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Thursday, March 28, 2024

California's A Mess, and It's Not My Fault, Part V

By Rich Kozlovich

As I've noted in,  Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, the theme, "so goes California so goes the nation", may not be true any longer, since California is now a sewer, and it stinks, I mean it really stinks, filthy with crime out of control, and it didn't just start yesterday.   This article by March 22, 2024 This Should Work, City Council Member Wants A “Department Of Homelessness”, saying:  

Just keep beating your head against that liberal wall because it feels good when you stop. I love it when the only way people in the government can think of to solve a problem is to add more government. Nothing solves a problem like spending more money and hamstringing the issue with increased bureaucracy and miles of red tape.

I love the picture, the city is burning to the ground and these nitwits are telling the nation this is what we're offering for the rest of America, isn't it nice? 

On July 28, 2021 Craig Bannister (the link no longer works) reported the Vice President of the Police Union, Joe Gamaldi,  stated, criminals were stealing everything that's not nailed down because we won't prosecute them.  He went on to say, "district attorneys publicly announced that they will no longer prosecute thefts of less than $950", and this was voted on and accepted by the people of California, via the lunatics they chose for their leaders.

In Oakland's Chinatown they're demanding Gov. Newsom declare as state of emergency because they're living in a state of fear saying:

“Governor Newsom, we want you to declare a state of emergency for the city of Oakland. We want you to bring in the California Highway Patrol,” said Chan of a letter he sent to Newsom demanding action. “I’m not only asking you for Chinatown. I’m asking you to send the police, the CHP, to the city of Oakland; all areas. We need your help.”...........“The rash of shootings, carjacking, assaults and robberies hold the city of Oakland hostage,” said Chan. “Citizens are living in the continuous state of fear for our safety, well being, livelihoods and future.” Chan blamed the rise in violent crimes on the “defund the police” movement in part, but also noted that those committing the crimes were less concerned about consequences because the state’s justice system and unnamed district attorneys that he said are too lenient with repeat offenders........

If you thought Prop. 47 was insane, it gets even worse with passage of the 2020 California Racial Justice Act, which is can easily be called a "descent into racialist madness".  By claiming "systemic bias" every thug, murder, or thief, in California's prison system can "retroactively challenge his conviction and sentencing on the ground of systemic bias, and they can provide "experts" to testify to that, even "experts' who publicly state whites are all psychopaths. 

We know know the reason for this is America's prisons are full of blacks, and the reason they're full of blacks is because blacks commit more crimes than America's other races, per ratio, a lot more. 

  • California to help 'undocumented immigrants' purchase homes? - March 9, 2024 By Eric Utter - California Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula has introduced Assembly Bill 1840, aimed at expanding home ownership opportunities for “undocumented immigrants” in the state.The bill would make illegal aliens eligible for first time homebuyer loans. The bill, as originally introduced earlier this year, was aimed at low- and middle-income citizens, but Arambula apparently decided that was too exclusive, and therefore recently proposed his updated version. This is yet another kick in the shorts to citizens, especially since the formerly Golden State has the highest priced housing — and by far the most homeless people — in the nation...........
  •  Recalled San Fransicko DA Says Victims Don’t Have Rights Under the Constitution -  (Daily Signal)—Crime victims don’t have rights under the Constitution, former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was recalled by voters in 2022 amid an escalation of crime, said during a conference here at UC Berkeley School of Law.  Boudin’s surprising comment came as part of a larger debate between the Left and Right on criminal justice issues at the March 8 gathering, called “Justice Unveiled: Debating Crime and Public Safety Conference.”.....

This is the Obama Military

By Rich Kozlovich

He then goes on to quote a career retired Army Colonel who served for 31 years by the name of Larry Wilkerson who made a video saying:

“I recommend none of you 18 and 19 year olds go into the military, because all your military is doing today is being led by people who are insane, infested with lust for money, who want to get out of the military and make seven, eight figures with defense contractors, [and] want war after war after war.”......I'm almost 80 years old and I never thought I would say that to young people."

The author goes on to make these three points:

  1. Who wants to volunteer for an organization that has watered down physical and mental fitness requirements and brags about unfairly promoting personnel based on their race or sexual identity?  
  2. Who wants to serve under a politically motivated leadership class that views “white supremacy,” Christianity, and “climate change” as America’s existential enemies?   
  3. Who wants to risk life and limb for Defense chiefs who punished service members for refusing experimental “vaccines” (and would do so again)?   

I'm almost 78, I served and worked in intelligence, and loved the work.  I hated the military, but truth be told, I hate any form of institutional life as it reduces you as an individual, unless you're among the officer class, who I despised, and I still despise.  But at least they weren't traitors then.  However, there's a caveat to that.

We really need to understand this in order to understand how Obama destroyed the military.   The  officer corp is the ultimate go along to get along gang, provided you want to get promoted, and the reason they weren't traitorous then is because the ground wasn't fertile for treason as it is now.   

 The author makes this final point:

The Armed Forces are in dire need of an ideological fumigation that can drive the “woke” mind virus out for good.  Unless the branches return to a culture that celebrates honor, strength, and merit, DIE-obsessed Marxists will continue to transform America’s once-intimidating fighting forces into a puny pack of politically correct toy poodles.  Nothing invites aggression so much as perceived weakness.

Can this be turned around without a massive u-turn in society in general?  And that starts with a massive fumigation in public education by eliminating the Department of Education, stop all funding to education at all levels making education a local and state function, eliminating all public employee unions, especially the teacher's unions, and attacking the Marxist stench of academia.   

That will take more than four years to fix, but it can be done by understanding the left is like rust it never sleeps, and conservatives must be equally unrelenting, never back down, never make bargains with the left, and attack each and every scheme they propose.  Always remembering they spout nothing by lies of commission, lies of omission, obfuscate and twist the definition of words, and spew out logical fallacies that sound good.  Never forget, the left isn't just wrong, it's evil, as their true goals are to destroy the American character, the American identity, the American economy, and ultimately, destroy the Constitution.  

That's history, and that history is incontestable.  Once we accept that everything they do and say falls into place.

The Economics of Creative Destruction, Part III

March 24, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

Time for Part III in my series on the economics of creative destruction (here’s Part I and Part II).

We’ll start with this clip from a recent trans-Atlantic interview

As you can see from the discussion, I openly acknowledge that the progress enabled by free enterprise can produce economic pain.

This is why I’ve called creative destruction the best and worst feature of capitalism.

 

For instances, millions of jobs are destroyed every year. But (assuming politicians aren’t causing too many problems) more jobs usually are created.

