Current-Events-2017-18

=**Current Events 2017-18**= News stories from the summer of 2017 through June 2018

@http://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/pennsylvania-schools-discuss-banning-backpacks/708454137
 * February 28, 2018:** PA schools debating ban on backpacks in schools.

@http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/02/27/tucker-battles-chicago-democrat-over-illegal-immigrant-id-cards-vote-emanuel-reelection
 * February 27, 2018:** New Chicago i.d. cards can be used to register to vote - illegal/undocumented immigrants can get those cards.

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 * February 27, 2018:** 64% of Trump's goals have been accomplished already.

@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9IE9GQhf5w
 * February 26, 2018:** Government at all levels let us down.

@https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/opinion/boys-violence-shootings-guns.html?referer=https://apple.news/Ah788EMktTz-Gi70MWPtsZw
 * February 25, 2018:** Article on issue with school shooters:

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 * February 23, 2018:** Article on opiods.


 * January 23, 2018:** Philadelphia to have safe injection sites for drug users. [|Click here]


 * January 19, 2018:** U.S. to surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production rivaling Russia for top spot in 2018. [|Click here]


 * January 9, 2018:** Are phones dangerous for kids? [|Click here]


 * January 2, 2018:** Prank signs on California highways on being a sanctuary state. [|Click here]

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 * December 22, 2017:** Trump signs tax reform bill ([|click here]). What's in it? [|Click here]

@https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-15/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-gop-tax-overhaul-bill
 * December 19, 2017:** Tax cut proposal going through House and Senate -


 * December 15, 2017:** Several women came out publicly stating that attorney Lisa Bloom offered them a large sum of money to accuse Donald Trump of sexual allegations days before the election.

There is an FBI agent named Peter Strzok and he was involved with the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation and he was also taken by special counsel Mueller to work with him on the Russian collusion investigation. OK. So Strzok apparently was having an affair with a government attorney and sent her e-mails disparaging Donald Trump and saying good things about Hillary Clinton. Now, this is the rumor. Nobody's seen the e-mails but Strzok was a big guy. Big guy. He was one of the lead investigators on the Clinton e-mails think, OK. So last August, very quietly, Mueller fires Strzok because he had put in writing to his alleged mistress that he didn't like Trump but he did like Hillary. Now, that taints everything because Strzok is an FBI agent. All right. So it taints the Hillary investigation and it taints the Russian collusion investigation. But this Mueller thing, this is such a help to President Trump. I don't even know if the president understands what a help this is. So briefly, and we reported it in great detail yesterday, there's a top FBI agent named Peter Strzok, and he has been removed from special prosecutor Mueller's staff after it was learned that he sent anti Trump e-mails to his mistress who also works for the federal government, Lisa Page, FBI lawyer, last August. He was removed last August. This Strzok. Now, this guy is a big guy. He's the top FBI counterintelligence man and he sat in on all the Hillary Clinton email investigation in addition to coming over to Mueller to look at the Russian allegations about intruding on our election. So Strzok, he's gone, but the Congress, the House Intelligence Committee wants to see what the e-mail said. Because remember, Strzok had say in what happened to Hillary Clinton, he was second to Comey in that. The FBI and the Justice Department will not give the e-mails up inexplicably. They must be embarrassing. So now the House may file contempt of Congress charges against the current Attorney General Sessions, the FBI chief, and anybody else who's obstructing it. This is crazy. Now, I believe that the Justice Department is going to give those, that information. I can't imagine Sessions isn't going to order that to happen, but it should have happened already. Ok. So now the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a powerful establishment player, says Mueller has got to go, he's got to go, he's not fair, he's tainted. He's a friend to Comey. He tried to low key this Strzok dismissal. He didn't come out in a press conferences and say I've got to get rid of this guy. He's got to go because, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial board, he's not conducting a fair investigation. Huge for Trump because no matter what Mueller comes back with now, it's tainted, it's tainted. So big. Now, apparently NBC and CBS News, their flagship broadcast, didn't even cover this. CBS did. I'm watching the faces and body language of CNN last night on this story and it's like a funeral because the perception is very important in the Russia investigation. Perception is very, very important. If the people think it's bogus and they don't think anything happened there, there's not going to be any charges leveled against Donald Trump or his top guys. Flynn has already been convicted of lying to the FBI. OK. So Flynn goes. Manafort you figure is going to go for money laundering. But otherwise, what is there? Now, it looks to me that Mueller is steering the investigation, and this is a big mistake that everybody's making in the media, it's not obstruction of justice that Mueller's trying to get Trump on, it's obstructing a federal investigation. Not obstruction of justice. Very important. I picked this up, I, your humble correspondent, which is why you're listening to me right now. So Mueller, I think, is going to try to make a case that by firing Comey and telling Comey and others, hey, why don't you lay off Flynn, he tried to obstruct a federal investigation. That's a low-level beef. But it looks to me like that's where Mueller is going. But even there, if it's deemed that Mueller is isn't fair, he's a nitpicker and there's nothing big here at all, the folks aren't going to tolerate it. I can't impress upon you how important that story is. All right. And it was uncovered by the Washington Post, New York Times and others, not an exclusive story, but they printed it with heavy hearts I'm sure. One other interesting side note here. This guy Strzok interviewed Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, those are Hillary Clinton's two top lieutenants and remain so today. Apparently, in the FBI interviews with them, both women denied they knew that Hillary Clinton took a private server after she left the state department. They didn't know. They say they didn't know that she was doing the private server routine. The FBI has uncovered memos that indicate the women did know. So what would that be? Lying to the FBI. Correct?
 * December 3, 2017:**


 * December 1, 2017:** General Flynn charged with lying to FBI last December. Many wondering if Trump in any hot water, but evidence shows Flynn's discussions with the Russians didn't break any laws. [|Click here]


 * October 31, 2017:** A terror attack in NYC killed several Americans. A Muslim extremist claiming allegiance to ISIS rented a Home Depot van and drove through the bike/pedestrian lane. He was captured alive by police.

