~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
The DNC stage now has flags everywhere after they were criticized on Monday for having none. They were also blasted for not having widows of police officers speak so they had four speaking tonight.
Hillary Clinton made history by becoming the first person to self-identify as a woman. She has spent 40 years in public service achieving nothing, but just give her four more years.
During her acceptance speech, she said our “Democracy” is not working as it should. We are no longer a Republic to these people.
She made a strong pitch that her party is the party of the working people and has a long list of freebies and to give out and she supports full amnesty.
It would be “inhumane” to kick out the millions of illegal immigrants in this country, she said.
She wants the minimum wage to be a Marxist living wage.
Affordable healthcare is a right, she proclaimed.
Clinton wants to expand Social Security to people who didn’t earn it.
A new massive stimulus will take place in her first 100 days. That is what Obama did at the beginning of his term and it failed.
College tuition will be free and debt-free for all. She will eliminate student debt. Taxpayers will pay for this especially when every deadbeat heads for college.
Small businesses will get more loans.
Paid family leave is also on her agenda.
All of this will be on the back of all taxpayers and businesses. She thinks the rich and Wall Street can pay for all this. She is going to “follow the money” and then steal it. If companies ship jobs overseas, she will punish them and take their wealth[…]
Hillary Clinton is reportedly considering making staff changes at her presidential campaign headquarters after what is likely to be a loss in the New Hampshire Democratic primary Tuesday.
Politico, citing multiple sources with knowledge of the matter, reported that Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were initially planning to review staff at the Brooklyn, New York, headquarters following the first four Democratic primaries but pushed to move the review up after she nearly lost to competitor Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) in the Iowa caucuses.
“The Clintons are not happy, and have been letting all of us know that. The idea is that we need a more forward-looking message, for the primary–but also for the general election too … There’s no sense of panic, but there is an urgency to fix these problems […]
David Deming, Professor of Arts And Sciences, Univ. of Oklahoma-Norman. Photo: Wikipedia, Creative Commons
Referencing Venezuela’s failed social engineering policies and the collapse of Russia, David Deming, associate professor of Arts & Sciences at the University of Oklahoma-Norman wrote an op-ed this weekend stating that the attraction of the nation’s millennials to Bernie Sanders is the result of “our failure to educate them.”
It’s disheartening that an avowed socialist is a viable candidate for president of the United States. Socialism is a dead end. For hundreds of years, it has failed everywhere it’s been adopted. The enthusiasm of our youth for the candidacy of Bernie Sanders is a symptom of our failure to educate them, not only in history, government and economics, but also basic morality.
You don’t have to be a student of ancient history to know socialism doesn’t work. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 was an unequivocal demonstration of the moral and economic superiority of capitalism. The misery caused by socialism is unfolding today in Venezuela. Since Venezuela embraced socialism in 1999, poverty, crime and corruption have all increased. Grocery shelves are empty and the annual inflation rate is estimated to be as high as 200 percent […]
Wow. I’ve read some ignorant op-ed pieces in this newspaper, but I think this one might take the cake. I just love it when some guy who clearly doesn’t know the difference between Socialism and Marxism also twists the Founding Fathers to fit his own politics. I’ve read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and all of the Federalist Papers, and NOWHERE do the Founders extol the inviolable virtues of private property ownership. In fact, in the 5th Amendment, they made it VERY clear that government CAN take your property, as long as they pay you ‘just compensation’ for it — and the government decides what’s just. The 14th Amendment, which came about way afterwards, affirms government’s right to confiscate your property after ‘due process’. Professor Deming, I would suggest that you read Hobbes (first), then Rousseau and Locke for a correct understanding of what kind of nation the Founders were trying to shape. You might find Social Contract Theory interesting. I would also refer you to just about any list currently out there that ranks nations by Quality of Life, Economic Opportunity, Freedom, Citizen Satisfaction, Educational Attainment, Stability, etc…. And then try and figure out why the Western European nations all out-rank America; You know, the places run as Social Democracies… Gee, you think they might have figured out something we haven’t?
I’ll take a minute to answer Mr. Barnett. Mr. Barnett argues that property rights were not important to the Founding Fathers. But note that the very fact he presents to buttress his argument, the existence of the Fifth Amendment, supports the opposite point of view. Mr. Barnett mentions Locke, but seems to have missed that Locke wrote: “The great and chief end therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.” (source: Locke, J., 1690, Two Treatises of Government: Awnsham Churchill, London, p. 346). In 1772, the Boston Committee of Correspondence asserted that the “natural rights of colonists as men” included “first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly, to property.” They continued: “the grand end of civil government from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection and defense of those very rights, the principal of which as is before observed, are life, liberty and property.” (source: Boston Committee of Correspondence, 1772, The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and Other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston (“Boston Pamphlet”): Edes and Gill, Boston, p. 6-7). Less than a month before the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Declaration of Rights asserted: “That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.” I could go on and on, but I think the point is made.
Administrators at the University of Oklahoma attempted to silence Deming who filed a lawsuit against the University in 2000 after being removed:
“from his department, stripped him of most of his classes, and moved his office to a converted basement lab, all while claiming to respect the principles of academic freedom. Public records requests have uncovered damning evidence that OU administrators schemed to marginalize and isolate him for his attempts at whistleblowing and for his political expression.
