Have we learned..... Anything?

Dear Editor,

A few things come to mind when recent protests went into effect because of Trump’s ban on selective travel. Roll back the calendars to early 1990’s. Does the name Ramzi Yousef come to mind? He orchestrated a one hundred foot cavern in the lower level of the World Trade Center. He failed but we failed to recognize the threat. Later there were nineteen Saudi citizens that took flying lessons but did not care to learn, or pay for the lessons to land.  There were brothers named Tsarnaev who purchased pressure cookers, which they packed with explosives. The Russians provided messages of concern  to our Government agencies, about the Tsarnaev's, but we failed. There was Omar Mateen who assassinated fifty in a night club that gay clientele frequented. that is just a few.

Go back over recent history and ask, could something have been different? The Trump effect was only in place a short while when attorneys congregated at international airport terminals. Thank Trump, he seems to recognize cause and effect. He also is creating jobs for attorneys and clerks.

Gerald Keer

Media opinions

A ‘guest columnist’ article by Deborah Lev. titled “If we’ve lost faith in the media, who is really at fault?” The supposition is that “We the public could be the culprits.” No, the Culprits are the employed people who continually give a one sided opinion with their many excuses for big government and their opinions that government should cure all societal ills, and short comings.

The recent election saw strong media, print and electronic, support for Hillary Clinton. According to the website HILL, fifty-seven newspapers endorsed Hillary, while only two endorsed Trump. If your chosen paper was not included in that tabulation, make it fifty-eight. Going back over the last sixteen years the majority of papers endorsed Democrat Candidates.The article by MS Lev refers to the often quoted Thomas Jefferson, citing that he was in favor of the government's opposition by the Media. The media would teach history, and provide the watchdog effect on government. SO TRUE. 

Where was the Media when Obama had a runaway government, with Hillary Clinton poised to ever expand the last eight years. What a good media should provide is point and counter point, pluses and minuses, not blind-folded intent to find only good in the theories of the liberal minds.

When the votes were counted in November, The Public had revolted in four of the South Jersey Counties. Our nation lost faith in the Democrats in the recent Congressional elections. Media Lost the Public. Sad to say we the Public are losing the watchdog Fourth Estate. Why should we endorse talking heads, or print media, with their continual one sided endorsements of candidates. The Candidates that cause a thrill up their legs?

Illegal votes?

Editorials

Illegals Did Vote In November, And Trump Is Right To Investigate

The question we should be asking isn't whether ineligible voters cast ballots in November, it's how many did. (AP)

• 1/26/2017

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Elections: President Trump, refusing to back down from his claim that millions of illegal votes tipped the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, now wants a comprehensive review of voter integrity in the United States. Whatever Trump's motivation for his claim, it's the right call.
Shortly after the election, Trump said that he would have won the popular vote — which he lost by nearly 3 million votes — if it weren't for "millions of illegal voters."
That sent the mainstream press into a fit of apoplexy, with journalist and left-wing activists denouncing Trump's claim as pure fabrication from a sore winner.
They went into another rage when Trump restated the claim in a meeting with lawmakers this week. The New York Times, which never called Obama out on his many abject lies, declared in its news pages that "Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers."
As we noted in this space before, there is evidence of ineligible voters casting ballots, citing studies that showed how outdated and slipshod voter registrations make it at least possible for noncitizens, and even illegal aliens, to vote. (A Pew Center study found that one out of every eight voter registrations is inaccurate, out-of-date or a duplicate.)
We pointed to 2014 study in the online Electoral Studies Journal which found, alarmingly, that "noncitizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress."
The mainstream press has dismissed that study, pointing out that a Harvard Team found flaws in the methodology. But the Harvard team also declared that "the likely percent of noncitizen voters in recent U.S. elections is 0."
Whatever the flaws of the 2014 study, we know for a fact that the number of noncitizen voters is more than zero.
This week, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, who have both tracked voter fraud extensively, detailed multiple specific examples of noncitizens casting ballots in U.S. elections. Among them:

• Election officials in a Kansas discovered that about a dozen newly sworn citizens had already voted in multiple elections when they offered to register them in 2015.

• An investigation into a 1996 California House race in which Loretta Sanchez defeated incumbent Rep. Bob Dornan found 624 invalid votes by noncitizens in a race where Sanchez won by fewer than 1,000 votes.

