republicans. Virtually all of the where they could haggle over price. 2,317,000 Republican presidential can- SHUT DOWN the government if THIS IS NOT so much a parallel as Several political consultants tell me didates (the list keeps growing) have that is what it takes. Shut it down now. a stark contrast, not to mention an illus- the Planned Parenthood videos are doing demanded that Congress investigate and If Republicans cannot stand on this high tration of how twisted the moral compass serious damage to the left. In fact, the or- defund Planned Parenthood. Senate Re- ground, they should not stand at all. of our establishment press is. If only the ganization had to hire a Democrat-affili- publicans intend to do a show vote that Children are being ripped apart and their Washington press corps were watchdogs ated communications firm to do damage will not get enough votes to overcome a hearts, brains, lungs and livers sold. Is half as vigilant as the nation’s sports control. Part of that damage control was filibuster. Will they then let it die? Will this not a fight worth having? press. 4 Conservative Chronicle IRAN DEAL: July 31, 2015 More offensive than Huckabee’s Holocaust remark n an interview with Breitbart But this is par for the course. Huck- of billions of dollars to fund Hamas about its project to destroy the Jewish News, Mike Huckabee accused abee is a gift to an Obamaphilic media, and Hezbollah — organizations that state. President Barack Obama of be- allowing them to emote, grandstand aren’t squeamish about expressing ingI “naive” for trusting Iran to uphold and distract. Look! He’s out-Trumping their views on a second Holocaust? HUCKABEE’S REMARK was its part of the recent agreement struck Donald Trump! Admittedly, I have no unhelpful in the way that conjuring by the nations. way to precisely quantify this next as- AS MANY other anti-Semites do, up the Holocaust to make political By doing so, Huckabee said, Obama sertion, but there is almost no way that the Iranian government has denied points always is predictably unhelpful is marching Israelis “to the door of the the media have spent as much time that six million Jews were extermi- — even if, believe it or not, there are oven.” contemplating the horrendous details nated in Europe, in an attempt events that are historically analogous. The Anti-Defamation League, self- of the Iran deal as to weaken the case Accusing the president of marching proclaimed guardians of (imaginary) they have gawk- for Zionism and the Jews “to the door of the oven” sug- Jewish values, swiftly denounced ing over Hucka- David need for a Jewish gests that the president is interested Huckabee’s language. Political report- bee the past few Harsanyi homeland. The in starting genocide on purpose, as ers sprinted to the nearest Democrat to idea that Jews opposed to suggesting that he is gull- days. How many (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate gauge exactly how offended Americans of the voters now have a duty to ible or incompetent or subscribing to should all be. Huckabee was invited familiar with Huckabee’s comment un- pre-emptively de- a dangerous philosophy when it comes to appear on a bunch of TV and radio derstand that there is a secret side deal fend themselves when threatened is to the Middle East. Ultimately, though, shows so that hosts could nudge him between the International Atomic En- predicated on this recent history, and Huckabee is wrong about one other into expressing something even more ergy Agency and Tehran? How many Iranian mullahs know it. Nowadays, thing: Jews can’t be marched to the disagreeable (as if such a thing were Americans outraged by Huckabee’s the mullahs threaten in various ways to doors of an oven anymore. That’s the possible). comment know that the IAEA will rely bring about a second Holocaust. And point of Israel. And that’s why this deal on Iran to collect samples at one of its the same administration that trusts may facilitate a war. But don’t let that CNN SAYS Huckabee “out-Trumps military bases? Do they know that we Iran to uphold its end of an agreement get in the way of focusing on what’s GOP field ahead of debate.” CNBC says will give the Iranian regime hundreds doesn’t believe that Iran is earnest important, media. that “Huckabee Trounces Trump in the Shameless Shock Game.” Time maga- August 5, 2015 zine points out that “Obama, whose DISPARATE IMPACT: great uncle helped to liberate part of the Buchenwald camp in Germany, took of- fense to Huckabee’s rhetoric.” MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski teed up a Legal and academic equality nonsense little emotional sermon of her own: particular act or policy might pose be done about overrepresentation? and Miss., blacks are overrepresented. “If you’ve been to Auschwitz, if not have a discriminatory in- Overrepresentation may be seen as When such racial disparities were found you’ve been to Birkenau, if you’ve been tent, but that doesn’t let you denial of opportunity. For example, in schooling, the remedy was busing. to any of these places where people were offA the hook. If it has a disproportion- blacks are 13 percent of our population I’ll tell you one thing; I’m not moving killed and you see the piles of glasses, ately negative impact on so-called pro- but about 80 percent of professional to Montana. It’s too cold. the piles of hair, the piles of shoes and tected classes, it is said to have a dis- basketball players and 65 percent of .Geographical disparities don’t only the piles of clothes and every bit of parate impact and risks being prohibited professional football players and among apply to the U.S. Historically, none of their humanity that had to be stripped by law. The uninformed assumption the highest-paid players in both sports. the world’s greatest seamen has been away, handed over, as they went and made by judges, lawyers and academ- By stark contrast, blacks are only two born and raised in a Himalayan nation, then burned to their deaths, among other ics is that but for the fact of racial and percent of the NHL’s professional ice such as Nepal and Bhutan, or a sub- things, it’s really not a good comment to sex discrimination, we all would be dis- hockey players. Basketball, football and Saharan nation of Africa. They mostly say. It’s a deal breaker! It should be over tributed across occupations, educational ice hockey represent gross racial dis- have been from Scandinavia, other parts for him. You don’t say that. And by the backgrounds and other socio-economic parities and as such come no- of Europe, East Asia or the South Pa- way, if you said it by mistake, that’s a characteristics according to our per- cific. sign of who you really are.” centages in the population. Such a vi- Being a man, I find another dispro- You know what else people don’t do sion is absolute nonsense. There is no Walter portionality particularly disturbing. Ac- by mistake? Work on a deal for years that evidence, anywhere, at any time, that Williams cording to a recent study conducted by enriches and emboldens Iranian ambi- but for the fact of discrimination, there (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Bond University in Australia, sharks are tions — and puts Jewish lives in danger. would be proportional representation nine times likelier to attack and kill men That, too, no doubt, tells us something among various socio-economic charac- where close to “looking like America.” than they are women. Such a dispropor- about who people really are. Yes, Birke- teristics. Let’s look at some dispropor- Do these statistics mean that the own- tionality leads to only one conclusion: nau is a reminder of a depraved regime. tionalities, with an eye toward discover- ers of multibillion-dollar basketball and Sharks are sexist. Another disturbing But there are contemporary regimes that ing the causes and then deciding what to football operations are nice guys and sex disparity is that despite the fact that are similarly depraved — even if they do about them. ice hockey owners are racists? By the men are 50 percent of the population lack comparable technical and industrial way, just because blacks are 65 percent and so are women, men are struck by skills. For now. IF ONE WERE to list the world’s of professional football players, let’s lightning six times as often as women. So for some of us who grew up top 30 violinists of the 20th century, at not lull ourselves into complacency. Of those killed by lightning, 82 percent with survivors, it is a bit disconcerting least 25 of them would be of Jewish an- When’s the last time you saw a black are men. I wonder what whoever is in that folks such as Brzezinski are more cestry. Another disparity is that despite NFL kicker or punter? charge of lightning has against men. outraged by the offhand remarks of a the fact that Jews are less than three per- powerless, attention-seeking second- cent of the U.S. population and a mere THERE ARE even geographical DIFFERENCES ARE seen by many tier GOP candidate than they are by the 0.2 percent of the world’s population, disparities. Not a single player in the as signs of inequality. Nobel laureate most powerful leader on earth’s abet- during the 20th century, Jews were 35 NHL’s history can boast of having been Milton Friedman put it best: “A society ting Iranians’ objective of placing them- percent of American and 22 percent of born and raised in Hawaii, La. or Miss. that puts equality before freedom will selves on the threshold of nuclear weap- the world’s Nobel Prize winners. Are Geographical disparities are not only get neither. A society that puts freedom ons. In a study by Bar-Ilan professors, Jews taking violin excellence and No- limited to ice hockey. The population before equality will get a high degree of we find that adult children of Holocaust bel Prizes that belong to other ethnici- statistics for North and South Dakota, both.” Equality in conjunction with the survivors are more concerned about the ties? If America’s diversity worshippers Iowa, Maine, Mont. and Vt. show that general rules of law is the only kind of threat of a nuclear Iran than those whose see underrepresentation as probative of not even one percent of their popula- equality conducive to liberty that can be parents were not survivors. racial discrimination, what do they pro- tion is black. In states such as Ga., Ala. secured without destroying liberty. August 12, 2015 5 IRAN DEAL: July 31, 2015 Mike Huckabee really drives ‘em crazy here he goes again, embarrass- the Germans wanted all of Europe. How ing all of us respectables by absurd. The wild stories of storm troop- telling us some things we’d ers leading anti-Semitic pogroms were ratherT not hear, even if he was just re- all rubbish. If the persecutions were peating what others have said again and as widespread as Winston Churchill again in fulsome detail. What others? claimed, Mr. Chamberlain The mullahs in Iran, explained, Reich who keep promis- Chancellor Hitler ing to “destroy,” Paul would get wind of “annihilate” and them and jail those “wipe Israel off Greenberg responsible. “But the map” with “a (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services to hear Churchill, Big Holocaust. you would think ...” The threats are so routine, so taken that the Fuehrer wanted to kill every Jew for granted by now, that it’s hard to take in Europe!” (Laughter.) them seriously. Familiarity breeds disbe- It wasn’t just Neville Chamberlain lief. who refused to believe Herr Hitler was So nice people have a hard time tak- serious, and now it’s not just Barack ing Mike Huckabee seriously when he Obama who thinks Mike Huckabee has warns that those who would let Iran gone too far, way too far. Hillary Clinton have its Bomb are “marching Israelis to described the former governor’s com- the door of the oven.” ments as “inflammatory.” Just as various suckers. (Sound familiar?) Unfortunate- Greenblatt, calls Mike Huckabee’s com- English lords and ladies, leading politi- ly, that distinction may have been lost on ments “completely out of line and un- A FORMER governor of Arkansas cians, diplomats and intellectual lights the men, women and millions of children acceptable.” This is America, after all. and current Republican candidate for in general called Churchill an alarmist who were marched to the gas chambers, Why get so excited? president, Mike Huckabee found his back in the somnolent 1930s. Among the killing fields and, yes, to the doors One of the leading candidates for the warning dismissed when it wasn’t be- them: Anthony Eden, Lloyd George, Ar- of the crematoria in 1941, 1942, 1943 ... Republican presidential nomination — ing denounced. “Ridiculous,” the Hon. nold J. Toynbee ... a whole Burke’s Peer- right up to the last days, even hours, of Jeb Bush — sounded dumbfounded by Barack Obama called it, and “sad,” too. age of dignitaries. the war. Mike Huckabee’s remarks: “... the use The president’s sentiments were prompt- The German fuehrer was “a born of that kind of language, it’s just wrong. Legal and academic equality nonsense ly echoed by leading Democrats, Jewish leader, a magnetic, dynamic personality AS FOR GERMANY’S Jews, they This is not the way we’re going to win groups and everybody else who has a with a single-minded purpose”—to keep were as refined, assimilated and cultivat- elections, that’s not how we’re going to hard time taking Huckabee seriously. the peace. That was Lloyd George in the ed a bunch as you could find anywhere. solve problems.” Maybe he’s too busy It was enough to bring back what Nev- Daily Express. They included art collectors, physicists, depositing campaign contributions from ille Chamberlain told his cabinet when In this country, the sage Walter scientists, writers, musicians, financiers. other members of the Republican estab- another worrywart, Winston Churchill, Lippmann assured his readers that Hit- Many took refuge in the common as- lishment to take this talk of another Ho- kept saying that this new German dicta- ler was persecuting the Jews only to ap- sumption that It Can’t Happen Here — locaust seriously. After all, the impor- tor meant it when he talked about wiping pease the masses (New York Herald Tri- not in modern, advanced, scientific Ger- tant thing is to win elections, not worry out the Jews. bune, May 19, 1933). many, not in the fatherland. about the fate of some endangered little What nonsense, snorted Mr. Cham- N.B., or note well: Neville Chamber- Today the head of the Anti-Defama- country that’s always making waves. berlin. Why, Churchill talked as though lain and his peers were not evil men, just tion League in this country, Jonathan Right? Wrong. Tragically wrong. Back in the blithe 1930s, those who could see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil would learn just how wrong they had been in the murderous ‘40s. The same types are just as mistaken now in the blind 2010s. But in a curious way it speaks well of them. For when confronted by the face of absolute Evil, they’re people of such good will that they just can’t believe it exists. It was C.S. Lewis, the theologian and scholar, author of Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, who pointed out that Satan’s most powerful weapon is that so many people can’t believe he ex- ists.

