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Just two or three generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell's classics "Animal Farm" and "1984" were written to explain how freedom is lost to totalitarianism and the intolerance that accompanies it.
Make no mistake. Removing statues and monuments related to the Confederacy, which is driven by the Left, is not about redressing the legacy of slavery and racism.
The coup against President Trump has been developing for months. Yet few talk about what it really means for the country and what can be done to avert this fate.
With President Trump stating that he is anxious to sign a "repeal" or a "repeal and replace" bill into law, passage seemed like a sure thing. Yet so far the Senate has failed to pass a bill. But there is still a way forward.
Who would have ever thought that the United States could face a coup attempt against its duly elected president? But for all intents and purposes that's what's going down. It's a derivative of an old-fashioned third-world banana republic mob-style coup that is brewing against Donald Trump.
The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, is celebrated and commemorated as what gave birth to the United States. But the nation's ascendance from colonial poverty to global superpower in a little more than 200 years was not just the result of political ideas.
July Fourth — with its cookouts, parades, outdoor parties and fireworks — is a much more lighthearted and festive American holiday than other patriotic holidays, such as Memorial Day or Veterans Day. Most people forget that when the 56 members of the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, they were signing their death warrants.
Are those pushing the Trump/Russian collusion conspiracy living in Alice in Wonderland or what? Accepting this conspiracy narrative requires both the suspension of common sense and the collective amnesia about the history of Democrats' actions that have earned favor from Soviet and Russian leadership over past decades and right up to the present.
If you think you're going crazy from non-stop news coverage of unruly behavior and disruptive protests across the country since Donald Trump was elected president, rest assured there are veiled reasons for the current madness.
No one should be fooled into thinking that the made-for-TV raucous and angry responses over the repeal of ObamaCare from what appear to be large numbers of constituents at congressmen's district town hall meetings is spontaneous or representative of anything other than a small minority of trained activists.
If you think you're going crazy from nonstop news coverage of unruly behavior and disruptive protests across the country since Donald Trump was elected president, rest assured there are veiled reasons for the current madness. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Goodwin asserts the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is no temporarily insane reaction but rather "a calculated plan to wreck the presidency, whatever the cost to the country."
The Left is now ascendant in the Democrat Party and it has the most megaphones in the so-called mainstream media. The Left not only dominates popular culture but it's also making new inroads into business and sports.
On day one President Trump surprised business leaders gathered at the White House, declaring U.S. regulations "out of control" and "in need of 75% or more reduction." A week later, he boldly signed an executive order requiring repeal of two old rules for every new one that government agencies implement. The fact is that cutting regulations is as critical as tax relief in turning the U.S. economy around.
Remarkably, 2016 has become the year of Revolution. It started in June with citizens of the United Kingdom voting in the affirmative for "Brexit," a national referendum to separate from the European Union and the long reach of its Brussels bureaucrats. Then the November 8 U.S. presidential election witnessed the American people voting in outsider Donald Trump, soundly rejecting the political establishment of both national parties and their unelected and unaccountable regulators and bureaucrats.
With regard to foreign policy and issues of war and peace, it's important to reflect on history to understand how the fighting of wars has changed and what is at stake today for all Americans. Looking back over the last century, World War I and II had ideological components, but the main events were full-blown military engagements that entailed massive loss of life, property and the destruction of entire cities. What some have referred to as World War III has had more ideological components and lesser military conflicts — at least so far.
Voters face the possibility that Hillary's email scandal has legs with lasting consequences.
If Americans were shocked by the recent terrorist massacre in Orlando committed by Omar Mateen in the name of ISIS and other Islamist jihadis, they should be even more alarmed by the Obama administration's response, which once again sought to obfuscate the role of Islamist ideology in motivating that terrorist attack — the largest on U.S. soil since 9/11. In spite of Islamists having established an unparalleled record of terrorism — some 20,000 assaults globally in the name of Islam since 9/11 – U.S. law enforcement, intelligence and national armed forces have for many years been operating partially blindfolded with one hand tied behind their backs under the heel of the politically correct posture of protecting Islam and Muslims.
When James Comey became the chief U.S. law enforcement officer in 2013 as FBI director, swearing to "faithfully discharge the duties of the office ... without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion," he probably never thought he would face indicting the heir apparent leader of the party under which he would serve. The facts regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's actions, surrounding the use of an unsecured private email server for conducting government business, show that she violated some 10 federal statutes.
