A MINORITY VIEW

BEING A RACIST IS EASY TODAY

Walter E. Williams lists statements that qualify one for Democrats' knee-jerk label

Years ago, it was hard to be a racist.

 You had to be fitted for and spend money on a white gown and don a pointy hat. 

You celebrated racism by getting some burlap, wrapping it around a cross, setting it ablaze and dancing around it carrying torches. 

Sometimes, as did Lester Maddox, you had to buy ax handles for yourself and your supporters to wield to forcibly turn away black customers from your restaurant. 

Or, as in the case of Theophilus “Bull” Connor, you had to learn to direct fire hoses and vicious police attack dogs against civil rights demonstrators.

Younger racists, along with their parents, had to memorize poems for whenever a black student showed up for admission to their high school or college. 

For example, “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t want to integrate!” 

Of course, there were a host of racial slurs and epithets that could be hurled, with impunity, at any black person in your presence. 

In earlier times, you didn’t have to be sophisticated, but it took a bit of work, to be a racist.

Today, all that has changed. 

To be a racist today takes little effort. 

For example, one can sit back in his easy chair and declare that he’s for across-the-board tax cuts. 

That makes you a racist. 

If you don’t believe me, think back to 1994 when the Republican-led Congress pushed for a tax-cut measure. 

Former Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., denouncing the Republicans’ plan before a Manhattan audience as a form of modern-day racism, said: 

“It’s not ‘spic’ or ‘n––-‘ anymore. 

(Instead,) they say, ‘Let’s cut taxes.'” 

A few months later, he compared the GOP’s “Contract with America” to measures in Nazi Germany saying, 

“Hitler wasn’t even talking about doing these things.”

One can be labeled a racist through a set of “microaggressions” listed in “Diversity in the Classroom, UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development” from 2014.

Here are a few statements one should avoid: 

“You are a credit to your race.” 

“Wow! How did you become so good in math?” 

“There is only one race, the human race.” 

“I’m not racist. I have several black friends.” 

“As a woman, I know what you go through as a racial minority.”

But most instances of microaggressions are less overt. 

There are college microaggressions such as a male student rolling his eyes when a female student speaks, or people not wanting to be in study groups with those of different races.

Perhaps the easiest way to be labeled a racist is to suggest that a wall be built on our border with Mexico in order to keep people from Mexico and points south from entering our nation illegally. 

Also, a slam-dunk charge of racism is to say that the standard practice of separating children from parents is Nazi-like. 

But imagine you are stopped with your child in the car and charged with a DUI in any of our 50 states. 

You’re going to be arrested and your child taken to protective child services. 

The identical practice on our southern border becomes racism.

As veteran journalist Brit Hume said about the uproar over President Donald Trump’s latest bomb-throwing: 

“Trump’s ‘go back’ comments were nativist, xenophobic, counterfactual and politically stupid. 

But they simply do not meet the standard definition of racist, a word so recklessly flung around these days that its actual meaning is being lost.” 

The president cleaned up his remarks a few days later saying: 

“These are people that hate our country. 

If you’re not happy in the U.S., if you’re complaining all the time, very simply, you can leave.” 

By the way, leaving isn’t Trump’s idea. 

Many leftists pledged to flee America altogether if Trump were elected president.

The bottom line is that when leftists have no other winning argument, they falsely accuse others of racism. 

Republicans cower at the charge and often give the leftists what they want. 

Black Americans who are octogenarians, or nearly so, need to explain what true racism is, not to correct white liberals but to inform young black people.

Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/07/being-a-racist-is-easy-today/#qcqXt5fvrVRbb1KA.99

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

ANGER'S POWER IN A CULTURE THAT'S FORGOTTEN GOD

Exclusive: Jerry Newcombe sees deadly sin at work in recent tragic shooting

America has an anger problem. 

There was another random shooting – this time in a city east of Santa Cruz, California.

