Here are my observations and opinions on selected news of the day.
BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT is at 6.6 percent, the lowest ever recorded, but ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or CNN didn’t cover the good news. The media on the left don’t want you to know just how well the economy is doing … for everybody. That’s why President Trump finds it necessary to regularly repeat the good news for blacks, Hispanics and women at his rallies and whenever he addresses the public. (Media Research Center)
THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH under the First Amendment allows us to pretty much say what we want to say within the bounds of limitations covered by the “harm” or “offensive” principles of the amendment.
I couldn’t do what I do if it weren’t for this freedom. I take this freedom seriously. I research my topics carefully and strive to quote people accurately. My readers know that my observations and opinions are based on my conservative beliefs.
But every American is also permitted the freedom of speech, and they don’t always back up what they say with facts when they say or write something. Take Bonnie Trasamar of Mesa, Arizona for instance, who wrote in a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic, “… we don’t have to love or even like what the current administration is doing to undermine our great democracy.”
She didn’t identify what the administration is doing to undermine our democracy, and the editor of the left-leaning Republic didn’t require her to back up her statement.
I have followed closely the president’s accomplishments, considered to be the most productive of any modern era president, and have yet to determine how the administration is dismantling democracy.
DID YOU KNOW that former President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett has been interviewed on CNN seven times since September 2016, but the fact that her daughter worked for CNN was never mentioned? It’s a potential conflict of interest and merits disclosure. (Media Research Center)
DEMOCRAT INFIGHTING – Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) were criticized for not defending Rep. Maxine Waters amid her recent controversial statements in a letter from “Black Women Leaders and Allies.”
Al Sharpton and Donna Brazile detailed the group’s disappointment in Schumer and Pelosi in their letter expressing full support for Waters, who they claim has been “unjustly attacked by Republicans and Democrat Party leadership for speaking truth to power.
“Further, we write to share our profound indignation and deep disappointment over your recent failure to protect Congresswoman Waters from unwarranted attacks from the Trump administration and others in the GOP.”
Schumer called Waters’ rhetoric “not American,” and Pelosi said Waters’ remarks were “unacceptable.”
Waters encouraged supporters to heckle and harass Trump officials “in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station” and told them “you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
NO APPARENT HISPANIC BACKLASH – “Democrats counting on President Trump’s hardline immigration policies to spark energized Hispanic turnout and a wave against GOP candidates in this year’s midterms will be surprised to see what’s transpiring,” writes Josh Kraushaar in the National Journal.
“Even during the heat of the family separation crisis, Democrats are underperforming in heavily Hispanic constituencies,” according to Kraushaar as he covers campaigns from California, Texas and Florida. He suggests that Hispanic voters are willing to prioritize their issues, like the growing economy, in choosing congressional candidates.
A REMINDER FOR DEMOCRATS – When Republicans had hoped to negotiate the stimulus package with then President Obama in 2009, he told them, “Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.”
It’s 2018. Donald Trump won and Hillary Clinton lost.
May God bless the United States of America.
