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DC CLOTHESLINE, by Dr. Eowyn — April 3, 2019

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This post originally appeared at Fellowship of the Minds. Pulled from the archives: May 2013. Please note that FOTM has been forced to move twice, so broken links should be expected.

When Barack Obama was a 19-year-old student at Occidental College, he published two poems in the Spring 1982 issue of Occidental’s literary magazine, Feast. One is the cringe-worthy “Underground” about “apes that eat figs.” The other poem, “Pop,” is much more interesting, biographical, and disturbing.

“Pop”

Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks

What to do with me, a green young man

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https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/04/03/pop-obamas-disturbing-poem-on-man-boy-relationship/

Center for American Progress, by Melanie Hart and Kelly Magsamen — April 3, 2019

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Introduction and summary

The greatest geopolitical challenge in the 21st century will be how the United States—and the rest of the world—responds to the rise of China. China’s gross domestic product (GDP), when measured in domestic purchasing power (purchasing power parity), already surpasses that of the United States. It is now, by some measures, the dominant global economic power and is mobilizing that wealth to pursue its own vision for the international system. The central contest of this century will be between the U.S. model of political and economic development and the Chinese model of political and economic development. If China’s vision prevails—if it becomes the dominant power of the 21st century—there is a risk the United States and the world will be less free, less prosperous, and less safe. The United States does not need to engage China in a zero-sum Cold War to avoid this outcome. However, it does need to put its own ideas on the table internationally, advocate for that vision, reassert global leadership, and rectify a pattern of serious missteps at home.

The United States should be well-equipped to address the challenges China is posing, but it has been hindered by decades of strategic inertia. Since the early 2000s—when China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United States launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—the United States has pursued a strategy that is fundamentally flawed. Instead of channeling public resources to support American innovation and invest in American workers, Washington assumed the United States could coast on a combination of natural comparative advantages and status quo technology dominance, much of which stemmed from investments made decades earlier. That approach has not worked. China is investing heavily in emerging technology sectors—such as artificial intelligence and next-generation mobile communication—to successfully chip away at U.S. technology leadership and global market share. However, in the United States, many U.S. workers are unable to find good jobs in the information economy. In sum, the United States has lagged on the very areas of strength it needs to compete against an increasingly powerful China.

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https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/2019/04/03/468136/limit-leverage-compete-new-strategy-china/

Canada Free Press, by Dr. Alexander Nussbaum — April 3, 2019

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My late father had the privilege of living in a socialist paradise, Stalin’s Soviet Union. He had many stories of the wonders he saw. Unfortunately I was young and stupid and did not record all of them. He could go on for literally hours, and I thought I would have a father forever.  I remember only four, which I will relate. For while Liberals refuse to acknowledge an objective past, Conservatives carefully learn its lessons.

Comrades trying to survive a brutal Russian winter were not provided enough wood to keep themselves warm. A beautiful new wooden fence was built, slave labor of course. At night everybody passing by would, under penalty of death, remove a plank. The piece of wood provided enough heat to keep them alive a little longer. Soon the fence was gone.

This is the future of your children and grandchildren in Ocasio-Cortez’s “peoples republic”

Toilet paper was too good for the comrades. My father’s family, his parents and siblings, were already exterminated by the Germans (with the complicity of all of Europe) by this point. He was with his closest living “relative”, an uncle by marriage. Paper in any form was not available, but the official communist writings, attributed to Stalin, were sold very cheaply. This man got the idea to buy a bunch of these pamphlets and use them as toilet paper.  Except the authorities got suspicious why he was buying so much. They called him in for questioning, Of course if the true reason came out, he would be executed.  Using quick wits, he said he bought them to distribute to children and survived.

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https://canadafreepress.com/article/venezuela-now

CHECKYOURFACT, by Caitlin McFall | Contributor — March 2, 2019

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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s comments have gotten her into hot water recently, but she also said something that largely slipped under the radar – that it’s a “myth” and “unscientific” that transgender women have a “direct competitive advantage” in women’s powerlifting.

Omar wrote a letter to USA Powerlifting after it refused to let a transgender women enter a Minnesota competition.

“I urge you to reconsider this discriminatory, unscientific policy and follow the example of the International Olympic Committee,” she said. “The myth that transgender women have a ‘direct competitive advantage’ is not supported by medical science, and it continues to stoke fear and violence against one of the most at-risk committees in the world.”

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https://checkyourfact.com/2019/04/02/fact-check-ilhan-omar-myth-that-transgender-women-advantage-powerlifting/

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Media’s 9 Lamest Excuses for Joe Biden’s Serial Young Girl-Touching

Breitbart, by John Nolte — April 2, 2019

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Hey, I’m not claiming Biden is a sexual predator, but come on… If you are not a powerful Democrat protected by the media, I dare you to try slithering up behind a co-worker to sniff her hair and plant a kiss.

