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VV Daily Press
December 13, 2016

(original letter – unedited. The Dec. 4th letter was edited for space)

California vs. America

State’s rights is one thing, however California leaving the union is not idle talk. Indeed, the once golden state has been turned into a dictatorial state with a socialist Democrat governor and supermajority legislature rejecting the U.S. Constitution and federal law – which for all intents and purposes means that it has been a separate nation for a long time – increasingly abusing most of our citizens with punishing taxes and regulations, and a relentless invasion of illegal immigrants, exposing us to an increasing epidemic of crime.

As for the remainder of America, Socialist Democrat President/King Barrack Obama has done nearly the same thing as California has done in just under 8 years to the other 49 states. Indeed, the first black president has gone to the extremes of making African-Americans superior to all other races, dominating everything with about 14 percent of the population – believing all others are inferior racists.

Indeed, our nation has yet to suffer the full consequences of Mr. Obama’s insidious superiority complex reign, which would have been even worse with the insidious superiority complex of the first woman president, Hillary Clinton. Thank God, hopefully, President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America great again’ complex and a Republican Congress will save us, our national/domestic security and the country.

Alas, there is little or no hope for Californians.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
December 11, 2016

California has dug own grave

State’s rights is one thing, however California leaving the union is not mere idle talk. Indeed, the once golden state has been turned into a dictatorial state with a socialist Democrat governor and super-majority legislature rejecting the U.S. Constitution and federal law. This, for all intents and purposes, means that California has been a separate nation for a long time. It has been increasingly abusing most of our citizens with punishing taxes and regulations, aa well as a relentless invasion of crime-producing illegal immigrants.

As for the remainder of America, in just under eight years socialist Democrat President Obama has done to the other 49 states nearly the same thing. The first black president has gone to the extremes of inciting race wars and essentially treating all non-African-Americans as inferior bigots.

Indeed, our nation has yet to suffer the full consequences of Mr. Obama’s insidious superiority complex reign, which would have been continued by a President Hillary Clinton. Hopefully, President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again’ mentality and a Republican Congress will save us, our national security and the country.

Alas, there is little or no hope for Californians.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
December 4, 2016

California vs. America

State’s rights is one thing, however California leaving the union is not idle talk. Indeed, the once golden state has been turned into a dictatorial state with a socialist Democrat governor and supermajority legislature rejecting the U.S. Constitution and federal law – which for all intents and purposes means that it has been a separate nation for a long time – increasingly abusing most of our citizens with punishing taxes and regulations, a relentless invasion of illegal immigrants, exposing us to an increasing epidemic of crime.

Indeed, our nation has yet to suffer the full consequences of his insidious reign, which would have been even worse with the first woman president, Hillary Clinton. Thank God, hopefully, President-elect Donald Trump will save us and the country. Alas, there is little or no hope for Californians.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(original letter - revised)

California vs. America

Alas, there is little or no hope for Californians.

USA TODAY
November 28, 2016

Calls for a vote recount are just plain desperate

It is bad enough that Hillary Clinton sent her supporters on a mission to intimidate President-elect Donald Trump electors into changing their votes for her, now Jill Stein (the Green Party’s presidential candidate) has launched a vote recount campaign in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. This was probably a direction from Clinton to topple Trump’s election, which will surely be supported by her followers.

It looks like Clinton refuses to accept the decision of Trump’s electors and voters, since it’s reported that she conceded the election only after receiving a call from President Obama urging her to do so.

This is all the more evidence that President-elect Trump is saving America from Obama’s ruinous record and an ultra-dangerous election of Clinton.

Indeed, Jan. 20, 2017, can’t come soon enough for America to reform, recover and prosper.

Daniel Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
November 25, 2016

From Obama to Trump

During the Clinton-caused economic meltdown and presidential election of 2008, the Democrat Party, and the insidious media, Hollywood and Academia cartel seized on the politically correct opportunity to elect Senator Barrack Obama as the first black president of the United States.

Of course, the cartel knew that President Obama would lead into the two-term tyrannies of overwhelming government together with the first term Democrat Congress establishing forced national health care, the wars on coal energy and finance industry, and unconstitutional wars against small business and hardworking Americans.

Worse, the second term was replete with a war against the police, surrendering the war against terrorism in the Middle East causing the rise of ISIS, terrorist attacks here and around the world, and his deadly deal with nuclear Iran.

Fortunately, the arrogant and un-American cartel failed to elect evil Hillary Clinton as the first woman president.

Indeed, real American states and voters rejected the cartel and the deeply corrupted Clintons, elected the Donald Trump, Mike Pence team, and retained the Republican Congress to bring back America from the edge of social, political and economic ruin. Clearly, there is hope to rebuild and to restore our national and domestic security.

And, to increase our efforts to make America great again – the way we once were, before the Democrats turned to the ruinous socialist devil….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
November 24, 2016

From Obama to Trump

During the Clinton-caused economic meltdown and presidential election of 2008, the Democrat Party, and the insidious media, Hollywood and academia cartel seized on the politically correct opportunity to elect Sen. Barrack Obama as the first black president..

Of course, the cartel knew that President Obama would lead into a two-term tyranny of overwhelming government together with the first term Democrat Congress establishing forced national health care and the wars on coal, finance industry, small business and hardworking Americans.

Worse, the second term was replete with a war against the police while surrendering the war against terrorism in the Middle East causing the rise of ISIS, terrorist attacks here and around the world and his deadly deal with nuclear Iran.

Fortunately, the arrogant and un-American cartel failed to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman president.

Clearly, there is hope to rebuild and to restore our national and domestic security.

We can also increase our efforts to make America great again – the way we once were, before the Democrats turned to ruinous socialism

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
November 3, 2016

Election determines whether destruction continues

Since the election of President Obama, our democratic republic has come increasingly under attack by the liberal media and the politically powerful -- so much so, that we are in eminent danger of losing our national security and our democracy to the evils of socialism.

Though the Republican Party has the majority in Congress, it has been gutted and weakened by wrath of the previous Democrat Party majority of Mr. Obama’s first term and that contingent’s tyrannical legislation. This has left our country mortally wounded. Mr. Obama’s second term has been replete with edicts and executive orders, pouring salt in the wounds and seriously dividing the nation.

If corrupt and criminal Hillary and Bill Clinton are elected co-presidents under the fraud of intimidation and political correctness, we are in danger of continuing the downward spiral. With little hope, the only thing standing in the way of overwhelming socialist power is Republican candidate and freedom fighter Donald Trump. God help us if he and we don’t win.

Hopefully, five days from now, we can begin the delivery and recovery of our Constitution, democracy and freedom from evil.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
November 3, 2016

Campaign chaos

Local, state and federal campaign chaos, exacerbated by biased television news and the press, abounds throughout the nation in this presidential election year like no other.

Indeed, Hillary Clinton has lied, cheated and personally profited throughout her political life bound to be the first woman president, supported by President Obama in his legacy to divide and weaken the nation. He is currently supporting Kamala Harris over the more experienced Loretta Sanchez for California U.S. senator in a racial move, and he is placing Syrian refugees throughout the country without notifying local governments.

In a local San Bernardino County, California campaign for county supervisor, scurrilous Victorville City candidate Angela Valles is attempting to unseat a very competent incumbent, Robert Lovingood by being dishonest and hateful. Surely, Valles is more qualified to work for corrupt Hillary Clinton.

Alas, it’s time to take America back with a president Donald Trump, a Republican California U.S. senator, keep Supervisor Lovingood, and send the 23 Syrian refugees planted in Victorville by Mr. Obama back where they came from -- and end the chaos.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
October 7, 2016

The war on police is anarchy

The insidious war on police fomented by President Obama is anarchy. Recklessly attacking our first line of defense is un-American and places America in danger in these perilous times of terrorism. Indeed, the latest attack, a deputy sheriff’s sergeant was shot in Lancaster.

As a retired 41-year veteran in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, I am deeply troubled and offended by what has been going on throughout President Obama’s two terms in office, which has put my family and fellow Americans in extreme peril.

Clearly, Mr. Obama is not only responsible for increasing violent crimes and murders, he is responsible for Russian aggression, a nuclear Iran and the proliferation of ISIS and terrorism in the world.

Hopefully, Donald Trump will turn things around and allow America to survive and prosper, instead of Hillary Clinton continuing to steer America down the road to ruin.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
October 5, 2016

Irresponsible liberal media

President Bush attempted to put a stop to the results, but Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and others stood in his way. Certainly, President Obama has exacerbated the insidious problem, which is leading to another, probably worse, housing and financial collapse.

Slamming Donald Trump comes as no surprise from the liberal media, but when they blindly endorse Hillary Clinton with her history of malfeasance, abuse of power and corruption, that hurts America and the people.

Indeed, the Los Angeles Times front page article, “Scope of Trump’s lies unmatched,” and their lengthy half page, “An easy decision: Hillary for president,” editorial endorsement overlooks Clinton’s devious and unlawful conflicts of interests record, that’s irresponsible free press.

Clearly, all the dominant liberal media follows suit with extreme political bias, and all have ignored the fact that Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for the 2008 housing and financial meltdown caused, not by Wall Street, but by Clinton’s administration forcing banks and mortgage lenders to give unaffordable home loans to unqualified home buyers.

America must have relief from all this, and the expansion of world terrorism caused by Obama and Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump and a strong Republican Congress is our only hope.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
October 1, 2016

Presidential debate reaction

In the first Hillary Clinton – Donald Trump debate, each candidate displayed the roots of their character. Donald Trump was brash and to the point, and Hillary Clinton was condescending and arrogant.

The main different between them is that Trump is a very successful businessman, and Hillary Clinton is a slick politician with a history of political corruption, abuse of power and extreme greed.

In terms of their goals, Trump wants to save America and make it great again. Clinton expects a coronation as the first woman president and to rule as queen of America down the road to ruin.

What was missing from the debate, was the fact that Clinton and Obama are responsible for the proliferation of ISIS, and Russian aggression, and that Bill Clinton is responsible for the 2008 housing and financial collapse.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

Riverside Press Enterprise
September 30, 2016

Round one went as expected

The main different between them is that Trump is a very successful businessman, and Hillary Clinton is a slick politician with a history of political corruption, abuse of power and extreme greed.

In terms of their goals, Trump wants to save America and make it great again. Clinton expects a coronation as the first woman president and to rule as queen of America down the road to ruin.

What was missing from the debate, was the fact that Clinton and Obama are responsible for the proliferation of ISIS, nuclear weapons and Russian aggression, and that Bill Clinton is responsible for the 2008 housing and financial collapse.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
September 29, 2016
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Clinton - Trump debate

The main different between them is that Trump is a very successful businessman, and Hillary Clinton is a slick politician with a history of political corruption, abuse of power and extreme greed.

In terms of their goals, Trump wants to save America and make it great again. Clinton expects a coronation as the first woman president and to rule as queen of America down the road to ruin.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
September 27, 2016

Trump must save us from Clinton

Slamming Donald Trump is nothing new for the liberal media, but when it blindly endorse Hillary Clinton. who has a history of malfeasance, abuse of power and corruption, they hurt America and the people.

Clearly, all the dominant liberal media follows suit with extreme political bias, and all have ignored the fact that Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for the 2008 housing and financial meltdown. That’s right -- it was caused, not by Wall Street, but by Clinton’s administration forcing banks and mortgage lenders to give unaffordable home loans to unqualified home buyers.

President George W. Bush attempted to put a stop to the results, but congressmen Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and others stood in his way. Certainly, President Obama has exacerbated the insidious problem, which is leading to another, probably worse, housing and financial collapse.

America must have relief from all this and the expansion of world terrorism caused by Mr. Obama and Mrs. Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump and a strong Republican Congress are our only hope.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
September 15, 2016

Climate and criminal cartel

It’s bad enough that President Obama has exacted serious climate change hoax damage against our energy resources and our economy with his war against coal and oil energy, with irresponsible measures and far-reaching consequences.

However, Governor Brown and the Democrat California Legislature cartel refuse to be outdone the president, when they take climate change legislation to astronomic extremes that will seriously damage our California’s economy and our people.

Indeed, Brown is extending AB 32 Cap and Trade into the stratosphere with SB32 and AB197 wherein it will put California crashing into high gear. Surely, reckless climate change legislation is signing a death warrant that will raise the cost of living and send the state into economic oblivion.

Coupled with Brown releasing criminals to prey upon the people, it’s a Brown climate and criminal cartel. The people are the victims and they lose….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
September 13, 2016

State should butt out of cigarette taxes

It was bad enough that Rob Reiner’s punishing 50 cents per pack tobacco tax proposition passed, and has been used for everything but tobacco-related health problems.

Now, smokers are expected to believe that Proposition 56’s tyrannical $2.00 per pack tax will be used for public health, when in fact it will be just another cash cow for the state. Inflicted upon those who can least afford the tax.

Worse, the legalization of marijuana proposition will surely be passed and become another cash cow for the state, even though it is a gateway to hard drugs. Indeed, it doesn’t matter that the black market for cigarettes and crime will escalate because of both propositions.

Alas, traveling down the liberal road to punishing use of a legal product, while recklessly approving use of an illegal drug for taxes is unconscionable and amounts to little more than voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
September 4, 2016

Wrecking crew against America

President Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and Governor Brown are the primary wrecking crew against America, as follows:

President Obama has damaged the freedoms of Americans with the reckless, unconstitutional actions against our economy, our energy resources, our national security and our domestic security with executive orders and edicts, wars against coal and oil, finance, healthcare, the police – diminishing our border security, military defenses, allowing the proliferation of ISIS terrorism – releasing criminals to prey on the people, and imposing punishing regulations and taxes.

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton participated in the proliferation of ISIS terrorism, and used and abused her office for the Clinton Foundation and personal gain. As a candidate for president, she intends to assign the economy to her former president husband, Bill Clinton, who is directly responsible for the 2008 economic collapse, by forcing banks and mortgage lenders to give unaffordable home loans to unqualified buyers in mass.

California Governor Jerry Brown is a major player in the wrecking crew against California and America with economy-busting, punishing taxation, regulations, bullet train and water tunnel bond scams, $billions in the miseducation of students, high energy costs, releasing criminals to prey on Californians, lack of border security, support of sanctuary cities, and threats to our national and domestic security.

Indeed, the unconscionable Democrat Party and the liberal press covers for the un-American trio and all who support continued attacks against the people. Attention voters: wise up and don’t commit voter-assisted suicide by electing or re-electing more of the same poison to our freedom and liberty.

Alas, that they’re doing is tantamount to treason….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
August 25, 2016

Super Scoopers put fires out before they spread

The immediate use of Super Scooper water-dropping aircraft would have extinguished the Pilot Fire in the Silverwood Lake area before it spread into an out-of-control wildfire.

The irresponsible lack of firefighting air drop equipment from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is responsible for that.

Indeed, with the history of firefighting incompetence by the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire at the Sand Fire, Lake Arrowhead, the Cajon Pass into the Victor Valley, Santa Barbara, San Gabriel Canyon, Lake Isabella, and many other fires in Northern California, needless loss of forest lands, property and lives could have been simply prevented.

Clearly, all of these wildfires and more across the county and state could have been prevented by a fleet of Super Scoopers and DC-10 tankers subject to immediate dispatch with enormous water drops at the start of each fire, extinguishing them before they spread.

Surely, waiting until a fire gets out of control, then sending DC-10s to drop red Fosh-Chek slurry to keep out of control fires from spreading further is nothing more than an exercise in futility.

