The Oregon Elections Division ruled on Thursday that former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, a Democrat, is ineligible to run for governor due to failure to meet the state&#8217;s residency requirement.
Oregon requires a gubernatorial candidate to be a &#8220;resident within this state&#8221; for at least three years prior to an election.
&#8220;The rules are the rules and they apply equally to all candidates for office in Oregon. I stand by the determination of the experts in the Oregon Elections Division that Mr. Kristof does not currently meet the Constitutional requirements to run or serve as Oregon Governor,&#8221; Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan said in a <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/newsroom/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=64720" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
&#8220;As Oregon’s chief elections official, it is my responsibility to make sure all candidates on the statewide ballot are qualified to serve if elected. The Oregon Elections Division and local election officials use the same standards to determine qualifications for hundreds of candidates in dozens of offices every year. In this instance, the candidate clearly does not meet the constitutional requirement to run or serve as governor of Oregon,&#8221; she added.
The announcement noted that Kristof could choose to appeal the state&#8217;s decision.
&#8220;If Mr. Kristof chooses to appeal, the Oregon Elections Division is committed to doing everything possible to allow  Oregon courts to decide promptly,&#8221; Deborah Scroggin, Oregon Elections Director, said.
&#8220;My office remains focused on ensuring a fair process and meeting our March 17th deadline, after which clerks begin printing ballots. While the primary election is in May, for Oregon’s elections administrators, the work begins much sooner,&#8221; she added.
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/588589-kristof-ineligible-to-run-for-oregon-governor-state-official-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a> reported, &#8220;Kristof, who owns homes in both New York and Oregon, voted in New York in the 2020 election, putting him past the deadline to establish residency in Oregon ahead of the 2022 midterms.&#8221;
Kristof reportedly left the Times in October in preparation for his run for governor in Oregon&#8217;s Democratic primary. In addition to serving at the Times, Kristof has been a regular CNN contributor and is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
In December, <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2021/12/21/oregon-nick-kristof-residency-requirement-run-for-governor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon Public Broadcasting</a> reported that questions remained regarding Kristof&#8217;s eligibility.
“We typically determine whether candidates meet residency requirements by checking their voter registration records, but your Oregon voter registration record has insufficient information,” Lydia Plukchi, a compliance specialty with the office, wrote in a letter to Kristof, according to the report.
“In addition, it has come to our attention that you voted in New York State as recently as 2020. Our office has reviewed the published legal memo concerning your residency in Oregon, but the memo does not address the effect of that vote on your Oregon residency,” it added.
Kristof announced his bid as the state&#8217;s next governor in a video on October 27.
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A quarter of the kids on my old No. 6 school bus in rural Oregon are dead from drugs, alcohol, suicide, and there are No. 6 buses all over the state and country. So I&#8217;ve made the leap. I&#8217;m running for governor and here&#8217;s why. More at <a href="https://t.co/MkRcl5s9fY">https://t.co/MkRcl5s9fY</a>. Please share! Thanks! <a href="https://t.co/R4iEYHDYZM">pic.twitter.com/R4iEYHDYZM</a>
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1453418253955522567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Let&#8217;s make Oregon a place that rewards American values like hard work and initiative,&#8221; Kristof <a href="https://pamplinmedia.com/fgnt/36-news/526333-420610-nick-kristof-announces-run-for-oregon-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the video, &#8220;but that also understands that being down on your luck should never be a death sentence.&#8221;

