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Trump ahead of Reagan's record in cutting regulations

by Paul Bedard

President Trump is keeping his promise to cut regulations and is on a course to top former President Reagan's record of slashing the mountain of red tape created by Jimmy Carter, according to two independent reports.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute said that Trump has issued 58 percent fewer major and costly regulations than former President Obama and slashed the Federal Register, the government's rule book, by 32 percent.

And American Action Forum said that the Trump administration has saved $560 million by cutting regulations and meeting its promise to eliminate two old rules for every new one.

"As the Trump Administration transitions into the new fiscal year and next phase of Executive Order 13,771, it can reasonably claim net regulatory savings of roughly $560 million under the EO's first phase. There have been some new regulatory costs, but activity on that front remains at a historically low level," said American Action's Dan Goldbeck.

CEI Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews added, "It took a few years for Ronald Reagan to achieve his ultimate, one-third reduction in Federal Register pages following Jimmy Carter's then-record Federal Register. So by this metric, Trump is moving much faster."

Both reports looked at the regulation tally at the end of the fiscal year. The Trump administration postponed its plans for a "cut the red tape" day on Monday after the Las Vegas shootings.

In his report, Goldbeck said that overall, the president has barely met its two out, one in rule but that it is on its way to major rule reduction. "With clearly ambitious targets and likely a better understanding on how to implement such programs, the Trump administration's deregulatory push does not appear to be slowing down," he reported.

Crews focused on costly "significant" rules and found them way down. "Significant rules issued, generally those with an impact of $100 million or more, are down an astonishing 58 percent compared to Obama. Trump's agencies issued 116 significant final rules during his first nine months, while Obama's issued 274 over the corresponding nine-month period in 2016. This also ignores any portion of Trump's rules that are deferrals or freezes," he reported.

And he said that big rules in the pipeline are the lowest for a first year president than any president since George H.W. Bush.

New Probe Seeks to Find Who Betrayed Anne Frank

Anne Frank (Albert Nieboer/AP)

By Greg Richter

A new investigation led by a retired FBI agent is seeking to use new techniques to determine who betrayed Anne Frank, her family, and others in their hiding place from the Nazis in World War II, The Guardian reported Monday.

The diary Anne kept of her experiences hiding with her Jewish family behind a bookcase in a warehouse in the Netherlands has made her one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust. She died in a concentration camp in 1945 at age 15.

Retired FBI agent Vince Pankoke began this past weekend leading a team of 19 forensic experts going through data to see if they can unravel the mystery that has eluded others over the decades.

The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam published a study of its own in December suggesting the Franks might have been found by chance, but is lending its archives to the new effort. The current probe is being filmed and shown online as it progresses.

Old and new evidence is being reviewed, including statements made by witnesses from previous investigations. But the new effort also has access to documents its predecessors did not.

Papers sent to the United States after the war have recently been declassified and are being looked over, though that can be a challenge.

"Some of them are water damaged or fire damaged, and they are in technical military German, so it's going to take a while," Pankoke said. "But we have found lists of names of Jews arrested having been betrayed, lists of informants and names of Gestapo agents who lived in Amsterdam. All that can go into the data store, and we can find connections."

Though German officials kept detailed records of arrests, it is thought those related to the Frank family were destroyed in 1944 during a British bombing raid.

"We are not trying to point fingers or prosecute," Pankoke said. "I am just trying to solve the last case of my career. There is no statute of limitation on the truth."

Sebastian Gorka, former Trump aide, recalled as stellar teacher at SOCom

• Howard Altman, Times Staff Writer

In a short stint as advisor to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka drew a long list of complaints — over his level of experience, the way he talks about Islam, and his relationship with White House chief of staff John F. Kelly.

He has remained at the center of controversy since then, appearing on the Sean Hannity Show to blast NFL players who protest the national anthem and declaring the Republican primary victory by divisive Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama to be "the first battle in a war that's going to reform politics."

Gorka is now chief strategist with the political group MAGA Coalition, named for the Donald Trump pledge to "Make America Great Again."

But people who worked with Gorka at MacDill Air Force base in the decade before he joined the White House in January remember the bearded, British-born analyst differently — as a lauded guest instructor at the Joint Special Operations University run by U.S. Special Operations Command.

"He was consistently praised by his students and the JSOU faculty for the superior quality of his presentations," said Ken McGraw, a SOCom spokesman.