Now, this is the big story. This is it. Fusion GPS payments to dig up dirt on Donald Trump when he was running for president. That's the big story. Eye on the ball. All right, forget about uranium one. It's a good story. It's a good one but you're never going to nail any high-level people for it. You just can't. Fusion GPS, you can. Now, let me just go over it. All right. This is a group that was hired by three that we know of, probably more, entities to find dirt on Donald Trump that was being circulated by Russians. The Russians are all over this. OK. The Obama for America PAC, political action committee, gave Fusion GPS through a law firm called Perkins Coie a million dollars in 2016- 2017. Why? Barack Obama wasn't running for anything, he's through. Why would you give Fusion GPS, pay them, a million bucks? For what? For what? Huge. That ties President Obama in with this crew. And you'll remember that the dossier they came up with from the Russians was all fake. It's all fabricated. But it found its way into the FBI and other government entities. OK. We don't know how much the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid Fusion GPS because they won't tell us. But we will because that operation has now told congressional investigators they're going to hand over their books. So, we'll know. And I bet you that number is above 12 million. Now, a conservative crew, Washington Free Beacon, also hired Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump. But they got out early. The big boys are the Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC, with Obama for America back for a million.
 * October 30, 2017:** Fusion GPS story with the Clinton Campaign and the fake Trump dossier.


 * October 23, 2017:** Mueller looking into Uranium One deal with Russia during the Obama Administration with ties to the Clinton State Department. [|Click here] In addition, evidence is showing that the Clinton campaign and the DNC (Democratic National Committee) paid for the Trump Dossier, which turned out to be false information on Trump.

There's a study by Live Person, a business solutions provider and it asks more than 4000 young adults all over the world ages 18 to 34, they're called millennials, about their phones. So, 70 percent of millennials would rather text than talk to a human being in person. No surprise. It's easier to text. So if you're breaking up with your boyfriend, you can say, "sorry, Sid, never want to see you again, but you're still a good guy. Thanks, Sue." Text. You don't have to look at Sid crying. That's and extreme example but that's what this is all about. Texting is so much easier than human interaction. However, the downside is that you become a zombie, that human feelings are not in the text. In fact, you hit a little thing and then do a happy face or a cry face, whatever. But human feelings and how people are reacting to you, that's an important part of life. Or used to be. Not anymore, in my opinion. Human feelings are on the wane. The other part of the study that's interesting is 70 percent of the participants say they sleep with their phone within arm's length. OK, so in case it buzzes they can get it in the middle of the night. Large minorities believe it's OK to use the phone at the dinner table, 42 percent, and in the middle of a conversation, twenty eight percent. Now, I hate the phone. But I have to use it for work and other very important things. So, I do have it with me most times but if I'm talking to someone and it buzzes, if I'm expecting something, I say, "please, excuse me. I think this is a work related thing," because I've got to make decisions every day quick, stuff that's going on, "and I'll be right there. I'll be right back." OK and then I punch it and get it out and this and that. But the problem with the phones is that we're losing compassion and feeling for others. We're losing that and we're becoming like this. You watch the children, you know, on a Saturday I can cruise around and used to be the ball fields were filled, basketball courts filled, kids playing and running around, no longer. They're all inside on their machines playing games. And they go from the machines to the texting and the texting can get rough. All right. It can get really rough. You can use words on the text that if you spoke those words you get in trouble, but in text nobody sees it or whatever, it's not a good situation.
 * October 19, 2017:** Use of texting and cell phones - too much or not a problem?

There were four U.S. military people killed in Niger, which is a country in Africa, fighting ISIS. So what we have is the United States sends special forces, in this case Green Berets, all over the world to help governments fight ISIS or al Qaeda. That's not unusual. This is what happens. We have special forces in the Philippines and Syria, many, many other countries. So, the four of them die in combat. And one of them, Sergeant La David Johnson is a hero and President Trump decides he's going to call the widow, Myeshia Johnson, who lives in south Florida, who has two children and is pregnant with a third... it's a horrifying situation, a tragic situation... and he expressed condolences on behalf of the country, as the commander in chief does. All right, so he gives, the White House gives the family 24 hours, saying the president will call at this time. And the family then gets in touch with this Congresswoman, Wilson, who's a known Trump hater. All right. And she has voted against every single appropriation to help the military. So she gets a heads up the call is going to be made, then comes into the car where the call is on a speaker phone. We went through this yesterday. And then President Trump talks to the widow, Mrs. Johnson, extends condolences. Nobody in the press knows what was said or how it was said or what was the tone. Nobody knows, ok. Now, about two seconds after the call is over, somehow Congresswoman Wilson makes it onto CNN. Of course, it had to be set up in advance. Of course, it did. You just don't call CNN and say I want to come on. So this was, to me, has all the earmarks of a set up, absolute set up.
 * October 18, 2017:** Controversy over Trump's call to Gold Star widow:


 * October 12, 2017:** Trump's Executive Order on health care. [|Click here]


 * October 11, 2017:** Column on questions that are unanswered about the Las Vegas massacre. [|Click here]


 * October 8, 2017:** The FBI has put out a report that says quote, "black identity extremists are now a violent problem and a domestic terror threat." Black identity extremists. These are people after Ferguson, Missouri who have allied themselves into a group or a movement that says violence is justified against America. So the FBI now has classified them, first time, "black identity extremists." They also say in the same report that white supremacist groups are growing in the USA.


 * October 1, 2017:** Las Vegas massacre - 59 dead, over 500 wounded. Tragic day in America. This is one of the downsides of freedom; a person committed to violence able to do so. By early accounts, he was retired, never in any trouble, and no signs of mental illness. Information will come out. Emotions run very high politically when there are shootings such as this. On the liberal end, immediately there are calls for more gun control and gun laws. On the conservative end, there aren't any laws anyone could come up with that would have prevented this - evil people will find a way to do evil acts. Since emotions run high on both ends, don't expect a civil discussion on how to solve an issue such as this.


 * September 30, 2017:** Supreme Court kicks off term - important cases. [|Click here]

Republicans leaders eager to turn page after health care failure; Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill President Donald Trump and Republicans are rolling out their plan to reform the tax system and enact cuts for certain individuals and businesses.
 * September 27, 2017:** Trump unveils Republican led tax cut/tax reform plan.