Nicholas Kristof and Hillary Clinton

Former NY Times Columnist Ruled Ineligible To Run For Oregon Governor

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Nicholas Kristof

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Despite his raging liberalism, I have long been an admirer of Nicholas Kristof. It takes a man of immense courage to do what he did in bringing the terrible truth about Communist China to light for all to see. He has also taken a stand on behalf of young conservatives who suffer discrimination on college campuses, a stand for which he received an enormous amount of hate mail from his lefty readers.
That being said, he screwed up &#8212; big time &#8212; in his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/opinion/sunday/cuba-healthcare-medicare.html?emc=edit_nk_20190118&amp;nl=nickkristof&amp;nlid=7176898320190118&amp;te=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">latest column</a> in The New York Times. His essay is dedicated to telling his readers why &#8220;Cuba has the Medicare for All that many Americans dream about.&#8221;
A little background, to explain my dismay.
I spent two weeks in working class areas of Cuba in 2014. I stayed in Havana for some of the time, but it was the city of Santiago de Cuba that left the biggest impression. In Santiago de Cuba, I stayed next door to a nurse, who upon learning I was an American, asked if I could spare any clean pillow cases and bedsheets. She explained that there was a cholera outbreak going around Cuba&#8217;s hospitals. Cholera had been eradicated in Cuba a century earlier, but Cuban hospitals are so filthy and neglected that the disease has made a strong comeback. (In Venezuela, the largest recipient of Cuban medical slave labor, the once extinct disease of Malaria has been revived. Communism may be Godless, but it seems that Cuban Medicare for All works its own miracles in resurrecting dead plagues.)
I was not allowed to see the hospital for myself. Had they known I was coming, they may have prepared, like they did for Michael Moore (a Cuban girl who&#8217;s uncle is a doctor in Cuba once told me that &#8220;Sicko really bothers me because he [Moore] went to my uncle&#8217;s hospital and they were notified months ahead of time. More than enough time to set up a front.&#8221;) Instead, I was shown a clinic that was pristine &#8212; and it was empty. As far as I can tell, the common people are not allowed in that clinic.
It wouldn&#8217;t be surprising. Cuba is by far the most class segregated society I have ever seen. A Cuban worker explained to me that while they hear endlessly from the government about the &#8220;American embargo against Cuba,&#8221; the real problem is the &#8220;internal embargo&#8221;&#8212;the embargo that the government elite has imposed on the Cuban people to keep them from participating in the economies of the elite and the outside world.
Not only is there physical separation from the elites, but there is even a separate currency. The Cuban people use the Cuban Peso (CUP), whereas the government elite and the tourists use the Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC). The CUC is worth 25 times the value of the CUP, and the nation&#8217;s tourist areas, luxury restaurants, and other attractions for foreigners will not accept Cuban pesos, effectively keeping the native population out. The Cuban government also uses the two currencies to make it more difficult for Cuban workers to keep more of their money; Cuban workers employed by foreign companies, for example, are only allowed to keep 8% of their salaries once they are converted into CUP.
Mr. Kristof apparently visited a different Cuba than I did.
His column, titled &#8220;Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba,&#8221; tells us that &#8220;Cuba is poor and repressive with a dysfunctional economy, but in health care it does an impressive job that the United States could learn from.&#8221;
Thus:
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According to official statistics (about which, as we&#8217;ll see, there is some debate), the infant mortality rate in Cuba is only 4.0 deaths per 1,000 live births. In the United States, it&#8217;s 5.9. In other words, an American infant is, by official statistics, almost 50 percent more likely to die than a Cuban infant. By my calculations, that means that 7,500 American kids die each year because we don&#8217;t have as good an infant mortality rate as Cuba reports.
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Notice the reference to &#8220;some debate&#8221; about the accuracy of the Cuban Communist regime&#8217;s official statistics. He returns to this later in his essay:
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There are also allegations that Cuba fiddles with its numbers. The country has an unusually high rate of late fetal deaths, and skeptics contend that when a baby is born in distress and dies after a few hours, this is sometimes categorized as a stillbirth to avoid recording an infant death. Dr. Roberto Álvarez, a Cuban pediatrician, insisted to me that this does not happen and countered with explanations for why the fetal death rate is high. I&#8217;m not in a position to judge who&#8217;s right, but any manipulation seems unlikely to make a huge difference to the reported figures.