In 2012, the university's President Brian Maher awarded Gorka the Civilian Joint Service Commendation Medal.

This should come as no surprise to anyone, says Gorka, 46, who brushes off the steady criticism he was subjected to in Washington.

"I couldn't care less about what the chattering classes in the Fake News Media, or the policy hacks who failed America for the last 16 years in terms of national security think," Gorka said in an email to the Tampa Bay Times.

"All I care about is how I can support the warfighter, especially the (special operations) tip of the spear. They know exactly who I am and that's all I need and care about."

In addition to the scores of lectures he has delivered at Joint Special Operations University, Gorka advises and briefs senior leaders at U.S. Army Special Operations Command and NATO and is a guest lecturer at the FBI and the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N.C., according to his official biography.

He became a guest lecturer at MacDill with the Joint Special Operations University in 2006 and eight years later landed a position there as part-time contractor.

Gorka was lead instructor for courses on combatting terrorism from July 2008 through January 2017, SOCom's McGraw said.

His work received praise from retired Army Lt. Gen. Dell Dailey, one of the university's distinguished senior fellows.

Dailey ran the Center for Special Operations in the SOCom headquarters at MacDill and served as principal counterterrorism advisor to Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

He called Gorka "a darned good instructor in this unfortunate field of terrorism.

"He was very aggressive, very interactive with the crowd and usually had three to five people stand up around him after the presentations."

Gorka was "without a doubt the most popular speaker of anyone we put on the platform," said former university course director James Ashing, who oversaw Gorka's work there from 2012 to 2016.

The praise stands in stark contrast to Gorka's image in Washington, where news sources complained he was poorly versed on topics he covered and suggested he was fired from his White House position.

Gorka told Fox News that the use of the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" in President Trump's inaugural address marked a positive turning point.

The Washington Post reported that Gorka's "academic credentials, particularly on the subject of Islam, are thin ... Gorka does not speak Arabic and has never lived in a Muslim-majority country. His knowledge of Islam comes largely from reading English translations of Islamic texts and interacting with foreign officers."

Gorka says the complaints are groundless.

"I never claimed to be an Islamic scholar," he told the Times. "My field is counterterrorism and strategy, and I think two civilian commendations" from the military and designation as a Justice Department "expert on the Boston Bombing trial are credentials enough."

As for his relationship with Kelly, Gorka said there were "zero" problems.

He said he was not fired but resigned, upset by Trump's Afghanistan speech in August because it failed to define "strategic victory conditions."

His reputation for intolerance of Islam is undeserved, he said, and not supported in his writings.

Terms like Muslim or Islamic terrorism "do a great disservice to law-abiding Muslims everywhere," he wrote in a 2007 thesis for Corvinus Univesity in Budapest, Hungary.

"We are not at war with Islam," he told the Times. "Our greatest allies against groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS, are our Muslim partners such as Jordan and Egypt, whose officers have taught me the most about Islam and the common threat we face: totalitarian Jihadism."

Dailey, the retired Army general, said Gorka was a victim of "internal power plays inside the U.S. government.

"I'm sorry he departed. His contributions and abilities will be lost."

Contact Howard Altman at haltman@tampabay.com or (813) 225-3112. Follow @haltman.

New York Times Columnist Parrots North Korean Propaganda from Pyongyang

by JOHN HAYWARD

The New York Times has made a string of bizarre efforts to rehabilitate the image of brutal Communist regimes during the past few weeks, earning particular mockery for asserting on Monday that China’s mass-murdering Communist revolution had a bright side because it “taught Chinese women to dream big.”

Now columnist Nicholas Kristof is going for the Walter Duranty Useful Idiot Lifetime Achievement Award by filing a string of Instagram posts that cheerfully and uncritically repeat North Korean propaganda.

Kristof is visiting North Korea at the moment, posting photos to document the great time he is having. He gushed over the water park, dolphin show, and amusement park provided for “citizens,” without bothering to mention that access to such amenities is strictly controlled by the brutal dictatorship, and politically inconvenient citizens tend to have their “fun” at forced labor and rape camps, when they are not enjoying their laugh-a-minute starvation diets:

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North Koreans even love to tuck into a slice of pizza, just like us! When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a-Juche…

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Now, I love North Korean pizza as much as the next guy, but there is deep dishonesty in touting any of the amenities provided by an evil dictatorship for its chosen few, especially when the entire country would collapse into abject poverty (and cannibalism!) without massive shipments of humanitarian aid. If other countries weren’t feeding Kim Jong-un’s brutalized and brainwashed population, they would have long ago run out of pizza and started eating the pizza delivery guys.

