Here are my observations and opinions on selected news of the day.
IT’S NICE TO BE BACK, absorbing and analyzing the news and commentary again, offering my opinions after a few days in relative news depravation with no ability to do research and develop material for your consumption.
HOW PERCEPTIVE – Learning that a surveillance camera played a key role in the arrest of an illegal alien for the murder of Mollie Tibbetts missing in Iowa for nearly a month, Greg Gutfeld on Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” made a perceptive comment. I will paraphrase it here.
Isn’t it interesting that American technology was able to lead investigators to a murderer who was permitted to illegally reside in this country because of disinterested politicians, who seem to be more concerned with political correctness than protecting the safety of fellow Americans.
So, the family of Mollie Tibbetts become the latest to join a group known as “Angel Families,” victims of illegal immigration.
“We’re gathered today to hear directly from American victims of illegal immigration,” President Trump said during a White House meeting on June 22, 2018, “you hear the other side, you never hear this side. These are the American citizens permanently separated from their loved ones … because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens.
“They are the families the media ignores. They don’t talk about them, very unfair.” The Washington Examiner reported that CNN and MSNBC did not cover the stories of the Angels, while Fox covered it in total.
One distraught mother related how her son’s body was dismembered and left burning in a field.
Referring to the highly publicized July 2015 killing of Kate Steinle in San Francisco by an illegal deported five times, the president talked about the human toll of illegal immigration citing the numbers of homicides, robberies, sexual offenses and kidnappings.
Yet, the open border people on the left choose to ignore these killings.
EVEN MSNBC’S RACHEL MADDOW, an avowed anti-Trumper, was dumbfounded with John Brennan’s attempt to walk back his comment that President Trump’s performance at the press conference with Vladimir Putin “was nothing short of treason.”
“I did say that it rises to and exceeds the level of high crimes and misdemeanors and nothing short of treasonous,” said Brennan, “I said it was nothing short of treasonous. I didn’t mean that he committed treason. But it was a term I used.”
Maddow pressed Brennan, asking him if he believed that Trump is “serving a foreign country rather than our own.” Unbelievably, he replied, “Well, yes.”
“Brennan is unhinged with Trump-hate,” wrote Rick Moran in American Thinker, “His wild unsubstantiated charges of collusion notwithstanding, his running off at the mouth is embarrassing himself and the Intelligence Community.”
LOOK FOR MAJOR CHANGES in the make-up of our military deployments around the world and changes in their missions, in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. President Trump revealed a number of command changes with the retirement of a number of generals in key positions. Defeating ISIS was just the beginning. There is no longer a “lead from behind” strategy.
HOPING FOR A DOWNTURN – “I hope to God we have a downturn when Donald Trump goes up for reelection,” says Cornell Associate Economics Professor Steven Kyle, “Not that I hope for people to lose jobs, but I sure do hope for all our sake’s we get rid of that guy.”
Kyle’s opinion was solicited by Max Cea for a piece in Salon, who searched for economists rooting for a downturn. Liberal Dean Baker with the Soros-funded Center for Economic and Policy Research, anticipates a recession in 2020, but does not forecast a severe downturn.
Then there’s Dartmouth’s David Blanchflower, who predicts a “relatively shallow” downturn “but it’s probably going to be made worse by policymakers.”
During a discussion on the economy with a friend over the weekend, he too, though not an economist, predicts doom and gloom for the 2020 period. He did stop short of hoping for it, however.
May God bless the United States of America