The Mercury News reported: 

“At least four people were dead, including a suspect, and 15 people injured after a gunman cut through a security fence and opened fire on a crowd Sunday evening near the end of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, sending panicked festival goers running for their lives.”

The gunman was reported to have opened fire on the crowd with an assault-style rifle. 

Witnesses heard someone shout, 
“Why are you doing this?” 

and the gunman replied, “Because I’m really angry.”

Before his death, the gunman posted on Instagram, 

“Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard,” 

according to NBC News. 

That 1890 anti-Christian, racist screed is subtitled, 

“Or, Survival of the Fittest,” and it promotes Social Darwinism. 

After all, if humanity is just glorified apes, then why should we be surprised when someone acts like one? – with apologies to apes. 

Indeed, ideas have consequences.

According to police, officers on the scene shot and killed the suspect within one minute of the shooting.

We are becoming jaded as a society because of all these types of shootings. 

These angry people, usually men, kill a number of strangers and often themselves, as if that ends their problems. 

They will discover that their real problems have only just begun.

The left says it is all the guns’ fault, and they demand we turn the rest of the country into Chicago. 

There, strict gun control laws take away firearms from the law-abiding citizens, while the criminals have all the guns. 

Four people killed one weekend night is commonplace in Chicago because of the strict gun control laws.

Jesus said that it is not only wrong to murder people, but also even to hold anger in your heart. 

It is anger in the heart that bubbles over that can lead to these things.

The first man born of a woman was Cain, and he got so angry at his brother because God accepted the latter’s sacrifice, but not his, that he murdered Abel in cold blood.

Because of unchecked anger, there are potentially dangerous places in America:

• Public places, like malls, movie theaters, outdoor festivals;
• The workplace;
• Public school campuses;
• Highways (with the rising cases of road rage).

It’s hard to believe that human life is becoming so cheap that sometimes a person would literally take the life of another human being because of being cut off in traffic.

There is wisdom through the ages on anger:

• Publicus Syrus said, “An angry man is angry with himself when he returns to reason.”
• Ben Franklin said, “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
• Will Rogers warned, “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.”

Anger is even listed as one of the Seven Deadly Sins – a classic list of key sins that lay at the root of many other sins.

Anger is not always sin. 

The Bible has much advice about handling anger, but nowhere does it forbid us to get angry per se. 

Indeed, God made us in His image. In addition to being a God of love, He is a God of wrath. 

God is angry with the wicked every day. God’s anger is not petty, nor whimsically vindictive, but always in keeping with His eternal plan.

There is righteous anger. 

Anger over sin. 

Jesus showed that. 

He sometimes became angry – because of sin. 

For example, in the Gospels, He cleansed the Temple because it had been changed from a place of worship into just a marketplace.

In His anger, Jesus did not sin. 

However, the rest of us have a sin nature – which severely limits our ability to be righteously angry. 

We are more likely to import our own selfishness and own sense of entitlement in our anger.

Ironically, it was the violation of the commandment not to murder that salvation was made possible in the first place. 

Sinful men crucified Jesus Christ, the only perfect Person who ever lived, who was fully God and fully man, and who died on behalf of sinners so that those who believe in Him will experience forgiveness for their sins.

Alas, we need to control our anger. 

As Solomon noted, 

“A man who controls his temper is better than one who takes a city.”

Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/07/angers-power-in-a-culture-thats-forgotten-god/#PPJE1TY46kJxVQG2.99

GREAT AGAIN

DOES AMERICA DESERVE DONALD TRUMP?

Exclusive: Barry Farber declares, 'The bad guys are the ones that are messing with my boy'

The rest of you can keep on pinwheeling your high-minded legalisms and towering constitutional interpretations until Gabriel blows that high note. 

Keep on frowning those hyper-intellectual justifications for feeling the way you feel about President Trump, Robert Mueller and the gangs on both sides. 

I choose to admit that I am in a post-moralist period, so I’ll quickly get down to the burlap and admit that my feelings are primitivistic, strong and raw. 