Even worse, much of that aid has been coerced from responsible nations with military threats and nuclear blackmail or provided by hostile nations like China and Russia that use North Korea for their own dark strategic purposes. Rhapsodizing about North Korean amusement parks is like visiting the home of someone who cheated the welfare system out of millions of dollars and admiring the awesome flat-screen TV in his living room.

It is strange that a reporter for a publication that never stops running out of nits to pick with unfair and unequal American society would encourage looking past the rough edges in North Korea to appreciate the political elites having fun at their water parks. Talk about “checking your privilege!”

But Kristof’s most controversial messages from Mordor are the ones where he uncritically repeated North Korean propaganda about a tidal wave of citizens rushing to volunteer for service in the military so they can fight Donald Trump. As Kristof wrote on Instagram:

Every kid at this North Korea high school supposedly signed up to join the army after the Trump speech to the UN. They said they’ll keep studying until war breaks out, which some say could happen any time. It’s all part of a mass ideological mobilization–yet here the kids are still practicing their singing. At a factory, the manager likewise told me that all 1500 employees had signed up for the army in Monday, yet they were still at work.

This is precisely the message North Korea’s state-controlled media have been broadcasting. What Kristof failed to mention is that military service is already mandatory for almost all North Korean citizens, men and women alike. The people of North Korea are literal slaves to their regime, and they are all military conscripts. They do not “volunteer” for anything.

North Korean media gin up reports about citizens rushing to enlist in the military every time strong action is taken against them; as the Washington Free Beacon notes, they ran the exact same story, with slightly smaller claims of 3.5 million eager military volunteers after the last round of U.N. sanctions was imposed against them.

Kristof conceded, in response to a question on Twitter, that the situation is “far more tense [sic] than on my previous trips to North Korea, and even more circumscribed. And that’s saying a lot.”

When another user asked point-blank if his tweets were “reviewed/approved by DPRK authorities,” Kristoff’s unsettling response was, “No. But I have a longstanding policy that as long as I’m in a place like North Korea, I think of my family before I tweet.”

In other words, he knowingly went to a place where he knows his freedom, and perhaps his very life, will be forfeited if he does not toe the line, and he is posting the dictatorship’s propaganda on social media anyway.

At a moment when “normalizing” unacceptable ideologies is a hot talking point on the left, here is a New York Times reporter normalizing North Korea by treating it like a semi-respectable country with appealing tourist destinations and admitting he is under some degree of duress only when directly asked. That is a strong argument for not going to North Korea at all, or at least not saying anything about the trip until you’re home safe and can speak freely.

Dictatorships are adept at playing Western media this way. It is reminiscent of the media’s belated confession that they played ball with Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq because that was the price of having news bureaus in Baghdad. It is long past time to consider the alternative of telling the world that some places are so twisted and evil that it is impossible to report from there honestly and accurately, so no news is better than bad news.

The waterparks and pizzerias of North Korea count for nothing, absolutely nothing, against its dungeons, torture chambers, labor camps, indoctrination centers, conscript armies, and weapons of mass destruction.

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Tancredo: The Nazis Are Coming! The Nazis Are Coming! And They Are All Wearing Che Guevara Tee-Shirts!

by TOM TANCREDO

Who would have believed that our Hollywood actors and late-night comedians could be counted on to be canaries in the mine? Their incessant chirping now warns us of the poison gases of hate wafting in on the nightly news reports of riots and blood-letting. These celebrity canaries are so concerned, they devote precious airtime, otherwise used to award each other prizes for being wonderful (and radically relevant), to sound the alarm.

These celebrity cherubs and their sycophantic pols see Nazis everywhere and shudder at their resurgence. So do I.

As a matter of fact, I have seen them with my own eyes. I saw them on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where, as an invited speaker a few years ago, I had to have police swat teams provide a protective barrier to get into the lecture hall. Then the real party started.

