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Progressivism Made Simple REPRINT

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From December 6, 2013

They’re only 20% of the electorate, but they rule over 100% of our country and its institutions. I can’t explain how that happens; but I can easily explain what ‘Progressive’ ideology–aka liberalism, socialism, whatevuh–is.

Just remember the ABCs of Progressivism, given below, and you will always be able to understand what makes these people tick.

1. The economy is too complex and unpredictable and unstable to be left alone, and must be managed by the sages in Washington.

2. The natural processes of the planet are too complex and unpredictable and unstable to be left alone, and must be managed by the sages in Washington.

3. Ordinary people don’t have what it takes to manage their own lives, and must be managed by the sages in Washington.

4. All Democrats are geniuses, and all Republicans are wicked fools.

5. Any Democrat becomes omniscient the moment he or she takes public office.

6. Whether you dig deep or whether you dig shallow, you will find George Soros at the bottom of any Progressive enterprise.

7. Everything good is evil, and everything evil is good.

See? You can sum them up in only seven sentences which account for practically everything they say and do.

Political Vandalism REPRINT

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From January 7, 2014

One of the reasons it’s so hard to combat “Progressivism” is that Democrats always change the subject. They’re like firebugs loose in an enormous mansion, torching the place wherever they go. No sooner do you put out a fire in the billiard room, then they’ve started one in the lounge. You’re always one fire behind.

And so, with Obamacare revealed as a disaster, and Global Warming as sheer humbug, libs ‘n’ progs have moved on to yet another vast subject–“Income Inequality.” They’re all yakking about it–which gets them out of having to defend Obamacare and Global Warming. The Occupant of the White House, noozies, academics, celebrities, and so on down the line: suddenly they’re all talking Income Inequality..

The new mayor of New York, Bill DeBlasio–aka Warren Wilhelm Jr., but he doesn’t use his real name–has vowed to abolish Income Inequality in his city, mostly by taxing “the rich” until they aren’t rich anymore.

Let’s look logically at this lunatic boast. There are only three ways DeBlasio can achieve Income Equality in New York City.

1) He can make everybody rich. If you think this is in any way possible, please clue in the rest of us.

2) He can “tax the rich” and give their money to “the poor” until everybody winds up somewhere in the middle. This will work if “the rich” consent to stay there and be robbed.

3) He can make everybody poor. Destroy “the rich” or run them out of town, it doesn’t matter. As we have seen in Zimbabwe, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and countless other places, any gang of stooges, with enough power, can impoverish a whole nation. It shouldn’t be hard at all to impoverish New York City. Just do whatever they did in Detroit, Camden, Gary, etc. It’s been done before, and surely Mayor Wilhelm can do it again.

Had enough yet, America?

Global Warming Wiz Pleads Guilty to Fraud REPRINT

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From December 18, 2013

John Beale, “climate change” expert, the highest-paid employee of the Environmental Protection Agency, all-around kook, has pleaded guilty to defrauding the government out of about a million dollars in salary and perks. (See “Surreal: EPA’s Leading Climate Change Expert Pleads Guilty to Elaborate Fraud,” by Guy Benson at townhall.com, Dec. 17, 2013.)

There are lies, damned lies, and amazing colossal whoppers.

To get out of doing his real job, Mr. Beale told his bosses at the EPA that he was busy spying for the CIA in Pakistan. He raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in phony expenses and unearned bonuses, sometimes taking junkets to London, where he stayed in five-star hotels and rode around in hired limos. The rest of the time, he hung out at his Cape Cod vacation home. He also lied that he’d caught malaria while serving in Vietnam, although he never had malaria and had never been to Vietnam.

Beale could be sentenced to at least 30 months in prison, unless his lawyer succeeds in getting him excused on the grounds of sheer balminess.

Mr. Beale did not claim to have invented the Internet; nor did he claim that he and Mrs. Beale were the inspiration for Erich Segal’s “Love Story.” The climate change expert who makes those claims is still at large.

