Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Sunday, January 26, 2014
OUTRAGEOUS: CBS News Censors Senator's Blistering Criticism of President's Unprecedented Abuse of Power
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) appeared on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday morning and was met with a barrage of questions from host Bob Schieffer about his involvement in the government shutdown. Apart from being the victim of Schieffer’s accusations that the Tea Party senator was to blame for the shutdown, it also appears that Mr. Cruz was the victim of editing by CBS.
Based on video from Senator Cruz’s YouTube page and what aired on today’s Face the Nation broadcast, the senator’s comments surrounding President Obama’s “abuse of power” were edited from the program. Instead what aired was a segment that ignored many of the senator’s complaints directed at President Obama.
In the video that aired on CBS, the interview between Schieffer and Cruz ended with the following back and forth:
Saturday, January 25, 2014
On What The Arrest Of Dinesh D'Souza Should Mean To Americans
Coincidence: Hollywood's only conservative group is getting close IRS nonprofit scrutiny
Another Coincidence: James O'Keefe Group Being Audited by NY. Again.
Yet Another Coincidence: Dinesh D'Souza Indicted For Election Fraud
Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin's 'John Doe' Subpoenas
Secret investigations targeted coincidently at most prominent conservative groups in WI who can only now legally talk about their harassment. If you want to see what American fascism would look like, well this is it.
Fascism, straight up, to paraphrase a hideous, tattooed fascist.
PIC: Gerald Molen, Producer Of 2016, On What The Arrest Of Dinesh D'Souza Should Mean To Americans. #ImpeachObama pic.twitter.com/jUVdbSbpS8
— ♛ ♥OCareSux♥ ♛ (@BettinaVLA) January 25, 2014Francis W. Porretto suspects that time is up. Based upon recent developments, he may be more right than any of us were willing to admit.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Bad (Blue) News for Mitch McConnell
Which means the top story earlier today was getting a boatload of social media buzz.
Listen to the interview.
Matt Bevin is the real deal.
If you have the wherewithal, consider helping him out and hand Mitch McConnell a nice fat pink slip.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
The 3 Types of "Income Inequality" Religious Extremists
With disturbing regularity, pundits great and meager decry a familiar and reviled foe of progress known as "income inequality."
Under the rubric that income inequality is inherently evil, unfair, or overly capitalistic, three distinct sub-sects of this odd religion have emerged.
The "Wall Street Needs More Regulation" Tribe: Tyler Cowan of George Mason University is emblematic of this group. Cowan is concerned with the growing disparity of wealth between the top one percent and the remainder of society. He believes it is linked to structural problems with our society -- especially Wall Street's ne'er-do-well financial engineers -- that can only be solved by big government.
In 2011, for instance, Cowan wrote that he was unsure whether "the new financial regulation bill [Dodd-Frank] will help" and offered several endorsements of its key features. Cowan seems to have missed the century-long tidal wave of regulation already levied upon the financial industry with government inevitably destroying that which it claims to protect (housing, student loans, etc.).
The thousand-page Dodd-Frank bill -- which was never read by lawmakers -- confers immense and unconstitutional powers on an unelected bureaucrat (Richard Cordray, the head of the CPFB). The law, in fact, nationalizes even greater swaths of the financial industry, hamstrings the free market, and creates yet another massive, authoritarian, Politburo-like policy-maker.
It is but one more complex spiderweb of regulatory edict that is certain to fail just as surely as Fannie Mae imploded in 2008.
Never does Cowan publicly list America's richest people. Of the top 10 wealthiest individuals in America, three are self-made (Gates, Ellison, and Bloomberg). Of the next 10, four are self-made (Bezos, Page, Brin and Zuckerberg, who is 29 years old). In fact, if you descend down the Forbes 400 list, you will find self-made billionaire after self-made billionaire and few of the Wall Street hedge fund operators and bankers Cowan so decries.
In fact, Cowan's vaunted income inequality metric has been driven not by Wall Street but by technological innovation and the network effect.
It has given a bright 23-year old the opportunity to turn down an offer of $3 billion for a company he founded just two years ago.
It has given a bright 17-year old the opportunity to sell a mobile app he developed in high school for $30 million.
In fact, a vast, interconnected, and vibrant fabric of computing machines has and will continue to revolutionize value creation in the United States. And somehow Cowan missed it.