Publicly revealed Wednesday, the dramatic tax overhaul plan heralded as a "once in a generation" opportunity was months in the making, and Trump himself implored lawmakers to work on his plan and cut taxes for the middle class. Trump campaigned on the promise of overhauling the tax code, and senior administration officials said this plan is “largely similar” to what Trump has called for.

Should the tax reform plan pass, it would be the first major overhaul of the system in decades. The plan’s framework is the product of the so-called Big Six: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnunchin; House Ways and Means chair Kevin Brady, R-Texas; Senate Finance chair Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; White House economic policy chief Gary Cohn; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Here’s what to know about the plan:

**Tax bracket collapses**
Republicans plan to simplify the tax code by cutting the number of brackets from seven to three or four, according to senior administration officials. The plans sets the highest tax bracket at 35 percent and the lowest at 12 percent, but senior administration officials said they can be changed. The standard deduction, which reduces the amount of taxed income, is doubled to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for married couples. “The code currently favors the wealthy and the privileged and the connected who can hire attorneys and accountants to help them navigate and take advantage of exemptions, deductions and credits – many of which go away” in the overhaul plan, White House special counsel Kellyanne Conway told Fox News.

**Focus on middle class**
“We will cut taxes tremendously for the middle class,” Trump said Tuesday after a meeting with members of the House tax-writing committee. The House Ways and Means Committee’s guide on the plan said it would help middle-class Americans with investments such as retirement, starting a business or buying a home

President Donald Trump met with members of the House Ways and Means Committee, including Reps. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Richard Neal, D-Mass., about proposed changes to the U.S. tax code Tuesday. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) While there are few specifics, the child tax credit is increased and a new credit for non-child dependents would be added. This "relief" will "help lift the middle class and let hardworking families keep more of their hard-earned dollars," Hatch said Wednesday. The framework also leaves in place certain incentives, including for charitable donations and home mortgage interest. Democrats have pushed for tax relief being given to middle class Americans – not the wealthiest. “Vague promises can’t conceal the hard facts: if anything resembling President Trump’s current proposal becomes law, the outcome would be a redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy on a scale we have not seen before,” ITEP executive director Alan Essig said.

**Small businesses see relief**
The plan would lower the tax rate for small businesses to 25 percent. Alfredo Ortiz, president of the nonprofit Job Creators Network, praised the proposal for including cuts for small businesses. He told Fox News that Congress should “make these cuts retroactive to January 1st of this year, allowing small business owners to have maximum opportunity.”

**Corporate tax rate lowered**
The plan would lower the corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent. Trump has previously said he wants to lower it to 15 percent, and the framework's proposed rate is largely seen as his red line on the issue.Trump blasted the United States’ business tax rates Tuesday and promised to lower them to make the U.S. “super competitive” for companies. “If we do this, we will create millions of new jobs for our people,” Trump said.

**Certain taxes eliminated**
The plan also would cut certain taxes, such as the so-called death tax, or estate tax. The federal estate tax is “a tax on your right to transfer property at your death,” according to the Internal Revenue Service. It only impacts wealthier Americans. However, farmers with a lot of acreage see estate taxes as crippling as most farmers aren't wealthy but have large farms worth a lot of money. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called the framework "morally repugnant" and said it "is particularly obscene" to eliminate the estate tax. "Instead of giving more tax breaks to billionaires who don't need it, we should be doing everything we can to rebuild the disappearing middle class," he said. Republicans also plan to kill the marriage tax penalty, which can occur when a couple marries and files taxes jointly.

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 * September 22, 2017:** At a rally in Alabama, President Trump weighed in on the kneeling for the National Anthem in the NFL and pro sports. He condemned it and said in his opinion everyone should stand for the National Anthem. He then said he'd like to see an owner say get that sob off of the field. That led to most NFL teams opposing that statement and much more kneeling or staying in the locker room. Polls show most Americans see standing for the National Anthem as respectful but also don't feel players should be fired over kneeling. The kneeling began by a former quarterback in 2016 claiming he was kneeling because of what he perceived as a country in which the justice system and police were racist against blacks. The statistics show that there is not widespread systematic police or justice system discrimination against blacks (if so, there'd be daily incidences). However, many blacks do feel that they get unfairly targeted by police due to skin color. Moreover, these protests on Sunday (Sept. 24) were more anti-Trump for his comments. Below is an interesting article comparing the NFL to the decline of the auto industry in the 1970s and a correlation.


 * September 21, 2017:** Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico yesterday. It was extremely devastating to the island, even worse than the damage from recent hurricanes in Texas and Florida. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and therefore the people are U.S. citizens. Therefore, U.S. military is already on the scene aiding in relief efforts. Congress will appropriate money for rebuilding.

Reports that special counsel Robert Mueller had wiretapped former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort and plans to indict him sent Washington into a new tizzy of speculation. According to CNN, which first carried the wiretapping report, Manafort was surveilled under a FISA warrant, meaning the FBI suspected he was operating as a foreign agent. The network said it is possible G-men listened to the president talking to Manafort because the wiretap continued into this year and Trump and Manafort often talked in 2017. If so, that would mark an infamous history — an American president being overheard by secret agents of his own government. It would also be additional support for Trump’s charge that former President Barack Obama “had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.” It was in March when Trump made that explosive claim, and the Democratic media rushed to denounce him even before Obama did. Subsequent denials from then-FBI boss James Comey and other Obama aides all were rock-solid in declaring that no such thing had happened. There was no wiggle room in their denials, some of which were made under oath before Congress. But something certainly happened. And what if it was the worst imaginable something? What if the Republican candidate for president was put under surveillance by a Democratic administration that was trying to elect another Democrat? There was reason to suspect that was true before the Manafort reports added fuel to the fire. Recall that, starting last fall, continuing throughout the transition and into the early months of the administration, much of the media was obsessed with the narrative that “Russia hacked the election and Trump colluded.” It was a feeding frenzy of reports naming various Trump associates who had any contacts with Russians. It was guilt by association, all based on leaks of classified secrets that originated either in law enforcement or intelligence agencies, or the Obama White House. So what this is all shaping up to look like is that under President Obama, there was a massive amount of surveillance going on. Some of it may be illegal and Donald Trump may be absolutely right when back in March he said, ‘Hey, they tapped me!’ Because he was obviously talking to Paul Manafort in the Trump building since Manafort lived there.
 * September 20, 2017:**
 * __Trump may have been right about Obama wiretapping__**


 * September 18, 2017:** Republicans trying to revive health care reform efforts. Current bill would shift health care to the states to decide how best to run health care in their own states. Democrats pushing single-payer/government-run health care (__ [] __).