MAYBE IT takes a Bible-believing Baptist preacher from Arkansas like Mike Huckabee to acknowledge the existence of pure Evil in the world, and understand that Satan still goes to and fro in the land, walking up and down in it, seeing what mischief he can stir up as he sells Peace in Our Time — or some other panacea guaranteed to be just as effective, foolproof, assuring and, in the end, just as homicidal. 6 Conservative Chronicle JEWISH AMERICANS: July 31, 2015 Will Jewish Democrats sink the Iran deal? “Seven Jewish Lawmakers Could Tilt true of only four percent of American bles in relations with Israel are traceable the Orthodox accounted for 33 percent the Scales on Iran Deal,” headlines the Jews. to Bibi Netanyahu’s prickly personality, of Jews in 2002, but 40 percent only 10 Times of Israel. The members — Sen. Even without knowing anything else that line is less likely to be effective years later. In 2012, 74 percent of Jew- Charles Schumer, Rep. Steven Israel, about Jews, the above statistics would now that all major parties in Israel have ish children in New York were growing Rep. Eliot Engel, Rep. Adam Schiff, predict what we see: that about 70 per- united in opposition to the Iran deal/ca- up in Orthodox homes. The religious/ Rep. Nita Lowey, Sen. Ben Cardin and cent of American Jews lean Democrat, pitulation. cultural conservatism of these observant Rep. Ted Deutch — are all Democrats. while 22 percent are Republicans. But here’s the kicker that Schumer, Jews affects their political affiliation. They must choose between loyalty Cardin and others will want to bear in Fifty-seven percent of Orthodox Jews to their party’s president and concern STILL, FOR those Democrats pon- mind: The American Jewish world is are Republicans, and huge majorities about what the deal portends for Israeli dering what the Iran vote will mean for changing very fast. The older, are very concerned about Israel. and American security. their own politi- more secular dog- cal futures, other gedly liberal Jews THEY MIGHT forgive a vote for THERE ARE long and short answers statistics should Mona are dying off, fall- Obamacare. But a vote to provide bil- to the question: “Why are Jews liberal?” pull them up short. Charen ing away from or- lions of dollars to the paymasters of The long answer traces back to the En- Though com- ganized Jewish life Hezbollah and Hamas; a vote to permit lightenment in Europe, when parties of paratively irreli- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate and intermarry- the Iranian regime to acquire missiles, the right were monarchist and anti-Se- gious, 70 percent ing (which means stealth aircraft and more with which to mitic, while parties of the left favored of American Jews remain strongly or their children are no longer Jewish in kill Americans and Israelis; a vote that, pluralism and religious freedom. I don’t somewhat strongly attached to the State most cases). Orthodox Jews, by con- in essence, accepts the eventual nuclear- buy the long argument. Tsar Alexander of Israel. Though some liberal Jews trast, are thriving, and they have large ization of Iran without any correspond- III, who instigated pogroms against the may, at times, have been persuaded by families — having 10 or more children ing concessions from the mullahs? Do Jews, is long dead. So is Napoleon, who Obama administration claims that trou- is not uncommon. In New York City, Democrats want to chance it? liberated them. In the meantime, Jews have suffered under communists, who IMMIGRATION: August 4, 2015 proved just as cruel as the monarchists. Jewish liberals often explain that their views spring from Jewish tradition, which admonishes the Jewish people to engage in “tikkun olam” or “healing Another British invasion the world.” I’m skeptical. Tikkun olam hen music fans think of jobs, health care and other benefits. In on to France, then they should be sent is traditionally understood as adhering “the British Invasion” response, the Home Office confirmed back to their first port of call.” faithfully to the commandments (keep- they are referring to ‘60s “it was planning to strip families of the That isn’t happening. ing kosher, visiting the sick and observ- bandsW like The Beatles and The Rolling automatic right to benefits if their asy- Then there is the problem, largely ing the Sabbath, for example), the better Stones. Britain today, however, faces a lum applications were rejected,” the unspoken but real, that most of the mi- to prepare the world for the messianic different type of invasion. government moved forward with a plan grants have come from Muslim coun- age. Many of those who brandish the Thousands of migrants, most from to evict illegal immigrants without a tries. Are there radicals among them? Hebrew phrase today have comman- North Africa and the Middle East, are court order from rentals properties “un- No one can say with certainty, but deered it to bolster support for same-sex storming an ineffective “barricade” in der new laws designed to make Britain a “flooding the zone” would be part of a marriage, government-run health care Calais, France, as they attempt to enter tougher place to live in” and The- grand strategy to bring down Western and the rest of the progressive agenda England via the Chunnel, a 30-mile rail resa May, the home secretary, nations by infiltrating and subjugating — an interpretation that would, to quote tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, with Britain and other European countries the immortal words of Tevye in Fiddler Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, in northern Cal (and America) from within. on the Roof, “cross a rabbi’s eyes.” France. Some of these migrants hide The London Times carried a story No, the short explanation of Jewish on top of or inside of trucks or cling to Thomas last week about how the University of liberalism is straightforward. Jewish the trains that travel beneath the English (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services Westminster in London “has hosted the Americans tend to be disproportion- Channel. Some have died on the jour- highest number of extremist or intoler- ately urban, secular and educated. Each ney. who warned in a Telegraph article writ- ant speakers over the past three years.” of those categories is highly correlated ten with Bernard Cazeneuve, France’s Islamic State murderer Mohammed with liberalism and membership in the CARGO TRUCKS were backed up minister of the Interior, that Britain’s Emwazi attended the school. The ter- Democratic Party — God (you should last week in Calais, waiting for human “streets are not paved with gold,” said rorist known as “Jihadi John” earned forgive the expression) help us. Speak- and other traffic to clear. Some of the that “tackling this situation is the top a computer programming degree at the ing of Him, Jewish Americans are less migrants have sat down on roads lead- priority for the UK and French govern- school. likely than any other religious group ing to the tunnel causing further traffic ments.” Stories of people from Muslim coun- in America to say they believe in God. delays. A strike and blockade by French America take note. tries who are admitted to Britain and the A 2013 Pew poll found that 62 percent ferry workers has added to the misery, U.S. on student visas and then disappear of Jews reported that their identity was especially for vacationers trying to THE FRENCH government blames are all too familiar. An unknown num- rooted mainly in culture and ancestry reach the continent. British Prime Min- Britain for the migrant crisis. It claims ber of Sharia courts — estimated by the rather than religion. Only 34 percent of ister David Cameron, confronting his Britain has failed to provide enough se- think tank Civitas to be 85 — operate Jews said they were certain God exists, first crisis since his re-election in May, curity at the tunnel. French officials also outside British law in handling legal compared with 69 percent of the general is considering sending Army soldiers to say British companies are too willing to disputes between Muslims. public (though an additional 38 percent Kent to ease traffic congestion. hire migrants for their cheap labor. Brit- say they believe, but without certainty, Britain is facing a problem familiar ish officials counter that France isn’t FOR THOUSANDS of years the placing believers in the majority). to America, which has its own challeng- doing enough to intercept the migrants British Isles have been invaded by While 62 percent of American Chris- es with a porous “southern border.” before they reach Calais and that fences foreign powers. The British eventu- tians and 81 percent of Muslims report Last Wednesday, at least 1,500 mi- are inadequate. ally were able to expel (or absorb) the attending services at least monthly, only grant attempts were made to storm A London Times editorial notes the invaders. “There’ll always be an Eng- 23 percent of Jews do. Fifty-eight per- inadequate fences in Calais. Outnum- rules adopted by the European Union: land,” says the patriotic song. Unless cent of Jewish adults are college gradu- bered police could only stop a few. “... migrants are supposed to claim asy- the unbridled migration and immigra- ates, compared with 29 percent of the Some migrants interviewed vowed to lum in the first EU country in which tion is slowed, or halted, that could be general population. About 20 percent return as many times as it takes to get they set foot. If they fail to do so, if they a hollow prophecy here and in America, of Americans live in rural areas. This is into a country they see as providing make their way from Italy and Greece which also might not always be. August 12, 2015 7 IMMIGRATION: July 29, 2015 Voters to GOP: We’re just not that into immigrants or years, Republican candi- cans that he had “promised the presi- dates have been assured by dent today that I wouldn’t say anything their political consultants bad about this piece of s--- bill.” thatF amnesty is a runaway hit with the Weeks later, the chief sponsor of the public. Then they always come in for POS bill, Sen. John McCain, voted for a zinger of a surprise when the Ameri- a fence with no hint of amnesty. can people are finally able to express A year later, when he was running themselves on the subject. (Sometimes for president, immigration was the it seems as if political consultants are issue dominating the prima- in the game only to ries. McCain told make money.) voters, “My friends, Washington Ann I learned a lesson.” controlled Congress seemed certain to signed a bill granting illegal aliens in- has tried to sneak Coulter What he had alleg- pass amnesty. Bush still wanted it. So state tuition. through three am- edly learned was: did the Democrats. So did the media. But just before announcing his run nesties in the last (c) 2015, Ann Coulter “We must secure So did the donors. for the presidency this year, Chris- decade — in 2006, the border first. But there was one teensy problem: tie claimed that he, too, had “learned” 2007 and 2013. Each time, amnesty had We need to do these other things, but The public still hated the idea. more about the issue. He now claims the full support of the media, the White the American people want something You know how people always say he considers a path to citizenship “ex- House, leaders of both political parties, done about the border.” “you can’t beat something with noth- treme” and accused Hillary Clinton of big campaign donors and lobbyists. McCain even cut macho campaign ing.” When it comes to amnesty, “noth- “pandering” by supporting a path to commercials of him walking by the ing” outpolls “something” every time. citizenship. AND EVERY time, as soon as the southern border, saying, “Build the In early June of 2007, a Rasmussen I’d say Christie had to eat his own public got wind of what was happening, dang fence!” poll found that support for “no bill” words on immigration, but that would the politicians scattered like roaches Too little, too late. McCain lost the beat support for the Senate immigration be a cheap shot. and the loudest amnesty proponent in dang election. bill by 5-to-3. By the end of the week, As governor of Arkansas, Mike the room would suddenly be demand- Bush’s loss was equally monumen- “no bill” was winning 2-to-1, with 53 Huckabee denounced a bill to require ing “border security first!” tal: He lost Congress by pushing am- percent against amnesty and only 26 verification of citizenship before reg- Couldn’t Republicans spare them- nesty. percent for it. istering to vote or applying for public Another British invasion selves the embarrassment of having Contrary to liberals’ claim that they Public opposition was so vociferous, benefits, saying it “inflames those who to say they “learned their lesson” by had finally won the hearts and minds the Senate didn’t even vote on the 2007 are racist and bigots.” (Voters LOVE learning the same lesson of the last 17 of the people in opposing the Iraq War, amnesty. being called bigots!) guys to push amnesty? leading to the Democrats’ 2006 sweep Then, a few years later, erstwhile tea He made the weird claim that com- The McCain-Kennedy amnesty of Congress, a Washington Post/ABC party darling Sen. Marco Rubio burst panies like Toyota or Nestle might re- passed the Senate in 2006, instantly in- News poll taken about a month into on the scene deciding he was going to fuse to invest in Arkansas if the bill be- spiring an outpouring of voter anger so Bush’s incessant yammering about am- be the one to enact amnesty! Teaming came law, by sending the message that, virulent that it shut down the congres- nesty showed that more Americans ap- up with everybody’s favorite senator, “If you don’t look like us, talk like us sional switchboards. Despite enormous proved of Bush’s handling of the Iraq Chuck Schumer, Rubio spent a full year and speak like us, we don’t want you.” opposition from voters, lame-duck War than approved of his handling of zealously pushing amnesty, which en- It might also send the message that we President Bush cockily told reporters, immigration. tailed his telling huge, whopping lies don’t want foreigners voting in our “I’ll see you at the bill signing” — the In nearly every poll on Bush’s han- about it. elections or collecting public services first step to ushering in a Democratic dling of immigration that year, about 60 meant for Americans. Congress in the upcoming midterm percent of the public disapproved and HE BLANKETED the airwaves, But whenever he runs for president, elections. only 25 percent approved. convinced Rush Limbaugh and Mark Huckabee becomes a born-again Min- By contrast, House Majority Leader After Bush’s party was wiped out in Levin to support the bill, toured all the uteman! His current presidential web- John Boehner told a group of Republi- the midterm elections, the Democratic- Sunday morning talk shows. It worked! site denounces “the Washington estab- The Senate passed Rubio’s amnesty lishment” for trying to “reward illegal bill. It was Rubio’s only accomplish- immigrants with amnesty and citizen- ment in Washington. ship,” adding, “Without a secure bor- But then, unfortunately for him, the der, nothing matters.” public found out about it and, once Instead of having to keep apologiz- again, an amnesty bill died. (When will ing for their positions on immigration, these so-called “voters” stop with their maybe Republicans should stop listen- infernal meddling?) ing to political consultants who are paid The next thing we knew, Rubio was by business lobbyists to dump millions swearing to attendees at the March 2014 of poverty-stricken, low-wage workers Conservative Political Action Confer- on the country. ence that what “I’ve learned is you Out of nowhere, non-politician Don- can’t even have a conversation” about ald Trump has shot to the top of the “immigration reform” until “future il- polls by denouncing America’s widely legal immigration will be controlled,” unpopular immigration policies. All calling it “the single biggest lesson of those high-priced campaign consultants the last two years.” are standing around scratching their A few months later, he told the Wall heads. Street Journal that he wouldn’t vote for his own bill if it came up again. AMERICANS CAN see they’re be- One-time GOP star, New Jersey gov- ing forced to subsidize people who are ernor Chris Christie, was suckered into being brought in only to outvote them, supporting the Schumer-Rubio amnesty provide cheap labor and change our cul- by a mere 20-minute conversation with ture. All the donor money in the world Schumer. Not content to support the in- isn’t going to help you, Republicans, if tensely hated amnesty bill, Christie also the voters hate you. 8 Conservative Chronicle HILLARY CLINTON: July 30, 2015 Hillary lies again, but the question remains n a column I wrote in early July, Armed Services Committee hearing based on research by my col- whether she knew of any weapons com- leagues and my own analysis of ing from the U.S. and going to rebels in governmentI documents and eyewitness the Middle East, she denied such knowl- statements, I argued that in 2011 and 2012 edge. She either has a memory so then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faulty that she should not be waged a secret entrusted with any war on the gov- Andrew governmental pow- ernments of Libya ers, or she know- and Syria, with the Napolitano ingly lied. approval of Presi- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate It gets worse. dent Obama and It now appears the consent of congressional leadership that Clinton was managing her war us- from both parties and in both houses of ing emails that she diverted through a Congress. computer server owned by her husband’s charitable foundation, even though some I DID ERR in that column with re- of her emails contained sensitive and spect to an arms dealer named Marc Turi. classified materials. This was in direct I regret the error and apologize for it. I violation of federal law, which requires wrote that Turi sold arms to Qatar as part all in government who possess classified of Clinton’s scheme to get them into the or sensitive materials to secure them in a means. Given Clinton’s unique present in the public domain. They show Clinton hands of rebels. A further review of the government-approved venue. position — as the president’s first secre- sending or receiving emails to and from documents makes it clear that he applied The inspector general of the intel- tary of state and one who seeks to suc- her confidante Sid Blumenthal and one to do so but was denied permission, and ligence community and the inspector ceed him, as well as being the wife of one of her State Department colleagues using so he did not sell arms to Qatar. Other general of the State Department each of his predecessors — it is inconceivable her husband’s foundation’s server, and arms dealers did. have reviewed a limited sampling of that she could be prosecuted as Gen. Da- not a secure government server. These I also erred when referring to Qatar as her emails that were sent or received via vid Petraeus was (for the crime of failing emails address the location of French jets beholden to Washington. In fact, Qatar the Clinton Foundation server, and both to secure classified materials) without the approaching Libya, the location of no-fly is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood have concluded that materials contained personal approval of the president him- zones over Libya and the location of Ste- and is one of the biggest supporters of in some of them were of such gravity that self. vens in Libya. It is inconceivable that an global jihad in the world — and Clin- they were obliged under federal law to Let’s be realistic and blunt: If the American secretary of state failed to pro- ton, who approved the sales of arms to refer their findings to the FBI for further president wants Clinton prosecuted for tect and secure this information. Qatar expecting them to make their way investigation. failing to secure classified materials, then But it is not inconceivable that she to Syrian and Libyan rebels, as they did, she will be, no matter the exculpatory ev- would lie about it. knew that. She and her State Department THE FBI DOES not investigate for idence or any political fallout. If he does Federal statutes provide for three cate- caused American arms to come into the civil wrongdoing or ethical lapses. It in- not want her prosecuted, then she won’t gories of classified information. “Top se- possession of known al Qaeda opera- vestigates behavior that may be criminal be, no matter what the FBI finds or any cret” is data that, if revealed, could likely tives, a few of whom assassinated U.S. or that may expose the nation’s security political fallout. cause grave damage to national security. Ambassador Chris Stevens. to jeopardy. It then recommends either I have not seen the emails the inspec- “Secret” is data that, if revealed, could When Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., asked that indictments be sought or the matter tors general sent to the FBI, but I have likely cause serious damage to national Clinton in January 2013 at a Senate be addressed through non-prosecutorial seen the Clinton emails, which are now security. “Confidential” is data that, if re- vealed, could likely cause some damage to national security. Her own daily calen- dars, which she regularly emailed about, are considered confidential. Clinton has repeatedly denied ever sending or receiving data in any of these categories. She probably will argue that an email that fails to use the terminology of the statute cannot be deemed classi- fied. Here the inspectors general have corrected her. It is the essence of the data in an email — its potential for harm if revealed — that makes its contents clas- sified and the failure to protect it a crime — not the use of a magic word or phrase in the subject line.

SHE IS NO doubt lying again, just as she did to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Yet the question remains: Why did she use her husband’s founda- tion’s computer server instead of a gov- ernment server, as the law requires? She did that so she could obscure what the server recorded and thus be made to ap- pear different according to history from how she was in reality. Why did she lie about all this? Because she thinks she can get away with it. Will American voters let her? August 12, 2015 9 DOUBLE STANDARD: July 30, 2015 Why do Bill and Hillary Clinton still get a pass? onald Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana, 1989, but said she hadn’t used the word was, after all, accused of rape by Juan- took ahold of my hand and said, ‘I’ve recently denied a 30-year-old ‘rape’ in her deposition literally.” ita Broaddrick. Broaddrick, on Dateline heard so much about you and I’ve been allegation that Donald Trump Ivana Trump now says, “The story is NBC, claimed that Clinton, then-Arkan- dying to meet you. ... I just want you to rapedD her. The allegation, according to totally without merit.” She also publical- sas attorney general and gubernatorial know how much that Bill and I appreci- the New York Daily News, stems from ly supports her ex for president, describ- candidate, raped her: “I first pushed him ate what you do for him.’ ... the book The Last Tycoon: The Many ing herself and Trump as “the best of away. I just told him ‘no.’ ... “This woman, this little, soft-spoken Lives of Donald J. Trump by Harry Hurt friends,” adding, He tries to kiss me — pardon me for the phrase — dowdy III. “He would make again. He starts bit- woman that would seem very unassert- an incredible pres- Larry ing on my lip. ... And ive, took ahold of my hand and squeezed THE NEWS wrote: “Hurt’s 1993 ident.” Elder then he forced me it and said, ‘Do you understand? Every- book ... cited a divorce deposition, in Meanwhile, the down on the bed. thing that you do.’ I could have passed which Ivana Trump claimed her then- cover of the cur- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate I just was very out at that moment and I got my hand husband sexually attacked her. ... In a rent issue of New frightened. I tried from hers and I left. ... She was just hold- rage, Trump allegedly tore out clumps York Magazine shows pictures of 35 to get away from him. I told him ‘no.’ ... ing onto my hand. Because I had started of his wife’s hair, the book claimed, women who have accused Bill Cosby of He wouldn’t listen to me.” to turn away from her and she held onto and ripped off her clothes and assaulted rape, attempted rape or sexual abuse. In my hand and she said, ‘Do you under- her. ‘According to versions she repeats a recently unsealed deposition in relation SHE FURTHER alleges that Hillary stand? Everything that you do,’ I mean, to some of her closest confidantes, ‘he to a lawsuit filed against Cosby by an- Clinton, shortly after the alleged rape, cold chills went up my spine. That’s the raped me.’ ... other alleged rape victim, Cosby admits verbally intimidated her, implying that first time I became afraid of that woman.” “Ivana Trump herself, in a statement giving Quaaludes to women he wanted Broaddrick better keep her mouth shut The late British left-wing writer that ended up on the first page of the to have sex with. — or else. At a political event two weeks Christopher Hitchens, in No One Left to book, admitted to there having been an This raises a question: Why does Bill later, Broaddrick claims that Hillary ap- Lie To, claimed that three women have ugly night between herself and Trump in Clinton continue to get a pass? Clinton proached her: “She came over to me, made “plausible” allegations of rape by Bill Clinton. He gave no further details — and the media have been relentlessly August 4, 2015 POLITICS: indifferent. This double standard reached its nadir when Kathleen Willey, a former cam- paign aide, described on 60 Minutes an The politics of normality alleged sexual battery committed by Joe? For president? — and Bernie Sanders, to boot — were volone slice, enforce their own outlooks Clinton in the Oval Office. Willey, a Yes, that Joe. As in, this weekend the watching our first TV. Ol’ Joe’s defects, and viewpoints. The ancient institution Clinton campaign volunteer, says that New York Times ran an article with the such as sounding off without thinking, of marriage comes under new rules on Clinton took her hand and placed it on headline: “Joe Biden Said to Be Taking are real enough; they just seem less glar- the basis of one Supreme Court jus- his aroused genitalia: “He touched my New Look at Presidential Run.” ing, less offensive and less intrusive tice’s poetic conception of How Things breasts with his hand ... and then he whis- Couldn’t be. No! But here comes the when measured against the disposition Should Be. pered ... ‘I’ve wanted to do this ever since Times again: “Hillary Clinton Camp of, well, for instance, our incumbent Hillary Clinton’s (and her husband’s) I laid eyes on you.’ ... He took my hand, Weighs Implications of Potential Joe president. association with this new style of anti- and he put it ... on his genitals.” Willey Biden Challenge.” A congruent note Our incumbent president, who swept democratic politics has been conspicu- said she managed to push him away. about the timing of all this: Donald in victory seven years ago on a tide of ous. So has her reputation for — shall Feminist Gloria Steinem, right after Trump, headed toward a debate show- promises to reconcile national divisions, we say — shepherding the truth in the Willey’s appearance, wrote a piece for down on Fox News, handily leads the regards himself as ruling by divine way she wants it understood by the the New York Times. Clinton, she said, Republican field. right. He’s never wrong, it seems. All dumb sheep in her custody. Polls show did nothing wrong. “Even if (Willey’s) Biden? Trump? Who next? Mr./Ms. criticisms of his style and policies are that the majority of voters find her un- accusation are true,” Steinem wrote, Jenner? outlandish and wrong. From a foreign trustworthy: could it be that people have Clinton is “not guilty of sexual harass- land (Ethiopia), he assailed critics of the started to doubt the pleasures of being ment.” Why? Well, Steinem wrote, LET ME POKE an investigatory Iran nuclear deal. Announcing Monday lied to and talked down to? “(Willey) pushed him away, she said, hole in the tent flap by remarking that a plan to reduce greenhouse Lowlife screwball as he may be in and it never happened again. In other 10 or 15 years ago I would not have con- gases, he announced that some regards, Donald Trump seems at words, President Clinton took ‘no’ for sidered voting for Biden in a contest for least not to be holding back his personal an answer.” second assistant municipal dogcatcher. William views. He seems, in fact, to relish large The late Barbara Olson, in Hell To There seemed about him, with his hair risks. From the fans’ standpoint, how Pay, describes Hillary Clinton as the transplant and dazzling dental work, an Murchison can that hurt, in a milieu where personal ringleader behind the “nuts or sluts” air of artifice and insincerity. (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate gain has come to outrank public service? strategy employed to malign the various Here is the catch today: In a race with As with Trump, so with Biden, per- women who alleged having had an affair Donald Trump, I might well consider a challenges to his methodology and goals haps. He’s just different enough — sen- with Bill. Hitchens’ book makes a simi- vote for ol’ Joe — a strangely normal were just “stale arguments.” I, Barack, timental, family-oriented, patriotic, reli- lar claim. person in the context of 21st century po- have spoken. The rest of you — get your gious in an old-fashioned Catholic way But as to Broaddrick’s allegation, litical normality. posteriors in gear, y’hear me? — to stand out amid the new norms, apparently only one national reporter, It may be that Trump benefits from looking more like somebody from the Sam Donaldson, ever asked Bill Clinton that off-kilter view of the political world: IT’S WONDERFUL to have a per- Eisenhower-Kennedy era than a spokes- about the charge. To Donaldson’s ques- politics as the center of human endeavor, fect president. But the limitations of man for the Politics of Me, the Politics tion, Clinton said, in effect, talk to my with a solution for every problem; op- politics, no matter who the president of “I, Barack,” and of Mr. and Mrs. Clin- lawyer. As to Hillary, it does not appear ponents as rabble to be marched over may be, are easy to recognize. Taxes and ton. that a reporter has ever asked her about and ground down; lies and distortions as regulations suppress economic growth. Broaddrick’s allegation. the stuff of discourse; and money as the Immense bureaucracies — official (the NEVER BET against the Clintons, measure of success. Environmental Protection Agency) and a political adage has it — an adage that BILL COSBY is not an ex-president, And Joe Biden — Barack Obama’s semi-official (teacher unions) — work says as much about our times and pres- and his wife is not running to become vice president — as the answer to it all? to impose their distinct ideologies on a ent ways as it does anything else. Unless president. Donald Trump wants the job. Hardy-har-har, as Jackie Gleason used large and diverse population. Unelected the last word on that topic is still to be Bill Clinton used to be president. His to say back in the ‘50s, when Joe and I jurists, by margins no thicker than a pro- written. wife wants the job. 10 Conservative Chronicle DONALD TRUMP: July 30, 2015 Message to the political elite: Trump gets it, you don’t n December 2014 I wrote in this doesn’t see a now-broken-down, arro- very column, “The elite media gant and oh-so-senatorial John McCain will scoff at a potential Donald as some sacred cow. The fact is that TrumpI candidacy for president ... And there are a good number of conservative as usual they will be wrong.” I haven’t voters in the GOP who are tired of Mc- changed my mind. Cain’s flip-flops on issues So let me ex- and his dismissive plain to politi- attitude toward “the cal experts and Matt great unwashed” analysts who are Towery masses. Yes, McCain trapped in that (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate “D.C. bubble” is a hero, but that why it is that, despite many comments great service has by Trump that they consider to be deal- been honored many times over many killers for him, he remains at the top of years. And the voters who thought most polls going into next week’s Fox McCain was a weak candidate against News debate among the GOP hopefuls. Barack Obama and an unpredictable elitist in the Senate have sided with TRUMP’S LEAD has Republican Trump. “big deals” upset. They view his tough rhetoric to be that of a rogue candi- AS I WROTE late last year, “In date who will “turn off” groups that Trump’s case, ‘Rough and Tumble’ is Ironically, the only other beneficiary down any other candidate who dares to they have targeted in their attempts to his middle name.” But that’s what many of Trump-mania is Jeb Bush. The for- raise his or her head — that is, any can- cobble together a presidential victory voters are searching for. And Trump is mer Florida governor has built-in name didate other than Donald Trump. in November 2016. Trump during his no dummy. He knew darn well that tak- recognition and is raising money hand Trump, who is self-funded, will have maiden speech as a candidate said that ing on the likes of McCain would keep over fist. While Trump’s comments con- the ability to match someone like Bush when Mexico sends its people our way, his campaign on an upward trajectory, tinue to suck the political oxygen out of dollar for dollar when the primaries get they’re not sending their best, that they as conservative voters, increasingly the room for the other “conservatives” tough and the tough ads get going. are instead sending people with lots of tired of bland candidates and inactive vying for a crumb’s worth of media cov- problems; people who are bringing in leaders in Washington, search for some- erage, Bush sits pretty, knowing that he AS I WROTE in December, don’t illegal drugs and that have criminal re- one who can stand up to the so-called will have a reliable establishment base underestimate Mr. Trump. cords. GOP establishment and elite media. in most states and the money to take The press and the PC police in the GOP went crazy. Their dream of win- July 31, 2015 ning Latino votes in 2016 seemed to be HILLARY CLINTON: melting around them. They immediate- ly called on Trump to back off on his statements. He didn’t, and to their sur- prise he rose to the top of many surveys Hillary Clinton in free fall of voters in this ‘16 free-for-all fight for have polled Hillary Clinton’s women surveyed trust her, 51 percent throughout the balance of this year and the nomination. national favorability for the past do not. perhaps into the election year itself. In reaction to Trump managing to at- 25 years and I have never seen it It is hard to recall any recent example At the end of each month, new emails tract 9,000 people to a campaign event dropI to its current level of 40 percent. of such free fall in a candidate, partic- will be released by the State Department in Arizona, Sen. John McCain labeled Not ever. ularly one who has been in the public until they are all public. The Benghazi those who attended “the crazies” and Her recent crash (to 40 percent fa- eye for so long, is married to a still very hearings lie ahead of her in October. rebuked Trump for his comments about vorable, 51 percent unfavorable in the popular former president, and served as And, as the emails emerge from hid- illegal immigrants. (Make that “undoc- July 30 Quinnipiac Poll) means that she Secretary of State leaving office with ing, we will see more examples of her umented” immigrants). is essentially in free fall, having lost a high positive ratings. flouting the law by sending or receiving So when asked about well-known net of 16 points of favorability in Quin- classified material on her private, inse- former POW McCain and his com- nipiac polls since November of last cure server. The repercussions of these ments on Trump, Trump said, “He’s not year. Dick illegal communications are sure to re- a war hero,” and, “He was a war hero Morris verberate for many months into 2016. because he was captured. I like people HERE IS THE record of her decent: Are the Democrats really going to who weren’t captured.” Date: Favorable-Unfavorable (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate commit suicide by nominating Clinton? The PC police and the GOP fancy Nov. 2014: 50-45 Will they all line up to drink the Kool- pants in New York and Washington, Mar: 48-45 FOR CLINTON, the worst is yet Aid? D.C., went berserk. How dare anyone April: 46-47 to come. The textbook teaches that the My guess is that President Obama say such a thing! Surely this would be May: 45-47 way to get over a political scandal is to and Valerie Jarrett won’t let them. As the end of “the Donald.” But it wasn’t. July: 30 40-51 end it by getting all the facts out, how- Bernie Sanders gains momentum, the Subsequent polls in various states have Source: Quinnipiac Poll ever negative, and then to move to the possibility of Joe Biden or Elizabeth shown Trump to continue to either lead A stunning collapse! In the process, recovery phase. The metaphor of fight- Warren entering the race grows. If Clin- the crowded pack of candidates or at she has fallen into a statistical tie with ing a forest fire is apt. During the fire, ton’s crash in favorability continues, least be near the top. “How could this Scott Walker and Jeb Bush. And her one cannot extinguish the flames. They and she falls below the 40 percent fire- be?” asked the so-called experts, who base among women is not holding firm. are too intense. So you need to set your wall Obama has been able to maintain condemned Trump and provided in- In the latest poll, women only give her a own fire, burning the fuel in its path so throughout his term, a real Democratic stant analysis that suggested that he was favorable rating by 47-43. that the big fire dies out. alternative becomes inevitable. starting to come unraveled, as they had As an indicator of likely further fall, But Clinton’s scandal has no end predicted. only 37 percent of all voters find her in sight. Her insane, self-destructive IF ONE DOES not emerge and It’s simple, guys. The man is speak- “honest and trustworthy” while 57 per- policy of concealment and paranoid se- Clinton continues her fall, there is a real ing his mind on every issue. He doesn’t cent do not. Even among women she is crecy has led to a prolongation of the chance that even Sanders could defeat try to be politically correct. And he not trusted. While only 43 percent of drip-drip-drip of scandal revelations her for the nomination. August 12, 2015 11 POLITICAL PARTIES: July 31, 2015 GOP act like an unruly mob, Dems like a regimented army s the presidential campaign gins. Each lost his state’s biggest met- heats up, and we head into ropolitan area, but McConnell carried the first debate among the 16 110 of 120 counties and Roberts 102 declaredA Republican candidates, there is of 105. Sure, Republicans, especially an asymmetry between the two political in rural counties, had been grumbling parties. and cussing them out. But they weren’t Republican voters have been seeth- going to vote for a Demo- ing with discon- crat or, in Kansas, a tent toward their Michael Democrat-in-dis- party’s officehold- guise running as an ers and have not Barone Independent. become enchanted (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate They’re proba- with any one of 15 bly still grumbling more or less conventional politicians about McConnell and Roberts today who are running. Democratic voters — and some of them, at least, are tell- support their officeholders with lock- ing pollsters they’re voting for Donald step loyalty and seem untroubled by the Trump. Polling suggests that the cur- serious flaws of their party’s clear front- rent Trump vote is coming in large part runner. from non-college-graduate Republicans who are far more numerous outside big THIS ASYMMETRY helps explain metro areas than within. some otherwise puzzling things. One is That resembles the divide in the cru- why polls have continued for several cial 2012 primaries in Mich., Ohio, Ill. Party core constituency — blacks, gen- port but which they understand are un- years to show the Republican Party be- and Wis., where Mitt Romney carried try liberals and Hispanics. Even the popular with the broader electorate. Call ing disliked more than the Democratic the big metro areas — Detroit, Cleve- Birkenstock Belt folks (dovish, envi- it the Bulworth syndrome, after Warren Party, even as both parties get roughly land/Columbus/Cincinnati, Chicago, ronment-conscious, concentrated in uni- Beatty’s 1998 movie. the same number of votes. The reason Milwaukee — and Rick Santorum car- versity towns and rural ecotopias), who The Bulworth syndrome operates is that while virtually no Democrats ex- ried most counties beyond. are boosting Bernie Sanders’ numbers among right-wing Republicans as well. press negative feelings about their party, Democratic voters seem much more in Iowa and New Hampshire polls, still Donald Trump’s incendiary statements many Republicans do. content with their officeholders. That’s give Clinton overwhelmingly favorable on immigration appealed to voters tired Those negative feelings don’t, how- one reason Barack Obama’s job ap- ratings. of being told that Arizona’s attempt to ever, prevent Republicans from voting, proval rating has held pretty constantly enforce federal immigration laws was however grudgingly, for their party’s around the 45 percent level, not down THAT SUPPORT for Sanders bad and San Francisco’s attempt to old-timers in general elections. Polls in below 30 percent where George W. echoes the sentiment for the leftist Jer- block these laws (with “sanctuary cit- 2014 showed the 70-something Sens. Bush’s plummeted when Republicans emy Corbyn in the ongoing contest ies”) was good. Mitch McConnell and Pat Roberts, both as well as Democrats and Independents for leader of the British Labour party. So conservative pundits eager to sniff members of Congress since the 1980s, soured on the war in Iraq. Corbyn has no more realistic chance of out any departure from conservative in close races in heavily Republican Hillary Clinton is in more trouble becoming prime minister than Sanders principle by conventional candidates are Hillary Clinton in free fall Kentucky and Kansas. than Obama with Independents and Re- does of becoming president. But left- championing a candidate who has been Yet both won with solid majorities publicans, but continues to receive high wing Democrats and Labourites love anything but a consistent conservative and by double-digit percentage mar- approval ratings from every Democratic candidates who take positions they sup- over the years and is a prime example of crony capitalism. He got his start in Manhattan real estate with help from state and city governments after he and his family made the second largest con- tributions (after the candidates’ brother) to Hugh Carey’s underdog 1974 Demo- cratic primary campaign for governor. The asymmetry between the parties’ voters reflects their different media en- vironments. Talk radio, conservative websites and Fox News bristle with crit- icism of Republican officeholders and complaints about their squishiness. That helps sustain a critical frame of mind and a sense, particularly outside metro- politan centers, that ordinary people’s concerns are being ignored by a manip- ulative establishment. In contrast, Democrats, who fancy themselves as critical thinkers, are com- fortable consumers of “mainstream” media in which their “smelly little or- thodoxies” (George Orwell’s term) are rarely challenged.

