At Issue this week... by Rich Lowry

July 15, 2015

2016 Election Sorry, Donald Trump has a point Lambro (13, 15) Tyrrell (9) Black Americans ou are hardly a name-brand stead, we are getting representative Mexi- U.S.-born children are in poverty; nearly Sowell (26) company if you haven’t dumped cans, who — through no fault of their own 68 percent are in or near poverty. This is Williams (24) Donald Trump during the past — come from a poorly educated country the highest level for immigrants from any Christians Olasky (26) sevenY days. at a time when education is essential to country.

Thomas (24) NBC, Univision and Macy’s all have success in an advanced economy. Fifty-four percent of immigrants from Clinton, Hillary thrown The Donald under the bus, in the Trump’s comments made it sound as Mexico lack health insurance. A higher Bozell (20) heaviest blow to schlock culture in this though Mexico is sending us moral defec- proportion of Mexican immigrants uses Morris (15) Jersey tives. But immigrants are willing to work. means-tested government programs than Napolitano (11) country since the cancellation of Cultural Decline Shore. Immigrant men ages 18-65 are in the la- immigrants from any other country — Erickson (4) The carnage ranges across media, en- bor force at a higher rate than native men. more than 57 percent. Immigrants make Hollis (3) compassing reality TV (Celebrity Ap- progress on almost every indicator over Limbaugh (5, 18) prentice), entertainment properties (the time, but are still far behind natives after Dear Mark two decades. Levy (19) Miss USA Pageant), fashion (the Donald Rich Education J. Trump Signature Collection) and even For all its crassness, Trump’s rant on Schlafly (25) fragrance (Success by Trump). Lowry immigration is closer to reality than the Europe gauzy cliches of immigration romantics, (c) 2015, King Features Syndicate Buchanan (28) YES, THE 2016 Republican field is so who are unwilling to acknowledge that Gas Tax Hike Moore (12) wide and diverse, it includes perhaps the there might be an issue welcoming large Greece nation’s first presidential candidate with It’s just that a lack of education ham- numbers of high-school dropouts into a Greenberg (12) his own fragrance, “a masculine combi- pers even hard-working people. This is 21st-century economy. If we don’t want to Homosexual Agenda nation of rich vetiver, tonka bean, birch- illustrated in an exhaustive report by Ste- add to the ranks of the poor, the uninsured Massie (20) Immigrant Crime wood and musk.” ven Camarota of the Center for Immigra- and the welfare-dependent, we should Coulter (7) To imagine that ’s tion Studies, which favors a lower level of have fewer low-skilled immigrants — as- Jeffrey (31) marketing was focused on posing for pho- immigration. suming saying that is not yet officially Iran tographs for Mathew Brady. Poor old Abe considered a hate crime. Krauthammer (29) Thomas (29) — he could never think big. IMMIGRANTS HERE from Mexico Left and Right The shunning of Trump is in response to — which has sent more immigrants than THE POINT could be made much Prager (27) his, uh, memorable presidential announce- any other country for decades — have the more deftly and accurately by anyone not Liberty ment that included comments about the al- lowest levels of education. Nearly 60 per- named Donald J. Trump. In the meantime, Cushman (22) leged rampant criminality of Mexican im- cent of them haven’t graduated from high he fills the vacuum, and enjoys the whirl- Marriage Charen (14) migrants — they’re drug runners, rapists, school. wind. Obamacare etc. — that were typically crude. Trump This puts Mexican immigrants at a dis- Elder (10) could make a statement about arcane tax advantage, and it shows. Nearly 35 per- July 2, 2015 Obama Presidency policy — and still make you want to take cent of immigrants from Mexico and their Shapiro (8) a shower afterward. Paul, Rand Greenberg (10) Although this isn’t anything new. The Political Correctness companies fleeing him are acting on what Bozell (22) has become one of the foremost principles Greenberg (23) of American public life: It’s not enough Murchison (6) Political Elites to be offended; you must punish the of- Towery (9) fender. Sanctuary As it happens, Trump’s new enemies Malkin (4) are doing him an enormous political favor, Saunders (6) San Francisco at least in the short term. There are few Saunders (8) things that benefit a Republican candidate Security Threats in the current environment of left-wing Malkin (21) bullying more than getting fired and boy- Supreme Court cotted for something he’s said. Barone (17) Lowry (23) Trump’s instantly notorious Mexico Will (16) comments did more to insult than to il- Trivia Bits luminate, yet a kernel in them hit on an Paquet (14) important truth that typical politicians ei- Trump, Donald Buchanan (2) ther don’t know or simply fear to speak. Lowry (1) “When Mexico sends its people,” Trump VA said, “they’re not sending their best.” McCaughey (30) This is obviously correct. We aren’t Weinstein & Wattenberg raiding the top one percent of Mexicans Barone (30) and importing them to this country. In- 2 Conservative Chronicle DONALD TRUMP: July 7, 2015 Donald Trump and the GOP border war In the 2016 race, June belonged to They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. Trump clothing line. Mayor Anna, not under Col. Travis, and hardly two outsiders who could not be more And some, I assume, are good people.” Bill de Blasio is talking of terminating “extraordinary citizens of our country” dissimilar. Politically incorrect? You betcha. city contracts with Trump. as Texas did not even belong to the USA Bernie Sanders is a socialist senator Yet, is Trump not raising a valid issue? then. from VermoDnt and Donald Trump a ce- Is there not truth in what he said? Is not il- THE REACTION of Trump’s Re- Sen. on NBC’s Meet the lebrity capitalist and legendary entrepre- legal immigration, and criminals crossing publican rivals has been even more in- Press took a different stance: “I salute neur and builder. our Southern border, an issue of national structive. Initially, it was muted. But when Donald Trump for focusing on the need What do they have in common? Both import, indeed, of national security? major media began to demand to address illegal immigration.” have tapped into what the bases of their Women and girls crossing Mexico on that GOP candidates “The Washington cartel doesn’t want respective parties believe is wrong with trains are raped by either denounce to address that. The Washington cartel America. gangs. The “coy- Pat Trump or come un- doesn’t believe we need to secure the otes” leading peo- der suspicion or border. The Washington cartel supports BERNIE IS the Willie Nelson of na- ple illegally across Buchanan racism themselves, amnesty, and I think amnesty’s wrong.” tional politics, a leftist voice of a work- the U.S. border (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate the panic and pile- Trump “has a colorful way of speak- ing class whose jobs and factories have include robbers, on began. ing,” said Cruz, “It’s not the way I speak. been exported and whose wages have rapists and killers, who often leave these As relates, at But I’m not going to engage in the me- stagnated as banksters and the Davos- people to die in the desert. a July 4 parade in New Hampshire, Jeb dia’s game of throwing rocks and attack- Doha crowd amass mammoth fortunes State of Emergency: The Third World Bush said Trump “doesn’t represent the ing other Republicans.” Cruz might have by playing games of three-dimensional Invasion and Conquest of America by this Republican Party or its values. added, “like Jeb and Rick and Marco are Monopoly. writer in 2006 cited researcher Heather “I don’t assume that he thinks that ev- doing.” The 73-year-old Sanders may have no Mac Donald of Manhattan Institute. She ery Mexican crossing the border is a rap- What Trump has done, and Cruz sees chance of beating Hillary. But the size reported that two-thirds of the 17,000 ist. ... So he’s doing this to inflame and to it, is to have elevated the illegal immigra- of his crowds testifies that he speaks for outstanding fugitive felony warrants in incite and to draw attention, which seems tion issue, taken a tough line, and is now millions. were for illegal immigrants, to be his organizing principle of his cam- attacking GOP rivals who have dithered Trump’s success comes from the is- as were 95 percent of 1,200-1,500 out- paign.” or done nothing to deal with it. sues he has seized upon -- illegal immi- standing warrants for homicide. Sen. Marco Rubio also found his Trump intends to exploit the illegal gration and trade deals that deindustrial- Of 20,000 members of the 18th Street voice. Trump’s comments “were not just immigration issue, and the trade issue, ized America -- and brazen defiance of Gang operating across Southern Califor- offensive and inaccurate, but also divi- where majorities of middle-class Ameri- Republican elites and a media establish- nia, 12,000 were illegal immigrants. One sive.” cans oppose the elites. And he is going to ment. of the Beltway Snipers, who terrorized Imagine that, “divisive” politics. ride them as far as he can in the Republi- By now the whole world has heard the D.C. area, shooting 13 and killing 10, Ex-Gov. Rick Perry said Trump’s re- can primaries. Trump’s declaration: was a 17-year-old illegal immigrant from marks were “offensive,” as “Hispanics In the coming debates, look for Trump “When Mexico sends its people, Jamaica, John Lee Malvo. in America and Hispanics in Texas, from to take the populist and popular side of they’re not sending their best. ... They’re The reaction to Trump’s comments the Alamo to Afghanistan, have been ex- them both. And for Cruz to stand by him sending people that have lots of prob- has been instructive. NBC and Univision traordinary ... citizens of our country.” on illegal immigration. lems, and they’re bringing those prob- dropped his Miss USA and Miss Uni- But most of the Hispanics at the Ala- lems to us. They’re bringing drugs. verse contests. Macy’s has dropped the mo were in the Mexican army of Santa AMERICANS ARE fed up with words; they want action. Trump is mov- ing in the polls because, whatever else he may be, he is a man of action.

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[email protected] Visit our web site at: Contact us at 800-888-3039 or email: [email protected] www.conservativechronicle.com July 15, 2015 3 CULTURAL DECLINE: July 2, 2015 Liberty without wisdom: The of adolescence riters commenting on the Of course, as time rolled on, and the Supreme Court’s recent Boomers themselves approached (and discovery of a constitu- passed) 30, some of their manifestly sil- tionalW right to gay marriage have (quite ly aversion to age quietly dissipated. No logically) cast this as the latest chapter one wanted to admit that they had in the sexual revo- reached their own lution begun by self-imposed sell- the Baby Boom- Laura by date. ers. But it must Hollis But even if the also be seen in ageist slogans of the context of the (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate the 1960s went by larger “gift” left the wayside, the for us by that same generation. Boomers — and the multigenerational I am speaking specifically of the counterculture of academics, media and Boomers’ rejection of their parents and Hollywood celebrities they spawned — the corresponding cultural abandon- have clung fervently to their faith in the ment of wisdom. sexual revolution and the “liberation” it was supposed to produce, notwithstand- IF YOU WERE around during the ing reams of evidence to the contrary. late 1960s and early 1970s, you’ll re- This is a cult of adolescence. It is the member that this was everywhere. UC abandonment of wisdom. And it is de- Berkeley student Jack Weinberg coined stroying our culture. There was multiple generations’ would be reserved for extreme circum- the mantra of the era: “Don’t trust any- Age offers wisdom and the ability to worth of wisdom in those social mores. stances such as rape and incest. Did any- one over 30.” The “older generation” transmit to youth the lessons often hard- But purveyors of the sexual revolution one predict that abortion would be used was “square” and had nothing to offer. learned by earlier generations. This is the assured us they had outlived their useful- as birth control; that four decades later College campuses became hotbeds of way society progresses — a form of cul- ness; that the new “rules” would be bet- American women would have aborted revolutionary fervor, sexual experimen- tural evolution. And, as parents should ter for all. Detractors, skeptics and those nearly 60 million children; that the Af- tation and social unrest. This was in part understand, it is also born of love. When who dared to merely question were then, rican-American population would be due to displeasure with the country’s the invaluable knowledge of the elders is as they are now, demonized, called hys- decimated by abortion? involvement in the Vietnam War. But allowed to slip away, it is young people terical, oppressive, alarmist and bigoted. When “experts” called for a new at- it was also part of a much larger move- who suffer as they repeat avoidable mis- But were they? titude toward sexual promiscuity and ment to cast off the oppressive shackles takes with traumatic results. single parenthood, did they also promise and social mores of the generation that So it is with sexuality in the United WHEN NO-FAULT divorce arrived that nearly 80 percent of African-Amer- had raised the Boomers with widespread States. 50 years ago, we were told that this ican children would grow up without material advantages unprecedented Prior to the sexual revolution, fathers would free women and children trapped fathers? Did they warn us about the cor- in the history of the country to that were important, divorce was infrequent, in alcoholic or abusive relationships. relation between fatherlessness, poverty point: safety and security, two-parent adultery was shameful, premarital sex Did anyone foresee that half of U.S mar- and crime? Did they caution that treat- families, middle-class incomes, freshly was looked down upon and out-of-wed- riages would end in divorce, with huge ing sex like a spectator sport would un- built homes in neat and clean suburban lock births were the exception, not the numbers of women and children thrust leash an epidemic of sexually transmit- neighborhoods, well-run schools and rule. Adulthood was viewed as a status into poverty without support? ted diseases among 15- to 25-year-olds? college educations. that necessitated sacrifices made for the When activists pressed for legalized Did they anticipate a climate of sexual Oh, the horror. good of children. abortion, we were promised that this assault among high school and college students? Now five people in Washington, D.C., have decided that there is no difference between heterosexual marriage and ho- mosexual partnerships. Thousands of years of human tradition, cross-cultural belief and civilized history are cast aside as dated, anachronistic, ill informed and bigoted. Orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians and many Catholics, among others, are told that they must change their beliefs. But why should they? If anything, the results of our country’s ex- periments with divorce and easy sexual- ity have reinforced the wisdom of Judeo- Christian morality, rather than refuting it. So it should be understandable when even those (and I count myself among them) who believe strongly in equal rights — including civil unions — for gay Americans question the wisdom of such a decision. If we dare ask what this might portend for society, for families and for children, we are told, “Shut up and stop worrying! It’s just more love and more liberty! It will all be great!” But if past is precedent, that is un- likely. 4 Conservative Chronicle SANCTUARY: July 8, 2015 Is your church abetting sanctuary nation? he random, heartless murder of In Chicago, illegal alien Elvira Arel- a young tourist on San Fran- lano settled at the United Methodist cisco’s Pier 14 by a five-time Church of Adalberto for a year before illegalT alien deportee who benefited from finally be- ing ejected back to the “progressive” city’s sanctuary policy Mexico. Last year, the serial has law-abiding law-breaker some- Americans, law Michelle how returned to the enforcement offi- Windy City to pro- cials and political Malkin test her status “in opportunists of all (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate the shadows.” stripes up in arms. The Catholic But for decades, feckless government Church has been at the forefront of the criminal background checks, medical ly 100 interfaith committees, campus ag- leaders ignored the pleas of families who 1960s-era sanctuary movement, with screening and a commitment to assimi- itators and “workers centers” steeped in suffered the bloody consequences of top officials openly promoting immi- lation. Catholic groups have contribut- the organizing tactics of Saul Alinsky on open borders. gration anarchy and lawlessness among ed hundreds of thousands of dollars to behalf of millions of illegal aliens filling their flock in the name of “humanity” building shelters for illegal aliens from the pews and coffers of their abettors. FOR EVERY Kate Steinle who died and “compassion.” Central America and way stations in at the hands of an illegal alien sanctuary southern Mexico. CAPITOL HILL’S abdication of its beneficiary, there is a Tony, Michael and AS I’VE LONG noted, it’s one thing The unholy alliance between church duties to protect and defend our borders Matthew Bologna in San Francisco. to show compassion to legal immi- leaders and the open-borders lobby ex- is bad enough. But if people of faith A Jamiel Shaw (age 17) or Xinran Ji grants, legitimate refugees and asylees, tends from the Vatican to Rev. Jim Wal- choose to sit silently as a “new sanctu- (age 24) in Los Angeles. and those abused and mistreated by lis’ Faith in Public Life (FPL) network, ary movement” of tax-exempt houses A Martin Kudlis (age three) in Den- smugglers. It’s quite another to conspire the Los Angeles-based Clergy and Laity of worship defiantly and recklessly un- ver. against an orderly immigration and en- United for Economic Justice (CLUE) dermines our immigration laws, our na- An Iofemi Hightower, Dashon Har- trance system that imposes common- and the George Soros-tied Interfaith tional sovereignty doesn’t have a prayer. vey, Terrance Aeriel, or Natasha Aeriel sense limits, eligibility requirements, Worker Justice (IWJ). It’s a web of near- in Newark. A Zina Linnik (age 12) in Tacoma. A Vanessa Pham (age 19) in Fairfax CULTURAL DECLINE: July 3, 2015 County, Va. As I’ve reported time and again, lib- eral “sanctuary” programs in these met- ropolitan areas have protected, harbored Mass hysteria in America and enabled criminal illegal aliens who n the 1400s, a nun in a French right is wrong. Boys can suddenly be a good man’s opinion, even if he is our disappeared into the deportation abyss. convent started making sounds girls. Sex and gender are suddenly dif- groom; tradition asks us not to neglect Both Democrats and Republicans, goad- like a cat. Other nuns began to do ferent things. And Justice Anthony Ken- a good man’s opinion, even if he is our ed by Big Government and Big Business theI same. Eventually, they started bit- nedy believes that because someone father.” interests, collaborated to turn America ing one another. As word of the bitings may look at the horizon and find lone- Marriage arrived at what it has into a collective sanctuary nation. Non- spread, so, too, did the bitings. They liness, the Constitution guarantees him been through either divine fiat or trial enforcement is the rule, deportation eva- swept through other convents all the the right to marry another man. and error. In the same way, our ances- sion is the game, and the country is a safe way to Rome. Leave aside the fact that any judge tors structured society to have people haven — for law-breakers from around In July of 1518, people in Strasbourg, who can redefine a multi-thousand- rely on themselves, each other, their the world. then part of the Holy Roman Empire, year-old institution on a whim has more local churches and their local govern- Yet, even as born-again tough-on- began dancing. It started with Frau Trof- power than our Founders would want. ments for help. Now, the same madness borders grandstanders now race in front fea. Others began to join in, and soon Our society is going through a round of sweeping through on marriage demands of cameras to condemn these dangerous there were 400 dancers. Some died as a hysteria. we get right to polyamory and scrap tax policies, churches across the country are result of the nonstop dancing that went breaks for religious nonprofits. It is not brazenly thumbing their noses at our im- on for a month. They could not stop. a war on marriage, but a war on a way migration laws. And political phonies are Erick of life itself. If one dares bring fact into doing nothing to stop them. IN 1692, colonists in New England the mix, they are shouted down, boycot- In Northeast Portland, Ore., the Au- began having fits. Demonic possession Erickson ted and driven from the town square. gustana Lutheran Church is shielding il- was a suggestion. The epileptic-like fits (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate There is also a relentless desire to legal alien Francisco Aguirre-Velasquez led to the Salem witch trials. In 2008 in make those who recognize the madness after he committed drunk driving and Tanzania, female students started faint- FOR MANY in the country, they feel think they are alone. Voices of dissent drug crimes and violated deportation ing for no reason. In 2011, students in compelled to board up the windows, must be silenced. You must think you rules. Le Roy, N.Y., developed Tourette’s-like batten down the hatches and wait for are all alone so that you might decide to In Tucson, Ariz., illegal alien Daniel symptoms that went unexplained. this latest round of collective hysteria to go along to get along. The media elite Neyoy Ruiz took open, public refuge at History is riddled with episodes run its course. Wildfires always run out are in cahoots with the censors, having Southside Presbyterian Church and then of mass hysteria. Sometimes those of fuel. Nature or God, whichever your picked a side now declared a “funda- First Christian Church to avoid deporta- episodes of mass hysteria lead to evil. preference, sorts these things out. mental right,” and you are not to know tion. Fellow illegal alien Rosa Robles Sometimes they lead to merely bizarre Along the way, society is forgetting others disagree with elite consensus. Loreto has been living at First Christian stories. But society, on occasion, has why we are organized as we are. G.K. for nearly a year. fits of hysteria and insanity burning like Chesterton wrote of the “democracy of BUT YOU ARE not alone. Wild- In Austin, Texas, First Unitarian Uni- wildfire through it. The wildfire even- the dead.” He wrote, “Tradition refuses fires eventually burn out. The question versalist church is harboring illegal alien tually burns out, but it often leaves de- to submit to the small and arrogant oli- for you is not whether you take a break Sulma Franco after the feds denied her struction in its wake. garchy of those who merely happen to from it all and step back to protect your deportation appeal. The United States of America and be walking about. All democrats object family. The question for you is wheth- In Denver, illegal alien Arturo Arman- much of the West are currently in a fit of to men being disqualified by the -acci er, after you do step back, you prepare do Hernandez Garcia has taken up long- hysteria. A wildfire is burning through dent of birth; tradition objects to their yourself to step forward into the rubble, term residence at First Unitarian Society it. Up is down. Down is up. Good is being disqualified by the accident of smoke and char to help rebuild civiliza- of Denver church. evil. Evil is good. Wrong is right, and death. Democracy tells us not to neglect tion once the fire burns itself out. July 15, 2015 5 CULTURAL DECLINE: July 3, 2015 Don’t give up on the United States of America s I’ve said, I was very other than the salt and light they present alarmed, though not particu- them to be. They offer themselves as larly surprised, by the two tolerant, inclusive, compassionate and SupremeA Court decisions last week morally superior decriers of “hate.” Yet in which the court’s majority blithely they are the intolerant and often bitterly bastardized the English language, the hateful ones who are trying to suppress Constitution, the and the oppos- ing voices and who very idea of truth demonize everyone in order to further who dares disagree advance the pro- David with their positions. gressive agenda in Limbaugh Leftists have this nation. been denigrating lower half of income earners pay zero the leftist movement. It is chilling to me But what trou- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate America’s history, income taxes? that they don’t realize this trend is going bles me more than culture and values On same-sex marriage, gay activists to continue until there is either a cultural the court’s betrayal of its duty to safe- and denying it. But don’t you dare sug- said they only wanted equal recogni- or legal confrontation or the left stamps guard the Constitution and the rule of gest they don’t love the country they tion and an equal right to marry. They out all dissent. The left is never satisfied law is the apparent complacency among have spent so much energy trashing and wouldn’t dream of encroaching on the even with winning; they must stomp out the public about these decisions and the trying to fundamentally change. religious liberties of Christians. How the opposition. Just look at what they’ve radical shifts we are witnessing in our They have insisted they just want the quickly their true intentions emerged done to the Christian businesses with culture. freedom to live and let live; they just once they scored their Supreme Court which they gratuitously picked a fight want equal rights. In no way do they victory. They were never going to be over same-sex marriage. Look at the WHY DO SOME seem resigned mean to encroach on other people’s satisfied merely with a lawless Supreme concentrated assault on Donald Trump, to the transformation of our society? rights. They are harmless, seeking only Court decision forcing states to accept even if you don’t agree with some of Why have they surrendered? Do they an equal seat at the table. their redefinition of marriage. They are his statements. Look at what they do to strongly believe in anything anymore? Yet across the board their actions determined to use the power of the state anyone who doesn’t comply with their Do they not understand the implications contradict their words, and their subse- and economic coercion to neuter and 1984-ishness. for the future of this nation — if not for quent positions flagrantly breach their punish dissenters. I repeat: Is our side asleep? Have they themselves, for their children? promises and assurances. given up? Are they numb? Do they care? We all seem to agree that to a great In economic policy, the founding LEFTISTS ARE not about live and Are they cowards? Would they rather be extent politics flows downstream from American ideal of equal opportunity is let live. They are about wholesale con- thought of as wonderful and tolerant by culture. The problem for conservatives no longer enough for them. By itself, it trol. Their movers and shakers see soci- these intolerant people than stand up for is that the left understands this better is inherently unfair, because some peo- ety as their project, and they can change what they believe in? Or do they believe Mass hysteria in America than we do. They long ago took over ple have more talent, better connections everything and everyone through gov- in much of anything anymore? our major cultural institutions, indoc- or a privileged race or gender status. So ernment and their domination of the I find it inconceivable that in the past trinating society through the schools, they demand equal or more equitable culture. There is no live and let live in five years Americans’ opinions concern- universities, media and Hollywood to outcomes. They use the tax code, ad- their bones. ing same-sex marriage have changed as their anti-tradition and radically secular ministrative regulations and unconstitu- In view of all this, it is amazing that drastically as certain polls and commen- ideas. tional legislation to even the score. But so many conservatives, traditionalists tators suggest. It’s as if because Presi- It has been a brilliant, grand decep- isn’t something screamingly wrong and and Christians are blind to the hostile, dent Obama came out and admitted he tion because the left’s ideas are anything unsustainable about a society whose aggressive and unquenchable appetite of favors same-sex marriage, everyone else is compelled to agree. Even if the polls show this, I don’t believe a major- ity yet accepts, in its heart of hearts, that same-sex marriage is the way to go. My suspicion is that it’s more a reflection of the bullying and propaganda than a so- cietal change of heart. Could I be wrong on this? Could so- ciety be that fickle — so apathetic about serious issues that they can turn on a dime? I’m not buying it. But I do be- lieve people increasingly lack the cour- age to voice dissenting opinions against the politically correct position. But I haven’t given up hope. We can’t give up on America. I don’t be- lieve American conservatism and tra- ditional values are dead, but they are very, very sick. They need a doctor — in the form of a fearless proponent of our ideas, which spawned the greatest na- tion in history and can help to bring it back. During this chaotic GOP primary process, hopefully a leader will emerge who believes in America and can inspire like-minded people toward a political revival. In the meantime, a spiritual re- vival in our culture is long overdue.