 * September 15, 2017:** Protests in St. Louis led by Black Lives Matter after a white police officer was found not guilty in the shooting death of a black man in 2011. What took place in 2011 was that police saw a drug deal in a parking lot. Police went to check it out. The deceased had gotten into his car and tried to run over the cops. The cops gave chase...a high speed chase which ultimately ended with the shooting death of one suspect, a black man. The officer claimed self-defense stating that the man was holding a gun once the chase was ended. Prosecutors claimed the officer planted the gun in the car after the shooting. A major belief from the protesters is that if the suspect was white, police would not have been shot under the same exact circumstances.

Trump Administration rescinded DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). This plan was started by President Obama in 2012. Opponents of DACA show that it was actually unconstitutional because President Obama changed existing law by executive action. Supporters of it don't mind the unconstitutionality because it protects illegal immigrants who had been brought here as children. In reality, Trump rescinding this puts the pressure on Congress to once and for all develop immigration reform. Undocumented immigrants and their supporters yelled, “Shame!” in front of the White House and got arrested in front of Trump Tower in New York City on Tuesday as the Trump administration said it would end an Obama-era program that has shielded nearly 800,000 young people from deportation. In Manhattan, about a dozen protestors blocked traffic on 5th Avenue, near Trump Tower. They sat in the street, arms locked. After about 10 minutes NY police began warning that they would be arrested if they did not leave voluntarily. Attorney General Jeff Sessions [|announced an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program], saying the program was unconstitutional but giving lawmakers in Congress six months to pass legislation to help undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as young children. A Republican coalition had threatened to challenge DACA in court if President Trump did not act by Tuesday to rescind it. The states, which had mounted a successful legal challenge in federal court to a similar program that would have benefited the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and green-card holders, have until Tuesday to amend that lawsuit to include DACA. Here are the details of the new DACA plan:
 * September 5, 2017:** Trump ends Obama-era DACA.
 * The administration won’t consider new applications … dated after Sept. 5.
 * Anyone who has a DACA permit expiring between now and March 5, 2018, can apply for a two-year renewal.
 * Some Dreamers, those with permits that expire between now and March 5, will be eligible for legal status for another two-plus years. For others, legal status ends as early as March 6.

North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb which is the sixth nuclear test. President Trump announced shortly after that the White House has not ruled out a military response. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, which monitors the globe for nuclear tests, said that its monitoring system had gone off-scale. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which was human-made. That's far larger than the seismic signature from the North's last test, conducted roughly a year ago. On Monday, South Korea conducted military exercises involved F-15 fighter jets and land-based ballistic missiles simulating an attack on North Korea’s nuclear test site to “strongly warn” Pyongyang over the recent detonation. Then again today, South Korean warships conducted live-fire exercises at sea Tuesday as Seoul continued its displays of military capability following U.S. warnings of a “massive military response” after North Korea detonated its largest-ever nuclear test explosion. Members of the United Nations Security Council met in emergency session on Monday to condemn North Korea’s test of what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb, its sixth and by far its most powerful ever. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said that Mr. Kim was practically “begging for war” and that “enough is enough,” she echoed Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ threat to use military force to stop Kim’s nuclear program and protect America and its allies. Today, President Trump tweeted, “I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States.”
 * September 3, 2017:** North Korea tests hydrogen bomb.

You may have heard the saga of law professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander. In an op-ed published last month, they put forth a simple and common-sense prescription for getting ahead in modern America. Their piece, headlined "PAYING THE PRICE FOR BREAKDOWN OF THE COUNTRY'S BOURGEOIS CULTURE," first laid out some of the very serious problems affecting America. Among them: - Opioid abuse is widespread - Homicidal violence plagues inner cities - Almost half of all children are born out of wedlock It's hard to argue with those facts. But then came their prescriptions: Get married before you have children, strive to stay married, get educated, work hard, be a patriot, be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Go the extra mile for your employer, eschew substance abuse and crime. Again, most fair-minded people would say that makes a whole lot of sense. But college campuses, even highly-esteemed universities, are not populated by many fair-minded people these days. Larry Alexander has taken some heat at the University of San Diego, but it's Amy Wax who has really been hammered big-time at the University of Pennsylvania, whose law school is ranked among the very best in America. Almost immediately after the article appeared, 33 of Wax's colleagues signed what they called an open letter to the university community. Without making any actual counter-arguments, they condemned the op-ed and its authors, and wrote this astounding sentence: "We categorically reject Wax's claims." Categorically? Every single one of her claims? Do these highly-trained legal minds really reject the notion that it's better to be married before having kids? Or that it's a good idea to work hard, to study, to be neighborly and respectful? During a telephone interview this week, Amy Wax decried the existence of a "monoculture" and an "echo chamber" on most campuses, including her own. "What kind of example does it set for law students," she asked rhetorically, "when 33 faculty members say we 'condemn' Amy Wax's statements and 'categorically reject' her claims? It teaches students that they don't have to make an argument!" As for those students, Wax lamented that many are absolutely "terrified" by the current atmosphere of repression that reigns on campuses. "There is so much intimidation, there are so many threats, and there is a lot of peer pressure if any kind of dissenting thought is expressed." In the op-ed that so many academics and students found offensive, Wax and Alexander denounced the single-parent, antisocial habits that are prevalent among many working-class whites, and also blasted the "anti-'acting white' rap culture of inner city blacks" and the "anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants." It is very clear that Amy Wax and Larry Alexander want all Americans to have a shot at success. It is equally clear that they believe following the rules of "bourgeois culture" is the best way to achieve that success. They could just as easily have said "traditional values" or "middle class morality," which mean the same thing. But they are being accused, of course, of promoting "white supremacy." Professor Wax has been shunned by many of her colleagues and may be banned from teaching a required first-year course. You know, those dainty students, who have already been through four years of college, may need a fainting couch if they are anywhere in Wax's vicinity. "It's very clear to me," she declares, "that if I did not have tenure I would be out of here." That statement, while pithy, speaks volumes about modern education. Now, one might think that Professor Wax would be a feminist heroine. She is an opinionated, strong, and fearless woman who speaks what she sees as the truth, damn the consequences. But we all know that conservative women are not welcome on campus or in any other left-wing arenas. Defiant as ever, Amy Wax offers this advice for anyone who runs afoul of the PC police: "Never apologize, do not grovel, do not give them the slightest sense that you are intimidated by what they are doing to you. I see people scurrying to apologize and that is the biggest mistake you can possibly make because that just emboldens them." At the risk of offending even more people, we'll add one simple word: Amen!
 * September 2, 2017:** Op-ed on professors under fire for writing opinion on cultural problems in the U.S. See below