Gone are the lofty salvos of pretense. 

At some point I became an authentic human, having little to do with seeking to convince the world that I’ve been kissed by tongues of righteous flame.

Now it’s real simple. 

Trump is my boy! 

Trump got to become my boy by my satisfying myself that his accomplishments border on the politically supernatural. 

OK, he didn’t achieve his wall even when the Republicans ruled the House as well as the Senate. 

Don’t you understand that he had to win over the Republican party even after he won the election? 

Have you anti-Trumpers ever heard of full employment including, but not limited to, blacks, Hispanics and women? 

Have you ever known a president to rattle the tambourine under the noses of NATO tightwads who got warm and cozy letting America pick up the tab for their defense for the last half century against a no-longer-so-threatening Russia? 

Is there an amusement park anywhere that can give you the pringle and tingle of a major economic surge?

I welcome myself back into the domain of authentic human beings. 

It’s really quite simple. 

Trump is my boy, and to me the bad guys are the ones that are messing with my boy. 

Got it? 

The teachings, tricks and tactics of his political enemies should be enshrined in the annals of juvenile delinquency. 

Go, Nadler, Go! You’ve got 22 percent of the nation with you. 

The Never-Trumpers have proven their brilliance in making political grenades. 

Forgive me for hoping that those grenades explode in their faces!

We pundits don’t have the right to name our own columns. 

Our editors do that. 

I hope my esteemed editor Ron Strom will allow this column to be entitled, 

“Does America deserve Donald Trump?”

Trump would triumph on the issue of energy alone. 

If you were to tie a rope around his waist and dip him like a tea bag into the Hudson River at the 79th St. boat basin, within 41 minutes you’d have soda water from the Statue of Liberty to the George Washington Bridge!

The rise and fall of Robert Mueller deserves five full-fledged operas on successive evenings. 

Never before have so many been so suckered by one pitiable man. 

Mueller is a decorated war hero and a legendary prosecutor. 

His presentation before Congress started out weak – and then gradually tapered off! 

Let him go to the Prosecutors’ Hall of Fame and sit on his throne. 

But first, would somebody help him get his foot disentangled from his own perjury trap? 

He doesn’t belong on the same playing field as Donald Trump.

Can anyone help me understand what happened to the Democratic Party? 

You can understand how it is that, growing up in North Carolina in the 1950s, I never met my first Republican until I was 25. 

If I were asked to direct a play about Democrats in that era and area, I could do no better in casting than Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff and the other real-life players of the Democratic Party today. 

Their physical appearances are just right – salt of the earth, oregano of the universe. 

But what happened to their politics? 

How could the likes of Nadler and Schiff lend themselves to such gargantuan lies? 

How could they aid, abet, empower and permit the Democratic Party to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Social Democratic Party? 

If they’re smart enough to get themselves elected to Congress, why aren’t they smart enough to realize there has never been a socialist or communist economy? 

Not one! 

There have been, by my count, 39 such collectivist economies attempted. 

And yet not one single success.

In Moscow the people ask: 

“What would happen if the Communists took over the Sahara Desert?” Answer: 

“For two years, nothing. 

Then they’d have to start importing sand!” 

If your cat tore up 39 of your sofas, would you be in a hurry to purchase sofa number 40 upon which your charming little pet might cavort?

Where is the Democratic Party located today? 

Don’t give me any address in Washington, D.C. Let’s be poetic. 

The new address of today’s Democratic Party is, I fear, up there where the elephants make love!

Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/07/does-america-deserve-donald-trump/#4oYcUC3MwrcSk7jR.99

ELECTION 2020

DOING THE MATH ON DEMS' FREE STUFF

John Stossel tallies cost of top 5 candidates' promises to voters

Never before have presidential candidates offered voters so much “free” stuff.

Kamala Harris wants you to “collect up to $500 a month.”

Elizabeth Warren says, “We need to go tenfold in our research and development in green energy.”

No one has tracked the cost of all of the promises. So my video team did!

