INSIDE THIS ISSUE

President’s Message 2

Monthly Movie 2

Opinion 3

2016 Candidates 4

Dinner Photos 5

Club Calendar 5

RCR Leadership 5

New Members 5

Dinner Menu 6

Professor John Yoo Returns

The Rossmoor Republican Seniors for a Government of Principle above Politics July 2015

A blue dinner reservation form for the Tuesday, July 21st dinner is included in this issue. The form MUST be received by noon, Thursday, July 16th. Walk-Ins cannot be accommodated. Reservations are required both for dinner a n d f o r s p e a k e r o n l y. Questions? Call Susie White, Ambassadors Chair 937-0125

As our July 21 dinner speaker, we are delighted to welcome back John Yoo, the Emanuel Heller professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. When he spoke to us in February 2010, it was a packed house - - - a record dinner turnout. Professor Yoo has served in all three branches of government. He was an official in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on national security and terrorism issues after the September 11 attacks. He served as general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah. He has been a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. court of appeals in Washington, DC. He has been a visiting professor at Seoul National University, Trento University, the University of Chicago, and the Free University of Amsterdam. Professor Yoo's books address presidential power, national security, and international affairs: Point of Attack: Preventive War, International Law, and Global Welfare (2014); Taming Globalization (2012); Confronting Terror (2011); Crisis and Command (2010); War by Other Means (2006); and The Powers of War and Peace (2005). Professor Yoo has published numerous articles in the United States’ leading law journals. He also regularly contributes to the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, National Review, and The Weekly Standard, among others. He has also been a columnist for his hometown newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Professor Yoo graduated from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and summa cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in American history. Professor Yoo will speak to us about President Obama and executive power. Don't miss this one!

Happy4th of July

Professor John Yoo

Watch the Debate with Us The first Republican primary election debate is Thursday August 6 at 6 p.m. on FoxNews. It will include the 10 top-polling candidates. Moderators are Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace. Our Club will show the debate on big-screen TV in the Club Room at Creekside. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Come join us, and watch the debate among friends. Additional information: Fran Cavenaugh, 945-7211

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July Movie is: Welcome to

Our very talented and hardworking Webmaster Vickie Hipkiss has completed a redesign of our Club's website. The site can be accessed at rossmoor-republicans.us or by "googling" Rossmoor Republicans. Here are some highlights. From the home page, you can access the Club's calendar of events. The media tab will take you to current and past newsletters (including the latest dinner reservation form), Republican Perspective essays, and the monthly movie announcement. To help a friend who might join, you can access the membership application and information at the become a member tab.

For the politically tuned-in, the voting booth tab provides up-to-date election information. There are links to the websites of Republicans currently running for office. In addition to information on the candidate and the campaign, their sites provide information on how you can help support a Republican victory in that office. The voting booth tab also has a link to on-line voter registration. In her redesign of our website, Vickie has provided access to a wealth of information about our Club and about the political landscape. Visit the site and check it out. And be sure to go to the voting booth tab to help support Republican candidates.

Next time you see her, thank Vickie for all her good work for our Club.

Join us in Peacock Hall at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, for Welcome to Mooseport. This 2004 comedy starring Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, and Maura Tierney is about a divorced two-term U.S. President who has retired to his hometown, Mooseport, Maine. Hackman plays the former president Monroe "Eagle" Cole who, while settling in, decides to run for mayor and romantically pursues local veterinarian Sally Mannis (Tierney). However, Sally is already seeing town plumber Handy Harrison (Romano), who was also planning to run for mayor. So it's big time politics versus small town naivete. This light, enjoyable comedy is the last film starring the always engaging Gene Hackman. The film is rated PG, runs 110 minutes, and will be shown with language captions. More information: Joan Leonard 322-5744.

Our Redesigned Website Debut by President Pam Parsons

HAVE A NICE DAY by Christopher Panton

It didn't take long for some Internet hot-shot to convert the tragic crash of Germanwings Flight 4525 into a metaphor for our country's current nose-down-out-of-control flight path. The only difference is that in the U.S. scenario, it's the pilot---Flight Lt. Bonkers Barak---and not the co-pilot, who has locked himself in the cockpit. Metaphorical passengers are the multitudes of sensible Americans, as well as the U.S. Congress, futilely hammering on the metaphorical cabin door.

However, the metaphor breaks down completely because it is not a given that the U.S. will crash and burn in the manner of Flight 4525. For starters, our intransigent, megalomaniacal pilot will simply evaporate from the cockpit at the end of next year. Before you heave a huge sigh of relief, let me alert you to the greater potential danger that this disappearing act may spawn. Namely, that should another Democrat be elected to the presidency, then there is a high risk that they will be motivated to embrace and further develop some of the worst structural, political, and unconstitutional maneuvers hatched by Obama.