President Trump gave a speech at the Loren Cook Company in Springfield, Missouri, today to push for a major tax overhaul. In President Trump’s speech he outlined 4 main points for his tax plan. 1- Simplify the tax code and get rid of special interest loopholes 2- Make tax rates more competitive to benefit American workers and bring business tax rates to 15%, it is currently at 35%. 3- Tax relief for middle class working Americans 4- Make companies bring back the wealth that they’ve made overseas by cutting their tax rates. In President Trump’s speech he said, “We are here to bring back Main Street by reducing the crushing tax burden on our workers and our companies.” He went on to say, “There is no more fitting place to launch this effort than right here in the American heartland,” he added, calling the nearby historic Route 66 highway a “vivid symbol of America’s booming industry.”
 * August 30, 2017:** Trump gives speech on tax cut plan:

President Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio for political reasons because the sheriff was a big, big defender of Donald Trump and got on the Trump train very early. Now Arpaio is 85 years old, has been in law enforcement forever. He was in the army, then he was in the DEA after local law enforcement. He was abroad...guy has served his country. Whether you like him or not, he served his country. That goes a long way in deciding presidential pardons...what your history is, how much you've given to your country. So, what did Arpaio do to get convicted? Well a judge, a federal judge, said to him, "Look, you can't have your deputies in Maricopa County (that's Phoenix) stopping Hispanic looking people and asking for papers," which is the accusation against Arpaio, who denies it. But there's possibly evidence that there were a bunch of traffic stops on Hispanic looking people and some people were detained when no crime was alleged. They were detained because their immigration status was unclear.You can't do that. So the judge said to sheriff Arpaio, "you've got to knock that off." And Arpaio says he was confused by the order of the judge and the order from the feds from the Obama administration, he was confused and his deputies were confused. He probably wouldn't have gotten jail time. Not with his record. Opponents of President Trump say he let a racist former sheriff off the hook for a crime. Supporters of Trump claim it was a witch hunt by the Obama Administration because Arpaio was cracking down on illegal immigration. Trump, himself, wants to secure the border and stop illegal immigration and Arpaio had supported Trump from the start. There's no evidence that Arpaio has racist beliefs and he was never involved in racist organizations. The county in which he was sheriff was heavily Hispanic meaning to continually be re-elected numerous Hispanics would have had to vote for him. However, the illegal immigrants in his county would have been Hispanic so obviously he'd be stopping Hispanics looking for proof of status so he certainly would have been targeting just Hispanics, hence the argument that he was racist.
 * August 28,** **2017:** Trump pardons Sheriff Joe Arpaio.


 * August 25, 2017:** Hurricane Harvey hits Texas. Worst hurricane in that region since Katrina in 2005.


 * August 23, 2017:** The ACLU put up this picture (below) on Twitter and stated that "This is the future that ACLU members want." They were referring to free speech - if you look at the onesie, you'll see what they meant. Twitter followers blasted them because they used a white child and said it looked like a KKK ad. The ACLU took the picture down and thanked their Twitter followers saying they see how easy white supremacy can get in. Right thing to do or way to politically correct?

The ACLU reposted the picture below with the caption "When your Twitter followers keep you in check and remind you that white supremacy is everywhere."


 * August 21, 2017:** Trump's Afghanistan speech: Basically Trump announced stepping up forces to secure Afghanistan; told our allies they must contribute soldiers and money to the cause; warned Pakistan that funding they get will be cut off if they harbor terrorists; announced that we are not writing a blank check or promising unlimited time but will not tell the enemy we are setting a time table to leave; he lifted the rules of engagement (previously our soldiers could not fire unless fired upon - now our soldiers will be able to attack).

