Author Archive: Mark Tapscott

SARAH SANDERS SHOWS WHY SHE’S UP TO WASHINGTON’S TOUGHEST JOB: Kathryn Blackhurst of LifeZette gives us a glimpse of why Sarah Huckabee Sanders is almost certainly the perfect person to be President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary. As we say back home in Oklahoma, she don’t take no crap from the likes of ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton and congressional Democratic flak now posing as a serious journalist.

THERE IS ACTUALLY NEWS OTHER THAN KAVANAUGH, ROSENSTEIN: This is going to shock a lot of folks, but federal income and immigration data starkly shows open borders make inequality in America worse, not better.

LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby reports:

“The Census Bureau measures inequality by a statistic known as the Gini index, which plots all incomes on a scale of 0 to 1. Zero means total equality — every household has the exact same income — while 1 would mean one household has all of the income.

“For the country in 2017, the bureau’s Current Population Survey calculated a Gini index of .482. That number has been creeping upward — increasing inequality — over the past few decades. It was .397 in 1967, for instance.”

And if that doesn’t throw liberals into an absolute tizzy, there’s this from Kirby:

“A different Census program, the American Community Survey, determined that inequality grew by a statistically significant amount from 2016 to 2017 in five states — California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, and New York. All of those states except for Louisiana had foreign-born populations greater than the national average of 13.7 percent.”

I think we can definitely say the Gini is out of the open-borders bottle.

HE WON THREE SUPER BOWLS AND FLEW A-10 COMBAT MISSIONS IN THE PERSIAN GULF: So what does former Dallas Cowboys all-pro Chad Hennings do for an encore? How about becoming one of the most famous advocates for religious freedom the mainstream media never told you about?

Hennings has hooked up with the First Liberty Institute, a Texas-based law firm that specializes in First Amendment litigation in defense of religious freedom for all, and makes the case today in LifeZette for the importance of two upcoming cases.

STEPHEN KING IS A REAL HORROR SHOW. JUST ASK SUSAN COLLINS: The Maine moderate Republican is Target #1 for the Dems’ Smear Kavanaugh Brigade.

HERE’S WHY THE NFL’S PROBLEMS ARE FAR FROM OVER: If the poo-bahs running the National Football League (NFL) think they have put the Kapernick Kneelers problem behind them, former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich explains why their product is becoming America’s former favorite sport.

 

SO, IF YOU TRUST PLATO AND ARISTOTLE, WHY NOT THE GOSPELS? Nobody ever says we shouldn’t believe Plato actually wrote “The Republic” or Aristotle “The Nicomachean Ethics.” So why question if the guys who said they wrote the Gospels were the real authors? The answer here is just about certain not to be what you expect.

HINT: It has nothing to do with the fact Plato and Aristotle were just a couple of old white guys who helped give us Western civilization. And there definitely is a lightning bolt from on high for the first wiseacre to say it’s all Greek to them!

FEINSTEIN, DEMS’ ’11TH HOUR STUNT’ ON KAVANAUGH: California’s senior Democrat in the Senate refused to provide any details but she did tell the MSM that she referred it to the FBI for investigation. This one gets my nomination for the Most Desperate Despicable Borking Since Bork.

WHAT IF MICHELLE OBAMA RUNS FOR PREZ IN 2020? If that sounds like an odd question, check out the former first lady’s promo for her new book and the accompanying tour. The most interested observer on this one? Hillary Clinton. LifeZette’s Michele Blood has the key details.

HERE ARE THE RICHEST, POOREST STATES: Something else that Trump is, as the Washington Post put it regarding Hurricane Florence, “complicit.” Check it out, from LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby.

A DECADE LATER, MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME BACK TO 2008 LEVEL: New data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, based on its Current Population Survey, shows median household income — half of the entries are smaller, half are larger — has returned to the levels seen in 2008. If Obama is responsible for this milestone, he sure took his sweet time about it.

COULD CHRISTIANS BE THE BIGGEST FOOLS OF ALL TIME? For believers and non-believers alike — including those of any faith or of no faith at all — that could be one of the most important questions ever. And if that doesn’t pique your curiosity …

SIX FACTS SAY PAPADOPOULOS IS RIGHT TO THINK HE WAS SET-UP: George Papadopoulos now thinks it was no coincidence that Australian diplomat Alexander Downer just happened to be in that London bar where the former Trump campaign volunteer had a few too many in 2016. LifeZette readers, among others, have known that for a long time, George. Or he could just have asked Hillary.

THE CRIPPLING PARADOX AT HEART OF DEMS’ KAVANAUGH CASE: It’s not immediately obvious but LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby brings it out with a clarity that would make a Supreme Court justice grin.

