IT ISN’T ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY: Ted Cruz and Charles C.W. Cooke just embarrassed Colin Kaepernick so badly even we feel sorry for him.
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July 5, 2019
THE HORROR… THE HORROR… Jim Beam bourbon warehouse fire still burning Thursday more than 42 hours after it started.
I REMEMBER WHEN LARRY TRIBE WAS CONSIDERED A SERIOUS PERSON:
The “Resistance” warned us that if we elected an authoritarian such as Donald Trump, eventually there would be tanks in the streets of our nation’s capital. Well, on Thursday, their predictions finally came true.
I’m kidding, of course, but some on the left are not. Harvard Law professor Laurence H. Tribe tweeted a photo of tanks arriving in Washington for Trump’s “Salute to America” and declared “The resemblance to days before Tiananmen Square is chilling.” At Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, the Chinese regime broke up pro-democracy protests with tanks and troops in a military action that resulted in a still-uncertain number of deaths that is believed to range between several hundred and several thousand. Totally comparable situation.
Of all the stupid freak-outs we have experienced since Trump was elected, the hyperventilation over his Fourth of July address and celebration on the Mall may be the stupidest.
His critics called his decision to insert himself into the Independence Day celebrations virtually unprecedented. Sorry, but Trump is not the first U.S. president to give a major speech on the Fourth of July. Harry S. Truman once delivered an Independence Day address in front of the Washington monument. Presidents Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush all gave Fourth of July addresses from Independence Hall in Philadelphia. And, in 1986, Ronald Reagan delivered a Fourth of July address from the deck of an aircraft carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy, strategically placed in front of the Statue of Liberty.
Trump’s address took this tradition to new heights on Thursday. Democrats complained before the speech that Trump was politicizing the Fourth of July. He did nothing of the sort. In a speech reminiscent of his outstanding remarks last month at Normandy, Trump delivered a soaring presidential address — a celebration of the greatness of our country. “As we gather this evening, in the joy of freedom, we remember that we all share a truly extraordinary heritage,” Trump said. “Together, we are part of one of the greatest stories ever told — the story of America.”
He went on tell that story — from our struggle for independence, the fight to abolish slavery and secure women’s suffrage and civil rights. He called out the many great Americans who “defined our national character” from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson. He celebrated our inventors and explorers — from Lewis and Clark to Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers, Amelia Earhart and the Apollo 11 astronauts. And he vowed “we will plant the American flag on Mars” because “for Americans, nothing is impossible.” . . .
Millions of ordinary Americans who tuned in to watch must have been wondering what the fuss was all about. Democrats promised they would witness a partisan address. But instead, they saw the president deliver a deeply unifying speech that celebrated America’s accomplishments, and the courage of our men and women in uniform. With each passing minute, the president looked larger while his critics looked increasingly petty and small.
As one of my friends said, Trump maneuvered his opponents into attacking the Fourth of July.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Congressman Justin Amash Leaves Republican Party, Declares Himself an Independent.
NO BETTER DAY TO BECOME AN AMERICAN: Fifty new Americans were naturalized yesterday at Mount Vernon. Such ceremonies typically have a keynote speaker and at this one the keynoter was the Center for Immigration Studies’ Mark Krikorian.
His remarks included a wonderful analogy involving Moses, Mt. Sinai and the Ten Commandments that ties today’s new Americans in spirit with those of every year since the founding.
TYRANTS GOTTA TYRANNIZE: Venezuela’s rulers accused by UN of death squads and policy of fear.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY, 20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE EDITION: Dave Rubin Warns Liberals: The Mob ‘Will Come For You.’
UM, “NOW?”: Democrats Can’t Be Afraid to Gerrymander Now.
WHAT A CONSERVATIVE LEARNS IN COLLEGE.
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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Burning the Flag with Hope of a ‘World Without America.’
Flag burner Gregory “Joey” Johnson along with the communist party burned two flags outside the White House on the Fourth of July, calling for a “a world without America.”
I wish one of our Pulitzer-winning type “journalists” asked the communists which Democrat candidate they endorse for president. Alas.
Heh.
DON’T GET COCKY: Democratic Candidates Aren’t on a Winning Track.
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller’s Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims.
MODERN COMMUNISM: China Is Forcing Tourists to Install Text-Stealing Malware at its Border.
Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders into the Xinjiang region, where authorities are conducting a massive campaign of surveillance and oppression against the local Muslim population, are being forced to install a piece of malware on their phones that gives all of their text messages as well as other pieces of data to the authorities, a collaboration by Motherboard, Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the German public broadcaster NDR has found.
The Android malware, which is installed by a border guard when they physically seize the phone, also scans the tourist or traveller’s device for a specific set of files, according to multiple expert analyses of the software. The files authorities are looking for include Islamic extremist content, but also innocuous Islamic material, academic books on Islam by leading researchers, and even music from a Japanese metal band.
No state-sanctioned malware for iOS?
LEFTISM IS HATE: ‘Mini AOC’ ends parody videos after receiving ‘death threats,’ ‘harassment’ from the left, family says. “The 8-year-old child actor who went viral for impersonating Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, is no longer going to make videos due to death threats and harassment she and her family have received.”
WASHINGTON POST: Trump Made His Critics Look Small With “Salute To America.”
Related: Trump Soars With July Fourth Speech.
The crowd was certainly large.