Commentary on the speech: on Afghanistan. You have two choices in Afghanistan. You can leave and the predictable consequence of leaving would be that the Taliban would take over most of the country. Kabul might be able to hold out. Bagram Air Force Base outside of Kabul where the U.S. troops are based, that would hold out, but primarily the Taliban would run the country. So that's what would happen. There's no real debate on that. And then the Taliban would let ISIS and al Qaeda and every other terrorist group do what they want. So you'd be right back to where you were in 2000. So that's option number one: get out, we did the best we could, it was a noble endeavor, which it was, but the Afghan people are not strong enough to fight their own battles and they never will be. OK, so that's the option that President Trump rejected. What he accepted was an ongoing presence like Korea but with bullets flying where we're there and NATO, you know, they're there too, but not to the extent that we are. We have about 10/12 thousand American troops. And then we're basically firefighters. So when the Taliban pops up we whack-a-mole them back and we keep the country out of the hands of the Taliban. So that's the option that President Trump has embraced. He said, "OK, we're willing to spend the money," and you know, at that level you're talking 50/60 deaths a year unless there's a chopper crash or something and maybe 300 wounds. You know, it's substantial. It's not trivial. But that would keep the country in place. Now, I'd like to talk to Secretary of Defense Mattis about this because he knows more than anybody. I'd like to say look, "do you have any hope at all the Afghan army and police services can control their country or is it just not ever going to happen?" I'd like to, you know, have that conversation with Mattis, but Mattis isn't going to certainly answer those questions. But he knows. Mattis knows. Now, I was, you may remember, over there in Afghanistan and the primitive nature of the country is just startling. It's tribalism with Islam driving behavior. And depending on where you are on the religious scale, there are some liberal Islamists and some very, very conservative Islamists, that dictates how you behave. The Taliban are fundamentalists. They're going to come in. It's Shari'a law. That was one thing that struck me when I was driving into Kabul from the airport. We flew in on a big transport plane and there were no lights in the country. I remember sitting in the cockpit telling the pilot "are we close by?" And he goes, "yeah, we're going to land in 15 minutes." I looked down. I said, "well, there's no light..." He goes, "well, they don't have electricity. Only the big cities." So it's like black. I thought we were over the ocean. But anyway, you get into a primitive society and I was riding into Kabul in a car with my bodyguards and I said, "stop for a moment." The car stopped and on the side of the street was this cement wall with these iron round things and what looked like rust all over the place. And I said, "what's that? That caught my eye." The bodyguard says to me, "that's where the Taliban would put people for public floggings if they committed adultery, if they were gay, or anything like that." They shackled them into these iron, cast iron round things up against a concrete wall and beat them so everybody could see it. That's the kind of society the Taliban imposed. So, President Trump made the case, said, "look we've got to stay there because we can't have this 9/11 situation again where you have a breeding ground and a training ground for ISIS and al Qaeda. So we have to do it." Most Americans I think agree with that even though it's frustrating. They say it's the longest war in American history. But yeah, we're not really fighting the war. If we're fighting the war we'd invade Pakistan and kill all the Taliban that's hiding up in the northwest quadrant. And what are you going to do with Pakistan? I mean, he says that they're going to get tougher on them. But you know, it's, Ok, but they're not going to... The Pakistani government is chaotic. There's a lot of Islamists in the government. Some people want to root out the terrorists, some people don't. There's assassinations all over the place. The country is out of control. They have a nuke. So there's only so much we can do over there. I'm not expecting great strides by Pakistan to fight the Taliban. It's not going to do. So, very frustrating. The rest of the world doesn't care about Afghanistan. They don't really care about al-Qaeda or ISIS. They're basically trying to avoid being killed. But are they going to help us? No. It's all us. Always us. Very frustrating. But I don't think the American people were angry with the speech last night. It was good to see President Trump being a president rather than involved in all this crazy stuff.


 * August 13, 2017:** Mayhem in Charlettsville, VA. A group was setting up a protest over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in that city. This group was not a violent group. However, white supremacist groups (far right groups) came with weapons. In response, Antifa and Black Lives Matter (far left groups) also showed up with weapons. Fighting began. One of the members of the white supremacist groups drove his car into the crowd killing one and injuring others. President Trump condemned both groups. His opponents (mostly the media) condemned Trump saying he should not equate Antifa with Neo Nazis and claimed Trump himself is sympathetic to the Nazis.

Since then we've seen more of a target on Confederate statues and monuments to be taken down. The argument is that Confederates fought for a side supporting slavery (even if not all generals with monuments had slaves or supported the institution of slavery). It's easy to make the argument that the Confederates were traitors against their country. But on the other hand, President Lincoln called for "malice toward none" and to "bind up the nation's wounds." A deeper look into the goals of the groups pushing for taking down Confederate monuments, however, show further goals. One may wonder: why weren't these statues targeted last year...or 2 years ago...or 5...or 10...get the point? There has been a growing secular-progressive push in the nation that has sympathy in the media, Hollywood, and academia. Longer goals will show Founding Fathers like Washington and Jefferson will be next since they had slaves (most will condemn them as slaveholders without knowing deep, detailed information about them as slaveholders). The overall goal is to end the Constitution...calling it a racist document or a document written by white supremacists and replace the Constitution with a secular-progressive or socialistic one. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen, but a deep study of the groups pushing for the removal of Confederate monuments show exactly the long term goals.

Food stamp drop. More than 1.1 million Americans have dropped off the food stamp rolls since President Trump took office in January. 1.1 million gone. My head snapped back. I said "why, what happened?" The reasons that are put forth is that there is legislation brewing that the states are going to have to impose work rules for food stamps and they're only going to get a certain amount of federal money, it's going to be capped. Secondly, the crackdown on illegal immigration has taking many of those folks off the food stamp rolls. I think that's the big one. And third, that food stamp work requirements in the individual states are now getting more stringent.
 * August 3, 2017:** Food stamp usage down:

"Researchers discovered that large amounts of young people are developing an entitlement complex. The psychological trend comes from the belief that you are superior to others and are more deserving of certain things. This form of narcissism has significant consequences such a disappointment and a tendency to lash out. Psychology Today reports that some examples of entitlement ranged from the disregard of rules, freeloading, causing inconvenience, and likely to assume the role of a leader when working in groups." So you dominate the groups, you yell and you scream. "So-called Millennials, who are born roughly between 1988 and 1994, tend to have this characteristic, as a 2016 study found."
 * August 1, 2017:** Article from //Psychology Today//:

An illegal alien criminal, deported they say 20 times, 20 times, apparently raped two women in Portland, Oregon recently. But here's the deal, ICE had asked for the man to be detained last December, because obviously he's in the country in a criminal fashion and he shouldn't be. Multnomah County, where Portland, Oregon is, is a sanctuary county. Portland is a sanctuary city. They let him go, let them go. So now two women have been brutalized by this guy.
 * July 30, 2017:** Story on illegal immigration and sanctuary cities:

Here is a story that caught my eye that you’re not going to hear anyplace else. It is in California. 37 percent of all households in California, the nation’s largest state, have no cash in the bank. None. They’re living pay check to pay check or welfare check to welfare check. They don’t have any money. So if anything happens where they have a debate or whatever they can’t pay it. Many of these people run up a big credit card debt. 61 percent of Latino households in Californ... ia have no savings. 57 percent of black households have no savings. 28 percent of white have no savings. That’s how it breaks down. Now, if you are in the circumstance you are going to have to depend on the government sooner or later. Probably sooner. And that takes your power. If you don’t have any money, individual power is nil. You're dependent on somebody giving you enough to survive. That’s what it is. So California, very prosperous state in the sense that the economy is huge, is a place where destitution rules in the minority precincts. Destitution. Huge taxes in California…this is the price you pay for a welfare state. Vicious cycle. It pains me because I think America is the land of opportunity. But if you don’t have any money you’re not going to get much opportunity. You gotta save, you gotta work hard. Taxes are killing people.
 * July 25, 2016:** Commentary on state of finances in California, a state with high taxes, a lot of taxes, and a lot of social programs in terms of redistribution of wealth.