In terms of appropriate credentials, Hillary Rodham reeks of the same two very fundamental, "electable" characteristics that Obama brought to the table in the first place: They are both monumental scoundrels in their political and private lives and, up to election time, they have both logged zero meaningful accomplishments in their political careers. Thus, a President Roddy may be tempted---in fact, will be tempted---to select and propagate a few of Obama's precedent-setting, self-serving strategies for her own egomaniacal purposes. Not convinced? Well, let's start from the position that something bad is going to continue to be so. However, we don't know which, and how many, of Obama's heaping smorgasbord of egregious paths she will follow. Therefore, let us synthesize a worst-case scenario, e.g. Obama's "How-I-Saved-the-Middle-East-by-Kissing-Up-to-Iran."

First, a calibration. Consider, for instance, the U.S. Navy's fleet of nuclear submarines (called "boomers") that carry Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles armed with nuclear warheads. Today, the U.S. is restricted to operate no more than 14 boomers under the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. Each boomer is capable of launching 24 ICBMs. Each ICBM is armed with not one nuclear warhead but, as restricted by SALT, eight of them, called MIRVs---Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles. And the carrier ICBM can fly more than 4000 miles and drop most of its load within a 100 meter radius of the intended ground zeroes.

In an emergency, the U.S. Navy could probably put 10 boomers into action. That's a formidable 1,920 nuclear warheads arsenal. Not to overdramatize: Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, had an explosive power of a frighteningly unimaginable 12,000 tons of T.N.T., i.e. 12 kilotons (kt). It obliterated 5 square miles of the city center, caused serious damage way beyond that, and killed about half the population of a city of some 350,000 souls. In stark contrast, a single MIRV warhead weighs in at 100 kt. of destructive power! Do the math.

And if you're wondering why some member of the nuclear club of 10 countries hasn't yet dispatched a perceived enemy to kingdom come, it's because of the restraint imposed by the self-explanatory Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) philosophy. This free-wheeling approach is about as flimsy as a bipartisan agreement between Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren. All it takes to vaporize MAD is for one whacko club member, having gone insanely rogue, to hit the "gotcha" button. Imagine the then standing president (possibly another Democrat), having inherited the now culturally-embedded, mad-cap strategy, telling the nation in those same soothing, "leadership" tones exploited by Obama: "The Iranian people are like us. They do not want a nuclear confrontation any more than we do. So, in good faith, we shall reach out and..... KA-BOOM! KA-BLOODY-BOOM!! .....dagnabbit!"

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Candace Anderson is running for re-election as County Supervisor. Catharine Baker---whom our Club supported for election to the State Assembly---is running for re-election. And Tom Del Beccaro is running for the open U.S. Senate seat vacated by retiring Barbara Boxer---wouldn't that seat be a great GOP pickup! Go to their websites to see how you can contribute to their success. These local Republican candidates need your support now.

delbeccaroforsenate.com

bakerforassembly.com

2016 Elections

THEY’RE OFF AND RUNNING !

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Board of Directors Elected Officers Pamela Parsons, President 831-1808

Peggy Fryer, Vice President 947-5878

Joan Leonard, Secretary 510-501-6769

Mary Hufford, Treasurer 979-9611

Directors Fran Cavenaugh, Director at Large 945-7211

Mike DeNunzio, Past President 415-317-0155 Carol Hehmeyer, Program Chair 705-7464

Vickie Hipkiss, Webmaster 933-5512

John Littig Editor, The Republican 256-8558

Ed Manning, Publicity 510-867-7477

Devon Olson, Asst. Treasurer & Historian/By-Laws 943-7905

Pamela Parsons Publisher, The Republican 831-1808

Clair Weenig, Director at Large 287-9795 Susie White, Ambassadors Chair 937-0125

Carol Worthington, Membership 278-1388

Ambassadors: Monday, July 20, 11:00 am, Bunker Room, Creekside Dinner Meeting: Tuesday, July 21, 5:15 pm, Tahoe Room, Event Center Movie: Wednesday, July 15, 4:00 pm, Peacock Theatre, Gateway Board Meeting: Tuesday, July 28 , 1:30 pm, Bunker Room, Creekside

Join Our Club! Call Carol Worthington at 278-1388

Annual Membership Dues are

$15 per person / $25 per household

Mail to: 2329 Tice Creek Dr #2 Walnut Creek, CA 94595

Dinner Meetings

Welcome New Members

Sharron Stringer

Terri & Bruce AndersonClub Calendar

George & Mary Beth Naeger John & Deni Oliver

Peggy & Andy Wolfe Peter & Jean Merideth

Nancy & Jack Woodland

Joan Leonard

Carol Hehmeyer

Terri Andersen Marlys Siegel

Kathy Chao & Dan Black

Dinner Meeting-Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Tahoe Room, Event Center

5:15 pm Social Time, 6:00 pm Dinner A HOSTED WINE AND BEER BAR WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 6:00 pm

MENU Pan Asian Salad

Orange Chicken Stir Fry w/Jasmine Rice & Bok Choy w/Edamame Vegetarian Option: Orange Tofu Stir Fry

Assorted Rolls w/Butter

Dessert: Caterer’s Summer Surprise Decaf Coffee and Hot Tee

Reservation Deadline: Noon on Thursday, July 16th Reservation Questions: 937-0125

Republican Club of Rossmoor Gateway Complex Mail Box

1001 Golden Rain Road Walnut Creek, CA 94595

www.rossmoor-republicans.us

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