The "Robots Will Steal All Our Jobs" Tribe: Mike Shedlock is the archetype of the robophobes, publishing one fear-mongering article after another, seemingly on a weekly basis. A sampling of his headlines may help offer some perspective into the mindset of this particular brand of Luddite:
• Meet "Baxter" the Robot Out to Get Your Minimum-Wage, No Benefits, Part-Time Job, Because He's Still Much Cheaper; Fed Cannot Win a Fight Against Robots
• Carl the Robot Bartender Mixes Drinks and Chats With Customers
• Future of Medicine: Meet Sedasys - Your New Robot Anesthesiologist
• Robotic Outsourcing; Food Preparation Robots Invade China, Japan, US; Who is to Blame, and What Can be Done About It?
• $210,000 Cow Milking Robot; Presenting the "Astronaut A4 - A Natural Way of Milking"; How Far Off is the Completely Robotic Farm?
There are more. But the last one is particularly striking: since the dawn of human history, increased automation has marked the cultivation of food. From men tilling fields and picking crops to massive farm machinery and crop-dusters, mechanization of farming has improved the lives of billions of people.
And somehow "robots" will disrupt that trend?
Each new innovation -- a robot is but one example -- creates entire new ecosystems to plan, design, build, and service.
The 1730 invention of the flying shuttle dramatically accelerated the process of weaving and production of cloth. This innovation in turn led to incredible new opportunities for entrepreneurs to supply raw materials, service machinery, create new families of finished products, and the like.
You may know it as the Industrial Revolution.
And always the Luddites like Shedlock predict the demise of good-paying jobs, whether on the farm or at the loom. Never do they seem to contemplate that the process of creative destruction renders obsolete certain roles while simultaneously creating vast and unpredictable opportunities.
Whereas the blacksmith and the elevator operator no longer appear in our society, tens of thousands of new types of jobs have more than supplanted them.
Even the lowly pencil defies the ability of any human to fully comprehend -- let along perform -- its construction.
Automation in the form of ubiquitous robotics is absolutely no different than any other revolutionary improvement in speed, quality and delivery of products and services.
It would seem that Shedlock and his ilk somehow missed the Industrial Revolution and every other transformative period of human history.
The "Statist" Tribe: Paul Krugman, on the other hand, belongs to the dogmatic school of progressive thought. In this case, you can read progressive as Doctrinaire Marxist.
Krugman, whose inane posturing and reflexive hypocrisy have been thorougly exposed as pure, unvarnished idiocy by historian Niall Ferguson, pretends to belong to the Cowan tribe.
But his cheerleading of Communists like Bill DeBlasio gives away the game. Krugman is a Statist; his religion is government; and any of his bleatings -- income inequality or otherwise -- are designed to lobby for increasingly centralized and authoritarian government.
As the French painfully discovered with their one year flirtation with Marxism, collectivism can't work, won't work, and has never worked in all of human history.
And somehow Paul Krugman and his fellow ideologues missed that part of history class.
What's 1,000 times worse than income inequality? Income equality.
In truth, North Korea represents the ideal for those who fight for income equality with its one man at the top worth tens of billions of dollars while the entire civilian population starves, largely impoverished.
In spite of the Democrats' efforts, there is no better society on the planet to simultaneously improve society and to enrich oneself than the United States.
Income inequality -- in fact, wild inequality -- is healthy and desirable.
Perhaps one day the would-be regulators, the Luddites, and the Marxists will pick up some history books and discover the wonders of the free market. But, then again, I'm a dreamer.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Thomas Jefferson, Radical Extremist
Thomas Jefferson was radically anti-tax, pro-gun and anti-central bank. He loved precious metals, he openly acknowledged a “Creator” and he wanted to add an amendment to the Constitution which would ban the federal government from going into debt. If he was around today, he would be considered a “nutjob”, an “extremist”, a “fascist” and even a “potential terrorist“. But of course Jefferson was none of those things. Rather, Jefferson was a great thinker, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and our third President. Below, I have shared a list of 13 famous Jefferson quotes (13 for the 13 colonies that originally founded America) that show just how far America has fallen away from our founding principles. I think that most of you will be very shocked when you read this list…
#1 “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
#2 “If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
#3 “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
#4 “I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”
#5 “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.”
