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Food pantry seeks help; let’s respond Sadly, the shelves are bare at the AMEN Food Pantry. The volunteer pantry board has made a critical appeal for assistance. We hope the community responds. “We have not received a shipment from a food bank in several weeks and are urgently asking the public to help meet our food stock needs,” AMEN volunteer and board member John Cooper told the Daily Corinthian last week. The congregation of First United Methodist Church and others have contributed, but the current need for donations is greater than what’s on the shelf. Desperately needed staples include spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, canned vegetables, tuna, soup, macaroni and cheese, beef stew, canned tomatoes, peanut butter, jelly, ramen noodles, dry pinto beans, boxes of crackers, sundries, toilet paper, hand soap, toothpaste and other items. Monetary donations are also being sought. Donors should note that canned items should be in metal rather than glass containers. Supported solely by donations and volunteers, the AMEN Food Pantry serves over 3,000 families per year which equates to more than 300 per month. Clients are allowed to accept the free goods every three months. Feeding impoverished families and individuals since 1993, the 501 C 3 organization has had many locations but for the last several years has called 104 Linden Street home. The pantry is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. until noon. Deliver your food donations during these times. Let’s all chip in and feed the need.
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It ain’t over till it’s over “I did it my way,” crooned Sinatra. Donald Trump is echoing Ol’ Blue Eyes with the latest additions to his staff. Should he lose, he prefers to go down to defeat as Donald Trump, and not as some synthetic creation of campaign consultants. “I am who I am,” Trump told a Wisconsin TV station, “It’s me. I don’t want to change. ... I don’t want to pivot. ... If you start pivoting, you are not being honest with people.” The remarks recall the San Francisco Cow Palace where an astonished Republican, on hearing the candidate speak out in favor of “extremism in the defense of liberty,” blurted out, “My God, he’s going to run as Barry Goldwater!” And so he did. And Goldwater is remembered and revered by many who have long forgotten all the trimmers of both parties who tailored their convictions to suit the times, and lost. Trump believes populism and nationalism are the future of America, and wants to keep saying so. Nor is this stance inconsistent with recapturing the ground lost in the weeks since he was running even with Hillary Clinton. The twin imperatives for the Trump campaign are simple ones. They must recreate in the public mind that Hillary Clinton who 56 percent
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Prayer for today Gracious Father, if I may be beginning this day with an unclean purpose in my heart, help me to clear it away; if I may be trying to avoid some urgent duty, make me ashamed to resist it. Keep away the desires that harm my life, and that withhold the enjoyment of my common work. Amen.
A verse to share A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense. — Proverbs 19:11
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of the nation thought should have been indicted for lying in the server scandal, and who twothirds of the nation said was dishonest or un-
trustworthy. Second, Trump must convince the country, as he had almost done by Cleveland, that he is an acceptable, indeed, a preferable alternative. While the assignment is simple, as Ronald Reagan reminded us, there may be simple answers, but there are no easy ones. What is the case against Clinton his campaign must make? She is a political opportunist who voted for a war in Iraq, in which she did not believe, that proved ruinous for her country. As secretary of state, she pushed for the overthrow and celebrated the assassination of a Libyan dictator, resulting in a North African haven for al-Qaida and ISIS. Her reset with Russia was a diplomatic joke. Her incompetence led to the death of a U.S. ambassador and three brave Americans in Benghazi, and she subsequently lied to the families of the dead heroes about why they had died. Her statements about
her server and emails were so perjurious they almost caused FBI Director James Comey to throw up in public. What America has in Hillary Clinton is a potential president with the charisma but not the competence of Angela Merkel, and the ethics of Dilma Rousseff. However, here is the problem for the Trump campaign. While exposing the Clinton character and record is essential, among the primary rules of presidential politics is that you do not use your candidate to do the wet work. Eisenhower had Vice President Nixon do it for him. President Nixon had Vice President Agnew, who was good at it, and enjoyed it. Yet, still, on the megaissue, America’s desire for change, and on specific issues, Trump holds something close to a full house. The country wants the border secured and immigration vetting toughened to keep out the kind of terrorists who committed the atrocity in San Bernardino. The country wants an end to the trade deficits with China and the endless export of U.S. factories and manufacturing jobs. On Americanism versus globalism, the country is with Trump. On an America First foreign policy that keeps us out of trilliondollar, no-win Middle East wars, the country is with