And, over time, our incomes grow and our living standards increase (with some countries doing better than others for obvious reasons).

For today’s column, let’s look at some additional evidence.

We’ll start with some findings from a 2019 study published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The researchers found that failure is a necessary feature of a market economy.

Here are some excerpts from the abstract.


We examine the components of this productivity growth by estimating the contribution of entry, exit, within-firm growth and re-allocation to productivity growth in Australia in the period 2002- 2013. We use an experimental linked dataset of 10 million workers across 1.5 million firms. …We find that firm entry and exit are by far the largest contributors to productivity growth across all industries.

In general, firm exit contributes positively to productivity growth whereas firm entry generally contributes negatively. This would suggest that policies which facilitate firm entry and exit are likely to help achieve increased productivity gains. Policies which provide large advantages to incumbent firms are likely to detract from productivity growth.

That final sentence is key. It shows why politicians should not coddle big business with handouts, bailouts, subsidies and protectionism, and other forms of cronyism and industrial policy.

That’s a recipe for zombie firms and stagnation. This is why it is good news that the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. lost ground over a 60-year period.

Let’s now look at another study, this one published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. James Feigenbaum and Daniel P. Gross looked at how the economy adapted after massive job losses in the telephone industry.


Using panel variation in the local adoption of mechanical switching and population outcomes from complete count census data from 1910 to 1940, we show that dial cutovers presented a large negative shock to local labor demand for young, white, American-born women, with the number of young operators dropping by upwards of 80%—a near-total collapse in entry-level hiring in one of the country’s largest occupations for young women—and accordingly around 2% of jobs for this group being permanently replaced by machines, essentially at the flip of a switch.

These 2% of jobs represented entry-level opportunities for several times as many young women, and the fear was that its automation might choke off future generations from the labor force. We find that this shock did not reduce future cohorts’ employment rates. It appears that comparable middle-skill office jobs and some lower-skill service sector jobs absorbed future generations of young workers workers, and did so fairly quickly, with women of only the youngest ages on average ending up in lower-paying occupations than they would have been in otherwise.

The adverse consequences of automation were concentrated in incumbent telephone operators, who were subsequently less likely to be working, and conditional on working, more likely to be in lower-paying occupations—but even then, the magnitudes of these impacts were relatively modest.

In other words, “creative” generally outweighs “destruction.” Which was one of Joseph Schumpeter’s main points when he explained the concept last century.

Speaking of which, let’s close by looking at Professor Richard Ebeling’s column about Schumpeter.


Schumpeter…defined “the entrepreneur” as the central and dynamic figure of the market process who introduces transformative innovations that radically change the forms and directions of economic activity. …Looking over the nearly century and a half from the start of the nineteenth century to his own time…, Schumpeter pointed to the dramatic increase in the output of goods and services, including new and better goods that were not available to even the wealthiest of kings and princes in, say, 1790 or 1810. …

In doing this, capitalism was also serving as a great “leveler” that was raising the economic well-being of all, while also narrowing the differences in the quality of life between “the rich” and the rest. …The “culture of capitalism,” Schumpeter said, also had eliminated political privileges and favoritism and had increasingly fostered equality before the law for all, including women and religious and ethnic minorities. Capitalism replaced primitive tribal and social collectivism with an ethic and a politics of individualism that established the ideal of individual rights, private property, and human association based on freedom of contract. …

Fortunately, even in the face of the regulatory and redistributive state, the market economy has still possessed enough competitive openness and profit-earning opportunity that continuing prosperity has been a reality.

By the way, Schumpeter was actually pessimistic about the survival of capitalism. He feared that it was just a matter of time before supporters of statism would get the upper hand.

For all intents and purposes, he was describing the tension in my 16th Theorem of Government. In other words, will politicians give the economy enough “breathing room” to deliver more prosperity?

Whatever happened to... (Part 2)

More painful observations

Michael D. Shaw Mar 28, 2024 @ Mike's Point Of View

Whatever happened to…Civil Rights—The notion of “Civil Rights” must be contrasted with basic human rights, that are presumed to exist as part of the Natural Law. In essence, Civil Rights must be guaranteed by the government, while human rights are part of the inherent dignity of mankind. Indeed, our Bill of Rights is mostly about preventing the government from limiting our human rights.

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was concerned with ending discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The Act enabled the Feds to prevent racial discrimination in employment, voting, and the use of public facilities. Never mind that virtually all this discrimination was originally imposed by the Government at some level.

Barry Goldwater is remembered for opposing the Act, even though he was quite a leader in the Civil Rights movement in his home state of Arizona. Goldwater’s opposition was based on his correct perception that this was an immense power grab by the Feds, since there was almost no limit to what could be deemed a “civil right.” Goldwater was to soften up as he got older, and said that he regretted his decision.

Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment states that:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

It would seem that this provision was routinely violated for 96 years, and I guess no one ever noticed, until it became politically expedient. Mostly because of the liberal bent of the mainstream media, the Democrats—well-known at least in the South as the party of segregation—became identified with the Act. Still, it never would have passed without significant Republican support.

Affirmative Action, whereby government contractors are to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin" dates back to a 1961 Executive Order. It gained momentum following the passage of the Act, and would soon turn into full-blown quota systems.

Alas, the quota systems would morph into outright in-your-face discrimination with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives. Thus, we come full circle with both the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act being violated—all with the full faith and credit of the Feds. Do you think the younger Barry Goldwater was onto something?

Given the ingenuity of plaintiff’s lawyers, pressure groups, and the insatiable appetite of the Feds for more power, within a few short years after the passage of the Act, countless victim groups would come forward, in the name of “civil rights.” To be sure, many of these were worthy causes, but what have we wrought?

Do I really need to count up the ways in which society has been fragmented, secularized, and polarized, or how human rights have taken a distant second place to civil rights?

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Blast From the Past: Islam Means Submission: Really, It Does - And They Really Mean It!

By Rich Kozlovich 

Editor's Note:  I've been getting a lot of hits on past articles I've written, even going back to articles over ten years old.  I have no idea why, but I also read those articles, and truth be told, there's a timelessness to them. This was published on November 24, 2017.  Remember fracking, and being energy independent?  If Trump is elected, it will happen again.  Enjoy! RK

 On November 23, 2017 Reuters posted the article, Islamic State beheads 15 of its own fighters, saying:

Islamic State beheaded 15 of its own fighters due to infighting in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, officials said, while a separate suicide attack on Thursday tore into a crowd in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, killing at least eight.
As for the suicide attack, apparently there was a "meeting of supporters of a police commander who was sacked for illegal land grabbing" and someone didn't like it - so he blew himself up and took a bunch of people with him. 

