Thursday, August 27, 2015

WEEKLY STANDARD NAILS TRUMPH: Of all the takes on Trumph, this one is by far the best.

MORE ON EISENHOWER MEMORIAL: Complete fiasco.

THIS IS ONE IGNORANT MAN: But then look at those around him, and weep for America.

OBAMA SHOULD TALK TO GERMANY ABOUT GREEN ENERGY: This guy is worse than any of those crazy mayors cropping up all around the world. He's not afraid to show everyone that he doesn't have a clue. That's true narcism.

RR'S PITHY QUOTES:

Quoth the Gipper...

"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid"

"The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay a larger share, thus relieving the individual. Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either one should scare us...
Only people pay taxes, and people pay as consumers every tax that is assessed against a business."

"We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"

"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to manage conflict by peaceful means"

"Of the four wars of my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong"

"If the Soviet Union ever let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state... 
because everybody would join the other party"

"How do you tell a communist? He reads Lenin and Marx. And how do you tell an anti-communist? 
Someone who understands Lenin and Marx."

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction; it's not something we pass along in our bloodstream.
It must be fought-for, protected, and passed-along for them to do the same"

"Entrepreneurs and small businesses are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States"

"If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat"

"They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong"

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help"

"Recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours"

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..."

Saturday, August 22, 2015

STORY OF A GENIUS (MAD?): Does the Tesla make it? The new model will tell the story.

ROTHBARD, THE GD AND TODAY: Even though he died in 1995 he remains relevant. Pray he's not right, otherwise rocky times ahead.  Liberal historians have confused us about the GD. Hoover,  FDR. New Dealers caused the GD to last 11 unnecessarily long years.  It should have been no more than 2-3.

ORANGE JUMP SUIT TIME? Serious times ahead for Hil who's earnd every bit of it.

HIL AND ALGER, QUITE A COUPLE:  The committee hearings ought be very revealing.

THE TRUMP STORY: In many ways the guys bigger than life. And, he's real.  There's more to Trump than meets the eye.  Last night he eviscerated O'Reilly on the subject of the economy.

THE FAILURE OF SOCIALISM: So many examples.

BEN CARSON'S GOT IT RIGHT: It all started with The Great Society which was enabled by The New Deal, both created by liberal politicians trolling for votes. Can Democracy work with venal leadership like this???

WHY THE DONALD HAS TRACTION: It's really not that difficult. We're led by very foolish people.

HEAVY STUFF BUT DOES IT ADD UP? Not really sure he doesn't make it more complicated than it is.     Add this to the conversation.

INTERESTING ANALYSIS THAT LEAVES OUT ECONOMICS: There's more to the Trumo phenomenon than immigration. We've got a stagnant economy on the brink of collapse and Dems and Repubs seem to want more of the same, or treat it around the edges.



MY BLOGS OVER THE YEARS CONFIRMS EVERY ONE OF THESE POINTS:The disinformation on this subject is a national disgrace. Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Raines, Johnson, and every member of the CBC, plus Barak Obama who received huge contributions from FM while in the Illinois senate, should all serve time for wrecking this economy and many, many lives in the process. The media, most of it, should serve time as well.  This was a bigger fraud and scandal that Teapot Dome, by far.



THE LEFT CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW MARKETS FUNCTION: They're socialists. If they understood how markets work they'd be capitalists.



































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Sunday, August 16, 2015

SYRIAN MESS EXPLAINED:Sykes-Picot agreement 1916 set up this strife.

EISENHOWER MEMORIAL JOKE: There's a reason this memorial has taken so long to get off the ground.

ENVIRONMENTALISM WAS ONCE NOBLE: An insiders story of how it became corrupted by radicals.

APPALLING: This is why almost all wars are the result of Democrat Party softness and lack of resolve.

14th AMENDMENT VIA SOWELL: Always clear thinking this time about sanctuary cities

TRY ARGUING WITH THIS CONCLUSION: C'mon, they guy's a muslim to the core. The rest is fakery. Some choice America.