SO SUPPOSEDLY docile Repub- licans increasingly behave like an un- ruly mob while supposedly freethinking Democrats keep acting like a regiment- ed army. Curious. 12 Conservative Chronicle GEORGE WEIDENFELD: July 31, 2015 Among the ruins, a case of righteousness hristianity, whose presence lightedly tell you, the last person to rescue is tragically small. The objec- If Weidenfeld were a man of infinite in the Middle East predates fight a duel at the University of Vienna tive is to rescue 2,000 families. Com- means, the criticism might be valid. Islam’s by 600 years, is — with sabers, against a Nazi. (No one pared to the carnage in Syria wrought As it is, he says rather sensibly, “I aboutC to be cleansed from the Middle died.) by the pitiless combatants — 230,000 can’t save the world.” The Arab states, East. Egyptian Copts may have found dead, half the 22 million population particularly the Gulf monarchies, are some respite under Abdel Fatah al-Sis- WEIDENFELD, NOW 95, once driven from their homes — it’s a pal- surely not without resources. With so si, but after their persecution under the invoked Torschlusspanik, “a German try sum. But these are real people few doing so little for so many, he’s previous Muslim Brotherhood govern- phrase which roughly translates as who will be saved. And doing what he can. ment, they know how precarious their the ‘panic before for Weidenfeld, that existence in 90 percent Muslim Egypt the closing of the Charles counts. AND FOR HIM, it’s personal. In remains. Elsewhere, it’s much worse. doors,’” to ex- Yet he has been 1938, still a teenager, he was brought Twenty-one Copts were beheaded by plain why “I’m Krauthammer criticized for res- from Vienna to London where the the Islamic State affiliate in Libya for a man in a hur- (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group cuing just Chris- Plymouth Brethren took him in and the crime of being Christian. In those ry.” Remarkably tians. In fact, the provided for him. He never forgot. large swaths of Syria and Iraq where healthy and stunningly energetic (as U.S. government will not participate He is trying to return the kindness, he the Islamic State rules, the conse- distant cousins, we are often in touch), because the rescue doesn’t extend to explains, to repay the good that Chris- quences for Christians are terrible — he appears nowhere near any exit Yazidis, Druze or Shiites. tians did for him 77 years ago. In doing enslavement, exile, torture, massacre, doors. But he is aware of and deeply This comes under the heading of so, he is not just giving hope and a new crucifixion. troubled by the doors closing in on a no good deed going unpunished. It’s a life to 150 souls, soon to be thousands. community in Syria largely abandoned rather odd view that because he can- He has struck a blow for something OVER THE decades, many Middle by the world. not do everything, he should be ad- exceedingly rare: simple, willful righ- Eastern Christians, seeing the rise of In context, the scale of the initial monished for trying to do something. teousness. political Islam and the intensification of savage sectarian wars, have simply DONALD TRUMP: August 4, 2015 left. Lebanon’s Christians, once more than half the population, are now esti- mated at about a third. The number of Christians under Palestinian Authority rule in the West Bank has dwindled — The Trump card: Image of the party? in Bethlehem, for example, dropping ith Hillary Clinton’s mul- so disgusted with their party, especial- who might be up to the superhuman by half. (The exception, of course, tiple misdeeds coming to ly over its repeated betrayals of them, task ahead, in order to head off a nu- is Israel, where Christians, Arab and light and causing her po- and of the country, especially when it clear catastrophe, this is surely the time non-Arab, enjoy not just protection but liticalW problems, reflected in her declin- comes to immigration, that they are to look for a solid, wise and steadfast civil rights. Their numbers are increas- ing support in the polls, both she and immediately attracted to anyone who leader. ing. But that’s another story.) the Democratic Party have reason to be voices the outrage they feel. A shoot-from-the-hip, bombastic Most endangered are the Christians concerned. But both of them may yet be Donald Trump has turned this open- show-off is the last thing we need or of Syria. Four years ago they numbered rescued by “The Donald,” who can turn ing phase of the 2016 primaries into can afford. As for the Democrats, their about 1.1 million. By now 700,000 out to be their Trump card. The Donald Trump Show. All of this leading candidate — Hillary Clinton have fled. Many of those remaining in Donald Trump has virtually no chance might be very entertaining, if this were — was one of the architects of the for- country are caught either under radical of becoming even the Republican Party’s not a crucial juncture in the history of eign policy disasters that can turn into Islamist rule or in the crossfire between candidate in 2016, much less being elect- the country and of the world. world-changing catastrophes. factions. As the larger Christian world ed President of the United States. As for the Republican mob scene, it looks on passively, their future, like is a challenge just to remember all the the future of Middle Eastern Christi- THE REASON is not hard to under- Thomas names of the candidates. These include anity writ large, will be determined by stand: Republican voters simply do not Sowell many who must know, in their heart of Iran, Hezbollah, the Assad dynasty, the trust him, as the polls show. Nor is there hearts, that they have no real chance (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Islamic State, the Nusra Front, various any reason why they should trust him, of getting the nomination. But, un- other local factions and by regional given his chameleon-like changes in the But, while all this political theater is less they withdraw, the public’s atten- powers seeking advantage. past. going on, the world’s leading promoter tion may well be fragmented over too Meanwhile, on a more limited scale, Why then is he the “frontrunner” in of international terrorism — Iran — has many candidates for them to find a truly there are things that can be done. Three the polls? gotten a “deal” that all but guarantees promising candidate for president. weeks ago, for example, 150 Syrian One reason is arithmetic. When there that they will have nuclear bombs and, My own view is that the last thing Christians were airlifted to refuge and is a small army of Republican candi- not just incidentally, intercontinental we need is another great talker with safety in Poland. dates, each with a tiny set of supporters, missiles to deliver them. no track record of actually taking re- That’s the work of the Weidenfeld anyone with enough name recognition to Iran doesn’t need intercontinental sponsibility for running a government Safe Havens Fund. It provided the get the support of a fifth or a fourth of missiles to reach Israel, which is closer at any level. Among the Republican flight and will support the refugees for the Republicans polled stands out, even to Iran than St. Louis is to Boston. Send candidates are some governors whose as long as 18 months as they try to re- if twice that many Republicans say they not to know for whom the bell tolls, it records are worth scrutinizing. But the make their lives. would never vote for him. tolls for thee. sooner the talkers are gone, the better. The person behind all this is Lord When both kinds of Republicans We can only hope that Donald Trump George Weidenfeld: life peer, phi- are counted, Donald Trump is both the WE CAN ONLY hope that, some- will be leading the procession of talk- lanthropist, publisher (Weidenfeld & “frontrunner” and the leading pariah. where among the many Republican ers headed for the exit. But don’t count Nicolson, established 1949), Euro- The danger is not that he will get the candidates, there is someone who can, on it. peanist (founder of the Institute for nomination, but that his irresponsible as president, make the hard decisions Strategic Dialogue to promote classi- talk will become the image of the Re- and take the hard steps required to undo WORSE YET, 36 percent of Re- cally liberal European values), proud publican Party, and that his bombast will the utter disaster that looms ahead, as a publicans polled recently say that they public Jew (honorary vice president of drown out more sober voices that need result of Barack Obama’s feckless for- would vote for Trump if he ran as a the World Jewish Congress), lifelong to be heard, thereby making it harder to eign policies. third-party candidate. That would virtu- Zionist (he once served as the chief select the best candidate. If ever there was a time to carefully ally guarantee victory for Hillary Clin- of Cabinet to Israel’s first president, More is involved than arithmetic, sift through all the aspiring Republican ton. “The Donald” could definitely be Chaim Weizmann) and, as he will de- however. Many Republican voters are candidates, in hopes of finding just one the Democrats’ Trump card. August 12, 2015 13 DONALD TRUMP: August 5, 2015 Trump can win: He says what others won’t onald Trump isn’t going to going on as does the man in the street. drop out or suddenly leave In this, he is a throwback to Harry Tru- the race. And he might just man. winD it. He says what we think and the other Trump has firmly planted his feet politicians do not dare to say. on the no-man’s-land between the re- H e speaks openly and ality Americans plainly about the see around them Dick link between illegal and the fiction immigration and that conventional Morris crime. The fact wisdom and po- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate is that 800,000 litically correct people who are il- Trump correctly states that the major logical trauma. President Jimmy Carter speech define. In the process, he has legally in the United States have been factors in depressing the wages of our stopped requiring a medical exam or increased his voter share to a lead in convicted of a felony or a serious mis- American workers are imports on the even a note from a doctor to apply for the Republican primary and improved demeanor. Why are they still here? We one hand and illegal immigration on the disability. Since then, the way has been his favorability rating by 17 points. had them in our custody, why did we other. How can Americans expect to get open for a massive influx onto the rolls. let them go? How many times must we a decent wage when there are people There are very few who ever get off dis- IN THE JULY 30 Quinnipiac Poll, throw then out before we devise a sys- willing to work dirt cheap as long as ability and go back to work. he registered a 50-33 favorable rat- tem that blocks their re-entry? they can get a job? Obama wants to encourage the maxi- ing among Republicans and a 27-59 These are the questions Americans This is the age old question Repub- mum use of disability and other pro- among all voters. This rating was a big are asking. But the political establish- licans like Abraham Lincoln have been grams to increase the number of people improvement over the 20-69 rating he ment goes into a panic when crime asking since slavery. You cannot permit who depend on the government and had with all voters in their previous and immigration are mentioned in the so large an influx at the bottom of the will, likely, vote as they are told. poll. same sentence, lest they appear racist. pay scale and expect the rest of us to Welfare benefits: Entitlements of all The establishment is waiting for But facts are facts. We would likely earn decent living. sorts used to comprise 1/3 of the federal Trump to make a mistake. But even have one-third less crime in the United budget 20 years ago. Now they make up as he tip-toes over the line of political States if we had no immigrants within THERE ARE other areas Trump 2/3. correctness, his detractors need to un- our borders illegally. needs to explore. About 1/3 of our entire population is The Trump card: Image of the party? derstand that he — unlike they — is a While politicians fret about income Disability: While there are many tru- receiving welfare benefits — payments media pro. Where they may occasion- inequality and the left speaks of raising ly disabled people getting needed ben- tied to need. This does not include those ally appear on camera, Trump does it taxes on wealthy people to give more efits, a great many of those who have on Social Security or Medicare or Vet- every week. He constantly threads his to the rest of us, Trump boldly faces joined the rolls are not needy. To some erans Benefits — benefits we have paid way between critics and says what he the question of how China is decimat- extent or another, they are faking their into during our working years or have thinks. Doing so in a political context ing the manufacturing industries of way to benefits. earned by our service in the military. is no big deal for him. America. Why won’t the others discuss There has been virtually no increase The stat includes over 50 different wel- Trump has taken the care — whether this fact? Because they are allied with in the number of people with real diseas- fare programs many of which are best by learning or intuition — to align his management, which makes money es like cancer, heart disease or strokes with massive fraud. Particularly the own attitudes with what the people are from importing its products rather than that are claiming disabilities. All the Earned Income Tax Credit program has thinking. He reacts to events with the producing them in the United States at increase has been in hard-to-measure been found, in government audits, to be same visceral understanding of what is a decent wage. problems like back pain and psycho- paying out almost a third of its money to people who are not eligible. In the past, when America began to recover from recessions and unemploy- ment dropped, the number of people on food stamps has decreased as well. But that hasn’t happened now. Obama is signing up people for food stamps and encouraging them to stay there regard- less of need. Obamacare: Polling shows that the American people value certain aspects of the program: the guarantee that cov- erage will be possible regardless of pre-existing conditions, the prohibition against raising rates or dropping cover- age when you get sick, the coverage of kids up to 26. The polling also shows that Americans are very unhappy with the requirement that everybody buy in- surance and that businesses have to pro- vide insurance for all full-time workers. If the GOP concentrated on repealing these dual mandates, they could prob- ably get 60 votes in the Senate to pass it and, very possibly, get enough to over- ride Obama’s veto.