There are a couple of things about this I think are obvious - and telling. 

First - this area of the world has always been a disaster - economically, philosophically, militarily and politically.  No one is going to go in there and explain to them the wonders of American style republican Democracy and have them really believe it or want it, that simply is not part of their historical and societal paradigm.  They understand the only way to pacify and bring order to this area is to kill everyone who disagrees with you.  That is a basic tenet of Islam practiced by Muslim controlled societies making them nothing short of savage Medieval tribal societies with modern weapons, transportation and communications.

Second - Islam isn't a religion.  Islam is a criminal, political system that's managed to masquerade as a religion.  The fact they've been able to do so for 1400 years is immaterial. While the of level civil discord may be higher in Afghanistan than many Muslim controlled countries, it's far more prevalent in Muslim controlled areas of the world than those controlled by societies with Judaic/Christian values and principles.  In point of fact - much of the discord in those countries is being caused by Muslims....and their allies....western socialists.  Both have one underlying moral foundation to which they're completely committed - get and hold power by any means necessary.

Third - we see these terrorist militant groups will work together today and happily kill one another tomorrow as the need arises.  And what's that need?  The need to be in control.  The difference between religious concepts of Islam of ISIS and that of the Taliban isn't much more than an eyelash - except for one thing - who has the power.  Who controls the riches and the people, and make no mistake about this - these decisions aren't made by a democratic vote of the group.  Even if they have some kind of committee that's supposed to do the deciding - there's only one man who makes the decisions and the rest all obey or die. 

That's what's occurring in Saudi Arabia right now and that's been overdue for a Muslim state.  Saudi Arabia is the center of Wahhabism thinking - which is ultraconservative, fundamentalist founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab , in short - true Islam as is prescribed in the Koran.  And the Saudis supported them financially for decades.  That's now coming back to bite them, because of fracking. 

They need the civilized world because they're surrounded by Islamists of a different persuasion, who want their oil and riches, hate the Saudis and desire to destroy them.  Since the advent of American fracking their income is dropping radically.  They can no longer afford their internal corruption and arrogant disregard for civilized behavior.  We don't need them they need us.  Now we'll see how Muslim leadership really functions - obey or die - and it's not going to be nicer than whatever unpleasantness the Shah of Iran may have imposed on his people - a rich and prosperous, far more free society than what the Ayatollahs imposed, and not a peep out of the left about that. 

How do you reason with them?  You don't!   They only understand power, and the expression and application of that power. You crush them and go home.  Muslims will never honor any agreement with anyone outside their particular group, including other Muslims, because the Koran made it clear it was perfectly acceptable to do so in the name of Islam.  And of course they would determine if what they were doing was in the name of Islam.

Islam means submission. Islam teaches submission.  Islam demands submission, or you die.  Islamists practice that concept within their group and against those outside their group.   That's history and that history is incontestable. 

So, what do we see on American university and college campuses?  Americans demanding, we support the PLO and crush Israel - the only stable patch of ground in the Middle East.  This group, at least 50% of them - AKA Millennials - believe socialism is the perfect government and America should become a socialist state.  This is a group who wears t-shirts with Fidel Castro or Che Guevara's face on them - two of the greatest mass murders of the 20th century - and condemn America for every infraction of their values, which is the philosophical flavor of the day.  This is a group that's not only stunningly stupid - they're arrogant in their stupidity.  And why?  Because we've allowed leftists to take over and corrupt America's education system from Kindergarten on.  But that corruption is most obscene in America's universities.  It's high time we stop funding American universities and kicked the federal government out of education entirely. 

And its high time we come to grips with history - Islam and leftism are cancers that destroy every society they infest. 

Even a Blind Accorn Can Find a Squirrel Once in a While

By Rich Kozlovich

Europe is done, get over it, and even Obama, as dim a wit as he is, must have recognized it even in 2016, showing even a blind acorn can find a squirrel once in a while.  On April 24, 2016 s posted this article saying:

President Barack Obama at a press conference opposes Chancellor Angela Merkel’s suggestion of  creating “safe zones” for fleeing refugees in Syria. “As a practical matter,” such a step couldn’t be done without using the military to “take over a big chunk” of Syria....

Angela Merkel was Germany’s Chancellor for far too long allowing millions of Muslim immigrants into Germany and then railed because the rest of Europe "wouldn't share the burden", and now wanted to get America involved in another one of her stupid schemes putting America lives and American dollars on the line.   Remember, this is a burden she created, filling Europe with "Mideasterners and Africans anxious to taste the fruits of the European welfare state."

And she was upset Obama was retreating from a leadership role in this case involving Syria.  But there's always another "case" with Europe's stupid policies over some issue or other, but especially immigration, and from European leaders, who've consistently looked down their noses at the nation that's saved them twice, and it appears as dim a wit as Obama is, he understood this was an "over extension of American commitments to leadership abroad."  

I posted this article eight years ago, and I'm linking it now because I think at some point those American commitments are going to dry up and go away when Trump becomes President.  Then all these arrogant European leftist elites who self-righteously wagged their fingers at the U.S. will be on their own, and rightly so. 

Let's get over any ideas that Europe can be saved.  The EU is doomed, Europe is doomed, even if they get some backbone and throw these Muslim invaders out.  Currently the leftist leaders are insane multiculturalists - which can only be described as a death wish cult.

Soon, Europe will be choosing new leftist leaders, only they're going to be monoculturalists, with a strong nationalist streak on the order of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, but they're not gong to be trying to conquer the world, they're going to be trying to save their nations.  However, the demographics are so bad, none of that will come into being without a massive amount of civil unrest and bloodshed.  That will destroy Europe's economy, and quite possibly Balkanize Europe into what really is their foundational historic social paradigm:  Small independent nations like Switzerland. 

They will never recover without massive support from the U.S., and that won't be coming because the U.S. is coming to an end of the Bretton Woods era.  We.... owe ....them ....nothing, and fewer and fewer Americans care what happens to Europe, and rightly so. We have poured out thousands of gallons of American blood, and billions of American dollars to save Europe over the last 100 years, and they're still just as arrogant and stupid as they were in 1914. 

It's my belief before this decade is out, the world will be plunged into an economic abyss that will change everything, and not for the better.  Look for the world to possibly turn to the UN for the answers, for relief, and for economic and military support, then things will really be a mess.  The most corrupt and incompetent organization the world has ever known trying to take charge and create a socialist form of world governance.   Imagine that!