MAY GOD NOT give up on but once again bless America. 6 Conservative Chronicle POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: July 7, 2015 Marse Robert and the lynch mob rom across my small office I lives lost on both sides and economic ru- winked at Marse Robert. He ination for the South; post-1865 Ameri- winked back — so his 7-by-6- ca’s avid desire for a reconciliation based inchF portrait seemed to suggest — white- on mutual respect; the reconciliation that bearded, gray-uniformed, arms folded se- Southerners, black and white, more lately renely and confidently. When the nation have furthered since the doomed and tem- whose future military leaders you trained porizing system of race relations adopted at West Point mauls and mutilates the in the 1890s went away. cause in which you Such consider- trusted, serenity William ations, you might comes hard. Only think, should calm a Robert Edward Murchison post-Charleston ire. Lee type can pull it (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Evidently not. off, a type of which First come the there aren’t many, if any. This type exem- tantrums and the laying about with lan- plifies the workings of love in combina- guage. Rope, rope — where’s the rope! tion with moral firmness. History — the story of humans — generally turns out to be more complex IT TURNS out in 2015 that an angry than humans suppose. We are always in slice of the population has made it an for something new. The staunch Confed- article of faith that nothing too bad can erate pride that my parents, born in Texas happen to the reputations of Marse Rob- approximately four decades after Ap- ert and that whole parcel of mangy, long- pomattox, recalled as part of their early onciliation than one of rage over its sud- MARSE ROBERT? I gaze with en- dead Confederates who deserve (if you environment, was unsustainable. Taps for denly controversial symbols. You don’t during respect upon his grave and digni- take current rhetoric seriously) to burn in the Lost Cause has been sounding for de- beat people into agreement; you coax fied face, lined by a deep understanding Hades. cades. Many of us Southerners, believe it them — if agreement rather than political of life’s contradictions. I think he won- Boo! Hiss! Fie on ‘em! Away with the or not, go months without reflection on triumph is the point. ders — he must! — why now the present bloody rag they carried at Gettysburg and The War and its aftermath. One can’t know for sure whether it loud outcry. Are we not all Americans? Shiloh! Yea, brothers and sisters — unin- is or not. We’re, as I say, a complicated Have we not died and cried together so spired by that blue-slashed banner, dim- BETTER TO meet the newest New race — those carrying the rope, those that together we might live? witted, demon-driven Dylann Roof might South, with its car factories and Asian resisting that particular manner of neck- never have contemplated slaughter and communities, in a spirit of genuine rec- adornment. sacrilege at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Plainly, SANCTUARY: July 7, 2015 it’s all the late Confederacy’s fault. They did it! Someone get a piece of rope so the lynching party can begin. Best of all, they’re dead, every one of ‘em! And it’s certainly easier to hang a dead man than San Francisco — whose sanctuary? a live one. id San Francisco’s sanctuary considering the notion, he or she would a detainer, “his officers should have been Calls resound, from right and left, for city ordinance contribute to have thought better — with 28 seconds allowed to communicate with ICE.” The pulling down statues of Confederate he- the senseless shooting death to spare. real problem, she added, is the fact City roes; for attainting them one and all as of KathrynD Steinle, 32, as she was out for You could bet money that District At- Hall is “more worried about a quote- traitors and hound dogs; for renaming an evening stroll on Pier 14 last week? torney George Gascon would not pursue unquote illegal alien being deported than schools (such as my Robert E. Lee El- This is a national story, because the such a moldy two-penny case, and that they are about a violent act.” ementary in Corsicana, Texas) and streets federal government released accused the sheriff would release him. In a press In a statement, Mayor Ed Lee noted and highways and parks disgraced and shooter Francisco Sanchez to a San Fran- release last year, Mirkarimi boasted that he talked to Steinle’s family and recalled defaced by their links with the hound cisco jail in March and the jail released a revision he made to his department’s his threat to veto “any legislation that dogs. Sanchez to the streets April 15 after the detainer policy “reduced the number of completely eliminated the sheriff’s abil- It’s mass, if momentary, insanity: far district attorney dropped a 20-year-old individuals released to ICE authorities ity to make a case-by-case determination more to do with feeling virtuous on the charge for marijuana possession. Sheriff by 62 percent. Only one other county about honoring ICE detainers.” (For the inside than with hitting a genuine lick Ross Mirkarimi said he did so in keep- in California had a policy of similar record, Lee sent a letter to the supervi- for justice, far less to do with confront- ing with San Francisco’s sanctuary city strength.” sors in which he stipulated he wanted ing and routing humanity’s still-living policy. the sheriff to have discretion in cases in- demons, whose habitat is hell — not, as volving individuals convicted of serious, is rumored, Charleston, South Carolina. SANCHEZ, 45, told San Francisco’s Debra J. violent felonies. Sanchez’s criminal his- NOT A FEW of us know these things. ABC7 that he did shoot Steinle: it was Saunders tory of drug and immigration violations Bouts of insanity constantly torment the an accident. Sanchez had been convicted would not qualify, if it had been written human race. Lynch parties form at the of seven felonies, four drug-related, and (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate into law.) Lee also faulted Republicans drop of a hat. Rope, rope — hang ‘em deported to his native Mexico five times. in Congress for not passing Comprehen- high! He clearly believed he could break im- SUNDAY ON a San Francisco talk ra- sive Immigration Reform. Never mind subtleties — the Old migration and drug laws with impunity, dio station, Mirkarimi said that he would South’s serious conviction, for instance, and did. have complied if U.S. Immigration and THE REAL culprit in this story is the that the Yankees were out to nationalize, He said he was aware of San Francis- Customs Enforcement had issued a war- man who shot Kate Steinle for no appar- by force, their homegrown brand of racial co’s sanctuary city policy. rant, not just a detainer. Jessica Vaughan ent reason. Judging by his televised inter- justice; the North’s role in marketing the When this story broke last week, one of the Center for Immigration Studies view with ABC7, Sanchez is no criminal slaves that later Northerners decided to question nagged at me: Why would the doesn’t understand why ICE dropped mastermind. Still, he was able to rack up liberate; the superb valor of Confederate feds release a career criminal on an old that ball, given San Francisco’s well- seven felonies, and repeatedly slip back troops outnumbered from the start, fight- marijuana charge to San Francisco, in- known reluctance to cooperate with im- over the border. And San Francisco has ing on in rags and with empty stomachs; stead of deporting him? If a thinking law migration enforcement. Still, she added, a policy to make it even easier for guys the ungodly cost of the war — 750,000 enforcement official spent 30 seconds even if Mirkarimi did not want to honor like him. July 15, 2015 7 IMMIGRANT CRIME: July 1, 2015 Media hide facts and call everyone else a liar hen Donald Trump said ment issues a series of comical reports — Jose A. Padilla (murder), ported that the child rapist was a Mexi- something not exuber- claiming to tally immigrant crime. The — Demecio Carlos Perez (murder), can. antly enthusiastic about Department of Justice relies on im- — Ramon Reyes, (robbery and In 2001, the media were fixated on MexicanW immigrants, the media’s re- migrants’ self-reports of their citizen- murder), the case of Chandra Levy, a congres- sponse was to boycott him. One thing ship. The U.S. census simply guesses — Victor Vargas (murder), sional intern who had gone missing. they didn’t do was produce any facts the immigration status of inmates. The — Ruben Villa (murder) All eyes were on her boss and roman- showing he was wrong. Government Accounting Office con- The full “Most Wanted” list tic partner, Democratic congressman Trump said: “When Mexico sends ducts its own anal- doesn’t get any bet- Gary Condit. Then it turned out she its people, they’re not sending their ysis of Bureau of ter. was assaulted and murdered while jog- best. They’re not sending you. They’re Prisons data. Ann There aren’t a ging in Rock Creek Park by Ingmar not sending you. They’re sending In other words, lot of Mexicans in Guandique — an illegal alien from El people that have lots of problems, and the government Coulter New York state Salvador. they’re bringing those problems to us. hasn’t the first (c) 2015, — half of all There was a lot of press when three They’re bringing drugs. They’re bring- idea how many Mexican immi- Cleveland women went missing a de- ing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I prisoners are legal immigrants, illegal grants in the U.S. live in either Texas cade ago. By the time they escaped assume, are good people.” immigrants or anchor babies. or California — and yet there are more in 2013 from the sick sexual pervert But there are clues! Only about Mexican prisoners in New York than who’d been holding them captive, it THE FIRST thing a news fact- a quarter of California inmates are there are inmates from all of Western was too late for the media to ignore the checker would have noticed is: THE white, according to a major investiga- Europe. story. The girls hadn’t been kidnapped GOVERNMENT WON’T TELL US tive piece in last year — As for the crime of rape specifi- by the Duke lacrosse team, but by Ar- HOW MANY IMMIGRANTS ARE and that includes criminals convicted cally, different groups have different iel Castro. COMMITTING CRIMES IN AMER- in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, when criminal proclivities, and no one takes Now, get this: While investigating ICA. the vast majority of California’s popu- a backseat to Hispanics in terms of sex Castro, the police discovered that he Wouldn’t that make any person of lation was either black or white. crimes. wasn’t the only Hispanic raping young average intelligence suspicious? Not Do immigration enthusiasts imag- girls on his block. (All in all, it wasn’t our media. They’re in on the cover-up. ine that more than 75 percent of the THE RATE OF rape in Mexico is a great street for trick-or-treating.) A curious media might also wonder recent convicts are African-American? even higher than in India, according to Castro’s erstwhile neighbor, Elias why any immigrants are committing Blacks have high crime rates, but they Professor Carlos Javier Echarri Cano- Acevedo, had spent years raping, crimes in America. A nation’s immi- make up only about six percent of Cal- vas of El Colegio de Mexico. A report among many others, his own daughters gration policy, like any other govern- ifornia’s entire population. from the Inter-American Children’s when they were little girls. The New ment policy, ought to be used to help A casual perusal of the “Most Want- Institute explains that in Latin Amer- York Times’ entire coverage of that the people already here — including ed” lists also suggests that the govern- ica, women and children are “seen as case consisted of a tiny item on page the immigrants, incidentally. ment may not have our best interests in objects instead of human beings with A-18: “Ohio: Life Sentence in Mur- It’s bad enough that immigrants, mind when deciding who gets to live rights and freedoms.” ders and Rapes.” both legal and illegal, are accessing in America. All peasant cultures have non-pro- The media knew from the beginning government benefits at far above the Here is the Los Angeles Police gressive views on women, but Latin that the monstrous gang-rape and mur- native rate, but why would any country Department’s list of “Most Wanted” America happens to have the peas- der of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Eliza- be taking another country’s criminals? criminal suspects: ant culture that’s closest to the United beth Pena, 16, in Houston in 1993 was San Francisco — whose sanctuary? We have our own criminals! No one — Jesse Enrique Monarrez (mur- States. instigated by Jose Ernesto Medellin, asked for more. der), The only reason our newspapers an illegal immigrant from Mexico. But Instead of counting the immigrant — Cesar Augusto Nistal (child mo- aren’t chockablock with reports of over the next decade, with more than a stock filling up our prisons, the govern- lestation), Latino sexual predators is that they thousand news stories on that case, the are too busy broadcasting hoax news fact that the lead rapist was a Mexican stories about non-existent gang-rapes was not mentioned once, according to by white men: the Duke lacrosse team the Nexis archives. (Crystal Gail Mangum), University of Only when Medellin’s Mexicanness fraternity members (Jackie was used to try to overturn his death Coakley) and military contractors in sentence did American news consum- Iraq (Jamie Leigh Jones). ers finally find out he was an illegal In fact, the main way we find out alien from Mexico. (After years of about Hispanic rapists is when the me- wasted judicial resources and taxpayer dia report on dead or missing girls — money being spent on Medellin’s ap- hoping against hope that the case will peals, he will now be spending eternity never be solved or the perp will turn way, way south of the border.) out to look like the rapists on Law and Who is this media cover-up help- Order. When it turns out to be another ing? Not the American girls getting Latino rapist, that fact is aggressively raped. But also not the Latina immi- suppressed by the media. grants who came to the U.S., thinking New Yorkers were horrified by the they were escaping the Latin American case of “Baby Hope,” a four-year-old rape culture. So as not to hurt the feel- girl whose raped and murdered body ings of immigrant rapists, the media turned up in an Igloo cooler off of the are willing to put all girls living here Henry Hudson Parkway in 1991. Af- at risk. ter a 20-year investigation, the police finally captured her rapist/murderer in NO WONDER the media is sput- 2013. It was Conrado Juarez, an ille- tering at Trump. He broke the embargo gal alien from Mexico, who disposed on unpleasant facts about what our of the girl’s body with the help of his brilliant immigration policies are do- illegal alien sister. ing to the country. New York City is the nation’s media capital. But onlythe re- 8 Conservative Chronicle OBAMA PRESIDENCY: July 8, 2015 The most idiotic comment in presidential history n Monday, President Obama Islamophobia. That’s why Americans spoke about his new strategy with guns can’t defeat ISIS, says Obama: to take on the terrorist entity Americans with guns create ISIS. Only IslamicO State in Iraq and Syria. In doing internationalism can win the day! so, he explained that the battle against So far, that internationalism has been that terrorist group — a group he had a massive failure. Of course, internation- once termed “JV” — would amount to alism is always a massive fail- a “generational ure, because it isn’t struggle.” Why an idea, any more would defeating Ben than “diplomacy” a ragtag army of is an idea. Both are primitives take Shapiro tools, to be used generations? Be- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate by those who ac- cause, Obama ex- tually have some- plained, “This is not simply a military ef- thing to say, something to fight for. But fort. Ideologies are not defeated by guns. President Obama despises traditional They’re defeated with better ideas.” To Americans who have something to say or cap off this airsickness bag of gobbledy- fight for. They are the problem. He is the gook, Obama then concluded, “We will cure. And he would rather disarm those never be at war with .” Americans and their rotten ideas than let them loose with guns against those who SO LET’S GET this straight. A slaughter babies. group Obama said he would degrade and destroy can only be degraded and de- NONE OF this should be surpris- stroyed with ideas. Its own ideologies — ing from President Obama. He’s been application of force, of ... more sophisti- sively that bad ideologies are not always its animating force, according to Obama clear about his anti-Americanism since cated military hardware.” defeated by better ideas. Sadly, Obama’s — have nothing to do with Islam. The Dreams From My Father; in that master- own rotten-to-the-core ideology contin- cretinism here resembles a perfect Jenga work of falsely nuanced detritus, Obama GIVE OBAMA this: He didn’t lie to ues to win victories, and the world con- tower of fatuity: Remove one phrase, and lambasted the “powerful” for their “dull us. 66 million Americans blinded them- tinues to lose because of it. the whole structure tumbles. complacency and ... steady, unthinking selves to his ideology, proving conclu- Americans should gawk at the sheer wonder of Obama’s applesauce here. SAN FRANCISCO: July 2, 2015 Obama’s bad acid trip bumper sticker foreign policy — “Better Ideas Beat Bad Ideologies” over a Grateful Dead peace symbol — reeks of third grade oral presentations. It takes more than great Avert your eyes and hold your nose ideas to beat ideologies — it takes heavy owntown San Francisco feels homeless. “We are a live-and-let-live Mayor Lee implemented a Pit Stop weaponry. The victims of the Holocaust like a large public toilet with- town genetically,” quoth Lazarus, “but program that set up staffed public bath- didn’t sit around thinking to themselves, out enough janitors. More we’re also letting people live on the rooms in neighborhoods, starting with “Golly, if only we’d been able to come thanD once this year, I’ve seen men drop streets who shouldn’t be living on the the Tenderloin. “It’s not going to fix up with a better idea than Nazism, that their pants in public places — including streets.” the stink in the city,” said Gordon, but Hitler sure would have stopped all this at Fifth and Market — to leave a smelly What can be done? Increase the num- requests for sidewalk, alley and street nonsense.” America didn’t end World mess on the sidewalk. You can walk ber of uniformed officers on the street. steam cleanings are down near the four War II by dropping informational leaf- for blocks and never escape the stench The chamber supports Mayor Ed Lee’s Pit Stops. First, I caution, the city has lets. We dropped warning leaflets, then of stale urine. At lunchtime, I see street 18-month plan to add 300 police officers to send the message that it’s not OK to bombs. Large ones. Atomic ones. No people passed out on high-traffic side- and bring SFPD to its authorized maxi- eliminate in public. armed ideologues in history have been walks, and I am afraid to walk around mum of 1,971, as well as Su- S.F. homeless czar Bevan Dufty is defeated solely by better ideas — at least them. pervisor Scott big on the city’s new Navigation Center not before decades of murder, repression on 16th Street. Some homeless adults and evil. THE HOMELESS have been a Debra J. are reluctant to go to a shelter because So what did Obama actually mean? problem in San Francisco for as far it means giving up their possessions or It simply lacks credibility to read the back as anyone remembers, but to me Saunders splitting with a partner or pet. With ser- president’s comments at face value: No it seems this year is the worst. There’s (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate vices and space to accommodate shop- sentient human being could be this dull. a sense among people who work down- ping carts and dogs, the center is de- He meant that ideologies aren’t defeated town that City Hall doesn’t care about Wiener’s proposal to hire an additional signed to transition street people off the by American guns, because American cleaning up San Francisco’s Summer of 200 cops. “Not that that means you want street for good. guns are backed by American ideas. And Muck. police out arresting homeless people,” I love the idea, but I want to see — or American ideas are by nature bad, evil, If this year is worse, two culprits said Lazarus, but their presence alone not smell — something for it. The city’s racist, xenophobic, homophobic, cento- are the drought and the city’s booming should “encourage more civil behavior.” 