Particularly, after thousands of firefighters, equipment and millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted.

Alas, it’s beyond time to get it right with a vastly distributed fleet of purchased Super Scoopers and DC-10s loaded with water and waiting for the call to keep California and America from burning.

— Daniel B. Jeffs, Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
August 18, 2016

Super Scoopers are a magic bullet

Though my California Burning letters focused on the DC-10 first response firefighting capabilities, I realize that they cannot be used in all first responses. And I meant no disrespect to firefighters.

Indeed, my 41 year career in law enforcement and the criminal justice system included 3 years as the lead fire dispatcher with the RFPA Desert Com, in which I had firsthand experience with wildfires in the High Desert and local mountain areas.

I also had experience as a deputy sheriff in an L.A County Sheriff’s fire road camp providing security for inmate fire crews on the front lines of several fires. I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended.

My concerns are directed at U.S. Forest Service mismanagement of wildfires, and to a point with Cal Fire. The current crisis is the Pilot Fire, which could have been extinguished by Super Scoopers with Silverwood Lake water sources, while it was growing from 20 acres, before it went out of control to over 7000 acres.

Worse, the smoke from massive wildfires adversely affects thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people. Particularly, those with respiratory problems – my wife and I among them – who are generally exposed or confined to our homes with air conditioning to survive under those conditions.

The point is, there is no reason why the Forest Service and Cal Fire could not have previously purchased or built Super Scoopers like Canada did, to be widely distributed for immediate response -- in the Pilot Fire case -- dispatched from the Victorville Logistics Base, and or Norton.

Surely, Super Scoopers would be the magic bullet. Certainly, the Forest Service failed to call in a heavy response to the Station Fire, and Governor Brown could have provided funding for Super Scoopers instead of his wasteful bullet train and other state boondoggles….

Again, I appreciate all firefighters. I have family in the fire service, and family who resides in the threatened area of Arrowhead Lake Road, so my concerns are also personal.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
August 14, 2016

Liberal media cartel vs. Donald Trump

The worst enemies to America’s constitutionals freedoms are President Obama, Hillary Clinton, congressional Democrats and the liberal media cartel that supports them. Indeed, under the Obama administration, our social, political, economic, domestic and national security are at all-time lows.

Clearly, the liberal media has abdicated their freedom of the press responsibilities for fair and objective reporting. Instead they have chosen a path similar to Russia’s state media, Pravda under the direction of overbearing government that violates the people’s freedoms, and attacks any resistance.

Surely, the only way America’s future can be protected against intrusive, domineering government, and a world wrought with terrorism will be to reject a continued Obama regime with Hillary Clinton, elect Republican Donald Trump president and increase Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

And the only way that will happen is if voters wise-up to the media cartel’s relentless attacks against Donald Trump and reject Hillary Clinton’s history of corruption. Otherwise, the 2016 presidential election will result in voter-assisted suicide.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
August 5, 2016

President Obama is out of line

The only reason President Obama is supporting Hillary Clinton is to secure his social, political and economic legacy, which has been corrosive and destructive to America -- just as Hillary Clinton’s legacy will be if she is elected president. To elect her would be voter-assisted suicide.

Donald Trump should ignore insidious attacks on him as baiting, which is exactly what Hillary Clinton is doing. Trump should simply stick to his message and clarify what he intends to do as president.

Indeed, President Obama is completely out of line taking his support of Hillary Clinton to attacking Trump, which outgoing president just don’t do. They finish their term(s) and quietly leave..

Unfortunately, Obama intends to do otherwise for his personal ambitions beyond his presidency.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
August 6, 2016

Obama should not be promoting Clinton

The only reason President Obama is supporting Hillary Clinton is to secure his social, political and economic legacy, which has been corrosive and destructive to America with enormous economic and national security consequences, just as Hillary Clinton’s will be if she is elected president. To elect her would be voter-assisted- suicide….

Indeed, President Obama is completely out of line taking his support of Hillary Clinton to attacking Donald Trump, which outgoing presidents just don’t do. They finish their term(s) and quietly leave.

Unfortunately, Obama intends to do otherwise for his personal ambitions beyond his presidency. Taxpayers should not be required to pay for that….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

VV Daily Press
August 1, 2016

California burning

Immediate use of DC-10 water drops would have extinguished the Sand Fire brush fire along the 14 freeway before it spread into an out-of-control wildfire.

Indeed, with the history of firefighting incompetence by the U.S. Forest Service and Cal Fire at Lake Arrowhead, the Cajon Pass into the Victor Valley, Santa Barbara, San Gabriel Canyon, Lake Isabella, and many fires in Northern California, needless loss of forest lands, property and lives could have been simply prevented.

Clearly, all of these wildfires and more across the county could have been prevented by a fleet of DC-10 tankers subject to immediate dispatch with enormous water drops at the start of each fire, extinguishing them before they spread.

Surely, waiting until fire get out of control, then sending DC-10’s to drop red Fosh-Chek slurry to keep out of control fires from spreading further is nothing more than an exercise in futility. Particularly, after thousands of firefighters, equipment and millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted.

Alas, it’s beyond time to get it right with a vastly distributed fleet of DC-10’s loaded with water and waiting for the call to keep California and America from burning.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
July 12, 2016

President Obama’s sermon insults Dallas police

President Obama’s carefully articulated sermon at the memorial for the five assassinated Dallas police officers was nothing more than a veiled attempt to justify his underlying contempt for law enforcement – the rule of law’s first line of defense.

Considering President Obama’s divisive history with race relations, and his hateful war against the police, at this point, it’s gone too far. Indeed, he must pull back the militant Black Lives Matter movement for the good of the nation before it’s too late.

Surely, it’s painfully clear that President Obama is losing the war against terrorism, and winning the war against the police, which is tantamount to treason.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 3, 2016

Kamala Harris should resign

California Attorney General Kamala Harris is a contemptable political opportunist. Her recent announcement to investigate the contemptable incompetence of San Bernardino County’s Children and Family Services, responsible for the child abuse, torturing and killing of children, is too little and very late in coming.

Indeed, the only reason Harris is taking action now, is to further her campaign to replace Barbara Boxer as U.S. Senator for California. Question is, where was the Attorney General over a year ago when a Channel 11 Fox News completed an investigation into the insidious situation over a year ago?

Surely, Harris’ misfeasance that contributed to the pain, suffering and death of innocent children is more than sufficient evidence that she is not fit to be Attorney General -- certainly not a U.S. Senator -- and that she should resign from office immediately.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
June 30, 2016

How to stop California from burning

What does it take to get letter published with the answer to fighting California wildfires?

Surely, waiting until fire get out of control, then sending DC-10’s to keep out of control fires from spreading further is nothing more than an exercise in futility. Particularly, after thousands of firefighters, equipment and millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted.

It’s beyond time to get it right to keep California from burning.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
June 27, 2016

AG Harris is doing too little, too late

California Attorney General Kamala Harris is a political opportunist.

Her recent announcement to investigate the contemptable incompetence of San Bernardino County’s Children and Family Services, responsible for the child abuse, torturing and killing of children, is too little and very late in coming.

Indeed, the only reason Harris is taking action now, is to further her campaign to replace Barbara Boxer as U.S. Senator for California.

Question is, where was the Attorney General over a year ago when a Channel 11 Fox News completed an investigation into the insidious situation over a year ago?

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
June 16,2016

Hillary Clinton, absolute power

Hillary Clinton’s insidious career is replete with an obsessive drive for absolute power, from her conflicts of interest power grabs as first lady, to the Clinton Foundation, to running for president against Barrack Obama, to Obama’s Secretary of State, and her ultimate grab for absolute power as the first woman president of the United States.

Problem is, as Barrack Obama was the worst choice for the first black president of America – deeply damaging our country -- Hillary Clinton would be the worst choice for the first woman president – potentially damaging our country beyond repair and recovery.

Indeed, as it has always been known tyrants are developed on the premise that absolute power corrupts absolutely, Obama has proved the premise and now Clinton promises to join those absolutely destructive ranks.

Worse, President Obama has openly diminished our economy, domestic security and national security. Likewise, Hillary Clinton has unjustly enriched herself using her position of secretary of state, and she has criminally violated our national security with her personal emails.

Surely, the American people cannot be seduced into electing such a corrupt parasite. Particularly, when she intends to put her husband, Bill Clinton in charge of the economy. You know, the president Clinton who caused the economy to crash in 2008!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
June 13, 2016

To save U.S., back Trump

Mitt Romney’s scathing remarks against Donald Trump’s competency to be president are hypocritical to say the least – particularly given that in 2012 Romney betrayed the Republican Party in his feckless presidential debate against President Obama.

Indeed, even though Obama lied about calling Benghazi a terror attack, his assertion that he did call it an act of terror was supported by highly partisan CNN debate moderator Candy Crowley -- without serious objection from Mr. Romney. This was a cowardly act proving he was no match for Mr. Obama. Clearly, Mr. Romney was not up to defeating Mr. Obama or stopping Mr. Obama’s corrosive path against our national security and economy.

Surely, Donald Trump is a political phenomenon in this 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, but he has what it takes to win and recover our economy and domestic security. However, and America’s chances will be seriously reduced if disorganized Republican leaders don’t get their act together, defeat Clinton and increase Republican control of Congress.

Alas, if they don’t it will be a cowardly betrayal of America and our people. I wasted my vote for Mr. Romney in 2012. My vote for Mr. Trump will not be wasted.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

(Original letter)

Mitt Romney’s Republican Party betrayal

Mitt Romney’s scathing remarks against Donald Trump’s competency to be president are hypocritical to say the least, particularly when Mr. Romney betrayed the Republican Party in his feckless 2012 presidential debate against President Obama regarding the Benghazi terrorist attack.

Indeed, even though Obama lied about calling Benghazi a terror attack, supported by his administration, including secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, his assertion that he did call it an act of terror, was supported by highly partisan CNN debate moderator, Candy Crowley, without serious objection from Romney.

Clearly, it was a cowardly act proving he was no match for President Obama, which throughout the campaign was a betrayal of the Republican Party and the American people. Certainly, Romney was not up to defeating Obama and stopping Obama’s corrosive path against our national security, our domestic security and our economy.

Surely, Donald Trump is a political phenomenon in this 2016 election against Hillary Clinton, but he has what it takes to win and recover our economy, national security and domestic security. However, his chances and America’s chances will be seriously reduced if seriously disorganized Republican leaders don’t get their act together, defeat Clinton and increase Republican control of Congress.

Alas, if they don’t it will be a cowardly betrayal of America and our people. I wasted my vote for Romney in 2012. My vote for Trump will not be wasted….

VV Daily Press
June 9, 2016

Rising threats, shrinking military

Bret Bair’s Fox News Special Report regarding America’s Rising Threat, Shrinking Military is a comprehensive dire warning about President Obama’s perilous national security legacy of causing the rise of violence and terrorism in the world, dangerously shrinking our military, and the rising of threats to America from, Russia, China and North Korea.

Indeed, because of President Obama’s long record of divisions -- attacking our society, our economy and our freedoms -- and his overall contempt for America, supported by the liberal media and Democrat Party, he has recklessly placed our country and our people in extreme debt and danger.

Therefore, at the end of his destructive terms in office, he must be replaced by a strong, qualified Republican patriot in the November presidential election. At this time, the nominee to restore America is Donald Trump.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
June 2, 2016

California socialists vs. America

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, indoctrinated students, unions, illegal aliens and the Socialist State of California have made is painfully and violently clear that Republican candidate, Donald Trump, is an enemy of the socialist state.

Indeed, America is already in deep trouble because of President Obama’s 7 ½-year socialist assault on our Constitution, our free society, our free market economy, our domestic security and our national security.

So, it’s now a matter of a political war between anti-American socialists and Republican freedom fighters, currently being led Donald Trump for our survival as true constitutional democratic republic.

Attention voters: Vote for freedom and recovery. Not for giving up to socialism and surrendering to terrorism. Don’t be a fool!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
May 30, 2016

Culture warriors can save U.S.

As President Obama’s corrosive legacy continues to bulldoze the best interests of the American people, we are painfully reminded of just how insidious overwhelming government can be. It is not so different from the tyrannical government that inspired the American Revolution.

Indeed, Mr. Obama’s arrogant monarchial reign and reckless, narcissistic pursuit of a legacy has been bent on increasing government attacks on our social, political and economic freedoms with unconstitutional executive orders, taxes and regulations. Worse, Mr. Obama has been undermining our economic security with his “climate change” hoax and its wars on oil, coal and natural gas in favor of costly and unreliable solar and wind. This constitutes an overall attack on our economy and cost of living.

Even worse, President Obama has divided our nation, conducted a wars on the police and our domestic security, and critically compromised our national defense, military strength and readiness. His expanding romance with Communist nations – Russia, China, Cuba and Viet Nam -- is surpassed only by his record of allowing the unbridled growth of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Our only hope after President Obama’s 8-year war on America, is to reject the continued socialism of Clinton/Sanders and elect conservatives to government. Otherwise we will be committing voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.

Unfortunately, most of my state of California has long been in the forefront of socialism, with overbearing government attacking the people and business with punishing taxes and regulations, and allowing crime to flourish. Fortunately, there is an island of hope in most of San Bernardino and our Victor Valley high desert community. Here have solid conservatives both in office and running for office, which is comforting in a world fraught with fear and evil.

Hopefully, there are enough culture warriors remaining our country to overcome our enemies. This November, vote Trump and vote Republican.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
May 25, 2016

(Unedited)

Clinton’s economic record

In a recent campaign speech Hillary Clinton indicated that if elected president, her husband, Bill would assume large part of the presidential portfolio. She said that she would put him in charge of stimulating the economy because, “you know he knows how to do that.” Problem is, he knows how to do just the opposite.

Indeed, when Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he campaigned against George HW Bush’s economic recession, with the mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” When in reality, the economy was coming out of a natural recovery from a recession. So, it was a stupid political lie to get votes, of course.

Personal attacks aside, what really matters about the Clintons is what former president Bill Clinton did in his second term to cause the collapse of housing and finance by forcing banks and mortgage lenders to give home loans to unqualified buyers -- based upon his devious drive to do overcome “redlining” against black home buyers -- which expanded to national, unchecked mass of unqualified buyers and the real cause of the economic meltdown.

Clearly, Bill Clinton and his hit squad of AG, Janet Reno, HUD Director, Andrew Cuomo, and Fannie Mae chairman, Franklin Raines are totally responsible for the 2008 housing and finance bust, not President George W. Bush or Wall Street. Indeed, an economic bust which President Obama has exacerbated throughout his terms in office.

Alas, no one is talking about the real cause of the housing and financial crisis, especially the irresponsible, biased press. Clearly, if Hillary Clinton is elected, it would not only be economic suicide, it would be a Benghazi-style national security disaster.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
May 20, 2016

Clinton and the meltdown

In a recent campaign speech, Hillary Clinton indicated that if she is elected president, she would put her husband, Bill, in charge of stimulating the economy because, “you know he knows how to do that.” Problem is, he knows how to do just the opposite.

Indeed, when Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, he campaigned against George H.W. Bush’s economic recession, with the mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” When in reality, the economy was coming out of a natural recovery from a recession.

What really matters about the Clintons is what Bill Clinton did in his second term by forcing banks and mortgage lenders to give home loans to unqualified buyers -- based upon his devious drive to do overcome “redlining” against black homebuyers -- which produced a mass of unqualified buyers and the real cause of the economic meltdown.

