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A free press is not a privilege but
organic necessity in a great society.
—Walter Lippmann
COMMENTARY
out of
CONTEXT
A compilation of quotations on a variety of
issues by national, state and regional writers,
well-known personalities, just plain everyday
people and from various publications
collected by the editors of THE ADVANCE.
Quotes for our Times:
Jay Valentine, journalist for American
Thinker: The Sovereign Crime of Industrial
Scale Vote Fraud.
Yes, we can deploy that technology to
day. We have done it in the insurance indus
try for decades.
We can predict where election fraud is
going to happen. We can predict how it is
going to be done. We can deploy technolo
gies to identify likely fraud within seconds of
when it happens.
The question is, if the government is pretty
much in on the election fraud, does it really
matter?
Matt Vespa, Senior Editor at Townhall.com:
Trump lobbed this election violation claim...
and it just got vindicated in Michigan.
The Michigan courts ruled that Secretary
of State Jocelyn Benson overstepped her au
thority when she issued unilateral changes for
absentee ballots in the state. It all centered
on voter signature verification. If she wanted
to do that, she was going to have to get the
state legislature's approval. There was a rea
son why she didn't pursue this route: Michi
gan's state legislature is majority Republican.
So, she took this for a spin, and it worked. The
Trump campaign's claim was vindicated, but
the damage is done.
Katie Pavlich, Editor of Townhall.com: The
Washington Post story about Trump 'pressur
ing' Georgia election officials was total gar
bage.
So, what happened? Instead of attrib
uting quotes with audio back up, the pa
per took the word of an anonymous source
about what Trump said. Now, a new audio
recording of the call has surfaced and shows
Trump never pressured the election official.
Vince Coyner, writer for American Think
er: Why election integrity matters.
With H.R. 1, the Democrats are disem
boweling election integrity, sullying the sanc
tity of the voting booth and, most important
ly, undermining Americans' confidence that
they control their own government and, by
extension, their own destinies. The Constitu
tion works only because people have con
fidence in its workings and their role in it. It's
that confidence that has bound Americans
as one people and fostered an extraordinary
nation for two centuries. It would be tragic
- albeit predictable -- if Democrat schemes
pretending to strengthen election integrity
resulted in just the opposite and in doing so
undermined the very ties that bind the nation
together in the first place.
Loyd Pettegrew and Jim McCoy, writers
for American Thinker: Conservatives: Stop
whining and take action.
Republicans in every state deserve elect
ed officials who represent our conservativism
and patriotic values. RINOs betray this trust.
Conservatives must demand candidates
who will faithfully represent them in Congress
- not the bonfire of vanity from self-serving
politicians who turn their backs on their elec
torate.
Keeping RINOs in office only promotes
the liberal agenda. We must help them find
another line of work!
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com Relief Bill:
Bad Policy, Bad Faith
Joe Biden has signed what
may well end up being the
biggest accomplishment of his
presidency an enormous $1.9
trillion COVID relief bill.
With his other priorities
likely to molder in the Senate,
the spending will probably
stand as a signature statement
of Biden’s approach to
governance — and it should be
a damning one.
The legislation is a
misnomer; it is neither a
COVID nor a relief bill. Only a
tiny portion of the spending in
the bill goes toward vaccinations
and other priories directly
related to the pandemic.
Much of the rest of the
spending is not well-suited, or
even designed, to respond to
current economic conditions,
which are increasingly
favorable.
Democrats are telling
themselves that it’s like 1933,
when we were in the midst of a
depression, whereas it’s more
like 1983, when we were
coming out of a punishing
recession.
Or to put it another way,
the Biden bill is reacting to the
wrong spring. It is no longer the
cataclysmic spring of 2020,
with the economy shuttered
and nothing to fight the virus
except social distancing and
masks, but the much more
hopeful spring of 2021, with
the economy opening back up,
COVID cases steeply declining
and vaccinations ramping up
massively.
Jobless claims have
decreased, and personal
incomes are higher than when
the pandemic started. Both the
Congressional Budget Office
and Goldman Sachs are
projecting rapid economic
growth in 2021. As states open
back up, nearly 20% of the U.S.
population has received at least
one vaccination shot.
This isn’t to say that all is
well. There is an estimated
$420 billion hole in the
economy, although, as even
center-left critics of the bill
have noted, you don’t need a
$1.9 trillion bill to fill it.
The latest bout of spending
is spread around willy-nilly on
Democratic priorities and
constituencies.
Take public education,
where Democratic-allied
teacher unions dominate. It’s
not clear why any additional
spending is necessary, given
that tens of billions of education
funding from prior COVID
relief bills are still unspent, even
as many districts have already
begun to reopen for in-person
instruction.