2014 homeless services budget was phobic, and, presumably, arachnopho- economy. The drought means “there’s $167 million — to serve 6,355 home- bic. Sure, American ideas backed with no rain washing down the streets,” San LAZARUS ALSO suggested more less people. The new homeless census guns won World War II — but hey, pretty Francisco Public Works spokeswoman public toilets in places like city parking will be out shortly. Dufty told me, “The much any ideas backed with guns would Rachel Gordon told me. The city’s hous- garages. BART is looking at reopening number is going up, but not significant- have defeated Nazism, amirite? (Well, ing and office building boom has filled bathrooms in its underground stations ly up.” So you’ve got about the same except for the ideas of the British, the in alleyways and once-neglected pock- — and erecting canopies to prevent number of homeless people passed out, French, the Czechs, the Polish ...) ets where the homeless used to be able homeless people from using escalators peeing and pooping in the crowded city. When it comes to fighting the ide- to hide. as toilets. It says something about how ology of ISIS, however, Obama finds Jim Lazarus of the San Francisco dysfunctional Bay Area politics are that SAN FRANCISCO IS such a beau- Americanism insufficient, since Ameri- Chamber of Commerce told me busi- these common-sense solutions did not tiful city. Why do we let people poop all canism creates ISIS ideology through nesses have more complaints about the happen years ago. over it? July 15, 2015 9 POLITICAL ELITES: July 2, 2015 America’s political elites do as they darn well please e have a royal class in der that a plainspoken man like Don- From a recent ruling that every little are often hard to reach and many can America. They are those ald Trump — who also happens to be stream and puddle is suddenly to be only clear their busy calendars if you who trot around as if they a billionaire — is racing up the polls in regulated by the federal government, are handing them a fat check or if you wereW billionaires, with security, admin- the early GOP presidential caucus and to the endless reams of unnecessary are attending one of their endless fun- istrative staffs, special meals, wonder- primary states. legisla- tion that became laws draisers. ful trips — and unspoken disdain for the Trump actually in many states on rest of us. They are the growing number took a stand and July 1, we serve A GROWING number completely of elected officials, from the local level the PC police are Matt a master and that ignore the wishes of their local con- all the way up to the White House, who punishing him. master is govern- stituents, or only reach out when it’s we first elected when they were “hum- Some punishment: Towery ment. time to run for office again. When a ble citizens” asking for our votes. He’s still worth a (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate And this prob- really tough issue arises, one that pits Add to that many of the bureaucrats fortune and is rap- lem cuts across big business against their constituents, who fill local, state and federal govern- idly gaining support from disaffected party lines. In fact, Republicans, who for example, they are often nowhere to ments. voters who are sick of being pushed, dominate many of our statehouses, be found or plead ignorance, which re- shoved or placated by politicians. are probably guiltier than Democrats ally means they’ve sided with business TRUST ME, this concept of a “po- Whether Trump survives politically of turning state legislative seats into over their constituents. litical elite” is not only alive, it is in full remains to be seen, but the reaction he mini versions of Congress. Committee The only group they jealously pro- bloom. Between the wishy-washy po- is getting is representative of the pub- chairs in many state legislatures nowa- tect without fail is their own. Con- sitions and condescending attitudes of lic’s increasingly strong disdain for days have their own “chiefs of staff” sider the boneheaded move made in these “royal” politicians, it is no won- professional politicians. and legislative counsels. State officials my native state of Georgia this week. Deciding that drones were a “threat” to their capitol building and their Gov- 2016 ELECTION: July 2, 2015 ernor’s Mansion, a state authority is- sued a “ruling” that no drone could fly within five miles of the Georgia capi- tol grounds and could not fly near the What was so dreadful about last week? mansion. f you dutifully read the week- dition to numerous state legislatures shift to the left? Two conservatives on Well isn’t that special. end newspapers and watched and governorships. At the federal lev- the Supreme Court refused to return What about all the rest of us? Is our the Sunday morning gasbags on el, they hold both the Senate and the some shoddily written legislation to privacy and safety less important than television,I I suspect you departed the House of Representatives. Is there a Capitol Hill for a rewrite in one deci- their privacy and safety? Oh, that’s chaos with a terrible headache. Possi- trend here? I think there is. sion. In the other decision, one conser- right, they have a helicopter landing bly you departed for the bar. What is more, a dozen or so Repub- vative justice played sociologist and pad nearby. Bet that thing is oh-so-ur- Typical of the news stories was licans are vying for the 2016 presi- claimed to spot a trend that allowed gently needed for official business — one headlined: dential nomination. In the Democratic him to lead the court in preempting about once a year. “GOP Struggles For Footing As Cul- Party, one 67-year-old grandmother the democratic process throughout Then there is His Royal Majesty, Avert your eyes and hold your nose tural Ground Shifts Leftward.” Who supposedly has the Democratic nomi- the states. Frankly, two wobbly con- the president. He’s taken George W. was doing the shifting? Well, a couple nation sewn up, though her closest servatives on the court do not make Bush’s idiotic landing on an aircraft of delusional Supreme Court justices competitor, a 73-year-old socialist, is a national shift to the left, but let my carrier like “Top Gun” as a starting supported by a homicidal maniac seat- gaining on her. Will this Republican liberal friends believe that it exists. point, then amped things up to a whole ed in someone’s backyard flying the trend sweep a Republican into the Let them rave on about same-sex mar- new level. Regardless of how one feels Confederate flag over his puny shoul- White House? I think it will. riage, about the Confederate battle flag about the Supreme Court decision on der and a narcissistic self-promoter that almost no one wants hanging from gay marriage — I wasn’t bothered by who recently changed his/her name to a statehouse, and about Obamacare, it — did it really justify lighting up the Caitlyn. Such are the dynamic forces which is increasingly unpopular and White House like a rainbow? We are driving history in America today — at R. Emmett catastrophically expensive and will all waiting to see if the White House least in the eyes of the Hollywood- bankrupt America. will display red, white and blue on July New York-Washington axis. Tyrrell I return to the real electoral shifts 4. And if it does, I’m sure the trend (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate that have been creeping across Amer- will be set: green for St. Patrick’s Day ACTUALLY, THERE is a more ica. They stem from big government, and so on. subtle, albeit more significant, trans- LET US RETURN to what our which an increasing number of Ameri- But hey, Obama and “the govern- formation stealing across America, mainstream news sources this week- cans believe mucks everything up. ment” can do whatever they want, and it has been at work since 2010. It is end called a national leftward “shift.” They involve personal freedom, which right? So much so that people are in- the consequence of what our Founding It was begun by an Olympian who won more and more Americans are fearful creasingly afraid to speak out on is- Fathers embedded in our Constitution his gold medal almost 40 years ago. of losing. They conduce to government sues. After all, the IRS was allowed to more than 200 years ago. It is federal- He calls himself a Republican and now spending, which a growing majority of persecute conservatives and then cover ism, working through the democratic claims to be a woman. This spells elec- Americans throughout the states rec- it all up. process, and it cannot be stopped by a toral trouble for the Republicans? And ognize as unsustainable. Throughout And consider this: When it comes politicized court, a crazed gunman or the “shift” continued with the afore- the country, at the state level, there is to murdered police officers, well that’s a narcissist. mentioned homicidal maniac kill- a growing awareness that the Holly- for the widows’ and orphans’ funds to After the wave of elections of 2010 ing nine African-Americans in South wood-New York-Washington axis is deal with. But if similar tragedy touch- and 2014, 24 states opted for Republi- Carolina while they were at prayer. In washed up. es a politically prized group, such as can government, lock, stock and bar- so doing, he brought such discredit to the families of the nine victims of the rel. In those states, the governorship the Confederate battle flag that Repub- THIS NEXT election, a presiden- tragic shooting in South Carolina, well and the legislatures are all Republican licans, starting with South Carolina’s tial election, will turn on serious issues that means a “fast track” of $29 mil- — conservative Republican. As for the governor, demanded the flag be re- rather than sad issues: the reach of lion in federal funds to assist them. Democrats, they claimed only seven tired. This spells more trouble for Re- government, the cost of government, Twenty-nine million dollars for nine states lock, stock and barrel, and that publicans? I think not. and foreign policy. On these matters, families. Really? is down from 13 states in 2014. As it Finally, what about last week’s Su- Democrats increasingly say all the stands now, the Republicans control preme Court decisions that the media wrong things. ONCE AGAIN, the political elite 24 states lock, stock and barrel, in ad- adduced as part of the nation’s seismic does what it darn well pleases. 10 Conservative Chronicle OBAMACARE: July 2, 2015 Congress doesn’t want to ‘destroy’ our health-care system? or the second time, Chief Jus- we need to “work our way past” our posals of Democratic candidates Barack of 26 to remain on their parents’ policy; tice breathed life insurance-based system: “What we’ve Obama and Sen. , D- allow you to keep your doctor and your into Obamacare and rescued it done with Obamacare is half a step in N.Y., and compared their proposals to plan — if you chose to; disallow carriers fromF the Constitution. the right direction, but we’re far from that of Republican Sen. John McCain: from “discriminating” against men and In the first big Obamacare ruling, having something that’s going to work “I think while someday we may end up women in setting prices; save the “typi- Roberts called Obamacare a “tax,” and forever.” Asked whether Obamacare is with a single-payer system, it’s clear cal family” $2,500 in premiums; and not therefore lawfully enacted as consistent just a stopgap on our way to that type that we’re not going to do it all at once, “raise the deficit by one dime.” with the powers of Congress — and not of system, Reid said, “Yes, yes. Abso- so I think both candidates’ Even under Obama, there is no such a violation of the Commerce Clause. lutely, yes.” He health-care plans are thing as a free lunch. To pay for these Never mind the Obama administration added that he Larry a big step forward. government-imposed expenses, insur- sold Obamacare with the assurance pushed for it in Certainly compared ance carriers are seeking higher pre- that individuals who failed to purchase 2009: “We had a Elder to Sen. McCain, miums while imposing higher deduct- health insurance would incur a penalty real good run at (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate who represents ibles and co-pays. Since health care is a — not a tax. the public option. a big step back- “right,” since Obamacare was to be “af- ...Don’t think we didn’t have a tremen- ward.” fordable” and since the greedy, nasty in- ON THIS LATEST ruling, Rob- dous number of people who wanted a Does anyone really believe the Obam- surance companies seek profits, the left erts takes the words “established by single-payer system.” acare promises of quality, accessibility will then say, “We have no alternative. the State” to mean “established by the and low costs can be achieved while Medicare for all!” states or by the federal government” — HOWARD DEAN, the former Dem- retaining our insurance-based system? even though the last five words appear ocratic National Committee chair, also Obamacare promised to add 30 million SO, YES, Mr. Justice Roberts, Dem- nowhere in the law passed by Congress describes Obamacare as just a step to- newly insured to Medicaid; force in- ocrats who passed Obamacare without a and signed by President Obama. ward the elimination of our insurance- surers to accept those with pre-existing single Republican vote absolutely seek Obamacare’s architect, Jonathan based system in favor of single-payer. illnesses; raise no taxes on the middle “to destroy” and “not improve health in- Gruber, admits on videotape the law During the 2008 presidential campaign, class to pay for it; force insurance car- surance markets.” This is all according was written this way by the feds to Dean talked about the health-care pro- riers to allow “children” under the age to plan. “squeeze” the states into setting up state-run health-care exchanges — by July 2, 2015 offering tax credits to the citizens of : those states only if their state set up an exchange. No state exchanges — mean- ing that state’s citizens have to use the federal exchange — and no tax credits The talented Senator Paul for you. That simple, that clear. he movie The Talented Mr. Ri- charming young impostor who is dis- American politics. How sum up the fa- But Roberts argued, “Congress pley tends to stay with anyone patched to retrieve a wayward heir from ther? A money crank with all the associ- passed the to im- fascinated by how we acquire his luxurious life on the Riviera — but ated accouterments, including a touch of prove health insurance markets, not to andT maintain and sometimes switch our grows so envious he decides to change closet anti-Semitism and a close associa- destroy them.” Thus, Roberts reasoned, personal identity, and how slippery it can places with his victim. Deceit, violence tion with an unreconstructed Confederate the interpretation by the plaintiffs would be. For what columnist has just one iden- and death follow, but that’s not the nub rabble-rouser. erode, not preserve and expand, our tity? There’s the public one, and it’s al- of the story, which is the mutability of the But when Sen. Paul is asked if his pol- health-care system. ways a temptation to pretty it up, make it self, the way we can shape-shift, the flex- itics are just a carbon copy of his father’s, On the contrary, Mr. Chief Justice — more respectable, more presentable than ibility of identity — in others’ eyes and he bridles. Just as he bridles when he’s Obama and the Democrats have every the private one — until he can’t be sure even our own. asked if they aren’t, as if he were being intention of “destroying” our insurance- which is the real one, if either is. That uncertainty is only compounded accused of a lack of filial piety. based health-care system in favor of in the case of a presidential can- That’s just one of the senator’s incon- single payer or, as Rep. John Conyers, ANYONE WHO writes for public didate who in his ceaseless sistencies, though to call them inconsis- D-Mich., puts it, “Medicare for all.” consumption, or just for the private en- tencies is to commit the Grand Canyon In 2003, Obama, then an Illinois tertainment of his friends, knows the un- Paul of understatements. They’re more like state senator, addressed an audience at easiness that goes with trying on differ- incoherencies. a AFL-CIO conference on civil, human ent faces. Some writers make an art of it, Greenberg The senator is usually thought of as a and women’s rights: “I happen to be a or at least a game. See “Borges and I,” a (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services thorough-going isolationist. (“Both par- proponent of a single-payer, universal small classic of a short story by the Ar- ties rush headlong into places they don’t health-care program. I see no reason gentine master. quest for votes may reflect the tastes and understand. ... When we’re short of mon- why the United States of America, the “It’s to that other one, to Borges, that selves of millions — a candidate like the ey, when we can’t do the things we need to wealthiest country in the history of the things happen. ... I live, I let myself live talented Sen. Rand Paul, senator from do in our country, we certainly shouldn’t world, spending 14 percent of its gross so that Borges may write his literature, Kentucky and riddle without a clear an- be shipping the money overseas.”) But national product on health care, cannot and this literature justifies me. It poses swer. For the senator is not just your av- the next moment, he’s ready to go to war provide basic health insurance to every- no great difficulty for me to admit that erage Hollow Man, a accus- against global terrorism. “The enemy is a body. ... A single-payer health-care plan, he has put together some decent pas- tomed to telling the American electorate barbarous aberration. The enemy is radi- a universal health-care plan. That’s what sages, yet these passages cannot save whatever he senses it wants to hear. cal Islam. I not only will name the enemy, I’d like to see. But as all of you know, me, perhaps because whatsoever is good I will do everything in my power, every- we may not get there immediately. Be- does not belong to anyone, not even to NO, THIS Rand Paul is of a whole thing it takes to defend America from cause first we’ve got to take back the the other, but to language and tradition. different order of shifting identities, an these haters of mankind.” White House, we’ve got to take back In any case, I am destined to lose all that almost clinical example of what the late One minute Sen. Paul doesn’t want to the Senate, and we’ve got to take back I am, definitively, and only fleeting mo- Richard Hofstadter called “The Paranoid rile a newly aggressive Russia, the next the House.” ments of myself will be able to live on in Style of American Politics” — only with he’s eager to confront it. The Las Vegas Sun headline was the other. Little by little, I continue ced- him it may not be just a style but the slip- blunt: “(Sen. Harry) Reid (D-Nev.) Says ing to him everything, even though I am pery essence of the man. TO SUM UP, the talented Sen. Paul is Obamacare Just a Step Toward Eventu- aware of his perverse tendency to falsify Rand Paul comes by it honestly talented the way a shiny mirror is, reflect- al Single-Payer System.” In an August, and magnify.” enough. You might call it a family tra- ing everything, absorbing nothing. Who 2013, Las Vegas PBS-TV appearance, Based on the novel by Patricia High- dition, for he’s the devoted son of Ron is the real Rand Paul, and is there one by the then-Senate majority leader said smith, the movie tells the story of a Paul, a kind of cult figure in eccentric now? July 15, 2015 11 HILLARY CLINTON: July 2, 2015 Hillary’s secret war — hiding the truth n the course of my work at Fox They can declare a country or group to News, I am often asked by col- be a terrorist organization, in which case leagues to review and explain selling or facilitating the sale of arms to documentsI and statutes. Recently, in them is a felony. They also can license conjunction with my colleagues Cath- dealers to sell. erine Herridge, our chief intelligence Turi sold hundreds of millions of correspondent, and Pamela Browne, dollars’ worth of arms to the our senior execu- government of Qatar, tive producer, I which then, at the read the transcripts Andrew request of Ameri- of an interview Napolitano can government of- Browne did with a ficials, were sold, ist groups who are our sworn enemies. transfer of weapons ... buying, selling man named Marc (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate bartered or given There was no congressional declara- ... anyhow transferring weapons to Tur- Turi, and Herridge to rebel groups in tion of war, no congressional vote, no key ... out of Libya? asked me to review emails to and from Libya and Syria. Some of the groups congressional knowledge beyond fewer Clinton: To Turkey? ... I will have to State Department and congressional of- that received the arms were on the U.S. than a dozen members, and no federal take that question for the record. No- ficials during the years when Hillary terror list. Thus, the same State and statute that authorized this. body’s ever raised that with me. I, I... Clinton was the secretary of state. Treasury Departments that licensed the When Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., asked Paul: It’s been in news reports that sales also prohibited them. Clinton at a public hearing of the Sen- ships have been leaving from Libya WHAT I SAW has persuaded me be- How could that be? ate Armed Services Committee on Jan. and that they may have weapons ... and yond a reasonable doubt and to a moral That’s where Clinton’s secret State 23, 2013, whether she knew about what I’d like to know is ... the (Beng- certainty that Clinton provided material Department and her secret war come American arms shipped to the Middle hazi) annex that was close by... Were assistance to terrorists and lied to Con- in. Because Clinton used her husband’s East, to Turkey or to any other country, they involved with procuring, buying, gress in a venue where the law required computer server for all of her email traf- she denied any knowledge. It is unclear selling, obtaining weapons ... and were her to be truthful. Here is the backstory. fic while she was the secretary of state, whether she was under oath at the time, any of these weapons transferred to Turi is a lawfully licensed American a violation of three federal laws, few in but that is legally irrelevant. The obliga- other countries ... any countries, Turkey arms dealer. In 2011, he applied to the the State Department outside her inner tion to tell the truth, the whole truth and included? Departments of State and Treasury for circle knew what she was up to. nothing but the truth to Congress per- Clinton: Senator, you will have to approvals to sell arms to the govern- Now we know. tains to all witnesses who testify before direct that question to the agency that ment of Qatar. Qatar is a small Middle She obtained permission from Presi- congressional committees, whether an ran the (Benghazi) annex. And I will Eastern country whose government is so dent Obama and consent from congres- oath has been administered or not. (Just see what information is available and ... The talented Senator Paul entwined with the U.S. government that sional leaders in both houses of Con- ask Roger Clemens, who was twice ahhhh... it almost always will do what American gress and in both parties to arm rebels prosecuted for misleading Congress Paul: You are saying you don’t government officials ask of it. in Syria and Libya in an effort to over- about the contents of his urine while not know... In its efforts to keep arms from coun- throw the governments of those coun- under oath. He was acquitted.) Clinton: I do not know. I don’t have tries and groups that might harm Ameri- tries. any information on that. cans and American interests, Congress Many of the rebels Clinton armed, HERE IS HER relevant testimony. At the time that Clinton denied has authorized the Departments of State using the weapons lawfully sold to Paul: My question is ... is the U.S. in- knowledge of the arms shipments, she and Treasury to be arms gatekeepers. Qatar by Turi and others, were terror- volved with any procuring of weapons, and her State Department political des- ignee Andrew Shapiro had authorized thousands of shipments of billions of dollars’ worth of arms to U.S. enemies to fight her secret war. Among the ca- sualties of her war were U.S. Ambas- sador to Libya Chris Stevens and three colleagues, who were assassinated at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by rebels Clinton armed with American military hardware in viola- tion of American law. This secret war and the criminal be- havior that animated it was the product of conspirators in the White House, the State Department, the Treasury Depart- ment, the Justice Department, the CIA and a tight-knit group of members of Congress. Their conspiracy has now unraveled. Where is the outrage among the balance of Congress?

