Socialism: You have two cows. Give one cow to your neighbor.
Communism: You have two cows. Give both cows to the government and they may give you some milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. You give all of the milk to the government and the government sells it.
Nazism: You have two cows. The government shoots you and takes both cows.
Capitalism: You have two cows. Sell one, buy a bull.
Feel the Bern: It’s happening again. The Democratic powers that be, their establishment, and Super Delegates are pulling out all the stops to “burn” Bernie Sanders out of the nomination.
I think Sanders or Biden will be beat by President Trump…but the sleazy gamesmanship by the Democratic establishment has to piss off the Bernie supporters.
No one likes losing, but losing a fair race versus a fixed or stacked race against you is a recipe for trouble. Sander’s folks don’t like Trump…but will they take getting screwed twice in a row? And if the progressive left gets spanked across the board by the establishment and it’s clear their votes and efforts are expected to just fall in line with “the party”, they may be in for a bigger fight than expected.
Republicans can’t take anything for granted. But the Democrats have put up a flawed field of candidates where the last 3 or 4 candidates left standing were old, white, millionaires…in an irony that is too precious to pass up.
I almost feel sorry for Bernie…almost:)
CPAC: Last weekend I attended my latest CPAC conference. My first one was in 1979 and I’ve been lucky enough to attend virtually every one since then. Great to get rejuvenated by fellow conservatives…now from around the world. Always great to see old friends and get lucky enough to make a few new ones.
It’s a great opportunity to network, learn and renew for the political fights ahead. Already looking forward to 2021!!!
-Saul Anuzis
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Pat Boone: Learn from Lincoln and Pray for Your Nation
Lincoln was the embattled and tortured president, wanting desperately to find a workable, achievable solution. There was only one. And he called for it.
Joe Biden’s Big Night Won’t Be Enough To Solve Democrats’ Bernie Sanders Problem
The Super Tuesday narrative is that Biden was vindicated and he’s stronger than ever, but the primary map and the upcoming states suggest otherwise.
What is the Social Security Administration’s Supplemental Security Income program?
You’ve heard of Social Security, but have you heard of another program with a lot of recipient overlap – Supplemental Security Income?
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Trump taps key Hill ally Mark Meadows to be chief of staff
President Donald Trump announced on Friday night that Rep. Mark Meadows will become the new White House chief of staff, a dramatic reshuffling of his senior aides in the midst of the growing coronavirus crisis affecting the United States and the world.
Meadows, a conservative North Carolina Republican who helped overthrow one Republican speaker, considered getting rid of another and pushed Trump into a disastrous government shutdown over funding his border wall, will be Trump’s fourth chief of staff in just over three years in office.
Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff for the last 14 months, will become envoy to Northern Ireland.
It’s a most remarkable turn for the 60-year old Meadows, who in the eyes of his detractors has few qualifications for the post besides a talent for disruption, obstruction and obfuscation. Yet for the Republicans he’s fighting for — the House Freedom Caucus, of which he was a founder, and Trump — there’s no better advocate or strategist to have on your side.
The ascension to White House chief of staff is the culmination of a head-snapping rise for Meadows, who announced in December that he was retiring at the end of this term in Congress. Meadows was first elected in 2012, formed the Freedom Caucus with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in 2014 and was the man who went to the floor to seek to remove John Boehner from the speakership in the summer of 2015.
“Mark Meadows is smart, loyal, a true patriot. He’s a good man and my best friend,” Jordan said on Twitter following Trump’s announcement. “Couldn’t have picked anyone better for the job.”
How Democratic Party’s backing of Joe Biden shows desperation
It is an attempt by the powers-that-be to cut their losses and prevent the epic electoral disaster that awaits the party if Sen. Bernard Sanders, the Vermont independent and avowed “Democratic socialist,” is the Democratic nominee against President Donald J. Trump.
Make no mistake.
Nobody actually thinks Mr. Biden, sometime vice president and senator from Delaware, can actually beat Mr. Trump.
Rather, the sudden clearing of the field, which culminated Wednesday in the exit of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is aimed at protecting the Democratic majority in the lower chamber of Congress as well as the plethora of other down-ballot races across the country.
Democrats are not happy with Mr. Biden. However, they realize he is a much safer choice atop the party’s ticket than Mr. Sanders, who to this day is not a card-carrying member of the party.
Ginsburg and Sotomayor Are the Most Political Justices
On February 21, Justice Sotomayor created a national spectacle by issuing a strident dissent from the Supreme Court’s 5-4 order to stay a district court injunction against the Trump administration’s implementation of its rule enforcing the Immigration and Nationality Act’s policy of withholding green cards from aliens who are likely to become a “public charge.”
Her opinion was distinctive in its attack on both the Trump administration and her colleagues for siding with it on the subject of nationwide injunctions. On the former: “Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited Court resources in each.” On the latter, she called her conservative colleagues “all too quick to grant the Government’s” requests and concluded, “Perhaps most troublingly, the Court’s recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others.” She blamed her fellow justices for nothing short of — get this — a “breakdown in the appellate process.”
Sotomayor is correct about the “unprecedented” part, because there has been a serious judicial aberration. And a “breakdown” has taken place . . . in a limited number of injunction-happy trial courts. By getting it backwards, her diatribe effectively condones this aberration while attacking those colleagues who would put the brakes on it.
End the FISA
It’s an unconstitutional mess that weakens national security and threatens civil liberties
In December 2019, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court upbraided the Federal Bureau of Investigation over its serial deceits in persuading the tribunal to issue warrants to monitor Carter Page, who served in 2016 as a Trump-campaign foreign-policy adviser. The FISC’s four-page directive, issued by Rosemary Collyer, the FISC’s then-presiding judge, came on the heels of a voluminous report compiled by Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz, after a multiyear inquiry into investigative irregularities in the bureau’s Trump–Russia probe.
