Saturday, April 1, 2017
First on CNN: New terrorist laptop bombs may evade airport security, intel sources say
Travel with laptops banned from eight countries in Middle East and AfricaDon't tell the federal judges in Seattle and Hawaii
Link: We have to let people kill us because they have First Amendment rights
Friday, March 31, 2017
Charlie Hurt asks, "Why the curious silence from Obama over tapped Trump Tower?"
This would be 10 times more serious than Watergate. We are talking a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have never seen in modern times.
"Any logical human knows what Mr. Trump meant by this. I don’t think any serious person actually thought Mr. Obama himself in a hard hat and work gloves with wire snips was in the walls at Trump Tower twisting wires together.
Obviously, Mr. Trump meant that he and his campaign and transition team had been spied upon by U.S. intelligence services at the behest of — or with knowledge of — the sitting U.S. president."
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This is no small thing we are talking about here. We are talking about a sitting president’s administration using the terrifying powers of espionage of the United States government to conduct an intelligence operation against a political opponent before, during and after that target was elected president of the United States.Link: Charlie Hurt nails it again
Pat Buchanan asks, "Is Putin the 'preeminent statesman' of our time?"
You aren't going to like his opinion.
Link: From the man whose presidential campaign presaged TrumpThere is another reason Putin is viewed favorably. Millions of ethnonationalists who wish to see their nations secede from the EU see him as an ally. While Putin has openly welcomed many of these movements, America’s elite do not take even a neutral stance.Putin has read the new century better than his rivals. While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.The new dividing lines are between social conservatism and self-indulgent secularism, between tribalism and transnationalism, between the nation-state and the New World Order.On the new dividing lines, Putin is on the side of the insurgents.
The U.S. intelligence official who exposed the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world."
You mean it wasn't Rosemary Woods?WSJ: "To sum up, Team Obama was spying broadly on the incoming administration."
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LBJ's First Big Lie of Vietnam War
On this day in 1965, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson lied to the media about the recent deployment of the first 3,500 Marines sent to Da Nang to secure the U.S. base there. Johnson had plans to send more troops to Vietnam and to use them offensively rather than just defensively. By the time he was hounded out of office over the war, Johnson had sent 500,000 Americans to Vietnam. 58,000, many of whom were drafted and forced to fight in Vietnam, never came home.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Only Supreme Court Justice To Lead the NFL in Rushing
Trump has called Elijah Cummings three times since their meeting earlier this month about drug prices.
Time to do something radical.
How serious is President Trump about drug prices? Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings tells me that Trump has called him three times to follow up on their conversation at the White House earlier this month. And Trump's not just talking about letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, Cummings says. It's even worse for Republicans — because Trump is also talking about importing cheaper drugs from other countries.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Dereliction of Duty
The Lies That Led to Vietnam
Guns and Butter - 58,000 American Boys Killed
On this day in 1973, the last American troops left South Vietnam following the loss of 58,000 American boys, mostly my age, and most of whom had been drafted and forced to go to Vietnam to fight and die. Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s current National Security Advisor, has written a necessary read about this sad episode in American history called Dereliction of Duty, subtitled “Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam.” Gen. McMaster says Democrat President Johnson “disregarded the advice he did not want to hear in favor of a policy based on the pursuit of his own political fortunes and his beloved domestic programs." "The administration’s lies to the American public grew in magnitude as the American military effort in Vietnam escalated,” initially without the public’s knowledge or consent. Johnson’s “guns and butter” policies led to rampant inflation reaching 18%, political turmoil, and social shock waves felt for a generation.
Oregon Seeks To Regulate Cow Farts
From the Same State That Makes it Illegal to Pump Your Own Gas
It's also illegal to whistle under water
And, don't forget, you can't walk backward while eating a donut
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
President Andrew Jackson Censured By Congress
On this day in 1834, President Andrew Jackson became the first president to be censured by Congress. Jackson refused to provide documents regarding his veto of a bill renewing the Bank of the United States. Jackson vetoed the bill because he believed the bank favored the rich, eastern elites instead of encouraging development of the western frontier for the benefit of the common man. Jackson’s nemesis on this issue was Henry Clay, whom Jackson defeated in the presidential election of 1832 but who continued to pester Jackson from the Senate. Jackson ultimately prevailed in reforming the banking system. When Jackson’s second term ended, Jackson said his only regret was not having shot Clay before leaving office.Monday, March 27, 2017
Mary Katherine Hamm
Nice article about the recently widowed conservative
How do you not pull for her?
Dilbert: Create Free Healthcare Enterprise Zones
How about a free market, open source, direct democracy solution for health care?
It's a crazy idea only if you continue to think Congress can solve this problem
Who in hell wants their health care determined by politicians?
Sunday, March 26, 2017
WSJ: Steve Bannon and the Making of an Economic Nationalist
"The controversial White House Counselor says his father's 2008 financial trauma helped crystallize his antiglobalist views and led to political hardening; 'I'm going to be totally wiped out.'"
“The government created this problem,” Marty Bannon says. “The elites, they got bailed out. Everybody else in the country, whatever happened, happened, and they just had to move on.”
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