The Greenfield Gazette

By Daniel Greenfield

Editor's Note:  This first link is the most important, because history is everything, and America, along with western civilization, is blatantly ahistorical now.  Cartoons added by me.  RK

Why Write a Book About American History Now? - The Left isn’t a new threat. For over two centuries, America has confronted the enemy within.  The David Horowitz Freedom Center is launching the pre-sale of my first book, ‘Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left’. I call it a ‘1619 Project for the American Left’, telling the untold story of the rise of the movement and how America’s greatest leaders, from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln, faced down against it in the halls of power and even in street battles. Some may wonder if this is the right time for a book about American history. Yes, because history is repeating itself. Everything we’re dealing with has happened before. And America prevailed then. It can prevail now..........

Immigration

The Illegal Alien Crime Wave (VIDEO) - “Illegal aliens routinely commit crimes” I joined the Immigration Reform Law Institute on their podcast earlier to disprove the myth that illegal aliens are not committing crimes. First of all, illegal entry is itself a crime. Secondly, illegal aliens routinely commit crimes as part of their presence in this country. Thirdly, illegal aliens piggyback on cartels and other organized crime groups that are either moving them into this country and/or using them to commit crimes once they’re in America. Illegal migration is one key element in the high crime rates in this country..............

While Biden Fundraises in Texas, Illegal Aliens Attack Border “100 migrants broke through razor wire and knocked over guards.”  After years of denouncing the term “invasion” as fearmongering and claiming that the mass invasion of America by millions of illegal aliens is just “migration” by “refugees” suffering from “root causes” like poverty, we’re seeing the reality here. Tellingly this is happening to the Texas National Guard, not the federal authorities who have been ordered to keep the border open, because they’re actually trying to secure the border. This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today.  We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here. pic.twitter.com/VN6Kf663ie......

Islam, Russia, and Ohio

My Take - There are, at least in my opinion, five big takeaways over this terrorist attack in Russia.

First, this clearly demonstrates there's no getting along with Islamists.  There's always one irrational violent group of Muslims ready to commit murder in the name of Islam, and Islamist are always in an unending state of outrage over something.  Putin's been playing patty cake with Islamists and here's the result.  You cannot appease the insane, and Islam is an agar dish for the unbridled growth of insanity.  

Second, we now know, when it comes to Islam, Putin is as gutless as Biden, and I think the world recognizes it. 

Third, that will play big in the future.  Gutlessness is a conditioned response to crises, and I think that will play out in other crises involving Putin, the Ukraine War, and even China.  Putin's ruthless, brutal, and looks tough surrounded by his military and secret police thugs doing his dirty work, but standing alone, we see the real Putin.

Fourth, this further demonstrates Putin's not the brightest pebble in the brook.  Wanna be generals talk about strategy, great generals talk about logistics.  In the Russo/Ukrainian War, Putin failed at both.  

Fifth, this is a worldwide problem, and the world needs to recognize Islam is a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion, which needs to be declared a terrorist movement, and all Muslim immigration into their nations outlawed.  See, simple!   RK

Putin: Terror Attack “by Radical Islamists Whose Ideology the Islamic World Has Been Fighting”“Are radical and even terrorist Islamic organizations really interested in striking Russia?” Despite the hype about how tough and serious Putin is, his speeches about the Islamic terrorist attack in Moscow could have been written for George W. Bush. The officially translated remarks after the attack made no mention of Islam, but a follow up one on measures being taken after the attacks do mention Islam in a way Bush and Obama would have been fine with. “We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries,” Putin initially stated.  That’s not a bad translation. he said, “radikalnih Islamistov” or “radical Islamists”...............

Why Russia Is No Better at Fighting Islamic Terror Than We Are - America and Russia could fight Islamic terrorism but that would be politically inconvenient.  After the Islamic terrorist attack in Moscow, Russia’s basic response (stripped of blaming Ukraine) looks a lot like ours. There’s a narrow focus on the handful of direct perpetrators, threats of consequences, retweets of statements of support from Muslim countries (Hamas has also expressed sympathy), and a calculated refusal to mention the “I” word. While people expect a more vigorous response from Putin than they would from the White House, Russia is no better at fighting Islamic terrorism than we are. Russia can bomb terrorist camps, but so can we. And while bombing the occasional terror enclave is fine, terror attacks depend on a domestic infrastructure.....

Putin Blames Everyone Except Islam for Islamic Terrorist Attack - Putin lets his people die to cover up the truth about Islam. Biden and the EU says that Vladimir Putin is nothing like them, but in at least one area, he’s very much like them. After the Islamic terror attack in Moscow by Muslim migrants, Putin, the Russian regime and its online ‘IRA’ influencers are choosing to blame everyone, from Ukraine to America and Israel, rather than Islam. Putin claimed that the Islamic terrorists were headed for Ukraine. Why go to Ukraine when there are plenty of Islamic enclaves in and around Russia? After having hosted a terror summit that included Hamas and Islamic Jihad in order to fight Israel, he offered a generic ‘Bush’ style statement that, “we will stand united against this common enemy international terrorism no matter where it shows its ugly head.”......

Spielberg Equates Israel and Hamas - March 27, 2024 - “Decry the killing of innocent women and children in Gaza.”  Contemptible but not surprising.  In his movie, ‘Munich’, a fake revisionist version of Israel’s campaign against Islamic terrorism, Steven Spielberg made a point of equating the Israeli counter-terrorism operatives and the terrorists.  And it’s not just Israel.  When he considered making ‘American Sniper’, he wanted to focus on a terrorist sniper who would be “a mirror of Chris on the the other side.”.......

Muslims Firebomb Store Over “Allah Socks” - “Several pairs of socks emblazoned with the word ‘Allah’ were put on sale.”Islam is a peaceful religion. It’s not in any way associated with violence except in response to Jews, Christians or Hindus defending themselves against it, or really serious issues like socks. Allah socks...........Five pairs of socks. Also, Muslims have a history of seeing their deity where he isn’t. Like on ice cream. Burger King recalls ‘sacrilegious’ desserts......The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: “The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone.”......

State Dept Complains Israel is “Writing Off Their Reputation Damage” - “The Israelis seemed oblivious to the fact that they are facing major, possibly generational damage to their reputation.” When your country has invaded and over a thousand of your people have been murdered, do you.

  • A. Smash Those Responsible
  • B. Focus on Your Reputation

America initially went with A after 9/11. And then decided to spend the next 20 years on B mode. Israel is now understandably in A mode after spending even longer in B mode after the Oslo Accords. This is understandable to anyone who is a normal human being and therefore unemployable at the State Dept.....