• A September report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation found more than 1,000 noncitizens on Virginia's voter rolls, many of whom had cast votes in previous elections.

• A district-court administrator estimated that up to 3% of the 30,000 people called for jury duty from voter-registration rolls over a two-year period were not U.S. citizens.

These may seem like small potatoes. But as Fund and von Spakovsky point out, "we don't know how big of a problem voter fraud really is because no systematic effort has ever been made to investigate it."
That's a knowledge gap that needs to be filled in, and Democrats should eagerly embrace such an effort.
After all, they are the ones who keep insisting that we have to "count every vote" and "every vote counts." Well, every single vote cast by an ineligible voter cancels out one legitimate ballot, which means that any level of fraud should be intolerable.
Plus, if Trump is wrong about the scale of voter fraud, a thorough investigation is the only way to prove it.
Somehow, we doubt Democrats will see it this way.

Is there truth behind this from the Oil & Energy Industry, Or is Ryan another RINO

Dear Reader,

Paul Ryan is set to introduce a new "border adjustability tax" to Congress, and it has serious repercussions for taxpayers.

This new tax will cost everyday Americans an additional 30 cents or more per gallon at the pump.

In total, this levy will require taxpayers to spend an additional trillion dollars over the next 10 years.

Forbes summed it up recently by saying, "Few people are even aware of what the Republicans are getting ready to hit them with."

Oil was already on life support, with prices under $40 per barrel just a few months ago.

Almost 100 oil and gas companies in North America have since declared bankruptcy after the recent downturn.

That's a total of 351,410 jobs that were cut virtually overnight.

And billionaire investors seemed to know what was coming. Warren Buffett has sold $3.7 billion worth of oil holdings, Bill Gates unloaded nearly $1 billion, and George Soros closed out multiple positions.

And now a member of the United States Intelligence Community, honored with Presidential citations from Presidents Nixon and Reagan, has come forward with evidence that seals oil's fate.

In fact, a shocking discovery outside Bern, Switzerland has unlocked a 36,000-year supply of free fuel.

This fuel is so cheap, so easy to access, and so abundant that Fortune 500 companies - including Google, Apple, and Facebook - are investing billions to move into this technology.

At the same time, nearly every major energy player on the planet is shunning oil in favor of this new fuel. In fact, the U.S. Department of Defense invested $7 billion in a single day.

And make no mistake: This "universal fuel" will enable America to declare complete energy independence for the first time in 40 years.

I suggest you review this intelligence insider's complete analysis today.

Sincerely, Mike Ward Publisher, Oil & Energy Investor

The Fall of Hussein

INVITATION

The Gloucester County Tea Party has curtailed their meetings.

Those interested are invited to the January 18 Washington Township Republican Club Meetings.

The meeting is scheduled for January 18 at DIVOTS next to the Wedgewood Country Club. 

You are invited to join in the enthusiastic atmosphere from the November Election Results.

Meeting will begin at 6:45 PM. Refreshments and food are available from the bar.

Bring your interest and join us. Let us know what are your interests regarding the state, county and local and concerns. 

This is the year wherein we need to focus on improvement of the governor’s office, as well as the assembly.

TWO MONTHS AND THE WAR IS UNDERWAY

Most citizens are familiar with our Constitutions opening words: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Key words could be “insure domestic Tranquility”. What we need is a calmer approach without the rabble rousing of the headlines or twisted words of commentators. Listen carefully to the talking heads when they ask questions. How many times would a Wolf Blitzer, or Chris Matthews ask a negative question in their attempts for a ‘gotcha’.

Why has the woman, Whoopy Goldberg who made her claim to fame by the use of four letter words, become the analyst of our nation political direction? Go to a doctor’s waiting-room and you find yourself captive to either ABC CBS Fox or NBC and their programs of dubious social ilk. Because of age I find it hard to recall whether the half hour evening news of Swayze Huntley Morrow or others were trying to bring down or salve the reputations of Truman Ike or Kennedy. Our President elect who cares little about the TV or print coverages, has a direct response to the daily critics. Is this because critics have taken little time, or effort, to mind their manners? The last seven years have been protectionist for 

Obama. If anyone protested about our then President, the media was quick to criticize vocal opponents.  Where will freedom of speech take us for the next four years? Will there be a wait and see, or has the attack of the recent two months set the tone for our “Domestic Tranquility”?
  
 NOT LIKELY!