HILLARY CLINTON lied to Congress, gave arms to terrorists and destroyed her emails. How much lon- ger can she hide the truth? How much longer can her lawlessness go unchal- lenged and unprosecuted? Does she really think the American voters will overlook her criminal behavior and put her in the White House where she can pardon herself? 12 Conservative Chronicle GREECE: July 1, 2015 In Greece’s tribulation, shades of the 1930s ow little things change — and fusion that has enveloped their country the euro, if anything? Or aren’t we al- tions, and lead to a general loss of inde- how a lot does. It may all de- to see the folly of letting others dictate lowed to ask? Maybe not. “Pay no atten- pendence and democratic rights in state pend on leaders — their qual- their economic future. tion to that man behind the curtain,” as after state. ity,H their vision, their temperament. The the Mighty Oz told Dorothy. Europe is just too diverse in its econo- scenes in Greece would be familiar to WHEN THE European Union, with Lady Thatcher wasn’t about to be mies and cultures in general for countries any American caught in the low ebb of its central bank and euro, were still young, bluffed. As she warned long ago, the as different as Britain and Greece, Ger- the Depression, like the panicky lines a far-sighted Englishwoman named poorer countries in the Eurozone would many and Portugal, to share the same of depositors trying to get what’s left of Margaret Thatcher could see where all come to expect the richer ones economic system without continual cri- their money out of shuttered banks. It this was heading. to bail them out ses. To quote one astute observer not could be the United States in March of That long-serving whenever they long ago, “It’s one thing to be kind of ge- 1933 complete with a bank holiday in prime minister, Paul ran up debts they nerically anti-euro, which a lot of people effect, and all wondering what happens who finally suc- couldn’t afford, and in England have been. It’s another thing next. ceeded in turn- Greenberg eventually the coun- to absolutely nail why the euro would ing the British (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services tries with assets — be such a disaster.” Which is what Lady BUT THERE’S a difference: This economy around, like Germany and Thatcher did long before this latest crisis country had a leader. Franklin Roosevelt was never fond of playing games with Britain — would tire of this game. struck. took the reins as soon as he was inau- the currency or with obdurate economic A central European bank, she foresaw, gurated as president. Calm, confident, truths in general. would supplant national parliaments and BUT HER warnings were ignored. determined, he used that new medium, The Iron Lady preferred to face reality use a single currency to subsidize weak- It’s happened to many a prophetess since radio, to assure Americans that this na- head-on, and do the hard work necessary er economies at the expense of stronger Cassandra — and now the first domino tion would endure as it had endured. Of to save the old pound sterling instead ones. A single European union would in this row shakes and shudders. And the course it would. Because he would see of devising a new and suspect currency also undermine and eventually replace world waits and watches and wonders that it did. FDR not only declared a fed- backed by — well, what does back up the national sovereignty of individual na- how long this game can last. eral bank holiday but used the time it gave him to reform the country’s bank- July 4, 2015 ing system, insuring depositors’ money GAS TAX HIKE: and restoring their confidence. Oh, yes, FDR’s New Dealers also passed the Glass-Steagall Act that sep- arated ordinary, commercial banking No, we don’t need a gas tax hike from the kind of rampant speculation t’s summertime and that means highway trust fund money will be raid- Proponents of higher gas taxes point that had led to The Crash of 1929 in the millions of Americans will soon ed and used for mass transit projects. to the fact that the federal gas tax hasn’t first place — and the Great Depression be cramming in the minivan for Funding rail and buses with the gas tax been raised since 1993 and hasn’t kept that followed in its wake. familyI vacation. But Congress may violates the principle that those who use pace with inflation. That’s true, but Glass-Steagall would protect the soon be raising the cost of those trips by the infrastructure should pay for it. the federal funding peaked when the American economy for decades — till a increasing the federal gas tax. Critics of this plan say that motor- 42,000-mile national interstate highway thoughtless Clinton administration and Why? The highway trust fund that ists should fund transit projects because system was just being completed. So the some of its equally irresponsible Repub- finances our national highway sys- this reduces road congestion. In reality, feds need less money now than 30 years lican allies repealed it, inviting the Great tem is running out of money. The 18.4 so few Americans take transit to work ago. No one argues that we should be Recession. You’d think we would have cents a gallon federal gas tax will raise today (only about five percent of com- spending today what we did in the 1960s learned better. We hadn’t. What we learn about $34 billion this year, but that isn’t muters) that, except in a few large cities, on the Apollo moon-landing mission. from history, it’s been said, is how little enough revenue to cover all the spend- transit has a de minimis impact on traf- What is true is that America needs we learn from history. ing Congress wants to do. The lobbyists fic gridlock. more roads because congestion is get- In 1933 the country was desperate, in Washington — including mayors, Then there is the federal Davis Bacon ting worse over time and this is a clear and would have gladly given its new road builders, transit operators and civil Act that requires effectively a “prevail- economic drain on the U.S. The aver- president dictatorial powers to do what- engineers — are demanding higher tax- ing wage” be spent on all federal road age American worker must work the ever he thought best. What he thought es as the only way to fix potholes and projects. equivalent of an extra week a year (37 best, however, was to save American keep traffic flowing. I refer to this crowd This adds as much as 20 percent to hours stuck in traffic congestion) due democracy, not destroy it. Or walk away as “the gas-tax guzzlers.” the cost of building a road. We could get to crowded roads and highways. That and take no part in its decisions. a free bridge for every five we build, if means building the roads we need and There’s the difference between Amer- BUT HERE’S the dirty little secret we could repeal this SOP to the unions. ending white-elephant projects such as ica then and Greece now. Its feckless that motorists aren’t being told: the so- California’s $70 billion high-speed rail “government” has simply passed the called highway funding shortfall is a IF CONGRESS would implement project that few Golden Staters will ever buck to Greek voters, urging them to hoax. The federal gas tax raises plenty these two measures alone they could ride. reject the very referendum it proposed. of money to finance the upkeep of the fully fund the interstate roads America Result: Greek voters are left to decide interstate highway system. From 1984- needs. THE BOTTOM line: rather than today whether to buckle to the European 2012, the capital spending for roads and Every study shows that the middle raising taxes, Congress must insist that bankers’ demands or risk leaving the Eu- bridges rose nearly three times the infla- class is financially squeezed right now. every penny raised by the gas tax is ropean Union with its euro altogether, tion rate. If the infrastructure is crum- The best rule of thumb is that every used to improve the roads in America. going back to the drachma, and having bling and bridges are falling down, it’s penny rise in gas prices at the pump The gas tax is supposed to be a user fee the country make its own economic de- not because of too little money spent. takes about $1.5 billion out of the wal- to pay for roads. Right now it pays for cisions. The problem is that Congress steals lets of motorists. So a 10- or 20-cent gas Washington waste. The gas tax hike Economic independence would be money from the highway trust fund to tax will take about $15 to $30 billion isn’t about roads; it’s about Congress hard; it always is. It would be uncertain finance projects that have nothing to do from mostly working-class consumers. making another bipartisan raid of tax- and challenging, and there would be no with roads. Overall, about 20 cents of That’s a massive negative stimulus to payers’ wallets. Have a nice summer guarantees of success or stability. But every federal gas tax dollar underwrites the economy at a time when wages have vacation. living on the sufferance of others, obey- non-highway projects like mass tran- been stagnant for a decade in America. ing orders from Brussels, letting others sit, bike paths, high-speed rail and bus No wonder that in Michigan this This column was writen by Stephen determine the value of their national cur- lines. Think about that the next time you year, 80 percent of voters rejected a bal- Moore, a distinguished visiting fellow at rency. ... Well, all Greeks have to do to- plunge into a watermelon-sized pothole. lot initiative to raise gas taxes to pay for and author of day is look around at the chaos and con- This year alone roughly $8 billion of roads. Who’s the Fairest of Them All? July 15, 2015 13 2016 ELECTION: July 2, 2015 Students cheering Sanders should take a step back en thousand college students, student body is tailor-made for Sand- many of whom may not be ers and for presidential candidates like able to find a good full-time him. For anyone running for president, jobT when they graduate, were cheer- this is a mandatory stop on the cam- ing socialism at a Democratic political paign trail. rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday. President Obama spoke on the Mad- The campus rally took place at the ison campus twice, addressing a crowd “People’s Republic of Madison,” also of 30,000 in 2012. He didn’t just win known as the University of Wisconsin. the student vote, he owned it. The speaker was Sen. Bernie Sanders, Their professors had thor- a self-described oughly brainwashed ultra-socialist, them, turned them and the kids Donald into unthinking, who were lust- robotic, knee-jerk ily cheering him Lambro Democrats who loved the agenda (c) 2015, United Media Services didn’t have a clue he was peddling. about what goes into creating a healthy, job-creating, IT INCLUDED tuition-free public prosperous economy. universities, paid vacations for every- That’s the political challenge Re- one, a generous boost in the minimum publicans face in this 2015-16 elec- wage (that the nonpartisan Congres- tion cycle at colleges and universities sional Budget Office says would kill across the country. up to 1 million jobs), lengthy mater- There’s a powerful case to be made nity leave, a breakup of the big banks, about what’s wrong with the Demo- the end to income inequality, and a crats’ agenda of redistribution of roar of approval for a dramatic reduc- wealth and cradle-to-grave welfare. Nor is it working very well here, ei- growth in the seventh year of Obama’s tion in unemployment among young Look no further than to Europe, ther. so-called recovery. adults. where various forms of Obama’s, Obama wasscheduled to be in La Last month, the Federal Reserve No, we don’t need a gas tax hike And Sanders said this revolutionary, Sanders’ and Clinton’s economic Crosse, Wisconsin, on Thursday to downgraded how the economy would left-wing agenda was just for starters agenda is running at full throttle. talk about his economy. Here are a few perform for the rest of this year to a if he is elected president of the United things he probably won’t mention in pitiful 1.8 to two percent — well be- States next year. “Please, think big, not BUT EUROPE is in a deep reces- his speech. low its previous projection of 2.7 per- small,” he told the students. sion, jobs are hard to find and govern- One is the large number of jobless cent growth. How big? Well, Sanders made ments are deeply in debt. It’s estimated Americans filing for unemployment Meanwhile, gasoline prices have that clear throughout the course of that more than 23 million people in the benefits, which “rose in late June to a begun rising again to previously high his speech to the adoring crowd. His European Union are unemployed. five-week high, up 10,000 to 281,000 levels, squeezing consumer wallets campaign wasn’t about him, he said Europe’s unemployment rate, sea- in the seven days stretching from June — with incomes showing no signs of repeatedly. It was a grassroots move- sonally adjusted, was 11.1 percent in 21 to June 27,” according to the Dow rising anytime soon. Not as long as ment to redistribute America’s wealth. May. Redistributing incomes, high tax Jones economic news wire. Obama’s in office. The reigning left-wing ideology rates and a mountain of welfare bene- Economic forecasters expected un- Economic analysts say business in- among the University of Wisconsin’s fits isn’t working very well over there. employment claims to decline, but vestment remains at anemic levels and there were more layoffs than antici- business startups are at their lowest pated in a very slow-growth economy. rate in more than a decade. The government said the economy Homeownership hasn’t recovered created 223,000 jobs last month, but to its pre-recession levels, either, held wages remained flat and job gains in back by lower incomes, higher prices the previous two months were revised and a shrinking housing inventory, as downward by a combined 60,000. mid- to low-income families are forced Ouch. into rentals. The jobless rate fell to 5.3 percent, As for those college students lustily but the decline was due to more than cheering Sanders’ clarion call to redis- 400,000 people leaving the labor force tribute America’s wealth, they better — which included discouraged job check out how his ideas are working seekers who said they couldn’t find across Europe before they go into the work but were not counted among the voting booth. unemployed. One of the economic hallmarks of Not a pretty picture of Obama’s Obama’s presidency is the specter of economy, or for the Democratic presi- disappointed college graduates having dential candidates who want to follow a difficult time finding full-time work him into the White House in 2017 and that’s commensurate with their educa- have backed his failed economic poli- tional skills. cies since day one. But there are a lot of other things PRODUCING JOBS requires deeply wrong with the economy that building capital investment and creat- the president was unlikely to bring up ing wealth. Barack, Bernie, Hillary and in his speech. all of the other Democrats are against The economy stopped growing in both. the first three months of this year, and actually shrank, causing economists to lower their forecasts for economic 14 Conservative Chronicle MARRIAGE: June 30 2015 The hidden message of same-sex marriage he four dissenters in Oberge- Along with feminism, the past few fell v. Hodges lucidly ex- decades have featured a widespread re- pressed the profound offense treat from the idea of family duty. Long againstT constitutional law and represen- before gay marriage was spoken of, we tative democracy the ruling represents. already had enshrined the idea of mar- In short, five lawyers, accountable to no riage as a matter of personal fulfillment one, chose to legislate on a profound- for adults rather than first and ly consequential foremost as a sta- matter that the ble environment people were just Mona for children. Be- beginning to ad- Charen cause marriage dress through came to be seen as married lives in different, heterosexual healthy and happy (my husband and I democratic means. (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate primarily about families.) raised one ourselves). Yet few would As Chief Justice adult happiness, What the literature does show un- argue that adoption makes no differ- Roberts wrote: “Who do we think we divorce boomed in the 1960s and ‘70s. equivocally is that children do best ence. An adopted child must grapple are?” If justices cannot resist the urge It has drifted down in the 21st century, when raised by their married, biologi- with feelings of abandonment. We to legislate, let’s drop the pretense that but remains double what it was in 1960. cal parents. No other family structure, wouldn’t impose adoption on a child if constitutional law is guided by neutral At the same time, the idea that mar- including stepfamilies, comes close. it were possible for his natural parents principles and at least give the people riage is a necessary precondition for While death and divorce sometimes to raise him, would we? the option to vote justices in (and out). parenthood is withering. Marriage to- deny one or both parents to children, When a man and a woman marry, day is treated as optional by many par- and while many single parents are able the natural outcome is biological chil- THAT THE COURT has struck a ents, just one of many available paths. to raise happy, healthy citizens not- dren related to both parents. When blow for gay rights is true enough (and As Alito noted in his dissent, fully 40 withstanding this hardship, we cannot homosexuals marry, any child raised treating homosexuals with respect is percent of American births are now to honestly claim it makes no difference. must lose one natural parent. With gay long overdue). Unfortunately, the claim unmarried women. Additionally, more Children who lose their mothers or fa- marriage now the law, the message to that this ruling also strengthens mar- than half of all children will spend thers grieve for the loss — often even heterosexuals is to continue to devalue riage is almost certainly false. To under- some part of their childhoods in a non- when they never knew the missing the biological and social importance of stand why is also to answer the question nuclear family. parent. Some children raised by same- mothers and fathers, and to discount the so often pressed as a taunt by gay mar- Heterosexuals managed this assault sex couples have written of their pain needs of children. riage supporters: How can extending on marital stability without any help at being separated from one biological marriage to gays possibly affect your from homosexuals, but gay marriage parent, despite their love for their same- IF THERE’S a way, post-Oberge- marriage? The answer lies in the hidden ratifies it. sex parents. fell, to convince heterosexuals that, on message. Adoption is probably the most suc- the contrary, mothers and fathers are The road to gay marriage began with REQUIRING THAT same-sex cessful social program we’ve managed indispensable, I’d love to hear about it. feminism. Feminists argued that there unions be treated exactly the same as to devise, and most adoptees grow up were no important differences between traditional marriages carries an implicit the sexes. Thus, mothering and father- message: It confirms the view that the TRIVIA BITS: July 6, 2015 ing were interchangeable. The word sexes are interchangeable. Every ho- “parent” became a verb. If mothers and mosexual couple who raises a child to- fathers bring nothing unique or comple- gether is choosing to deny that child a mentary to their roles, then it logically parent of the other sex. How will that follows that two mothers or two fathers social experiment turn out? Trivia Bits should be just as good. Talk of three or We have no idea. The social science 1. What fictional element, which more parents misses the mark. The rele- literature is no help, because same-sex comes in red and green varieties, is ap- vant number is one. If fathers are no dif- couples have not been studied long parently found at No. 126 on the peri- Paul ferent from mothers, then single women enough to make fair comparisons. (The odic table? needn’t pause before embarking on cases studied so far are usually children A) Dilithium Paquet “parenthood” solo — and they aren’t. whose same-sex parents began their B) Kryptonite (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate C) Strongium A) America D) Unobtanium B) Mumford & Sons 2. Gambia is an African country. C) OutKast There is a rhyming country in Africa, D) Slayer whose name is exactly the same, except 5. Some insist that this movie should for replacing the G with what letter? be celebrated on May 25, since it pre- A) B miered on that day. But most geeks cel- B) N ebrate on May 4 instead. What is this C) T movie? D) Z A) Godfather 3. A.C. Green set a record when he B) Jaws had played 1,110 consecutive games C) Raiders of the Lost Ark when he was nearly waived by what D) Star Wars team, only to end up extending his 6. Which celebrity was not only dat- streak for another season? ing poker pro Phil “Unabomber” Laak, A) Memphis Grizzlies but also became the first celebrity to B) Los Angeles Lakers win a tournament at the World Series of C) Dallas Mavericks Poker? D) Phoenix Suns A) Shannen Doherty 4. Tom Araya had to stop headbang- B) Jennifer Garner ing for what band, because a titanium C) Portia de Rossi neck plate meant he literally had too D) Jennifer Tilly much metal in him? ( continued on page 19) July 15, 2015 15 2016 ELECTION: July 7, 2015 Don’t believe the utterly false claims of Democrats his is a time to be very skepti- Care Act,” you could keep the health in- range of younger, healthier policyholders. year’s health insurance costs are set to cal of political analysts who are surance policy you have now? “No one When Obama made a similar claim rise by 4.4 percent. telling voters that the Demo- can take that away from you,” he said. not too long ago, Kessler gave him two That brings us to the 2016 election and cratsT “have regained an advantage” over Then, millions of Americans were hit Pinocchios. When he made it yet again a Gallup poll released last week on party the GOP as we head toward the 2016 with notices from their health insurance in the wake of the Supreme Court’s deci- identification, showing that the Demo- presidential election. providers that their policies were no lon- sion that upheld a key provision on policy crats “have regained an advantage” over And time to be dubious of President ger valid because they did not contain subsidies, Kessler was still dubious. the GOP. Obama’s claim that if you get health in- provisions that were mandated under his Attributing “the full $1,800 in savings But there are more powerful politi- surance through your job and are not in health care reforms. to his health law is a stretch,” he says. cal currents at work here than just party Obamacare, “you’re still paying about And guess what? Our new policies When Ameri- identification. Such as seeing how much $1,800 less per year on average than you ended up costing cans heard Obama more is being taken out of your paycheck would be if we hadn’t done anything.” us more than the Donald claiming that he for health insurance. Or, if you are pay- Democrats are going to be making ut- ones we had be- was responsible for ing for a private plan, getting a notice that terly false claims between now and the fore. Lambro declining health your monthly bill will be significantly in- 2016 elections, about the economy, jobs, Well, he’s at it (c) 2015, United Media Services insurance pre- creased in a few months. wages and Obamacare. again, only now mium rates, they Republicans will be pounding that he’s saying health care costs are falling must have said, “Huh?” issue this year and next, and blaming THE CLAIM that Democrats have and the $1,800 he’s saving Americans is The fact is that since Obamacare was Obama and the Democrats for making suddenly regained the political advantage entirely due to his health care law. The enacted, medical care premiums have medical insurance unaffordable for mil- over Republicans is of course highly ques- Washington Post’s ace fact-checker, been rising — by 20 to 40 percent in some lions of middle-class Americans who tionable at this point in the 2015-16 elec- Glenn Kessler, says, “the jury is still out markets, it has been widely reported. aren’t getting Obama’s subsidies. tion cycle. But let’s deal with Obama’s on that.” And that’s an issue that cuts across all exaggerated health care claim first. There are many factors contributing to A STUDY of health insurance plans political lines, because everybody knows Remember the whopper he repeatedly health insurance costs, such as econom- by the Kaiser Family Foundation in near- who rammed the Obamacare bill through told that if you didn’t like his “Affordable ic growth, inflation and signing a broad ly a dozen big cities concluded that next Congress, over the objections of Repub- licans, and who signed it into law, don’t we? July 8, 2015 HILLARY CLINTON: Then there is the weakened Obama economy and the Gallup Poll’s Econom- ic Confidence Index that found a lot of Americans are pretty sour about it. Bernie hogties Hillary “For the week ending June 28, 24 per- s Bernie Sanders creeps up eral, and the Clintons in particular, the fast forward the campaign to a Sanders cent of Americans said the economy is on Hillary Clinton — closing easier it is to back him in the primary. victory, warning of the consequences, ‘excellent’ or ‘good,’ while 29 percent to within eight points in New She can’t attack his issue positions just as they did with Dean. said it is ‘poor’,” Gallup reported. HampshireA and holding her to 52 per- without alienating a big part of her base. The problem is: Clinton can’t know “The economic outlook component cent in Iowa — handling this new and Sanders, even without much polling, how the rebound off of Bernie would score was -11 in June, based on 42 per- unanticipated threat presents an impor- has identified new hot buttons to elicit carom. In a simple two-way, zero-sum cent of Americans saying the economy is tant challenge to Clinton. Unfortunately a strong response from liberals. She race between Sanders and Clinton, his ‘getting better,’ and 53 percent said it is for her, she has no good choices. doesn’t dare oppose this new agenda negatives are her positives. Perhaps her ‘getting worse,’” Gallup said. Her current strategy of ignoring for the left. She can move to the center other opponents, like Jim Webb, might The Obama economy not only stopped Sanders has failed abysmally. While once she has the nomination in be able to capitalize. growing in the first three months of this she has been hiding from the media and hand, but not now. But what will paralyze Clinton is the year, it actually shrank by 0.2 percent. avoiding questions about her emails, prospect of Joe Biden entering the race. If you believe all the financial analysts Sidney Blumenthal, Benghazi, the Clin- Dick If he makes it a three-way contest, then on the nightly newscasts who say that the ton Foundation, and speaking fees, the Clinton’s shots at Sanders will likely economy will be bouncing back soon, Vermont Senator has been catalyzing Morris push votes to Biden. If the rap is that another Gallup poll this week should dis- the left base with bold proposals. His (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Sanders can’t win, what is the logic that abuse you of that notion. advocacy of a reduced retirement age, a says that doubts about his electability Consumer spending was flat in the confiscatory top bracket on the income NOR CAN SHE attack Sanders will cause voters who once supported U.S. in the month of June and remained tax, a single payer socialized medicine personally or go after his record. First, Clinton and have since abandoned her “essentially unchanged from the previous system, opposition to , and a many liberals support him when he has to move back to her? If Sanders can’t two months,” according to Gallup’s daily $15 minimum wage have all generated strayed to the left and second, she can- win because he’s too liberal, what tracking polls of more than 14,000 adult an enthusiasm among liberals that has not give him the legitimacy of criticism. makes anyone feel that Clinton can Americans. totally stolen the thunder of the first se- Personal attacks, such as on his sexual overcome her various scandals, par- Other surveys found that Americans rious chance at a female president. fantasies and writings of 40 years ago, ticularly voters who themselves have are keeping a tight grip on their money, look strained and artificial and like the dropped Clinton precisely because of and weak retail spending underscores THE HUMBLE act has failed. Clin- product of an overly active negative re- those scandals? those findings. ton’s listening tour accomplished noth- searcher. Clinton is stuck. And the more she No wonder Gallup’s daily surveys find ing. Carrying her own baggage, flying Her most likely approach is to say appears to be stuck in the dilemma of that nearly 40 percent say they are wor- coach, driving to Iowa, are all being dis- that Sanders can’t win and raise fears how to handle Sanders, the greater is ried about money. missed as the gimmicks they are. among Democrats that he might steal the likelihood that Biden jumps in. Despite Obama’s boasts that un- So how can Hillary counter the rise the party’s chances for victory. Just employment has fallen like a rock and of Bernie? as the Clintons and the Kennedys tor- AND, IF Biden does run, how does Americans are doing a lot better finan- She can’t attack him without giving pedoed Howard Dean’s candidacy in Clinton attack him without pulling cially, that’s not what people are telling him more credibility than he has. All 2004 after he surged in the wake of his President Obama into the debate as col- Gallup in its daily tracking polls. hope of dismissing him as an also-ran approval of a gay marriage bill in Ver- lateral damage? How can she go after would evaporate when she starts men- mont, so Hillary’s people will warn of the vice president without her attacks THEIR SURVEYS show that 14.5 tioning his name. Indeed, the more disaster if Bernie is nominated. reflecting ill on the sitting and, among percent of the people they poll say they’re he appears as a harmless protest vote In a sense, Clinton will abandon the Democrats, wildly popular president? involuntarily underemployed and cannot against the party establishment in gen- strategy of ignoring Bernie and try to Clinton’s in a tough spot. find full-time jobs. 16 July 15, 2015 The wrinkle in the recent ACA decision “What chumps!” laws. Rather, the IRC said the Framers — Chief Justice John Roberts, June used “legislature” eccentrically, to mean 29, 2015 any process, such as a referendum, that Roberts’ intellectual complexity does creates any entity, such as the IRC, that not prevent him from expressing him- produces binding edicts. self pithily, as he did with those words Implausibility is not an insurmount- when dissenting in a case from Arizo- able barrier to persuading a Supreme na. Joined by , Clarence Court majority, and last week five jus- Thomas and , Roberts’ dis- tices accepted the IRC’s argument. Ruth sent should somewhat mollify conser- Bader Ginsburg, joined by vatives who are , dismayed about George Stephen Breyer, So- his interpretive in- nia Sotomayor and genuity four days Will Elena Kagan, said: earlier in writing (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group There is “no sug- the opinion that gestion” that when saved the Affordable Care Act. Further- the Framers stipulated that the manner of more, they, including this columnist, a state’s elections should be determined may have missed a wrinkle in Roberts’ of “the legislature thereof” the Framers ACA opinion that will serve conserva- necessarily meant “the state’s represen- tives’ long-term interests. tative body.” This detonated Roberts, who began TO END gerrymanders, Arizona vot- his dissent by saying: The reformers “nobody doubts” — that the people of language does not mean this when read ers, by referendum, amended the state’s who waged “an arduous, decades-long Arizona can, under their state constitu- in the context of Congress’ clear purpose constitution to strip the Legislature of its campaign” to achieve ratification in tion, exercise lawmaking powers. They (broad health care coverage). So, the control of redistricting. They created an 1913 of the 17th Amendment estab- cannot, however, establish governmen- IRS can distribute subsidies through ex- Independent Redistricting Commission lishing popular election of U.S. sena- tal processes that violate the U.S. Con- changes established by the federal gov- (IRC) on which no member of the Leg- tors could have saved themselves the stitution. With many citations from the ernment. islature may serve. trouble. They could have adopted what Federalist Papers and Supreme Court This is not because the court deferred However, the U.S. Constitution’s Roberts calls the “magic trick” the ma- precedents, Roberts emphasized that a to the IRS, an independent agency, in Elections Clause says, “The times, jority performed regarding Arizona. state’s “legislature” was not a term of interpreting the statute. On the contrary, places and manner of holding elections What chumps the reformers were for not uncertain meaning when the Framers put the court denied the power of the IRS — for Senators and Representatives, shall simply asserting this: Sure, the Framers it into the Constitution. and, inferentially, the power of the ex- be prescribed in each state by the leg- stipulated that two senators from each Many conservatives may be mutter- ecutive branch — to be the final word islature thereof.” When Arizona’s Leg- state were to be chosen “by the legis- ing, “Where was this semantically punc- on statutory interpretation. Instead, the islature sued, the IRC’s implausible re- lature thereof,” but the Framers really tilious Roberts four days earlier?” Then, court, in the act of deference to Congress’ sponse was: The Constitution’s Framers meant “by the people.” Roberts said that although the Afford- objective in enacting the ACA, asserted did not use the word “legislature” as it able Care Act says insurance subsidies its power to render the final, if properly was then and still is used, to denote the ROBERTS SAID the majority wast- are to be distributed by the IRS through deferential, word in interpreting what representative bodies that make states’ ed much ink defending a proposition that exchanges “established by the state,” the Congress does. Thus did judicial aggres- sion against one branch come cloaked in the cloth of deference to another. Construing the Constitution in the Arizona case, Roberts said the Framers’ language was as clear as their purpose, to which deference is due. Interpreting the health care statute, Roberts said Con- gress’ language was “inartful” but, read in the context the ACA’s structure, was not ambiguous and should not defeat Congress’ purpose, to which the court owes deference.