At Chapel Hill, the screaming brown shirts (led by several “professors”) were so loud inside that the cacophony was deafening. After a few minutes, bricks started coming through the window and a panic ensued while everyone scrambled for the doors. I was spirited away by two policemen as another nail was put in the coffin of free speech by a fascist mob hell-bent on protecting the campus from purveyors of heretical ideas.

So much for our halls of academe leading to the free marketplace of ideas! The war on free speech has now reached epidemic proportions on college campuses nationwide. One brave scholar, Stanley Kurtz, has recently chronicled this firestorm of intolerance, which is all the more alarming and insidious because it is tacitly -– and often openly— aided by university administrators.

The most ironic location for such a display of totalitarian temperament was at the University of Michigan LAW School, where after having been thwarted in their efforts to intimidate by rock throwing and sign waving in the streets, they pulled the fire alarm each time I tried to speak. Of course, that was the just a mild prank compared to the black mask wearing, window smashing, bottle throwing, pepper-spraying mob that injured 11 cops in St. Louis a few days ago.

And so, I say “Right On!” to the public condemnation of the neo-fascists who disrupt peaceful rallies and incite mob violence. I want every act of a rally disruption or a synagogue desecration investigated thoroughly because I believe that, more often than not, you will find they are leftist agent-provocateurs and “false flag” miscreants who paint the swastikas on the walls.

Through my Team America PAC, which has the distinction of being labeled a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, I have offered cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone committing these acts of vandalism in Colorado. So far, no takers. I venture to guess that around the nation, you will find that similar acts have been perpetrated by the same type of brown shirt/ski mask fanatics who defaced the statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park and spray painted “Racist anthem” on the Baltimore monument to Francis Scott Key, who penned the words to the Star Spangled Banner. They are doubtless ignorant of the fact that Key was an outspoken opponent of the slave trade.

Yes, there are indeed “Nazis” everywhere, quite a few of them operating from “safe places” inside our hallowed universities. They all learned from the tactics of their namesakes who first burned books and defaced artworks and broke out all the windows on Kristallnacht in Germany, in 1938. They, of course, soon graduated to burning people instead of just buildings and books.

By all means, let’s all be on the lookout for the modern-day Nazis who use violence or intimidation to silence dissenters. They are on the march and have gained the support of the same mass media and organs of government charged with the responsibility of keeping them in check. What are we to do with public officials who promote self-censorship instead of defending the rights of citizens and groups targeted by the threat of violent disruption?

Does anyone think history cannot repeat the Nazi reign of terror or Mao Tse-Tung’s “Great Leap Forward”? When we look back at the 1930’s and wonder how a nation like Germany, with the highest per capita education level in Europe at the time, could descend into the snake pit of evil that led to the death so many millions, we should think of this:

• According to a 2015 report by the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of millennials are ok with limiting free speech, and the American Council of Trustees and Alumni found that 54 percent of Americans surveyed cannot accurately identify the Bill of Rights.
• The same study found that 10 percent of the college students surveyed thought Judge Judy was on the Supreme Court. Hmmm.

I have not yet been asked if I would trade Judge Judy for Associate Justice Sotomayor, and that’s good: it would be hard to resist that choice if I put my country’s well-being ahead of mere rules and precedents. But, hey: if the Constitution is only a useless piece of paper left behind by “dead white males,” why let the Rule of Law stand in the way of progress?

Ingraham: Hillary Clinton’s Ignorance on Guns Is ‘Despicable'

by PAM KEY

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Laura Ingraham criticized former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for tweeting the Las Vegas shooting could have resulted in more deaths if the gunman had a silencer.

Ingraham said, “Hillary Clinton spoke before she knew any of the facts. You can’t really put a silencer on an AR-15. It melts the barrel.”

She continued, “All of the people who actually know guns were like, ‘She doesn’t know what she’s talking about.’ There is just a level of ignorance, and I found it to be despicable. If Hillary Clinton wants to run for president again and take the Second Amendment to the ballot box, I think she should do it.”

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Gowdy on Vegas Shooting: ‘Difficult to Believe That a Single Person Could Have Done This Without Detection’
by JEFF POOR

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) offered his thoughts on the investigation of the Las Vegas mass shooting a night earlier that left at least 59 dead and 527 injured.

Gowdy told host Martha MacCallum he was skeptical that Stephen Paddock, the individual thought to be responsible for the shooting, could have acted without at least one person identifying his behavior as suspicious. The South Carolina Republican predicted in coming days he will be proved correct.

