West Coast Maverick: 5/3/15

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Saturday, May9, 2015

SUNSHINE THE BEST DISINFECTANT?: Crony capitalism at work.
There are many connections to be made between the corporate world all of them orchestrated and executed by lobbyists. I would contend that lobbyists are in fact the engine of the corruption of capitalism. It is the lobbyist who advances the interests of the corporate client by any legal means possible. It is the lobbyist who plans and initiates regulations, tax laws, government influence or anything else that can influence federal action advancing the fortunes of his client usually at the expense of competitors, the functioning of the free market.

THE AUTHOR HAS IT ABOUT RIGHT: This is not brain surgery. Just ask Ben Carson.

ONE OF STEYN'S BEST PIECES: Very, very trenchant. Gotta love the But Boys, including O'Reilly.

PATHETIC: This is called feeding the beast of "white privilege" victimhood, and is utterly racist. When do these people grow up?

AND PEOPLE SAY THE USSR WASN'T IMPERIALIST? There are plenty of Communist still around, many in the environmental movement.

THEY DON'T CALL HIM MOONBEAM FOR NOTHING: You get the government you deserve and, the voters will get what they want, good and hard.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

CHARLEY HURT SAYS IT BEST:

All the mayhem unfolding in Baltimore is nothing short of an unspeakable American tragedy. Laid bare are the failures of cradle-to-grave social policies held so dear by politicians in both parties, but embraced and celebrated most lustily by Democrats.

These self-proclaimed Robin Hoods and do-gooders have issued open and unashamed invitations to the most vulnerable in society to become completely dependent upon government for everything from food to cellphones to home heating oil. Left in the wake is the utter annihilation of families and the destruction of cohesive neighborhoods.

Complete dependency comes at such a high and bitter cost. All in return for what really amounts to a sad pittance of welfare payments. It is a twisted mockery of the American dream.

All the while, urban hucksters skim off their take and politicians — drunk off their own florid false promises — clap one another on the back and congratulate one another for their “compassion” for the poor.

In truth, peddling welfare and total dependency upon the government is every bit as toxic as peddling meth and crack in these very same neighborhoods.

Actually, it is even worse than peddling drugs. Drugs most directly ensnare willing participants in an evil scheme. The government’s crushing welfare cartel dishonestly ensnares the best, brightest and most responsible of these neighborhoods — the very people who might otherwise be leading their families and neighbors into real prosperity and out of the dusty clutches of government welfare.

It has been more than six years of President Obama’s “progressive” policies and many, many decades more of the same “progressive” policies in Baltimore and Maryland.

Money pours into the city’s public education system — with negligible improvement. Corrupt and incompetent administrators waste the money and game the system as a job provider for adults rather than a means for educating children.

Reports reveal that President Obama’s “stimulus” program dumped some $467 million into Baltimore schools. To what end?

Things are so bad that the only halfway celebrated person in the past few weeks is a single mother who spied her son in a mask, tossing rocks and rioting. She marched over and into the mayhem and began violently punching, slapping and flailing her son on national television.

Perhaps understandable in a seriously detached sort of way. But also not exactly the sort of antics that would win anybody a mother of the year award if it happened in our own neighborhood.

Baltimore is a petri dish of liberal policies taken to their furthest extreme. If you are looking for liberalism’s idealistic utopia, it is Baltimore. Baltimore is as close to a perfect execution of all their most beloved policies. And now they want to handle all your health care needs — whether you want them to or not.

• Charles Hurt can be reached at charleshurt@live.com and on Twitter at @charleshurt.

Monday, May 4, 2015

IN A JUST WORLD THESE GRIFTERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL:If you want to understand America's decline it's all here in Peter Schweitzer's book. The Clinton's are beneath contempt an anyone who supports them deserves to keep their company forever, intimately, in the hereafter.

ABOUT WHAT WE EXPECT:The only word to describe this behavior: revolting

FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AND MUSLIMS: Are they incompatible? Surely seems so.

GOTTA LOVE THE THE LIB SHILLS:The NYTimes is soooo predictable. Wonder if they'd be outraged if Hil murdered an innocent person in broad daylight? Wait a minute…she did, in fact four persons and they still covered for her. Pretty sickening.