ROBERTS’ RULING advanced a crucial conservative objective, that of clawing back power from the executive branch and independent agencies that in- creasingly operate essentially free from congressional control and generally obedient to presidents. If conservatives cannot achieve their objectives, includ- ing ACA repeal, through the legislative branch, conservatism’s future is too bleak to be much diminished by any- thing courts do. If, however, conserva- tives can advance their agenda through Congress, they will benefit from Rob- erts’ ACA opinion, which buttresses leg- islative supremacy.

July 5, 2015 This Week’s Conservative Focus 17 Supreme Court Redistricting not worth the verbal footwork “Words mean what they say,” I wrote lature or an independent commission in my column one approved by the voters in a referendum week ago. But, as I added, not necessar- authorized by the legislature.” ily to a majority of justices of the Su- Justice Ginsburg, as capable of fancy preme Court. The targets of my column verbal footwork as the chief justice, ar- were the majority opinions in King v. gues that they amount to the same thing, Burwell and Texas Department of Com- since the referendum was authorized by munity Affairs v. The Inclusive Commu- the legislature and a majority of voters nities Project. voted to establish the commission. She In King v. Burwell, Chief Justice added (though it is not clear Roberts inter- why this is relevant to preted the words assessing semantics) “established by Michael that establishing the the state” in the Barone commission would Patient Protection (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate eliminate the and Affordable scourge of partisan Care Act (aka Obamacare) as meaning district-drawing. “established by the state or the federal Now I have to admit, perhaps in dis- government,” even though the law itself agreement with Justice Ginsburg, that defines “state” as the 50 states and the the issue at stake in Arizona is far less District of Columbia. consequential than those in King v. Bur- well or Inclusive Communities. IN THE CASE of Inclusive Com- A contrary decision in King v. Bur- munities, Justice Kennedy read the Fair well would have left some six million the building of low- and middle-income But Justice Ginsburg seems to be Housing Act of 1968 as not only prohib- people without health insurance subsi- housing. taken with the proposition that many of iting intentional racial discrimination dies and would have triggered a battle In both cases the Democratic party the nation’s political woes — polariza- (which it does in so many words) but between the Republican Congress and may be on the defensive, since large tion, gridlock — are the result of parti- also prohibiting acts that have a “dis- the Obama administration over how to majorities of voters favor at least some san redistricting. It may have crossed her parate impact” on persons of different repair Obamacare. modification of Obamacare and since mind, as it has those of others, that Re- races (which it says nothing about). initial polling suggests that even larger publicans have had the advantage in par- The last day on which the court an- AND JUSTICE Kennedy’s decision majorities would oppose AFFH social tisan redistricting in the cycles following nounced decisions gave us another such in Inclusive Communities gives a green engineering. the 2000 and 2010 Censuses. case, Arizona State Legislature v. Arizo- light to the Obama administration’s Af- On the other hand, if the court had That advantage is overstated. Repub- na Independent Redistricting Commis- firmatively Furthering Fair Housing gone the other way in Arizona, the Re- licans after 2010 controlled redistricting sion. Here the majority opinion, written program, under which the Housing and publican Arizona legislature would have in Tex., Fla., Pa., Ohio, Mich., Ga. and by Justice Ginsburg, interprets the words Urban Development hopes to override to redraw the boundaries of Arizona’s N.C. (138 House seats). But Democrats “the legislature” in Article 1, Section 4 municipal zoning laws and require sub- nine congressional districts. The partisan controlled redistricting in Ill. and Md. of the Constitution to mean “the legis- urban cities and towns to build or permit effect would be minor at most. and, by successfully gaming purportedly nonpartisan redistricting commissions, in Calif. and Ariz. (88 House seats). .The partisanship of the Arizona plan was particularly egregious. In 2012 Ari- zonans voted 52 to 43 percent for Re- publican House candidates over Demo- crats, but Democrats won five of the nine House seats. In 2014 they voted 56 to 39 percent Republican, and Republicans won a fifth seat — by the narrowest mar- gin in the country. .A partisan Republican plan would give Republicans one more seat or may- be two — but at the risk of losing a seat or two in a Democratic year. Remember that despite Republicans’ redistricting advantage after the 2000 Census, Dem- ocrats won majorities in the House in 2006 and 2008. If opinion changes, re- districting doesn’t matter. .The fact is that supposedly nonpar- tisan redistricting commissions are not going to get rid of polarization (which results from voter attitudes) or gridlock (which results from the executive’s low negotiating skills).

YOU MIGHT argue that it’s worth denying words mean what they say when Obamacare or AFFH is at stake. But for redistricting commissions, why bother?

July 7, 2015 18 Conservative Chronicle CULTURAL DECLINE: July 7, 2015 I told you things are getting crazier ately I’ve shared my lament — Obama Red-Faced: Iran Nucle- that in America today we are ar Stockpiles Grew 20 Percent in 18 witnessing a surreal transfor- months. mationL of the greatest nation in history. — Obamacare Dangerous to Our Last week, a spate of headlines made Health. this point better than I could make it — Eye-Popping Premium Increas- on my own. es. — Obama, Clinton Want To En- I WAS minding my business, mind force ‘Correct’ Thinking in America. you, surfing the Internet to check out — High School Denies Pro-Life the news and political sites and forums Club! I customarily vis- — Pentagon — Video Shows U.S. Citizens Will- White Child, Tells Him Black People it, and these news David Officials Call Out ing To Ban American Flag. Fought To Not ‘Serve White People and column head- Obama’s ‘Pathetic’ — Are Americans of Faith in Dan- Like You.’ lines, most from Limbaugh ISIS Strategy. ger? — Girl Scouts Raise $250K for last week, some (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate — Shabazz — Obama Administration Says Transgender Cause. from a bit earlier Calls on Nation Redskins Nickname Could Block Po- — Teen Leads Mob in Ransacking and a few from this week, bombarded of Islam, New Black Panther ‘Army’ tential Stadium Deal. of Georgia Walmart. me. I wasn’t looking for trouble. Nor to Defend Black Communities Against — TV Land Drops Dukes of Haz- — U.S. Debt Headed Toward Greek was the satirical website The Onion . zard Amid Confederate Flag Contro- Levels. one of the sites I visited. The world — Obama: Climate Change Deniers versy. — Obama Administration Invokes is upside down, inside out, sideways, Endangering National Security. — Gay Teacher Files Federal Dis- Executive Privilege on Benghazi crazy, nutso. Bad is good; up is down. — Team Clinton Swarms Sunday crimination Lawsuit Against Catholic Probe? Left is right; right is wrong. Evil is Interview Shows, Minus Hillary. School. — United Church of Christ Anti- good; insanity is sanity. Abnormal is — Antonin Scalia Is Unfit To Serve: — Terrific: Attorney in Charge of Israel Extremism. normal. Circles are squares. Hot is A Justice Who Rejects Science and the Releasing Lois Lerner ‘Lost’ Emails — U.S. Troops in Afghanistan ‘Feel cold. Luke warm is red hot — among Law for Religion Is of Unsound Mind. Now in Charge of HRC’s Emails. Abandoned.’ Republicans, anyway. Common sense — In L.A., Obama addresses Wash- — For Obama, Rainbow White — More than 42 Million Muslims is uncommon. The world is other- ington’s Dysfunction: “I Did Not Say I House Was ‘A Moment Worth Savor- ‘Support ISIS.’ worldly. Dissent is “hate.” Diversity Would Fix It.” ing.’ — 17 Shot Since Monday Morning means conformity. The good guys are — Authorities: Gay Slur Carved — Montana Polygamist Family Ap- in Baltimore. the bad guys; virtue is vice; sophistry Into Utah Man’s Arm Was Staged. plies for Marriage License. — Baltimore Mayor Wants Park is intellectualism; jerks are celebrated; — Justice Department: Transgen- — 74 Children Executed by ISIS for Named for Robert E. Lee Changed, debauchery is glorified; the holy is de- der Students Can Use Bathrooms that ‘Crimes’ That Include Refusal To Fast, Other Monuments May Come Down. bauched. Let me share some of these Match Their Gender Identity. Report Says. — Christian Preachers Brutally headlines, which speak for themselves — Political Correctness 101: Prais- — New Undercover Footage Shows Beaten at Gay Pride Festival. — loudly and depressingly. ing America, Virtues of Hard Work VA Officials Admitting of ‘Unaccount- — Seattle 6th Graders Can’t Get a — Shakespeare’s Works — Too Dubbed ‘Micro-Aggression’ On Cam- ability at Every Level.’ Coke at School, but Can Get an IUD. Hard, Too White. puses. — Black Teacher Hits Handicapped — Local Minister Urges the Flying of Black Liberation Flag This Week- end. — Christian Bakers Face $135K Fine and Gag Order Over Wedding Cake for Same-Sex Couple. —Center for American Progress Helped Craft EPA Talking Points, Emails Show. — White House Blames GOP for Kathryn Steimle’s Slaying, Rise in Gun Violence. — 10 Killed, 55 Wounded in Fourth of July Gun Violence in Chicago. — Shock: Arizona Paper Decries Border Fence As Too High For Mexi- cans To Safely Jump. — California Family Supports Four-Year-Old’s Decision To Transi- tion from Male to Female. — Illegal Alien Who Murdered Woman Went to San Francisco Be- cause It Was a ‘Sanctuary City.’ —Chris Matthews: Hillary Clinton is ‘More of a Conservative ... Tradi- tional Politician.’ — Netanyahu Says Nuke Deal Get- ting Worse by the Day. — Chicago Convulsed By Another Violent Weekend; Top Cop Blames Justice System. July 15, 2015 19 DEAR MARK: July 3, 2015 There, I said it: Marriage is between a man & a woman believe marriage is between one One of the problems for modern Churches of all denominations on a man and one woman. There I said Christians is that in today’s society regular basis preach against adultery, CONTACT INFORMATION it and in a public forum no less, so Christians are often seen as the cari- murder, lying, cheating, stealing, blas- let Ithe angry attacks commence. Today cature painted by television and mov- phemy, and a multitude of other sins Individual Contact Information as we’ve seen in the mainstream media, ies. You know the fire and brimstone but as soon as a church touches the Facebook, Twitter, and various other preacher with the white teeth and big subject of gay marriage the long knives Greenberg - [email protected] social mediums, anyone who stands for hair always promising miracles in ex- come out in force from the left. Krauthammer - [email protected] traditional marriage is labelled a bigot, change for money. Christians are also We’ve all heard these words from a homophobe, a hater, or anti-gay. That portrayed as highly judgmental, Pu- the Bible and I’ll paraphrase “Let he Levy - [email protected] coming from the “tolerant” left. ritanical stiffs who are almost robotic who is without sin cast the first stone.” Lowry - [email protected] I debated whether to write this col- in their pronouncements. It To be fair to the gay community, some Malkin - [email protected] umn just for those reasons and for fear Christians have piously loaded up Massie - [email protected] of offending my gay friends and ac- Mark their sling shots without doing things Napolitano - [email protected] quaintances or the people who have gay in love. Also some Christians are ex- Saunders - [email protected] family members. 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Contact us at 800-888-3039 or [email protected] 20 Conservative Chronicle HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA: July 2, 2015 Is this the real homosexual end game? he old bromide “There are banded together by homosexual love ten as possible; 2) portray homosexuals treachery perpetrated against a civilized none so blind as those who and honor are invincible as were the an- as victims, not as aggressive challeng- society since the beginning of time. will not see” is actually a mis- cient Greek soldiers.” ers; 3) make homosexuals look good; 4) Satan never comes to the table with- statingT of the scripture verse Jeremiah The homosexual agenda has also co- make [those who oppose homosexual out an end game beyond that which is 5:21: “Hear now this, O foolish people, opted the civil rights struggles of blacks marriage] look bad. clearly visible. From my reading of the and without understanding, who have for their own extremist anti-family Their agenda further calls for homo- homosexual manifesto and the Redeem- eyes, and see not, who have ears, and agenda. sexuals to be portrayed favor- ing of the Rainbow, I have reached the hear not.” In 1987 Guide Magazine, published ably in films and television conclusion that the homosexual agenda I make this point because there are “the blueprint for especially daytime is 100 percent about homosexual men. those who A) confuse the idea that Jesus the now global ho- Mychal television vis-a`-vis It is not about lesbians and the transgen- is love, with condoning perversion and mosexual propa- soap operas, ad nau- dered as such, and it most certainly has debauchery; and B) those who foolishly ganda campaign Massie seum. nothing to do with concern for blacks, believe accepting pernicious evil will to replace mar- (c) 2015, Mychal Massie But I argue that i.e., civil rights. appease it. riage-based soci- all of this is fore- It is much more sinister than that. I ety with a culture of sexual anarchy.” play for what their true end goal is. I be- believe the homosexual agenda’s secre- ANYONE ONE who believes ho- (The Overhauling of Straight America; lieve the evidence and research shows tive end game is a country of homosexu- mosexuals do not have an end game that Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill; ppg 1 pg that the lesbians and transgenders are als, not lesbians, and not the transgen- has yet to be accomplished “have eyes 208; Redeeming the Rainbow) It is the the useful idiots pursuant to the true ho- dered. I believe they are not unlike the and see not,” and “have ears and hear bible of homosexual propagandists. In it mosexual agenda. I further believe that mythical “purebred” vampires of cellu- not.” Homosexuals are not after equal- the goals and tactics of homosexuals are their use of the civil rights struggles of loid fame, and who look down upon all ity; they, not unlike Muslims, are after laid bare. blacks was nothing more than an ends who are not singularly homosexual. conquest and just like all terrorists, they to a means. have carefully conceived a plan that AMONGST OTHER things re- My contention is that the true ho- YOU DON’T have to take my word they’ve been carrying out by any means vealed in this article, homosexuals are mosexual agenda is a nation of male for it. Read their manifesto, the book, available. But unlike Muslim terrorists directed to: 1) talk about homosexuals sodomites. If I am right, it is one of the and the articles I referenced above in to- they are not patient and that may well and homosexuality as loudly and as of- greatest insipid and draconian acts of tality and see for yourself. be their downfall, but I get ahead of my- self. July 8, 2015 The recent Supreme Court ruling HILLARY CLINTON: dictated that regardless of one’s faith or personal convictions, we must now accept homosexuality. But therein is the bastardization of the truth. The ho- Hillary and her roped media herd mosexual agenda is not about just forc- illary Clinton’s campaign O’Donnell explained “the rope made it of the unknown soldier and cursed. ing America to embrace homosexual- again signaled its contempt easier for Clinton to be seen by voters CNN reporter Jim Acosta was angry ity; it is much more insidious than that for the press during a July and her supporters.” about the press’s prerogatives. “It’s re- and your federal government not only 4 paradeH in New Hampshire. Aides But on ABC, George Stephanopou- ally no surprise really, that the press knows this, they are complicit in this brought out ropes to cordon off the me- los was disingenuous — again. He sug- tried their best to get a question to him Erebusic agenda. dia. It was the perfect metaphor for a gested “right now I think the Clinton today,” he argued, and “I think it should The following is from the [Homo- “news” media so cowered by their can- campaign sees the press, in some ways, also be noted that this press aide, and sexual] (I refuse to use the appellation didate that they would allow such a hu- as their major opponent.” Stepha- what he said to us, was really inexcus- “gay”) Manifesto: “Women, you cry for miliating action. nopoulos is not a major opponent. He’s able.” He concluded, “To have an event freedom. You say you are no longer sat- The images lit up Twitter on the holi- a major donor to the Clinton and to expect the media not to ask you isfied with men; they make you unhap- day, but their reaction — or lack thereof Foundation. questions is sort of unrealistic.” py. We, connoisseurs of the masculine — tells you all you need to know about Unless you’re Hillary Clinton. face, the masculine physique, shall take their journalistic pride. Brent Now the Clinton campaign an- your men from you then. We will amuse nounced their candidate will consent to them; we will instruct them; we will THE CLINTON campaign treated Bozell an interview with CNN correspondent embrace them when they weep. Wom- this as a joke. Spokesman Nick Mer- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Brianna Keilar. Another image from en, you say you wish to live with each rill issued a statement: “While the GOP Twitter quickly made waves. Keilar and other instead of with men. Then go and may want to spin a good yarn on this, Since she entered the national lime- a bunch of other “objective” reporters be with each other. We shall give your let’s not get tied up in knots.” light in 1992, Hillary has enjoyed the trailing the Clinton campaign were pic- men pleasures they have never known Was he adding insult to injury? New sort of fawning and extremely defer- tured partying at a wedding for Clinton because we are foremost men too, and York Times reporter Maggie Haberman ential treatment any politician would aide Adam Parkhomenko and his new only one man knows how to truly please was a notable complainer on Twitter, sell his mother to achieve. So why her bride Kirby Hoag, a former staffer of another man; only one man can under- but the rope trick was buried in para- hostility to the press? Either Hillary has the Ready for Hillary PAC. stand the depth and feeling, the mind graph 10 of her story on Hillary’s cam- an extreme sense of entitlement, a deep There’s not even a hint of impropri- and body of another man. paign stop. The Washington Post bur- paranoia, or both. She is Marie Antoi- ety, according to the press. Journalists It further reads: “All laws banning ied one mention in print. USA Today nette. Saying she treats the press as en- are allergic to wearing flag pins and re- homosexual activity will be revoked... offered nothing. PBS had nothing. NPR tirely optional and mostly undesirable fuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance be- We will unmask the powerful homo- had one sentence from Cokie Roberts. is putting it mildly. She treats them like cause they prize their independence. So sexuals who masquerade as heterosexu- The AP had one throwaway line that dirt. why would they compromise their in- als... There will be no compromises. We the candidate was “separated by a long dependence this way? They might think are not middle-class weaklings. Highly rope from the pack of journalists that THREE SUMMERS ago, cam- celebrating with Clinton aides will give intelligent, we are the natural aristocrats followed.” paign reporters ran after them greater access — and if so, it ap- of the human race, and steely-minded Networks that noticed this insult in Poland screaming, “What about your pears that Keilar’s gambit to attend this aristocrats never settle for less. Those thought the “optics” were bad, but gaffes?” and “Do you feel your gaffes wedding was successful. who oppose us will be exiled. We shall they still led with their liberal empa- overshadowed your foreign trip?” What raise up private armies, as Mishima thy. Chuck Todd said he was “sympa- had gone so terribly wrong? WHEN WILL the media relocate, did, to defeat you. We shall conquer the thetic” to her concerns about what he An aide snapped at the press to if not their independence, at least their world because warriors inspired by and called the “media horde.” NBC’s Kelly “show some respect” at Poland’s tomb self-respect? July 15, 2015 21 SECURITY THREATS: July 3, 2015 Vigilance is patriotic: Take action and speak up y fellow Americans: If you button mode. Compounding this collec- see something, say some- tive apathy is political correctness run thing — even if it means amok. It’s the ever-present handmaiden CAIRM will threaten to sue you. of terrorism: reluctance to risk offending, Multiple federal agencies and the De- unwilling- ness to stick out one’s partment of Defense are on high alert for neck, and feckless aver- a possible Islamic sion of the eyes in terrorist attack on Michelle the face of existen- U.S. soil this In- tial threats. dependence Day Malkin The Council on weekend. They’ve (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate American-Islamic increased security Relations, which at military bases and sent bulletins to law was designated by the Justice Depart- enforcement officials across the country. ment as an unindicted terror co-conspir- ator in 2007 in the federal prosecution of THE HEIGHTENED stance comes the Holy Land Foundation and others for in the wake of a bloodthirsty ISIS call to providing support to Hamas, has glee- arms for Ramadan; multiple jihad out- fully exploited this cultural weakness breaks in Kuwait, France and Tunisia; — filing intimidation and obstructionist and the arrest of at least 30 terror plotters lawsuits left and right against those who in our country radicalized by ISIS over have dared to look out and speak up. the past year. CAIR subjected a private citizen, Zaba “Those who seek to harm this nation Davis, to harassing and invasive subpoe- and our friends take no holiday,” De- nas over her opposition to a planned con- YOU’LL RECALL that it was CAIR lawsuits, CAIR quietly dropped its com- fense Secretary Ashton Carter warned struction project by the Muslim Commu- that advised six publicity-seeking imams plaint. But their incessant cries of “Is- at a Pentagon press briefing Wednesday nity Association and Michigan Islamic who filed a federal discrimination law- lamophobia” remain a potent deterrent with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Academy. A federal judge called CAIR’s suit against U.S. Airways and the Met- to alert whistleblowers and witnesses Dempsey. anti-free speech witch-hunt “chilling.” ropolitan Airports Commission in Min- who risk the manufactured wrath of jihad “We continue to encourage all Ameri- The group has refused to pay sanctions neapolis-St. Paul several years ago. The apologists, funders, enablers and front cans to attend public events and celebrate ordered by the court. Muslim clerics were removed from their groups. this country during this summer season, In Cleveland, the organization has flight and questioned for several hours The litigious social justice activists but always remain vigilant,” DHS Secre- targeted a police officer for his personal after their suspicious behavior alarmed have transformed common-sense vigi- Hillary and her roped media herd tary Jeh Johnson implored. views about sharia and jihad posted on both passengers and crewmembers. lance into a prosecutable crime of para- “We all have to be vigilant,” former his private Twitter account. CAIR and the instigating imams targeted noia or prejudice. CAIR and its ilk have NYPD Detective Sgt. Wally Zeins urged. In Washington, CAIR has waged a “John Does” — innocent bystanders who succeeded in turning a large portion of “Remain vigilant,” House Committee three-year court battle to prevent Im- alerted the authorities about their security America into security eunuchs who pay on Homeland Security Chairman Mi- migration and Customs Enforcement concerns. lip-service courage in times of crisis, yet chael McCaul cautioned. agents from pursuing basic investigative After a national backlash and passage recoil from the bold, unapologetic acts of Unfortunately, too much of the nation questions about border-crossers’ ties to of a congressional amendment protect- self-protection that make such heroism remains in permanent post-9/11 snooze- jihadist “martyrs” and radical mosques. ing heroic John Does from frivolous p.c. possible in the first place. Let’s not let them win. This weekend, remember the passen- gers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let them- selves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight. Remember the passengers and crew- members who tackled al Qaeda shoe- bomber Richard Reid on American Air- lines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean. Remember Brian Morgenstern, the teenage Circuit City worker who fear- lessly contacted authorities when suspi- cious Middle Easterners brought in tapes of themselves shooting off guns and shouting “Allahu Akbar.” The men were convicted of plotting to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix. And as you party, parade and celebrate on this high-alert holiday weekend, re- member the words of one of the brilliant men who secured America’s indepen- dence, Patrick Henry: “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigi- lant, the active, the brave.”