Nonetheless, the bill
spends roughly another $130
billion on K-12 education,
which will be spread out over
years. The CBO projects more
spending for elementary and
secondary education will occur
in fiscal year 2026 than this
fiscal year.
The $350 billion in aid to
states and localities comes
despite state and local tax
revenue being down only a tick
through much of 2020
compared with the year before.
According to widely cited
Moody’s economist Mark
Zandi, the state and local
funding gap will be roughly $60
billion through fiscal 2022.
Still, states and localities will be
showered with money, after
more than $500 billion in aid to
states and localities last year.
The bill spends $86 billion
bailing out union-negotiated
multi-employer pension plans.
Transportation gets tens of
billions of new spending, which
by its nature doesn’t happen
quickly, and more than $30
billion goes to expanding
Obamacare, a long-term
Democratic policy goal.
It’s doubtful that the checks
of $1,400 to individuals are
necessary; it is more supply —
i.e., businesses being closed or
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the
NITTY
GRITTY
Hyde Amendment,
Yes. Shalanda
Young, No
The Office of
Management and
Budget is the largest
office in the
executive branch of
the federal
government.
First and
foremost, the OMB
prepares the federal
budget proposal that
the president sends up to Congress. Given
we’re talking about the allocation of
spending for almost $5 trillion of taxpayer
funds, this is no small task.
President Biden accepted the
withdrawal of his initial nominee for
director of this substantial enterprise,
Neera Tanden, when the numerous
members of Congress she has personally
attacked and disparaged over the years via
her Twitter account expressed their
displeasure.
The talk now is that Shalanda Young,
Biden’s nominee for deputy director,
should be bumped up to the director’s job.
But now Young finds herself embroiled
in her own controversy.
In written response to questions
associated with her confirmation hearings
for deputy director, she noted her view that
the Hyde Amendment should not be
reauthorized, despite having been
reauthorized every year since it first became
law in 1976.
The amendment, named after its
sponsor, Rep. Henry Hyde, was passed
three years after the Roe v. Wade decision
legalized abortion. It prohibits the use of
federal funds for performing abortions,
except in cases of danger to the life of the
mother, incest and rape.
The amendment was a logical
follow-up to Roe v Wade.
The Supreme Court may have
concluded that a woman has the right to
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COMMENTARY
President
Cloward, Vice
President Piven
By Brian C. Joondeph
Cloward-Piven is a political
strategy of calculated chaos first
described in 1966, by two Columbia
University sociologists, Richard
Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.
Their theory was published
appropriately in the far left The
Nation, the oldest continuously
published news magazine in the
country. Cloward-Piven’s goal was
the creation of chaos so that: “A
political crisis would result that could
lead to legislation for a guaranteed
annual income and thus an end to
poverty.”
The activities of the past year,
from an imported Chinese
coronavirus to a rigged and stolen
presidential election are textbook
Cloward-Piven, leading to a massive
shift in the leadership and direction
of America. We have gone from
government by, of, and for the people
to a tyrannical autocracy controlled
by a small cabal of self-appointed
elites.
Welcome to President Cloward
and Vice President Piven, or vice
versa for those who believe the
current vice-president is really in
charge, rather than the cognitively
impaired president in name only.
Cloward-Piven’s objective is
chaos and turmoil, or in their words,
“A massive drive to recruit the poor
onto the welfare rolls.” This is
followed by: “A federal program of
income redistribution has become
necessary to elevate the poor en
masse from poverty.”
Is there any better recap of
COVID, including lockdowns, closed
businesses, schools, and churches
requiring the ruling class spending
trillions of dollars they don’t have, to
rectify the damage and destruction
unleashed by the same ruling class
that now wants to correct it?
The so-called stimulus is massive
income redistribution, from the
producers to the nonproducers who
are in their situation either by choice
or through the diktats of the ruling
class and their decisions which
turned producers into nonproducers.
The stimulus will result in much of
the middle class, and states in general,
to further dependency on the federal
government sustenance.
In Cloward-Piven terms, a crisis
is: “A publicly visible disruption in
some institutional sphere.” How do
they create such a crisis? “Crisis can
occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as
the intended result of tactics of
demonstration and protest which
either generate institutional
disruption or bring unrecognized
disruption to public attention.”
Think of the George Floyd
protests and riots, a convenient
excuse for institutional disruption.
Institutions of law and order suffered
disruption, from calls to defund the
police to blatant disregard for private
property and businesses.
A preplanned riot at the Capitol
on Jan. 6 created a false panic and a
rushed certification of the Electoral
College votes without scrutiny or
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