However when it comes to really solving the immigration problem he gets it all wrong. And instead of making us more free and prosperous, his solutions will accelerate our downward slide toward authoritarianism.
Question of the Day, Sep 6
Saw this headline this morning…”Clown tries to lure kids in Winston-Salem, two clown sightings reported”. I’ve always been a little afraid of clowns.
Outside of big government, what are you afraid of? Bonus points if it’s something funny. For example, we had a foster child who was terrified of cicada shells.
CIVIL UNREST? PROBABLY NOT HERE, OR HERE, OR HERE
Guest Post by SSS
“The hunt for truth is the most difficult of human endeavors.” – SSS
I live in the metro area of one of America’s poorest cities, Tucson, Arizona. Population 530,000, and metro area close to 1 million. Poorest? Well, among America’s cities, Tucson is somewhere around the 5th or 6th poorest in the country, depending upon which stats you read. City crime rates, most of which stem from drug trafficking and gang activity, are among the highest in the state of Arizona, but quite low compared to other cities of its size in our nation. Yet the probability of civil unrest in Tucson, even on a small scale, is low. Large scale civil unrest, as we have witnessed in Ferguson MO, Baltimore and elsewhere, is even more unlikely. Why?
Here are some more facts. The racial composition of Tucson is White 47%; Hispanic 42%; Black 5%; Native American 3%; Other (mainly Asian), 3%. The important figure is 42% Hispanic, most of whom are Mexican-Americans. The large presence of Hispanics in Tucson, El Paso, and Albuquerque, among many other southwestern cities and towns with a large presence of Hispanics, is a buffer against any serious civil unrest. And that buffer is built on the Hispanic community’s CULTURE because ………
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Trump Slams Yellen: The Fed Has Created A “Stock Bubble” And “A False Economy” To Boost Obama
One month ago, Donald Trump urged his followers to sell stocks, warning of “very scary scenarios” for investors, and accused the Fed of setting the stage for the next market crash when he said that “interest rates are artificially low” during a phone interview with Fox Business. “The only reason the stock market is where it is is because you get free money.”
Earlier today, speaking to a reporter traveling on his plane who asked Trump about a potential rate hike by the Fed in September, Trump took his vendetta to the next level, saying that the Fed is “keeping the rates artificially low so the economy doesn’t go down so that Obama can say that he did a good job. They’re keeping the rates artificially low so that Obama can go out and play golf in January and say that he did a good job. It’s a very false economy. We have a bad economy, everybody understands that but it’s a false economy. The only reason the rates are low is so that he can leave office and he can say, ‘See I told you.'”
Trump & the Hillarycons
Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
In 1964, Phyllis Schlafly of Alton, Illinois, mother of six, wrote and published a slim volume entitled “A Choice Not an Echo.”
Backing the candidacy of Sen. Barry Goldwater, the book was a polemic against the stranglehold the eastern liberal establishment had held on the Republican nomination for decades.
Schlafly went on to lead the campaign to derail the Equal Rights Amendment, which, with 35 states having ratified, was just three states short of being added to our Constitution.
Pro-ERA forces never added another state. Phyllis, who, at 20 was testing weapons at a munitions plant in World War II, shot it dead.
At 92, the founder of Eagle Forum has a new book out, published by Regnery. “The Conservative Case for Trump,” co-authored by Ed Martin of Eagle Forum and Brett Decker, argues that the Donald is an authentic conservative around whom every conservative should rally.
Yet, in making their cogent case, Schlafly and her co-authors raise questions that today bedevil the movement.
What does conservatism mean in 2016? Upon what ideas and issues, principles and policies, do conservatives still agree?
I DON’T RECALL
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Road Clovers
Guest Post by Eric Peters
It may be the fluoridation of the water. Possibly the chem trails. Perhaps it is an assault at the micro-genetic level. Who can say?
Whatever the source, Cloverism is propagating. They are everywhere.I thought five chapters (see here, here, here, here and here) would cover it. But it seems there are still a few more subsets to document:
* The Defensive Driving Clover –
He is steeped deep in the learned passivity taught by government “defensive driving” schools. If any one thing defines a Clover, it is just that – his passivity. Taking the initiative, acting on his own judgment – those things are as foreign to him as the Grotto at Hef’s mansion must have seemed to Liberace.