VIGILANCE IS patriotic. Grievance grifters be damned. 22 Conservative Chronicle POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: July 3, 2015 Micro-aggressions: So much for the free-speech left o look at virtually anything tive folks who don’t see the irony — If we were to say to Justice Clar- lege-age marshmallows before reading produced by Hollywood is to “Why do you have to be so loud?” or ence Thomas, “You are so articulate” fusty old classic by the likes of Shake- register confirmation that the an Asian or Latino person, “Why are we would be signaling that we believe speare or Plato. Those troublesome au- libertineT left cherishes clogging our you so quiet?” you are really demand- “people of color are generally not as thors might provoke memories of past popular culture with vulgarities. The ing they assimilate to the dominant intelligent as Whites,” not that Justice trauma on subjects like rape or death. messaging in movies, television and culture. is so ar- But then one feminist from the collec- particularly music is punctuated delib- “Where are ticulate. tive insisted the phrase “trigger warn- erately and unnecessarily with all man- you from?” or There are also ing” is inappropriate since it could ner of language designed to offend. “Where were you Brent “environmental evoke “violent weaponry imagery.” So But when it comes to perfectly de- born?” signifies Bozell macroaggres- there you have it: They’re now warn- cent speech — spoken innocently with you believe that sions” on the Wis- ing about warnings. (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate no bad intention — those same liber- person to be a for- consin list, such This whole regime of speech-po- als need smelling salts. Welcome to the eigner and that’s as too many white licing is a transparent attempt to keep wacky world of “micro-aggressions,” insensitive. characters on TV shows, or a “college white racial guilt churning at warp where conversation becomes a mine- or university with buildings that are all speed. This is indoctrination, not edu- field of political correctness. ASKING AN Asian person to help named after White heterosexual upper- cation. with a math or science problem means class males.” IT’S ALL THE rage on campuses. you believe Asians to be intelligent The other crazy phrase of the cam- WHY, OH, WHY do parents send Both the University of California and and good in math and science, and pus censors is “trigger warnings,” their children to these colleges taught the University of Wisconsin at Stevens that’s wrong, too. meaning you have to warn these col- by these nutty professors? Point have circulated lists of “micro- aggressions” to faculty for allegedly July 2, 2015 instructional purposes. The list of un- LIBERTY: acceptable words and phrases just gets longer and longer. And funnier. To be sure, there are a couple of phrases we can agree are unacceptable. Future security — right and duty “I jewed him down” is one. “You are uly 4th is one of my favorite to be willing to fight for our freedom. People to alter or to abolish it, and to a credit to your race” is another. As to celebrations. It’s not just the This was the first time this was clearly institute new Government, laying its the rest, you decide. parades, flag waving, barbecue laid out; until then the belief was that foundation on such principles and or- In California, it included statements andJ fireworks — though these help — we could negotiate with Britain. We ganizing its powers in such form, as to like “America is the land of opportu- it’s the meaning behind the day. The could go along and get along. them shall seem most likely to effect nity” and “everyone in this society can understanding that we could be living No more. Henry lay down the their Safety and Happiness.” succeed, if they work hard enough.” in a different country, under British gauntlet and clearly presented his view The second part, less often refer- We bet you didn’t know these are state- rule — but that our forefathers had the of what we were facing. enced, lays out the reasoning for why ments of aggression. But what if we strength and courage to declare them- Our choice was liberty or death. we were seeking independence, not- flipped that phrase? What if we were selves free and independent people Our founders chose to take the chal- ing that government should not change to state that “America is the land of op- and to fight for our freedom. lenge and declared our Independence lightly. Instead only when “a long train pression for the working man?” That from Britain on July 4, 1776. of abuses and usurpations, pursuing wouldn’t be aggression, that would be WE DECLARED our indepen- invariably the same Object evinces something these professors teach. dence from Great Britain 239 years Jackie a design to reduce them under abso- In Wisconsin, there are similar ago this week. It was a declaration lute Despotism.” At that point it was warning phrases — “I believe the most long in coming, brought about by the Gingrich no longer a choice to change but “it is qualified person should get the job” overreaching rule of King George III Cushman their right, it is their duty, to throw off and “everyone can succeed in this so- and Britain’s insistence on taxation (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate such Government, and to provide new ciety if they work hard enough” — but without representation, and sparked Guards for their future security.” This there’s so much more. in part by the quartering of troops in Our Declaration of Independence declaration was followed by a long Do you believe that “America is our own homes. We were required to is a three-part document: the first a list of grievances committed by King a melting pot?” Do you subscribe to give — both in taxes and hospitality declaration of freedom, including our George III. the beliefs that “When I look at you, I without any say — without a vote or a understanding of the natural order of Our founders concluded the docu- don’t see race,” and “there is only one voice. The taxation began in the 1760s, authority and power; the second a long ment with the pledge to each other, and race, the human race?” the Boston Massacre occurred in 1770, list of grievances, reinforcing the be- an invocation of God. Knowing that If so, how very rude of you. Ap- the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and the lief that there was no choice but to de- their declaration would be seen as an parently, these statements are not ac- Battles of Lexington and Concord in clare our independence as a free coun- act of treason by the king, the signers knowledging a common humanity. April of 1775. try; the third an acknowledgment of also knew that, if they were not suc- You are denying a “person of color’s It did not happen overnight, but over risk and the oath of the signers to one cessful, they would risk losing their racial/ethnic experiences.” If you be- decades of subjugation and British ar- another. lives. lieve “there is only one race, the hu- rogance. They could simply take what This document declared us free, man race,” you are “denying the in- they needed — we were only subjects THE FIRST section is the one that outlined the foundational understand- dividual as a racial, cultural being.” —with no voice or vote. is most often quoted: “We hold these ing of our rights, from whom they If you are a “store owner following a For years we went along — attempt- truths to be self-evident, that all men came, and our responsibilities to main- customer of color around a store,” pre- ing to be heard, attempting to have a are created equal, that they are endowed tain them. sumably because you believe he might say in the rules and regulations that by their Creator with certain unalien- be shoplifting, you believe he is “go- provided the framework for our lives. able Rights, that among these are Life, JUST AS OUR founding fathers ing to steal,” and he is “dangerous.” Patrick Henry’s call to action, “Give Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. fought for our freedom more than 200 And that is wrong. me liberty or give me death,” was the — That to secure these rights, Govern- years ago, so must we continue to fight Now what if the suspicious person first strong public statement that, if we ments are instituted among Men, deriv- to ensure that our government remains you’re following is white? That’s OK. were to be free, if we were to have lib- ing their just powers from the consent ours and our freedoms remain intact. There’s more. If you’ve ever asked a erty, then we would have to fight Brit- of the governed, — That whenever any It is not only our right, but it is also Black person — “Black” and “White” ain. Henry understood that the answer Form of Government becomes destruc- our duty to ensure our country’s future are capitalized by these racially sensi- was not to wait and see, that we had tive of these ends, it is the Right of the security. July 15, 2015 23 POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: July 6, 2015 Micro-aggressions: So much for the free-speech left My own speech code: The First Amendment ow it is The Hon. Barack thors from Mark Twain to Joseph Con- was in grammar school after I’d made an their fellow citizens’ freedom of speech, Obama who has run afoul of rad, from William Faulkner to Flannery offhand comment about how it was time that kind of censorship violates the very the Language Police after us- O’Connor, all have used the word with- to let the “colored” kids go to school spirit of the ever-adaptable English lan- ingN the forbidden word in an interview out malice aforethought or afterward, with us, not thinking much about it. guage. Words are not simple things, and the other day, even if only to warn against and even shading its meaning depending Traitor to my race? Whatever race this simply banning or allowing them with its use. “It’s not just a matter of it not be- on what their artistic conscience — not kid belonged to, I didn’t want to belong no consideration for the context in which ing polite to say n----- in public,” the the Language Police — demanded. to it. But the haters have their they’re uttered ignores the wonderful president opined. Naturally he drew fire Some of us can own politically variety of connotations in the capacious from our instant censors, who demanded remember back correct speech English language — connotations good, that he find a way around the unspeak- when n----- was Paul code, and the same bad and otherwise. able word if he couldn’t drop it entirely. just a common, Greenberg way to enforce it: Me, I’ve got a copy of the only speech and I mean com- by trying to bully code I’ll ever need hanging on the wall TO QUOTE Marc Morial, president mon, synonym (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services others. of my office at home. It’s beautifully of the National Urban League, “I wish for black people That was about embroidered and simply framed, a gift he had chosen to say, quote, the ‘N’ word and nothing more, though our folks tried the first time I realized that there was a from a fellow editorial writer. It consists as opposed to saying the word, because I to teach us better. At the same time, we simple way to handle bullies: Just stand of only 45 words, and is called the First have been long on record that coarse lan- could recognize when the word was be- up to them. And like this kid, they’d Amendment to the Constitution of the guage used in any context in the public ing used as just a hateful epithet, too. As shrink away. United States: square is not the best way to talk about when speaking out against racial segre- Congress shall make no law respect- these types of issues.” How discreet. gation and being called a “n------lover” NOW IT’S anybody who’d dare say ing an establishment of religion, or Who says the Victorian Age is past? for it, or maybe A Traitor to Your Race. the word n----- who’s fair game for bul- prohibiting the free exercise thereof; Why not use the word or not use The first time another boy called me lies of a separate but equally repressive or abridging the freedom of speech, or it — instead of dancing around it? Au- that I could only look at him blankly. It persuasion. Quite aside from violating of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of griev- SUPREME COURT: July 6, 2015 ances. Future security — right and duty All the rest is commentary, and a wealth of it — judicial interpretations, legislative enactments, heated debates Clarence Thomas is right — has sprung from those 45 words over Who knew that inherent rights are a That aside, the left’s freakout is re- within me no man can degrade. I am the years, and more doubtless will in the political bombshell? markable, since what Thomas wrote not the one that is being degraded on future. But those definitive words should Justice Clarence Thomas set off a represents American Founding 101. account of this treatment, but those remain as they were written — sacred controversy in his dissent in the Su- Where did Thomas get this outlandish who are inflicting it upon me.” (Quick and inviolate — and not be replaced by preme Court’s gay-marriage decision notion of rights and dignity that exist — someone ask George Takei if Fred- some simplicity like: Thou shalt not say by reciting core American beliefs about prior to government? erick Douglass was truly black.) n-----. the innate dignity and rights of all per- Maybe Thomas Jefferson? “We do The reaction to the Thomas dissent That simplistic prohibition isn’t just sons, whatever their circumstances or not claim these,” he wrote of our natu- is, in part, about the historical and phil- an assault on freedom of speech; it’s ar- the injustices done to them. He wrote ral rights, “under the charters of kings osophical illiteracy of his critics. But rogance compounded by ignorance. The that even people held in slavery, even or legislators, but under the King of they also have a profoundly different two do have a way of going together. As people interned during World War II, kings.” Or John Adams? He wrote of worldview. The Founders believed we they did in the current brouhaha over the retained their dignity because it is im- rights “antecedent to all earthly gov- have innate rights that must be pro- president’s use of the verboten word. possible to erase what is woven into our ernment,” “that cannot be tected from government. As Thomas Besides, don’t these people realize that very nature. writes, “Our Constitution — like the banning a word only gives it more pow- Declaration of Independence before er? WHAT ONE would think is a stir- Rich it — was predicated on a simple truth: This is scarcely the first time Barack ring statement about our irreducible hu- Lowry One’s liberty, not to mention one’s Obama has spoken the unspeakable man quality occasioned outrage among dignity, was something to be shielded word. He used it again and again in his (c) 2015, King Features Syndicate the justice’s critics. Slate considered from — not provided by — the State.” memoir, Dreams from My Father. But the passage “brutal.” MSNBC found it repealed or restrained by human laws,” This notion is anathema to a left that his use of it now sent the press into all “jaw dropping.” Salon called it “vile.” “derived from the great Legislator of identifies the state with progress, and kinds of conniptions, evasions and a But none could top the gay actor and the universe.” that defines freedom much more loose- general tizzy. To quote or not to quote activist George Takei — famous as Sulu ly (not to say nonsensically) as includ- the president was the question, and if in Star Trek — who fumed that Thomas ONE WONDERS if anyone dis- ing what government gives us, in an quoted, how fully? had forfeited his status as a black man. turbed by the Thomas dissent glanced ever-expanding palette of benefits. and MSNBC bleeped the Seriously. In a TV interview, Takei at the Declaration of Independence Thomas is the one firmly grounded word in their news reports. CNN did called Thomas “a clown in blackface.” over the July Fourth weekend. It says, in the best of the American tradition, the same, but only at first, and then de- Amid a backlash over this insult, he as Thomas notes, all men “are en- even if his clueless attackers don’t get cided it could be aired — as if we were doubled down: “I feel Justice Thomas dowed by their Creator with certain it. Some of them acted as if he is some- all adults who could be trusted to make has abdicated and abandoned his Af- unalienable Rights.” In case there’s how ignorant of the nature of slavery, up our own minds. rican-American heritage by claiming any misunderstanding, the good folks even though his forebears were slaves printed the word while used it slavery did not strip dignity from human at Merriam-Webster define unalienable and he grew up in abject poverty in but only with dashes. Other news agen- beings.” Takei the would-be racial arbi- as “impossible to take away or give the Jim Crow South. Justice Thomas cies couldn’t make up their minds and ter eventually apologized, although he up.” doesn’t just understand more about the changed their coverage of the president still thinks Thomas is “deeply wrong.” This is a truth that abolitionists reality of racial discrimination than his and the word as the day wore on. That Takei’s first instinct was to deny wielded against the institution of slav- critics, but more about America and its the blackness of Clarence Thomas tells ery. The foremost of them, Frederick ideals. WELCOME TO America, circa us much about the rancid racial essen- Douglass, held it strongly. He declared 2015: confused and confusing. While all tialism of the left, which can’t get its once after suffering a rank act of dis- THEY SHOULD keep reading his the time the words of the First Amend- head around minorities stepping out of crimination: “They cannot degrade opinions. Maybe they will learn some- ment are right there. If we would only ideological line. Frederick Douglass. The soul that is thing. see them. 24 Conservative Chronicle CHRISTIANS: July 7, 2015 Evangelicals should return to core beliefs n the matter of the “culture wars,” other kingdom, and billions of lives have evangelical Christians are asking, been transformed in the centuries that fol- “what do we do now?” The ques- lowed. Those transformed lives have, in tionI is being raised in the aftermath of the many cases, transformed cultures. Supreme Court’s decision striking down state laws reserving marriage for hetero- A RECENT letter to the editor posted sexual couples. on TwinCities.com got it right: “If the Supreme Court, in its June 26 THE “CULTURE WARS,” while ruling to redefine the meaning of - mar well-intentioned, were a mistake from riage, has made things less comfortable the beginning. Evangelical Christians, for be- lievers, we must ask whose Leader said, ourselves why we “Christians, as aliens and strangers in there is nothing to lose and everything to “My Kingdom is Cal were so comfort- this world, should not be surprised when gain.” — Jack Wheeler, Hudson, Wis.” not of this world,” able to begin with. a world separated from God lives out its thought they could Thomas “The Apostle faith. It is, however, our duty to act in LEST SOMEONE misinterpret what organize people of (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services Peter pleaded with unity with God by sacrificing our time Mr. Wheeler and I are saying, this isn’t like mind and like the church, ‘Be- and risking friendships, academic perfor- about surrender; it is about enlisting in faith and create a voting bloc to elect peo- loved, I urge you as aliens and strangers mance and professional standing — all a different “army,” using more power- ple who would impose something resem- to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage idols in this world — to display the un- ful nonpolitical weapons. Google “Be- bling that other kingdom on people who war against the soul.’ Those who have rivaled confidence and hope we have in atitudes” and see what I mean. Practice do not see themselves as members of resisted the acceptance of sin have done Christ. them and observe the impact they have that kingdom. Given the number of poli- well in living out Peter’s admonition, but “We cannot change a fallen world, on the culture. ticians who seem to have difficulty im- acceptance of our standing as outsiders but we can be God’s instrument in sav- posing a moral code of any sort on them- remains a point of struggle. ing people from it. Eternally speaking, selves, such a strategy was doomed from the start. Why didn’t they learn from pre- BLACK AMERICANS: July 8, 2015 vious “moral improvement” movements that if one wants to change culture, one must first change individuals? For evan- gelical Christians that can only be done by the transformation of the heart, soul Fiddling away the future and mind, something that is beyond the et’s list major problems affect- poverty, poorest education, highest crime Bedford Forrest and his wife and remove power of secular — or even religious — ing black Americans. Topping and greatest family instability in cities them from a city park. One wonders politicians. the list is the breakdown in the such as: Detroit, St. Louis, Oakland, Ca- whether he thinks marshaling resources Conservative Christians wanted to be blackL family, where only a third of black lif., Memphis, Tenn., Birmingham, Ala., to do that is more important than dealing liked and respected by the world. Repub- children are raised in two-parent house- Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadel- with the city’s 145 murders, 320 rapes, lican politicians saw them as a reliable holds. Actually, the term “breakdown” phia and Buffalo, N.Y. The most com- 6,900 aggravated assault calls, and 3,000 voting bloc and were happy to have them is incorrect. Families do not form in the mon characteristic of these predominant- robberies. All of the Memphis black ho- in the party, but party leaders and elected first place. Nationally, there is a black il- ly black cities is that, for decades, all of micide victims were murdered by other officials did little to advance their agen- legitimacy rate of 72 percent. In some ur- them have been run by Democratic and blacks. da. Leaders gave them lip service, say- ban areas, the percentage is much greater. presumably liberal administra- What about a ban on the use of the ing what Christians wanted to hear and Blacks constitute more than 50 percent tions. What’s more is that in “racist” term “thug” in reference to black in some cases even quoted a Bible verse, of murder victims, where roughly 7,000 criminals looting stores? How about a but in reality most party leaders were blacks are murdered each year. Ninety- Walter ban on “stop and frisk” and proactive embarrassed, even offended, by people five percent of the time, the perpetrator is policing as a measure to increase pub- many regarded as throwbacks, if not to another black. If a black youngster does Williams lic safety in high-crime neighborhoods? the Dark Ages, then to the rural South. graduate from high school, it is highly (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate What about more teaching, as New York Fundraisers and TV evangelists were likely that he can read, write and com- City Mayor Bill de Blasio has done, that happy to promote this “kingdom of the pute no better than a white seventh- or most of these cities, blacks have been what blacks need to fear most are white world” mentality because it brought eighth-grader. These are the major prob- mayors, chiefs of police, school superin- policemen? them the illusion of influence, money lems that face black Americans. tendents and principals and have domi- In the wake of the Charleston mur- and a place at the table. Few minds were nated city councils. Political power has ders, some people promote the false nar- changed, and culture became more de- LET’S LOOK at some of the strat- not lived up to its billing. rative that it’s white racists who are the formed than reformed. The country grows egy since the beginning of the civil rights interracial murderers. That’s nonsense. increasingly secular in part because con- movement. The black power movement SO WHAT should black politicians FBI crime victimization surveys show servative evangelicals gave the impres- of the ‘60s and ‘70s held that black un- and activists now be focused on to ad- that blacks commit 80 percent of all in- sion that being born again means instant derrepresentation in the political arena dress some of the problems confronting terracial violent crime. adoption into the Republican Party. was a major problem. It was argued that black people? Let’s look at some of the As a longtime fan of Broadway mu- the election of more black officials as fiddling by some black politicians, white THE BOTTOM line is that even if sicals and plays, I believe that the origi- congressmen, mayors and city council liberals and some intimidated white con- white people were to become angels nal cast is always better than the touring members would mean economic power, servatives. How about banning the Con- tomorrow, it would do nothing for the company. Evangelicals should return to better neighborhoods and better schools. federate flag from public places because problems plaguing a large segment of the the “original cast,” whose members in- Forty-three years ago, there were rough- it is alleged to be a symbol of slavery? black community. Illegitimacy, family clude Jesus of Nazareth, Matthew, Mark, ly 1,500 black elected officials nation- What would that do for black problems? breakdown, crime and fraudulent educa- Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James and Tim- wide. According to the Joint Center for By the way, one could make the case for tion are devastating problems, but they othy. Consider their lives and tactics as Political and Economic Studies, by 2011 also banning the American flag. Slave are not civil rights problems. There is they faced a hostile political and religious there were roughly 10,500 black elected ships sailed under the American flag. little or nothing that government or white environment that brought persecution, officials, including a black president. But What about Memphis Mayor A C people can do to solve these problems. even death. These men — and their fol- what were the fruits? Wharton’s proposal to “help” his black The solution lies with black people. lowers — had little interest in an earthly By most any measure, the problems constituents? He has proposed to dig up kingdom. Instead, they focused on that are worse. There is the greatest black the bodies of Confederate Gen. Nathan July 15, 2015 25 EDUCATION: July 7, 2015 Don’t give Obama more power over schools fter spending most of June control when they regained control of giving President Obama both Houses of Congress in 1994 and new authority to negotiate then elected a president in 2000. Unfor- tradeA deals with low-wage countries in tunately, George W. Bush campaigned Asia, Congressional Republicans are on the slogan “Leave No now poised to spend July giving Obama Child Behind” as his new authority signature domes- over education in Phyllis tic agenda item, America’s public and John Boehner, schools. This is Schlafly then chairman of the a big disappoint- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate House Education ment for those of Committee, pro- us who worked hard to elect a Repub- duced a bill that rebranded the old ESEA lican Congress last November. We ex- under the new title “No Child Left Be- pected the new Congress to take power hind.” back from the president, not give him No Child Left Behind (NCLB) prom- more. ised to bring all children (including all demographic minorities measured sepa- FOR THE PAST fifty years, the en- rately) to 100% proficiency by 2014. Of gine of federal control over local schools course that didn’t happen, and nearly has been Title I of the Elementary and everyone now recognizes NCLB as a Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of complete failure. 1965. It was the first in a series of social- With their current historic majority in turn to the Senate this year after he won out of that mindless exercise, as tens of ist laws that President Lyndon Johnson both Houses, there’s a new opportunity less than 50% of the Republican vote thousands have already done. promised would lead to a “Great Soci- for Republicans to dismantle the 50-year against an underfunded tea party chal- One method the schools have used ety” after we won his declared “war on failure of money poured into local pub- lenger. against students whose parents opt them poverty.” lic schools with strings attached. Unfor- The claim that ECAA is somehow a out is to force kids to sit quietly at an Johnson’s Great Society legislation tunately Republicans, once again, are “fix” for NCLB is laughable, and equal- empty desk — forbidden to read, write, was speedily enacted by a Congress in on the verge of just rebranding the same ly false is the claim that it gets rid of the or draw — while other students take the which Democrats outnumbered Repub- failed programs with new and overly hated Common Core. While it makes test. Parents call this form of punish- Fiddling away the future licans by more than two to one (295-140 optimistic slogans: the “Student Success a great show of disavowing the name ment “sit and stare.” in the House and 68-32 in the Senate). Act” (in the House) and the “Every Child Common Core, Lamar’s bill continues In Oldmans Township, New Jersey, Despite the trillions of dollars spent Achieves Act,” ECAA, (in the Senate). and extends the standards-and-testing nine-year-old Cassidy Thornton, whose since 1965, we’re no closer to achiev- Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), mandate that Common Core was de- parent opted her out of the mandated ing a Great Society; by many measures, has been speaking in front of a sign say- signed to satisfy. PARCC exam, was humiliated to tears America’s education and social welfare ing “Fix No Child Left Behind,” as he by being excluded from the end-of-year are much worse today than when those touts the ECAA bill as a bipartisan “con- THE PROOF that ECAA will in- cupcake and juice-box party with the programs were launched fifty years ago. sensus about how to fix it.” A former directly reinforce federal control is the rest of her class. Cassidy’s mom called Republicans had an opportunity to Secretary of Education in the Bush 41 way it requires states to force testing on it bullying, but the school defended its dismantle the failed regime of federal administration, Lamar almost didn’t re- students whose parents want to opt them decision to reward test-takers because federal rules require 95% of students to be tested. Education has become a critical issue for 2016 presidential candidates. Even Donald Trump, in his speech at Trump Tower announcing his candidacy, made a point of declaring that “Common Core is a disaster. Education has to be local.” But Jeb Bush, whose foundation took millions from Bill Gates and Pearson to promote Common Core, remains un- moved by grassroots opposition. Two years ago, Jeb derided parents con- cerned about Common Core as people who are “comfortable with mediocrity,” an insult that rivals Arne Duncan’s slam at “white suburban moms who all of a sudden [realize that] their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were.” Jeb actually praised the heavy-handed federal role in public education: “Look, I think Secretary Duncan and President Obama deserve credit for putting pres- sure on states, providing carrots and sticks. I think that’s appropriate.”