Who will spend the most?

Here are the new spending proposals from the five most popular (according to ElectionBettingOdds.com) candidates.

In my latest video, we break it down by category, education spending first:

Joe Biden wants to “triple the amount of money we spend for Title I schools” ($32 billion) create “universal pre-K” ($26 billion), provide “free community college” ($6 billion per year) and double the number of psychologists and social workers in schools ($14 billion) – $78 billion total.

That’s a lot, but much less than what Kamala Harris would spend.

She too wants to “make community college free” ($6 billion), but she’d add debt-free “four-year public college” ($80.1 billion), “increase government’s investment in child care” dramatically ($60 billion) and “give the average public school teacher a $13,000 raise” ($31.5 billion) for a total of $177 billion.

Pete Buttigieg rarely says what his proposals would cost, but he at least seems to want to spend less than Harris.

He touts “free college for low- and middle-income students” and would give teachers more money. Assuming his plan is like Harris’, that brings his education total to $87 billion.

Elizabeth Warren would spend much more.

“You’ll be debt-free!” she tells students. Taxpayers, unfortunately, will be deeper in debt, since she would “forgive” most existing student debt and make public college tuition free ($125 billion).

She also wants a “Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act” ($70 billion).

These big-ticket items put her in first place so far.

But wait! Bernie Sanders would spend even more.

He’d completely “eliminate student debt,” “make public colleges and universities tuition-free” and provide universal day care and pre-K. That totals $280 billion, so Sanders “wins” in education spending.

I assumed the self-described socialist would be the biggest spender, but he’s got lots of competition! Let’s look at health care spending.

Harris, Sanders and Warren all propose “Medicare for All,” including for people here illegally.

Sanders goes further, saying, “Under our plan, people go to any doctor they want.” He admits it will cost between $3 trillion and $4 trillion per year, about what the government now spends on everything. How will he pay for that? Well, somehow the rich will pay. Or Martians. Somebody.

Sanders, Harris and Warren all said they’d ban private health insurance – although Harris now says she’d let private companies sell “Medicare plans” that “adhere to strict Medicare requirements on costs and benefits.” She also claims her “Medicare for All” will be cheaper than Sanders’ version, but as of now there is no independently calculated cost.

When it comes to the environment, all Democratic candidates but Biden say they support the Green New Deal, which Republicans say would cost $93 trillion. For our ranking, I went with the lowest estimate we could find: An economist who likes the idea says it will cost around $500 billion a year.

Welfare? Harris would increase benefits and have the government pay your rent if it’s over 30 percent of your income ($94 billion), and Friday she offered $75 billion to black colleges and minority entrepreneurs.

Warren wants to spend more ($50 billion) on housing.

Sanders would increase food stamps for kids ($10.8 billion), boost Social Security benefits ($19 billion) and guarantee everyone a government job ($158 billion), for a total of $187.8 billion.

President Donald Trump, who says America will never be a socialist country, hasn’t been a responsible spender either.

Since he took office, spending increased about $500 billion per year. Trump did propose some cuts, but when Congress ignored his cuts and increased spending, he signed the bills anyway.

Now he says he’d spend even more: $200 billion a year for infrastructure, $8.6 billion for the border wall construction, $1.6 billion for more NASA funding and on and on, for a total of $267 billion.

We can’t afford it! The federal government is already $22 trillion in debt – $150,000 per taxpayer.

While Trump’s $267 billion is bad, the Democrats’ plans are worse. We counted $297 billion proposed by Biden, $690 billion from Buttigieg, $3.8 trillion from Warren, $4 trillion from Sanders and $4.3 trillion from Harris. That would double what the entire federal government spends now.

Sen. Harris “wins” the free stuff contest.

Taxpayers lose.

Read more at https://www.wnd.com/2019/07/doing-the-math-on-dems-free-stuff/#siIhv53iw1YWg3vt.99

My comments: All this Spending would bring Fnancial RUIN, and turn America into a Third World Counrty