Israel/Hamas War

Kamala Warns Israel of “Consequences” if it Destroys Hamas - “I am ruling out nothing.”  The Biden administration is doing every possible thing to save Hamas by depriving Israel of arms, threatening it with political and economic consequences, and going after Netanyahu personally to stop a Rafah operation.  But there’s no way to finish off Hamas, which has the bulk of its brigades in Rafah in occupied Islamist territory in Gaza, without going in......

Hamas Just Brought to Life These Cartoons About Hiding Behind Babies - “Terrorists continued to hide in the hospital’s maternity ward”  The Washington Post ‘canceled’ famed cartoonist Michael Ramirez for depicting a Hamas leader hiding behind children.

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Yes, the fallback position for the terrorists was the maternity ward.  Then again, Arafat bragged that, “the womb of the woman will be our strongest weapon against the Zionists!” And the Arab Muslim invaders have found so many ways to make that so........

Chicago Politician Stands in Front of PLO, Iraqi Flag, After U.S. Flag Burned - This isn’t a political opposition. This is treason. After Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez went viral for taking part in a pro-terrorist rally at which an American flag was burned, he claimed that he was far too patriotic for such a thing. According to the Chicago socialist, and a close ally of failed Mayor Brandon Johnson, “as a proud naturalized American immigrant, Alderman Sigcho Lopez is sensitive to any perception of disrespect towards the country that has provided him with numerous opportunities. He categorically denies ‘choosing’ to speak in front of a burned American flag.”.................

Israel Won Major Victory by Ignoring Biden Hamas had not been expecting Israel to hit a ‘hospital’ on Ramadan without warning.   The current Israeli government made the same mistake after Oct 7 that so many previous ones had by assuming that it would retain the support of the White House if it followed its parameters. Instead of a comprehensive siege and rapid forceful assaults, Israel waited. When there were complaints about casualties, it slowed down, sent warnings and put its own soldiers at risk. And lives were lost. But none of that worked. There was a ticking clock and Biden was bound to eventually pull support. It was only a matter of time.,..................

Biden Sells Out Israel in UN ‘Ceasefire’ Resolution - A ceasefire doesn’t protect Israeli civilians. It protects Hamas.   The draft UN resolution from the Biden administration calls for “an immediate and sustained ceasefire to protect civilians on all sides, allow for the delivery of essential humanitarian assistance, and alleviate humanitarian suffering, and towards that end unequivocally supports ongoing international diplomatic efforts to secure such a ceasefire in connection with the release of all remaining hostages”. Describing a “ceasefire in connection with the release of all remaining hostages” rather than a ceasefire in exchange for is deliberately ambiguous......................

Goodbye Candace – Part 2 - Daniel Greenfield - The Daily Wire dumps Candace Owens.  Back in November, the David Horowitz Freedom Center made the decision to dump Candace Owens. In our article, Goodbye Candace, we pointed out that we “honored her with an Annie Taylor Award for Courage in 2018, and hosted her at multiple events. That’s why we are so disappointed in what she has become.”..............

Chicago May Replace Columbus With Obama - A street named for the Great Explorer will be renamed for the Great Destroyer.  Columbus may have discovered America, but Obama destroyed it. And to the winner go the spoils. Obama’s radical acolytes tore down Columbus monuments during the BLM hate riots while the city’s former mayor threatened Italian Americans and city officials if they tried restoring them. “Get that f—— statue back before noon tomorrow or I am going to have you fired,” Lightfoot allegedly yelled at a government lawyer who had tried to negotiate a deal with Italian-American groups to restore the statue.. ......

The Islamist Transformation of Ohio in One Video -- Open borders is just the first step. This is the next step.......This is how Ohio and America are being transformed at the state level. Open borders is just the first step. Our Election Jihad report shows how the next step works. Refugee resettlement nonprofits and aid groups sponsor and set up community groups for the new arrivals. Those groups transition into political and voter turnout operations meant to elect Democrats. The process takes much less time than you might think. And the consequences are catastrophic........

Media corruption, bias, and hypocrisy is beyond description.

 

NBC’s Ronna McDaniel Meltdown - No one can be allowed to represent Republicans on NBC News.   Like so many other useless RNC and DNC bosses, Ronna McDaniel left off running the RNC into the ground for a gig at NBC News. Michael Steele, who long ago came out as a Dem, is on MSNBC these days. And FOX News had hired ex-DNC head Donna Brazile (for a brief while anyway) to spout off. There’s nothing unusual here. RNC and DNC heads are mostly useless people and that makes them perfect as talking heads with impressive titles. But nothing is normal anymore and so NBC News’ people threw a fit over Ronna McDaniel.......

NBC News Officially Bans Republicans From Working There - “No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned.”   For the longest time, the media played this game of pretending that it doesn’t consist entirely of a bunch of leftist activists who exist to promote their political agenda and attack those of their political opponents. The pretense is wearing thin. And who knew that Ronna McDaniel of all people would be the breaking point? But it’s kind of like the way that the media’s attacks on dishwater liberals like McCain and Romney, portraying them as Hitler 2.0 just because they posed a threat to Obama, helped kill the media’s credibility.....

My Take - First, Ronna is a nitwit, and in my opinion, an incompetent traitorous RINO nitwit who not only mismanaged the RNC misspending their money, which should be investigated, and actually worked against conservative candidates in collusion with Mitch McConnell.  But what I get a kick out of is the fact NBC is using Al Sharpton, the dullest pebble in the brook, and an even bigger corrupt nitwit than Ronna to promote this biased clabber!  

What would I do if I was running NBC?  

First, I would start by placing their biggest names, all mostly under contract, in far lesser positions, even copy boys or girls, and they would stay there until they apologized for their behavior to the management, to their fellow employees, and then to the general public.  As for anyone of those  who weren't under contract, and who through their protests were in effect making demands about management decisions; they would be fired.  See, simple! RK

Media: Only Reason Americans Think the Economy is Bad is COVID PTSD - After years of failed efforts to convince Americans that the economy is great, the media has listened to the vast majority of the country… and decided that they must be crazy for thinking the economy is bad. “America is in a funk, and no one seems to know why.”......

Transgenderism

Sacramento to Become Sanctuary City for Child Abusers - But what about a sanctuary city for mutilating kids?   Sacramento just got done passing a resolution demanding that Israel stop attacking Hamas by an almost overwhelming margin (with the exception of the lone Jewish councilwoman) so now it’s time to get even edgier. Sanctuary cities for illegal alien invasions are old news. But what about a sanctuary city for mutilating kids?......No one criminalizes adults seeking to have their own genitals cut off.....And no Republican state criminalizes adults getting themselves mutilated either. There are only restrictions on children being mutilated before the age of consent.......