You can’t do that.

When was that kind of behavior ever okay?

I’m nearing a hundred years-old, and I can tell you it never was.

But if you’re Joe Biden, if you’re Barack Obama’s former wingman, if you’re “in,” if our corrupt and sullied Elite Establishment likes you… then it is okay, even after two women have come forward to say it wasn’t  even 28 years after Anita Hill definitely made it not okay.

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https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/02/nolte-medias-9-lamest-excuses-joe-bidens-serial-young-girl-touching/

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Washington Examiner / Opinion, by James Poulos — March 29, 2019

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This is the decade America’s common culture died. Cultural taste, affinity, and identity is shattered into a thousand distinct shards. This “tribalization” has become an obsession among social elites, whose economic model for maintaining their global dominance has been thrown into doubt. But only now are the fuller consequences of the rise of the multiculture rearing their ugly heads. As manufactured mainstream fare fades, Americans are right to begin to wonder whether any popular culture as we know it, a vibrant social sphere full of entertainers and highly engaged audiences, is going to replace what is lost. The same digital technology that empowered us to consume what we wanted, when we wanted it, is now sharply discouraging us from producing what we want, even at times and places of our choosing.

The world of digital entertainment and social media is increasingly suppressing both popular culture and elite culture, each of which depends on giving people incentives to pour their lives into art, media, music, film, and the news of the day. Whether it’s injecting creative works into the market, opinions into the maelstrom of the online discourse, or corrective lectures into raging debates, the potential payoff for all these sorts of activities is plummeting.

The culprit is not simply digital tech’s propensity to glut markets until demand collapses. In our era when just about anyone can write, record, produce, and release a single, a movie, a podcast, or a video show, the barriers to entry are so low that the market space has filled to the brim with content that’s almost totally inessential to nearly all would-be consumers.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/modern-babel

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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson — April 2, 2019

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I think that President Trump is going after what the Left calls “root causes” in their typical grab for money to redistribute, purportedly to eliminate some social problem they blame on poverty. But Trump is not seeking a nebulous version of Ultimate Social Justice, he focused on the real obstacles to immigration reform, and I think he has a specific goal in mind as he threatens a complete border closure.

Simply stated, at home, Trump wants big business, as embodied in the US Chamber of Commerce, to grasp that he will not allow them to continue stonewall on open borders, targeting their donations to prevent any legal reform. Ever since NAFTA, huge investments have taken place predicted on the free movement of good across the border. Those investments are now held hostage by Trump’s threat. The implicit deal: either loudly and emphatically lobby for a simple revision to immigration law to allow asylum claimants to wait on the southern side of the border while their claims are adjudicated or endure a semi-catastrophic disruption.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/the_real_prime_target_of_trumps_threat_to_close_the_border.html

American Thinker, by Patricia McCarthy — April 2, 2019

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For over two years, we have been tormented or delighted, depending on one’s political preference, by the opinions and or declarations avowing President Trump’s guilt with regard to collusion with Russia.  It was all a made-up scam from the beginning, but the media and the leftist loons have beaten this dead horse relentlessly in the fervid hope it would see Trump forced from the office he legitimately won. 

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Anything, any plan, any course of action, any sacrifice of one’s moral sense, was on the table, worth the risk, worth the selling of one’s soul to the devil.  Trump should not have won so the forces in positions of power worked together to undo his candidacy, then his election, then his inauguration, and then his presidency.  Who did all these things?  The people who rose to power in the principal law enforcement agencies in America. 

What do we know now?  We know that they – OBAMA, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Strozk, Page, and the rest of their chosen cohorts at the FBI, CIA, & DOJ – colluded to destroy Trump by any means necessary.  They employed every means they had at their disposal, no matter how unconstitutional, illegal, immoral or venal. – (bold and caps emphasis added)

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/why_do_the_leastbright_people_rise_to_the_top.html

Sharyl Attkisson, by sattkisson — April 1, 2019

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Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) have requested an update from the Attorney General on the prosecution of former FBI director Andrew McCabe. Below is an except of the letter requesting the update.

“We write to request an update on the Justice Department’s investigation and prosecution of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The Justice Department Office of Inspector General (DOJ OIG) referred McCabe’s lack of candor to the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia almost a year ago. McCabe’s pattern of lies to the FBI and OIG officials was particularly troublesome because they were intended to cover up media leaks that would benefit McCabe personally and professionally…”

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https://sharylattkisson.com/members-of-congress-ask-for-update-on-referral-to-prosecute-former-fbi-director/