TRUMP GOES with the others fear to tread. It is their timidity that makes Donald’s courage obvious. He’s not get- ting out. Indeed, he could win. 14 Conservative Chronicle DEBATES: July 30, 2015 Debates vs. debates — making progress hen it comes to debates the Leading up to this year’s British Oxford Union, which bills election, all parties received TV expo- itself as the “world’s most sure and debate time, but the best can- prestigiousW debating society,” remains didate showing may have occurred on the gold standard. Begun in 1823, The March 26 when the three top candidates Union, in modern times, has hosted — Prime Minister David Cam- debates that have eron of the Conser- included such lu- vative Party, La- minaries as Ron- Cal bour Party leader ald Reagan and Thomas Ed Miliband and the Dalai Lama. Nick Clegg, who The Oxford Union (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services headed the Liberal debates produce Democrats, were useful information. The same cannot be grilled in a mesmerizing Q&A session. said for U.S. presidential debates. In that session, broadcast on Sky News, the candidates didn’t debate NEXT WEEK, 10 Republican head-to-head, instead host Jeremy Pax- presidential candidates will gather on a man asked questions of each of the can- stage in Cleveland, Ohio, behind podi- didates, who appeared sequentially for ums like Jeopardy contestants. With so 20 minutes apiece. Then the studio au- many candidates having so little time, dience asked questions. Many of their little useful information will be dis- questions were better and more con- pensed. More likely the all-male cast frontational than Paxman’s. Valuable will be looking for ways to squeeze in information was conveyed and voter answers Democratic candidates can use before the first debate, allow the candi- their rehearsed sound bites, which will impressions confirmed. Cameron and to their advantage. Republicans should dates to address voters directly without be replayed in their campaign ads and, his party won the election in a landslide. not expect softball questions from con- the back-and-forth of a debate.” they hope, on major news programs. servative questioners. This is progress. One hopes the But not to leave anyone out, Fox News WHILE IT’S true, as Republican For the 2016 GOP debates, NBC/Tel- Democrats will follow the Republican has just announced a prequel to the main National Committee Communications emundo and National Review will spon- example, or better still, the example debate for all the other GOP candidates Director Sean Spicer wrote recently in sor one; CNN will partner with Salem of the Oxford Union. If you’ve never who failed to meet the requirements for the Wall Street Journal, that the GOP Media Group, a Christian network, for seen what a real debate looks like, go the primetime event. So now Carly Fio- has streamlined the debates from 2008 another, and ABC and the Independent to oxford-union.org and find the link to rina, George Pataki and Sen. Lindsey and 2012 — when there were 23 and 20, Journal Review will partner for a third. YouTube for some of the most exciting Graham will also get their chance to say respectively — there need to be more In addition, notes Spicer, “There will political and social issue exchanges you little of substance. changes in the way we elect our presi- have been 25 candidate forums before will ever see. In 1960, the first televised U.S. presi- dents beyond these political fashion the first debate. ... These forums, from dential debate pitted John F. Kennedy shows. This will help us avoid buyer’s CPAC (Conservative Political Action NEXT WEEK’S debate is unlikely against Richard Nixon. Britain, after remorse, like the kind highlighted in a Committee), to Citizens United to the to come anywhere close. several failed attempts, aired its first 2014 Economist/YouGov.com poll that forum on SiriusXM on the Wednesday leaders debate in 2010. In 1964, Labour found that only 79 percent of Obama Party Leader Harold Wilson had chal- voters would vote for him again, if giv- TRIVIA BITS: August 3, 2015 lenged Prime Minister Alec Douglas- en the chance. Home to debate, but Douglas-Home de- A good first step to improving de- clined, saying, “You’ll get a sort of Top bates has been the addition of conser- of the Pops contest. You’ll then get the vative questioners to debate panels. best actor as leader of the country and The primary criticism from conserva- Trivia Bits the actor will be prompted by a script- tives about these contests has been that 1. A receptionist named Robin Him- writer.” reporters they believe to be liberal ask mler became a minor celebrity, thanks to Given today’s political system, questions that reflect their own world- appearances on what reality show? Paul Douglas-Home was prophetic. view and are often designed to produce A) The Apprentice B) Big Brother Paquet C) Top Chef (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate D) So You Think You Can Dance 2. No, Edgar Allan Poe wasn’t writing A) Dr. John about what singer of “Yeah” and “Burn?” B) Dr. Luke A) 50 Cent C) Dr. Phil B) Fergie D) Dr. Ted C) Nelly 5. They may be dumplings, but what D) Usher does “ravioli” mean in Italian? 3. What scientist had serious mommy A) Little Feet issues with Hannah Ayscough, so much B) Little Heads so that he tried to burn down her house C) Little Tongues and never married himself? D) Little Turnips A) Nicolas Copernicus 6. A peg-legged despot named Peter B) Albert Einstein Stuyvesant became the last Dutch gov- C) Stephen Hawking ernor of what place? D) Isaac Newton A) Belgium 4. Which of these is a one-man factory B) Cuba of greatest hits, having produced some of C) South Africa the biggest hits for Kelly Clarkson, Avril D) New York City Lavigne, Katy Perry and many more? (answers on page 19) August 12, 2015 15 KILLING CECIL: August 4, 2015 It’s a lion: Equating human and animal life he uproar over the killing of students: “If your dog or cat (or ham- a lion named Cecil in Zim- ster or other beloved pet) and a stranger babwe by an American den- were drowning, which would you try to tist,T Dr. Walter Palmer, is further proof save first?” that secular society inevitably produces In virtually every instance, the re- moral confusion. sponse is the same: One-third vote to In saying that, I do not in any way save their dog, one-third to defend the kill- save the human ing of a protected being, and one- animal. First, I do Dennis third don’t know not hunt for sport Prager what they would (among other rea- do (or should do compelling reason to hold human worth The Ten Commandments: Animals sons, my religion, (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate — but there are above animal worth. Judeo-Christian must have a day of rest just as humans Judaism, opposes few shoulds in the values are based on the Bible, which do. it). Second, if the lion suffered for a lives of many secular Americans). In asserts the fundamental principle that Nevertheless, the distinction between prolonged period, that would add to other words, two-thirds of American human beings, not animals, are created human and animal has been fundamen- my condemnation. Third, if Palmer young people (and by now, presumably in God’s image. Therefore, human life tal to Judeo-Christian values and soci- knowingly killed a protected animal, he adults, as well) wouldn’t vote to save a is sacred; animal life is not. eties. That’s why we say that a person should be prosecuted. human being they didn’t know before who has deliberately taken the life of the animal they love. THIS IN NO way suggests that one another person has murdered that per- HAVING SAID that, most of the re- Love has come to trump moral stan- can mistreat an animal. son. Whereas, we don’t say “murdered” actions to what he did are more fright- dards. With the breakdown of objective Deuteronomy 25:4: An animal must when describing the deliberate taking ening than what Palmer did. moral standards, personal feelings have be free to eat while working in the field; of an animal’s life; we say “killed.” No Since I began writing and lecturing, become the sources of right and wrong. it may not be muzzled when it treads one murders a chicken. Or a lion. I have been warning about the break- In Western Europe and North Amer- out grain. Until very recently, at least. down of the distinction between hu- ica, we live in the first godless and re- Deuteronomy 22:10: Given their The secular moralists at People mans and animals (or, as the secular ligion-less generation in Western (and different sizes and gaits, one may not for the Ethical Treatment of Animals nearly always put it, “other animals”). probably world) history, and without attach an ox and a donkey to the same (PETA) who equate human and animal For decades I have asked high school Judeo-Christian values, there is no plough. life do believe that killing animals is murder — to such an extent that the or- ganization equates Americans who bar- KILLING CECIL: August 4, 2015 becue chickens with the Nazis who cre- mated Jews in the Holocaust. See their anti-poultry campaign: “Holocaust on Your Plate.” Mugabe: No friend to lions And now, PETA has called for the ore than 200,000 people leading many to suspect he wants his phant for Mugabe’s $1 million birthday execution of the American dentist. Af- have signed a petition ask- wife, Grace, to succeed him. Dirty dy- bash, where the 20,000 guests dined on ter all, if he committed premeditated ing the White House to co- nasty. two elephants and other wildlife. The murder, why not execute him? (Ingrid operateM with efforts to “extradite Walter In the 2000s, Mugabe allowed vigi- host bagged and mounted a lion and a Newkirk, PETA’s president, later said Palmer” — the Minneapolis-area dentist lante gangs to displace white farmers crocodile as birthday trophies. Mugabe she didn’t mean it literally.) who killed Cecil the lion — “promptly and ranchers. There were no careful used the occasion to rail against “white” Likewise, in the Guardian, Rose at the Zimbabwe government’s request.” land reforms, just severe food shortages safaris. George, a British journalist (who be- According to reports, Palmer and/or his as livestock owners slaughtered their re- The White House cannot cooperate gan her career at the Nation, a left-wing hunting guides lured the beloved lion maining animals, and crony with Zimbabwe on Palmer’s extradi- magazine), wrote: “I’d rather not at- out of a game reserve. Palmer then shot tion. It would be a human rights outrage tempt to comprehend the inexplicable Cecil with a crossbow; the wounded lion to hand over the dentist to Zimbabwe’s act that is the murder of animals for lived for another 40 hours before he was Debra J. jaded courts. And it would be a farce; fun.” dispatched with a bullet. Saunders Zimbabwe, after all, charges hunters And the New York Times reported: $50,000 to bag a lion. “’Murderer! Terrorist!’ one protester, I HAVE TO assume that those who (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Palmer failed to do so cleanly. For Rachel Augusta, screamed into a mega- want Palmer extradited don’t know that, he bears the blame. The dentist phone.” much about Zimbabwe President Robert beneficiaries of Harare’s land distribu- claimed in a statement: “I had no idea Palmer has received thousands of Mugabe or his sorry human rights record. tion program didn’t know how to farm. that the lion I took was a known, local death threats and has been pilloried Mugabe, 91, has run Zimbabwe into The New Yorker’s Philip Gourevitch de- favorite, was collared and part of a study by many of the confused moral think- the ground since he was first elected in scribed the mayhem: “Comrade Mugabe until the end of the hunt. I relied on the ers who populate Hollywood. (Last 1980. Early on, he decided to bring the is clinging to power, and taking his expertise of my local professional guides year, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem country under one-party rule. His Fifth country down with him.” to ensure a legal hunt.” (Maybe that’s charged Israel with committing geno- Brigade wiped out political opposition true and the guides are at fault. Maybe cide in Gaza.) in two provinces. By 1985, Mugabe’s DURING LAST month’s speech not. Palmer did plead guilty in 2008 for Gukurahundi campaign had left some at the African Union, President Barack making a false statement to the U.S. Fish IT IS INSTRUCTIVE that Zimba- 20,000 civilians dead. Obama declared, “Nobody should be and Wildlife Service about where he had bweans are dumbfounded at the hys- Since those bloody days, Mugabe has president for life.” Who doubted that killed a black bear.) teria over a lion’s death. Their country used intimidation and brute force to hold Mugabe topped Obama’s list? The dis- is one of the poorest on Earth. (Having on to power. In 2008, a rival who won dain is mutual. After the U.S. Supreme THE COURT of public opinion will been there, I can personally attest to more votes in the first round of the presi- Court sanctioned same-sex marriage, take care of Palmer. Sadly, there is little how poor it is.) And its brutal, psycho- dential election than Mugabe backed out Mugabe joked he would go to Wash- such outrage for Robert Mugabe, who pathic ruler, Robert Mugabe, has had of the runoff after security forces killed ington, get down on one knee and ask suspended lion, elephant and leopard innumerable Zimbabweans tortured to more than 200 of his supporters. Obama for his hand in marriage. hunting temporarily. With the death of death. Now the people of Zimbabwe are Last year, Mugabe sacked his vice In March, the Washington Post re- one lion, inexplicably, he has won a mo- hearing the West lament a death in their president and other Cabinet members, ported, a supporter killed a baby ele- ment of respectability. country. Of a lion. 16 August 12, 2015 Recycling Planned Parenthood’s mammogram lie he gruesome hits keep com- Washington all attacked the GOP ticket ing for the baby butchers of for wanting to “end” funding for “can- Planned Parenthood. President cer screenings” by cutting off govern- ObamaT and his top health officials have ment subsidies for Planned Parenthood’s one last-ditch response left: Quick, hide bloody billion-dollar abortion business. behind the imaginary mammogram ma- The celebrities in the White House and chine! Tinseltown took their script straight As more graphic, money-grubbing un- from Dr. Deborah Nucatola, dercover videos of Planned Parenthood’s Planned Parenthood’s senior for-profit aborted director of medical baby parts racket Michelle services, who pur- emerge thanks to ported to speak for the investigative Malkin countless women work of the Center (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate for whom Planned for Medical Prog- Parenthood is “the ress, desperate Democrats are in full de- only way” they can gain access to mam- flection mode. U.S. Secretary of Health mograms. (If the name sounds familiar, and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Nucatola is the same wine-swishing Jo- Burwell defended federal funding for sephine Mengele who was exposed on Planned Parenthood this week by invok- tape by the Center for Medical Progress ing the women’s health shield. “What I two weeks ago lolling through a business think is important is that our HHS fund- lunch negotiating payments for aborted mogram lies. “The problem here is that try supported by both private and public ing is focused on issues of preventative baby parts.) Planned Parenthood does not perform grants. care for women, things like mammo- Once again, it was undercover pro-life mammograms or even possess the neces- Reluctant to do its job and just call out grams,” Burwell told the House Educa- journalists who unmasked the truth. sary equipment to do so,” the paper’s res- the president as an outright liar, the Wash- tion and Workforce Committee. An investigation of 30 Planned Par- ident fact-checker reported. “As such, the ington Post fell short of giving Obama enthood clinics in 27 different states, organization certainly does not ‘provide’ the full four-Pinocchio treatment for his JUST ONE teeny, tiny problem with conducted by pro-life group Live Action, mammograms in the strict sense. Instead, Planned Parenthood mammogram propa- this defense: It’s a completely calculated confirmed that the abortion provider does its clinics provide referrals and direct gandizing, but acknowledged that he has fabrication. not perform breast-cancer screenings. low-income women toward resources to repeated the lies “too many times in one The breast-cancer screening charade “We don’t provide those services what- help pay for the procedure. These ser- form or another for this to be considered casts Planned Parenthood as a life-sav- soever,” a staffer at Planned Parenthood vices are by no means unique to Planned just playing with words to generate a mis- ing provider of vital health services un- of Arizona confessed on tape. Parenthood. In fact, the Susan G. Komen leading impression.” available anywhere else. You may recall Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Foundation and the American Cancer So- The Obama HHS apparently needs to that during the 2012 presidential cycle, Health Center clinic in Overland Park, ciety provide them, as well.” be reminded of its own review exposing Obama himself falsely claimed during Kan., admitted: “We actually don’t have As I’ve pointed out previously, the mammography deception. In June a debate that the abortion provider ad- a, um, mammogram machine at our clin- Planned Parenthood’s purported “referral 2012, the agency responded to a request ministers mammograms to “millions” of ics.” services” to outside mammogram facili- for information about how many Planned women — and liberal CNN moderator ties are negligible — especially given the Parenthood clinics were certified to oper- Candy Crowley let him get away with it. EVEN THE liberal Washington Post widespread availability of these and other ate mammogram facilities. “Our search On cue, Hollywood activists Scar- doled out a three (out of four) Pinoc- free and low-cost breast and cervical can- did not find any documents pertinent to lett Johansson, Eva Longoria and Kerry chio rating for the White House’s mam- cer screening services across the coun- your request,” HHS told the Alliance De- fense Fund. Zip. Zilch. None. Nada. Pro-life investigative journalist Lila Rose of Live Action has it right: “It is an alarming dereliction of duty that the Secretary of Health and Human Services refuses to view investigative reports that clearly demonstrate that Planned Parent- hood, who receives close to half a million taxpayer dollars a year from the federal government, is engaged in the selling and trafficking of aborted baby body parts for profit,” she said this week. “Ms. Burwell should be investigating Planned Parent- hood, not covering for them.”

LADIES, OPEN your eyes and hearts. Watch the videos for yourselves. Get the facts. Unmask the lies. The cack- ling profiteers of Planned Parenthood don’t care about your breasts. They’re too busy putting price tags on the baby hearts, livers, lungs and limbs swirling around in bloody pie plates, stacked in their “re- search” labs, subsidized with your tax dollars and sold to the highest bidders. For “preventative care,” of course.