Biden Lies to America, Tells the Truth to China

By @ Sultan Knish Blog 

“When I was director of intelligence for the Indo-Pacific Command, for example, I watched as numerous requests to publicize Chinese malign activities were disapproved by Washington,” Rear Admiral Mike Studeman recently warned.

The former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence had served between 2022 and 2023 and during that time one of the suppressed stories about China’s attacks involved “Beijing’s use of high-altitude surveillance balloons over the sovereign airspaces of the US” which came “many months before the shooting down of a Chinese balloon flying over the US.”

After the spy balloon was exposed, Biden administration officials had claimed that there had been multiple spy balloon overflights under Trump and only one under Biden, which went unnoticed at the time, but the US Navy was clearly aware and had been ordered to keep quiet by D.C. about the multiple incursions by Chinese spy balloons under Biden.

When the spy balloon was first detected, the initial response by the Biden administration had been to suppress news about it and then to deny that the administration had been aware of it.

“Before it was spotted publicly, there was the intention to study it and let it pass over and not ever tell anyone about it,” an administration official admitted.

But when a Montana resident’s footage of the spy balloon went viral, the Biden cover-up fell apart. Once it was exposed, the official complained that “It caused so many problems.”

While the Biden administration was publicly criticizing China, the State Department was privately sidelining sanctions and any actions against the People’s Republic of China. A month later, a top State Department official dealing with China was already looking to “move on”

By May, Biden had resumed relations with China and was dismissing the whole thing as a “silly balloon”. In June, he claimed that the spying was “more embarrassing” for Beijing “than it was intentional.” Over a year later an FBI report on the balloon is still being kept secret.

With Secretary of State Blinken trying to wrangle an invitation to China, the Biden administration fully committed to covering up “difficult subjects”.

One of those difficult subjects was China’s spy base in Cuba. After the Wall Street Journal reported that China had agreed to pay Cuba billions to build a spy base, the Biden administration denied it.

And then it had to admit it anyway.

To quote NBC News, “as for why the White House, Pentagon and others all flatly denied the Journal’s reporting despite knowing that China has been spying from Cuba for years, the official said the Journal story was inaccurate because it called the eavesdropping a new development.”

After the initial denials, the Biden administration backpedaled and admitted that China had been spying on America from Cuba since 2019. Much as with the spy balloon story, after a China espionage cover up fell apart the Biden administration tried to pass the blame on to Trump.

Cover-ups of enemy activity had become the default mode for the Biden administration.

While Russia developed a space weapon, the Biden administration covered it up because it was “worried that if the program became more widely known in Congress or in the public, that might scuttle the nascent efforts to get Russia to abort those tests.”

What began with Biden’s abandonment of the China Initiative in 2022 escalated into coverups.

The Justice Department had argued that “the ‘China Initiative’ fueled a narrative of intolerance and bias” and that the “rise in anti-Asian hate crime and hate incidents” made it urgent to shut down the effort to stop PRC spies. The assaults on Asian-Americans in San Francisco and New York City by minority street thugs had nothing to do with catching spies. It was a cover-up.

The cover-ups, in the name of anti-racism or diplomacy, allowed the Communist regime a clear field for spying on the United States while suppressing the story so Biden wouldn’t get blamed.

By the fall of last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Chinese infiltrators trying to access American military bases “as many as 100 times in recent years”. Chinese nationals pretending to be tourists did everything from trying to force their way into a base in Alaska to scuba diving to spy on a Florida rocket launch site. The increasing brazenness of the Chinese efforts reflected the extent to which the Biden administration was covering up for the spy campaign.

Over the last year, Chinese spies have been accused of looting everything from AI secrets to tech used to detect nuclear missile launches.

And there is every reason to believe that the situation may be worse than we realize.

The Biden administration has developed a consistent track record of suppressing damaging information about Communist China. What we know about the PRC’s operations against us come from leaked material and court cases. Without viral videos, like the one out of Montana, and intelligence reports leaked to the media, we would know even less than we do now.

Governments normally conceal information about enemy activities so as not to tip off foreign spies, but the Biden administration’s consistent pattern has been to hide the information from Americans rather than from Russia and China. Instead of trying to deceive our enemies, the Biden administration instead deceives and lies to Americans.

The Biden administration has misleadingly denied reports for no purpose other than to conceal information about enemy activities from Americans. China knew it was spying on the United States from Cuba. And they certainly knew that we knew it. Russia knew it was building a space weapon and was talking about it with the Biden administration. But Biden didn’t want us to know.

After the spy balloon, the Biden administration told Americans one thing and China another.

Whom did it tell the truth to? China. The Biden administration put on a fake show of outrage for Americans while quietly telling Chinese Communist officials that all of this would soon pass.

When the United States government lies to Americans, but tells the truth to an enemy dictatorship, something is very wrong. China can trust the White House, but we can’t.


Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.Thank you for reading.

News From Up North

B y Rich Kozlovich 

Editor's Note:  I originally published this on Nov 17, 2016 saying, "this was sent to me via e-mail with no link to it's origin, so I have no idea who originated this.   Having said that, I really I got a good smarmy little chuckle out it and I thought most of my readers would also, so I decided to post it.  If anyone has a link to whomever originated this missive please send it to me.".  In light of events surrounding the 2024 election, I think it's more than applicable now.  RK

The flood of Trump-fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week. News of the results of the Presidential election is prompting an exodus among left-leaning Americans who fear they'll soon be required to work, pray, pay taxes, and live according to the Constitution.

Canadian border residents say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, liberal arts majors, global-warming activists, and "green" energy proponents crossing their fields at night.

"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota . "He was cold, exhausted and hungry, and begged me for a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just stuck their fingers in their ears and kept coming. Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals just south of the border, pack them into electric cars, and drive them across the border, where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies.

"A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions," an Alberta border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier water, or any gemelli with shrimp and arugula. All they had was a nice little Napa Valley cabernet and some kale chips. When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing that they fear persecution from a Trump administration.

Rumors are circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer, study the Constitution, and find jobs that actually contribute to the economy.

In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the '50s. "If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age," an official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, are buying up all the Barbara Streisand CD's, and are overloading the internet while downloading jazzercise apps to their cell phones.

"I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "After all, how many art-history majors does one country need?

Why Is That So Hard To Get?

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” C.S. Lewis

By Rich Kozlovich

 Western civilization is so hot to be politically correct that it’s turned into a dance with the Devil.   When you dance with the Devil you don’t choose the dance, you don’t call the tune, you can’t change partners and you may not be able to leave the dance floor. 
 