Clearly, Bill Clinton and his hit squad of Attorney General Janet Reno, HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo and Fannie Mae Chairman, Franklin Raines are totally responsible for the 2008 housing and finance bust, not President George W. Bush or Wall Street.

Clearly, if Hillary Clinton is elected, it would not only be economic suicide, it would be a Benghazi-style national security disaster.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
April 26, 2016

Letters to the editor:

Scourge of mail theft

My small street of six residences has a group mailbox that was recently pried open and our mail stolen. The theft and vandalism was bad enough but the total lack of interest or action on the part of the Post Office was even worse. I think this problem is much more widespread than we know. The people I spoke with while picking up my mail were from many neighborhoods and some had boxes vandalized multiple times. If the Post Office were a private company, it would be out of business in short order.

John Ray

Woodcrest

(response published)

Riverside Press Enterprise
April 27, 2016

Re: Scourge of mail theft letter
by John Ray

Get a Letter Locker for secure mail

Mr. Ray, I have a suggestion to resolve you and your neighbors mailbox vandalism and mail theft problems. Jayco Industries in Apple Valley manufactures, sells and installs Letter Locker mailboxes, the highest quality and secure mailboxes on the market. Letter Lockers have patented Claw Locks and the boxes cannot be pried open. The boxes are also large enough to store a quantity of mail that remains secure while you are away or on vacation.

Letter Lockers can be ordered via the Jayco Industries and Letter Locker web sites, or you can pick up a box at the manufacturing plant at 21483 Waalew Rd. in Apple Valley, 92307. The Post Office does require group mailboxes, so you might contact your neighbors to arrange for a cluster of six boxes. It’s certainly worthwhile looking into. I hope this helps your problem. Our son, Jay Jeffs is the founder and owner of Jayco Industries.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Note: This is the unedited letter published in the Washington Times, April 21. 2016.

VV Daily Press
April 27, 2016

2016 American crisis

President Obama has gone too far in accomplishing his promised fundamental transformation of America, managing to intentionally and seriously diminish our domestic and national security, double our national debt, damage our economy, and create deep divisions among our people with the obsessive promotion of his insidious legacy. Indeed, with less than a year to the end of his two terms, Mr. Obama is slamming the pedal to the metal throughout government, America and the world.

And what do we have to look forward to in the 2016 presidential elections? Either Republican Donald Trump, or Democrat Hillary Clinton. Surely, neither of them are promising leaders to the recovery of America. Rather, they are both self-obsessed to the right and left, either too extreme or extremely corrupt leaving voters in a quandary as to what will become of us in a world wrought with terrorism, hate, discontent, social deterioration, economic tribulation, governmental chaos and the threats of world war.

Alas, it’s past time for voters to re-evaluate themselves, their lives, their families, their future and the re-established need for our government by the people, for the people, freedom, security, social sanity, and the pursuit of real, not imagined, happiness. To survive, vote your conscience, and hold their feet to the fire of accountability….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
April, 22, 2016

Vote your conscience in November

Alas, it’s past time for voters to re-evaluate themselves, their lives, their families, their future and the re-established need for our government by the people, for the people. To survive, vote your conscience this November -- and hold the candidate’s feet to the fire of accountability.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
April 17, 2016

Real wrongdoers not being punished

Former president Bill Clinton taking on Black Lives Matter about black on black crime, etc. is reminiscent of his romancing the middle during his presidency. For purely political reasons, and to get re-elected, he went along with the Contract with America Republican/Gingrich Congress in sentencing reform, welfare reform, etc. which were very successful.

However, the $5 billion housing mortgage settlement against Goldman Sachs as being part of the 2008 financial meltdown fails to recognize the real cause, What has been seriously neglected, is that Clinton forced the housing finance industry to give home loans to unqualified buyers (primarily blacks) who could not afford them. Therefore, Clinton caused the 2008 housing and financial collapse, not Wall Street.

Indeed, the constant call, backed by the liberal media, for executive heads to roll over the financial crisis is wrongheaded. Instead, there should be efforts to punish Bill Clinton, his then hit-team against banks and mortgage lenders, Attorney General Janet Reno, HUD Direct Andrew Cuomo, and Fannie Mae manipulator Franklin Raines should be punished. And, lest it’s forgotten, Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd for perpetuating the fraud.

President Bush attempted to stop the mortgage madness, but his efforts were derailed by Frank, Dodd and Democrats in Congress. Bush attempted to soften the financial blow with TARP and other measures. And, of course, newly-elected President Obama falsely blamed Bush and Wall Street for the costly Clinton/Democrat fiasco.

Alas, the tendency of liberal government and media to punish essentially innocent companies as wrongdoers when they are the real culprits is unconscionable, bad for the economy, bad for business, and worse, bad for the country and our people. President Obama simply perpetuated the recession, exacerbated by two terms of economic lies, abuse and doubling and nation debt.

The Clinton’s back in the White House would be wrong. Time for voters to wise-up and get it right. It’s a matter of our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
April 13, 2016

Taxpayers lose with hefty raise for CSU faculty

Giving in to the demands of the nation’s largest public university faculty union in California, giving its members a 10.5 percent raise in salaries to avert a strike is an affront against California taxpayers. Particularly when the Cal State system is nothing more than a finishing school for liberal indoctrination taught in schools throughout the nation.

Surely, aggressive teacher unions are prime examples of why there should be no public employee unions or strikes against taxpayers and the public interest anywhere in the United States, for any reason. It’s simply unconscionable and unconstitutional to allow a deleterious ideology to “wag the dog” of government and the American people.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(Original letter)

No public employee unions

Giving in to the demands of the nation’s largest public university faculty union in California, giving them a 10.5% raise in salaries to avert a strike, is an affront against California taxpayers. Particularly, when the Cal State system is nothing more than a finishing school for liberal indoctrination in public schools, which is prevalent throughout the nation.

Worse, wagging-the-public-dog of miseducation by the intimidation of state teacher unions, the NEA, the federal department of education and the evils of tenure have undermined the minds of America’s students, robbing them of their education by manipulating their minds in factories of ignorance for the sake of a liberal ideology is un-American

Surely, aggressive teacher unions are prime examples of why there should be no public employee unions or strikes against taxpayers and the public interest anywhere in the United States for any reason. It’s simply unconscionable and unconstitutional to allow a deleterious ideology to wag=the-dog of government and the American people.

Indeed, it is simply divisive, insidious politics and a danger to our children, our domestic and national security our freedom and our future….

VV Daily Press
April 11, 2016

Obama and Pravda

President Obama’s speech at the Journalism awards ceremony, telling them that Journalists should hold (Republican) presidential candidates accountable for their actions and policy statements confirms his undue influence over the already liberal news media.

Indeed, President Obama speaks as the acting chairman of the liberal ( Putin-controlled Pravda light-like) news media in furthering his corrosive fundamental transformation of the United States America from a Democratic Republic to an authoritarian-style state. No accountability allowed.

Unfortunately, Mr. Obama began his life as one of the last members of the heavy-laden liberal element of the Boomer generation, who infected their children and the next generation in their hostile counter-cultural and political takeover of the safe conservative-American republic as it was founded.

Alas, the Clintons were the first of the Boomer generation, and Obama has been the last and end-all of an insidious revolution, which could end it all for our freedom. Particularly if Hillary Clinton becomes president as the power and greed commander-in-chief.

Clearly, Obama, Clinton and the liberal media have betrayed the Constitution and the First Amendment. Donald Trump is a troubling alternative, but far better than a Clinton-continued calamity….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
April 7, 2016

$15 an hour buys a lot of votes

Assessing President Obama and Governor Brown: a bleak 2016?

In assessing the Obama administration’s social, political, economic and national security disasters of leading up to and including 2015, and looking forward to the president’s final round vs. America, the American people are clearly confused by hope and uncertainty as the chaos of the 2016 Presidential election plays out.

Gov. Brown’s insane Propositions and legislators’ punishing taxation on businesses, strapping taxpayers with bonds for a totally unnecessary high speed rail, and now the $15 minimum wage have added extreme levels of taxes and burdens upon California business, the people and our economy.

These are calamities for America and California, if voters don’t wise up to protect ourselves and our future. Don’t cast stupid votes!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(Hateful letter and my response)

VV Daily Press
March 25, 2016

Propaganda vs. reality

Wow! It was a wingnut love fest today, March 24, for the Cranky Old White Men of Apple Valley. All three spewing their vitriol, intolerance, and ignorance on the same editorial page. I really did not read their letters all the way through, since their diatribes are as predictable and trite as all the others they have written. They are a template of the Repugnican (as in Repugnant) propaganda spewed daily by Fox News: President Obama is the worst person in the world who is destroying the USA single-handedly; ObamaCare is the worst government program in the world; all the world’s ills can be blamed on the liberals; Repugnicans good, Democrats evil.

The Crankies, you see, are members of the GOP — God’s Only People. Only they have the God-given right to rule America. Only their candidates should win. Only their opinions matter, since they possess superior knowledge over all of us who don’t agree with them. In other words, they possess no democratic instincts whatsoever. They are inerrant. It’s all about them. We who think differently than they do don’t matter.

I am guessing, though, that these three have it made. They never had is so good, but that doesn’t stop the gritching and groaning. They love their socialist programs, Social Security and Medicare, even though they paid in a lot less than they will receive. They live in the Fox News twilight zone of balanced government budgets, the end of welfare and food stamps, big concealed weapons and big, high walls on the border.

Boys, why don’t you go to the library and educate yourselves. The world doesn’t revolve around you. All the modern, progressive things we take for granted — Social Security, 40-hour work week, Medicare, family leave, ban on child labor, unemployment insurance, auto safety, etc. — sprang from liberal, progressive thinking. Your side of the political equation comes up with nothing except tax cuts for the rich, which have just worked wonders, haven’t they? Please take off your Fox News-colored glasses and experience reality.

Edward Weinberg
Barstow

VV Daily Press
March 30, 2016

Condescending diatribe

Hesitant to lower myself to a writer’s level, I seldom, if ever, engage in personal debates with the left. However his personal attacks are beyond the pale.

His spiteful condescending diatribe against conservative letter-writers is painful evidence of his indoctrination as one of useful idiots of the far left, which is a clear and present danger to our society and America.

Surely, his scurrilous comments about “cranky old white men of Apple Valley” and the “GOP God’s Only People” are blatantly racist and bigoted -- unfortunately, expected from the hateful Left.

It’s a shame that he doesn’t appreciate being published in a conservative, libertarian newspaper.

Indeed, his hypocrisy is the result of a vast infection spread by the un-American discrimination of the intolerant left, which is carried by government, the news media, the education establishment and the entertainment industry.

No conservative speech allowed. Enough said!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
March 28, 2016

Valley Voices
Commentary

Supreme Court Injustice

By Daniel Jeffs

Democrats and the liberal news media never let up with their tyrannical intimidation of conservatives to further their insidious agenda against America and the traditional values of the Founders.

Indeed, the Supreme Court has become the focal point of what’s wrong with our society, under siege by socialists who are determined to undermine our Constitution and our founding principles.

Clearly, the leaders of the war against America are well-documented in our history, including what was supposed to be the chief safeguard of our Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States.

Surely, the brutal liberal lynching by Senate Judiciary Sen. Joe Biden against Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas is clear and convincing evidence of authoritarian Democrats against the Constitution.

Certainly, Republican mistakes have been made in the appointments of Supreme Court Justices, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Conner, Anthony Kennedy, and Chief Justice John Roberts – not to mention the drastic mistake of Chief Justice Earl Warren by President Eisenhower….

Of course, Democrat presidents Clinton and Obama have ensured the Court’s liberal agenda and indifference to Constitutional law with the appointments of justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

Alas, the latest grave injustice is being attempted by President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland, an Anthony Kennedy-like teetering centrist/socialist to replace the deeply troubling constitutional originalist vacancy left by deceased patriot Justice Antonin Scalia. Yet will still have patriot Justice Samuel Alito.

Sadly, that’s the authoritarian liberal way of President Obama’s terms of contempt for America, by simply ignoring and circumventing the Constitution. Supreme Court injustice, indeed, like the presidency and government, the Supreme Court problem is systemic. Absolute power in government and on the Court corrupts, absolutely.

We, the American people must correct it, for our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs is an Apple Valley resident

San Diego Union-Tribune
March 25, 2016

Reaching out to Cuba

Regarding “New Cuba policy a historic smart gamble,” March 22.

President Obama’s normalization of relations with Castro’s brutal Communist regime is nothing more than continuing his blind pursuit of a self-aggrandizing legacy, un-American, and a blatant betrayal of the United States.

Indeed, America’s gravest mistake was failing to prevent Fidel Castro’s Communist aggression to take over Cuba. Clearly, the mistake was exacerbated by failing to overthrow Castro after the Russian-backed Cuban missile crisis.

Coupled with the military failure to take out Castro in the Cuban patriot Bay of Pigs effort, allowing Castro to rule on and spread Communism in South America and beyond, was reprehensible.

Surely, President Obama’s actions are too close and dangerous to our national security. The solution, of course, is to squeeze the Castro regime out of existence and free the Cuban people to have a democratic republic. Regime change is the answer….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad, CA

The Washington Times
March 23, 2016

Greatest threat: Leftist ideology

Since the eras of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, the insidious liberal Democrat ideology has tightened its iron grip on America by infecting our government, our schools, our news media and the entertainment industry. All of this has had an extensive influence over our society.

Indeed, if it were not for people who hold fast to conservative Republican and libertarian constitutional principles, freedoms, moral values and religion, our nation and our future would be lost forever to liberal indoctrination.

The 2016 presidential election run-up has been a brutal display of the battle between good and evil, exacerbated by two terms of the insidious Obama administration, starring Republican Donald Trump, and Democrats Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Unfortunately, pathological narcissist billionaire Donald Trump is a political anomaly, a gift to Democrats intent on destroying the Republicans. He is playing into their insidious ideology.

Fortunately, Republican candidates such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas have the wherewithal to beat Mr. Trump, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders. That is, if the Republican Party gets its act together and works to dismantle the greatest threat to our country: Liberal Democrat ideology….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
March 23, 2016

Supreme Court Injustice

Democrats and the liberal news media never let up with their tyrannical intimidation of conservatives to further their insidious agenda against America and the traditional values of the Founders.

Indeed, the Supreme Court has become the focal point of what’s wrong with our society, under siege by socialists who are determined to undermine our Constitution and our founding principles.

Clearly, the leaders of the war against America are well-documented in our history, including what was supposed to be the chief safeguard of our Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States.

We, the American people must correct it, for our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
March 16, 2016

Election insanity 2016

When Donald Trump announced his Republican bid for president, he seized the stage as ringmaster in the greatest show of political insanity on earth, turning the Republican race into upside down side-shows.

On the Democrat side, corrupt pathological narcissist candidate Hillary Clinton seized upon her coronation role as the first woman president, complicated by the insanity of grumpy old man socialist Bernie Sanders.

Of course, all the insanity is being exacerbated by biased news media sensationalism. Hopefully, voters will wise-up enough to elect a president who will lead us out of the insane darkness into the light of America’s survival.

Indeed, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the only grounded, qualified candidate with the character, integrity and deeply proven federal and state government experience to pull our country together against government self-destruction, economic ruin and terrorism.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
March 7, 2016

The next president

Re: “GOP has more to lose than gain” … Absolutely. Who will be elected president in 2016?