NO, JEB, IT’S not appropriate. Tell your U.S. Senators and your Member of Congress to vote No on any bill to reauthorize a federal role in public edu- cation. 26 Conservative Chronicle CHRISTIANS: July 6, 2015 Be on guard: Churches may cave to gay pressures hen leaders of City Church and read solid exegetical books such Critical to all of this is thinking stumbling block between a fellow im- in San Francisco (see as Kevin DeYoung’s What Does the through what compassion means. For- age bearer and the God who made us.” “Blindsided” in WORLD, Bible Really Teach about Homosexu- mer lesbian Rosaria Butterfield (see JulyW 11, 2015) recently decided to of- ality? (Crossway, 2015). “Journey of Grace,” WORLD, March BUTTERFIELD NOTED a cri- fer membership to same-sex marriage 23, 2013) emailed me: “The idea that tique from one of her readers who partners, investment banker Liza Hing JUNIOR PASTORS committed to a church cannot be welcoming with- “said my orthodox Christian apologet- says “a lot of people in the church were Scripture have to be bold and coura- out being gay-affirming on ics lacked ‘relevance’ to gay people. totally blindsided.” geous. When the membership issues This was someone that I know well, so Others see such a change as inevi- senior pastor of runs exactly coun- I wrote back and said, ‘Hard is the new table. But that’s not the way it has to one church want- Marvin ter to my experi- relevant.’” As Matt Chandler pointed be, even at churches in cities with ed to perform ence. ... Welcom- out, it’s not cruel when Jesus points large gay populations. Redeemer Pres- same-sex mar- Olasky ing people to sin out sin: “That’s gracious. What would byterian Church Pastor Tim Keller riages and ordain (c) 2015, God’s World Publications — and twisting be cruel is if God went, ‘Do you know has shown how to attract thousands of gay ministers, he the meaning and what? You’re right. That’s what you young New Yorkers while remaining said members were free to disagree purpose of church membership in the desire. Go.’” biblically faithful. but tried to isolate them by refusing process — does not welcome anyone to hold public forums and purging his to Christ. When my gay-affirming Reprinted with permission of WORLD. THE ACTS 29 Network is also at- staff. A younger pastor raised a ruckus friends ask me why I do not support To read more news and views from a tracting many young Christians to the behind closed doors and eventually gay ‘marriage,’ I tell them that Chris- Christian perspective, call 800-951-6397 new churches it plants. Its president, forced an open discussion that led to tians are called to be good neighbors or visit WNG.org. Matt Chandler, criticizes those who the senior pastor’s resignation. and good neighbors who never put a say, “Let’s soften the stances of the Bible in order to win people to Jesus.” BLACK AMERICANS: July 7, 2015 He says, “It’s not just those issues that are offensive; it’s Jesus Himself. What goes out the window next is the aton- ing work of Jesus Christ.” Chandler adds, “To back away from A legacy of cliches the teachings of Scripture around is- iscussions of racial problems What was special about America was As of 1960, 22 percent of black chil- sues that our culture finds offensive is almost invariably bring out not that it had slavery, which existed all dren were raised with only one parent, to wave the white flag on human flour- the cliche of “a legacy of over the world, but that Americans were usually the mother. Thirty years later, ishing. It is to say, ‘Our Creator God slavery.”D But anyone who is being se- among the very few peoples who began two-thirds of black children were being does not know what is best for His cre- rious, as distinguished from being po- to question the morality of holding hu- raised without a father present. ation. Creation knows what’s best, not litical, would surely want to know if man beings in bondage. That was not What about ghetto riots, crimes in the Creator.’ That’s madness.” whatever he is talking about — whether yet a majority view among Americans general and murder in particular? What Nevertheless, pressures on pas- fatherless children, crime or whatever in the 18th century, but it was not even about low levels of labor force partici- tors are likely to become even greater. — is in fact a legacy of slavery or of a serious minority view in non-Western pation and high levels of welfare de- How can church members — without some of the many other things that have societies at that time. pendency? None of those things was as roasting their pastors for Sunday din- been done in the century and a half since Then how did slavery end? We know bad in the first 100 years after slavery as ner — take precautions against being slavery ended. how it ended in the United States — at they became in the wake of the policies blindsided? Another cliche that has come into a cost of one life lost in the Civil War and notions of the 1960s. Some basics: Take note of psycho- vogue is that slavery is “America’s for every six slaves freed. But that is not To many on the left, the 1960s were logese-filled sermons that speak only original sin.” The great Supreme Court how it ended elsewhere. the glory days of their movements, and of God’s love and leave out God’s ho- justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that for some the days of their youth as well. liness. Be sensitive to family pressures a good catch phrase could stop thinking They have a heavy emotional invest- affecting the judgment of pastors. Be for fifty years. Catch phrases about slav- Thomas ment and ego investment in the ideas, wary when the words of trendy theolo- ery have stopped people from thinking, Sowell aspirations and policies of the 1960s. gians show up in church bulletins. even longer than that. (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate It might never occur to many of them Administratively, church mem- to check their beliefs against some hard bers should be concerned if the pastor TODAY THE moral horror of slav- What happened in the rest of the facts about what actually happened af- handpicks elders and deacons who are ery is so widely condemned that it is world was that all of Western civiliza- ter their ideas and policies were put into economically dependent on staying in hard to realize that there were thousands tion eventually turned against slavery in effect. It certainly would not be pleas- his good graces. Members should cri- of years when slavery was practiced the 19th century. This meant the end of ant to admit, even to yourself, that after tique opaque financial reporting and around the world by people of virtually slavery in European empires around the promising progress toward “social jus- watch for bylaw changes that central- every race. Even the leading moral and world, usually over the bitter opposition tice,” what you actually delivered was a ize power. It’s a bad sign if those who religious thinkers in different societies of non-Western peoples. But the West retrogression toward barbarism. leave are signing nondisclosure agree- accepted slavery as just a fact of life. happened to be militarily dominant at The principal victims of these retro- ments. No one wanted to be a slave. But the time. gressions are the decent, law-abiding When a church sings the hymn “For their rejection of slavery as a fate for members of black communities across All the Saints,” with its hope that “thy themselves in no way meant that they TURNING BACK to the “legacy the country who are prey to hoodlums soldiers, faithful, true, and bold, fight were unwilling to enslave others. It was of slavery” as an explanation of social and criminals. as the saints who nobly fought of old,” just not an issue — until the 18th cen- problems in black American commu- but avoids discussing current front-line tury, and then it became an issue only in nities today, anyone who was serious BACK IN THE 19th century Fred- issues, that’s also trouble. Jim Johns, Western civilization. about the truth — as distinguished from erick Douglass saw the dangers from owner of a San Francisco asset man- Neither Africans, Asians, Polyne- talking points — would want to check well-meaning whites. He said: “Ev- agement firm, recalls at City Church sians nor the indigenous peoples of out the facts. erybody has asked the question, ‘What “no discussion of gays as members.” the Western Hemisphere saw anything Were children raised with only one shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had Recognizing how church leaders wrong with slavery, even after small parent as common at any time during but one answer from the beginning. Do may be pressured to make ungodly ac- segments of British and American soci- the first 100 years after slavery as in the nothing with us! Your doing with us has commodations to the gay lobby, church eties began to condemn slavery as mor- first 30 years after the great expansion already played the mischief with us.” groups should discuss ways to respond ally wrong in the 18th century. of the welfare state in the 1960s? Amen. July 15, 2015 27 LEFT AND RIGHT: July 7, 2015 Difference between Left and Right: Part V Clarity is conservatives’ best friend. peting power. As to the all-important If most Americans were clear about question of how much government is the differences between Left and Right, too much government, I have never en- they would not vote Democrat in nearly countered a person of the Left who had the numbers they do. The Left under- an answer to that question. stands this, which is why most left-wing Conservatives believe the individual rhetoric is dismissive of conservatives’ is the essential component of a good character — “sexist,” “intolerant,” society, not government. The “bigoted,” “hate- government’s role ful,” “xenopho- in society should bic,” “racist,” Dennis be limited to ab- “Islamophobic,” Prager solute necessities “homophobic” — such as national rather than conser- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate defense and to vatives’ positions. serving as the re- By focusing on conservatives as people source of last resort for citizens who and characterizing them as bad, the Left cannot be helped by other citizens, pri- successfully deflects attention from its vate organizations or charities that do- positions. nate money and time. Conservatives understand that as THIS BRINGS me to explaining governments grow in size and power, 3. Countries will either shrink the logical. The more the state hands out Left-Right Difference No. Five: How the following will inevitably — yes, in- size of their government, or they will money — to state employees as salaries the Left and Right regard the role of the evitably — happen: eventually collapse economically. Ev- and pensions; to government agencies state (or government). 1. There will be ever-increasing ery welfare state is a Ponzi scheme, (education, environment, energy, trans- This is such a significant difference amounts of corruption. Power and mon- relying on new payers to pay previous portation and myriad others); and to that it might be the defining difference ey breed corruption. People in govern- payers. Like the Ponzi scheme, when it individual citizens (monthly cash wel- between Left and Right. Without the ment will sell government influence for runs out of new payers, the scheme col- fare grants, rent subsidies, health care, A legacy of cliches belief in an ever-expanding state, there personal gain. This is as true for Ameri- lapses. European countries, all of which unemployment benefits, education, col- is no Left. Without a belief in limited ca as it is for Africa and Latin America, are welfare states, are already experi- lege loans, meals, food stamps, etc.) government, there is no conservatism. where government corruption is the sin- encing this problem to varying degrees. — the more the government employ- Moreover, understanding this difference gle biggest factor holding these nations 4. Taxes are constantly increased in ees and agencies, and the citizens who is essentially all people should have to back from materially progressing. order to pay for ever-expanding govern- receive government aid, will demand. know in order to determine whether 2. Individual liberty (outside of sex- ment. But at a given level of taxation, None of them has ever said, “No more, they are on the Right or the Left. ual behavior and abortion) will decline. the society’s wealth producers will stop thank you. I have enough.” The Left believes the state should Liberty is less important to the Left than working, work less, hire fewer people or Greece’s unpayable debt is only the be the most powerful force in society. to the Right. This is neither an opinion move their businesses out of the state or beginning. Unless big governments get It should be in control of educating all nor a criticism. It is simple logic. The out of the country. smaller, they all eventually will collapse of its children; it should provide all the more control the government has over 5. The big state inevitably produces of their own weight — with terrible con- health care for all of its citizens; and it people’s lives the less liberty people large deficits and ever-increasing — sequences socially, as well as economi- should supervise just about all other ar- have. The bigger the government the and ultimately unsustainable — debt cally. eas of society. There should be no com- smaller the citizen. (national, state and city). This is only 6. The 20th century was the most murderous century in recorded history. About 200 million people, the great majority of them noncombatants, were killed, and more than a billion people were enslaved by totalitarian regimes. And who did all this killing and enslav- ing? In every case, it was a big govern- ment. The bigger the government the greater the opportunities for doing great evil. Evil individuals without power can do only so much harm. But when evil individuals have control of a big gov- ernment, the amount of bad they can do is unlimited. 7. Finally, the moral impact of big government on its citizens is awful. Not only do people stop taking care of others — after all, they know the government will do that — but they stop taking care of themselves, as well. And the more people come to rely on government the more they develop a sense of entitle- ment, which then leads to a nation of ingrates.

OTHER THAN all that, big govern- ment is terrific. See Greece. Or Puerto Rico. Or Detroit. Not to mention the , North Korea or Mao’s China. 28 Conservative Chronicle EUROPE: July 3, 2015 Europe’s very real existential crisis owever the Greek crisis ends, histories, heroes and cultures, while whether with Athens leaving acolytes of the EU and eurozone sound the eurozone, or submitting like editorials in the Financial Times. andH accepting austerity at the dictates Who would fix bayonets for Brussels of its creditors, the European Union ap- and the European Commission? pears headed for an existential crisis. NATO is a shell of what it once was. Greece borrowed and spent beyond It is today a virtual fraternity of free- its means, like New York City in the loaders. With exceptions, like ‘70s, and Detroit, the Poles, Estonians Illinois, and Puer- and Turks, Euro- to Rico today. But Pat pean nations have the crisis of Eu- all slashed their rope is about more Buchanan defense budgets than budget defi- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate to beneath two cits and bad debts. percent of GDP. All the momentum toward One Eu- Angela Merkel is described as the Iron rope — the dream of the generation Chancellor for facing down Greece’s of Jean Monnet that drove Europeans Alexis Tsipras, but she seems more like toward ever-deeper union — seems to Willy Brandt when talking to Vladimir have dissipated. The momentum is now Putin. toward separation and dissolution. A century ago, after Lloyd George and Clemenceau did their map work in THE GREEK crisis exposed one Paris, one could walk from Baghdad to On July 2, the New York Times had for the country to leave the union, with fault line in the union, the desire of the Cairo, turn south, and walk 5,000 miles several stories on the Greek crisis, but immigration a chief complaint.” Mediterranean nations to build welfare to Cape Town, without leaving British several also on Europe’s immigration Another headline on the same page states that their economies could not territory. crisis. read, “Russia Sees an Especially Potent sustain without huge borrowing abroad. Today, Britain and France, the im- Threat in Its Converts to Islam.” The Paying these debts is going to force perial powers of Sykes-Picot, would SOME 8,000 trucks were stranded at story related the fears of a jihadist up- ever-greater austerity on those nations. prefer to have the Americans police the Calais and Dover, the opposite ends of rising within her borders as ethnic Rus- Eventually, their peoples may choose, Middle East. Our allies have terrible the Channel Tunnel, as migrants piled sians convert to militant Islam and join as debtors do, to walk away, rather than memories of European wars that pro- onto the vehicles crossing into England. the 15-20 million Muslims inside Russia pay. duced no comparable gains, and none The threatened drivers could do nothing already, and the two million in Moscow But not only economics imperils the of them, understandably, wants to fight to prevent it. alone. EU. There is the call of tribe and nation again. “Migrants are streaming into Europe Russia and Europe have more in com- that has often before torn the Old Con- They have another concern in com- from North Africa and the turbulent Mid- mon than they realize — the same exis- tinent apart. mon. Their continent is being invaded. dle East,” said the Times, “The European tential threat. The U.K. Independence Party and From the failed states of the sub-Sahara Union has been trying to force countries Another story in the Times, “Europe National Front in France, both of which to the war-torn nations of the Mahgreb to share the burden. But the bloc has so to Fight Islamic Radicals on Social Me- want out of the EU, have millions of and Middle East, the Third World is far failed to agree on how to do so. In dia,” reported on jihadist recruitment in- supporters, and emulators across Eu- coming to occupy the Mother Conti- Britain, the issue is particularly charged, side Europe. rope. These parties appeal to national nent. and euroskeptic politicians are pushing A leader of Europol, said the Times, “has estimated that up to 5,000 people from Western Europe have traveled to Syria and Iraq, many to join the Islam- ic State. British officials believe that at least half of the 500 or so Britons who have done so have already returned home and represent potential threats ...” Europe has survived depression and the worst wars in modern history, though her wounds are terrible and lasting. But can Europe, with native-born popula- tions that are aging, shrinking, and dy- ing, survive a never-ending invasion of Third World peoples that Europe has never assimilated before? Especially when millions of these people profess a militant faith that has historically been alien and hostile to Europe? The birth dearth in Europe has en- dured for 40 years. There is no end in sight to the Third World invasion, as the lands of the Middle East and sub-Sahara descend ever more deeply into tribal, sectarian and civil war, and send new millions of refugees streaming toward the Mediterranean coast.