Leftist schemes and dreamy philosophies, especially multiculturalism, is a dance with the Devil and a suicide pact. Why is that so hard to get? 
 
Well, here is one totally honest Muslim who outlines clearly and openly what Islam is really all about, and we need to understand that to a Muslim strictly following the Koran and Sharia, there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim.  To a strict Muslim these moderates are viewed as apostates, and according to the Koran, they deserve to die.  It's the "radicals" who are following Islamic law and the Koran. They're the true Muslims.  The beheadings, the rapes, the violent assaults, the thievery against non-Muslims, even open slavery in some Muslim dominated countries, is perfectly acceptable under Sharia and the Koran.  Why is that so hard to get?
 
What I find most fascinating is how the leftists, especially the media, are silent or soft peddle this criminal behavior, and even supportive of this political criminal movement masquerading as a religion. Have they somehow deluded themselves into thinking they won't be effected? They'll be among the first Islamists kill.  Why is that so hard to get?

Muslims in the west demand tolerance.  What’s that mean for those who disagree with them?  Tolerance in Islam is a one way street.  You tolerate them until they have the power and then they will impose the most intolerant backward system existing in the modern world, Sharia.  Culturally - there’s a reason Islam dominated countries are largely still middle age tribal societies with modern weapons.  Islam!  Why is that so hard to get?

In spite of the tsunami of propaganda claiming that Islam has.... “since its beginnings proven to be rich and fertile soil for the flowering of scientific ideas and technological innovation”... over the centuries.  Let’s ponder this, and put it bluntly;
“You could count all the Muslim winners of Nobel Prizes in science on one hand and have enough fingers left to crochet. This simple, straightforward fact is, in and of itself, a dramatic indictment of Islam, underscoring its intrinsic intellectual backwardness, its refusal to compromise in the slightest its foundation of primitive superstition, and the extraordinary degree to which it manages to suppress the inborn human curiosity about the natural principles that undergird the real world’s workings.
Individualism is foundational to new ideas, research, exploration and modern science.  Islam has not been a flower of scientific advancement because in fact it stifles ever effort at individual thinking - which is foundational to Islam.  Islam means “submission”, that's why individualism and democracy is antithetical to Islam.  Why is that so hard to get?

In an article entitled, Surreal and Suicidal: Modern Western Histories of Islam” Raymond Ibrahim discusses the history of Islam and its interaction with the rest of the world.  And it’s overwhelmingly clear that interaction is foundationally violent.  Within ten years of Islam spilling out of Arabia they conquered what’s now Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Parts of India, China and eventually Spain, part of France.  Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, Crete, Cyprus, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Malta, Sardinia, Moldova, Slovakia and Montenegro. 
 
Rome was sacked in 846 and in a clear demonstration of Muslim tolerance, the Vatican was defiled.  Even Northern European countries, including Iceland, used to pray that “God save them from the Turk”.  These constant raids into European lands are what really destroyed the European economy during the Middle Ages, including Byzantium which didn’t create any new coinage for 200 years.  

History is being turned upside down by the media, and the PC police on the left, telling the world it’s the Muslim’s who are the victims of intolerance.  History clearly demonstrates that's a lie, and now we're seeing the consequences of western civilization having become ahistorical societies.  If we don’t understand the actual history of Islam we can’t properly correlate and properly evaluate that information to understand what’s happening right now! 

Ibrahim goes on to say;

“Muslims are still exhibiting the same imperial impulse and intolerant supremacism that their conquering forbears did. The only difference is that the Muslim world is currently incapable of defeating the West through a conventional war.”

Muslim immigration isn't really immigration.  They've absolutely no desire to assimilate.  This "immigration" is in reality an enemy infiltration through which they can create a foundation for conquest of the West.  Why is that so hard to get?

Alan Caruba noted that:
 
“while Islam looks and sounds like a religion, it is more a political and economic entity concerned with controlling those populations where it is dominant, largely keeping them unable to resist the despots, monarchs, and clerics in charge. Iran’s Supreme Leader, for example, is worth billions.”  “What the West has yet to grasp is its intent on world domination. That is why jihad—the so-called holy war—is a central pillar of faith”  “The Qur’an is a battle plan for world conquest”.
 
Why is that so hard to get?

This Falls Under the Category of "We've Lost Our Minds".

"You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say? Yeah, I don't have that!"

By Rich Kozlovich 

Clarity is and so very often a hugely neglected quality in today's discourses.  So, let's try and fix that by starting out with this insightful piece by Olivia Murray that appeared on  March 25, 2024, Rumor that a Jewish man might be the new James Bond sends Hamas’s friends in the West into ‘boycott’ mode, discussing the outrage from the left that a "Jew" might be chosen to play James Bond.  A Jew as James Bond, imagine that.  In "No Time to Die" a black woman from Jamaica became the new 007, but that was okay, and they praised that decision to high heaven.  But a Jew, as 007, that's outrageous!  

Is there any depth of hypocrisy the left won't sink to?  Mind you it's not because of his public positions on the Israel/Hamas war, which as far as I can tell, he's not taken any, it's just the fact this guy's "a Jew", and, well, who knows, they might not go to see that movie!  Ohhhhhh noooo, not that!  Well, truthfully, I don't think it much matters, and from my point of view, who cares what these nitwits think, other than to show just how contemptible they are. 

I love this from the last three paragraphs:

Never mind the “stars” who stand on stage, accepting one gaudy golden idol after the next, and promoting the murder of babies in the womb because that tacky little $400 chunk of metal is so much more precious than an innocent human life…[they're upset] because a Jewish man might be playing James Bond.   Leftists are weak and cowardly betas who whine about “microaggressions” and unconscious bias, only living for themselves.......... leftists have once again proved that they’re completely depraved and utterly incapable of contributing anything intellectual or reasoned to geopolitical discourse.

See, when you don't have that little voice in your head that prevents you from saying the things you shouldn't say, you get clarity, and Olivia doesn't have that little voice in her head!  The only thing I didn't like about that was I didn't' say it first.  Good for her!

In May of last year there was an altercation between a Guatemalan immigrant, Virgilio Aguilar Mendez and a police officer Sgt. Michael Kunovich.  It appears the officer thought he was acting strange and questioned him, but this immigrant, and illegal immigrant mind you, which makes him a criminal, didn't speak English, so he ignore the police office and walked away.  