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
There, fixed it for you
Nearly 40 years later, we need an updated version:
Wendy Davis (D-LIAR) tells her paraplegic GOP opponent to "walk a mile in my shoes"
We’re not surprised by Greg Abbott’s [her Texas governorship opponent] campaign attacks on the personal story of my life as a single mother who worked hard to get ahead.
Actually, Abbott didn't "attack" her -- "the decidedly non-conservative" Dallas Morning News did. But that said, let's keep going:
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future and that’s what I’ve done. I am proud of where I came from and I am proud of what I’ve been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance.
And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn’t walked a day in my shoes.
As Neo-neocon notes:
...I appeared to be the only one making the connection between her “walk in my shoes” remark and that fact that he is a paraplegic...
Stand up, Chuck! Jon Gabriel, writing at Ricochet, offers the executive summary of the Wendy Davis business plan:
Low Information Voters: adding faces to the voices
You may have already seen these LIV thoughts here and here. But what a difference does putting a face to a voice make! The success of the Obamacare graphic (the first one below) made me want to do more with this concept.
Monday, January 20, 2014
OH, MY: In 5 Seconds Flat, Mark Levin Shreds Obama's Football Idiocy
Mark Levin opened his show today hitting Obama square between the eyes in response to him saying yesterday that he wouldn’t let his ‘son’ play football:
So he wouldn’t let his son play football – this pretend son that he has. It’s like Jimmy Stewart with the pretend rabbit.
Well let me tell you something Mr. President. I wouldn’t let my son be an ambassador under you. I’d much rather that he played football.
You can hear the audio at The Right Scoop.
Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
Do keep up, progressives -- do keep up
@GOPBlackChick RT @jimdwrench: @LeonardGilbert2 @Larryputt Yes indeed !! pic.twitter.com/5JXYVK0Q9u
— Toby Ramsey (@tramz18) December 13, 2013MSNBC hardest hit.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Obama admission: I'm a terrible communicator and can't convince anyone that my policies make sense
One of the things that I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting is the fact that we are not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to ensure Americans are provided with the help that they need. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
One of the things I’m going to be talking to my cabinet about is how do we use all the tools available to us, not just legislation in order to advance a mission that I think unifies all Americans.
While Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton each were able to work with a Congress controlled by the other party to achieve significant accomplishments, Obama has all but admitted his failings.
I can't convince anyone that I'm right. I can't work with the other party. I have no persuasive skills. I'm a horrible communicator. And, because I'm a failure, I refuse to work within the confines of the Constitutional structure.
I don't play well with others.
I'm a tiny little child and no one else can play with my toys.
Related: A Child's First Book of Regulations.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
SURPRISE! Senate Democrats Want TV Networks to Promote Marxist Global Warming Propaganda
Junk Science: Senate Democrats want TV networks to promote climate-change hysteria and follow the lead of Britain's state broadcasting company, which sent its top executives to a green propaganda training seminar.
The mainstream media, long a house organ for Democrats, are about to come under pressure by Senate Democrats led by Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who are gathering signatures from colleagues on a letter to the networks telling them they're ignoring global warming, according to a report in the National Journal.They are seeking to impose sort of a climate change "fairness doctrine" designed to ignore inconvenient truths about climate researchers getting stuck in Antarctic ice that was supposed to have melted in favor of the gospel according to Al Gore.
"It is beyond my comprehension that you have ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, that their Sunday shows have discussed climate change in 2012, collectively, for all of eight minutes," Sanders said, citing analysis by the leftist George Soros-linked Media Matters for America, which promotes media bias while claiming to fight it.
"Sunday news shows are obviously important because they talk to millions of people, but they go beyond that by helping to define what the establishment considers to be important and what is often discussed during the rest of the week," he said.
Certainly the Obama administration believes that, having sent U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice out to lie about the Benghazi terrorist attack on five Sunday talk shows.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
REMINDER FOR THE NEXT ELECTION: The Media Lies, Flashback to 1980 Edition
So let's venture back to March 23, 1980, where New York Times columnist E.J. Dionne demonstrated his uncanny ability to get every single aspect of the story wrong. It's a knack he continues to exercise even today.
The reason I bring this up: imagine that a truly popular conservative candidate like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee or Rand Paul is able to secure the GOP nomination.
Expect the same kind of ridiculous lies and predictions coming from the establishment, be it The New York Times or NBC News.




