Folks, God must be really, really mad at us, to have given our country into the hands of the liars, lunatics, thieves, and scoundrels who govern every aspect of it today. Just as He gave Israel to the Assyrians, and Judah to the Babylonians, He has sent us into captivity–captivity in our own country, administered by our own politicians, judges [Hey, did you know polygamy is now OK? Last week a federal judge said so!], noozies, “educators,” and all the rest.

Confess, repent, and pray for deliverance.

Pray very, very hard.

 

Homeschooling Family Spared Deportation REPRINT

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From March 5, 2014

As the leaders and intelligentsia of this fallen world do their level best to turn the human race into wandering bands of vegetarian homosexuals, good news is increasingly hard to come by. But here’s some!

Hours after the Supreme Court refused to hear their case, and with deportation back to Germany hanging over their heads–meaning fines, imprisonment, and loss of their children–the Romeike family got an unexpected reprieve from the Dept. of Homeland Security.

The family can stay in America (see http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/04/dhs-grants-german-home-schooling-family-permanent-asylum-in-us/ ).

The Romeikes came to America as political refugees. Under a law enacted originally by the Third Reich, homeschooling is strictly verboten in Germany. Had they stayed, the Romeikes would have been treated as criminals. German judges say this is necessary to prevent people from developing “a parallel culture” in Germany. Everybody gotta goose-step to the same tune.

Although Germany has never requested that the Romeikes be shipped back to the Fatherland, and although a court originally granted them asylum, US Attorney General Eric Holder overruled the immigration court and insisted that the family be deported.

Suddenly the ball wound up out of his court, and Homeland Security did an about-face and ruled that the family can stay. Makes you wonder how that happened, doesn’t it?

The Romeikes had settled in to their Tennessee community and won the affection and respect of their neighbors–many of whom, yesterday, were promising to oppose the deportation with civil disobedience. The Romeikes are hard-working, law-abiding, church-going, English-speaking persons. Had they been the opposite of all those things, Holder would surely have wanted to keep them in America.

But let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth!

Pray it’s the beginning of better days to come.

Cause of Death: Politics REPRINT

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From October 21, 2013

Thou shalt not covet…right? Like, it’s one of the Ten Commandments, you really shouldn’t break it. But how about teaching and urging people to covet? Is that a sin, too?

In a word, yes.

It has become impossible to distinguish between the rhetoric of the Communist Party of Albania in the 1960s and New Jersey Democrat rhetoric today. Now that they have the skill to target their advertising, political campaign ads for these rats pop up all over the Internet.

I have never before, in all my life, seen such a coordinated campaign involving so many candidates, all with the same message: class warfare.

“Vote for Peter Covet because he believes your tax money should go to fund education, not CEOs’ retirement packages. Vote for Mary Envy because she’d pass a law that the minimum wage has to go up every year, no matter what. Vote for Jack Thief because he won’t let corporate CEOs cut veterans’ benefits.”

My liberal family member digs this message. He thinks anyone who has more money than he does is a criminal who must be punished. To say nothing of the poor schlemiels who think “funding education” means anything but higher salaries and more lavish benefits for teachers and administrators.

Are Democrats trying to chase business out of New Jersey altogether? “You dirty CEOs! You just wait–we’re gonna get you!” What kind of idiots would business leaders have to be, to just stay here and get raped? But all the statistics show that businesses, as well as affluent individuals and families, are stampeding out of this state.

What are we who remain in this state supposed to do for jobs, once our glorious leaders drive out all the businesses? Where is the money gonna come from, for all those teacher pensions?

Why should you, the reader, care what happens in the benighted state of New Jersey?

Well, it might happen in your state, too. And when it does, you’ll know it. I promise you, you’ll hear your wallet howl.

 

Kooky Kolumnist: America Needs a King REPRINT

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From January 13, 2014

Were columns written for national consumption always chock-full of nutty ideas?

Writing for “Politico” on Jan. 2 ( http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/america-needs-a-king-101691_Page2.html#.UtQcqLSowS4 ), Michael Auslin said, “To save what is left of our common fellow feeling as Americans, we need to create a position above the presidency… [L]et’s call this new national symbol our First Citizen.”