“It’s an incredible level of premeditation that you don’t ordinarily see,” Gowdy said. “And it is difficult to believe that a single person could have done this without detection. And so, I hope that what comes out of this is people – you know, lots of crime is prevented because a non-law enforcement officer says something. The weapons and whether or not it was altered to become fully automatic and the premeditation of picking a certain hotel room. I think we’re going to find someone along the way was suspicious they should have turned that suspicion into a phone call to law enforcement. It’s an incredible amount of premeditation to not go detected.”

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House Passes Bill to Stop Abortion After Unborn Child Can Feel Pain

by KEN KLUKOWSKI

WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed H.R. 36, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—which now goes to the Senate–and President Donald Trump promises to sign the bill if it reaches his desk.

Medical science has confirmed in recent years that an unborn child consciously feels physical pain by the twentieth week of pregnancy. This has led pro-life leaders to call for consensus by ending abortions after that point, arguing that even pro-abortion Americans should agree to find common ground in prohibiting a practice when a sentient life form can actually feel the agony of being torn apart.

In response, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), a Christian pro-life champion in Congress, introduced H.R. 36, which would make illegal this late-term abortion practice that many people find gruesome, if not abhorrent and barbaric.

As Franks said at the press conference introducing his bill, “For God’s sake, ladies and gentlemen, this cannot be who we are in America.”

The day before the final vote, on October 2, President Trump’s White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy which said his administration “strongly supports” the bill and applauds the House’s efforts to pass it.

“The bill, if enacted into law, would help to facilitate the culture of life to which our Nation aspires,” the statement reads. “The United States is currently out of the mainstream in the family of nations, in which only seven out of 198 nations allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.”

“America’s children deserve the stronger protections that H.R. 36 would advance,” the statement concludes.

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives agreed, voting 237 to 189 to prohibit abortion after the twentieth week of the unborn child’s life. The bill now goes to the Senate.

“The primary and overarching purpose of American government is to protect the innocent among us,” Franks said in an statement exclusively obtained by Breitbart News as the bill passed the House.

Franks continued:

The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is a bill that finds overwhelming support from all humane Americans. Very late term abortions are an extreme and barbaric practice. The United States is only one of seven countries on earth, including North Korea and China, which allow elective abortions after 20 weeks. For little babies to feel the crushing agony of the abortionist’s tools as they undergo “dismemberment abortion” in the land of the free and the home of the brave is a disgrace that defies human expression. Subjecting innocent babies, from the beginning of their six month of pregnancy and later, to this kind of insidious torture does not reflect the true character of America.

“President Trump has signaled his strong support for this bill to protect thousands of innocent pain-capable, human babies from tortuous and agonizing death,” Franks added. “It now falls upon Mitch McConnell and the U.S. Senate to pass it for his signature.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has taken a heavy beating from the Republican base, especially in recent months. Three congressional members who spoke with Breitbart News on condition of anonymity said that pushing this bill through the Senate would help Republican leadership in the Senate get right with their base.

“It is time that America recognizes and responds to the cries and humanity of these helpless little pain-capable babies and the inhumanity of what is being done to them,” said Franks.

A poll from Quinnipiac found that 68 percent of women support legislation prohibiting abortion if the child can feel pain.

Ken Klukowski is senior legal editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski

Republican donors seek out Steve Bannon

by David M. Drucker

Why Steve Bannon Remains Such a Political Force?

Steve Bannon has begun meeting with Republican donors at their request, as party financiers in the wake of the Alabama special election attempt to learn what President Trump's former chief strategist has planned for 2018.

Some GOP bundlers, in Washington this week for a Republican National Committee fundraiser, sought meetings with Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, to forge relationships and better understand his plans to target Republican incumbents in 2018 primaries.

Roy Moore, Bannon's candidate in the Alabama GOP primary runoff, defeated appointed Sen. Luther Strange, who had the support of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. It was a major embarrassment for McConnell, and Bannon said he plans to replicate the effort in GOP primaries next year to weaken the majority leader and reshape the party in Trump's populist image.

"It seems like McConnell's star is fading and Bannon's is rising. I wanted to break bread with the guy and figure out his thinking," said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor from Phoenix who was scheduled to meet with Bannon on Wednesday.