NIKE, MEET A WOMAN WHOSE CONVICTIONS MAY ACTUALLY COST HER EVERYTHING: Nike features Colin Kapernick who has made millions of dollars for kneeling in protest at NFL games. Now meet Barronelle Stutzman, who stands to lose her business, her home and her life savings as the penalty for her convictions.

HERE ARE DEMS’ SIX STEPS FROM BORK TO CONFIRMATION CHAOS: Liberal journalism icon Scotty Reston warned Democrats in 1987 not to follow Teddy Kennedy down the Borking path. They ignored Reston, the first of six steps that have brought the Democrats (and the rest of us as well) to their present Kavanaugh confirmation debacle.

DEMS SET UP COMING CLAIM THAT KAVANAUGH IS ILLEGITMATE: Just in case there’s any doubt about what Democrats’ post-Kavanaugh confirmation claims will be, they made it clear at the opening of the third and last day of the judge’s hearing they will claim he is illegitimate. Just like Trump is for colluding with Russian intelligence to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton.

And isn’t it impressive how all those Senate Democrats are accepting Sen. Thom Tillis’ challenge that, since they are going to make confidential documents public, they also  make public all of their emails concerning the Kavanaugh hearing. Can’t wait to read all about how they plotted with far-left protestors to disrupt and derail the hearing.

DEMOCRATS REVIVE THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN POLITICS: If that title sounds vaguely familiar, you’ve probably been around for a lot of years. It’s from the title of a 1964 Harper’s Magazine feature by Columbia historian Richard Hofstader.

Democrats used it against Barry Goldwater then and have accused conservatives and Republicans of being paranoid about Blacks, Hispanics, change, The Other, Climate Change, The Future, and just about everything else in every election since LBJ buried Goldwater.

But check this out: Democrats on the opening day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings put on a clinic for applying the paranoid style of politics. Yes, it’s not the first time they’ve done so, but boy is it obvious in the attacks on Kavanaugh.

FIVE WAYS DEMS WILL ATTACK KAVANAUGH TODAY: It’s going to get rough on Hearing Day Two for the judge. Here are five lines of attack Senate Democrats will pursue in their efforts to discredit Brett Kavanaugh (and the president who nominated him).

IS DITCHING FACEBOOK BECOMING A THING ON THE RIGHT? This survey says a third of self-identified conservatives either have already or are seriously considering leaving Facebook. If this phenomenon gains momentum, it could be big trouble for Silicon Valley’s liberal poo-bahs, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

HERE’S WHAT ANGERED MSM MOST ABOUT BOLYARD’S REPORTING: That she simply reported the straight facts? That’s about the size of it, PJ Media’s Paula Bolyard told Laura Ingraham this morning. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby has more on how liberal journos react when a colleague gives “just the facts, ma’am.”

GET YOUR GLOBAL WARMING LAW ENFORCEMENT HERE! A new report compiled by the indefatigable Chris Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) exposes a previously secret $50 million fund used to pay for global warming litigation by Democratic state attorneys general and their staffs.

“This is political. We have a policymaking process. They tried it and failed. So their stance is, ‘It’s not working, so we’re going to use law enforcement,’” Horner says in the report, according to LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby.

Horner uncovered, among much else, an email from a staffer to California’s Governor Moonbeam pitching the fund to staffers of the governors of Washington state and New York. The Brown aide wrote “before you gasp, please note that foundations are currently spending over $1 billion a year on climate work.”

As Glenn says, just keeping scrolling.

THINGS DEMS SAID ABOUT MCCAIN THEY’D NOW LIKE YOU TO FORGET: Do Obama, Biden, Schumer and Pelosi mean it now when they praise John McCain or did they actually mean it back when they were calling him a Bush toady, a corporate tool, and a peddler of despicable political smears? The Internet never forgets.

ABOUT THOSE “JOBS AMERICANS WON’T DO:” In fact, such jobs are almost non-existent. Based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found only six of 474 civilian occupations in which there is a non-native majority. That whooshing sound you hear is the air going out of another Open Borders talking point.

OBAMA JUDGE KILLS TRUMP ORDER TO DRAIN DEEPEST PART OF THE SWAMP: No part of the Washington Swamp is more deeply entrenched than the federal bureaucrat unions. So it was no surprise when the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) filed suit against President Donald Trump’s May 25 Executive Order (EO) directly challenging the bureaucrat unions’ power and perks.

Today, a Department of Justice spokesman hems and haws on what the administration will do in response to an Obama-appointed federal judge’s ruling late Friday striking down most of Trump’s EO. LifeZette’s Connor Wolf puts it all in proper context. This is VIP because if Trump can make Mexico pay for that wall, maybe he can also penetrate the bureaucrat wall that protects Washington against genuine reform.

WHAT IF THE LEFT TREATED IMMIGRANTS LIKE THEY DO GUNS? Now that’s an interesting question and LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby doesn’t hold back on the answers.