He doesn’t really mean he wants a monarchy, despite the wording of the headline. What he wants is someone to serve as “a non-partisan, non-political national symbol.” We need this because, at any given time, at least half the people hate the president like the plague, Congress has a 6% approval rating, and the Supreme Court isn’t winning any popularity contests, either. This “national symbol” would be there for everyone to love, like Mickey Mouse, only real.

He hasn’t thought this out. How would we choose our First Citizen? And since liberals hate anybody who is not a liberal, and anybody who is a liberal is bound to be hated by conservatives, don’t we wind up exactly where we started from? Only now we’d have two hated and despised big chiefs, instead of one. We would also now have two costly, vitriol-laden national elections, instead of one.

Well, what can you expect from a columnist who gives you a list of corrupt, blatant liars in the White House, and somehow forgets Bill Clinton?

The fact that Americans, by and large, hate, disrespect, mistrust, and make fun of corrupt and dysfunctional national institutions (like Congress, the press, the court system, etc.) and the corrupt, dysfunctional bastards who run the show, demonstrates that the nation has not quite lost its taste for better things. Most of our presidents since Eisenhower deserved to be hated! And so on.

I shudder to imagine an America that’s satisfied with what we’ve got today.

Some Random Thoughts REPRINT

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From June 11, 2014

Let’s see if I can do this like Thomas Sowell: offer up a few brief musings on today’s political scene.

To Eric Cantor, the House Minority Leader, swept out of office in a Republican primary this week, by a Tea Party candidate whom he outspent by at least 10-1: Don’t let the door hit you in the kiester on your way out.

To the rest of the House Republicans: Are you guys getting the message yet? We don’t want what you’re selling. We especially don’t want your “learn to live with Obamacare” surrender message, and we even more especially don’t want your so-called “immigration reform”–which we see as an attempt to replace the American electorate and turn us into an ethnic and cultural minority inside our own country.

To Congressman Paul “Mr. Amnesty” Ryan: You’re next, bozo.

Members of the House of Representatives get in big trouble politically when they forget they’re Representatives and start acting like Senators. Unlike Senators, they are accountable to the voters in their home district and had better not push the people too far. Every six years, the nationwide special interest groups can pour money into a campaign and keep  a Senator in office. It’s a lot harder to make that plan work in a Congressional district.

New bumper sticker: DEPORT OBAMA.

Wouldn’t it be nice if the GOP, as the official and only opposition party, actually started opposing a few things?

Wouldn’t it be nice if the House of Representatives actually used its Constitutional authority and started defunding government agencies that carry out an imperial president’s unlawful and high-handed executive orders? “Hey, Mr. Director of This-or-That! Your annual salary is now zero–just like your department’s new budget!”

 

 

Dems Want President to ‘Share’ Authority to Launch Nuclear Missiles

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If you can’t trust this guy with the nuclear missiles… hey, game over.

If Democrats haven’t made you physically ill yet, maybe this’ll do it.

Citing preposterous and totally fictional concerns that President Donald Trump might have gone crazy and started dropping nuclear bombs around the place, 31 Democrat weenies in the House of Representatives have released a letter calling for the president to “share” the authority to launch nuclear missiles (https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/democrats-want-biden-relinquish-sole-authority-nuclear-launches).

Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a compulsive liar, sez she contacted the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Jan. 6–when there was a very small riot at the Capitol Building–to ask about “preventing an unstable president” from going nuclear. The noozies take it as a given that nobody on the Left had anything whatsoever to do with organizing the riot–we are to take their word for it that the whole thing was 100% Donald Trump’s fault.

When did they outlaw intellectual honesty among “journalists”?

Anyway, according to this letter from the House, unspecified “past presidents” have “exhibited behavior that causes other officials to express concerns about the presidents’ judgment.”

Now, nowhere in the letter do they mention alleged “President Joe Biden,” or his leg hairs, or his deathless quote, “You know… uh, uh… the thing!” So what “presidents” are they “concerned” about? We ain’t got but one–and he’s defective. Everybody knows it.