July 31, 2015 This Week’s Conservative Focus 17 Planned Parenthood Moral swamp: The barbarity of a nation xecutives of Planned Parent- positive is coming from ... a very dif- of pre-born human life changes with a natural accident interrupts it, or it is hood’s federally subsidized ficult time.” pregnancy’s trimesters. (What would ended by the sort of deliberate violence meat markets — your tax “Having a procedure” — stopping abortion law be if the number of months Planned Parenthood sells. dollarsE at work — lack the courage of the beating of a human heart — can of gestation were a prime number — 7 Another video shows the craftsman- their convictions. They should drop indeed be a difficult decision for the or 11?) The court followed this prepos- ship of Planned Parenthood’s abortion- the pretense of conducting a complex woman involved. But it never is diffi- terous assertion with faux humility, in- ists — tiny limbs and hands from dis- moral calculus about the organs they cult for Planned Parenthood’s abortion- sisting it could not say when membered babies. To the craftsmen, harvest from the babies they kill. ists administering life begins. Then, however, these fragments are considered the “procedure.” George swerving back to mere organic stuff. People who proclaim FIRST CAME THE video show- The abortion in- breathtaking van- themselves both pro-choice and appalled ing a salad-nibbling, wine-sipping dustry’s premise Will ity, it declared when by the videos are flinching from the log- Planned Parenthood official explain- is: At no point in (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group “meaningful” life ic of their extremism. ing how “I’m going to basically crush the gestation of begins — “viabil- Cecile Richards, Planned Parent- below, I’m gonna crush above” what- a human infant does this living being ity,” when the fetus “is potentially able” hood’s president, apologizes “for the ever organ (“heart, lung, liver”) is be- have a trace of personhood that must be to survive outside the womb. tone” of her operatives’ chatter about ing harvested. Then the president of a respected. Never does it have a moral crushing babies. But the tone flows from Planned Parenthood chapter explained standing superior to a tumor or a ham- WHEN LIFE begins is a scientific Planned Parenthood’s premise: Why be the happy side of harvesting: “For a burger in the mother’s stomach. not a philosophic or theological ques- solemn about meat? lot of the women participating in the In 1973, the Supreme Court, simul- tion: Life begins when the chromosomes Even partial-birth abortion is — must fetal tissue donation program, they’re taneously frivolous and arrogant, dis- of the sperm fuse with those of the ovum, be — a sacrament in the Church of having a procedure that may be a very covered constitutional significance in forming a distinctive DNA complex that “Choice.” This sect knows that its entire difficult decision for them and this is the fact that the number nine is divis- controls the new organism’s growth. edifice depends on not yielding an inch a way for them to feel that something ible by three. It decreed that the status This growth process continues unless on its insistence that what an abortion kills never possesses a scintilla of moral significance. In partial-birth abortion, a near-term baby is pulled by the legs almost out of the birth canal, until the base of the skull is exposed so the abortionist can suck The three percent dodge out its contents. During Senate debates he nation’s premier provider more breast-care services (490,000), verage to preserve its abortions, as if on this procedure, three Democrats were of abortions doesn’t want to but not by that much. you can’t get one without the other. Of asked: Suppose a baby’s head slips out be known for providing abor- The three percent figure is derived by course, this is nonsense. The Centers of the birth canal — the baby is born — tions.T counting abortion as just another service for Disease Control and Prevention pro- before the abortionist can kill it. Does Planned Parenthood, embroiled in like much less consequential services. vides free or low-cost breast and cervi- the baby then have a right to live? Two a scandal over secret videos capturing So abortion is considered a service no cal cancer screenings — without abort- of the Democrats refused to answer. The its cavalier dismemberment of unborn different than a pregnancy test (1.1 mil- ing babies. State health departments third said the baby acquires a right to life babies and sale of their body parts, in- lion), even though a box with two preg- provide free cancer screenings — with- when it leaves the hospital. sists that abortion is only three percent nancy tests can be procured from the lo- out aborting babies. Community health The nonnegotiable tenet in today’s of what it does. cal drugstore for less than $10. centers provide a range of medical ser- Democratic Party catechism is not op- Practically every defender of the or- By Planned Parenthood’s math, a vices — without aborting babies. position to the Keystone XL pipeline or ganization, fighting to preserve its fed- woman who gets an abortion but also a These organizations are genuinely support for a $15 minimum wage. These eral funding, reverts to the three per- pregnancy test, an STD test and some committed to women’s health, with no are evanescent fevers. As the decades cent figure. How could you possibly, contraceptives has received ideological commitment to abortion. roll by, the single unshakable commit- they ask, defund a group that devotes it- Planned Parenthood’s twisted concep- ment is opposition to any restriction on self overwhelmingly to uncontroversial tion of “reproductive health” doesn’t the right to inflict violence on pre-born procedures and services for women? Rich extend to the baby that has been repro- babies. So today there is a limitless right Lowry duced. All you need to know about its to kill, and distribute fragments of, ba- THE THREE percent figure is an priorities is that it only provides 19,000 bies that intrauterine medicine can in- artifice and a dodge, but even taking it (c) 2015, King Features Syndicate “prenatal services,” which means that it creasingly treat as patients. on its own terms, it’s not much of a de- performs roughly 17 times more abor- fense. Only Planned Parenthood would four services, and only 25 percent of tions. WE ARE wallowing in this moral think saying that they only kill babies them are abortion. This is a little like Supporters of Planned Parenthood swamp because the Supreme Court ac- three percent of the time is something performing an abortion and giving a have taken to arguing that the group celerated the desensitization of the na- to brag about. How much credit would woman an aspirin, and saying only half prevents abortion by providing women tion by using words and categories about we give someone for saying he only of what you do is abortion. with birth control, in an obvious smoke- abortion the way infants use knives and drives drunk three percent of the time, screen. Planned Parenthood could forks — with gusto, but sloppily. Be- or only cheats on business trips three SUCH CRACKED reasoning could straightforwardly do its part to reduce cause Planned Parenthood’s snout is percent of the time, or only hits his be used to obscure the purpose of any abortions — by not championing abor- deep in the federal trough, decent tax- wife during three percent of domestic organization. The sponsors of the New tion, by not fighting restrictions on abor- payers find themselves complicit in the disputes? York City Marathon could count each tions and, most of all, by not performing organization’s vileness. What kind of a The three percent factoid is craft- small cup of water they hand out (some abortions. government disdains the deepest convic- ed to obscure the reality of Planned two million cups, compared with 45,000 tions of citizens by forcing them to fi- Parenthood’s business. The group runners) and say they are mainly in the IF ABORTION is really inciden- nance what they see in videos — Planned performs about 330,000 abortions a hydration business. Or Major League tal to what it’s all about, it could give Parenthood operatives chattering about year, or roughly 30 percent of all the Baseball teams could say that they sell up the alleged three percent. But it will bloody human fragments? “Taxes,” said abortions in the country. By its own about 20 million hot dogs and play never do it. Abortion is just a tiny por- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., “are what we accounting in its 2013-2014 annual 2,430 games in a season, so baseball is tion of what it does exactly the way the pay for civilized society.” Today they fi- report, it provides about as many abor- only .012 percent of what they do. heart is small muscle in the body. nance barbarism. tions as Pap tests (380,000). The group Supporters of Planned Parenthood does more breast exams and provides want to use its health services as le- August 3, 2015 August 2, 2015 18 Conservative Chronicle BOOK REVIEW: July 31, 2015 Plunder and Deceit: A warning to the nation an we simultaneously love our ernment’s unfunded liabilities are about to make modest sacrifices, which truly power-packed information on all these children and betray their gen- $100 trillion and that if we don’t make would be for the children. critical issues as thoroughly as the dens- eration and generations un- structural adjustments to our smorgas- Dream on. Leftists are not about to est textbook yet in a style as readable born?C bord of “entitlement” programs, they will join us and will continue to slander ev- and riveting as any best-selling novel. Do I have your attention? I hope so, consume 100 percent of tax revenues by eryone who sounds the alarm. That’s This book is a one-stop shop on the but I can’t take credit for that lead. I 2039 — conservatively estimated? why Levin’s book is so vital issues that our generation must ad- stole it from Page 1 of Mark Levin’s new Everyone necessary and so dress. As Levin points out, ultimately book, Plunder and Deceit: Big Govern- should know these David timely. these are more than economic and na- ment’s Exploitation of Young People and things, yet people I have long un- tional security issues. They are moral the Future. seem to assume Limbaugh derstood that So- issues. We have a moral obligation to Conservatives have long decried the there’s no need for (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate cial Security and place these matters on the front burner, left’s feigned concern “for the children” panic because our Medicare are no matter how deceptively distant they while it pursues an agenda that is wreck- ruling class isn’t concerned. Every time upside-down, but after reading Levin’s may seem to us now and regardless of ing their future, from Social Security and any conservative warns of this inevitable book, I know exactly why. I now have what kind of heat we take. other budget-busting entitlements to the fiscal Armageddon, the statists and their all the facts and figures at my fingertips, Don’t give the statists the benefit of undermining of our national security. media henchmen set out to destroy him unpleasant as they are. Levin deals with the doubt, for they have to know what But no one has devoted a book to turning as an evil Scrooge hellbent on hoarding one devastating issue per chapter: the they are doing. The numbers do not this meme on its head and cogently prov- all the wealth for “the rich.” debt, Social Security, education, immi- lie, and Levin provides all the numbers ing the statists guilty of that which they gration, the environment, the minimum in this book. This is purely a matter of falsely accuse others. IMAGINE IF the political left in this wage, national security and the Consti- plunder by deceit. country expended one-fourth the energy tution. He documents how the statists THERE’S A big difference between calling the public’s attention to the loom- are destroying this nation — and our DESPITE HOW ominous all this the left’s invoking “the children” and ing fiscal crisis, which actually threat- children’s future — in all these catego- sounds, we can make the necessary Levin’s doing so, for leftists only do it to ens our kids’ future, as it does in hyp- ries. changes to turn this ship around. God obscure policy issues they can’t argue on ing “global warming,” which doesn’t. I admit that Mark Levin is my good bless Mark Levin for once again warn- the merits. Levin mentions the children We could turn things around within a friend, but it honestly amazes me how, ing the nation and providing us a way not to divert you from logical thinking generation — provided we were willing in a relatively short book, he can present out of this nightmare. but to coax you into it. Universally, parents strive to give their children better opportunities than KILLING CECIL: July 30, 2015 they had. Today, however, the situation is — shockingly — reversed. The cur- rent generation, at the behest of the statist political class and its enablers, is living The killing of Cecil the lion on the backs of its children in the cyni- “Until the lion tells his side of the sto- to the “lion which is strongest among statement saying he had no idea that the cal name of safeguarding their interests. ry, the tale of the hunt will always glorify beasts, and turneth not away for any.” lion he “took” (although he won’t be giv- Those in this generation are mortgaging the hunter.” C.S. Lewis made the lion the messianic ing it back) was a local favorite. As if it their children’s future to make their own — African proverb figure in his classic story The Lion, the would be OK to wound and hunt down lives more comfortable. Witch and the Wardrobe. The stateliness over two days some pitifully unpopular Statist defenders of the status quo will ON THE LEDGER of global outrag- of the New York City Public Library is and anonymous lion, for nothing more protest that these are outrageous charges es, the killing of Cecil the lion outside of made unmistakable by its two famous than the sport and glory of it, such as and that they are trying to improve ev- a Zimbabwe national park should barely marble lions presiding over Fifth Av- they are. eryone’s life, including those in the ris- register. enue. Trophy hunters like Palmer have a ing generation. But the stubborn facts What is the fate of one big cat com- passion for killing polar bears and the belie their claims. When anyone brings pared with the civil wars and human- THE REGAL self-possession of the like. There is no accounting for taste, but up these subjects, they either change the rights abuses that fill the headlines — or lion stands in stark contrast to the tawdri- surely there are other engrossing hobbies channel or start their familiar fearmon- should fill the headlines — every day? ness of Walter Palmer’s hunt. There was that don’t involve shooting the planet’s gering and scapegoating — anything to Even in Zimbabwe alone, where gro- the money-grubbing — he reportedly most stunning creatures. How about avoid a fair examination of the issues. tesque misgovernance is the rule, the paid about $50,000 for the privilege of stamp collecting? If that’s not thrilling Levin’s book is precisely what the na- death of one lion should hardly be a blip. killing one of the beasts. There enough, there’s always mountain climb- tion needs to force a public discussion of And yet the animal’s shooting by a ing, BASE jumping or tightrope walk- these issues and to keep statists’ hands Minnesota dentist, Walter Palmer, has ing. off the remote. Levin is uniquely suited evoked a fierce reaction. Some of it is Rich Anti-poaching laws, which might to call our attention to the horrifying facts hysterical and insipid. Palmer shouldn’t Lowry have been broken in this case, should be because 1) he makes the complex under- be personally ruined, let alone brought as tightly enforced as possible, and the (c) 2015, King Features Syndicate standable; 2) people read his books; 3) he up on war-crimes charges, as some seem act of killing a glorious beast for a photo meticulously documents every position to suggest. The outpouring over this par- was the unseemly baiting of the animal with his carcass and a stuffed head on the he takes; 4) he understands statists’ moti- ticular cat is, in part, based on the child- — allegedly with an animal carcass tied wall as a conversation piece back home vations; 5) he has the credibility to sound ish anthropomorphism of his having a to a car to lure it out of the sanctuary should be considered the shameful waste another national warning; 6) no matter name, Cecil, after Cecil Rhodes, the Brit- of Hwange National Park. There was that it is. how dire our circumstances appear, he ish imperialist and founder of Rhodesia, the cruel incompetence of his method refuses to accept defeat; and 7) unlike subsequently Zimbabwe. — supposedly wounding it with a bow, NONE OF this is to say that lions so many other critics, he offers concrete, Nonetheless, at the core of the outrage then tracking the creature for another 40 in particular should be sentimentalized. practical and realistic solutions. is a natural and healthy revulsion at the hours before completing the kill with a They are man-eaters whose social life Anyone remotely attuned to current wanton destruction of an animal of great gun. And there was the casual butchery is Hobbesian in the extreme. They also events knows that the United States is majesty. Perhaps the greatest majesty. after the fact — beheading the cat and are a wonder of nature whose numbers racing toward Greek-level insolvency. Lions have been the subject of wonder leaving its carcass to vultures and other are dwindling. We can disagree about the He knows our national debt exceeds and awe since the beginning of time, a scavengers. exact parameters of our obligations to the $18 trillion. But does he know this fig- symbol of power and nobility. They fea- When it emerged that the lion he had animal kingdom, but surely going out of ure is vastly understated, as Levin dem- ture in cave paintings and in royal ico- killed was Cecil, a popular fixture long our way to slay a creature like Cecil the onstrates? Does he realize that our gov- nography. The Book of Proverbs refers tracked by researchers, Palmer issued a lion should be out of bounds. August 12, 2015 19 DEAR MARK: July 31, 2015 Side deals, liberal media and more DEAR MARK: are some truly important issues that seem DEAR MARK: A school district in Can the Obama administration get to require more reporting and deeper in- Mississippi was fined $7,500 for opening CONTACT INFORMATION anymore idiotic? I just read that Iran vestigating by news outlets. But instead an assembly with a prayer. The govern- wants to supply its own soil samples as of reporting on Planned Parenthood, the ment is now definitely out of control. — Individual Contact Information part of nuke deal. In defense of this crap- IRS, the Iran deal, slow GDP growth, and PO’d in Fort Worth more Hillary lies about her emails, we Dear PO’d: py deal, Secretary of State John Kerry has Greenberg - [email protected] been spouting that the deal with Iran is get stories on Bruce Jenner, Tom Brady, Let me get this straight. The govern- not about “trust” but about “verification.” Cecil the lion, and anything outrageous ment fines a small school district for sup- Krauthammer - [email protected] Well it seems to me that soil samples from Donald Trump. How can so many posedly breaking the law with a prayer Levy - [email protected] from nuclear sites is part of the verifica- be so blind to what is going on with our but allows sanctuary cities like San Fran- Lowry - [email protected] tion process and if Iran supplies its own media? — Speak No Evil cisco, New York City and Los Angeles Malkin - [email protected] samples, isn’t that like the fox guarding to go scott free? Once again just asking a Massie - [email protected] the henhouse? — Call Me Crazy in KC simple question. Napolitano - [email protected] Dear Crazy: Mark Saunders - [email protected] Iran supplying its own soil samples DEAR MARK: Schlafly - [email protected] instead of allowing an independent party Levy Here we go again; you conservatives Thomas - [email protected] to conduct the sampling is part of the se- just won’t lay off the Clinton’s and their cret side deals that have recently come to (c) 2015, Mark Levy personal life. Another book has come out Will - [email protected] light from the International Atomic En- accusing Hillary of being horrible to the ergy Agency. These “side deals” were ap- Dear Speak: Secret Service and Bill of continuing to Contact through Creators Syndicate parently not in the original deal signed by I couldn’t have said it better myself, fool around on our next president. This Kerry but nonetheless would be binding. but as an opinion columnist it’s my job is such old news so why don’t y’all just Michael Barone, Austin Bay, Brent But have no fear; our genius secretary to try, or if I’m being honest with my focus on the issues? — Tired of the Gross Bozell, Pat Buchanan, Mona Charen, of state had a well thought out and logical readers, it’s in my ego to try and say it Old Party Linda Chavez, Jackie Gingrich response as to why it will be okay if Iran better. To answer your question, the great Dear Tired: Cushman, Larry Elder, Erick Erickson, takes its own soil samples from Parchin, and powerful Rush Limbaugh put it best I’m sorry but I must have missed Joseph Farah, David Harsanyi, Laura the military nuclear site. Actually, Kerry when he said “the media has stopped re- where any of the Republican presidential Hollis, Terry Jeffrey, Larry Kudlow, didn’t have a good response except to porting the news and now wants to man- candidates brought up Hillary’s ill-tem- say that the IAEA can monitor how Iran age the news.” That seems to be what perament or Bill’s infidelity with a “bux- David Limbaugh, Dick Morris, Wil- takes its own samples. Iran is not mak- journalism schools are cranking out om blonde” as a campaign issue. All I liam Murchison, Paul Paquet, Dennis ing this demand at its “civilian” nuclear these days, a bunch of leftist ideologues will say about the Clinton’s arrangement Prager, Ben Shapiro, Thomas Sowell, sites, just the military sites. Gosh if Iran is interested in changing the world into a — uh I mean marriage — is that they ap- Matt Towery forbidden from building nuclear weapons liberal utopia. pear to share equally in everything. Bill The killing of Cecil the lion according to this deal, why in the world The topics you’ve mentioned should was president, Hillary wants to be presi- Contact - [email protected] would the mullahs forbid the IAEA from all be headlines and with a little bit of dent. Bill is a lawyer, Hillary is a lawyer. Contact through Universal Press taking samples at this site? Just a simple investigative reporting could possibly Hillary has a personal serve; Bill appar- man asking simple questions. be Pulitzer material. But notice that all ently has one too. Ann Coulter of the stories you’ve listed are bad news Contact by mail : DEAR MARK: for our current president as well as the E-mail your questions to mar- c/o Universal Press Syndicate I’m tired of the liberal bias of our media’s choice as the next president — [email protected]. Follow Mark on Twit- mainstream media in its reporting. There Hillary. Need I go further? ter @MarkPLevy 1130 Walnut Street Kansas City, MO 64106

Answers from page 14 TRIVIA ANSWERS Trivia BITS ANSWERS 1) Robin was on The Apprentice. 2) “The Fall of the House of Ush- er” is not about the singer. 3) Isaac Newton did not celebrate Mother’s Day (and not just because it hadn’t been invented yet). 4) Dr. Luke has practically de- fined the sound of 21st century pop. 5) Ravioli are not really little tur- nips, despite the name. 6) Stuyvesant was the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, later known as New York City. Need to make a correction on your mailing label? Contact us at 800-888-3039 or [email protected] 20 Conservative Chronicle TURKEY: July 31, 2015 Turkey today: Now the Turks are all in All through the Cold War, the Turks the Syria-Turkish border, Erdogan de- were among America’s most reliable al- nounced the Kurds as the greater threat. lies. But 10 days ago came an ISIS atroc- After World War II, when Stalin en- ity in Suruc, Turkey, just north of Ko- croached upon Turkey and Greece, Har- bani. Thirty-two young Turkish Kurds ry Truman came to the rescue. Turkey who were planning to help reciprocated by rebuild Kobani were sending thousands massacred, and a of troops to fight Pat hundred wounded. alongside our GIs Buchanan Instantly, Er- in Korea. dogan permitted Turkey joined (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate U.S. planes at NATO and let the Incirlik to attack U.S. station Jupiter missiles in their ISIS targets in Syria and launched air country. When JFK secretly traded away strikes himself. It appeared that, at long the Jupiters for removal of the Soviet last, the U.S. and Turkey were again on missiles in Cuba, the Turks went along. the same page, seeing ISIS as the prima- ry enemy, and acting jointly against it. EARLY THIS century, under Re- But the Turkish attacks on ISIS cep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey seemed to proved to be pinpricks. And the Turks be emerging as a major power, a land began a major air assault on Kurdish bridge between Europe and the Islamic forces in exile in Iraq, the PKK, who had world, a friend to its neighbors, and fu- fled Turkey after the recent civil war. Egyptian soldiers and firing rockets into Kurdish Party captured 13 percent of the ture member of the EU. Where does this leave Turkey today? Israel. vote in the June 7 elections, it broke Er- But, recently, a U.S. diplomat blurted, Erdogan demands that Assad be over- dogan’s parliamentary majority, block- “The Turks are out of their lane!” thrown. He has declared war on ISIS. He THERE HAS been bad blood be- ing his path to the presidential republic And that describes the situation suc- has broken off peace talks with the PKK tween Cairo and Ankara since Egyptian of his dreams and designs. cinctly and well. in Turkey. He is attacking the exiled President Mohammed Morsi, a former Critics believe he is provoking con- When rebels rose up to overthrow Kurds in the mountains of Iraq, enraging leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was flict with the Kurds before new elec- Bashar Assad in Syria, and Assad elect- Baghdad, and his own Kurdish minority overthrown by the army of Gen. Abdel- tions, so he can cast himself as a fearless ed to fight not quit, Erdogan turned on of 14 million. Fattah el-Sissi in 2013. Gen. el-Sissi is warrior against Arab terrorists and Kurd- him and began to permit jihadists to en- He has been vilifying his former Is- now President el-Sissi and President ish traitors, discredit the small Kurdish ter Syria. raeli friends since the Mavi Marmara Morsi is now on death row. party, and capture a sufficient majority to When ISIS terrorists seized Raqqa in incident, where eight Turkish aid work- What is Erdogan up to? With his at- create his all-powerful presidency. Syria, and Mosul and Anbar in Iraq, Er- ers on a relief ship headed for Gaza were tacks on the Kurds and ISIS both, he is Turkey’s actions demonstrate, as do dogan refused to let U.S. planes based at killed by Israeli commandos in 2010. inviting blowback in the form of terrorist those of other allies in the region, that Incirlik bomb them. The Washington Times reports that reprisals from ISIS and the PKK inside their enemies are not always our en- When America supported Syrian Egypt is charging Turkey with sending his own country, as happened at Suruc. emies, and that, as they single-mindedly Kurds with air power, enabling them agents to work with Islamic State on the The speculation is that Erdogan is go- pursue their national goals, so should to hold off an ISIS attack on Kobani on Sinai Peninsula, which has been killing ing to war for political reasons. When a we. The Iraqi Kurds have been friends of the United States since Desert Storm. The Syrian Kurds, the YPG, have pro- vided fighting troops whom we have supported with air power against ISIS. Both are de facto allies, no matter what the Turks say. As for the PKK, we may have des- ignated them a terrorist organization at the urging of the Turks, but if they are not attacking us, we ought not to be at- tacking them. We must stop allowing our friends to choose our enemies in the Middle East. We are fully capable of doing that our- selves, without their assistance. All our allies in that most war-torn of regions would like us to come fight their battles for them. We should let them fight their wars themselves, for the prospect of peace any time soon in that blood-soaked region is more than remote.