Considering the probable nominees, it doesn’t look good for America. Clinton or Trump? No!

Unfortunately, too may clueless and indoctrinated voters influenced by biased media will go along with lemming voter-assisted suicide, one way or the other. Why? It already happened with two-term President Obama: Social, political, economic, domestic and national security disaster.

Worse, the state of the Republican Party, Democrat Party and outsiders in the presidential election have created a Trump-driven, ringmaster-cheapened political circus with ugly side-shows, making it painfully clear that America is steeped in election trouble.

The news media, of course, are exacerbating the dilemma. Surely, It’s time for voters to get our act together and promote real democracy wherein we decide, not the personal power hungry narcissistic fools running our country into the ground….

Sen. Rubio or Sen. Cruz are OK alternatives, particularly against a Corrupt Hillary Clinton or a grumpy old socialist, Bernie Sanders.

However, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the only grounded, qualified candidate with the character, integrity and deeply proven federal and state government experience to pull our country together against government self-destruction, economic ruin and terrorism.

Question is, can exasperated Republicans make the smart move to expel Trump from the nominations and make the right move? Our future will depend upon it.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

NewsMax Magazine
March 2016 issue

Obama’s legacy

President Obama does not live in our American universe, but in his own world of legacy-seeking deceit, distraction, abuse of power and chaos regardless of the social, political, economic, domestic and national security damage inflicted upon our nation. On the other hand, that appears to be exactly what he wants.
(“Obama’s last stand,”) January.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

Riverside Press-Enterprise
March 3, 2016

Kasich our last chance

Who will be elected president in 2016? Considering the probable nominees, it doesn’t look good for America. Clinton or Trump? No!

Unfortunately, too may clueless and indoctrinated voters influenced by biased media will go along with lemming voter-assisted suicide. Why? It already happened with two-term President Obama: Social, political, economic, domestic and national security disasters.

The news media, of course, are exacerbating the dilemma. It’s time for voters to get our act together and promote real democracy wherein we decide -- not the personal power-hungry narcissistic fools running our country into the ground….

Sen. Rubio or Sen. Cruz are OK alternatives, particularly against Corrupt Hillary Clinton or socialist Bernie Sanders.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
February 29, 2016

Apple vs. America

Apple’s refusal to co-operate with the FBI regarding the encrypted phone records of the San Bernardino, CA terrorists is simply un-patriotic and un-American.

Particularly, in the insidious climate of national security failures created by President Obama’s dereliction of duty over the past seven years of fundamentally and dangerously transforming America.

Surely, Apple and all American tech companies should be working hard with our domestic and national security officials to prevent terrorist attacks, and to attack terrorists working to hack and attack us, our government, businesses, power grids and our freedom.

Indeed, President Obama is directly responsible for the rise and proliferation of al-Qaeda, ISIS and terrorism in the Middle-East, America and throughout the world – and the criminal invasion across our borders -- which are tantamount to treason.

Clearly, if it were not for this climate of treason, there would have been no post-2008 traitors such as the terrorist attacks in America at Fort Hood, Texas, San Bernardino – and no traitors such as Manning and Snowden – or the aggression of Russia, North Korea and China – or peace with Communist Cuba.

Alas, the liberal media should be ashamed for supporting the treasonous, as should Hollywood for supporting the government-caused fall of the economy, and Oliver Stone for his un-American activities and for glorifying Traitor Edward Snowden.

Enough! Voters must wise-up and elect a patriotic Republican president and Congress in the 2016 elections. For our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
February 25, 2016

Obama’s Gitmo legacy

Re: “Obama’s Guantanamo plan hits wall of opposition” [Front page, Feb. 24]:

President Obama doesn’t miss a beat in orchestrating his insidious legacy of fundamentally transforming America.

Indeed, he is determined to release more terrorists from Guantanamo back into rejoining the terrorist jihad against America and the West, and transferring the remaining terrorists to federal prisons – increasing the danger to our people.

Of course, if the Congress does not approve Mr. Obama’s proposed actions to close Guantanamo, he will surely circumvent the Congress and the Constitution again with his all-too-frequent monarchial executive actions.

Edited out: [Surely, President Obama intends to give Guantanamo back to Communist Cuba to complete reconciliation with the insidious Castro regime.]

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
February 22, 2016

President 2016

The New Hampshire primary election launched the proving grounds of a Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders fight over who is going to best continue and expand on President “Barwreck” Obama’s corrosive policies -- and a battle for the Republican spirit of American recovery.

Indeed, through the campaign chaos, indoctrinated Democrats must choose between a Hillary Clinton crook and a Bernie Sanders socialist. And reminiscent Republicans must choose between a sword, shield and chariot charging Donald Trump -- and a winner in wisdom.

Surely, the best outcome would be an honest Republican president and Congress who stimulate true American culture, values and character among the people, similar to how a “We’re looking out for you” Bill O’Reilly does.

And that’s the truth!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
February 18, 2016

Readers weigh in on replacing Justice Scalia

President Obama’s assertion that he is going to nominate an undisputable replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is simply another example of his monarchial arrogance.

Indeed, he should know better, however, considering his history of unlawful executive orders and edicts circumventing the Congress and the Constitution, Mr. Obama is incapable of deviating from his insidious legacy of fundamentally transforming America.

Alas, President Obama can’t help himself.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

Press Enterprise
February 17. 2016

LETTERS: President Obama just doing his job

Re: “Scalia was a defender of our ideals” [Letters, Feb. 16]: Daniel B. Jeffs says that the president “wrongfully intends to nominate a justice” to the Supreme Court. And Mr. Jeffs notes that Justice Scalia was “a great loss to the enforcement and defense of the original intent of the U.S. Constitution.”

Scalia was an “originalist.” So how would he assess Mr. Jeffs‘ remarks?

The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 2, specifies that the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint” judges to the Supreme Court.

There is no creative interpretation of this power granted by the Constitution. “Nominate” and “appoint” are two separate verbs, set in clauses separated by commas, to denote two separate acts.

Nothing wrongful about it: The president nominates and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, can then appoint.

Nobody anticipated that a Supreme Court justice would pass away in the heat of election season, but it has happened some six times. And in all those cases, the Senate did its job of providing an up or down vote on nominees.

What Mr. Jeffs is really telling us is that he prefers the president not do his job. Then, the opposition can add it to their mantra of campaign rhetoric.

But all the president needs do is to submit successive names to the Senate, as if passing business cards. And if he does – as he most certainly will – the ball is in play. It is entirely uncertain as to how the complete refusal of the Senate to do its own part will affect the votes up for grabs in November.

So this is nothing but a board game of political checkers. The opposition is begging the president in so many words not to make his move when it’s his turn.

It just seems obtuse for the begging to appear in a diatribe such as those we’ve read or heard since 2009. A graceful genuflection it is not.

Randy Bednorz

Riverside

(My response to Mr. Bednorz)

Re: Randy Bednorz letter
“President Obama just doing his job”

President Obama full of Obama

Sadly, Randy Bednorz’s condescending attack letter in blind support of President Obama comes as no surprise from among miseducation graduates of the liberal indoctrination class of useful idiots.

President Obama’s assertion that he is going to nominate an undisputable replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is simply another example of his monarchial arrogance.

Surely, he should know better, however, considering his history of unlawful executive orders and edicts circumventing the Congress and the Constitution, Mr. Obama is incapable of deviating from his insidious legacy of fundamentally transforming America.

Alas, President Obama can’t help himself from being inextricably full of Obama.

Unfortunately, he and his lemmings have placed all Americans at extreme risk by undermining our society, our economy, and our domestic and national security.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
February 16, 2016

Valley Voices

Revolting development scenarios

By Daniel B. Jeffs

The rise of uncivilized Islamic assaults on civilization in the world, have been exacerbated by the rise of uncivilized technology resulting in superficial societies of selfish interests, social aggression, political tyranny, economic stress and extremes – particularly in America.

Indeed, America -- the model and historical leader of peace and freedom in the world -- has been severely undermined by the post-WWII cultural revolution resulting in tearing down our established institutions, corrupting our society and diminishing our freedoms.

Clearly, the revolting developments have been caused by social, political and economic extremists from the 1960’s and 70’s, who spawned countercultural hate and decay in society and government, leaving America vulnerable to attack by enemies from within and the outside.

Which leads us the revolting political developments of now and how we got here. Alas, most Democrats have made a costly mess of things, and most Republicans have been less than efficient in cleaning it up. The best of both have been Kennedy and Reagan. The worst: Carter, Clinton and Obama.

Surely, the best outcome for the 2016 presidential election would be either Rubio, Kasich, Christie or Fiorina. The worst would be Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, with Barack Obama on the Supreme Court. The elephant in the room isn’t really an elephant. He’s certainly not a Trump card. He’s a dangerous anomaly.

Presidential race to oblivion?

It’s still the economy, stupid is not Hillary Clinton’s truth any more than it was in 1992, when Bill Clinton schemed his way into the presidency, then undermined the economy by causing the unaffordable housing and financial collapse of 2008.

Indeed, the counter cultural revolution and decades of extremist and socialist indoctrination by the miseducation and media cartel came to fruition with the 2008 election of Barack Obama, humiliating John McCain and the bumbling Republican Party, and assigning Hillary Clinton to dismantle foreign policy and escalate terrorism.

Now, the 2016 presidential race to America’s oblivion is on again, with corruption-in-her-heart and fire-in-her-eyes Hillary Clinton leading, challenged by the cranky old socialist Bernie Sanders and his wild-young indoctrinated crowd of supporters.

Of course, they’re being chased by a narrowing herd of patriotic Republicans, stampeded by wheeler-dealer Donald Trump, and struggling to gain traction with Cruz, Rubio, Carson, Christie and Kasich – with a Bush in the background.

Alas, the liberal media curse is the venomous snake in the grass that will frighten the voter multitude all the way through to the poisoned finish line. Hopefully, the American voters will be concerned enough to find the antidote and a way back to the strong tradition of who we are: Home of the brave and land of the free.

Question is, who will it be? First woman,? first Hispanic? or who? -- I vote for Kasich/Fiorina, for political sanity.

Daniel B. Jeffs is an Apple Valley resident and retired law enforcement officer who served on two San Bernardino County Grand Juries.

Riverside Press Enterprise
February 16, 2016

Scalia was a defender of our ideals

The untimely death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a great loss to the enforcement of and defense of the original intent and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, our founding document. Indeed, he was a great jurist and true American.

Unfortunately, President Obama announced that he would nominate a successor to Justice Scalia rather than leaving the nomination to the next president to be elected this year.

Of course, he wrongfully intends to nominate a justice who would carry out his legacy of fundamentally transforming America to a legacy of tearing down our Republic and our future of freedom, as he continues to circumvent the Congress and the Constitution with executive orders and monarchial edicts, unabated.

Clearly, the Republican Senate must reject Mr. Obama’s nomination to the court. Our country has suffered enough under his administration, seriously damaging our domestic and national security.

Again, our only hope is to elect a strong conservative president such as Sen. Marco Rubio, maintain a Republican Congress and replace the leading conservative voice on the Court with a constitutionalist like Justice Scalia.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
February 14, 2016

Other people’s money

President Obama is on the tax tyranny against self-reliance express again by proposing an oil tax of $10 per barrel that will increase gasoline, diesel and heating oil prices in his climate change hoax carbon attacks on energy, which will drive up the cost of living.

Indeed, that doesn’t matter to seizing other people’s money liberals, California Governor Brown included. Worse, if either socialist Senator Bernie Sanders or the corrupt Hillary Clinton should be elected president, the road to ruin would continue unabated.

What we need from the 2016 presidential elections is a strong conservative president and Congress to rescue our superficial society of social aggression, political vitriol, selfish interests and extremes from the grip of decades of inept, overbearing government and liberal indoctrination.

It’s a dire matter of America’s survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
February 12, 2016

Obama’s tax tyranny

Re: “Obama sends Congress record $4.1 trillion 2017 federal budget” (Feb. 9):

It’s a dire matter of America’s survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
February 8, 2016

Brown’s attack on California

Governor Brown is so wrapped-up in himself as the only real governor of California, that he fanaticizes about holding the office until his last breath. However, when and if reality sets in, the state will realize that he has been little more than a political hustler whose Prop. 30 taxed the lives, and Prop. 47 endangered the lives of the people of the state. Now he has another prison initiative to release even criminals to prey on the people.

Indeed, Gov. Jerry has been the miserable master of California’s punishing taxes, implementing anti-economy Prop. 32 regulations, the miseducation money pit, sanctuary state of crime, leaking rainy day surpluses, drought neglect, and the San Francisco to Los Angeles bullet train wreck. Clearly, Mr. Brown now wants his $68 billion-times-two-toy train to start in Northern California instead of Southern so he can play with it first.

All at taxpayers’ expense and security, of course. For that is the languishing lament of liberal state politics – and what a longtime diminishing development it has been. Alas, rather than suffering in silence, it’s time to for voters to wise-up and make changes to survive and prosper – for a change….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press

February 1, 2016
Gov. Brown’s bullet train wreck

Indeed, Gov. Jerry has been the miserable master of California’s miseducation money pit, sanctuary state of crime, leaking rainy day surpluses, drought neglect, and the San Francisco to Los Angeles bullet train wreck. Clearly, Mr. Brown now wants his $68 billion-times-two-toy train to start in Northern California instead of Southern so he can play with it first.

All at taxpayers’ expense, of course. For that is the languishing lament of liberal state politics – and what a longtime diminishing development it has been. Alas, it’s time to for voters to wise-up and make changes to survive – for a change….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
January 20, 2016

Public betrayal in Hollywood

Black activists hardly have room to complain about being snubbed by white dominated Hollywood awards time. Particularly, when black movies have increased over the past few years. Indeed, Concussion was black dominated because sports are black dominated. And Straight outta Compton was a success, even though irresponsible in depicting angry black gangster rap, which is damaging to young people and society – yet very popular so-called music that is frequently used in movies. Surely, it must be noted that blacks are over-represented in television, commercials and many movies.

The Big Short incompletely and irresponsibly depicts Wall Street greed as the culprit in the 2008 housing and financial crash, when in fact, it was President Clinton and his administration who caused the collapse by intimidating banks and mortgage lenders into giving home loans to unqualified buyers to push his affordable housing agenda. Wall Street simply did the best they could in reaction to being faced with disaster.

Spotlight incompletely and irresponsibly depicts the child molestation in the Catholic clergy, but fails to portray why it happened: A massive move by gay pedophiles into Catholic seminaries during the 1970’s and 1980’s, wherein, as Catholic priests, they would have an unlimited supply of altar-boy victims to prey upon. The church was simply the overwhelmed by the predators and struggled to deal with it.

Alas, Hollywood certainly falls short in depicting truth, overdone with violence, lacking in social responsibility, and long on shamelessly celebrating themselves….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(Revised last paragraph sent later)

Public betrayal in Hollywood (revised)

Alas, Hollywood certainly falls short in depicting truth, overdone with violence, lacking in social responsibility, and long on shamelessly celebrating themselves, with few exceptions. Fortunately, Joy, the true story of Joy Mangano and her HSN mop, played by Jennifer Lawrence, recognizes true success with social redeeming value and worthy of reward for both Joy’s achievements….