WHO OR WHAT will stop them? As Gen. Petraeus said on that road to Baghdad: “Tell me how this ends.” July 15, 2015 29 IRAN: July 3, 2015 The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history he devil is not in the details. into the Iranian economy (which began ing that, after all, “the United States After continually demanding access It’s in the entire conception growing again in 2014) and conceding of America wouldn’t allow anybody to their scientists, plans and weaponiza- of the Iran deal, animated by in advance an Iranian right to enrich ura- to get into every military site, so that’s tion facilities, Secretary of State John PresidentT Obama’s fantastical belief that nium. not ap- propriate.” Apart from Kerry two weeks ago airily dismissed he, uniquely, could achieve detente with It’s been down- the absurdity of mor- the need, saying he is focused on the fu- a fanatical Islamist regime whose foun- hill ever since. ally equating America ture, “not fixated” on the past. And that dational purpose is to cleanse the Mid- Desperate for Charles with the world’s fore- we have “absolute knowledge” of the dle East of the poisonous corruption of a legacy deal, Krauthammer most state sponsor Iranian program anyway — a whopper American power and influence. Obama has played of terrorism, if we that his staffers had to spend days walk- In pursuit of his desire to make the the supplicant, (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group were going to par- ing back. Islamic Republic into an accepted, nor- abandoning every rot the Iranian po- malized “successful regional power,” red line his administration had declared sition, why wait 19 months to do so — NOT TO WORRY, we are told. The Obama decided to take over the nuclear essential to any acceptable deal. after repeatedly insisting on free access accounting will be done after the final negotiations. At the time, Tehran was Inspections as essential to any inspection regime? deal is signed. Which is ridiculous. If the reeling — the rial plunging, inflation They were to be anywhere, anytime, Coming clean on past nuclear activ- Iranians haven’t budged on disclosing skyrocketing, the economy contracting unimpeded. Now? Total cave. Unfet- ity previous work under the current sanc- — under a regime of international sanc- tered access has become “managed ac- The current interim agreement that tions regime, by what logic will they tions painstakingly constructed over a cess.” Nuclear inspectors will have to governed the last 19 months of nego- comply after sanctions are lifted? decade. negotiate and receive Iranian approval tiation required Iran to do exactly that. Sanctions relief for inspections. Which allows them de- Tehran has offered nothing. The admin- These were to be gradual and staged as THEN, INSTEAD of welcoming nial and/or crucial delay for concealing istration had insisted that this account- the International Atomic Energy Agency Congress’ attempt to tighten sanctions any clandestine activities. ing was essential because how can you certified Iranian compliance over time. to increase the pressure on the mul- To give a flavor of the degree of our verify future illegal advances in Iran’s Now we’re going to be releasing up to lahs, Obama began the negotiations by capitulation, the administration played nuclear program if you have no base- $150 billion as an upfront signing bonus. loosening sanctions, injecting billions Iran’s lawyer on this one, explain- line? That’s 25 times the annual budget of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Enough to fuel a generation of intensified Iranian July 2, 2015 IRAN: aggression from Yemen to Lebanon to Bahrain. Yet three months ago, Obama ex- pressed nonchalance about immediate Repeating myself on an Iran deal sanctions relief. It’s not the issue, he said. m I allowed to repeat myself ed — that nuclear facilities at the secret Iran can operate to enrich uranium.” The real issue is “snap-back” sanctions to when it comes to the nego- Fordo site be closed. At the end of 2013, But it would still allow Iran to continue be reimposed if Iran is found in violation. tiations over the U.S.-Iran President Obama repeated the adminis- enrichment. Good grief. Iran won’t be found in vi- nuclearA deal? tration’s position: “We know they don’t The United States is in retreat around olation. The inspection regime is laugh- Why not, since that is what Iran’s need an underground, fortified facility the world and is perceived as weak by able and the bureaucratic procedures leaders are doing. They are repeating like Fordo in order to have a peaceful her enemies, including not only Iran, endless. Moreover, does anyone imag- themselves by refusing inspections of program.” but Russia, which continues its aggres- ine that Russia and China will reimpose some of their facilities where only a But on April 22 of this year, the sion toward Ukraine, and China, which sanctions? Or that the myriad European fool would believe nuclear weapons are president was quoted by the New York is building new islands in disputed wa- businesses preparing to join the Iranian not under construction. They are repeat- Times as saying, “Under the preliminary ters in the South China Sea, probably to gold rush the day the deal is signed will ing themselves when they demand all accord, Fordo would become a research be used as military bases. simply turn around and go home? sanctions be lifted on the day any deal center, but not for any element I have yet to hear from a U.S. govern- Non-nuclear-related sanctions is signed. And let’s not forget Iran’s that could potentially be used ment official why anyone can trust an The administration insisted that the weekly “Death to America” chants at Iranian regime whose dictatorship kills nuclear talks would not affect separate Friday prayer services, though public- Cal its own people, conducts secret trials, sanctions imposed because of Iranian ly politicians in Tehran are said to de- and openly and proudly states its god aggression and terrorism. That was then. nounce them. Why would anyone in his Thomas wishes everyone who disagrees with The administration is now leaking that right diplomatic mind believe anything (c) 2015, Tribune Media Services its version of Islam eliminated from the everything will be lifted. these subsidizers of terrorism say, espe- planet. Taken together, the catalog of capitu- cially when they appear to believe their in nuclear weapons.” So Fordo gets to Assurances that inspections will keep lations is breathtaking: spot inspections, religion requires them to build a bomb, stay open, maybe as a tourist attraction, Iran from cheating are meaningless if disclosure of previous nuclear activ- obliterate Israel, eliminate America and or research library for terrorists? the regime hides its nuclear weapons in ity, gradual sanctions relief, retention of subject the world to Sharia law? On April 7, 2012, Hayes adds, Na- places where they won’t allow inspec- non-nuclear sanctions. tional Security Council spokesman tions. Since Iranian leaders believe the What’s left? A surrender document U.S. OFFICIALS, from President Tommy Vietor said: “Our position is Koran allows them to lie to “infidels” of the kind offered by defeated nations Obama, to Secretary of State John Ker- clear: Iran must live up to its internation- in pursuit of their goals, could someone suing for peace. Consider: The strongest ry, repeat themselves with empty assur- al obligations, including full suspension please explain how any agreement with military and economic power on earth, ances that the deal, if it comes after the of uranium enrichment as required by liars forces them to stop lying? Why backed by the five other major powers, latest “deadline” has passed, will be a multiple U.N. Security Council resolu- would they counteract what they believe armed with what had been a crushing good one for America and the world. tions.” to be direct orders from their god if do- sanctions regime, is about to sign the Trust them, they repeatedly say. Yet ing so, according to Islamic doctrine, worst international agreement in Ameri- each time Iran stands up to the U.S., BUT ON March 19 of this year, the would place them in danger of hellfire? can diplomatic history. American officials appear to back down. Associated Press quoted Vietor saying: In asking these questions, I repeat How did it come to this? With every Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Stan- “Agreement on Iran’s uranium enrich- those asked in previous columns. concession, Obama and Kerry made dard has listed some of the many contra- ment program could signal a break- clear they were desperate for a deal. dictory statements made by American through for a larger deal aimed at con- NOT SO THE U.S., which keeps leaders about Iran’s nuclear program. taining the Islamic Republic’s nuclear changing its position while pursuing an AND THEY will get it. Obama will In 2012, notes Hayes, the Obama ad- activities.” The tentative deal imposes unenforceable goal with an unverifiable get his “legacy.” Kerry will get his No- ministration demanded — yes, demand- “limits on the number of centrifuges agreement. bel. And Iran will get the bomb. 30 Conservative Chronicle WEINSTEIN & WATTENBERG: July 3, 2015 Patriotism, optimism and good-natured debate he Fourth of July is a time to re- and the worthiness of the struggle against Democratic (or Republican) party could books The Good News Is the Bad News member Americans who have totalitarian rule. win only with the support of the medi- Is Wrong (1984) and The Birth Dearth contributed much to their coun- an voter, personified by an archetypical (1987). try,T and this Fourth weekend is a good BEN WATTENBERG started not as housewife from Dayton. For three decades Wattenberg was a time to remember two such Americans an academic but as a journalist and first Wattenberg’s arguments did not con- scholar at the American Enterprise Insti- who died in recent weeks — and whom gained attention with his 1965 book, This vince his fellow Democrats, who nomi- tute (where I am a resident fellow) and for I’d had the good fortune to know and U.S.A., co-authored with former Census nated George McGovern and Jimmy even longer he produced and appeared in joust with intellectually since the 1970s Director Richard Scammon, using census Carter in 1972 and 1976 while Wat- television series, including In Search of — Allen Weinstein and Ben Wattenberg. data to show how “we have achieved a tenberg worked for the cam- the Real America and Think Tank. Both were sons of Jewish immigrants, better America.” paign of the hawk- For Wattenberg the United States was, born in the 1930s and raised in the Bronx, That led to a ish liberal Henry in the title of his 1991 book, The First which then had the highest Jewish per- speechwriting job Michael “Scoop” Jackson. Universal Nation, and he proclaimed centage of any American county and also in Lyndon John- But he never lost himself, echoing the 1840s phrase, a large Irish, Italian and black communi- son’s White House, Barone faith in his fellow “neo-manifest destinarian.” ties. where Watten- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate Americans. berg’s inveterate When many AMERICAN LIBERALISM has THE BRONX was one of the heart- optimism about America and Americans writers depicted overpopulation as a moved in different directions from these lands of American liberalism — the big never wavered despite multiple urban looming problem, Wattenberg took the two sons of the Bronx, but Allen Wein- argument in 1948 was whether to sup- riots and numerous antiwar demonstra- opposite view: the world needed more stein and Ben Wattenberg embodied port Harry Truman or the anti-anti-Sovi- tions. Wattenberg worked on Hubert Americans. His immersion in statistics some of its historic virtues: patriotism, et, Henry Wallace — and Weinstein and Humphrey’s unsuccessful 1968 cam- enabled him to appreciate before others optimism, openness to dialogue and Wattenberg as young adults were proud paign and in 1970, again with Scammon, the sharp decline in national and world friendly but zestful argument. Legacies liberal Democrats. But while both re- wrote The Real Majority, arguing that the birth rates. His responses included his we all can learn from. mained liberals in many respects, they were willing to challenge leftist ortho- VA: July 8, 2015 doxy. As a history professor at Smith Col- lege, Weinstein authored two books in the 1970s and came to public attention with his 1978 book Perjury: The Hiss- VA scandal stinks from the top Chambers Case. He had begun his work riven out by whistleblow- The VA needs a real watchdog to after year “had there been a real watch- believing, like many on the left, that Hiss ers, Veterans Affairs Acting clean up. Vet advocates say the president dog in place,” Danielle Brian, executive was unjustly convicted of perjury in 1950 Inspector General Richard refuses to appoint one because he fears director of Project on Government Over- for denying he was a Soviet spy. GriffinD finally resigned last week. Good the political consequences of more VA sight told Congress. But his research — including 30,000 riddance. Griffin had whitewashed and scandals coming to light. Better to keep That’s true of the deadly mischief at pages of Justice Department records, concealed information about inadequate the problems hidden. the VA also. Obama has refused to fill interviews with Soviet spies and with care and phony waiting lists and tried to On June 3, Senator Ron Johnson, R. the inspector general’s job at the VA Hiss himself — convinced him that Hiss retaliate against truth-tellers. Wis., held a hearing on the president’s since December 2013. Until last week, was guilty. And the meticulous narrative But don’t expect real improvement at refusal to appoint IGs. The White House Griffin was the placeholder. Instead of and argumentation in Perjury convinced the VA. Griffin’s successor is another bu- essentially told Johnson to pound salt, monitoring VA performance, he did just readers ranging ideologically from reaucratic lifer, Lin Halliday. She’s been that is, no one from the White House the opposite, covering up and punishing to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. collecting a paycheck from the VA in- would testify. Johnson tried to whistleblowers. Though affirming Hiss’ guilt was spector general’s office since 1992, while Pressured by the White House, Grif- apostasy in academia, Weinstein con- the deadly problems festered. President Betsy fin actually changed the wording ina tinued to teach at Georgetown and Bos- Obama seems to like that approach. draft report on vets dying at the Phoenix ton University. In 1985 he founded the McCaughey VA in 2014 to understate fatalities. Center for Democracy, and worked with ON JULY 2, as Obama descended (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate When the Iraq and Afghanistan Vet- Democrats and Republicans to advance from Air Force One at a Wisconsin stop, erans of America and POGO put up a democratic institutions in the Philip- whistleblower Ryan Honl, a Gulf War get a former White House staffer, Jona- website asking VA workers with first- pines, Central America and Russia. Veteran, seized a moment on the tarmac than McBride, who is now at BlackRock, hand knowledge of problems to come Weinstein was a conduit of informa- to urge the president to appoint an inde- to testify. But the White House directed forward, some 800 did. Within weeks, tion between the White House and Boris pendent inspector general: “If they just McBride and BlackRock not to cooper- Griffin tried to subpoena their names. “It Yeltsin during the 1991 coup, and, with pick someone new from inside the agen- ate. had a chilling effect,” said Brian. former KGB agent Alexander Vassiliev, cy, it will be business as usual and the These are typical tricks from acting he gained access to Soviet secret police problems will continue,” Honl warned. REFUSING TO appoint inspectors IGs, who tend to hide bad news rather files, the basis for their 1999 book The But the president brushed Honl off, say- general and then stonewalling Congress. than report it. Apparently, that’s what Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in ing VA Secretary Robert McDonald “had That suggests more than a smidgeon of Obama wants. American — the Stalin Era. Those docu- it covered.” corruption. Daniel Epstein, executive di- ments and the until-then-secret Venona Sorry. That’s not true. rector of Cause of Action, a good-gov- BUT IT LEAVES vets out in the transcripts of KGB communications Only the president can appoint an In- ernment group, said for Hillary Clinton’s cold, like two I spoke with last week. sealed the case against Hiss and other spector General. Federal law requires entire tenure at the State Department, Earl Figgeroa called me about the whop- spies whom some considered unjustly that the Department of Veterans Affairs, Obama refused to appoint a permanent ping bill he’s stuck paying for a civilian accused. and other departments, have outside in- IG. cardiologist, while the VA bureaucracy From 2005 to 2008 Weinstein served spectors general to guard against cor- Consequently, “oversight” at State gives him the runaround. Donald Schul- as archivist of the United States, devel- ruption and mismanagement. Obama was in the hands of an ultimate insider, tz, a Vietnam vet whose VA doctor told oping digitized records and arranging simply refuses to appoint them, allowing acting IG Harold Geisel, who had served him on March 6 he needed emergency federal status for the Nixon presidential the vacant offices to be filled instead by as an ambassador under former President surgery for a hernia, complained to me library. As a careful scholar, he was not “acting” IGs like Griffin and Halliday. Bill Clinton and remains close friends of that he’s still in constant pain and wait- given to broad generalization. But the These are lap dogs instead of watchdogs, the Clintons. The definition of a lap dog. ing. Despite what Obama says, no one’s thrust of his life’s work was a reaffirma- compliant temporary placeholders from It’s unlikely Hillary would have got- got these vets covered. Or millions like tion of the value of American democracy inside the system. ten away with using private emails year them. July 15, 2015 31 IMMIGRANT CRIME: July 8, 2015 Federal criminal cases on the U.S. Mexican border ccording to data released by Washington to Maine (5,257) did not the U.S. Justice Department, equal the criminal cases (5,832) filed by 41.7 percent of the federal the one U.S. attorney’s office in Western criminalA cases that U.S. attorneys filed Texas. in U.S. district courts in fiscal 2014 The office of the U.S. attorney for the were in the five U.S. attorneys’ districts Southern District of Texas, which is the that sit along the U.S.-Mexico border. eastern- most district along In fact, the the U.S.-Mexico five districts that Terry border, filed the sec- sit along the bor- ond largest number der — those for Jeffrey of criminal cases in Southern Califor- (c) 2015, Creators Syndicate U.S. district court nia, Arizona, New in fiscal 2014. Mexico, Western Texas and Southern The 5,517 criminal cases this office Texas — were the top five in the coun- filed in U.S. district court also exceeded try for criminal cases filed in U.S. dis- the 5,257 filed by all 17 districts from trict courts. Washington to Maine. Arizona (4,229), New Mexico THE OFFICE of the U.S. attorney (4,125) and Southern California (3,754) for Western Texas led the nation last ranked third, fourth and fifth among the year in filing criminal cases in U.S. 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices for the num- district court, according to the United ber of criminal cases filed in U.S. Dis- States Attorneys’ Annual Statistical Re- trict Courts in fiscal 2014. THE DISTRICT of Western Texas magistrate courts — as opposed to U.S. port for Fiscal 2014. Together, the five U.S. attorneys’ dis- was again No. 1, with 7,302 criminal district courts. During the fiscal year, according to tricts that span the U.S.-Mexico border defendants found guilty in U.S. district “In addition to criminal cases brought Table 1 in the report, the U.S. attorney filed 23,457 criminal cases in U.S. dis- court. Southern Texas was second with before United States district judges, the for Western Texas filed 5,832 criminal trict courts in fiscal 2014. That equaled 6,484. Arizona was third with 4,957. United States Attorneys also handle a cases in U.S. district court. 41.7 percent of the 56,218 criminal New Mexico was fourth with 4,392. considerable criminal caseload before By contrast, there are 17 U.S. attor- cased that U.S. attorneys nationwide And Southern California was fifth with United States magistrate judges,” ex- VA scandal stinks from the top neys’ districts that sit in the lower 48 filed in U.S. district courts. 4,100. plained the U.S. attorneys’ statistical states along the Canadian border or the A similar pattern appears in the num- The 27,235 criminal defendants report for fiscal 2013. “The utilization Great Lakes. These 17 districts, which ber of criminal defendants found guilty found guilty in U.S. district courts in the of magistrate judges varies from district run from the Western District of Wash- as a result of cases filed U.S. district five U.S. attorneys’ districts along the to district in response to local conditions ington to the District of Maine, filed a courts in fiscal 2014. U.S.-Mexico border equaled 36.6 per- and changing caseloads.” combined total of 5,257 criminal cases During the year, according to Table cent of all 74,392 criminal defendants “Magistrate judges are authorized by in U.S. district courts in fiscal 2014. 2A, the five districts along the U.S.- found guilty in all 93 U.S. attorneys’ statute to perform a variety of duties as That means that all the federal crimi- Mexico border were the top five in the districts in fiscal 2014. assigned by the United States district nal cases filed in the U.S. district courts nation for the number of defendants The U.S. attorneys also filed criminal judges, including presiding over misde- spanning the Canadian border from found guilty in U.S. district court. charges against defendants in federal meanor trials, conducting preliminary hearings, and entering rulings or rec- ommended dispositions on pretrial mo- tions,” said the report. In fiscal 2014, according to the Table 2B, 67,401 criminal defendants were determined to be guilty in magistrate proceedings. Of those, 63,253 — or 93.8 percent — were in the five districts along the U.S.-Mexico border. Southern Texas (24,455), Arizona (23,446), and Western Texas (14,379) were the top three districts for criminal defendants found guilty in magistrate proceedings. Obviously, the offenses people are convicted of in federal courts are not local crimes but federal ones. Accord- ing to the statistical report’s Table 3A, the top category of offense for those found guilty in U.S. district courts na- tionwide in fiscal 2014 was immigration offenses. 23,871 defendants nationwide were found guilty of those. 23,387 were found guilty of drug offenses. 12,617 were found guilty of violent crime.

IT IS A FAIR conclusion from the Justice Department’s data that if the federal government does not enforce our southern border, it must do much more to enforce our federal laws just north of it. RUSH! •NEWSPAPER• •DATED MATERIAL•

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