Here are my observations and opinions on my selected news of the day.
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WHAT PLANET HAS KAMALA HARRIS been living on? Perhaps on Coruscant, the planet of “Star Wars.” During her opening remarks at the Houston “debate,” the pompous Democrat candidate for president addressed President Trump saying, “You’ve spent the last two and a half years full-time trying to sow hate and division among us, and that is why we’ve gotten nothing done.”
Perhaps you weren’t aware that CNN and MSNBC, the real purveyors of hate and division on earth, had news outlets on planet Coruscant. Here on earth we have seen President Trump follow through on a string of promises kept as our economy is booming at a level unseen in modern political history.
WHILE HARRIS WANTS TO BAN EVERYTHING, from drinking straws and red meat to fracking, another leftist presidential wannabe, Beto O’Rourke, assured his defeat when he said, “hell yes we’re going to take your AR-15s and AK-47s.”
He succeeded in stirring up Texans, strong supporters of the Second Amendment. For a Texan, O’Rourke doesn’t seem to know Lone Star State history. During the Battle of Gonzales, the first battle of the Texas Revolution against Mexico, a small group of Texans successfully resisted the Mexican forces who had orders to seize the cannon. The small bronze swivel cannon, received in 1831, was mounted on a blockhouse in Gonzales and became an object of Texas pride that resulted in the fashioning of a flag with the phrase “Come and take it.”
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I DIDN’T WATCH THE DEBATE, but I heard that there was no mention of the economy. While you would expect that the Democrats prefer not to discuss a topic the president and most Americans have reason to be happy about, it is further proof that the media is in their pockets. ABC moderators Muir and Stephanopoulos wouldn’t think of putting any of the candidates on the spot.
SHE’S AT IT AGAIN – Elitist Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan tapped into the words of James Burnham, a public intellectual and political philosopher of the 20the century, who penned 10 maxims or laws about the realities of life, to ridicule President Trump.
Noonan uses Burnham’s No. 1 Law, a rather rambling advice on being yourself, because everyone really knows who you are and that your campaign strategies are obvious.
“For instance,” she writes, “Everyone knows Donald Trump can be taken in 2020, but everyone doubts the ability of the current Democrat field to do it.”
How perceptive, yes, but also, how ludicrous of her.
In her recent columns, Noonan has written about Trump supporters who are standing strong behind Trump, but she now perceives that changing and she has begun to tear down the Trump presidency with the hope, I am sure, that he fails to win in 2020.
“Shall we be rude?” she writes, trying to be cute, “Oh, let’s. Everyone knows (there’s that reference to Burnham) Donald Trump is a mental case. It would be nice here to say, ‘I don’t mean mental case,’ as she cites his fallacies, “But mental case will do.”
Then she claims to observe “something is going on with Mr. Trump’s supporters,” saying that they are now conceding more about him in private than they did in the past.
In my opinion, she’s wrong. I will be citing examples in future blog reports.
It doesn’t surprise me that Noonan sees fellow elite Elizabeth Warren as the Democrat nominee, who she says “has successfully created and inhabited a persona – the determined, high-energy fighter full of plans – and is killing it.”
Noonan, it appears to me, no longer connects with the common folks and has joined George Will in that stable of elitists, who simply cannot deal with a president who doesn’t fit their mold.
Peggy, Peggy, Peggy … you have gone astray.
FOX’S CHRIS WALLACE continues to disappoint. During an interview with his Power Player of the Week, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, who recently published a book of RFK’s essays, he asked an off-the-wall question that he knew was sure to elicit a negative response about President Trump.
“What would your father have thought about Donald Trump?” he asked with a smile.
“He would have been hurt,” she answered, referring to the “pain that Donald Trump has caused so many people, and the glee at seeing that he takes in causing so much pain.”
It appears she, too, has been on another planet as Americans are enjoying the best economy in decades.
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GOOD NEWS SURFACES FROM BULLYING – While news of two NFL wide receivers made the news – Antonio Brown being accused of sexual assault and Odell Beckham for insisting he will wear his $250,000 watch while playing – both drawing the ire of the NFL – the heart-warming news of a Florida fourth-grader bullied over his hand-drawn University of Tennessee T-shirt he wore to school on “college colors day” surfaced.
The boy became a laughing stock when he fashioned a “U T” on paper and pinned it to his orange T-shirt, but when the university and alumni heard about the youngster, his artwork was silk-screened on orange T-shirts and more than 50,000 were pre-sold in the VolShop. The proceeds will be going to the non-profit Stomp Out Bullying organization.
And the university awarded him an out-of-state tuition and fees for the fall of 2028.
Who has the last laugh now?
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