San Bernardino Sun
January 17, 2016

State of union a mess under President Obama

Under the painful, indefensible administration of President Obama – backed by the irresponsible liberal media -- the state of the union has gone from disheveled to seriously fractured and dangerous, hopefully not beyond repair.

The solution: We, the American people, and our elected representatives must get our collective act together, recover from the destructive Obama era and move up to social, political and economic strength, real security and prosperity – the way America is meant to be….

Unfortunately, I am somewhat of a voice in the wilderness, relentlessly doing my best to save our precious nation for the sake of my family, my community, state and country by writing traditional letters to the editor in sea of technology. And so it goes, as long as tangible print news media survives….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press-Enterprise
January 14, 2016

Obama’s state of disunion salvageable

And so it goes, as long as tangible print news media survives.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Prees
January 11, 2016

Obama’s chaos 2016

President Obama’s latest unconstitutional executive orders against gun owners and the Second Amendment comes as no surprise. Clearly, Mr. Obama’s staged phony tears over mass murders of children were certainly lacking when he conveniently stopped to meet with families of the victims of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, while on his way to an extended vacation in Hawaii.

Surely, his legacy-building history of unlawful executive orders and edicts have been tantamount to treason. Indeed, President Obama has been on a campaign of creating chaos in America since he took office in 2008, which is consistent with Saul Alinsky’s socialist Rules for Radicals, which Hillary Clinton ascribed to in her college thesis. Certainly, they have both betrayed America’s national security time after time in dealing with Islamic terrorism

What America must realize is that the Middle East has been in a war of Sunni vs. Shiite tribal savagery for centuries, which is now coming to a head between the Saudi Sunni and Iranian Shia. Lest we forget, we backed Sunni Saddam Hussein when he went to war with Iranian Shia and only took him on when he invaded Kuwait.

Then it all went under because Iran exploited Iraq and the nation building didn’t work. Extreme Islamists like al-Qaeda and ISIS simply exacerbates everything against their common infidel enemies, America and the West. Thus we’re caught in the middle of the war of savages. Meanwhile we must elect a strong Republican president and Congress, vigorously defend ourselves at all costs, and hope the Islamic terrorists destroy themselves.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
January 8, 2016

Clinton election would be suicide

We are the American people!

President Obama is a rogue, lawless president, blatantly abusing his executive power, circumventing the Constitution, and contaminating most, if not all, departments of our government -- primarily the DOD, DOJ, EPA, FCC, Homeland Security and the Bureau of Prisons -- which have severely weakened our domestic and national security.

And that, for lack of a better term -- exacerbating the terrorist threat in an era of escalating terrorism -- is recklessly un-American, tantamount to treason.

Indeed, replacing President Obama with Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election would be voter-assisted suicide for our nation.

Therefore, our duty as voters is to elect a highly qualified Republican patriotic dynamic duo from the field of candidates: Sen. Rubio, Gov. Christie, Gov. Kasich and Carly Fiorina as president and vice president to save and recover the United States of America, as intended by our Founders….

Regardless, we will have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year of determination, simply because we are the American people….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
December 18, 2015

Trump’s success speaks to the nation’s angst

Donald Trump’s rise as a potential Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election has gone from fresh conservative vigor to the inescapable conclusion that Trump as the Republican nominee would amount to political suicide for the Republican Party with dire consequences for our nation.

Though Trump talks tough and says what he knows his growing followers want to hear, he simply doesn’t have the temperament or the character to safely and responsibly lead our country.

Instead, conservative, moderates and independents should support candidates such as a team of Sen. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina.

Better yet, Republican delegates should draft 2012 candidate Mitt Romney at the 2016 convention, for strong, clearheaded leadership.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

VV Daily Press
December 18, 2015

Obama’s lack of a plan

As a San Bernardino County resident and retired law enforcement officer with 41 years of service with the Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Departments and the criminal justice system, I am proud of the immediate and courageous response of San Bernardino Police Department to the terrorist attack and massacre of 14 people – injuring 21 others – who were gathered at a County building in the City.

And for the rapid follow-up investigation resulting in the deaths of the two terrorists. I am also grateful for the other law enforcement agencies who assisted in the response, and for the intense, ongoing FBI investigation.

However, I am deeply concerned for my family and fellow citizens. Indeed, the San Bernardino terrorist attack highlights President Obama’s feckless lack of an aggressive plan against terrorism. Indeed, in the aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre, President Obama’s speech to the country was little more than meaningless babble masking the fact that he wants to disarm Americans more than prevailing against terrorism.

Clearly, American citizens are arming themselves for defense against criminals and terrorists, and for good reasons. The Obama administration has grossly failed America’s national and domestic security by reducing our military strength, allowing the proliferation of ISIS, not enforcing border security and the unchecked flow of illegal aliens including criminals and drugs – and conducting an unjust war against our police, diminishing our domestic security.

Hopefully, the next president will be a real commander in chief rather than a dangerous imposter who put his ideology above our safety, our society, our economy and the future of America.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
December 16, 1025

Need for a different kind of climate change

Dwarfing his costly Obamacare failure, President Obama spearheaded his legacy-seeking U.N. conference on climate change in Paris, resulting in a worldwide agreement to avert the worst effects of global warming by shifting economies to cleaner energy sources.

Sadly, the economy-busting climate change deception simply adds to the dangerously corrosive, decades-long social, political and economic climate change in America caused by liberal government, the miseducation establishment and media.

Alas, what America really needs is a reverse climate change -- of good and against evil -- with the strength of determined leadership and limited government. It’s a matter of our survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

(Original letter)

Deadly climate change deception

Dwarfing his costly Obamacare failure, President Obama spearheaded his legacy-seeking UN conference in Paris on Climate Change resulting in a worldwide agreement to avert the worst effects of global warming by shifting economies to cleaner energy sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

However, beginning with Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth global warming deception backed by climate alarmist scientists, the campaign against greenhouse gases went into overdrive, exacerbated by reckless legislative actions highlighted in California by conference attendee, former Gov. Schwarzenegger’s punishing AB 32 carbon taxes.

Indeed, Ca. Gov. Brown gave a speech at the Paris conference, followed by a scene outside the center, singing along with Barry McGuire’s 1965 song, “We’re on the eve of destruction” as his legacy-seeking anthem to take drastic actions justifying his radical political moves by slashing oil consumption and sounding false alarms against drought, disasters and terrorism. And, of course, L.A. Mayor Garcetti attended the conference and jumped on the environmentalist bandwagon.

Sadly, the delirious economy-busting climate change deception simply adds to the dangerously corrosive decades-long social, political and economic climate change in America caused by liberal government, the miseducation establishment and media bent on social, political and economic suicide.

Clearly evidenced by tyrannical laws and taxes, indoctrination of students robbing them of a real education --the Clinton-government-caused 2008 housing and financial meltdown -- President Obama’s feckless foreign policy and border enforcement resulting the proliferation of terrorism, illegal alien criminals, gangs and drugs -- and the collapse of our national and domestic security.

Alas, what America really needs is a reverse climate change to good against evil with the strength of determined leadership and limited government. It’s a matter of our survival….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
December 14, 2015

Obama wants to disarm us

President Obama’s meaningless babble masks the fact that he wants to disarm Americans more than prevailing against terrorism.

American citizens are arming themselves for defense against criminals and terrorists, and for good reasons. The Obama administration has grossly failed America’s domestic and national security by not enforcing border security and the unchecked flow of illegal aliens including criminals and drugs – and conducting an unjust war against our police, diminishing our domestic security.

Indeed, President Obama’s feckless foreign policy, apologizing and criticizing America, weakening our military, and exacerbating Islamic terrorism causing the proliferation of ISIS and threats from Iran is increasing the clear and present danger to our homeland, the West and the World. Surely, what needs to end is the era of President Obama’s damage to our security, society, our economy and our future.

And that ideology and philosophy of promoting the climate change hustle and disarming Americans must end with the end of Mr. Obama’s second term in office…. Meanwhile Americans must be able to exercise their rights to self-defense against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Clearly, in 2016, voters must elect a president who will be a patriot commander in chief. Not a hapless damager in chief.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
December 4, 2015

Tax and regulation nation

California Governor Brown and President Obama are the amoral poster governor and president for putting our already over-taxed and over-regulated state and nation into overdrive during their corrosive terms in office. Indeed, coupled with an un-American Socialist-Democrat-controlled Legislature and Congress, they have caused overwhelming damage to businesses, the economy and the American people.

Worse, Brown and Obama have recklessly diminished our domestic and national security, with open borders, sanctuary cities, reduced military, and wars against the police. And both continue promoting the climate change hustle, by taxing the economy and our lives. Even worse, while President is responsible for the proliferation of ISIS and terrorism, he blames it on climate change and travels the world criticizing America for everything.

Clearly, our only solution rests with voters, who until now have been dominated by indoctrinated liberals -- who carelessly rubberstamp the personal power of the enemy within -- blindly committing social, political, moral and economic suicide, taking the rest of us with them. Hopefully, enough damage will wake them up to defending themselves, surviving, recovering and prospering by changing and reducing government to no more than we need.

It is now a matter of life and death….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
December 1, 2015

County’s refugee awareness

Slam the door to terrorists and criminals in California

President Obama urging America to open its arms to Syrian refugees and “….lift them up” is a profound hypocrisy after letting Syrians down in the Syrian civil war creating ISIS and the devastation that followed including the terrorist attacks in Paris. Indeed, California leads the states in Backing the president’s efforts.

Therefore, Governor Brown welcoming the most Syrian refugees of any state since the civil war broke out in 2011 comes as no surprise. Furthermore, California has the open door policy to refugees and illegal immigrants, inviting whatever evils that come along with them, from criminals to gangs, to drug smuggling, to human trafficking, and terrorists.

Worse, regardless of the Syrian refugee connection to the Paris terrorist attacks -- and most state governors refusing to accept Syrian refugees -- Governor Brown vowed to work with President Obama in accepting them, leaving our San Bernardino County unaware of most refugees who enter the County.

Even worse, like the illegal alien criminal who murdered a Californian U.S. citizen in San Francisco, with little or no protest from Californians, one wonders how far the controlling Democrat liberal infection here will affect the prevention of ISIS attacks in California, including San Bernardino County and our high desert communities….

It’s past time to slam the door to terrorists and criminals in California and America….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
November 24, 2015

Syrian refugees

Terrorist treachery in Paris. Ten thousand Syrian refugees here?

The tragedy of ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris highlights the alarming advances of fanatical Islamic treachery in the West, furthering their march toward an unencumbered virtual reality of convert or die world domination against infidels.

Worse, the infectious spread of ISIS Sunni’s in the Middle East, coupled with competing terrorism from Iranian and Syrian Shiites, backed by Russia, foments historical tribal struggles which can easily metastasize into a coordinated effort against the great Satan – America!

Exacerbated by President Obama’s incompetent foreign policy, America’s historic role of power in keeping world peace has been compromised by weakness in the Obama administration’s, preoccupation with personal power and the blind pursuit of a legacy….

All of which, coupled with Mr. Obama’s abdication of responsibility, undermining our energy resources, lack of cyber security, Edward Snowden’s treason -- reduced military defense, national security, domestic security – and 7 years of open borders, leaves our country openly vulnerable to terrorism.

Indeed, the inescapable conclusion: Exacerbated by President Obama recklessly accepting 10,000 refugees here -- terrorist included -- adds to ISIS already being here, everywhere and ready to roll….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
November 17, 2015

America in peril

President Obama made it painfully clear when he helped remove the dictators of Egypt and Libya and encouraged the Arab Spring to spread throughout the Middle East, that he would do nothing about the proliferation of terrorism when he neglected to stop the spread of ISIS from Syria into Iraq.

Furthermore, Mr. Obama endorsed Morsi as president of Egypt, and with it, the Muslim Brotherhood, which resulted in the expansion of al-Qaeda and the entry of ISIS into Egypt -- and most probably, resulted in the bombing of the Russian airliner.

Surely, President Obama is simply not dealing with the aggression and threats from ISIS, Iran or Russia, which creates more and more danger for the world. Most certainly, his unabated incompetence has failed our national and domestic security, which places America in grave, ever-increasing peril.

Alas, the president’s feckless administration is in the last round of a legacy that has done serious damage by reducing America to a quasi-socialist state pushing a superficial society of selfish interests, social aggression, political chaos, and economic instability – a perfect handover to a Saul Alinsky-loving first woman president by the name of Hillary Clinton.

That is, if American voters, let it happen….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union Tribune
November 16. 2015

Terrorist treachery in Paris -- Ten thousand Syrian refugees here?

President Obama’s incompetent foreign policy, America’s historic role of power in keeping world peace has been compromised.

Exacerbated by President Obama recklessly accepting ten thousand Syrian refugees here -- terrorist included -- adds to ISIS already being here, everywhere and ready to roll….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

(Original Letter)

Terrorist treachery in Paris -- Ten thousand Syrian refugees here?

Indeed, the inescapable conclusion: Exacerbated by President Obama recklessly accepting ten thousand Syrian refugees here -- terrorist included -- adds to ISIS already being here, everywhere and ready to roll….

Riverside Press Enterprise
November 14, 2015

Border control needed

The debate between GOP presidential contenders Donald Trump and Jeb Bush over deporting 12 million illegal immigrants is a moot point, particularly when the fundamental problem has been the lack of border security since President Reagan granted amnesty to 3 million illegal immigrants with the understanding that there would be border security.

Of course, it has become painfully clear that the border was not secured -- coupled with years of feckless attempts at immigration reform -- resulting in the 12 million or more illegal immigrants in America.

And illegal immigration is growing at an alarming rate. Currently, this is because of President Obama’s continued record of little or no border enforcement, unsuccessful deportations, and his attempt to grant amnesty to 5 million illegals.

Ironically, Mr. Trump’s suggestion to build a border wall would go a long way to solving the problem, particularly because of the increasing threats to our domestic and national security in this age of crime and terrorism.

After all, it is a significant responsibility of the president to resolve problems – and President Obama creates problems, yet resolves none, which is also Hillary Clinton’s main problem….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
November 13, 2015

Plea for aid fails to address root problems

Governor Brown’s feckless last minute plea for the U.S. Forest Service to fund removal of dead trees from our national forest lands is little more than a better-late-than-never attempt to diminish the rapid spread of forest fires in California and the West, but fails to address the root problems.

Indeed, environmentalist-caused failure to control massive tree deaths from bark beetles, coupled with the Forest Service’s failure to thin forests, remove dead trees, control prescribed burns, and failure to aggressively attack forest fires are the causes of major runaway forest fires, not the prolonged drought.

Surely, cost of lost forest lands, lives and property from tree-hugging environmentalists and incompetent government -- exacerbated by drought and the coming El-Nino rains -- will drive the grim point home to beleaguered wildlands, firefighters, victims and taxpayers.

Sadly, for decades, it has been an easily avoided shame on us….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
November 10, 2015

True Americans

Monica Kelley’s “English” and “Left-wing radicals” letters drive home the points of what America was meant to be. Indeed, English is the American language, as it was meant to be. And we are a constitutional republic of representative democracy, as it was meant to be.

What America is not, is what a half-century of counter-culture revolution of radicals and extremists have done to undermine our nation’s constitutional freedoms -- in the name of freedom -- with insidious, vitriolic movements bent on destroying our society with chaos created by our enemies within.

And that is the big-government-socialist way of political indoctrination against conservatives, family, morals and free markets by dividing and conquering, creating a path to tyranny – propelled by the liberal education establishment, the malicious media and the malignant entertainment industry.