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 * July 18, 2017:** Charles Krauthammer on the issue of defensive medicine.

There is a group called Women’s March – and these were the people behind the inaugural march in Washington - and now they put out a statement honoring a terrorist. A woman who killed a police officer. So three democratic senators were asked if they still support the women’s March organization. The senators are Kamila Harris, Diane Feinstein, both of California. And Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Those women would not, would not, repudiate the Women’s March. Now here’s what happened. On Sunday, the Women’s March tweeted a birthday greeting to 70 year old Assata Shakur. And they are calling here a hero of the feminist movement. Quote: “Assata Shakur’s resistance tactics were different than ours. It does not mean we do not respect her anti-feminist work.” Ok. This is unbelievable. Here’s her resistance tactics. You ready? In 1973, May 2 of 1973, as a member of the black panthers and the black liberation, Assata Shakur and two other individuals were stopped on the New Jersey turnpike by state troopers. A shoot out ensued. One of Shakur’s companions was killed, she was wounded, and a police officer named Werner Foerster was killed. Another state trooper suffered injuries in that shoot out. This is on just a pull over. Subsequently she was convicted of first degree murder of a state trooper. Which means that the jury in the case found that Shakur opened fire on him. That’s first-degree murder. If it was anything other than that it would have been 2nd degree or man slaughter. She was in prison in West Virginia. That was in 1977. In 1979, she escapes – had to be an inside job- and she goes to Cuba. Where she is right now! Cuba, the Castro brothers harbor her. Finally, in June, just last month, when President Trump said he was going to tighten up the Cuban situation, that he is not going to have the Obama policy of open interaction, he cited this Assad Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard. Joanne Chesimard is her real name but Shakur is what the Women’s March is using. So Trump said ‘look we want this woman back. She murdered a cop. She escaped from prison. You’re harboring her and if you keep her we are not going to deal with you on the level that Obama did.
 * July 17, 2017:** Story about the Women's March supporting a cop killer:


 * July 16, 2017:** New report says millennials are broke because they're making choices out of order. [|Click here]

So the Republicans are tweaking the health care bill. You know, as people are enjoying the summer, they're not really locked in on anything but the scandals and this Donald Trump Jr. thing is going to go away unless there's something new because there's nowhere to take it. When they bring him into the Senate Judiciary Committee or whatever committee to ask him questions then it will perk up again. But believe me, Jonathan Turley, a brilliant law professor at George Washington University, has the best take on this. You get his column on TheHill.com. I also write for them occasionally. All right now the health care thing. This is very important for you. Because all of us are vulnerable to disease and accident and we need to have some kind of structure in America to deal with that in a fair way, that doesn't harm the country. So in many countries like Great Britain and Canada they have socialized medicine. The government controls it. They take a big chunk out of your taxes to fund it. They never balance a budget, they're always running deficits on it, because the people who don't make money, they are still entitled to full health care benefits and that's always been the problem. And it's a problem in the United States as well. But We the People have rejected that government run system. Up till now. The Democratic Party wants it. They haven't been able to impose it. They tried a kind of a hybrid with Obamacare. And the reason Obamacare didn't work was: one, it was way too confusing. Two, it spent so much money on those who don't have anything or refuse to work or whatever that the working people saw their premiums rise and rise and rise and rise. And so you're punishing the productive people by giving health insurance to those who aren't that productive. It may sound cruel but that's what it is. That's what it is. So those Americans who want a welfare state, and there are millions of Americans who do, this is the far left progressive movement, they don't care about that. They don't care, because they're kind of quasi Socialist. You know, if you have it then we want it because the poor people need it. And that's what this is all about. It's about setting up a system that's fair to everybody. But you're never going to have a system like that, it's never going to happen. So let's go over what you're entitled to. This is, I think, a very important exercise. Now the Republican Party is in bad trouble if they do not get rid of Obamacare. They can keep some elements of it. They've got to get rid of it in the sense that insurance companies have to come back and start insuring Americans. That's the big thing. If the GOP can't do that, which is why they're giving up two weeks of their vacations in August, then you can expect Armageddon in November. Republicans will lose a lot of House races and in the Senate as well. OK. The cost is, as I said, always the problem. In Canada, for example, you have to wait to get a hip replacement or a knee replacement. And it doesn't cost you very much but sometimes you wait for years. Here you can get those operations fairly quickly but the cost is through the roof. So what has to happen is that the insurance companies, number one, this is the most important thing, you have to have competition. All 50 states for all the insurance companies that want to sell health policies. Therefore the competition drives the price down of health insurance. We Can't have the government regulating one health insurance for this state, two for that state. No. It has to be across the board Capitalism when it comes to health insurance companies. However, there has to be regulations that those companies have to follow. One of them is preexisting conditions so if you have cancer you just can't wander around and nobody's going to put you on the rolls. But you have to do it in a fair way. All right. And that is the crux of these bills. So if a person says ‘well look, I'm not going to buy health insurance even though I can I can afford it, but I'm not going to do it until I get sick’, it's not really fair. There has to be some kind of regulations on people as well. But in the end the preexisting condition, they're going to have to get covered somehow, and we'll see how they work it out. The cost of the poor getting health care is born by Medicaid, that the states pay. And the Republicans want to cap it. See ObamaCare has no limit to it. We have a 20 trillion dollar debt and can't keep doing that. It's got to be a cap on it. And the states are the ones that have to do that. They have to say ‘look this is how much you can get this is what you qualify for under Medicaid in Missouri, in Montana, in New Hampshire’. They take it and the feds give them money and they pay their Medicaid bills. But there's got to be a cap on it. It can't just go on and on and on and on. All right. So that the Democrats don't want caps but the Republicans have to get that under control. Access to your doctor. A lot of doctors don't want to get involved the federal government. They're boutique doctors, you pay them a certain amount of money a year and they see you when you need to be seen and all that, but that's for the affluent. So you've got to incentivize doctors to take insurance policies and they will, they will. They'll take them, as long as the insurance policies are fair. Government has to oversee that to a certain extent. All right. So the doctor, if he opts out, and he has a right to as an American, if he opts out of government assistance, he can charge what he wants to charge. I mean again it's an American system. But the doctors that are in the Medicaid and Medicare and all that, there's going to be fees that are set. And also the pharmaceutical companies that put out drugs. The government has to oversee that. All right. Because they can charge for drugs that limit cancer or heart drugs, stuff like that. You can't be charging so much money that it bankrupts the insurance system, that it bankrupts individual Americans. It has got to be, ‘yeah we want you to make a profit but there's got to be some regulation’. So that's the oversight the government has to come in and apply. Some conservatives hate that. They don't want government oversight. I'm sorry, but when it's life and death you have to have it. Its like some people don't want speed limits. Germany on the Autobahn doesn't have any. But here government says you've got to wear seat belt, there's speed limits, they're trying, for the public good, to keep catastrophes down. Same thing in the drug marketing. There's got to be some oversight.
 * July 14, 2017:** Column on the health care situation:


 * July 5, 2017:** Study shows that religious people are more tolerant and open-minded than atheists. [|Click here]


 * July 3 2017:** CBO report on the national debt. [|Click here]


 * June 26, 2017:** Information on Russia hacking the election.
 * Back in August, the CIA apparently told President Obama that Russia was trying to get into the system. In October, administration officials grew certain that Russia was behind the WikiLeaks dump of Democratic Party emails. President Obama said nothing, even though Hillary Clinton was getting pounded and the Democratic National Committee was in disarray. An organization filed a Freedom of Information Act request and has just released letters sent to President Obama by intelligence officials. Think about this - President Obama was aggressively campaigning for Hillary Clinton, and he might have helped her if he had put this information out. But he didn't and nobody knows why. There is something going on here.
 * Under cover video showing CNN overplayed the Russian collusion story in order to gain ratings not because it was real:
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 * Congressman Ratcliffe showing that it was Hillary Clinton who obstructed justice. [|Click here]


 * June 14, 2017:** Shooting of members of Congress practicing for charity baseball game.
 * A Bernie Sanders supporter who worked as a volunteer within his campaign (not close to Sanders, but a local volunteer) went to where the congressmen and women were practicing and asked which political party they were. When they were told Republican, he started shooting. Five were wounded. Capitol police arrived and were able to shoot and kill the shooter. It's important to note that Bernie Sanders completely condemned the shooting and any use of violence. Sanders certainly is not to blame for the shooting. Unfortunately, there are haters on the left and the right, but hatred toward President Trump specifically on the left is something growing. This takes place on the heels of Kathy Griffin putting out a picture of her holding a bloodied head of Donald Trump and Bill Maher's remarks. This is also after months of riots against Trump's agenda and violence out of groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter as well as the riots on college campuses aiming at shutting down free speech.
 * Information came in about the shooter that he had a list of Republicans that he wanted to kill. He had a violent past and was known always to be violent and his fuse was lit by his political views. Hatred toward Donald Trump has effected our nation in a violent way. There was hatred and dislike for Presidents Bush and Obama, but not to this magnitude. Though social media was around toward the end of Bush and throughout Obama, there has been growth of online groups where violent haters find other like-minded individuals. In addition, violent filth will spend hours in cyber space spewing their hatred. THE BIG THING TODAY IS THAT IT IS A LOT EASIER TO ACCESS HATE. That didn't exist years ago. A younger generation will become numb to the Kathy Griffin thing and laugh it off.
 * The culture war has escalated from disagreeing with each other ideologically to flat out trying to destroy each other. It's ramped up on the left against Trump, which is seen in the "resistance" movement (term taken from the resistance against the Nazis in WWII aiming to paint Trump as Hitler-like). America better be prepared for more of the violence. The statistics show that the numbers and violence is much larger on the far left (not to be confused with Americans who are liberal/on the left) than those on the far right.


 * June 12, 2017:** PA Pension Reform bill signed into law. [|Click here]


 * June 4, 2017** - Terror attacks in Britain (Manchester a few days prior and then again in London.
 * The latest terror attack in London that left seven dead and dozens wounded. In Europe there are huge Muslim ghettos where there are only Muslims. Islamists and jihadists have these comfort zones where they don't have to worry about informers - nobody's going to say anything because that would be the kiss of death." We are much more fortunate here in the USA where hard-working and law-abiding Muslims in cities like Dearborn, Michigan are far more likely to tell authorities about a radical in their midst. In the U.S. the FBI grabs those suspected of joining ISIS or another radical group. That's not the case in London. Also, in London one of the police officers injured didn't have a gun...common in Europe...couldn't subdue the terrorist and was stabbed several times.


 * June 1, 2017** - Trump announces U.S. withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
 * U.S. would agree (if stayed in agreement) to cut greenhouse gasses by 26% from 2005 levels. This would certainly harm U.S. fossil fuel businesses (coal and oil) and coal fired power plants (electricity), but would cut on carbon emissions. However, this stipulation in the agreement is not required of China, India, or other major uses of fossil fuels...nations who are our economic rivals.
 * Rich nations would send $100 billion to poorer nations each year starting in 2020 till they transition to cleaner energy. President Obama pledged $3 billion. China, the biggest polluter, has not pledged anything. China's economy will soon overtake ours yet they, somehow, would receive, not pay, money from the Paris agreement.
 * Those against Trump's pulling out believe this signals that America will not take climate change seriously. Those in favor of Trump pulling out point that in order for America to pay the requirements there would have to be heavy taxes on energy and skyrocketing energy costs that Americans would pay for gas, heat, and electricity and ultimately would cost American jobs. Those against this agreement point out that the Paris agreement talks about its necessity to improve the earth's temperature by about 1/10 of a degree in 85 years....so trillions of dollars, millions of jobs in favor of improving the earth's temperature by 1/10 of a degree in 85 years - Americans who know these stats do not favor the Paris agreement. Environmentalists see this as necessary to get the world's major users of fossil fuels to be concerned about the environment.

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