Well, he couldn't have done that in Guatemala, and you don't do that in America.  The officer went to stop him and he resisted arrest.  He couldn't have done that in Guatemala, and you don't do that in America, but the officer had a heart attack and died.  He was charged initially but was released when it was shown Kunovich died of a heart attack. But "now, the rest of the story", as it seems there are misfit attorney's are representing this illegal alien and are suing "Kunovich’s estate, as well as the other officer involved in Mendez’s arrest." 

I'm convinced the old axiom, "no good deed goes unpunished" is becoming more and more true.  An Atlanta property owner foolishly allowed some misfits to live on his land, free of charge, which as time went by became a problem.  Wow!  How shocking is that?  He's spent thousands cleaning up the mess they made, and now a squatter is suing him!  And we're surprised why?  Here's My Gazette on squatters rights.

Talk about losing our minds, this article appeared in American Thinker entitled, Pew Research: more than half of insane leftist women are literally insane saying:

In 2020, Pew Research released the results of a study that revealed more than 50% of “liberal” women between the ages of 18 and 29 had been diagnosed with a “mental health condition” by a professional; for men of that same age and political orientation, that number was over 30%. When compared to “conservatives” and “moderates” of the same age and sex, “liberals” took the crown for most mentally ill. 

Imagine that, who would have thought, even for a minute, that atheists who are into tattoos, body piercing, self mutilation, experimentation in sexual mutilation for children, murdering their unborn children calling it reproductive health care, women who hate men, men who hate women, want to destroy the nuclear family, have no stable foundational morality, believe that everything is racist and look unendingly for microaggressions, believe men can get pregnant, can't define what a woman is believing there are 117 genders with another 71 variations, and claim sex isn't the same as gender would have mental issues.  

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!!  

Well, maybe I'm not really shocked, I'm just being a snot, especially since it's been clear for years the left is nuts, and frighteningly so, only they've convinced so many that nuts is normal.  Not only do they think it's normal, but being nuts is necessary to save "our democracy".  In this piece by Matt Vesta, Reporters Hammer Home What's at the Core of Liberal America's Lust in Seizing Trump's Assets, he notes:

Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag once again penned an article that wouldn’t see the light of day within liberal or elite establishments because it hits too close to home. The pair invoked Sigmund Freud to analyze liberal America’s insane lust to seize Trump’s assets. They came up with how the Left’s anti-Trump tendencies reek of Soviet-style authoritarianism, infantile regression, and gross disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law—the latter part you probably already knew about. It’s psychopathic and narcissistic behavior that oozes from this Trump civil fraud case, the two characteristics that lead to totalitarianism when a nation’s intellectual institutions become infected with such tendencies. With Trump, liberals don’t even try to hide it anymore .......If an Attorney General and a Judge can seize $464 million in assets from the presidential front-runner for an alleged crime that has no victim, then it would be more accurate to say that we have only a single political system—and no true justice system at all. Worse, that system is rapidly becoming psychopathological. 
 
Well, all I can say is we can be thankful for mass voter fraud over the entire nation.  Otherwise it would be very difficult to get these lunatics elected to public office, and then who would save "our" democracy?  
 
Sorry, there are times I just can't help being a snot.
 

Democrats, Republicans, and Job Creation

March 22, 2024 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

About 12 years ago, there was a controversial claim (based in part on some of my analysis) that Obama was the most fiscally conservative president of the 1980-2012 period, which includes Reagan.

I crunched the numbers to show where that claim was true and where it was false (main takeaway: Obama was not as bad as some people thought, but Reagan easily was the most fiscally prudent president).

Today, I’m going to do something similar by looking at a controversial claim about job creation.

But let’s first familiarize ourselves with some data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

First, here is total civilian employment from 1969 to the present. As you can see, there’s an upward trend line, with occasional blips associated with recessions (if we wanted to be super-rigorous, we would adjust for factors such as size of the labor force and size of the working-age population, but let’s keep things simple).

Second, let’s zoom in on the Bush-Obama years. The most notable thing about this chart was the big loss of jobs because of the financial crisis, followed by a slow recovery.

Third, let’s zoom in on the Trump-Biden years. What stands out in this chart is the massive loss of jobs during the pandemic, followed by an initially rapid recovery and then stumbling progress.

Having absorbed this background information, now let’s look at the new controversial claim.  Simon Rosenberg tweeted earlier this month that almost all jobs in recent decades have been created when Democrats were in the White House.

This certainly seems like a damning indictment of Republicans, but is it true?

Lou Jacobsen of Politifact says yes, but with some qualifications.

 

Are Democratic presidents better at creating jobs and driving the economy? …We caught the latest iteration on X, in a post by Simon Rosenberg, a longtime Democratic strategist in Washington, D.C. …The talking point…has merit. But it ignores caveats around divided governance and lucky timing. …

What is the catch? Attributing job creation to policies or presidents isn’t as clear as it might seem. The Republican Congress of 1995 to 2001 might deserve a share of the credit for the job growth under Clinton… In crises especially, the parties have historically worked together. When faced with the 2008 financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, George W. Bush and Trump “chose the policy responses that Democrats favored,” said Dan Mitchell, a libertarian economist. …

Also, Rosenberg chose a favorable time frame for Democrats. …Job creation under each president also depends on luck. …In one recent example, the number of jobs created under Trump would have been higher had a once-in-a-century pandemic not hit during his fourth year in office.

I appreciate that Lou gave me the chance to add one of my comments to his analysis.

But I want to elaborate. Here’s everything I sent to him as part of our email exchange.

Very convenient to start after the Reagan years. Setting aside that laughable example of cherry-picking, Rosenberg’s number is largely driven by the financial crisis at the end of the George W. Bush years and the COVID crisis at the end of the Trump years. A partisan Democrat could argue “so what?”

The net result, after all, was big job losses at the end of the Bush and Trump years. As a libertarian wonk, I don’t have to worry about blindly supporting one side or the other. Instead, I’ll simply point out that Bush and Trump chose the policy responses (bailouts/spending and shutdowns/spending, respectively) that Democrats favored. The real lesson to be learned is that good policies create jobs and bad policies reduce jobs, and it doesn’t matter whether there is an R or D after a politician’s name.

And I concluded by sharing a link to this column, which expands on my point about policy being the most important variable, not partisan affiliation.

The bottom line is that any analysis based on party affiliation will be senseless because we had one pro-market Republican (Reagan, who conveniently wasn’t even included in Rosenberg’s analysis) and lots of mediocre-to-bad Republicans (Bush I, Bush II, and Trump).

Likewise, there was one reasonably good Democrat (Clinton) while the others (Obama and Biden) were statist.

In other words, the recipe for growth and prosperity applies regardless of which political party holds power.