Fortunately, we the people are now more informed and painfully aware of the consequences of the intentional failures of good intentions.

Instead of settling for a superficial society replete with social and political aggression, selfish interests and extremes, we must hold on to our liberty, and keep a tight grip on our freedom. The shame of good deeds is they are not appreciated for generations.

The tragedy of bad deeds is they are not resisted until it’s too late. Therefore, as Monica Kelley writes, “Please think before you act. There is a lot going on in this country, and Americans can fix this.” Indeed, fixed by true, moral, family, self-reliant, strong, traditional Americans -- as it was always meant to be….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
November 3, 2015

Monumental abuse of power

Senator Dianne Feinstein and President Obama have abused their power under the Antiquities Act to create massive national monuments to themselves throughout the United States and California restricting recreation and mining on federal lands. Indeed, the Antiquities Act was passed in 1906 to protect “historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures and other objects of historic or scientific interest,” including sensitive Native American artifacts.

The need for protecting the Grand Canyon with Arizona’s proposed Greater Grand Canyon National Heritage Act under the Antiquities Act notwithstanding, there is a need to pass HR 3668, the California Minerals, Off-Road Recreation and Conservation Act, introduced by our California Representative Paul Cook to preserve our majestic landscape, while addressing the needs off-road vehicle users and the protection of economically vital mineral sites.

President Obama’s monumental agenda is rooted in his war against coal energy and oil exploration -- with deceptive distractions such as the San Gabriel National Monument, and the recently established 704,000 acre monument in Nevada – while Senator Feinstein focuses on our Mojave Desert lands as her personal monument. Though I’m not a fan of off-road racing and dangerous thrill-seeking, I support people’s use of off-road vehicles to safely explore our deserts and mountains – and I certainly support our economic interests in vital minerals and mining.

Surely, we voters must get our act together to reverse and prevent government abuse of power in land-grabbing and in every other respect.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
October 30, 2015

GOP candidates are not treated fairly

As the 2016 presidential debates began, Fox News hosted the first GOP debate, which was fair and balanced. Less so, when the second debate was hosted by CNN, which was slanted by the usual liberal-elitist questioning.

Meanwhile, the first Democrat presidential debate hosted by CNN was little more than fawning over the candidates, concluding with the anointing of Hillary Clinton as the first woman president, just as the liberal media did with Barack Obama as the first black president in 2008.

However, the third GOP debate hosted by NBC’s business channel CNBC was anything but subtle bias. Rather than concentrating on their specialty, the economy, panel members were condescending, rude, sometimes hostile to the candidates with personal attacks, which came as no surprise from the left.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

VV Daily Press
October 27, 2015

Benghazi, Clinton and politics

Hillary Clintons deceptions covering her failings in the Benghazi terrorist attack will not affect her being anointed by the liberal media as the first woman president, just as they did with Barack Obama as the first black president.

The only thing that could derail her candidacy would be an indictment as a result of the FBI/DOJ investigation into her national security email violations, which is unlikely. President Obama won’t allow that to taint his manufactured legacy.

Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, true history will not smile kindly upon an unworthy president with a feckless foreign and domestic policy who put America in great peril.

Unfortunately for the American people, if the corrupt Clintons – who let Osama bin-Laden escape and 9/11 to happen, and caused the 2007/2008 crash -- are elected president -- and the Republicans don’t finally get their duty to God and country act together -- it could be the end of our history.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
October 26, 2015

Clinton redux would destroy U.S.

Just as Barack Obama’s severe shortcomings did not stop the liberal media from anointing him the first black president even before he was elected, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s deceptions to cover her failures in the Benghazi terrorist attack will no effect on that same media crowning her the first woman leader of the United States.

The only thing that could derail Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy would be an indictment as a result of the FBI/Department of Justice investigation into her email-server violations, and that is unlikely. President Obama won’t allow it to taint his manufactured legacy.

Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, true history will not smile kindly upon an unworthy president with a feckless foreign and domestic policy that put America in great peril.

Unfortunately for the American people, if the corrupt Clintons – who let Osama bin-Laden escape and thus caused September 11, 2001 to happen, and caused the 2007/2008 financial crash -- are elected president (and the Republicans don’t finally get their duty-to-God-and country act together) it could be the end of our history.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

VV Daily Press
October 26, 2015

Failed Afghanistan policy

Against the advice of his generals, President Obama is cutting U.S. forces in Afghanistan by half, but changed his plans to evacuate, leaving 5,000 troops until 2017. That meager force will do nothing to change the plans of the Taliban and ISIS to take-over the country.

And, of course, it will leave the carnage for the next president to deal with.

Bottom line is, President Obama will have handed over the Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan to Iran, Russia, ISIS, al-Qaeda and the Taliban to spread terrorism throughout the World, including America. That will be President Obama’s legacy.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
October 23, 2015

Obama’s half-measures still a failure

Re: “U.S. war role to endure” [Front page, Oct. 16]

And, of course, it will leave the carnage for the next president to deal with.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
October 14, 2015

President Obama’s perfect record

In President Obama’s press conference October 2, 2015, he made it abundantly clear that he will not oppose Putin’s military support of Syria’s dictator, which is consistent with Obama’s perfect record of standing back from the fight against all Islamic terrorist organizations in the Middle East.

Indeed, President Obama’s lack of action and weak foreign policy is responsible for the birth of the so-called “Arab Spring” bringing down the dictators of Egypt, Libya and other nations resulting in the proliferation of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, other terrorist groups and the seed and proliferation of ISIS. All of which results in the sad conclusion that, although dictators are mostly bad, in the Islamic Middle East they have historically prevented the terror that reigns there today.

Alas, it is painfully clear that if the Shah of Iran had not been removed by the Ayatollah Khomeini who established a radical Islamic state -- which is now the chief sponsor of terrorism in the world – sworn to destroy Israel and America, our 9/11 efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq would not be so much in vain, and the Middle East would not have exploded into Islamic terrorism against the World.

Add the proliferation of unchecked China and Russian aggression to our enemies mix, President Obama is maintaining a painfully perfect record of tearing down America, disarming us at home and abroad, dangerously reducing our national and domestic security, and thus our freedoms.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
October 2, 2015

Some thoughts on Pope Francis’ visit to U.S.

After reading newspapers, viewing in the news media and then listening to Pope Francis’ address to Congress and the United Nations, it was disturbingly obvious that the Pope has been unduly influenced by President Obama regarding, the distribution of wealth, ObamaCare, Cuba relations, the bad Iran deal and Climate Change – which is a social, political and economic shame.

It was, however, heartening to hear Pope Francis’ strong support of life at conception, traditional marriage, family and America.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Los Angeles Times
September 29, 2015

Pope Francis and his message cross religious and political lines

It was, however, heartening to hear Pope Francis’ strong support of life at conception, traditional marriage, family and America.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

Riverside Press Enterprise
September 25, 2015

Coddling our enemies

President Obama has made it painfully clear that he has no responsibility for America’s national and domestic security as evidenced by coddling the Taliban and ISIS, by Russia’s aggression in Europe and Syria and his making a bad deal with Iran.

Surely, Obama and family will bask in secure retirement, while his socialist legacy will ensure the demise of our freedom -- unless there is a voter revolt and a concerted conservative rescue and recovery from the 2016 elections. Fiorina and Rubio anyone?

(Original letter)

President Obama coddling our enemies

President Obama has made it painfully clear that he has no responsibility for America’s national and domestic security as evidenced by coddling the Taliban (Bowe Bergdahl prisoner exchange); ISIS (allowing them to flourish and run over the Middle East); Russia’s aggression in Europe, Syria and assisting Iran’s nuclear ambitions; making a bad deal with Iran than will ensure them obtaining nuclear weapons; China undermining our economy, and illegal alien criminals preying on our citizens with impunity.

Indeed, Mr. Obama has intentionally established himself as our greatest threat by turning his back on America and our enemies to pursue his insidious agenda of fundamentally transforming the United States. Surely, Obama and family will bask in secure retirement, while his socialist legacy will ensure the demise of our freedom -- unless there is a voter revolt and a concerted conservative rescue and recovery from the 2016 elections – Fiorina and Rubio anyone?

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
September 25, 2015

2016 rescue needed

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
September 17, 2015

Prosecute Clinton gang

Former president Bill Clinton, AG Janet Reno, HUD director and Andrew Cuomo Intimidated banks and mortgage lenders into giving home loans to unqualified buyers to promote Clinton's unaffordable housing scheme, which was carried out by co-conspirator Fannie Mae chairman and CEO, Franklin Raines, and perpetuated by congressional finance chairmen, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, until the housing and finance crash of 2008. Indeed, Raines consulted with Senator Obama during his campaign for president, and the collapse was wrongly blamed on President Bush and Wall Street – thus Obama won the election.

President Bush attempted to stop the runaway housing problem, but was stopped by Frank and Dodd, who ended up authoring the Dodd/Frank finance act so President Obama could control the banks. The Entire insidious, deceitful plan was perpetuated throughout the Obama administration, which fueled the Occupy Wall Street movement and the call for the prosecution of Wall Street executives. Now late in Obama’s distraction legacy game, his Justice Department is targeting executives for prosecution, when they should be targeting the Clinton gang, and probably Obama before the bigger crash comes.

Surely, it’s time for big, liberal government’s abuse of power to start losing, and for the American people and taxpayers to start winning….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

NewsMax Magazine
September 2015 Issue

No sanctuary for criminals

As a retired law enforcement officer, I am outraged by San Francisco’s insidious sanctuary policy that caused the murder of an innocent young woman at the hands of a habitual criminal alien with 7 felony convictions and 5 deportations, who was released by San Francisco authorities after felony drug charges were dropped, refusing to honor an ICE hold placed on him.

Indeed, San Francisco is as guilty as the heinous shooter, and should be held responsible. The murderer should be convicted and sentenced to life without parole, period! San Francisco and the feckless State of California, are in dire need of a complete social, political and economic overhaul…. Alas, the loss of this precious life is sad and unforgiveable.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA

San Diego Union-Tribune
September 19, 2015

Common Core’s federal control of education standards

It is common knowledge and well understood that President Obama’s establishment of Common Core education standards is a direct move for federal control of public education similar to nationalizing health care with the un-Affordable Care Act.

Indeed, it is also common knowledge that ObamaCareless is seriously damaging to health care, the economy and the American people.

Worse, Common Core Is the final blow of what began as the miseducation of teachers and students in the liberal-socialist counterculture revolution of the 1960’s and the subsequent indoctrination of our students, robbing them of a productive education.

Coupled with President Obama’s control of energy, finance and housing, the president’s fundamental transformation of America is reaching completion, which is frightening….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

VV Daily Press
September 9, 2015

Stop punishing smokers

It’s bad enough that California smokers have endured decades of regulations, being demonized as social outcasts at the hands of liberal political elites, the media and Hollywood – and subjected to punishing taxes such as Rob Reiner’s deceitful Prop. 10, which were used for everything but tobacco-related healthcare.

Indeed, at a time when marijuana is on the verge of being legalized, the evil Democrat empire in Sacramento is planning a $2.00 per pack tax which would greatly expand the tyranny against smokers as the California cash cows for government incompetence and waste.

The problem is, the taxes will punish the poor who are smokers more than anyone – alas, the very people Democrats claim they want to help. Surely, California crashing and burning is on track to do just that, exacerbated by forest fire air pollution attacking everyone’s health.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Los Angeles Times
September 8, 2015

Another cigarette tax hike: Haven’t California smokers paid enough?

It’s bad enough that California smokers have endured decades of regulations, being demonized as social outcasts at the hands of liberal political elites, the media and Hollywood – and subjected to punishing taxes such as Proposition 10 in 1998, which did not fund healthcare.

Indeed, at a time when marijuana is on the verge of being legalized, Democrats are planning a $2-per-pack tax that would expand the tyranny against smokers as well as being a cash cow for government incompetence and waste.

The problem is, the taxes will punish the poor who, are smokers more than others – alas, the very people Democrats claim they want to help. Surely, California is on track to crash and burn, exacerbated by forest fire air pollution attacking everyone’s health.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
August 25, 2015

Clinton’s email espionage

Hillary Clinton will likely escape prosecution for her top secret email espionage simply because the Clinton’s have “gotten away with murder” since they burst on the political scene in 1992, winning the presidency by default, handed to them by Ross Perot.

Indeed, as a former law enforcement officer since 1960, and since my retirement in 2006, I have witnessed the rise and decline of our country -- including the Clinton “horror story” and President Obama’s abysmal terms in office – causing me to be deeply concerned for my family, my country and the American people.

Clearly, It was bad enough that Bill Clinton’s silver tongue conned his way passed a long history of sexually abusing women, to accomplish his goals for fame and power, backed by his greedy, ruthless wife and first lady, Hillary -- at any cost.

Alas, that cost included fraudulent land and stock deals, the lives of Arkansas state troopers, White House troubled ally, Vince Foster, surviving impeachment and removal from office, Pardoning America’s foremost tax cheat and traitor, Marc Rich, stealing White House property, being the root cause of the 2008 housing and financial collapse, and working the system for personal gain and absolute power.

Coupled with her profitable illegal deals with foreign powers, incompetent service as secretary of state – costing the lives of four Americans including our ambassador at Benghazi, Libya – and receiving classified emails on her private server (tantamount to treason), Hillary Clinton is not qualified to hold public office, particularly the presidency. Clearly, there will be ample evidence to prosecute her.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
August 20, 2015

Time to turn our government around

Re: “Can California cut gasoline usage in half in 15 years? Probably not” (Aug. 12)

California government punishing the populace

Look what’s happening to Californians: The California political elite in Sacramento and elsewhere are leading activists, and indoctrinated voters to punishing businesses and the populace with insane laws, which will surely result in a self-imposed collapse of our economy, our security and our society.

Highlighted by the costly miseducation of our students, strangling our energy resources, electricity, transportation, personal and business income with onerous regulations -- deceitful voter-approved Propositions, including a stupid bullet train – Californians are literally under siege by a destructive ideology.

Alas, taken together, Assembly Bill 32 cap and trade, Proposition 30, extreme taxation and now Senate Bill 350 cutting gas use by 50 percent, coupled with AB 109 and Prop. 47 criminal releases and sanctuary cities, and opening prison and jail gates, releasing criminals to prey on the people in the middle of an unjust war against the police, our first line of defense, is bad government that needs to be replaced by limited government and real democracy….

Indeed, at a time when California’s authoritarian government is trying to eliminate voters’ constitutional rights to initiative, referendum and recall, it’s time to turn government around.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
August 18, 2015

Dynamic trio

In the first Republican debate for president, Gov. Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina and Dr. Ben Carson confirmed their credentials as a dynamic duo who could and should win the 2016 presidential election. Indeed, with either candidate as the nominee for president, and the other as a vice president running mate, they have the capacity and expertise to turn government and the economy around as should have been done decades ago.

Clearly, Gov. Walker has proven himself as a chief state executive officer with the courage and conviction to get results from taking on the tyranny of government and teacher unions, reducing the size of government, cutting taxes and creating jobs, which got him re-elected twice. He is also the only governor who survived a recall election.

Coupled with Newt Gingrich and Gov. John Kasich as his chiefs of staff, Walker would be an ideal president. And surely, Carly Fiorina proved herself as the CEO of HP, the largest tech company in the world, with a deep knowledge of the overall economy, highly capable as vice president to correct government’s role. Indeed, Dr. Ben Carson is sorely needed as the Secretary of HHS to deal with Obamacare and to prepare its repeal.