Republican donors are furious with Senate Republicans — many with McConnell specifically. They're disappointed with the outcome in Alabama and angry that the Senate hasn't passed legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare.

That has some donors, who usually circulate in establishment circles, taking the measure of Bannon to prepare for the upheaval that many party insiders believe is coming in next year's primaries — especially if Republicans fumble tax reform.

One Republican donor who has already met with Bannon said that he communicated his view that money isn't as important in elections as it used to be.

The former White House chief strategist and CEO Of Trump's presidential campaign believes he could help drive Republican challenger candidates to victory next year with the technological tools now available to campaigns.

If Republican donors remain unhappy with McConnell and the party's senate campaign arm struggles for donations as a result, incumbent Republicans could suffer a loss of resources, possibly empowering Bannon in the primary campaigns he chooses to get involved in.

In the Tennessee GOP primary in the race to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker, Bannon likes Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., a Republican source who spoke with him said. Bannon did not respond to a Tuesday afternoon email requesting comment.

"I have had a lot of donors not wanting to give to national party," a Republican fundraising consultant said, on condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly. "They are very upset that nothing is getting done in D.C. It goes both ways with that though. Some are mad at the far right Senators/Freedom caucus. Others are mad at McConnell. Overall, no donors are happy. If they are giving, they are giving to help the specific person calling, not the party."

Puerto Rico: A 21st Century Plan for Prosperity

Originally published at Fox News.

To help the people of Puerto Rico, the United States should think of its job in two phases.

Phase one is to solve the immediate crisis.

Currently, the island is crippled. Days before Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Irma had already knocked out electricity for 1 million Puerto Ricans. Then, Maria's 165 mile-per-hour winds, combined with one day of rain so heavy it equaled three days’ worth of rainfall in Houston's extraordinary storm experience from Hurricane Harvey, simply devastated the island.

The combined impact of these two hurricanes has caused some of the most thorough destruction any American community has ever experienced.

Eighty percent of the island’s electrical transmissions system has been destroyed. The collapse of the electrical grid has compounded every human need. There is a real danger that the loss of refrigeration and clean water will lead to a dramatic spread of disease across the island.

Puerto Rico is experiencing the kind of collapse Bill Forstchen wrote about in his book One Second After. The novel describes the aftermath of an electromagnetic pulse attack, which destroys the U.S. electrical grid.

One good thing that could come from Puerto Rico’s experience may be a much greater investment in hardening the island’s power infrastructure against an EMP, caused by either a foreign attack or a natural solar event. Another good result could be a realization of how vulnerable the entire United States electricity grid is to an electromagnetic event.

The magnitude of eroded highways, collapsed bridges, weakened dams, and other infrastructure damage is historic and will take an enormous effort to overcome. For example, more than 90 percent of the telephone cell towers were knocked out by the storm.

Washington is only now beginning to realize how much bigger and more aggressive the first phase of recovery and response must be. More military assets must be deployed and more emergency engineering will have to be implemented to avoid further problems in the next 30 to 60 days.

The collapse of services in Puerto Rico also creates a potential migration crisis that could rob the island of a generation of talent. Faced with such destruction, many Puerto Ricans will exercise their rights as American citizens to move to the mainland. This would accelerate an already growing trend. From 2005 to 2015, about 446,000 Puerto Ricans moved to the mainland – about 13 percent of the island’s population.

The longer the crisis goes on, the greater the loss of talent will be.

Even if we can quickly solve the immediate problems, the average Puerto Rican may still conclude that life on the post-hurricane island will be inadequate. This would further devastate the island and its future. We must convince the most energetic, ambitious, and competent younger Puerto Ricans to stay and invest their lives in their home island by ensuring a dramatically better future.

That is why the recovery and survival effort must be immediately followed by phase two: "Creating a 21st Century Puerto Rico."

Creating a 21st century Puerto Rico may seem a little premature when most Puerto Ricans are currently without electricity, drinkable water, or permanent shelter. However, creating a 21st century Puerto Rico must be advocated and described as early as possible. Puerto Ricans must know their island will have a future worth investing their lives in.

The federal government is going to have to invest a lot in Puerto Rico's recovery. The scale of devastation requires a massive rebuilding program.

The key to Puerto Rico's future is to avoid rebuilding obsolete, old infrastructure and instead investing money in a new, modern, 21st century Puerto Rico. This will increase economic growth and improve quality of life on the island.