OUR ENEMIES are al Qaeda, which slaughtered 3,000 of our people, and its progeny. Our enemies are ISIS, which has beheaded Americans, and threatens us, our allies and friends. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. August 12, 2015 21 TURKEY: July 29, 2015 Turkey and Syria: From bluff to buffer fter suffering two recent at- bling” and incite ethno-sectarian blood- tacks by terrorists based in baths. Though the Obama administra- Syria, Turkey has ordered its tion had called on Assad “to step aside,” militaryA forces to prepare to enter Syria Ankara suspected Washington’s support en masse and establish a “buffer zone.” for military action was shallow. Turkey, seeking NATO-wide diplomatic But last year the Islamic State in affirmation for this risk-ridden decision, the Levant (ISIL), argu- then demanded a ably taking advantage NATO Article 4 of Turkish and U.S. consultation. Austin dithering, crumbled Almost four Bay eastern Syria and years ago, Turkey spilled into Iraq publicly mulled (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate while committing a buffer zone to heinous ethno- contain Syria’s Arab Spring chaos and sectarian bloodbaths. The Obama ad- protect refugees streaming north to Turk- ministration declared war on ISIL — a ish safe havens. The Ankara government sporadic war, but still a war. vocally contemplated military action to ISIL sponsored the deadly July 20 at- establish and enforce the zone, with the tack in the Turkish town of Suruc. An implicit goal of toppling the Assad dicta- ISIL suicide bomber entered a crowd torship. Ankara said Bashar al-Assad had and killed 32 people and wounded an- to go. When Syrian forces fired across other hundred. Turkey attributes the rights, however, are real and substan- Responding to public anger, Turk- the border in April 2012, Turkish forces second cross-border attack to Kurdistan tial. Ankara’s three-year-old PKK peace ish aircraft bombed suspected terrorist returned fire, and Ankara talked tough. Workers Party (PKK) rebels. That at- initiative recognized that. But the peace camps, and the government pulled the Turkey threatened NATO Article 5 ac- tack killed two Turkish soldiers. process has floundered, and this latest NATO card. Think of Article 4 as a dip- tion, the war clause that commits NATO attack may have killed it. lomatic show of force that NATO mem- members to aid an ally who has suffered FOR DECADES, the PKK has Ironically, most of the Suruc victims bers may invoke when their national territorial attack. However, Ankara only waged an on-and-off secessionist war. were Turkish Kurds soliciting aid to re- security or territory is threatened. The did the talk, not the walk. Many Turks — including ethnically build the Syrian Kurd town of Khobane. consultation photo-op shows aggressors Kurdish Turks — dismiss the PKK Syrian Kurds drove ISIL from the town that the alliance member has friends TURKEY FEARED reckless action as a Marxist gang of killers and drug earlier this year, but the battles left it in with economic resources and world- might ignite regional political “crum- smugglers. Kurdish demands for ethnic ruins. class military forces. In Brussels, NATO ambassadors said they “stand in strong solidarity with July 30, 2015 CONFEDERATE PURGE: Turkey” and pledged strong support for Turkey’s decision to attack terrorist tar- gets. The official promise, however, did Flogging the flag where there is none not mention ISIL or the PKK. Employ- hen South Carolina Gov. State lawmakers even have targeted “Why would I change the name?” ing diplo-speak, the NATO officials Nikki Haley signed a bill to teensy Fort Bragg, population 7,000. Fort Bragg Mayor Dave Turner told deplored “terrorism in all its forms and boot the Confederate flag Glazer amended SB 539 to exempt city me. “You really can’t airbrush history. manifestations.” fromW State House grounds earlier this names, but then he wrote a letter urging Or you shouldn’t airbrush history.” He Though allied support for Turkish ac- month, it was a beautiful moment — if Fort Bragg’s mayor to change the city’s added: If no city can be named after tion is sincere, the diplo-speak reveals decades late. State lawmakers finally name. a former slaveholder, say goodbye to differing goals with regard to ethnic acted out of revulsion from images of a Washington, D.C. Kurds. Alliance members insist that confessed shooter posing with the Civil Don’t bring up George Washington’s Turkey continue the PKK peace project War relic before he shot to death nine Debra J. slaveholder history, Glazer told me. He and not discard the progress made. African-American church parishioners Saunders advocates “a much more narrowly tai- The military questions vis-a-vis the June 17. Flag apologists lost their stom- lored” approach that focuses on men buffer zone are how soon and precisely ach for defending the banner as an em- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate who engaged in “treasonous activities where Turkish ground forces will enter blem of states’ rights. The Confederate flag is a poke in against the United States of America.” Syria, how far they will penetrate Syr- the eye to African-Americans. But how Though his bill would ban Confeder- ian territory and how long they will stay. THE BEST part was that South Car- many Californians ever have been to ate names for schools and other public Turkey got NATO’s explicit support for olinians themselves had decided it was Fort Bragg? buildings, he’s not forcing Fort Bragg or that. The U.S. wants an ISIL-free buffer time for the bad flag to go. any other city to change. zone. Kurds are anti-ISIL allies in Syria The worst part is what is happening THE CALIFORNIA Legislative He just wants to start a conversation and Iraq, and so far are the most reli- now as politicians in other states try to Black Caucus also urged Fort Bragg — that ends with Fort Bragg’s changing able. repeat that unique moment by passing to change its name: “It is time that we a brand that until recently offended next Turkey, however, will not permit the their own anti-Confederate flag legisla- move forward as a state and as a nation to no one. It’s a headline in search of a creation of a separate Kurdish state. Pe- tion. California lawmakers are poised and stop commemorating those who de- problem. riod. Western diplomats worry that Tur- to pass state Sen. Steve Glazer’s bill fended the Confederacy and its cause.” key could focus buffer zone operations that would ban naming any school, Problem: Fort Bragg was not named IT’S A CRUSADE that ignores the on PKK supporters to the detriment of park, building or other piece of public after Braxton Bragg to commemorate sad lessons of history: 1) Politicians defeating ISIL. property after generals or leaders of the Confederacy. Maj. Gen. Zachary rarely say no to an opportunity to pick the Confederacy. Observe: Sacramento Taylor named a military outpost near on lesser civil servants. 2) The more CONFLICT OVER Kurdish issues politicians had so much trouble finding Mendocino after his former commander trivial the offense the easier it becomes is one of the complex challenges Turkey Confederate flags to ban — after they before the Civil War even started. Later, for pandering politicians to rail against must overcome or finesse to secure lon- banned them from public buildings last to Bragg’s undying shame, he became it. 3) Once they get rolling, purges are ger-term physical security and political year — that they had to broaden the net a Confederate general and the owner of almost impossible to stop. stability internally, as well as along the to schools and buildings. 105 slaves. Syrian and Iraqi borders. 22 Conservative Chronicle BOOK REVIEW: August 5, 2015 Levin to rising generation: Will you choose freedom? ill the children and grand- prospects of freedom and prosperity children in America today for the rising generation of Americans. have the same chance to First among these policies are fed- liveW in prosperity and freedom as pre- eral benefit programs, which began with vious generations of Americans? Franklin Delano Roosevelt and “Can we simul- Social Security in taneously love our the 1930s, and have children but be- Terry been augmented by tray their genera- later presidents to tion and genera- Jeffrey include, among tions yet born?” (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate others, Medicare, Mark Levin asks Medicaid and in the first sentence of his new book, Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid. Plunder and Deceit. Levin explains how a growing num- ber of older, retired Americans must LEVIN THEN presents a tragic rely on a relatively smaller number of irony. younger earners to fund the benefits the “Among the least acknowledged government has promised them. facts of American modernity,” he One reason for this, of course, is that writes, “is the extent to which par- the payroll taxes the government took ents, acting in their familial capacity, from older Americans decades ago — naturally and tenaciously guard their theoretically, to cover their future Medi- young children from threat and peril, care and Social Security benefits — to the point of risking their own physi- were spent the same year the Treasury cal and economic security in extreme got them. Another factor driving America to- each successive wave of immigration cases; however, as part of the political ward a point of irreversibility, Levin ar- was followed by a period of time where and governing community — that is, THAT HELPED lead to the explod- gues, is a change in our tradition of im- the flow of aliens ebbed as more recent the ruling generation — many of these ing debt the government faces today that migration. arrivals assimilated into the American same parents wittingly and unwittingly threatens to choke off economic growth “For more than two centuries, the way of life.” join with other parents in tolerating, if in the future. United States has attracted immigrants That is not so now. “Rather,” says not enthusiastically championing, dis- “The laws of economics like the laws from all over the world,” Levin notes. Levin, “the flow of immigrants coming advantageous and even grievous public of science, are real, unlike the utopian “America’s civil society, in which so- to America for more than 40 years has policies that jeopardize not only their images and empty assurances of expe- cietal and cultural traditions and values been unprecedented and uninterrupted, children’s future but the welfare of dient and self-aggrandizing politicians have served as a beacon to humanity, has with no end in sight.” successive generations.” and bureaucrats,” Levin writes. “There historically inspired millions to come to “Open-ended immigration,” he com- In Plunder and Deceit, Levin ex- is a point of irreversibility from which America in search of a better life.” pelling argues, “takes a considerable plains how government policies are no generation and the larger society can But then Levin points out: “It may toll on the job prospects of younger and working to curtail, if not crush, the recover.” surprise some to learn that in the past, less-skilled workers, as well as college- educated graduates.” As he has in previous works, Levin warns of the collapse of constitutional restraints on government power. “Liberty is not an abstraction. It re- quires private and public virtue, a just rule of law, and established norms and institutions — the opposite of funda- mental transformation,” he writes. “The form of government in which these in- dispensable qualities are best exhibited is a constitutional republic.” To paraphrase what Benjamin Frank- lin reportedly said after the Constitu- tional Convention, we have had a repub- lic, but will our children get to keep it? “The time has come for the rising generation to turn down the demands and schemes of centralized govern- ment, its surrogates, and those who steal from the future and look for ways to influence and drive public policy de- bates and outcomes in all its forms,” Levin declares.

HE CALLS FOR a New Civil Rights movement manned by the young. “So I ask the rising generation — America’s younger people — what do you chose for yourself and future gen- erations?” he says. “Do you choose lib- erty or tyranny? And what do you in- tend to do about it?” August 12, 2015 23 ECONOMY: August 4, 2015 Our next president must restore economic confidence mericans are increasingly economy’s outlook,” the pollsters said. pessimistic about their coun- If you think that just lower-income try’s future. About the econo- people were the most negative, you’d my,A first and foremost, but about a long be wrong. list of other troubles, too. “Although upper-income Americans Recent polls show that we have be- remain more positive than lower- and come a much less confident people middle- income earners about about solving the the economy, the enormous prob- gap between the lems that afflict Donald two groups nar- our nation, our Lambro rowed in July as government and economic confi- This isn’t widely known, but in by cutting tax rates across the board to (c) 2015, United Media Services our less-than-civil dence among up- crunching the numbers to arrive at the boost stronger economic growth and put society — and it’s per-income Amer- government’s formula, the U.S. De- Americans back to work. getting worse, much worse. icans was negative for the first time in partment of Commerce “tweaked gross There will be a crowded platform The Gallup Poll’s Economic Confi- 10 months,” Gallup said. domestic product numbers going back Thursday night when the top GOP con- dence Index fell last month, deep into But the mediocre Obama economy several years,” writes economic reporter tenders will be asked what they plan to minus territory and the “lowest monthly (including jobs and wages) isn’t the Chico Harlan in the Washington Post. do first to fix our biggest problems if average since last October,” the poll- only thing that troubles Americans. Our “On balance, the revisions revealed they become president. sters said Tuesday. country’s rapidly growing debt is also a recovery that is more underwhelming A number of those who will be on the a major worry that continues to under- than previously estimated, with (eco- stage haven’t a clue, judging from what THE INDEX averaged plus-three mine our confidence. nomic) growth averaging a two percent, they’ve been saying, or not saying, on last January, but that was “the first time The gross national debt — what the rather than a 2.3 percent, annual pace the campaign trail. it was in positive territory since Gallup government borrows to pay its bills, since 2011,” Harlan reported. Some of them were already running began tracking it daily in 2008,” the including Social Security checks and You didn’t hear this on the nightly for president in the first year or two of public survey firm reported. other entitlements — is now over $18 network news? I wonder why. their six-year Senate terms. That’s why But its confidence measure fell trillion. That’s the entire size of our eco- their older colleagues call them “fresh- sharply last month, as the stock market nomic output. THOSE REVISIONS by Obama’s men.” plunged, prices rose, wages remained Federal, state and local government clever number-crunchers transformed a They have a short resume, no accom- flat and economic growth slowed toa debts total $21.7 trillion. 0.2 percent contraction in the first quar- plishments in the Senate and virtually crawl. We, meaning all taxpayers, are up to ter to a 0.6 percent expansion. no experience, but they think they’re Yes, I know that President Obama our eyeballs in debt. And every year this These are pathetic growth rates, ready to run the government and the and his apologists have been telling us debt continues to mushroom, faster than no matter how you tweak them, from country and deal with a dangerous and the economy is hunky-dory. But that’s our economy is growing or our incomes which millions of Americans have been troubled world. not what most Americans think. are rising. suffering since the Great Recession — Beware of these candidates. If the “In July, 39 percent of Americans Last week the Obama administration and many are still suffering. past seven years have taught us anything said the economy was ‘getting better,’ reported that the gross domestic product Now we are in the midst of another in choosing our presidents, it is that we while 56 percent said it was ‘getting — the broadest measurement of our na- two-year election cycle to choose a should look to experienced, executive worse,’” Gallup reported this week. tion’s economic growth rate — was an new leader to address our country’s ills, leaders with a well-thought-out agenda Since March, “Americans have unspectacular 2.3 percent in the second and to restore the lost economic confi- to tackle the biggest problems facing grown increasingly negative about the quarter. dence that we had in the ‘80s and ‘90s our country today. We should look for leaders who have surrounded themselves with the best and brightest advisers on budget- cutting, growing the U.S. economy, and advancing a compelling foreign policy that commands the respect of our allies and adversaries alike. Many of the would-be presidential candidates on the stage do not have a serious agenda, let alone a council of heavyweight advisers to deal with any of the monumental issues we face today. And look for one more characteris- tic: Someone who has shown the ability to build a broad consensus in Congress and across the country for his agenda. To do that, you need to get a majority of 535 men and women through persua- sion, political alliances and public ap- proval. No one likes a bully, braggart or egotist. Most of all, look for a candidate with an innate sense of optimism and confi- dence about the future and a belief that our best days are still ahead of us.