A strong president and administration is just what our country needs to recover from the serious damage inflicted on America’s society, economy, domestic and national security by President Obama and his administration, hopefully, before it’s too late…. Walker and Fiorina are the best choices to do that.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
August 15, 2015

Obama’s power abuse plan

As promised by President Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign -- stating that he would eliminate coal-power and establish renewable energy, which would necessarily cause people’s electricity rates to skyrocket -- Mr. Obama is marching non-stop down the road to fulfilling his legacy at any cost, waving the flag of the global-warming hoax, while he continues fundamentally transforming America, as promised.....

Certainly, coupled with nationalizing health care, over-regulating Wall Street and the finance industry, establishing national education -- and lawlessly circumventing the Constitution and Congress with continuous executive orders and imperial edicts – President Obama’s abuse of power seems limitless.

Worse, the president’s feckless foreign policy has allowed Russia’s aggression to escalate, the al-Qaeda – ISIS terror machines to spread throughout the Middle East and the world, and Iran’s state-sponsored terrorism to reign toward nuclear weapons, the destruction of Israel and attacks against America and the West.

Sadly, along with the lack of border security, the infiltration of criminal illegal aliens, socialist chaos, damaging race relations and his war against the police, President Obama Is in the process of pounding the final nails of his legacy into America’s social, political, economic, domestic and national security coffin.

Alas, hope is not lost if American voters rise up, reject the liberal disease infecting our country, and take back government in the 2016 elections….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
August 14, 2015

Obama’s climate plan

Clearly, as promised by President Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign -- stating that he would eliminate coal-power and establish renewable energy, which would necessarily cause people’s electricity rates to skyrocket -- Mr. Obama is marching non-stop down the road to fulfilling his legacy, waving the flag of the global-warming hoax as he continues fundamentally transforming America – as promised.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

VV Daily Press
August 11, 2015

Trump support retraction

As reader Philip Gericke rightly pointed out, how anyone could be drawn to Donald Trump is difficult to fathom, I am embarrassed and apologize with an explanation: Before the Daily Press published my letter supporting Trump, I submitted a commentary two weeks earlier (July 20) modifying my support to Gov. Scott Walker for president and Carly Fiorina for vice president, a dynamic duo.

Indeed, after watching the first Republic debate, and first question to the candidates, I realized that I was being hustled by Trump, as I painfully recalled being hustled and betrayed by Ross Perot, which had caused me to change from Republican to Independent to support him.

The first Republican debate hosted by Fox News was a great success, revealing the core principles of each candidate, most of whom were highly qualified, with two standouts. First was Carly Fiorina who clearly won the second-tier debate, which should elevate her into the first tier.

Second, and more importantly, was Donald Trump, who disturbingly refused to take the pledge not to run as an independent candidate, which would clearly hand the general election to presumed Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton, just as Ross Perot did for Bill Clinton to spite George H.W. Bush in 1992.

For that reason, Donald Trump should be scorned and ignored by Republican and most independent voters.

Indeed, the best choices for a Republican presidency should be as follows: Scott Walker, president; Carly Fiorina, Vice President, with major Cabinet positions comprised of: Marco Rubio, Secretary of State; Ted Cruz, Secretary of Defense; Rick Perry, Homeland Security; Chris Christie, Attorney General; John Kasich, Secretary of the Treasury; Ben Carson, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Rand Paul, Secretary of Commerce; and the Department of Education eliminated.

Finally, as a result of the 2016 elections, if Republican don’t control the Presidency and the Congress, flaming liberals lit and fueled by President Obama and Hillary Clinton, exacerbated by Russia, China and terrorists, will surely burn down America.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
August 9, 2015

By killing coal, Obama puts final nails in U.S. coffin

As promised in his 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama is marching non-stop down the road to eliminate coal-power and prop up renewable energy, waving the flag of global warming hoax as he goes. This necessarily causes people’s electricity rates to skyrocket. But hey, Mr. Obama is fulfilling his legacy.

Together with nationalizing health care, over-regulating Wall Street and the finance industry, establishing national education and circumventing the Constitution and Congress with continuous executive orders and imperial edicts, Mr. Obama’s abuse of power seems limitless.

Worse, the president’s feckless foreign policy has allowed Russia’s aggression to escalate, the al-Qaeda- Islamic-State- terror machines to spread throughout the Middle East and elsewhere the world, and Iran’s state-sponsored terrorism to move more feasibly toward nuclear weapons, the destruction of Israel and attacks against America and the West.

Alas, along with the lack of border security, the infiltration of criminal illegal aliens, socialist chaos, and his war against the police, Mr. Obama Is in the process of pounding the final nails of his legacy into America’s social, political, economic, domestic and national security coffin.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

USA TODAY
August 7, 2015

Re: Climate change: Obama plan worth the cost?

As President Obama promised in his first presidential campaign, he is marching non-stop down the road to fulfilling his legacy at any cost, waving the flag of global-warming alarmism, while he continues fundamentally transforming America. Certainly, coupled with nationalizing health care and over-regulating Wall Street and the finance industry President Obama’s abuse of power seems limitless.

Worse, the president’s feckless foreign policy has allowed Russia’s aggression to escalate, terror machines to spread throughout the Middle East and the world, and Iran’s state-sponsored terrorism to move toward nuclear weapons, the destruction of Israel and attacks against America and the West.

Hope is not lost if American voters rise up, reject the liberal views infecting our country, and take back government in the next election.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

Riverside Press Enterprise
August 6, 2015

Obama’s abuse of power

Re: “ A fact-challenged clean energy plan” [Editorial, Aug. 8]: As promised by President Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign -- stating that he would eliminate coal-power and establish renewable energy, which would necessarily cause people’s electricity rates to skyrocket -- Mr. Obama is marching non-stop down the road to fulfilling his legacy at any cost, waving the flag of the global-warming hoax, while he continues fundamentally transforming America, as promised.

Alas, hope is not lost if American voters rise up, reject the liberal disease infecting our country, and take back government in the 2016 elections….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
August 3, 2015

Trump’s truth for president

The demonization of Donald Trump by America’s insidious Left comes as no surprise, particularly, when Trump hits that liberal nerve. Indeed, the attacks are increasing and relentless, even to blatantly violating his constitutional conservative free speech and property rights.

Does that bother Mr. Trump? Absolutely not. Since announcing his candidacy for president, he has aggressively taken on all comers from the liberal media, to divisive racial agitators, business cowards, and spineless Republicans.

Clearly, what America and the Republican Party need to recover from President Obama’s terrible-terms in office, damaging Democrats and the anti-American Left is “The Donald” playing his patriotic Trump cards against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Surely, with a solid VP such as Sen. Rubio or Gov. Walker, a president Trump would take-on economy-busting big government, build strong national security and restore the economy. Certainly, the TRUTH is what America needs to triumph over evil. And Trump’s got it!

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 24, 2015

Governor’s sky is falling

In a blind pursuit of his “sky is falling” legacy, Governor Brown has assumed the role of the leader of environmental zealot movement by increasing the negative economic impact of AB-32’s carbon tax. However, that wasn’t enough. The governor is now riding the moonbeam of SB-350 legislation that will impose even more abuse of power by requiring half of the state’s electricity be generated from costly, unreliable renewable resources by 2030.

Indeed, with Governor Brown’s climate change goals, it doesn’t matter that there will be an enormous impact on the economy and cost of living. No, there’s more to SB-350, which requires a 50 percent cut in the consumption of gasoline, to be administered by the governor’s appointed, California Air Resources Board. Worse, there is nothing in SB-350 to prevent gasoline rationing.

Alas, it’s bad enough that California already has the highest gasoline prices and gas tax in the by 1 dollar per gallon over the national average. And that California will not allow the construction of new oil refineries, or adding new oil and natural gas resources. Or that California’s Green additive blend of gasoline is not only costly, but damaging to vehicle engines. Now, Mr. Brown’s hit team wants to stick oil companies with an oil extraction tax.

Clearly, the sky’s the limit for Californian’s cost of living.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
July 24, 2015

Gov. Brown’s ambitious climate change goals

Re: “Climate change battle to get harder” (July 19)

However, that wasn’t enough. The governor is now riding the moonbeam of Senate Bill 350 legislation that will impose even more abuse of power by requiring half of the state’s electricity be generated from costly, unreliable renewable resources by 2030.

Indeed, with Gov. Brown’s climate change goals, it doesn’t matter that there will be an enormous impact on the economy and cost of living. No, there’s more to SB 350, which requires a 50 percent cut in the consumption of gasoline, to be administered by the governor’s appointed, California Air Resources Board. Worse, there is nothing in SB-350 to prevent gasoline rationing.

It’s bad enough that California already has the highest gasoline prices and gas tax in the by 1 dollar per gallon over the national average. And that California will not allow the construction of new oil refineries, or adding new oil and natural gas resources. Or that California’s green additive blend of gasoline is not only costly, but damaging to vehicle engines. Now, Mr. Brown’s hit team wants to stick oil companies with an oil extraction tax.

Clearly, the sky’s the limit for Californian’s cost of living.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 21, 2015

Terror in Tennessee

The terrorist attack in Tennessee is making it painfully clear that President Obama’s ambivalence to the deadly reality of the immediate and growing danger to America from Islamic terrorists -- including the threat from within -- is putting our nation in peril and endangering our people. Indeed, treating terrorist attacks such as Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, Texas and others as work place violence and crimes rather than blatant terrorism is a serious dereliction of duty.

Coupled the Obama administration’s direct complicity in the lack of border security, the fall of the Middle East to terrorists, capitulating to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons -- our failing national defense and security -- and pursuing his ideological “Internet Neutrality” to limit conservative speech instead of having his FCC, FBI, CIA and Homeland Security vigorously defend against terrorism, Russia and China’s cyber-attacks against us -- is indefensible and un-American.

Alas, Hillary Clinton would do no better – probably worse, considering her complicity in failed foreign policy.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
July 18, 2015

America cannot ignore threat of Islamic terrorism

Re: “Four Marines slain, may be an act of terror” [Front page, July 17}. The terrorist attack in Tennessee is making it painfully clear that President Obama’s ambivalence to the deadly reality of the immediate and growing danger to America from Islamic terrorists -- including the threat from within -- is putting our nation in peril and endangering our people.

Indeed, treating terrorist attacks such as Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, Garland,Texas and others as work place violence and crimes rather than blatant terrorism is a serious dereliction of duty.

Coupled the Obama administration’s direct complicity in the lack of border security, the fall of the Middle East to terrorists, capitulating to Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, our failing national defense and security and pursuing his ideological Internet neutrality instead of having the government vigorously defend against terrorism and Russia and China’s cyber-attacks against us.

It is indefensible and un-American.

Alas, Hillary Clinton would do no better – probably worse, considering her complicity in failed foreign policy.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 17, 2015

City kills innocent woman

It’s bad enough that California’s open door to illegal aliens is costing taxpaying citizens $billions to provide education, healthcare, housing and welfare – much more in terms of crime and drugs – exacerbated by President Obama’s open border failure to protect our citizens from the predators. Legal pursuit of citizenship notwithstanding, it’s time to slam the door on the invasion.

Indeed, San Francisco is as guilty as the heinous shooter, and should be held responsible. The murderer should be convicted and sentenced to death. Even though he won’t be executed, at least he will serve life without parole, which is redundant as is San Francisco and the feckless State of California, in dire need of a complete social, political and economic overhaul….

Alas, the loss of this precious life is sad and unforgiveable.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
July 13, 2015

Greece betrayed Democracy

Since the birth of Democracy in 5th Century BC, Athens by Pericles, Greece has betrayed democracy by using it to establish a self-destructive society strangled by self-imposed socialism. Indeed, the Greek people became too reliant on government providing them with all the benefits of living without responsibility, and rejecting government austerity.

Clearly, in the centuries since the success of Pericles direct democracy, it has been demonized as being the tyranny of the majority and the people voting themselves largess. However, a socialist-style society is vulnerable to be consumed by Communism, wherein a dictatorship government owns everything, including the people, who have no rights, no property, and become slaves of the state.

Alas, the world knows that through many years of tyrannical monarchies, the dictatorial socialism/fascism such as Germany and Italy -- and the scourge of Communist Russia, China, North Korea and Cuba -- are the mortal enemies of freedom.

Indeed, America became the hope of the world by separating from a monarchy with a revolutionary war and establishing a unique constitutional republic of representative democracy and all the freedoms that came with it -- for as long as we could hold on to it. And we have, against and all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yet, even here, the tyranny of the minority and the evils of socialism have grown and persist with indoctrination, government growth and the abuse of power.

Surely, with the additional threat of terrorism against us, we have reached critical crossroads and must recover and survive. The only way to do that is to truthfully inform the people and establish a direct representative democracy, wherein professional government managers – not politicians – are elected. They must be confirmed each year, and must truthfully inform the voters. Voters would decide all matters of taxation and public policy. We can do that with a 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

Greece lost its roots of democracy and failed. America cannot to the same.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 10, 2015

Obama’s monarchial legacy

President Obama is making it painfully clear that he will leave a monarchial legacy of social, political and economic pain, severely diminished national and domestic security -- and racial divisions. Indeed, of elected, Hillary Clinton would leave a similar legacy including gender divisions.

A Republican president and Congress would reverse Mr. Obama’s executive abuse of power, recover the economy, national and domestic security, simplify the tax code, reduce spending and the national debt, limit government, rescue education and ameliorate racial discontent.

The dangerous alternative is for the electorate to commit voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
July 2, 2015

Forest Service is no service

The Lake Fire near Big Bear Lake, which started before 4PM, June 17, 2015, blew up overnight and quickly grew from 500 acres to 10,000 acres was exacerbated by Forest Service refusal to control Bark Beetles, the neglect to have immediate access to Super Scooper and DC 10 water tankers, and the overall incompetence of Forest Service fire-fighting and control burns gone out of control. The fire has since surpassed 30,000 acres and still burning.

Indeed, every major fire in Southern California – including the Rim Fire, Old Fire, Station Fire, Oak Hills fire, San Diego and Orange County fires -- would not have raged out-of-control if they had of been extinguished immediately by massive fire retardant and water drops. And they would not have burned so quickly, if it were not for dead trees killed by Bark Beetles, and the Forest Service’s refusal to thin forests.

Cal Fire, county and city fire departments notwithstanding, there is simply no excuse for the Forest Service not to own and distribute sufficient water dropping DC 10’s and Super Scoopers, rather than skimping on leasing them, and failing to activate them immediately to forest fires. Clearly, the Forest Service’s overall incompetence and irresponsibility are why the Lake Fire and other major fires raged and exploded.

Coupled with the loss of life, property and damage to people’s health, the Forest Service is no service in fire prevention and forest fires -- is costly, outrageous and unacceptable -- not so different from all big government. Alas, as a retired law enforcement officer and former fire dispatcher, I can say that the environmentalist-friendly news media’s silence on these critical matters is destructively deafening….

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

The Washington Times
June 29, 2015

In 2016, one way out

The dangerous alternative is for the electorate to commit voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

San Diego Union-Tribune
June 27, 2015

President Obama’s monarchial legacy

The dangerous alternative is for the electorate to commit voter-assisted social, political and economic suicide.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

Los Angeles Times
June 27, 2015

Supreme Court betrays Democracy again and again

Chief Justice Roberts -- nominated by President Bush – was a stealth liberal in conservative clothing as evidenced by upholding nationalized Obamacare twice along with other rulings usurping states’ rights in violation of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution.

