Good News Friday

Jul 19, 2024

Dear Patriot,

Overall, the Republican National Convention has been fun to watch. The message of unity and resolve has come across clearly. The entire arena is full of energetic people who are committed to electing Donald Trump again. You can almost feel their relief that he survived last Saturday’s assassination attempt come through the screen.

However, the stories told by normal Americans who have lost loved ones as a result of Biden policies at the border and Afghanistan are heart wrenching.

It is important that we hear these stories and know this grief. We can not fix these issues and save other loved ones if we do not know the human toll of bad political decisions.

While we have good news for you on this summer Friday, the very best news of the week is that President Trump survived the effort to kill him.

Seeing him at the convention has been reassuring and inspiring.

1- It is a no brainer that only citizens should be voting, but, the left is fighting to have illegals in the voting booth.

This is a big win to stop that in Arizona.

Blaze Media

Court rules in favor of election integrity law to require proof of citizenship in Arizona

QUOTE: The Arizona Republican Party declared victory after an appeals court ruled in favor of an election integrity law to ensure that only those who are citizens can turn in a voting ballot.
Arizona House Bill 2492 required that new voters provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote with state forms to vote in presidential elections or in order to vote early by mail for any office.
'We are grateful the court is upholding this provision in our law.'
The lawsuit claimed that the requirement of citizenship proof was meant to suppress voter access.
Arizona Senate President Peterson released a statement about the ruling. "This is a victory for election integrity in Arizona. Only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in our elections. It sounds like common sense, but the radical left elected officials in our state continue to reject this notion, disrespecting the voices of our lawful Arizona voters," he wrote.

2- It is great that this blackmail of corporations has started to fade away. It was always a bad idea…bad for business and bad for society.

NYPost

Microsoft reportedly fires DEI team — becoming latest company to ditch ‘woke’ policy

QUOTE: Microsoft has reportedly laid off a team devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion after pouring millions of dollars into the initiative — becoming the latest major company to ditch the “woke” policy.
The Big Tech giant disbanded the DEI team at the beginning of the month due to “changing business needs,” according to a July 1 email.
The decision was a further sign that companies are pulling back on diversity-based initiatives that were put in place following the 2020 death of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protest campaigns.
Last year, Google and Meta reduced the scope of their DEI programs and cut staff as part of restructuring and layoffs at both companies, according to CNBC.
On Tuesday, tractor giant John Deere announced it will scuttle nearly all its DEI polices in favor of a quality-based workplace.
That followed a decision last month by farm chain retailer Tractor Supply to axe all DEI goals and positions.
Zoom, Snap, Tesla, DoorDash, Lyft, Home Depot and Wayfair have also downsized their DEI teams.
Overall, DEI-related job postings declined by 44% by mid-2023 compared to the same period in 2022.

3- At recent world leader gatherings we noted that Italian PM Georgia Meloni seemed to be a no nonsense person. Here she is fighting for farm land being used for food and not solar panels.

Peter Imanuelsen at Peter Sweden on Substack

Italy BANS solar panels on farm land

QUOTE: Fantastic news coming out of Italy as they once again goes against the Klaus Scwhab agenda.
In order to protect farming, the right-wing government in Italy has now banned the installation of ground mounted solar panels in agricultural areas.
Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has said that the rollout of solar panels on farmland is a ”threat to our food sovereignty”.
Climate fanatics are not happy with this move, as they complaining that this will undermine the green goals and that Italy won’t be able to fulfill its green goals by 2030.
However, they will still allow agri-voltaic solar panels that are placed 2.1 metres above fields in a way that will allow crops to grow underneath the panels.
Georgia Meloni says that this new decree corrects ”the ideological eco-follies of which Italy and its farmers have been victims”.
This is good news, as otherwise special Italian products that is loved all around the world might have been under threat.
Now we are seeing a continued attack on farmers under the guise of climate change. In reality what we are seeing is Climate Communism.
This isn’t the first time that the right-wing government in Italy has gone against the WEF agenda. Last year they became the first country in the world to ban fake lab grown meat. They have also banned the use of insects in their pasta and pizza.

4- I think we can take credit for moving Hillbilly Elegy to the top of the charts! The left is not happy that this book and movie, they once praised, is now getting massive attention.

Twitchy

Cry Harder: Variety Is VERY CONCERNED That 'Hillbilly Elegy' Is Surging on Netflix and Amazon

QUOTE: In conservative circles, Donald Trump's selection of J.D. Vance as his running mate on Monday has been met with mostly positive reviews. Though some factions of the right might have preferred another pick for Vice President, the majority of Republicans have been generally happy with the choice.
Over on the left, on the other hand ...
We won't go through the litany, but Liz Cheney is apoplectic about it, Tea Pain is furious that Vance is a white man, and one New Hampshire Democrat even tried to claim that Vance's wife Usha (who is an American citizen) might even be deported under the boogeyman of Project 2025.
So, you know, a typical reaction from the left.
Another element of Vance's selection that is making them cry is that his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, has rocketed to number one on the Amazon bestsellers list in less than two days. Similarly, as reported by The New York Post, Ron Howard's 2020 film adaptation of the book has seen a huge surge in views on Netflix of more than one thousand percent.
In the 24 hours since former President Donald Trump named Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, 39, as his running mate on the Republican ticket for the 2024 presidential election, views of the Netflix movie based on Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” have shot up 1,179%.
Citing data from Luminate, Variety reported that the 2020 film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams, was viewed 19.2 million minutes on Monday — up from 1.5 million the day before.
Wow. It's not a surprise that the memoir and movie would increase in popularity, but those are pretty big numbers.
This was extremely upsetting to the people at Variety, who pulled out the long knives for Howard and producer Brian Grazer for elevating Vance with their film adaptation.
Let's see how Variety's film critic Peter Debruge describes Hillbilly Elegy:
In both the book and its middling Netflix adaptation (forgettable but for a fiery turn from Glenn Close as “Mamaw,” the woman who raised young JD while his mother was dealing with drug addiction and deadbeat boyfriends), Vance portrayed himself as an Appalachian kid from poor stock who’d escaped the Rust Belt for an Ivy League education and a lucrative career.
It was that dimension of Vance’s narrative that clearly attracted director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer — both self-avowed liberals, who may have created a monster by legitimizing his origin story, much as “The Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett did by giving Trump a reality TV spotlight back in 2004.
"Legitimizing his origin story." Unbelievable. He actually wrote those words.
Obviously, in Hollywood, you are only allowed to tell inspiring stories that elevate leftists and leftist narratives, not -- GASP! -- a Republican.

5- Biden’s very bad week keeps getting worse. And that is good news. This vote-buying scheme is not working for voters or judges.

Axios

Appeals court blocks Biden's student debt relief SAVE Plan

QUOTE: A U.S. appeals court filed an order on Thursday barring President Biden's administration from providing student debt relief with its SAVE Plan.
Although the order on an emergency motion is not a final ruling, all aspects of the SAVE Plan are now blocked while the court case continues, per the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Lower court rulings had already hindered other parts of the SAVE Plan.
The Republican-led states of Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma sued Biden and his administration for "trying to impose an extraordinarily expensive and controversial policy," per an April complaint.
The order came the same day as the administration canceled $1.2 billion in student debt for 35,000 public service workers.
In total, it has now forgiven $168.5 billion for 4.76 million borrowers.

6- Conservative ideas work. Liberal ideas do NOT work. All you have to do is look at the states to see this truth.

Joel Kotkin at The American Mind

The Triumph of Red States

QUOTE: Forget the presidential election. The real contest about the future direction of the country has already taken place, and it’s the red states that are clearly winning.
What we are witnessing is not so much a national ideological triumph, in the manner of the Reagan era, but a grassroots shift in economic, social, and, ultimately, political power from one set of regions to another. This continues a pattern congruent with American history since the first settlements pushed out from the Atlantic coast, expanding all the way to the Pacific. Even today the wealthiest states, not adjusted for costs, remain perched on the Northeastern or Pacific coastlines.
Today’s shift is not a repeat of “manifest destiny” associated with the old adage “go west, young man,” but more like a call back to the South, and even some places in the country’s vast center. These areas are still catching up with those areas that flourished in the last half of the twentieth century. But over the past four decades, income and job growth in places like Texas and Florida were 50 percent or more above New York and California.
In recent years, the gap between regions has narrowed. Texas, Nevada, Florida, and Arkansas experienced the nation’s highest personal income growth; in contrast, ultra-blue California ranked last, followed closely by Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York. Sunbelt states dominate the list of fastest job creators while California, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Oregon rank toward the bottom. Overall, in the past decade, the six fastest growing Southern states—Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee—added more to the national GDP than the Northeast, the traditional economic powerhouse.
Conservative and libertarian economists explain these shifts largely as a function of tax rates. Though taxes are certainly a factor, blue states like New York, California, and Massachusetts long thrived with higher tax rates than states like Florida and Texas, much less than laggards like Mississippi and Alabama. California and other blue states, such as New York, benefited in the postwar era from investments in physical infrastructure and education. But in recent decades, the other states have caught up while California’s government, in one recent study, was ranked least efficient. States like Washington, Texas, Colorado, Utah, North Carolina, and Florida are duplicating “many of the great things about California,” according to Christopher Lloyd, President of the Site Selection Guild, which tracks investment flows. “The development model has turned on its head,” Lloyd suggests. “These states have learned from California. There seems to be a failure there to recognize things have changed and tech people are much more mobile.”

7- Max Boot, a far left propagandist writer for the Washington Post and a talking head on CNN, may be married to a South Korean spy.

Mediate

Wife of Washington Post Columnist Max Boot Charged With Espionage By Justice Department

QUOTE: Former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry, the wife of Washington Post columnist Max Boot, was charged Tuesday with working as an agent for South Korea in allegations that include editorials written for the newspaper.
According to the criminal indictment made public in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Terry, 54, failed to register as a foreign agent and conspired to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Prosecutors claim that, beginning in 2013 and continuing for a decade following, Terry received luxury gifts provided by South Korean intelligence officers in return for her promoting South Korea’s policy positions and disclosing nonpublic government information. Prosecutors also allege that Terry wrote opinion pieces at the request of South Korean officials, using information provided by them.
One editorial named in the indictment is co-authored with Boot, who is not charged with any crime. Prosecutors argue the article was published without disclosing Korean government involvement.
The indictment also alleges that in exchange for her services Terry received lavish gifts, including Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton handbags as well as a Dolce & Gabbana coat. Security footage cited in the indictment allegedly shows Terry with her handlers purchasing the bags in 2019 and 2021. The document also mentions that she was treated to meals at Michelin-starred restaurants and given over $37,000 in covert funding for a public policy program focusing on Korean affairs.
The Council on Foreign Relations, where Terry is a senior fellow, has placed her on unpaid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.