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It does not seem to occur to Mr. Kristof that the Doctor he was speaking to, an employee of the regime, may be lying. It should be noted that the allegations Mr. Kristof refers to &#8211; detailing how the Communist regime is lying &#8211; are widespread, and were recently stated by a man who watches events in Cuba very closely. &#8220;Totalitarian regimes don&#8217;t have the best history of accurate reporting,&#8221; Senator Marco Rubio <a href="https://nypost.com/2014/02/28/how-cuba-is-exporting-repression-to-venezuela/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said</a> on the Senate floor. &#8220;In Cuba there are instances reported, that if a child only lives a few hours after birth, it&#8217;s not counted as a person who ever lived and therefore doesn&#8217;t count against the mortality rate. &#8230; Any time there&#8217;s any problem with the child in utero, the mothers are strongly encouraged to undergo abortions.&#8221;
Mr. Kristof may have been taken on a Potemkin village tour. At one point in the article, he refers to health problems resulting from more and more people who are overweight. Almost everyone I saw was underweight, and I actually acquired one Cuban&#8217;s ration book from the previous year. Not many people can get fat on rations that small.
Mr. Kristof writes that:
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Missing a prenatal checkup is much less likely in Cuba because of a system of front-line clinics called consultorios. These clinics, staffed by a single doctor and nurse, are often run down and poorly equipped, but they make health care readily available: Doctors live upstairs and are on hand after hours in emergencies.
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As noted earlier, the consultorio I saw in Santiago de Cuba was devoid of the common man. It was just another part of what Rubio described as a &#8220;three-tiered system where foreigners and government officials get health care much better than what&#8217;s available to the general population.&#8221;
Additional evidence that there was a Potemkin element to his trip is in the fact that not everyone Mr. Kristof spoke to was honest about who they are. I want to give one glaring example of such a person who is quoted in his essay:
&#8220;It&#8217;s no secret that most health problems can be resolved at the primary-care level by the doctor, nurse or health worker nearest you,&#8221; said Gail Reed, the American executive editor of the health journal Medicc Review, which focuses on Cuban health care. &#8220;So, there is something to be said for Cuba&#8217;s building of a national primary-care network that posts health professionals in neighborhoods nationwide.&#8221;
This is not the first time Gail Reed has been quoted in the New York Times. In 1983 she was interviewed through the fence of the Cuban embassy in Grenada, which was surrounded by US Marines that liberated the island from the Cuban-puppet &#8220;New Jewel Movement&#8221; regime. From the Cuban side of the fence, Reed angrily complained about the murder of Cuban-backed Communist Maurice Bishop by other Cuban-backed Communists. &#8220;The killing of Bishop is [was] not authorized,&#8221; she said to the Times. Unlike the multitude of other assassinations Castro was involved in, this one was &#8220;Not authorized.&#8221;
Ms. Reed was in a position to know. At the time she was married to Julian Torres Rizo, Cuban ambassador to Grenada. When Reagan liberated Grenada, the Marines found tons and tons of documents. Reagan tasked Herbert Romerstein, head of USIA&#8217;s office to counter Soviet &#8220;Active Measures&#8221;, with analyzing the documents. Romerstein wrote that &#8220;The documents of the New Jewel Movement&#8217;s Central Committee and Politburo show that Cuban Ambassador Julian Torres Rizo and his wife, American-born Gail Reed Rizo, played a major role in directing the NJM and the Government of Grenada.&#8221; Every year since 1983, Grenadines celebrate October 25 as Thanksgiving Day, the day the Cubans &#8212; Ms Reed and her comrades &#8212; were driven from their island. She went back to writing for the Cuban state media.
Ms. Reed, the former Elena Cheucescu of Grenada and propagandist for Cuban Pravda, has reinvented herself as an &#8220;expert&#8221; on Cuba&#8217;s healthcare system. She has spent a lifetime as a mouthpiece for the Castro tyranny, and her latest incarnation as &#8220;the American executive editor of the health journal Medicc Review, which focuses on Cuban health care&#8221; is no different.
Kristof even included the Cuban regime&#8217;s favorite scapegoat:
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It&#8217;s also notable that Cuba achieves excellent health outcomes even though the American trade and financial embargo badly damages the economy and restricts access to medical equipment.
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According to the Obama administration, in the person of Susan Rice, responding to one of the routine outbursts from the Cuban delegation to the UN in <a href="https://babalublog.com/2009/10/31/bloqueo-embargo-hah-neither-says-obama-u-n-rep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2009</a>: &#8220;It is erroneous to charge that U.S. sanctions are the cause of deprivation among the Cuban people. The U.S. maintains no restriction on humanitarian aid to Cuba. In fact, the U.S. is a major source of humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people and the largest provider of food to Cuba. In 2008, the United States exported agricultural products, medical devices, medicine, wood, and humanitarian items to Cuba. In agricultural products alone, the United States sold $700.1 million of goods to Cuba. Once again, in 2008, the United States was Cuba&#8217;s fifth largest trading partner.&#8221;
Someday the people of Cuba will be free from the tyranny of Communism, and can tell the world about the lies of the regime. Until that time, we are cursed to have to deal with people who believe the propaganda.

