Feb 25 American Greatness Stories - VDH

02/25/2019   Yes, ‘This Is America, 2019’   By Victor Davis Hanson There have been so far about three general reactions to the concocted Jussie Smollett psychodrama. One, and the most common, has been apprehension that Smollett’s lies will discredit future real incidents of hate crimes against gays and minorities. This could be a legitimate concern, given the tensions within a multiracial society. Full article   When Bureaucracy Replaces Humanity   By Karl Notturno I got a letter last week informing me that my catastrophic health care insurance was terminated. The plan was terminated because of a technical glitch. Instead of billing the credit card I had designated as my primary payment option, my healthcare provider billed an old and deactivated card. A declined payment of $10.42 (to supplement an early payment due to rising premiums) and another for $127.49 later, I lost my coverage, long before I realized there was anything wrong. .Full article   When You Read Mueller’s Report, Remember How It All Started   By Adam Mill As we anticipate the potential release (or possible leak) of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on alleged collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, it’s important to remember that Mueller is not a detached third party and his report will not represent a dispassionate review of the facts. Rather, the report will be the product of a team that started coming together long before Trump took office. Not only did many of them know each other beforehand, many shared a common goal: to stop Trump any way they could. It would be unjust to allow the report into the public domain without giving its target, the president, the opportunity to defend himself. Full article   Congress Shirks its Powers and Then Cries ‘Thief!’   By Rachel Bovard A bipartisan howling is coming from Congress about President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build the border wall. And while hypocrisy in Washington is always in the water, on the question of immigration, there is enough of it to make your hair curl. Both Republicans and Democrats alike have rushed to condemn Trump for taking unilateral action. Full article   It’s Not a #GOPTaxScam, It’s Just a Scam   By Jared A. Chambers Dad taught me my first math lesson in the front seat of the car, counting ashtray pennies laid out on the transmission hump. “How many pennies is that, son?” He asked. Full article   Gutenberg’s Press   By Karl Cox Before Johann Gutenberg’s press, most medieval Europeans depended on oral communication to spread just about any message. Perhaps only 30 percent of Europeans were even literate. Gutenberg changed all of that—and changed history. Before Gutenberg, the creation and spread of ideas were painstaking, slow, halted, and inviscid. After Gutenberg, ideas could be generated and spread far more rapidly. It is hard to imagine the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, or the American Revolution without the printing press. It was the key innovation that facilitated all of them. Full article   Question My Nightmare and I Will Become Your Nightmare…   By James Patrick Riley Believe it or not, in 2019 America, a public entity has asked me not to show my face in my own home on my own property. As a consequence of my having violated progressive-think in the areas of race, gun rights, gender identification, and political preference (I voted for the guy who won), our attorneys have reminded a few school districts in Southern California that you can cancel business with vendors for a number of reasons. You cannot, however, terminate a two-decade relationship for political reasons. The courts have made that a very expensive proposition for public servants, and most of them know that, even in California. Full article   An American Epidemic: Toxic Imbecility   By Thaddeus G. McCotter I’m a doctor. Fine, I’m a doctor of laws not of medicine. But I can scroll Web, M.D. as well as anyone, so believe you me—forget all the other scourges ravaging our free republic, even if (nay, especially if) they are afflicting you. Those scourges are mere distractions from the root cause of our impending doom. No, I’m not talking about climate change/global warming/new Ice Age or whatever current false alarm the Left is sounding, for that false alarm is itself is a symptom of the new scourge; and, at the risk of sounding alarmist, our demise may well occur within the next twelve years. For, as President Abraham Lincoln ominously noted, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” And Mr. Lincoln wasn’t just talking about Jussie Smollett paying for his hoax hate crime with a check. Full article   The Myth of Millennial Socialism   By Christopher Gage My old man tells me he left college in the 1970s and walked into a job for life. He tells me his first home cost twice the average salary. Then he tells me, without a soupçon of jest, “things were still pretty tough back then.” His brow—unapologetically smooth for its 65 years, cheeks plumped fat and youthfully blooded from unbroken stretches of Boomer ease—fails to crumple with measured faux sympathy. Full article   When Crying Hate Is Hate Speech   By Rabbi Yaakov Menken The acting career of Jussie Smollett has come to an abrupt halt—at least for a while—after what appears have been one of his best, most compelling, and convincing performances, using a script he wrote himself. He convinced the nation that he had been targeted due to his race and sexual preference, and had his casting and directing met the same high standard as his acting, we might never have been the wiser. Full article   Dear Progressive Sir or Madam or Other . . .   By Belle Kendle Please let me offer a profuse apology on behalf of all of us righties. We have erred, and erred badly. I will attempt to speak for the group (something we previously would have found inappropriate and presumptuous but have since learned from your example should be common practice). We have much to make right with you. Full article   Third-Eye Justice at the FBI   By Julie Kelly Justice, we are told, is blind. Our top law enforcement officials repeatedly remind us of their integrity and their heroism; the men and women of the FBI are dedicated public servants who take on bad guys around the world at great sacrifice, and do so without bowing to stress or political pressure. 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