RONALD REAGAN had that in spades when he said our problems won’t go away soon, but they will go away. 24 Conservative Chronicle POLITICAL PARTIES: August 2, 2015 The difference between Democrats and Republicans he obvious difference between charm, which makes the pachyderm as they might not be your first choice or led a scorched earth policy against all the Democrat Party and the a logo most fitting. even the best, but if the base doesn’t vote Tea Party candidates. If Michael the Republican Party is that one Republicans are not our friends any for them, bad Democrats will win. The Archangel or even our Lord Himself hasT an ass for an “avatar” (using the more than Obama, Hillary Clinton, Al conservative base held its nose more ran for office as Tea Party candidates, Hindu definition of same), and the other Gore, or John Kerry, but until recent- times than not but the tactic worked un- the Republican establishment would vi- has a pachyderm for a logo born out of ly they haven’t found it necessary to til 2010. ciously attack them. an 1874 Harper’s Weekly cartoon de- change their tactics to control voters But with the Tea The Democrat Party has always rep- picting Republican voters fleeing an ass given over to supi- Party and then Her- resented that which was antithetical clothed in a lion’s skin. Today, just as in nation. Mychal man Cain, the Re- to our personal freedoms, the pursuit said cartoon, Republican voters are still Republican vot- publican estab- of happiness, and our Constitutional being frightened away from the truth. ers were led to Massie lishment knew rights. But since President Reagan the Thus we witness two very distinct tac- believe that they (c) 2015, Mychal Massie the days of us- Republian Party has shown itself to not tical applications employed to mislead were involved in ing fear to elect just scorn the will of We the People, the voters and sustain the personal in- the process when in reality they have and re-elect the likes of John Boehner, but shown themselves committed to the terests of politicians and their handlers. been led through the nose since the post Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, et al total destruction of any candidate who President Reagan years with the falla- were threatened. Hence, under the lead- argues in favor of the will of the people. DEMOCRATS EMPLOY a Hege- cious idea that if we do not vote for a ership of Karl Rove and Reince Priebus The question is: Are We the People lian Dialectic approach. They either cre- bad Republican, a bad Democrat would they resorted full out ad hominem at- prepared to fight that which I argue is ate a problem or seize upon one, then win. So-called “conservatives”, (an as- tacks. They have sought to alienate the the greatest threat to our freedom since pretend to react, i.e., respond to the signation most are clueless pursuant to Tea Party by using the NAACP to beat the Crown of England? It cannot be problem by instituting a solution that the true meaning), rewarded the lowest the racism drum and by conveniently done by allowing the establishment they have already predetermined. dregs of humanity with election and re- finding liars and frauds to drive- Her to predetermine our candidates by de- The attack on a personal right such as election because of sound bites they’ve man Cain from the 2012 presidential stroying the candidates we support. cigarette smoking is a classic example. heard on Fox News. race. John F. Banzhaff III is the murky figure Since that time they have ratcheted THAT MEANS, it is time for con- responsible for making lawyers rich and AFTER ALL, as the reasoning has up the threats and attacks to unparal- servatives to stop allowing scare tactics depriving us of our Constitutional right become engrained in said voting block, leled levels. Rove and McConnell have to control them. to the pursuit of happiness, and giving Democrat cultural Nazis the power to July 22, 2015 control our behavior. MEDIA BIAS: Banzhaff’s goal as the lead figure of a legal think group was to come up with class action lawsuits that would bring huge fees which would, of course, ben- Stewart: Reagan-mocking Obama hack efit Democrats since 90 percent of law- n November of 2002, Washington secret visits to the White House, dur- In his last interview with Obama on yers contribute to Democrats. Post reporter-editor Bob Wood- ing a shutdown fight in October 2011 July 21, Stewart obsequiously spoke of And it worked like a charm; exploit ward unveiled excerpts of his and again in January 2014. Controver- the callous media: “Are we focused on and embellish the truth of smoking re- latestI book, Bush at War, and created a sial? Not on your life. Politico gushed it the wrong things? Are we demanding lated diseases and cigarettes ergo the big stir by revealing that Fox News boss “speaks volumes about Stewart and his too much of you? Are we demanding problem. Create a crisis and public out- Roger Ailes had sent a “back-channel reach” that he would be summoned by too much of government? Are we too cry based upon a totally manufactured message” to the Bush White House the president. inflammatory?” concern and then respond with a pre- shortly after 9/11. He had insisted the “Top Obama aides David Axelrod Naturally, on his way out the door at determined solution, i.e., lawsuits, in- president talk tough against the terror- and Austan Goolsbee knew Stewart’s Comedy Central, Stewart tried to turn creased cigarette taxes, and the denial of ists. voice mattered and made sure to field the whole story into a nasty joke. After our right to enjoy life under the guise of calls and emails from the host and Daily playing a series of Fox News clips re- government looking out for our safety. THE LIBERAL media seized on Show staff,” it continued. porting on the secret meetings, he an- All of which was intended to acclimate this report as proof that the Fox News nounced one Obama meeting included citizens to the gradual pernicious subli- Channel was a tool of George W. Bush Elvis and a space alien and the meet- mation of their Constitutional rights. (or maybe it was that Bush was a tool Brent ing opened with “the traditional Saul There is certainly no better example of Fox). But all Ailes had done was en- Bozell Alinsky prayer” before they “took turns of the Democrats’ strategic use of Hege- courage the president to rally the coun- [sexually penetrating] a replica of the lian Dialectics than Obamacare. Demo- try after the worst domestic terrorist at- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Reagan eye socket.” But wait, it gets crats since Jimmy Carter have tried to tack in our history. worse. “The real Reagan eye socket is implement a socialized form of health- Was this press-driven controversy “Axelrod, a frequent Stewart guest, kept in the Smithsonian, and is only f--- care. But it was Obama who used the fueled by anti-conservative biases? kept in touch with the host by phone ed on Christmas.” lies created by Carter and Hillary Clin- Consider this: At the same time Ailes and email.” This kind of “comedy” mocking ton to manufacture a problem for which was supporting Bush, CBS anchor Dan Goolsbee sent messages to his for- Christian Fox-watching Reagan admir- the public supposedly demanded a reso- Rather was breaking down on the Let- mer Yale classmate Steve Bodow, who ers is his daily dish. This is why liberal lution, which led to Obama and the Su- terman show and declaring “George joined the Daily Show in 2002 and is journalists adore him. In the Bush years, preme Court depriving citizens of their Bush is the President. He makes the now an executive producer. “That work- NBC anchor Tom Brokaw slammed right to self-determination. decisions, and, you know, it’s just one the-umps strategy also involved the Rush Limbaugh & Co. for leading a Democrats continue to use gun American, wherever he wants me to line president, who used his two Oval Office “telephonic jihad” and then claimed crimes, illegal aliens, so-called wom- up, just tell me where.” meetings with Stewart as a chance to with a straight face in Time magazine en’s rights, and a plethora of other man- In the Obama administration, journal- sell the administration’s ideas.” that Stewart exposes political “juvenil- ufactured problems that lead to public ists have sauntered in and out of White ia,” that “Jon Stewart was our Athenian, demands for a solution that they have House meetings with (not notes sent to) POLITICO WANTED to explain a voice for democratic ideals and the already predetermined. President Obama, with no brow-fur- how much Jon Stewart mattered, but noble place of citizenship.” Republicans utilize demagoguery rowing and harrumphs from their peers. ended up painting a picture of Stewart and fear tactics that the GOP establish- Still, it came as a surprise when Polit- as just another biased and pompous an- WRONG. HE’S the juvenile guy ment has used to cement their moboc- ico reported that liberal comedian and chorman — a political “umpire” — that in Obama’s pocket who makes ignoble racy. And to date it has worked like a Daily Show host Jon Stewart made two needs to be flattered and spun. jokes about sex with Reagan’s corpse. August 12, 2015 25 PLANNED PARENTHOOD: August 4, 2015 Once glib, now suddenly silent president ilence comes in many varieties. How strange. Here is a president It can be golden. Or just silence. who’s always had a lot of to say about Like the white space between a lot of things — usually very smoothly. theS words on this page. Whether the news of the day was the There is the silence that sounds like arrest of a black professor at his house a confession, even if it isn’t. (“On coun- near Harvard Square or the rash of black sel’s advice, I invoke my right under the suspects shot down by white Fifth Amendment cops under sus- not to answer, on picious circum- the grounds I may Paul stances, and the incriminate my- Greenberg rioting that tends to self.”) (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services follow. There is the si- Newspaper lence of the perjurer as he weighs every types could always count on this presi- word in an attempt to devise an escape dent for a quote about such matters. His clause. “To the best of my recollection usual response was to call for a National ...” as Alger Hiss used to say before try- Conversation about race/inequality/fill- ing to refute Whittaker Chambers’ ir- in-the-blank, depending on what subject refutable testimony about Soviet espio- had made the news of late. nage in the State Department. But now our president has nothing to say about these revealing videos that THERE IS the silence of prudence strip Planned Parenthood of its cover. A when it comes to financing Planned Yes, Planned Parenthood’s clinics pro- personified by Silent Cal (Coolidge), national conversation about that subject Parenthood’s activities through federal vide women with a lot more than abor- who never uttered an unnecessary word. would seem to be the last thing on his grants, including those for the abortions tions, like cancer screenings, but those As opposed to the witness who chooses mind. He himself has studiously avoided that produce these fetal remains. aren’t the basis of its business model. to brazen it out (“I did not have sexual the whole sordid subject. Call it an em- Planned Parenthood remains the Abortion is. Women getting abortions relations with that woman”) but only barrassed silence. country’s largest abortion provider, make up 12 percent of Planned Parent- digs himself into a deeper hole. And then Nor is the president the only one thanks to your money, Dear Taxpayer. hood’s patients — 332,000 out of three has to take refuge in semantic games. (“It who’s against discussing such matters. It performs about one out of every four million, according to its most current re- depends upon what the meaning of the A court out in California has just issued abortions in this country. To quote one port. And some 37 percent of its income word ‘is’ is.”) a restraining order against the pro-life study, “since 1970, Planned Parenthood comes from abortions. Then there is the silence of an ordi- group that secretly recorded these vid- has performed more than six million There are a lot of other organizations, narily glib politician who suddenly has eos. The order bars it from releasing abortions. In 2013 alone, Planned Par- like community health clinics, that deliv- Stewart: Reagan-mocking Obama hack nothing to say about an event in the news. any videos of leaders of StemExpress, enthood performed a record 357,653 er health services for women, and would As when the Hon. Barack Obama has no the company Planned Parenthood uses abortions.” welcome the federal money — without comment about those revealing videos as a go-between when it comes to buy- doing abortions. It’s long past time to featuring doctors with Planned Parent- ing and selling fetal tissue. Shut up, the DEATH IS Planned Parenthood’s cut off Planned Parenthood’s water and hood, who are caught talking about the court explains. business, and we the taxpayers have be- support local clinics instead, clinics that fetal parts they’re selling. The rest of the But others are speaking up, including come its accomplices. On a scale num- don’t leave a trail of fetal body parts be- country may be repelled by those tapes, a number of congressmen. It is Congress, bering in the hundreds of thousands ev- hind. but our president remains ... silent. after all, that holds the purse strings ery year. What would the president think of that idea? No comment. Only an embar- rassed silence. And no matter how much support the idea may have in the House, the Senate isn’t about to desert Planned Parenthood. The scandal may already be fading. Maybe the president thinks this whole thing will blow over soon. And maybe he’s right. Americans grow harder and harder to shock every passing year. And with every passing outrage that no longer outrages, our shock threshold grows ever higher. So why wouldn’t the president think we would just ignore these videos, too? The same way he ignored Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic/house of hor- rors when it was in the news. We grow numb to such sights. There’s a demand for abortions, and Planned Parenthood proposes to meet it, along with the demand for fetal parts. Business is business. And it’s booming. You can’t argue with success.

HOW DID WE get to this point? To quote Leon Kass, doctor and moralist: “It’s a short step from the belief that ev- ery child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.” Even for body parts. 26 Conservative Chronicle NEA: August 4, 2015 NEA’s plan to indoctrinate schoolchildren f you want to stay on top of what’s warning parents that schools would soon going on in schools, watch the begin teaching first- and second-graders policies adopted by the National that boys can marry boys and girls can EducationI Association (NEA) which marry girls. Teachers complained about attracts nearly 10,000 delegates to its the ads when they were aired in 2008, annual convention over the Fourth of but this year’s convention declared that July weekend. The NEA’s three million teachers should tolerate no dissent from members include most of the nation’s so-called marriage equality, public school even for sincere teachers, who Phyllis religious reasons. fund its half-bil- The teachers lion dollar budget Schlafly union adopted this with their manda- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate New Business tory union dues. Item A: “The NEA NEA convention resolutions typical- will develop educational materials for ly recycle every liberal buzzword you its state affiliates and members about the can think of: diversity, inclusion, sexual potential dangers of so-called ‘Religious orientation, pluralism, stereotypes, re- Freedom Restoration Acts’ or RFRAs, productive freedom, racism, sexism, which may license individuals and cor- homophobia, equity, multiculturalism, porations to discriminate on the theory undocumented immigrants, and global that their religious beliefs require such interdependency. At this year’s conven- actions.” tion in Orlando, several propaganda Religious Freedom Restoration Acts NOT CONTENT with the redefini- New Business Item B, considered terms appeared for the first time: mar- offer a way for Christians to live their tion of marriage, the NEA moved right so important that it was introduced by riage equality, gender identity, and in- religious beliefs without being sued for along to endorse the “transgender” the NEA Board of Directors and passed stitutional racism. not providing their services or facilities agenda for the nation’s public schools. unanimously at the Orlando convention, to gay marriage ceremonies. The Chris- In New Business Item 30, the NEA says declares that “we acknowledge the ex- UNTIL THIS year, the NEA had re- tian belief that marriage is an institu- schools must provide “transgender stu- istence in our country of institutional frained from explicitly endorsing same- tion blessed by God to unite a man and dent and staff access to facilities con- racism” which “manifests itself in our sex marriage, although it was on record a woman is just a “license to discrimi- sistent with his or her gender identity, schools.” Since the existence of institu- in favor of equal benefits for domestic nate,” according to official NEA policy. irrespective of the gender listed on the tional racism is not open to debate, the partners, repealing the Defense of Mar- When the gay marriage case was ar- employee’s or pupil’s records.” delegates called for “partnering” with riage Act, and other tenets of the gay- gued before the U.S. Supreme Court The trans nonsense doesn’t stop there. like-minded groups, “particularly in ar- rights agenda. In 2008, the NEA’s Cali- decision earlier this year, the U.S. So- According to the NEA’s New Business eas of cultural competence, diversity, fornia affiliate donated $1.3 million of licitor General was asked whether even Items 45 and 74, schools must allow and social justice in order to address in- teachers’ dues money to the campaign private religious schools would have to students to dress in the gender of their stitutional racism.” against Proposition 8, which defined change their teaching if the Supreme choice, and should not require students This is what Dinesh D’Souza calls marriage as the union of a man and a Court changed the public definition of to “obtain a court-ordered name and/or “the shame narrative” of American his- woman. marriage. General Verrilli replied with gender change as a prerequisite to being tory, famously advocated by the best- Prop 8 nevertheless passed by a the chilling non-answer, “It’s going to addressed by the name and pronoun that selling leftwing historian Howard Zinn, 600,000-vote margin, largely due to ads be an issue.” corresponds to their gender identity.” which presents American history as a cavalcade of oppression by the white Europeans who stole the country from Indians, Africans and Mexicans. Is that what you want your children and grand- children to be taught? Every presidential candidate has (or will soon have) a position paper on how best to reform public education, and both houses of Congress have passed bills to rewrite the law that provides fed- eral aid to schools with strings attached. All these reform ideas depend on teach- ers to implement them in the classroom, but most teachers pay dues to a union whose policies are diametrically op- posed to what parents and the public want children to learn.

THERE CAN be no positive change in America’s public schools as long as teachers unions have the power to col- lect mandatory dues from school em- ployees whose salaries are paid by the taxpayers. The National Education As- sociation must return to what it was for the first 100 years of its existence: a purely voluntary association of indi- vidual teachers who willingly choose to support the organization with voluntary contributions. August 12, 2015 27 HANNAH HAWKINS: August 4, 2015 The unsung legacy of an anti-poverty warrior I often edit better and occasionally cades she taught me to look beneath the think better by keeping a particular per- surface of glowing programs. On one vis- son in mind. it she had just come back from a govern- For years in editing WORLD one of ment-sponsored meeting about Southeast our readers, a 50-year-old dentist, ap- Washington revitalization. She fumed, peared to me: Smart and busy, thoughtful “The beautiful people but not academic, were there, looking he wanted to think Marvin for money. Just like Christianly and the War on Pov- valued a magazine Olasky erty, money went that helped him (c) 2015, God’s World Publications into the pockets of to do so without the greedy. These visiting nonprofits: Those charity manag- she said, “but my children know I love wasting his time. folks are ready to clean up — unless stuff ers wanted to create the illusion of vibrant them and care about them.” Her goal was gets funky. Then they call me in to be the activity. to bring them “from disgrace to grace.” FOR YEARS in evaluating poverty- cleanup person.” She often gave children maxims such fighting groups, I thought about heroic The old building that housed Children WHY DID children flock to her when as, “Stay on the street called straight. ... Hannah Hawkins, the widow of a hus- of Mine was crowded. The roof some- she commanded them, “Wash those dirty Get that ugliness off your face. ... People band murdered in 1970. For 30 years, times leaked. A realistic soundtrack for hands?” When she told a preteen, “Your who pick fights end up dead or in jail.” from 1985 until the last few months, she her program would feature chattering armpits stink. Wash them before you She wouldn’t accept government money ran Children of Mine Youth Center, an kids but also police sirens and, occasion- come tomorrow,” why did the boy meekly because she then “couldn’t have prayer.” after-school program for 50-100 kids in ally, gunshots. But Hawkins scowled say, “Yes, ma’am?” They obeyed because Besides, when she once agreed to take Anacostia, the part of Washington, D.C., about opportunities to send kids to nice most of the adults they knew were self- federally supplied meals, “The milk was that tourist guides ignore. facilities. She’d get invitations for them ish, but Miz Hawkins wanted what was warm, the tacos were cold, and the water- During visits over the past two de- to show up on days when officials were best for them. “I ain’t easy to deal with,” melon was sour.” Hawkins, a handful of volunteers, and some donors made it possible for her to OBAMA PRESIDENCY: July 30, 2015 lead Bible studies, tutor children, and give them grammar lessons along with a meal: “I need one person to tell me what a verb is.” Money was tight, but she hated Barack Obama’s great gambit waste and told of official anger when she he plot thickens! As we all gate leaper. One has to have a lot of ing the funny business of Kevin John- didn’t give milk to children who didn’t know, the inspector general clout to set inspectors general and the son, the mayor of Sacramento. Johnson want milk: “They said I didn’t give the of the intelligence community Justice Department on someone as pow- was Obama’s pal, and Walpin accused children complete meals. I said I wanted hasT discovered that a small number of a erful as Clinton. Reporters might ask him of misusing an $847,000 Ameri- to teach the children not to waste.” She small number of emails on Hillary Rod- Valerie Jarrett what she knows about it. Corps grant. He reportedly was using it scorned the government response: “Give ham Clinton’s personal, albeit mysteri- My agents tell me she loathes Clinton, to pay his staff members to clean his car it to them anyway. Give them a complete ous, server were, in fact, classified. She and she has the ear of the president, who and otherwise serve as gofers. meal, and let them throw it in the trash.” as recently as this weekend denied that according to published accounts also How could shutting down the inspec- Hawkins went from age 55 to age 75 they were classified, but we shall see. loathes Clinton. Getting Clinton out tors general benefit our president? during the time I knew her, but seemed There could be many more classified of the presidential race would certain- Well, our authoritarian president ageless. She died of cancer on May 7. documents on that server. After all, she ly do a lot to secure President Barack might be, as the phrase has it, killing Sixteen days later the Washington Post herself admits there were some 30,000 Obama’s legacy, at least with two birds with one stone. By closing reported her demise. That’s better than more emails. Democrats. down the inspectors general, he might my record of not hearing the sad news rid himself of an impediment to future until June 17. AT ANY RATE, the inspector gen- R. Emmett acts of what is increasingly looking like She was not a favorite of child advo- eral has made a “security referral” to a heavy-handed government. Moreover, cates on the left, so she often went unno- the Department of Justice. According Tyrrell that inspector general overseeing the ticed by all except the children she saved. to federal law, the FBI will now begin (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate intelligence community — and another One scene of The Right Stuff (1983) an investigation of Clinton’s server and, at the State Department — have already shows reporters asking astronaut Gordo presumably, of her entire correspon- YET THERE is a complication with thrown a monkey wrench into Clinton’s Cooper who was the greatest pilot he ever dence. At the outset of this imbroglio in this theory. Last week, the White House run for the presidency. Obama — and saw. Cooper starts musing about pilots early March, all she wanted to do was stepped in and attempted to put an end Jarrett — can point to the administra- at a base in California’s high desert, far run for the highest office in the land. to the work of inspectors general. It has tion’s disarming of the inspectors gen- from the publicity spotlight ... and some Now she may be running for her life ... ruled that inspectors general seeking to eral and claim they have been playing of them crashed and had their photos on once again. All this is because of an in- investigate their agencies will need per- politics. After bringing on an inves- the wall of a bar that burned down ... and spector general whose name and duties mission from their agencies to lay hands tigation of the IRS and harassing the he starts to give the name of the greatest, are not known to the wide public. on such things as wiretaps, grand justice campaign of Hillary the Inevitable, this Chuck Yeager — but the reporters are im- He might be a good guy. He might testimony and even credit information. Democratic president has had enough, patient. be a bad guy. But he certainly has be- In other words, the agency about to be and who doubts that the Democrats will gun a ruckus. Who is behind Clinton’s investigated by its inspector general is agree? YEAGER, AT least, is famous for latest brush with the law? Is it the vast free to cooperate or not. It clearly will breaking the sound barrier, and he did a right-wing conspiracy? Well, I am a render the inspector general toothless. THUS OBAMA is rid of another commercial for batteries. Hawkins helped card-carrying member of that particu- Inspectors general have been a prob- obstruction to his authoritarian rule, the children she mentored break through lar conspiracy, and after checking with lem for this administration. It was a and he can spend the remainder of his barriers, but she had no commercials and practically every co-conspirator includ- snoopy inspector general who infused presidency enforcing his diktats while made no money. Still, she’s the best anti- ing several White House gate leapers, I life into the IRS investigation of that watching the delicious spectacle of an poverty warrior I ever saw. can tell you our hands are clean. agency’s harassment of the tea party embattled Clinton seeking the presi- Reprinted with permission of WORLD. Actually, if I were to guess, I would movement. Early on, the Obama admin- dency. In that last leisure-time activity, To read more news and views from a say it was someone who actually works istration fired the inspector general of I shall be joining him. Have a beer on Christian perspective, call 800-951-6397 in the White House rather than a mere AmeriCorps, Gerald Walpin, for expos- me, Barack. or visit WNG.org. 28 Conservative Chronicle PLOT AGAINST NIXON: Auust 4, 2015 The plot to destroy Richard Nixon n his new biography Being Nixon: of the secret activities of the White A Man Divided, Evan Thomas House and CRP [Committee to Re-Elect concedes a point. Richard Nixon, the President]” was a grand juror. he Iwrites, “was not paranoid; the press Notes of Bernstein’s conversation and the ‘Georgetown set’ really were with this woman were out to get him.” found by Himmel- Carl Bern- Pat man in Bradlee’s stein’s review files. Post editor found Thomas’ Buchanan Barry Sussman book deficient (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate also told Alan in its failure to Pakula, who made chronicle the “endemic criminality” of the movie starring Robert Redford and the Nixon presidency. Dustin Hoffman, that Carl had breached the grand jury. YET, RECENT revelations suggest What does this tell us? that “endemic criminality” is a phrase Woodward and Bernstein lied for that might well be applied to the news- four decades in denying their success in room of the Washington Post when Bob breaching the grand jury. And Bradlee Woodward and Bernstein worked there. knew they had been lying. Consider. In All the President’s Men, When Post lawyer E. B. Williams Woodward and Bernstein admit that, had his ex parte contact with old friend While pursuing Nixon, the “George- and having their careers made by collu- in collusion with Post editors and with Judge John Sirica, to put the fix in and town set” was hiding the same sort of sion with this corrupt civil servant and the approval of Post lawyers, they ap- get the judge not to expose or punish mendacities and obstruction of justice serial lawbreaker. proached half a dozen Watergate grand Woodward and Bernstein, Williams al- that got Nixon’s men prison time. The subtitle of the new paperback of jurors. most surely knew the reporters were ly- Nor does it stop there. All the President’s Men is, The Greatest Admitting this was a “seedy ven- ing. As we discovered, a decade ago, Reporting Story of All Time. ture,” they assured us no grand juror In his memoir, Judge Sirica reveals “Deep Throat,” whose moniker came Excuse me, but how much reporting had violated his or her oath, and they what he would have done had Bernstein from a dirty movie, was FBI Deputy Di- does it take to scribble down notes from got nothing. and Woodward gotten a grand juror to rector Mark Felt. Mark Felt telling you who said what to Yet, from recent books by Jeff Him- violate his oath: the grand jury that day? melman about Ben Bradlee, Max Hol- “Had they actually obtained informa- IN GIVING Woodward information This is stenography, not reporting. land about Mark Felt, a.k.a. “Deep tion from that grand juror, they would from witness testimony to the grand What was Felt’s motivation in leak- Throat,” and Geoff Shepard’s The Real have gone to jail.” jury, Felt was violating his oath and en- ing grand jury secrets to Woodward? Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspir- Thus, Woodward and Bernstein, with gaged in criminal misconduct, which, Max Holland’s book Leak tells the story. acy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon the collusion of Post editors and law- exposed, would have gotten him fired in Felt sought to cast acting FBI Direc- Down, out today, the truth is otherwise. yers, got a grand juror to violate her disgrace and put in prison, and Wood- tor Pat Gray, an honorable man, as an Woodward and Bernstein deceived oath and spill secrets. Then Bradlee got ward implicated as the beneficiary of his incompetent who could not keep se- us about not breaching the grand jury. E. B. Williams, godfather to Sirica’s crimes. crets. This would result in Gray being They had. The source identified in daughter, to put the fix in with that com- Woodward and Bernstein benefited passed over for permanent director. their book as “Z,” a “woman ... in a po- pliant judge, and all of them covered up mightily from the fruits of Felt’s crimi- With the FBI top job open, President sition to have considerable knowledge the conspiracy. nality, getting a Pulitzer for the Post, Nixon would likely turn to — Deputy Director Mark Felt. Lovely fellow, that Felt. Of all the Watergate offenses of the Nixon White House, the “Huston Plan” is often called the most terrifying. And what was the plan worked up by my old friend Tom Charles Huston in 1970? After Black Panthers began murder- ing cops and a Greenwich Village bomb factory — where an anti-personnel bomb was being prepared to massacre noncommissioned officers and their dates at a dance at Fort Dix — blew up, Huston, with CIA, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agen- cy backing, urged the reinstatement of FBI practices used from FDR to LBJ. These included warrantless wiretaps and surreptitious entries, “black-bag jobs,” to stem the epidemic of terror bombings. Nixon OK’d the plan, but rescinded his approval five days later after J. Ed- gar Hoover’s objection. And who had been in charge of FBI black-bag jobs in the LBJ era?