MITSOTAKIS: Nicholas Kristof Must Have Visited A Very Different Cuba

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Fidel Castro

Raul Castro

On Thursday, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times wrote a column about how President Trump was treating the media as his enemy. The column was long on accusation and short on introspection. The column began, in fact, by suggesting that Trump hated reporters more than neo-Nazis. And it got worse from there.
Kristof stated:
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Look, we in journalism deserve to have our feet held to the fire. We make mistakes all the time, and too often we are superficial, sensationalist, unfair, defensive or diverted by shiny objects. Critics are right that we in the national media are often out of touch with working-class America, and distressingly often, we are lap dogs instead of watchdogs. Yet for all our failings, journalism remains an indispensable constraint on power.
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All of that is true. But the reason that Trump&#8217;s routine critique of the media works is that they proclaim that their only standard is the truth, and conservatives keep asking, &#8220;whose truth?&#8221; Sometimes, the media present facts. More often, they present facts mixed with opinion. Take, for example, Kristof&#8217;s next accusation:
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Trump has systematically tried to delegitimize the institutions that hold him accountable &#8212; courts, prosecutors, investigators, the media &#8212; and that&#8217;s the context for his vilification of all them, for we collectively provide monitoring that outrages him.
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Has he truly attempted to delegitimize courts? How so? Has he said things? Or has he actually ignored court orders? How about investigators? Has he ripped their prospective bias, or has he actually fired them? Kristof isn&#8217;t wrong that Trump has attacked all of these institutions, but has he attempted to destroy them wholesale to prevent them from monitoring him?
I dislike Trump&#8217;s overstatement of his case against the media. The vast majority of journalists don&#8217;t hate the country. But many journalists masquerade as objective fact-bringers, when they&#8217;re bringing facts and perspective intertwined. Trump accuses the media of lying about their supposedly &#8220;objective&#8221; status, and he accuses them of simply making up facts. The first accusation is correct. The second mostly isn&#8217;t; media members generally don&#8217;t make up the news. But because the media refuse to acknowledge the truth of Trump&#8217;s former accusation, they allow Trump to conflate the two, and thereby undercut their own credibility overall. Trump insists that the media have an agenda, and therefore lie; the media insist that they don&#8217;t lie, and that they therefore don&#8217;t have an agenda. Neither is correct. The media have an agenda, and they generally don&#8217;t just make things up (although they sometimes do, and they often spin facts in anti-conservative ways).
But while Kristof is castigating Trump for casting the media as an enemy, he&#8217;s accusing Trump of getting &#8220;people hurt &#8230; buoying the repressive instincts of dictators around the world &#8230; [it is possible that] our president is mentally unstable.&#8221; Does this sound like Kristof is Trump&#8217;s enemy, or merely a critic?
Kristof concludes, &#8220;So may I humbly suggest that when a megalomaniacal leader howls and shrieks at critics, that is when institutional checks on that leader become a bulwark of democracy.&#8221; Then he wonders why Trump considers the media his enemies.
It&#8217;s not that tough to understand. Trump should stop treating the media as his enemies, but the media have to stop treating Trump as their enemy, too.