SOCIALISTS NEVER LEARN: Failure of the BRICKS is a lesson in Austrian economics theory.

TRUMP UNMASKED:  Once you get to the nitty-gritty there's little there there.

RACE RELATIONS: Never been worse and with a black president.

SO WHEN DOES THE BUBBLE BURST?  Probably any moment now and it won't be pretty 'cause there's so many.

PRETTY FUNNY:  He doesn't lack for confidence now, does he?

UNTOLD STORY OF WWII: Kinda makes MacArthur look good in retrospect.

IT'S THE JUDICIARY, STUPID: The D'Souza case represents the sovietization of America. The leverage for the soviets is in the phony patina of legality in what they do. It's all politics all the time.

THE GUY IS HILARIOUS AND UN-PC:  Doesn't mean he'd make a good president, it probably means he wouldn't. It would always be too much about him. Remember silent Cal Coolidge?

Tuesday, August 11, 3015

AUSTRIAN ECONOMISTS WOULD CALL THIS MALINVESTMENT:  The reason we have a sluggish economy. Leave democrats and rinos in power and we'll return to the '30's.

REFORM IS PAINFUL, FOR SOME: Scott Walker to the rescue.

NOT GETTING ANY BETTER:Truth is its getting much worse.

MISINFORMATION IS RAMPANT: The black underclass problem is at the heart of many other societal problems today. With the black (and white) political leadership we currently have these problems will never be solved and things will only get worse.

NYTIMES AT ITS RARE BEST: Fascinating subject and findings about early colonization of America.

AMEN: Brings to mind "much ado over nothing".

Thursday, August 5, 2015

BOY HAS HE GOT IT RIGHT: This is all out of the libertarian playbook. The Administrative State is on the march and neither party wants or is willing to reign it in.

A GRAPH TO CONSIDER:


ANOTHER OBAMA FAILURE: If he's going to have any success anywhere he best hurry.

POWERFUL VIDEO PRESENTATION: Exposes fatuity of Jon Stewart and his jejune liberal views.

REPORT FROM AMREN WEBSITE: American Renaissance is a white separatist site. This report sponsored by another entity is, if accurate, frightening.

IS COLLEGE ED WORTH IT?: Not from standpoint of what you learn from courses these days. Maybe other things.

SEGMENTED MARKETER: Steward identified a jejune audience of college kids with no real world experience,  A very liberal crowd who wants to be told how hip and correct they are to feel they are morally superior to all the dolts out there  in flyover country and in the South.  The next 20 years of rationalizing debt and rewarding productivity will wake take care of this attitude.

Saturday, August 1, 2015

SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD READ::

ROBERT CONQUEST, RIP: “Sad news passing the news wire this hour of the passing of the great historian Robert Conquest, at the age of 98,” Steve Hayward writes at Power Line:

Conquest surely deserves to be counted among the top five most important historians of Communism and the Soviet Union in our time. His book The Great Terror, about the Soviet purges and deliberate famine policy of the 1930s, made it impossible for anyone to deny the essential character of Stalin’s regime. But leftists tried anyway. As the Wall Street Journal explains in its new story:

Mr. Conquest’s master work, “The Great Terror,” was the first detailed account of the Stalinist purges from 1937 to 1939. He estimated that under Stalin, 20 million people perished from famines, Soviet labor camps and executions—a toll that eclipsed that of the Holocaust. Writing at the height of the Cold War in 1968, when sources about the Soviet Union were scarce, Mr. Conquest was vilified by leftists who said he exaggerated the number of victims. When the Cold War ended and archives in Moscow were thrown open, his estimates proved high but more accurate than those of his critics.

Like many great figures though, his most legendary line was supplied by someone else: As Conquest himself told the New York Review of Books, it was Kingsley Amis who famously quipped that Conquest should have re-titled the post-Soviet Union edition of The Great Terror “I Told You So, You Fucking Fools.”

ROBERT REICH: Personification of Big Government. The little twerp.