The president has sole authority to launch nuclear missiles. At the same time, American military officers have a duty to disobey unlawful orders. And a lunatic president can be removed from office, per the 25th Amendment. Were they really, truly afraid Donald Trump was tempted to nuke D.C.? Or were they more worried that Doddering Joe might press the button because he thought he was having a rumble with Corn Pop down by the swimming pool?

Some Dems have suggested that it might be well if the president had to share that authority with, say, the vice president and whatever wad of protoplasm occupies the Speaker’s chair. Yeah, swell idea. Round ’em up and chew the fat for a couple hours while the bad guys are gleefully peppering America with their missiles. And there’s always the possibility that they might not be able to reach an agreement in time to fight the nuclear war at all. So the reason the president has that sole authority is because time is of the essence.

Readers’ Quiz For The Day: Who are more dishonest–Democrats or “journalists”?

Yes, the Supreme Court Does Exceed Its Authority

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A reader, Invisible Mikey, has taken me to task for not understanding the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review and for saying that the court, far exceeding its Constitutional authority, makes laws. You can see his full statement as a comment appended to the previous post, “Libs Move to Protect Religious Liberty.”

I have just re-read, twice, Article III of the Constitution, which defines the role of the Supreme Court. There is nothing in there about court decisions becoming “the law of the land” without benefit of legislation.

But we don’t bother with legislation anymore, do we? The court makes a ruling, or the president issues an executive order–“stroke of the pen, law of the land: cool!” And, as if by magic, marriage suddenly becomes the union of two persons of the same sex.

During my lifetime, politicians have used the Supreme Court to do their dirty work for them. Thus school prayer gets abolished, the state religion of the USA becomes secular humanism, abortion becomes “the law of the land” and snuffs out 50 million babies, and now even the most basic institutions of society are not safe from the court’s tampering.

All of these innovations were given to the court to execute because the politics for any one of them just wasn’t right. Introduce a bill in Congress to ban school prayer and see what the voters think of that.

I do not believe the polls that supposedly tell us that the American people are “overwhelmingly in  favor of gay marriage.” If that were so, it would have been the easiest thing in the world for politicians to ride the crest of the wave and redefine marriage using the ordinary legislative process, right under the dome of the capitol building. But again the dirty work was left to the court.

This is not to excuse Congress. Congress makes some truly horrible laws. But the strictly Constitutional remedy, when they do that, is to vote ’em out. Judicial Review was only established years after the ratification of the Constitution–and not by legislation, or amendment, but only by custom and public acceptance of the court’s expansion of its powers. It seemed like a good idea at the time!

I wonder what will be left of the Constitution by this time next year.

How Moral Imbeciles Defend Abortion

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Sorry for this horrible image–but if you have a problem with it, then you must be a forced-birth advocate.

The defense of abortion has been getting more and more inane. I won’t say it’s as offensive as abortion itself–you know: killing a baby and selling off the body piece by piece–but it is certainly very offensive.

Even before it came out that Planned Parenthood was selling off chunks of aborted babies, pro-aborts had discovered a devastating new put-down, guaranteed to slay pro-lifers where they stood.

Ready? Here it is: anyone opposed to abortion is to be called a forced birth advocate.

Get it? These wicked evil people are forcing, forcing women to have babies. The way-out-there lefty Daily Kos has a sample rant (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/07/1409643/-Marco-Rubio-and-Fetus-Worship ), in which we get the whole package: forced birth advocates hate women, they think women should be nothing more than “walking incubators,”  they indulge in “fetus worship,” and of course they don’t believe that “women’s lives matter.”

Abortion can also be defended by dreaming up statistically unlikely scenarios ( “What if a woman is raped by someone with AIDS while crossing the Barents Sea in a kayak?”), but it’s really much more fun to call names.

And when all else fails, pro-aborts can call upon their sponsor, Satan–as they did two years ago in this famous pro-abortion rally in Texas ( http://leeduigon.com/2013/07/05/hail-who-do-they-know-what-theyre-saying/ ).

I think we can be sure that Satan hears them.