MARK FELT. Maybe when Wood- ward met Deep Throat in that garage, Felt was just casing the place. August 12, 2015 29 IRAN DEAL: August 4, 2015 Iran deal is Obama’s foreign policy Obamacare resident Obama’s sordid Iran must close this deal and make it easier nuke deal is looking more and for them to get nukes because they will more like the foreign policy respond favorably to our magnanimity.” versionP of Obamacare. It’s duplicitous, Obama’s problem is that you can only secretive, destructive and legacy-driven, fool part of the people part of the time. and he’s going to have to go full com- His pro- paganda machine munity organizer doesn’t always suc- to get it passed. ceed, as some facts This deal was David are too stubborn to born in hell. It is Limbaugh ignore. Whether the culmination of there are limits to (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Obama’s danger- the Democratic ously flawed philos- Party’s loyalty to ophy that you enhance national security party over country, on the other hand, is through appeasement. If we can secure a another matter. It may approve this deal deal with Satan’s stepchild, after all, we despite its undeniable flaws and the pub- can remake the globe into the peaceful lic’s opposition. utopia progressives romantically envi- Yes, polls show that just as with sion. Obamacare, Obama has been unable to fool the majority of Americans into be- NEVER MIND that this terrorist lieving that this deal is good for Amer- theocracy, by its own admission, is im- ica. A Quinnipiac University poll shows mune to rehabilitation. “Death to Amer- that 57 percent of Americans oppose it, crats. As with the 2012 presidential elec- leader wasn’t serious when he called for ica, death to Israel.” Even in the midst whereas only 28 percent support it. By tion, he knows he can’t win GOP sup- “death to America.” Secretary of State of negotiations with the Obama regime, similar majorities, Americans disap- port, so he has shucked any pretense of Kerry assured the House Foreign Af- the mullahs didn’t bother to pretend they prove of the way Obama is handling the bipartisanship and turned to the far left fairs Committee that he has “no specific had goodwill toward us. situation in Iran and believe that the deal for support. And like a seasoned commu- knowledge of a plan by Iran to actually It was as though Iran’s leaders were makes the world less safe. nity organizer, he is isolating and demon- destroy us.” Swell. trying to validate the deal’s opponents, Don’t assume this gives Obama a sec- izing his opponents and distorting facts The Obama administration wants us demonstrating their contempt for Amer- ond’s pause; it simply inspires him to that damage his cause. to believe it instead of Iran concerning ica and Israel, showing their intention to push harder. But he is growing desperate. Iran’s intentions. Not to worry, because continue sponsoring global terrorism, Bloomberg reports that “administration AS SUCH, Obama is arguing that op- Obama claims he’s tougher than Ronald and signaling their unwillingness to sub- officials are increasingly finding them- position to his deal is coming from the Reagan. He’s pursuing a “don’t trust but mit to legitimate inspections. selves on the defensive against criticism same groups that led us to war in Iraq, by verify” strategy with Iran. Yet the spe- Throughout, the Obama regime’s from Republicans and some Democrats, which he is not so subtly implying Jewish cifics of the deal scream otherwise. Not denial of Iran’s malevolence grew in as well as vehement opposition from Is- groups. It’s not enough for him to slander only are “anytime, anywhere” site in- direct proportion to Iran’s confessions. rael, according to three officials, who all Israel’s leaders; he must target Jewish spections absent from the deal but also Obama’s essential message to us was: spoke on the condition of anonymity to supporters in America, as well, playing the United States has a subordinate role “Don’t listen to the Iranians; they will discuss internal political deliberations.” to the worst of the old stereotypes. in the inspections process. comply with the terms of the agree- So Obama has launched an intense Meanwhile, Nobel Prize seeker John The deal results in the likely accel- ment despite insisting they won’t. We lobbying effort of congressional Demo- Kerry is telling us that Iran’s supreme eration of Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons, and it frees up billions to Iran, which can and will use the funds to spon- sor global terrorism. Just as with Obamacare, everything about this deal is wrong and the American people oppose it, which is why Obama will become more militant and deceitful in trying to cram it down our throats. Have we learned nothing from the Obamacare nightmare, especially about Obama’s character and designs? Now is not the time to mince words about the evils we face; now is not the time to pull our punches in deference to the false gods of bipartisanship and com- promise — which only one party (the GOP) honors, in any event. Some reasons for optimism exist. For example, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is said to be wavering. Perhaps our side can take a page from Obama’s playbook and pull out all the stops in opposing this deal. The stakes are too high to sit this one out.

JUST AS WITH Obamacare, we can’t rely on America’s waning rule of law to save us from this unconstitutional and reckless monstrosity. 30 Conservative Chronicle IRAN DEAL: August 4, 2015 Obama bets nuclear deal will change Iran’s regime “Faute de mieux.” That means “for We should approach adversaries belatedly. And the inspection process Moreover, under paragraph 36 of the want of something better” in Secretary with an open hand, as he said in his first seems full of holes. Iran is not required agreement, Iran can abandon its obliga- of State John Kerry’s second language. inaugural address, if they are willing to to document previous nuclear efforts. tions any time it complains that the oth- It’s also the best case made by its jour- unclench their fist. The nuclear deal It is supposed to provide soil samples er signatories have abandoned theirs. nalistic defenders for approval of the with Iran, as Deputy National Secu- from nuclear sites to the It’s not hard to imagine how such com- nuclear weapons deal Kerry negoti- rity Advisor Ben International Atom- plaints could be concocted. ated with Iran. Or to be more exact, for Rhodes explained Michael ic Energy Agency That’s not likely to happen in the re- rallying 34 votes in the Senate or 146 this spring, would (IAEA). maining 17 months of Obama’s term. votes in the House to uphold a presi- be as important Barone There is at But it could any time thereafter. Un- dential veto of a congressional vote to an accomplish- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate least a 24-day de- less the deal, as Friedman hopes, “cre- disapprove. ment in the presi- lay — quite possi- ates a context that could empower the dent’s second term as Obamacare was bly much more — between complaints more pragmatic forces inside Iran over IT’S A MEASURE of the weak- in his first. of violations and inspections. And one time.” ness of the deal that such a grudging Friedman argues that the Iran deal does not have to impute bad faith or in- argument is needed to rally such an un- gets the United States two good things. competence to the IAEA to note that its OBAMA’S ENTIRE Iran policy is impressive proportion of members of One is to prevent “Iran from producing inspections processes involving hostile based on the “conjecture” — historian Congress. the fissile material to break out with regimes have been flawed. Niall Ferguson’s word — that this deal New York Times reporter Thomas a nuclear weapon for 15 years.” But The prudent course is to expect vio- will lead to beneficent regime change. Friedman, generally a supporter of “break out” is an ambiguous term. lations, expect them to go undetected That could prove right. But most Amer- Barack Obama’s policies, makes the or unconfirmed for lengthy periods and ican voters, most foreign policy experts “faute de mieux” argument explicitly. NO SERIOUS analyst thinks the thus expect Iran to move farther toward and most members of Congress think But he also adds some conditions — er, mullah regime is averse to cheating. It operational nuclear weapons than the not. recommendations — to his endorse- has done so before and been caught — deal contemplates. ment, which aren’t likely to be conge- nial to the president. August 5, 2015 Put a tough military man in charge U.S. PRESIDENCY: of seeking enforcement. Get Congress to pass an authorization for use of mili- tary force (AUMF) in case Iran cheats. Reach out to the Iranian people who, The age of the demagogue all indicators suggest, don’t like the ast week, President Obama Today, we expect our presidents to ding Obama in every aspect of public mullahs’ regime. And, in the Middle visited the set of Jon Stew- treat themselves like royalty. Ameri- consciousness, from sports (Obama’s East, don’t tilt too far toward either art’s The Daily Show for cans may decry the expense of the picking his NCAA brackets!) to reality Iran’s Shia or the Saudis’ and others’ theL third, and presumably final, time. British monarchy, but the Kingdom of television (Obama just congratulated Sunni allies. Obama has set records for the most Obama costs far more. The president’s Bruce Jenner on becoming Caitlyn!), That last recommendation is hard to late-night talk show appearances. He’s family has access to the White House but in making him feel indispensible. carry out. As the American Interest’s also appeared alongside YouTube star movie theater, with a 24-hour-per-day Obama feels far more like the head of Walter Russell Mead argues, it’s only GloZell Green, in the online series projectionist on call. The Obama dog, a unitary, dictatorial government than practicable to do two of the three fol- Between Two Ferns, and Miami radio Bo, has a handler paid six figures. he does like a cog in the machine of lowing things: (1) reach a deal with host DJ Laz, aka “The Pimp with the Overall, according to one estimate, the checks and balances. He bears more Iran, (2) preserve alliances with the Limp.” Obama has treated the White American royal family costs taxpayers resemblance in the political optics to a various Sunnis and (3) do nothing in House like his own personal concert $1.4 billion per year, as opposed to the Castro than to a Calvin Coolidge. We Syria. Since No. 1 is done and No. 3 venue, complete with selfie-stick vid- crowned crew in Buckingham Palace, see him everywhere. And that is how is clearly Obama’s preference, No. 2 eo. After all, as they say, you only live who cost British taxpayers a mere $60 he wants it. seems doomed, despite Defense Secre- once. million each year. It thus seems somewhat jarring for tary Ashton Carter’s post-deal Middle the media to decry the rise of Donald East diplomacy. MEANWHILE, the same week as Trump, a reality television star long in Tough enforcement would be a Obama’s final French-kissing session Ben the media eye. Trump, we are assured, “volte-face” (more diplomatic French) with palace guard Stewart, Obama Shapiro is a joke — would we really want a ce- from the Vienna negotiators’ tactics vowed to push through his support- lebrity as president? But Obama rep- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate and Obama would surely discourage free nuclear deal with Iran, utilize the resents the apotheosis of celebrity as an AUMF as he tried to discourage power of the executive to curb carbon And like the British royals, our president. Hillary Clinton, too, is a ce- Congress’s push for strong sanctions emissions from power plants and craft American royals are celebrities, treat- lebrity attempting the White House — against Iran. more executive action on immigration. ed as such. They hobnob with Holly- had she never met Bill Clinton, she’d As for reaching out to the Iranian Buffoonish. Powerful. The two de- wood celebrities, and even send their be a screechier Barbara Boxer. There’s people, Obama refrained pointedly scriptors used to oppose one another in children off to intern with them. They a reason Senator Chuck Schumer, D- from doing so when the Green protests the minds of the American electorate. shut down traffic in major American N.Y., doesn’t merely spout his gun against the mullahs’ election frauds Now they go together like Oval Office cities merely to appear on the telly. control views before the media — he broke out in June 2009. At the time that and oral sex. They are stars, not servants. trots out his cousin, Trainwreck come- seemed a puzzling decision: why not The modern media age has trans- dienne Amy Schumer, to do so. push, as Ronald Reagan did against the formed our presidents into celebrities. ALL OF WHICH would be fine, Soviets in Eastern Europe in the 1980s, When Abraham Lincoln resided at the had they ceremonial rather than real PERHAPS THE British have it in the direction of regime change? White House, visitors could literally power. But the president has unified right: a ceremonial head of state, and Six years later it seems not so puz- knock on the door and ask to see him. star power with actual power. Early a politician to do a politician’s job. zling. As former Bush National Secu- One European, shocked at such laxity, on in President Obama’s term, my Americans apparently can’t handle a rity staffer Michael Doran argued in wrote, “one goes right in as if entering father noted that Obama seemed to system in which our ceremonial head a lengthy article in Mosaic magazine, a cafe.” Lincoln himself had to walk want to plaster his face everywhere; of state and our actual head of state Obama’s policy toward Iran seems through crowds of people to get to and he theorized that Obama used ubiquity are the same person — not without motivated by a desire for “rapproche- from his office. The presidency was as a tool, making himself part of the swooning at that person’s feet, and of- ment” and an eschewal of any moves the highest civil service office — em- background noise of American life. fering as much power as humanly pos- toward regime change. phasis on the service. That tactic worked not only in embed- sible to boot. August 12, 2015 31 IRAN DEAL: July 30, 2015 With Iran deal, Obama makes bad history t came two days after the an- on April 6, Ben Rhodes, Obama’s dep- nouncement of the nuclear uty national security adviser, said the agreement with Iran, yet little agreement would include “anywhere, mentionI was made on July 16 of the anytime” inspections. Kerry’s co-ne- 70th anniversary of the first nuclear gotiator, Wendy Sherman, breezily dis- explosion, near Alamogordo, New missed “anywhere, anytime” as “some- Mexico. The anniversary underscored thing that became popular rhetoric.” It that the agreement attempts to thwart “became?” This is disgraceful. proliferation of technology seven de- Veri- fication depends on cades old. U.S. intelligence Nuclear-weap- capabilities, which ons technology George failed in 2003 has become mark- Will (Iraq’s supposed edly more so- possession of (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group phisticated since WMD), in 1968 1945. But not so (North Vietnam’s sophisticated that nations with suffi- Tet offensive) and in 1941 (Pearl Har- cient money and determination cannot bor). As Reuel Marc Gerecht says in master or acquire it. Iran’s determina- “How Will We Know? The coming Iran tion is probably related to America’s intelligence failure” (The Weekly Stan- demonstration, in Iraq and Libya, of dard, July 27), “The CIA has a nearly the perils of not having nuclear weap- flawless record of failing to predict Iran will not become a nuclear power, mately 70 percent of medical students, ons. foreign countries’ going nuclear (Great it will. But what will Iran be like 15 are women. Ferment is real. Britain and France don’t count).” years hence? In 1951, Hannah Arendt, a refugee CRITICS WHO think more severe During the 1960 campaign, John from Hitler’s Germany, argued bleakly sanctions are achievable and would Kennedy cited “indications” that by SINCE 1972, U.S. policy toward (in The Origins of Totalitarianism) that break Iran’s determination must an- 1964 there would be “10, 15 or 20” nu- China has been a worthy but disappoint- tyrannies wielding modern instruments swer this: When have sanctions caused clear powers. As president, he said that ing two-part wager. One part is that in- of social control (bureaucracies, mass a large nation to surrender what it con- by 1975 there might be 15 or 20. Non- volving China in world trade will tem- communications) could achieve perma- The age of the demagogue siders a vital national security interest? proliferation efforts have succeeded per its unruly international ambitions. nence by conscripting the citizenry’s Critics have, however, amply demon- but cannot completely succeed forever. The second is that economic growth, consciousness, thereby suffocating so- strated two things: It is a law of arms control: Agree- generated by the moral and institutional cial change. The 1956 Hungarian Revo- First, the agreement comprehensive- ments are impossible until they are infrastructure of markets, will weaken lution changed her mind: No govern- ly abandons President Obama’s origi- unimportant. The U.S.-Soviet strategic the sinews of authoritarianism. ment can control human nature or “all nal goal of dismantling the infrastruc- arms control “process” was an arena of The Obama administration’s compa- channels of communication.” ture of its nuclear weapons program. maneuvering for military advantage, rable wager is that the Iranian regime Today’s technologies make nations, Second, as the administration became until the Soviet Union died of anemia. will be subverted by domestic restive- including Iran, porous to outside influ- more yielding with Iran, it became more Might the agreement with Iran buy suf- ness. The median age in Iran is 29.5 (in ences; intellectual autarky is impos- dishonest with Americans. For exam- ficient time for Iran to undergo regime the United States, 37.7; in the European sible. The best that can be said for the ple, John Kerry says we never sought modification? Although Kerry speaks Union, 42.2). More than 60 percent of Iran agreement is that by somewhat “anywhere, anytime” inspections. But of the agreement “guaranteeing” that Iran’s university students, and approxi- protracting Iran’s path to a weapon it buys time for constructive churning in Iran. Although this is a thin reed on which to lean hopes, the reed is as real as Iran’s nuclear ambitions are appar- ently nonnegotiable. The best reason for rejecting the agreement is to rebuke Obama’s long record of aggressive disdain for Con- gress — recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess, rewriting and circumventing statutes, etc. Obama’s intellectual pedigree runs to Woodrow Wilson, the first presidential disparager of the separation of powers. Like Wil- son, Obama ignores the constitutional etiquette of respecting even rivalrous institutions.

THE IRAN agreement should be a treaty; it should not have been submit- ted first to the U.N. as a studied insult to Congress. Wilson said that reject- ing the Versailles Treaty would “break the heart of the world.” The Senate, no member of which had been invited to accompany Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference, proceeded to break his heart. Obama deserves a lesson in the cost of Wilsonian arrogance. Knowing little history, Obama makes bad history. RUSH! •NEWSPAPER• •DATED MATERIAL•

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