Worse, Chief Justice Roberts’ deeply-flawed reasoning for the decision was based upon the people electing a Congress to enact Obamacare, even though it was done by a Democrat majority behind closed doors with no debate.

Alas, the Court wasn’t done betraying democracy and the fabric of America when the next day they abused the 14th Amendment and violated the 10th Amendment by declaring same-sex couples had the right marriage, severely diminishing traditional marriage between one man and one woman, the historical family institution -- already damaged by extreme feminism – regardless of the damage to children with no choice adopted by same-sex couples.

Unfortunately, to no avail, Chief Justice Roberts temporarily slipped into his conservative suit to dissent from the 5-4 majority opinion. Certainly, it was made painfully clear with President Obama’s declared “Victory for America,” that the Constitution is meaningless to Obama’s Executive branch, and Roberts’ Judicial Branch of our deeply wounded union and democratic republic.

Coupled with the Court supporting “disparate impact” added to the Fair Housing Act, supporting President Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing action by HUD’s unjust intrusion on freedom -- tantamount to President Clinton’s intimidation of banks and home lenders, causing the housing/finance meltdown – is further proof of the political activist Court.

Indeed, the liberal majority on the Court is blatantly supporting President Obama’s monarchial mandate to fundamentally transform America from a constitutional republic into a socialist nation.

Surely, Roberts’ Court will back President Obama’s legacy as the first black president, regardless of the social, political, economic and constitutional harm to America and the people.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
June 26, 2015

Supreme Court betrays America again

Indeed, the liberal super-majority on the Court is blatantly supporting President Obama’s monarchial mandate to fundamentally transform America from a constitutional republic into a socialist nation.

Surely, Roberts’ Court will back President Obama’s legacy as the first black president, regardless of the social, political, economic and constitutional harm to America and the people.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

VV Daily Press
June 19, 2015

Obama’s policy conflicts

President Obama has made it abundantly clear that his foreign policy is no policy -- but taking a dangerous path to eliminating American power and influence in a world of aggressive nations and Jihadist terrorism – diminishing our military defenses and sacrificing our national security.

In stark contrast, President Obama has made it painfully clear that his domestic policy is replete with the abuse of executive authority, orders and edicts, regardless of constitutional limitations, the law and the consequences.

Indeed, his latest EPA edict is to seize control of millions of acres of private land water rights. Coupled with his costly war against global warming and the police, our domestic security in serious peril.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
June 16, 2015

Protect data instead of policing the Internet

When President Obama’s FCC chairman says there will now be a “Net Neutrality” referee to keep the Internet fast, fair and open, what he really means is that it will be highly regulated as a telecommunications utility that will soon be taxed like telephone service.

Worse, the referee will in fact become a socialist government bully with a biased agenda to control Internet content and inhibit free speech -- particularly conservative speech, while allowing ISIS recruiting to run wild.

What government should be doing, is concentrating on protecting secrets, records and the people against criminal hackers and terrorists with the very best step-ahead security, and punishing violators, instead of business-as-usual government incompetence.

Losing all government personnel and selective defense records to Chinese and Russian espionage is unconscionable. Indeed, Hillary-style hiding won’t cut it.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Los Angeles Times
June 7, 2015
(Lead letter)

The TSA’s usefulness

Re: “Time for the TSA to go?.” Opinion, June 5

It is highly disturbing and unacceptable that Transportation Security Administration agents failed to detect 95% of firearms and explosives concealed by operatives in tests.

Worse, the TSA director was reassigned rather than removed from government employment. The solution, of course, is to remove the costly bureaucracy and layers of useless administration impeding Homeland Security and the TSA. Surely, there is no place for bloated, over-reaching incompetency, abuse of authority or dereliction of duty from those responsible for our national security.

In terms of the TSA, it should be replaced by airport security divisions of local law enforcement -- such as the airport police covering Los Angeles airports -- which could be extended to passenger screening and complete security at airports. Our security demands it.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

NEWSMAX Magazine
June 2015 issue

Obama regulations

ObamaCare, ObamaFinance, ObamaEnergy, and now the ObamaNet are making it painfully clear that President Obama’s ObamAmerica and leftist Democrats – including Hollywood -- are the party of tyranny against the best interests of the American people with destructive regulations, punishing taxation and unsustainable national debt. (“President Obama, You’re no Ronald Reagan,” March).

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.

(original letter)

Worse, President Obama’s legacy is on reckless course to disarm the United States in the face of dictator Putin’s Russian aggression, a rapidly expanding Islamic terrorist movement – feigned negotiations with Iran’s nuclear weapons state, regardless of Israeli President Netanyahu’s real warnings – all of which threaten to annihilate Israel, America and the West.

Clearly, it’s bad enough that the counter-culture revolutionists have turned our country into a superficial society of social injustice, political chaos, selfish interests, economic instability/uncertainty, and extremes. Indeed, developing a nation of fools by indoctrination, distractions, deceptions, lies, the insidious intended consequences of failed good intentions, and the loss of freedoms is what a socialist takeover is all about.

Alas, the next two years will be our nation’s reckoning with the enemy within the 7th round of President Obama and his minions vs. America, with only the Republican Party and the informed people standing in the way of an 8th round knockout. Attention: Republican Congress, governors and presidential nominee! Strong language and action is what is needed -- for our survival and restoration. The washed-out Washington way simply won’t cut it!

VV Daily Press
June 1, 2015

Foreign policy is no policy

To say that ISIS running wild in the Middle East with impunity, and that Russia, China and Iran’s aggression have dramatically increased is the unintended consequences of President Obama’s lack of leadership in the world is a generous conclusion.

President Obama’s ideological agenda to eliminate American leadership, power and influence in the world is intended, regardless of the consequences, including the threats to our national security.

In Addition, the clear and present consequences for President Obama’s over-reaching regulations and executive actions regarding health care, illegal immigration, climate change, limiting free enterprise and the war against police are seriously damaging our freedoms, our economy and our domestic security.

Indeed, President Obama’s foreign policy is no policy. And his domestic policy is tantamount to tyranny. God bless and save America. President Obama can’t. Alas, he won’t.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
May 29, 2015

Highway robbery

It has become painfully clear that government’s freeway projects on Interstate 15, the 215 and other highways are the products of misfeasance, particularly from the Cajon Pass, South through San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.

Indeed, other than the 215 bottlenecks in San Bernardino, the mostly unnecessary road construction on the 15 and 215 have exacerbated impeding traffic, endangering motorists with narrow lanes and confusing interchanges, a total lack of consideration, unreasonably time-consuming projects and the enormous cost to taxpayers – at least ten times over.

Surely, the conclusion can only be that, other than maintenance and repairs, there was no reason for the massive projects. Clearly, the years of highway robbery must be stopped. Taxpaying voters can be the new sheriff in town to get it done.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
May 26, 2015

State awash in taxes and overregulation

Our country is wrought with over-reaching taxes and regulations. As usual, California is first in the nation in leading the assault against once-free enterprise and the middle class by government and environmental extremists

It wasn’t enough for Governor Brown to destroy Gov. Ronald Reagan’s pro-business and middle class economy, and the best public education in the nation.

In his first term. Brown permanently set back public education by authorizing teachers to unionize.

Proposition 98 sealed funding obligations, and the insidious conflict of interest political contributions to Brown and other Democrats followed, resulting in the worst and most costly public education system in the country.

Adding costly insult to injury, Proposition 30’s taxation and Assembly Bill 32’s carbon tax, cap and trade extortion -- using the global warming hoax -- are aimed at filling big government coffers with the tax and spending fraud, exacerbating energy costs, the drought, the cost to small business, and the cost of living.

Certainly, the failures and government aggression of Gov. Brown, the Democrat Legislature -- President Obama’s health-care-less act, the onerous Dodd-Frank finance act, reckless foreign policy and national defense failures -- and overall assaults against our economy are overwhelming evidence of the clear and present danger to our domestic and national security.

Alas, naïve and indoctrinated voters must wake up, wise up and make changes happen or we all suffer the consequences.

So, it’s either freedom lost, or work and vote for recovery, liberty, prosperity and justice for all.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Riverside Press Enterprise
May 25, 2015

Stephanopoulos and Clinton

George Stephanopoulos and James Carville were the lead team for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. Remember the campaign slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid!” George was Clinton’s communications director and stepped down after Clinton’s 1996 re-election.

As for Bill and Hillary’s current bid for the presidency, why is there no news coverage about Bill Clinton’s presidency causing the 2008 housing and financial crash?

Former president Clinton and his Janet Reno/Andrew Cuomo hit squad intimidated banks, mortgage lenders and Fannie Mae into making home loans to unqualified buyers in their reckless drive for affordable housing.

Obviously, it was unaffordable housing. And our nation is still paying for it.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Diego Union-Tribune
May 24, 2015

Autonomy proposal borders on ridiculous

Beware! San Diego activist, Louis J. Marinelli has received approval to gather signatures for his initiative, “A new hope for California,” which would make our state an autonomous region like Scotland is to the United Kingdom.

However, Mr. Marinelli is apparently lost in the liberal wilderness, or he would realize that California is already an autonomous nation-state.

Indeed, his voter-initiative would probably pass with a naïve freedom-crushing liberal majority, ratifying our authoritarian state ruled by President Jerry Brown, his socialist Legislature and the economy-crushing environmentalists.

Clearly, what the suicidal “California crashing” people fail to recognize is that their Democrat-voter-seeking open border is rapidly evolving into a nation-state of Mexico.

Alas, it’s time for Californians to wise-up before it’s too late.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Carlsbad

Riverside Press Enterprise
May 22, 2015

Extremism exacerbates state’s drought

California’s extended drought is meaningless to extreme environmentalist-driven government regulations, which has cost a single sea water desalination plant in Carlsbad near San Diego a 10-year delay in completing the plant because of 6-years of frivolous environmental lawsuits. Indeed, insidious lawsuits and onerous government regulations have prevented the plant from producing 54 million gallons of water per day.

Poseidon Water’s Carlsbad desalination plant is the largest in North America and is slated to go online this Fall. Obviously, California government and environmental terrorists have been recklessly irresponsible by further exacerbating California’s extended drought by allowing millions of acre feet of water to flow into the ocean to protect a tiny fish, ignoring other water resources, our extended coastline and the worldwide use of desalination.

Clearly, there must be a reversal of decades of environmentalist voter-assisted economic suicide. It’s time to turn back to the prosperity of California’s gold instead of blindly pursuing a fool’s paradise – a terminal liberal affliction.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
May 20, 2015

Regulation roadblock

Surely, Californians should take notice of Israel’s success in resolving their water shortages in 5 years by providing half their water supply with desalination plants producing 100 billion gallons of water per year. Clearly, there must be a reversal of decades of environmentalist voter-assisted economic suicide. It’s time to turn back to the prosperity of California’s gold instead of blindly pursuing a fool’s paradise – a terminal liberal affliction.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
May 18, 2015

California’s regulation roadblock to water and prosperity

Daniel B. Jeffs Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
May 14, 2015

Rush to judgment

Re: “Baltimore state's attorney indicts and convicts police for homicide”…. It was bad enough that the Baltimore mayor handcuffed the police to give rioters space to loot and destroy, and incited violence against officers in response to the tragic death of Freddie Gray while in custody.

Worse, the young and reckless Baltimore state’s attorney has made a rush to judgment by filing homicide charges against the 6 officers involved in the incident, convicting the officers, while boasting to the young rioters that, “This is our time.”

Clearly, it is painfully obvious that the Baltimore mayor is a star to the irresponsible element of the black community, and that the state’s attorney is a rising superstar, advancing her political ambitions.

Indeed, this rush to injustice is looking more like a lynching of police, while the Baltimore mayor declares that this is a model for the nation to follow. Sadly, President Obama, Al Sharpton and others have directly and indirectly caused the rise in racial unrest and the insidious war against police in America.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

San Bernardino Sun
May 14, 2015

Time for California to cash in on Columbia River water

With 86 billion gallons of Columbia River water per day flowing into the ocean, there is certainly a need to divert much of that water to drought-stricken California to meet the needs of Northern Californians, Central Valley farmlands and the people of Southern California.

Clearly, there must be combined cooperation between the Federal Bureau of Water Reclamation serving the Central Valley Water Project, the California State Water Resources Control Board, and the California State Water Project to accomplish what is needed.

Surely, between the Columbia River, Klamath River, Lake Shasta and the Sacramento Delta, a series of pipelines and reservoirs can be constructed to bring, store and deliver all the necessary water to resolve our long term problems.

First, however, Governor Brown and unreasonable environmental extremists must get their act together for the good of the people. Governor Brown should quit over-feeding such things as the miseducation money pit, scrap his $68 billion bullet train, add the $7.3 billion water project funds and begin the real California water project in earnest.

Indeed, California voters should demand it for our survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
April 29, 2015

Limit government (unedited)

Preceded by government growth under Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, the 16th income tax Amendment, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson, six years of the Obama administration's government growth, debt, abuse of power, abject domestic and foreign policy failure -- backed by the liberal media and blind allegiance of a Democrat Congress -- have metastasized the tumors of liberal government growth into a terminal case of social, political, economic and national security cancer.

Even though there was a revival under President Reagan, the Newt Gingrich congressional Contract with America, and the American people have since elected another Republican Congress to fight the liberal disease, President Obama has made it painfully clear that he will not be deterred from finishing his legacy terms in office, regardless of the consequences, which are forthcoming social, political, economic and national security disasters.

There is but one cure for these cancers, and that is to significantly reduce and limit the size, scope and power of government over our lives, by electing a president and vice-president, and tougher Republican Congress to take on the extremely difficult jobs of real leadership, undeterred - which will take a full two terms -- with a follow-up presidency and Congress.

Indeed, "It's time for a change" is no longer a hackneyed phrase in these critical times of social, political, economic and moral decay brought on by the counter cultural revolution of the 1960's. We must recover our social compatibility, political integrity, economic growth, military and foreign policy strength with true leadership and simply getting it done.

At this point, in the 2016 presidential elections, those leaders appear to be Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina. So, my fellow Americans, let's wake up and get it done for our survival and the survival of our nation - and recover the land of the free and home of the brave.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

Los Angeles Times
Opinion LA
April 28, 2015

Columbia River pipeline

Indeed, California voters should demand it for our survival.

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley

VV Daily Press
April 26, 2015

The threat from within

It is frightening to realize that the counter-culture, anti-establishment boomers of the 1960's and 70's have become an undermining threat to the survival of America from the shroud of the miseducation establishment, the tyranny of anti-Capitalism socialists, and the insidious growth of government.

Worse, the counter-cultural revolution has turned America into a superficial society of government dependency, social aggression, political hostility, relentlessly assaulted by selfish interests and the failures of good intentions.

It should be noted that Bill and Hillary Clinton are from the first of the Boomer generation, and President Obama is from the last of the generation. Enough said.

Indeed, our nation is steeped in uncertainty, and our freedom is fleeting from a deadly second front -- which is being fatally demonstrated by the new barbarians on the block -- who are the world-domination Jihadists of radical Islam obsessed with eliminating non-believers from the face of the earth at any cost.

Alas, it has been said, and how true it is, that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to remain silent and do nothing.

Therefore, the burning question is: what are we going to do about it?

Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley