A Latina explains: Why I’m Voting for Trump
Attorney and conservative commentator A.J. Delgado says she’s constantly asked why, “as a proud Latina, the daughter of two Cuban immigrants, who lives in a heavily Latino, blue-collar neighborhood,” she supports Donald Trump. The question, she writes in The Washington Post, is based on “a deliberately simplistic assessment of the Latino electorate.” Because “polls consistently show that Latinos’ top issues are the same as other Americans — we care most about the economy and jobs,” not immigration. But opposing illegal immigration isn’t racist or insulting, says Delgado: “What is insulting is the assumption that the top issue of a law-abiding, patriotic Latino voter isn’t jobs or a good education for his child — but rather ensuring a person he or she has never met can cross into this country, or stay in this country, in violation of the law.”
Survey expert: How Polls Might Be Biased Against Trump
Trump and his backers complain the polls don’t honestly reflect his standing in the race. Are they right? Maybe, says Jay Cost in The Weekly Standard, but not for the reasons they think. For one thing, it’s “nonsense on stilts” to think pollsters are deliberately excluding Trump voters — their reputations depend on accuracy. But polls right now are mostly of registered, rather than likely, voters. And if “non-voters are less disposed to Trump than actual voters,” the polls may well be “understating his position.” Moreover, there may be “statistical bias” as pollsters try to estimate what actual voter turnout will look like. “One thing is for certain: Crowd sizes, yard signs and other indications of intensity are irrelevant.”
Conservative take: TV’s Insufferable ‘Science Guy’
Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” thinks the Louisiana flooding was caused by climate change, notes Ian Tuttle at National Review. “That’s not surprising,” he says, “because Bill Nye thinks everything is the result of climate change”— even ISIS’ “massacre of 130 people in Paris last year.” In other words, “it’s almost like ‘science’ has nothing to do with it.” Once a fledgling comedian, Nye now has “a sweet gig” as “America’s foremost ‘edutainer’.” He “pals around with pop stars and bonds over JayZ with SNL actors” while doing “Q&As with The New York Times.” But “Nye is not exactly a nerd,” says Tuttle, “he just plays one on TV.” In fact, he’s “the foremost science-side participant in the cycle of . . . political-agenda-pushing that has come to characterize the relationship between left-wing politics and science.”
Rabbi’s view: Black Lives Matter and Self-Hating Jews
Noted Rabbi Joseph Telushkin attacks those Jews who won’t oppose Black Lives Matter’s denunciation of Israeli “genocide” against Palestinians, calling them “profoundly immoral” and “self-hating Jews.” Writing in Tablet, he recalls that the Nazi Holocaust cost the lives of one-third of the world’s Jews, while the number of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has increased four-fold. “That is not genocide,” he writes, “it’s a population explosion.” Those who refuse to challenge BLM “know what is being said about Jews is a lie, a fiction not one whit less vicious than the blood libel,” says Telushkin, but “they simply don’t care enough about truth and their fellow Jews to challenge it and insist that it be deleted.”
The Gov reveals: Jersey Girls Won’t Pump Gas
At long last, we finally know why New Jersey is the only state that won’t allow self-service at the gas pump. According to Gov. Chris Christie, Garden State women are responsible. The anonymous Star-Ledger columnist known as The Auditor reports that Christie told a town hall meeting this week that “we polled this over and over. The last poll we did on this question, 78 percent of New Jersey women said they were opposed to self-serve gas,” while only 52 percent of men were against it. Added Christie: “You can’t find 78 percent of people in New Jersey who agree on anything!”