New York Times Columnist: ‘Mr. Trump, We’re Not The Enemy.’ Same Columnist: Trump Is A ‘Megalomaniacal Leader,’ May Be ‘Mentally Unstable.’

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The Democrats, as they are wont to do, have put themselves into a logical inconsistency:
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Liberals on entitlements: &#8220;The Bible says give to the poor!&#8221;
Liberals on gay marriage: &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a theocracy! Keep religion at church!&#8221;
&#8212; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/842708766680383488">March 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
Indeed, the Democrat Party likes to invoke the Bible only when it comes to imposing their agenda onto the populace; otherwise they sneer at conservatives as <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/04/obama-on-small-town-pa-clinging-to-religion-guns-xenophobia-007737">bitter clingers</a>.
Here are 11 times Democrats have cited the Bible to defend their big government programs.
1. The Democrats are perpetuating the <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14515/fake-news-did-trump-just-kill-meals-wheels-not-ben-shapiro">fake news</a> that President Donald Trump&#8217;s budget abolishes the Meals On Wheels program and are citing the Bible to support their program. <a href="http://www.chicksontheright.com/only-3-of-the-meals-on-wheels-budget-comes-from-federal-grants/">For instance</a>:
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You don&#8217;t have to be a Christian or believe in Jesus to know that Christians are called to feed the hungry. See Mt 25:35 <a href="https://t.co/8B5TgubMUB">https://t.co/8B5TgubMUB</a>
&#8212; Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) <a href="https://twitter.com/KirstenPowers/status/842529246669082630">March 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
The problem is that Powers isn&#8217;t even using that Bible citation in the correct context:
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In Matt 25, when Jesus talks about caring for &#8220;the least of these,&#8221; he isn&#8217;t talking about the poor in general, but fellow Christians.
&#8212; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/842835996253274112">March 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
But Democrats don&#8217;t seem to understand that, as they seem to like citing Matthew 25.
2. Sen. Elizabeth Warren cited Matthew 25 in her 2012 Democratic National Convention speech. The quote that the then-Senate candidate used was: &#8220;In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.&#8221;
&#8220;The passage teaches about God in each of us,&#8221; Warren <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2012/09/06/democrats-favorite-biblical-passage-matthew-25/">said</a>. &#8220;That we are bound to each other, and we are called to act &#8212; not to sit, not to wait &#8212; but to act, all of us together.&#8221;
Her speech was lauded by Democrats, such as strategist Burns Strider, who gushed about how &#8220;she showcased the compassion, authenticity and comfort of articulating the shared American values Democrats largely derive from a faith in God.&#8221;
This was the same convention where <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/democrats-boo-god.html">the Democrats booed the insertion of God into the party platform</a>.
3. A PAC supporting Barack Obama was formed in 2008 called <a href="https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/new-pac-seeks-to-court-christians-for-obama/">The Matthew 25 Network</a>. The PAC, formed by Mara Vanderslice, who worked for John Kerry&#8217;s 2004 presidential campaign, aimed to provide outreach to Christians and encourage them to vote for Obama. As the name suggests, the group was predicated on the following Bible passage:
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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
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4. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) quoted a nonexistent Bible verse to promote environmentalism. On Earth Day in 2008, the then-Speaker of the House issued a release that quoted a supposed Bible verse that read, &#8220;To minister to the needs of God&#8217;s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.&#8221;
&#8220;On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children&#8217;s children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature,&#8221; Pelosi&#8217;s release read.
If the Bible quote Pelosi cited seems unfamiliar, <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/24/pelosi-clings-to-and-misquotes-her-bible/">that&#8217;s because it doesn&#8217;t exist</a>. There is nothing in the Bible that even comes remotely close to Pelosi&#8217;s quote. It only stands to reason that Pelosi would cite a nonexistent quote in support of <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/5192/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-earth-day-aaron-bandler">a day rooted in Marxism and the eugenics movement</a>.
5. Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson quoted the Gospel of Matthew in a 2007 Democratic presidential primary debate. During a lightning round in which candidates were all asked to cite their favorite Bible verse, Richardson <a href="https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/new-pac-seeks-to-court-christians-for-obama/">said</a>, &#8220;The Sermon on the Mount, because I believe it&#8217;s an issue of social justice, equality, brotherly issues reflecting a nation that is deeply torn and needs to heal and come together.&#8221;
6. Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) invoked the Bible against repealing Obamacare. The grandson of Robert F. Kennedy criticized Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) for referring to the Obamacare replacement bill as an <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/08/kennedy-rips-gop-health-plan/IWpUdBxaIrjA50ooQ1z43J/story.html?s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Atwitter">&#8220;act of mercy&#8221;</a>:
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&#8220;I was struck last night by a comment that I heard made by Speaker Ryan, where he called this repeal bill &#8216;an act of mercy.&#8217; With all due respect to our speaker, he and I must have read different Scripture,&#8221; Kennedy said as the House Energy and Commerce Committee dove into the details of the GOP effort.
&#8220;The one I read calls on us to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to shelter the homeless, and to comfort the sick.
&#8220;It reminds us that we are judged not by how we treat the powerful, but by how we care for the least among us,&#8221; said the Brookline Democrat and scion of the most famous Massachusetts political dynasty.
&#8220;There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns their back on those most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering. There is no mercy in a cold shoulder to the mentally ill,&#8221; he said, appearing to read from notes.
&#8220;This is not an act of mercy. It is an act of malice,&#8221; he said.
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In other words, Kennedy is suggesting that anyone who is against Obamacare is taking a position that is antithetical to the Bible.
7. Kerry cited the Bible in a 2014 State Department speech calling to combat climate change in Muslim countries. &#8220;Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid out in the Scriptures clearly beginning in Genesis,&#8221; the horse-faced buffoon bloviated. &#8220;And Muslim majority countries are among the most vulnerable.&#8221;
Rush Limbaugh was astounded at Kerry&#8217;s statement.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe what I just heard,&#8221; Limbaugh <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/09/08/lurch_the_bible_tells_us_to_save_muslim_countries_from_global_warming/">said</a> on his radio program. &#8220;So it&#8217;s okay to cite the Bible. It&#8217;s okay to broom the separation of church and state when talking about global warming outreach with Muslims.&#8221;
Limbaugh thought it was hilarious Kerry was invoking the Bible to fight climate change while the Left argues that it&#8217;s a man-made phenomenon.
&#8220;From the left&#8217;s standpoint, the utter hypocrisy of this, to cite the Bible as a reason, and global warming as the reason we must reach out and protect vulnerable Muslim majorities? The Bible commands the United States to join Muslim nations in this cause?&#8221; Limbaugh said. &#8220;Twilight Zone time!&#8221;
8. A California state assemblyman used a Bible verse to support a bill mandating overtime pay for farmers in June. &#8220;A good tree can&#8217;t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can&#8217;t produce good fruit,&#8221; <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article81507937.html">stated</a> Assemblyman Joaquin Guzman (D-Kingsburg) on the floor of the Assembly. &#8220;A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.&#8221;
The bill was narrowly defeated in the Assembly.
9. In 2015, Hillary Clinton claimed to be &#8220;a person of faith.&#8221; Clinton was asked at an Iowa campaign event in January how her faith relates to her politics.
&#8220;My study of the Bible &#8230; has led me to believe the most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do,&#8221; Clinton <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/hillary-clinton-is-now-the-most-religious-candidate-running-for-president-heres-why-that-matters-7cd6819374e5#.ks04b9evb">said</a>. &#8220;And there is so much more in the Bible about taking care of the poor, visiting the prisoners, taking in the stranger, creating opportunities for others to be lifted up &#8230; I think there are many different ways of exercising your faith.&#8221;
Reminder: <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4739/hillarysoqualified-trends-here-are-7-reasons-shes-aaron-bandler">Clinton is a corrupt, far-left ideologue</a>.
10. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tried to use a Bible passage to argue in favor of Obama&#8217;s Syrian refugee policy. Kristof, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14496/nyts-kristof-tweets-stupidest-thing-about-trumps-ben-shapiro">who has a penchant for spewing moronic statements</a>, continued that same trend when he tried to use Jesus as a cudgel against House Republicans for opposing Obama&#8217;s refugee policy in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/the-statue-of-liberty-must-be-crying-with-shame.html?mtrref=thefederalist.com&amp;assetType=opinion&amp;_r=0">a November 2015 column</a>.
&#8220;According to the Gospel of Matthew, after Jesus&#8217; birth they fled to save Jesus from murderous King Herod (perhaps the 2,000-year-ago equivalent of Bashar al-Assad of Syria?),&#8221; wrote Kristof. &#8220;Fortunately Joseph, Mary and Jesus found de facto asylum in Egypt &#8212; thank goodness House Republicans weren&#8217;t in charge when Jesus was a refugee!&#8221;
Per usual, Kristof missed the mark, as Joseph, Mary and Jesus were not refugees: (<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/18/the-christmas-story-is-about-christ-not-obamas-syrian-refugee-policy/">H/T:</a> The Federalist)
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While it&#8217;s true that refugees are people who, like Mary and Joseph, have moved from one geographical location to another at some point in their lives, those who merit the title &#8220;refugee&#8221; must also have changed geographical locations in order to flee a war, some form of natural disaster, or a political leader who is persecuting them. While Augustus&#8217; decree of a census may certainly have inconvenienced Mary and Joseph, it didn&#8217;t rise to the level of persecution. Likewise, when they travelled to Bethlehem, Christ&#8217;s mother and earthly father weren&#8217;t fleeing from Caesar. They were obeying him. Therefore, to suggest that Mary, Joseph, and Jesus were persecution-fleeing refugees in Bethlehem is quite absurd, at least if one subscribes to the notion that you don&#8217;t get to change a word&#8217;s meaning just because doing so would make conservatives look like morons.
Perhaps the confusion on this point has come from people forgetting the sequence of events in that barely-remembered Christmas pageant and confusing the arrival in Bethlehem with the flight to Egypt. Certainly there are similarities between Syrians fleeing ISIS and Mary and Joseph seeking refuge in Egypt in order to save Jesus from the murderous wrath of King Herod. But I have no doubt that most conservative Christians in America would gladly be Egypt to those Syrians who are fleeing the Herodian bloodlust of ISIS, as long as they had absolute certainty that ISIS itself or an Islamist worldview wouldn&#8217;t cross the border with them.
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Kristof may want to check his facts before taking cheap shots at Republicans.
11. Channeling Pelosi, Obama himself quoted a Bible verse that didn&#8217;t exist in a 2014 speech promoting amnesty. &#8220;The good book says, don&#8217;t throw stones in glass houses,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;Or &#8230; make sure we&#8217;re looking at the log in our eye before we are pointing out the mote in other folks&#8217; eyes.&#8221;
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/10/obama-quotes-nonexistent-bible-verse-during-speech/">The Washington Times</a> noted that the first half of Obama&#8217;s quote is a proverb that does not stem from the Bible. The second half of his quote seems to have been from Matthew 7: 1-3, which states, &#8220;Do not judge, so that you may not be judged &#8230; Why do you see the speck in your neighbor&#8217;s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?&#8221;
The Democrats seem to treat the Bible they same way as the Constitution by cherry-picking the parts that forward their agenda, but when it comes to issues like abortion and gay marriage, they claim that people invoking the Bible and the Constitution are a bunch of religious right-wing crazies. The Democrats and the Left truly embody the &#8220;ends justifies the means&#8221; mentality.
This article has been updated.
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On Thursday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof &#8211; a man who once titled a column &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13443/nyts-kristof-husbands-are-deadlier-terrorists-hank-berrien">Husbands Are Deadlier Than Terrorists</a>&#8221; &#8211; has now topped his own high standards for idiocy. Tweeting about President Trump&#8217;s proposed budget, which slashes spending across a variety of agencies, Kristof tweeted:
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Reading through the Trump budget, I feel as the Romans must have felt in 456 AD as the barbarians conquered and ushered in the dark ages.
&#8212; Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickKristof/status/842409217793396736">March 16, 2017</a></blockquote>
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There are a few problems with this tweet.
First off, while the barbarians sacked Rome in 455 AD, they didn&#8217;t actually depose the Roman emperor until 476 AD.
Second, the Trump budget increases defense spending while cutting funding for the EPA, the State Department, the Agriculture Department, the Labor Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Commerce Department, the Education Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Transportation Department, the Interior Department, the Energy Department, the Small Business Administration, the Justice Department, and NASA. It also increases funding for Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. It doesn&#8217;t touch the entitlement programs that actually comprise the vast majority of the budget.
The Roman Empire did not fall because of lack of funding for its labor department. It should have increased defense spending, restricted immigration, and stopped its governmental overreach domestically. Edward Gibbon suggested a few reasons why the Roman empire fell, including decline of family structure, high taxes and high spending, hedonism, and decaying military structure. Here&#8217;s Gibbon:
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Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed and finally dissolved by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.
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Modern scholars suggest that the Roman empire fell because it simply lost relevance &#8211; it decayed into obscurity rather than being toppled from without by a mighty invader. As Columbia history lecturer Nathan Pilkington wrote in The Washington Post, &#8220;Rome had become peripheral to the empire it created, whose center of political and economic life shifted to Constantinople, modern Istanbul, over the course of the 4th century A.D.&#8221;
You&#8217;ll notice that nowhere does he lament the loss of Roman funding for the National Roman Endowment for the Arts.
But that&#8217;s the thing: for Kristof and company, the barbarians aren&#8217;t external threats to America, or even emissaries of foreign nations living within the United States &#8211; the barbarians are Trump supporters. Trump is the Visigoth at the gates, and he has already deposed the old emperor, Obama, who was a genteel man of worldly convictions. Now Trump is ruining the empire so painstakingly built by the left.
Except that Trump isn&#8217;t a Roman emperor, America isn&#8217;t Rome, and cutting the budget from mammoth to slightly less mammoth isn&#8217;t exactly an overthrow of the existing order.
But don&#8217;t worry: the left will always strain history in order to achieve its end goal, the polarization of the electorate and the announcement that we&#8217;re on the verge of the apocalypse thanks to Alaric Trump.

NYT’s Kristof Tweets The Stupidest Thing About Trump’s Budget Proposal EVER

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If Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times has his way, prospective brides will no longer say &#8220;I do,&#8221; at the altar, but rather, &#8220;I don&#8217;t. I&#8217;d rather marry a terrorist.&#8221;
The knee-jerk defender of all things politically to the left <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/opinion/sunday/husbands-are-deadlier-than-terrorists.html">titled</a> his Saturday column, &#8220;Husbands Are Deadlier Than Terrorists.&#8221;
Of course, plenty of terrorists are married, but that&#8217;s beside the point.
Kristof posits that President Trump&#8217;s attempts to protect the American people are misguided, and instead he should focus on husbands with guns. He writes: 
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Consider two critical issues: refugees and guns. Trump is going berserk over the former, but wants to ease rules on the latter. So let&#8217;s look at the relative risks. In the four decades between 1975 and 2015, terrorists born in the seven nations in Trump&#8217;s travel ban killed zero people in America, <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/little-national-security-benefit-trumps-executive-order-immigration">according to the Cato Institute</a>. Zero.In that same period, guns claimed 1.34 million lives in America, including murders, suicides and accidents.
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He confesses, &#8220;It&#8217;s true that Muslim Americans &#8212; both born in the United States and immigrants from countries other than those subject to Trump&#8217;s restrictions &#8212; have carried out deadly terrorism in America. There have been 123 such murders since the 9/11 attacks,&#8221; then adds, &#8220;&#8212; and 230,000 other murders.&#8221;
Then the attack on the American male: &#8220;The bottom line is that most years in the U.S., ladders kill far more Americans than Muslim terrorists do. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/opinion/terrorists-bathtubs-and-snakes.html">Same with bathtubs</a>. Ditto for stairs. And lightning. Above all, fear spouses: Husbands are incomparably more deadly in America than jihadist terrorists.
How much worse are American men than men from other countries? &#8220;In other countries, brutish husbands put wives in hospitals; in America, they put them in graves.&#8221;
Kristof then embarks on an odyssey through all the ways conservatives have fought against gun control before concluding, &#8220;With his travel ban, Trump is peddling an ineffective policy that is morally repugnant, even as he marches toward a looser policy on guns likely to result in more school shootings, more shattered families and more lives lost. Those graves will last long after Trump&#8217;s tweets are gone.&#8221;
If ever a terrorist comes to Kristof&#8217;s door, or happens to meet him at his day job, Kristof may want to rethink his staunch opposition to guns.
In the meantime, as one American husband, I have two words for Kristof saying I&#8217;m more dangerous than a terrorist. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College; he should be able to figure out what they are.

NYT’s Kristof: ‘Husbands Are Deadlier Than Terrorists’.  Here’s A Two-Word Response.

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Today&#8217;s Muslims are yesterday&#8217;s Jews.
Today&#8217;s Jews being killed by today&#8217;s Muslims &#8211; ehhhh, whatever.
So runs the perverse logic of the international left, which insists that Western unwillingness to house, clothe, and feed hundreds of thousands of unvetted Muslim refugees from the Middle East mirrors the West&#8217;s failure to house Jewish refugees up to and during the Holocaust. CNN&#8217;s execrable Dean Obeidallah tweeted out a piece from <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/17/what-americans-thought-of-jewish-refugees-on-the-eve-of-world-war-ii/">The Washington Post</a> today making this point; the piece, by Ishaan Tharoor, analyzes &#8220;What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II.&#8221; Tharoor writes, &#8220;Two-thirds of the respondents agreed with the proposition that &#8216;we should try to keep them out&#8230;.Two-thirds of Americans polled by Gallup&#8217;s American Institute of Public Opinion in January 1939 &#8211; well after the events of Kristallnacht &#8211; said they would not take in 10,000 German Jewish refugee children.&#8221; So what? Tharoor concludes: &#8220;It&#8217;s worth remembering this mood when thinking about the current moment, in which the United States is once more in the throes of a debate over letting in refugees.&#8221;
Jewish refugees of 1939 and Muslim refugees today are in exactly the same position, according to Tharoor: victims of American anti-rational xenophobia.
Over at The New York Times, professional useless person Nicholas Kristof agrees, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/opinion/betraying-ourselves.html?_r=0">writing</a>: &#8220;Desperate refugees flee persecution and war, but American politicians &#8211; worried about security risks &#8211; refuse to accept them. That&#8217;s the situation today, but it&#8217;s also the shameful way we responded as Jews were fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s.&#8221; The Los Angeles Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-syrian-refugee-debate-cultural-20151118-story.html">reported today</a>, &#8220;The debate over whether the U.S. government should continue to admit migrants from Syria following last week&#8217;s <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/terrorism/paris-terrorist-attacks-EVCAL00076-topic.html">terrorist attacks</a> in Paris has drawn comparisons to the Holocaust from leaders of local cultural organizations that focus on human rights and other international issues.&#8221; At The Huffington Post, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bier/syrian-refugees-paris_b_8577480.html">David Bier explains</a>, &#8220;During World War II, the U.S. turned away Jews due to security concerns.&#8221;
Put aside the fact that comparing Muslim refugees to Jewish refugees is asinine for a variety of reasons, as <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/1217/no-muslim-refugees-are-not-jewish-wwii-refugees-michael-qazvini">Michael Qazvini has written</a>, ranging from the fact that Jewish refugees were not a terror threat, that Jewish refugees held Judeo-Christian values compatible with Western civilization, that Jewish refugees had no other place to go, and that Muslim immigrants to the West have exponentially boosted hate crimes against Jews in particular.
Focus instead on the irony that the same people decrying Western treatment of &#8220;the new Jews&#8221; are completely silent when it comes to &#8220;today&#8217;s Jews&#8221; murder today&#8217;s actual Jews. It&#8217;s gotten so bad for Jews in Europe at the hands of Muslims in Europe that serious discussions have taken place about whether <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/is-it-time-for-the-jews-to-leave-europe/386279/">Jews ought to abandon Europe altogether</a>. Meanwhile, the left&#8217;s morally disgusting attempts to distinguish Muslim terror against Jews, both in Europe and in Israel, from Muslim terror against other Westerners continues apace. The same people who now complain of that Muslims are victims of a fictional Holocaust now look the other way as today&#8217;s Muslim would-be Holocaust practitioners murder Jews. When Muslims shot up the offices of Charlie Hebdo, President Obama decried the targeted attack; when they headed straight to a kosher deli to try to kill Jews, he called it random. This week, just days after the Paris terror attacks, three ISIS supporters in Marseille stabbed a Jewish schoolteacher &#8211; but since that guy was a Jew, no biggie. That followed on a Jew being stabbed in Milan, Italy. Today, three Jews, including an American, were shot to death in Israel by Muslims. Of course, Jews throughout Europe <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/09/yes-the-terrorists-won/">have been targeted for murder by Muslims for years</a>, their synagogues targeted for destruction, their religion targeted for annihilation. And Jews throughout Israel have been targeted for genocide by Muslims for years.
Yet the sick left continue to call Muslims today&#8217;s real Jews &#8211; victims of a racist establishment hell-bent on singling out a religious minority &#8211; even as they militantly ignore their own complicity in the murder of real, live Jews. The left funds the Palestinian Authority and their Hamas unity government to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, even as Muslims prodded by the PA and Hamas stab Jews in the streets. The left opens up the world economy to openly genocidal Muslims in Iran, allowing dollars to flow through to Muslim terrorists firing rockets at innocent Jews.
But, of course, the Jews are the problem.
Here&#8217;s the reality: today&#8217;s Jews are yesterday&#8217;s Jews. Today&#8217;s Muslims are yesterday&#8217;s Muslims. It is beyond insulting &#8211; it approaches parody &#8211; to appropriate the mantle of historic Jewish victimhood for many of the very people who support the murder of those Jews&#8217; children and grandchildren.

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Nicholas Kristof, the emasculated columnist for The New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/a-rapists-nightmare.html">bemoans</a> the continuing rapes of young girls in Northern India, including one 16-year old victim calling herself “Bitiya,” writing that he’s “rooting for Bitiya and strong girls like her to change those attitudes and end the impunity that oppresses women and impoverishes nations.”
Those rapists are in for a rude surprise. Forget about the power of Kristof’s hand-wringing; just wait until he creates a hashtag!
Kristof writes: “This isn’t one more tragedy of sexual victimization but rather a portrait of an indomitable teenager whose willingness to take on the system inspires us and helps protect other local girls.”
Inspire us to do what, pray tell?
Bitiya, who is a member of the lower-caste system, asserts that she was roughly 13 in 2012 when four upper-caste village men raped her in a field, filmed the incident, then told her they would publish the video and kill her brother if she went public about the attack. But when her father saw the video six weeks later, he filed a report with the police, who did nothing. Worse, the village elders banned her from school. Public sentiment forced the school to rescind that decision, but the elders, punishing the family, refused to let her family obtain government food rations.
The four men were ultimately arrested, but released in bail; Bitiya’s father died of a heart attack during the court process. Her brother stays home out of fear of reprisal, leaving the family bereft of food. Meanwhile the rape suspects told Bitya’s family they would give them $15,000 if the case was dropped, Bitya refused, telling Kristof, “I want them in jail. Then everyone watching will know that people can get punished for this.”
<blockquote>&#8220;The United States should not hesitate to promote its values.&#8221;
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According to Kristof, no rapes have followed Bitya’s, because the rapists had to sell land to pay for their bail.
With the West’s abandonment of teaching Western values to other nations, the long-established subjugation of women is unlikely to end soon. Attacks on “cultural imperialism” abound; as one writer, Mejai Bolah Avoseh, was quoted in <a>The Effects of Globalization in Latin America, Africa, and Asia: A Global South Perspective</a>, “cultural imperialism is a way of superimposing the values, aspirations, tastes, standards of colors of powerful communities on poor, weak and vulnerable communities of the world.”
Kristof admits that when he interviewed local men about rape, they suggested that the problem would be best addressed by forcing the victim to marry the rapist. As one 18-year-old boy succinctly stated, “If he raped her, he probably likes her.”
Unlike Kristof’s sniveling and his waving of his tear-stained handkerchief, there is another way to address the primitivism evidenced in other countries, as David Rothkopf <a href="http://www.udel.edu/globalagenda/2004/student/readings/rothkopfimperialism.html">wrote</a> in Foreign Policy in 1997 in a pellucid essay:
<blockquote>Many observers contend that it is distasteful to use the opportunities created by the global information revolution to promote American culture over others, but that kind of relativism is as dangerous as it is wrong. American culture is fundamentally different from indigenous cultures in so many other locales. American culture is an amalgam of influences and approaches from around the world. It is melded &#8211; consciously in many cases &#8211; into a social medium that allows individual freedoms and cultures to thrive. Recognizing this, Americans should not shy away from doing that which is so clearly in their economic, political, and security interests &#8211; and so clearly in the interests of the world at large. The United States should not hesitate to promote its values. In an effort to be polite or politic, Americans should not deny the fact that of all the nations in the history of the world, theirs is the most just, the most tolerant, the most willing to constantly reassess and improve itself, and the best model for the future.</blockquote>

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