The Trump Administration is in a perfect position to develop and implement a 21st century infrastructure program for Puerto Rico.

All the work the Administration has done in thinking through its infrastructure plan, its economic growth agenda, and its vocational education and training plans for the mainland can be brought to bear to develop a plan for 21st century Puerto Rican prosperity.

A 21st century investment plan should:

1. Implement deregulatory reforms which will enable government and private contractors to cut through red tape and save time and money, while securing Puerto Rico's future prosperity;
2. Design and develop new, modern, island-wide infrastructure systems. Replacing rather than repairing old highway, electrical, and water systems will maximize economic growth, tourism, and convenience for residents. The Administration should integrate private sector and private capital to leverage funds;
3. Rebuild the electric grid with resilience, so it can survive both future natural disasters and potential EMP events. Once the system is completed, the Administration should grant long-term concessions to the private sector under a payment mechanism to reimburse the federal taxpayers and ensure long-term modernization and performance;
4. Create a broadband network for the entire island, so every Puerto Rican can have access to high-speed internet for education, shopping, and work. The Administration should examine space-based and other broadband systems being developed for large, rural areas;
5. Develop an island-wide health system. The Administration should seek help from the best large mainline health systems (including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs) to help develop a system to modernize the hospitals, integrate community health systems, and use telemedicine and other modern delivery systems so even the most remote communities are served;
6. Use cutting edge technologies to create smart city solutions to improve connectivity and modernize the island’s cities and towns;
7. Create an island-wide enterprise zone with tax advantages for investing and operating in Puerto Rico. The need for economic growth is going to be so great, and the disadvantages of an island territory competing with the mainland are such that companies must be given incentives for investing in and operating in Puerto Rico. More targeted tax advantages have clearly worked to create jobs in Puerto Rico in the past, but the scale of devastation is so great the entire island should be given enterprise zone status for at least the next 20 years. It is vital to make doing business in Puerto Rico more attractive than in nearby foreign countries. This creates American jobs for American citizens living in Puerto Rico;
8. Make the Jones Act shipping exemption for Puerto Rico permanent. As a Caribbean island, Puerto Rico is at a huge disadvantage by being forced to pay American domestic shipping prices while all its competitors have dramatically lower world market shipping rates. The Jones Act makes shipping to Puerto Rico dramatically more expensive than it is for other islands. This both raises the cost of living and weakens Puerto Rican companies trying to compete. Repealing the Jones Act for Puerto Rico would be like a giant tax cut that would provide an economic stimulus for the island;
9. Apply the Trump Administration apprenticeship, vocational education, and online learning initiatives to help the Puerto Rican workforce acquire the knowledge and skills needed to do the jobs the enterprise zone status will bring to the island.

These are examples of the kind of forward-looking initiatives that would give Puerto Ricans hope that their island will bounce back as an exciting desirable place to work and live.

Your Friend,

Newt Gingrich

Tucker Carlson’s Ratings Nearly Double Megyn Kelly’s on Fox News

by DANIEL NUSSBAUM

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight is averaging nearly double the ratings of the Megyn Kelly-led The Kelly File when compared with the same time period last year, according a report.

The Hill reports that ratings for Carlson — who took over the 9 p.m. primetime slot from Kelly this month —  are up 95 percent when compared with Kelly File ratings from January 2016. According to Nielsen Media Research, TCT is averaging 775,000 viewersper episode in the key 25-54 demo, while Kelly’s program drew an average of 398,000 viewers in the demo last year.

Additionally, Carlson’s show is reportedly up 37 percent in total viewership with an average of 3.73 million total viewers, compared with Kelly’s 2016 average of 2.72 million viewers.

On January 3, Kelly announced she would be leaving her longtime home at Fox News to take a new position at NBC News. The 46-year-old anchor will reportedly lead a daytime news show and an “in-depth” Sunday night newsmagazine show, and will also appear on the network’s discussion panels during marquee political events.

Kelly is expected to begin her new role at NBC in September.

Carlson, who previously hosted news shows on CNN and MSNBC and later founded the conservative news website The Daily Caller, replaced former Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren in the 7 p.m. hour after she left in November to host a new show on MSNBC. Martha McCallum replaced Carlson as the 7 p.m. anchor with a new show, The First 100 Days, after Carlson was moved to Kelly’s former time-slot.

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