Trump. Americans may not love Vladimir Putin, but they do not wish to go to war with Russia, which we avoided in half a century of Cold War. Americans do not want to go nation-building abroad, but to start the nationbuilding at home. On coming down with both feet on rioters, looters, arsonists and Black-Lives-Matter haters who call cops “pigs,” America is all in with Donald Trump. As for going after Clinton, the media hysteria surrounding the Donald’s new hire, Steve Bannon of Breitbart News, suggests that this may be a fellow who is not without redeeming social value. Moreover, outside events could conspire against Clinton. The coming economic news – we had 1 percent growth in the first half of 2016 – could cause a second look at Trumponomics. And whoever is out there strategically dropping Democratic emails may be readying an October surprise for Hillary Clinton, a massive document dump that buries her. As Yogi Berra reminded us, the game “ain’t over, till it’s over.” (Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”)
To Russia, with love So much for the old accusation that the Republican Party has a “Cold War mentality.” Or if it still does, it has switched sides. The 2016 presidential campaign continues to play out like a Christopher Buckley novel gone completely off the rails, perhaps most implausibly in Paul Manafort’s role in the Russia-friendly Donald Trump campaign. Let’s consider the mindbending reversals of the norms: It is the outsider candidate who has a lobbyist at the heart of his campaign. And not the upstanding sort of lobbyist who merely persuades the Ways and Means Committee to bequeath tax loopholes on the likes of General Electric, but a truly sinister influence peddler who, by all accounts, made a mint working at the right hand of a small-time foreign thug and thief (Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych) who was the handmaiden of a big-time foreign thug and thief (Russia’s Vladimir Putin). It is the candidate of the pro-Western party that traditionally champions strength abroad (i.e., the GOP) who is sending signals that he wants to aban-
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don our commitments to NATO and doing all that he can to cozy up to a Russia that Rich seeks to adLowry vance its interests at the National cost of the inReview terests – and the territorial integrity – of our allies. It is the nationalist who is benefiting from the propaganda of the Russian media and whose prospects of winning the election may depend, in part, on an “October surprise” engineered by Russian intelligence or its associates. If he were still with us, Henry Wallace, the Sovietfriendly New Dealer, might wonder what the hell is going on. We’ve come a long way from Mitt Romney calling Russia “our No. 1 geopolitical foe,” baby. Paul Manafort always seemed like the kind of fixer whose name might turn up on a secret black ledger for off-the-books cash payments in a room with safes stuffed with $100 bills in some Eastern European country – but we didn’t know for sure until The
New York Times reported this week that Manafort’s name appeared on just such a ledger for Yanukovych’s party in Ukraine. According to the Times, the ledger has 22 entries for Manafort, totaling $12.7 million in payments from 2007 to 2012. Since the transparency of cash payments from corrupt, Kremlin-backed political parties doesn’t quite meet the strictures established by the International Accounting Standards Board, there is no proof that Manafort actually received the money. For his part, Manafort is outraged at the suggestion of anything untoward, just because an apparatchik from a political party whose business model was plundering Ukraine happened – perhaps in a fit of absent-mindedness? in a transcription error? – to write his name nearly two dozen times next to specific money amounts. Manafort’s lawyer denies that his client took cash payments, and, further, denies that he “might have countenanced corruption or been involved with people who took part in illegal activities.” In his lawyer’s version, Manafort served –
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and routinely played tennis with – a man whose name is synonymous with electoral fraud and political corruption, without ever suspecting that everything might not be on the up and up. Given his reputation, other presidential campaigns might be hesitant to hold meetings with Paul Manafort, let alone put him in charge. From Trump’s perspective, though, Manafort’s Russian-friendly views and connections are a feature rather than a bug. Trump’s softness on Putin surely reflects his admiration for strongmen; his longtime instinct to kowtow to powerful politicians who might be able to help his business; his distaste for allies who allegedly are ripping us off; and his appreciation for Putin’s perceived flattery of him. The latest Trump campaign shakeup may diminish Manafort’s role, and eventually lead to his ouster. But don’t worry – chances are that he will luck into a shady payday somewhere else soon enough. (Daily Corinthian columnist Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.)
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