I SURVIVED HURRICANE HERMINE
WTF COUGHING FIT OF THE DAY
This is after taking four days off to rest.
THE ANTI-CINDERELLA MAN (PART TWO)
In Part One of this article I made a fact based case that most Americans are experiencing an economic depression on par with the Great Depression of the 1930’s. In Part Two I will compare and contrast two very different men who raised the spirits of the common man during difficult economic times. As we approach the perilous portion of this Fourth Turning, it will take more than hope to get us through to the other side.
Cinderella Man
Likening Braddock to Trump might seem far-fetched, until you think about parallels between the economic conditions during the 1930’s and today, along with the deepening mood of crisis, despair and anger at the establishment. Braddock’s career coincided with the last Fourth Turning. James J. Braddock was born in 1905, to Irish immigrant parents Joseph Braddock and Elizabeth O’Toole Braddock in a tiny apartment on West 48th Street in New York City. His life personified that of a GI Generation hero. One of seven children, Jimmy enjoyed playing marbles, baseball and hanging around the old swimming hole on the edge of the Hudson River as a youngster. He discovered his passion for boxing as a teenager.
Braddock refined his skills as an amateur fighter and in 1926 entered the professional boxing circuit in the light heavyweight division. Braddock overwhelmed the competition, knocking out multiple opponents in the early rounds of most fights. As a top light heavyweight, he stood over six feet two inches, but seldom weighed over 180 pounds. But his powerful right hand was no match for opponents that weighed close to 220 pounds. His star was ascending. He earned a shot at the title in 1929. On the evening of July 18th 1929, Braddock entered the ring at Yankee Stadium to face Tommy Loughran for the coveted light heavyweight championship. Loghran avoided Braddock’s deadly right hand for 15 rounds and won by decision. Less than two months later the stock market crashed and the country plunged into the Great Depression.
I Was Forced to Join a Union
This Labor Day the good news is that I have been appointed as an adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University. I’ll be teaching a seminar in labor economics and public policy.
The bad news is that as a condition of my employment, I must become a card-carrying, dues-paying member of the Service Employees International Union Local 500 — or pay the SEIU an agency fee in order to get out of membership. The letter from Provost Forrest Maltzman tells me that “failure to pay dues or agency fees may result in termination.”
My hiring letter includes a form that I am required to sign. On the form, I must give the SEIU my home address, home phone, alternate phone, and e-mail address. In addition to paying dues, I have to give the union personal information such as where I live and how to contact me.
A Pleasant Lull
Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
A pleasant lull lies over the land where today fewer people labor honestly — and some labor gruelingly for too little — while a matrix of rackets sustains the illusion that our living arrangements have a future. Is Quarterback Colin Kaepernick on the minds of the millions moiling around their backyard barbeques? I applaud his refusal to stand for the national anthem, though not for the reasons he stated. Rather, because I’m sick of vulgar symbolism in a dark moment of a fraying culture that demands more than cheap talk and lame gestures.
Question of the Day, Labor Day
Off to the Renaissance Faire to consume copious amounts of meat on a stick. What is / was your favorite theme park?
SAFE SPACES
SAFE SPACES CIRCA 1910
SAFE SPACES CIRCA 2016
You Open Carry Idiots Aren’t Helping
Guest Post by Duane Norman
In Ohio, protesters gathered outside the home of former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, who was released from jail Friday after serving just half of his six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.
He’ll be on probation at his parents’ home near Dayton and some of his neighbors aren’t happy about it, reports CBS News correspondent Carter Evans.
“He’s just not welcome,” Molly Hardin said.
Source: Protests follow brock Turner home to Ohio | CBS News
It should be apparent to everyone at this point that Brock Turner got off way too easy. A 19 year old attending Stanford University at the time of the incident, this guy was convicted of raping a 22 year old woman behind a dumpster. Yet, he only got six months in prison, and was recently released after three months on “good behavior”. Go ahead and read the reports – the punishment clearly did not fit the crime, and it is reasonable to question whether or not the judge was paid off to lay down such a lenient sentence. People everywhere should be very pissed off at this gross miscarriage of justice, especially when that same judge has almost certainly handed down harsher sentences for far lesser crimes.