A MUST READ: Middlemarch by George Eliot

CONTENTIOUS SUBJECT, ACCURATE ANALYSIS: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/my-negro-problem-and-ours/A very knowledgable analysis of blacks and whites. Blacks are their own worst enemies.

OBAMA IS A TOTALITARIAN, NO DOUBT: If we escape his term in office without a major catastrophe it all be a miracle.

LIBERAL FASCISM WAS A REALLY GOOD BOOK:

Nestlé, eh? That business name rings a bell; it’s what launched Jonah Goldberg to write Liberal Fascism, which focused several chapters on a century’s worth of corporatism, the intertwining of government and corporations, much beloved by the namesake publisher of Bloomberg (and in an even more radical form by Bernie Sanders), which the post-Weimer government of Germany dubbed the Gleichschaltung. As Jonah told Kathryn Jean Lopez in 2009, at the apogee of the left’s Hopenchange Obamamania:

You know, when I first started pondering the book, I thought it might be all about economics. About ten years ago I went on a junket to Switzerland and attended a talk with the CEO of Nestlé. Listening to him, it became very clear to me that he had little to no interest in free markets or capitalism properly understood. He saw his corporation as a “partner” with governments, NGOs, the U.N., and other massive multinationals. The profit motive was good for efficiency and rewarding talent, but beyond that, he wanted order and predictability and as much planning as he could get. I think that mindset informs the entire class of transnational progressives, the shock troops of what H. G. Wells hoped would lead to his liberal-fascist “world brain.”
If you look at how most liberals think about economics, they want big corporations and big government working in tandem with labor, universities (think industrial policy), and progressive organizations to come up with “inclusive” policies set at the national or international level. That’s not necessarily socialism — it’s corporatism. When you listen to how Obama is making economic policy with “everyone at the table,” he’s describing corporatism, the economic philosophy of fascism. Government is the senior partner, but all of the other institutions are on board — so long as they agree with the government’s agenda. The people left out of this coordinated effort — the Nazis called it the Gleichschaltung — are the small businessmen, the entrepreneurs, the ideological, social, or economic mavericks who don’t want to play along. When you listen to Obama demonize Chrysler’s bondholders simply because they want their contracts enforced and the rule of law sustained, you get a sense of what I’m talking about.
I don’t think Obama wants a brutal tyranny any more than Hillary Clinton does (which is to say I don’t think he wants anything of the sort). But I do think they honestly believe that progress is best served if everyone falls in line with a national agenda, a unifying purpose, a “village” mentality expanded to include all of society. That sentiment drips from almost every liberal exhortation about everything from global warming to national service. But to point it out earns you the label of crank. As I said a minute ago about that “We’re All Fascists Now” chapter, I think people fail to understand that tyrannies — including soft, Huxleyan tyrannies — aren’t born from criminal conspiracies by evil men; they’re born by progressive groupthink.

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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DEMOCRATS RUN THINGS:

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Those who ignore history make the rest of us suffer…

Sunday, July 26, 2015

WONDER WHAT TED TURNER SAYS:  This is embarrassingly factual and yet they can't see it. Certain forever. media is lost

VERY TRUE: This speech accounts for Trump's current if fleeting popularity among Republicans.

NOTHING NEW HERE: Tax something or someone more and you'll get less of it and them.

BACON, POTATO, CHEDDAR TART:  Could it get any better than this???????????

EARLY REVIEW OF LIBERAL FASCISM: Having read it I understand how liberals would be critical. Doesn't mean they'd be right, 'cause they aren't.

TAX AND SPEND DOES'NT WORK:  But you can't convince socialists it doesn't and they're losing.

IT COMES DOWN TO THE PREFERRED NARRATIVE: If you start with the wrong premise you get the wrong conclusion.

THE TRUMP TRIUMPH: There's definitely something to this analysis.

THIS IS AT LEAST PROGRESS FROM A LIBERAL: We take what we can get. He still fails to define "social justice" because there is no definition of a meaningless term.

THIS KIND OF REPORTING FROM THE NYTIMES WORKS:  Unfortunately the TIMES goes off the rails on the reporting of straight news and politics.