Professor Deming’s troubles began in February 2000, when OU threatened to punish him for a letter he wrote to the Oklahoma Daily newspaper protesting a column advocating gun control. Read more about this case here. After FIRE wrote in protest and Deming threatened a First Amendment lawsuit, the university dropped the charges in May 2000….“
Sen. Bernard Sanders‘ presidential campaign manager said Thursday that the Vermont senator is open to having more debates, but that they aren’t going to engage in a process where the only times debates are scheduled come when Hillary Clinton’s campaign feels like they’re under pressure.
“This is the issue: We’ve been living under this six debate schedule that was imposed on us from the beginning of this campaign,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“All through the fall, Senator Sanders called for more debates, and Governor O’Malley was calling for more debates, and Secretary Clinton’s campaign seemed to be very happy about how many debates we were having,” he said[…]
Unfortunately the odds are high that the same stupid American voters who elected Barack Obama in 2008 and then again in 2012 based on the color of his skin and who today are suffering the repercussions of their actions have learned nothing.
Proving their ignorance yet again, the same low information voters will vote for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman or Bernie Sanders because the slogan, “feel the Bern” is cool.
Democrats are reluctant to admit they would support the Socialist/Communist candidate Bernie Sanders but that doesn’t mean they won’t.
Barack Obama is promising freebies to college students again. He just announced a $2 billion dollar wish list for college students and that gives a boost to Bernie Sanders, not necessarily Hillary. Bernie Sanders is doing the same thing – promising free college to the youth. This does make them both very popular with the young but it’s hard to beat Bernie when it comes to free everything.
As Hillary Clinton moves closer to an implosion, it is Bernie Sanders who Obama will probably support. They’re both Marxists.
Despite being a creepy, aged Communist, Bernie Sanders has a real shot at the presidency and this is why[…]
If you missed the Democrat debate, you missed a fun time. The RNC was handing out flyers for the movie, 13 Hours, during the debate. The questions by the moderators were very, very far left. No candidate mentioned terrorism and foreign policy had to be dragged out of them into the debate. Out of the box, they were asked what they would do their first 100 days in office and no one mentioned foreign policy or terrorism.
Bernie and Hillary brawled. Hillary raged like a mad woman and Bernie sounded like an angry old red diaper baby.
They did a lot of pandering to black people and weren’t very kind towards police.
Both Bernie and O’Malley called Hillary a liar. They got that right! Tell us something we don’t know.
Hillary was 100% in support of every single thing Obama has done.
In discussing Wall Street, Hillary said “no one is too big for jail”. She must mean herself.
“Well, there’s no daylight on the basic premise that there should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too powerful to jail. We agree on that,” Hillary said. Yes we do[…]
While at the same time viewers sought out information on the Benghazi hearings which is bound to turn into a major cash cow for Michael Bey’s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” and questions like “‘Will Hillary Clinton get prosecuted?”
…Daniel Sieberg, a senior marketing manager at Google, said that the most popular questions about Clinton pertain to the Benghazi scandal….The top question, according to Google Trends, was whether Clinton would be prosecuted. The second most searched question doubted whether Clinton would be nominated, and the third inquired how she broke the law.
The questions surrounding Bernie Sanders, in comparison, pertain to his popularity, success, and age.
“So for example, with Bernie Sanders, they ask things like, ‘Why is Bernie Sanders so popular?’ ‘Can Bernie Sanders win?,’ and of course, ‘How old is Bernie Sanders?” Sieberg said….
The Democrats held a debate Sunday night, the perfect time to make sure as few people as possible watch, a way to ensure that Hillary Clinton can continue her march to her coronation as the Democratic Party Establishment Candidate. They discussed a variety of talking points, including who is the toughest on ownership of firearms by law abiding citizens
(Yahoo News) The three Democratic presidential candidates sparred over gun control early on in their debate in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday night.
Their exchange began with questions about the shifting position of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on a bill limiting liability for gun manufacturers and sellers whose products are used in crimes. As Sanders has gained in the polls, frontrunner Hillary Clinton has attacked him on the issue….
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Sunday cast herself as President Obama’s natural heir on guns, health care and the economy in the final debate before Iowa’s caucuses, but Sen. Bernard Sanders said it’s time for Democrats to push further, saying the country needs a “political revolution” to break the power of big corporations.
Mrs. Clinton accused Mr. Sanders of betraying Mr. Obama by seeking a primary opponent for him in 2012, and calling the president weak on tackling Wall Street….
Mr. Sanders denied that he’s an enemy of Mr. Obama, but embraced the charge that he wants to move beyond the president’s agenda, saying more must be done to break the power big banks and the wealthiest have over Washington.
“Can you really reform Wall Street when they are spending millions and millions of dollars on campaign contributions and when they are providing speaker fees to individuals?” he said, pointing to $200,000 he said Mrs. Clinton collected in 2013 to deliver a speech at investment giant Goldman Sachs.
“It’s easy to say I’m going to do this and do that, but I have doubts when people receive huge amounts of money from Wall Street,” he said.,…
If the reasons Progressives chose to hold the debate on Sunday night is that they thought that no one would be watching, they may be wrong. Americans on both sides of the fence are angry which means many either tuned in or tuned out. Time will tell.
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