Horowitz lambasted the FBI, specifically identifying 17 instances of misrepresentations to the court. These included the alteration by a bureau lawyer of a key document: a communication in which the Central Intelligence Agency had informed the FBI that Page, whom the bureau was depicting to the court as a clandestine agent of Russia, was actually a CIA informant. Seizing on the IG report, Judge Collyer scalded the bureau for its shocking misconduct and demanded answers about what remedial measures it was taking, and why the court should have any confidence that the Page surveillance applications were not part of a longstanding pattern of deception.
The court’s public order was extraordinary in light of its customary secrecy—FISC hearings and decisions are highly classified. The startling rebuke was surely merited. Yet the FISC’s tack of focusing on the cure rather than dwelling on the pathogen deftly deflected attention away from the court’s own performance.
So did the follow-up. Collyer, a Bush 43 appointee to the federal district court in Washington, D.C., quietly resigned at the end of December as the FISC’s chief judge, nine weeks before her scheduled departure, citing health reasons (though she planned to remain on the FISC and the district court). By statute, FISC judges are appointed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, choosing from the pool of federal district judges. To replace Collyer as presiding judge, Chief Justice John Roberts quickly named Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee whom Roberts had placed on the FISC in 2014.
The Man Behind Trump’s Facebook Juggernaut
In September, at a resort hotel in the Coachella Valley, the California Republican Party held its fall convention. Brad Parscale—forty-four, six feet eight, balding, prolifically bearded—walked onstage in shirtsleeves and tilted the microphone upward, mumbling a self-deprecating joke about being “awkwardly tall.” Parscale has lived in a red county in California and a blue county in Texas, and he now splits his time between Washington, D.C., and two luxury properties in South Florida, yet he still speaks with the neutral accent of Topeka, Kansas, where he grew up. He was one of the top staffers on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. “I was the digital-media director,” he said. “So, yes, all that crazy Facebook stuff was my idea.” Other former Trump-campaign officials fill their calendars with paid speaking gigs, padding their remarks with jingoistic platitudes or rapturous accounts of Trump’s improbable victory. Parscale appears in public less often. When he does, he gets to the point.
We have turned the R.N.C. into one of the largest data-gathering operations in United States history,” he said. He was referring to the Republican National Committee, which has raised two hundred and sixty-three million dollars for the 2020 elections. (The Democratic National Committee has raised just over a hundred million.) As Parscale explained, the Trump campaign has been operating more or less full time since 2016, continually improving its “technology and data operations.” During this period, the campaign and the R.N.C. have essentially merged, sharing staff, voter data, and other resources. The Democrats do not yet have a nominee for President, and some of their systems for acquiring and sharing data are considered outdated by comparison. “You cannot just build an app, or build out data, in the few months you have from the Convention,” Parscale said. “The Democrats will have that problem this time. As they all interfight, we are building for our future.” Two years ago, Parscale was named the manager of Trump’s 2020 campaign. “I know everybody wants me to do it from my laptop,” he joked to the audience. “Not possible. I’ve already done that once.”
CoronaVirus: Get Over It
Of those who get Coronavirus, 80% experience nothing worse than the common cold. The remaining 20% will experience pneumonia-like symptoms and may require treatment or hospitalization. Conclusion: If you are the unlucky 1-in-a-thousand person who gets Coronavirus, it will probably be a 2-week illness and then you will be fine.
Coronavirus kills roughly 1.4% of the people who contract it. This means it kills 14 people in 1-Million. Sounds bad, right? Well, the death rate is 14,000 people per million in any given year. So Coronavirus represents only a 0.1% increase in the natural death rate. Conclusion: The death rate from Coronavirus is so small that it is statistically insignificant.
Most of the people who die from Coronavirus are those with weakened immune systems…persons who are already close to being included in the natural death statistics. Conclusion: Coronavirus is somewhat (slightly) accelerating the death of people who are near death; if you keep healthy the odds strongly suggest you will be just fine.
There is no medicine for Coronavirus. No vaccine and no antidote. Antibiotics are only effective for secondary infections, since they don’t work on viral infections. Conclusion: If you get ill you are just going to need to tough it out. There is no magic medicine cure now or in the near future.
77-Year-Old Joe Biden Now The Youngest Man Left In The Democratic Primary
Former Vice President Joe Biden is currently the youngest man still standing in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
Biden’s distinction comes as 38-year-old Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, dropped his presidential bid on Sunday after a weak showing in South Carolina on Saturday. That contest also claimed the candidacy of billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, who is 62.
Of the men remaining on the Democratic side, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are both 78, although Bloomberg’s birthday was last month and Sanders will turn 79 in September.
Mike Bloomberg is rehiring hundreds of staffers in 6 swing states to help the Democratic nominee take on Trump in November
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is forming a new independent expenditure campaign to boost the Democratic presidential nominee in the 2020 election, The Washington Post reported.
According to the report, Bloomberg is rehiring hundreds of his now defunct campaign’s staffers in six swing states to help elect the Democratic nominee in the November general election against President Donald Trump.
Bloomberg posted a video on his official Twitter account on Thursday foreshadowing the hefty role he plans to take on in the coming months.
“We’re not done with you yet, Donald,” the tweet said.
The video accompanying the tweet featured clips of Trump skewering Democrats and touting the Republican Party’s chances of taking back the House of Representatives while holding the White House and Senate. In between, there were several clips from music videos, films, and television shows.
Former Rep. Mike Rogers forms group to fight China over 5G
Former Rep. Mike Rogers is fighting China’s race for global control of the fifth generation of wireless technology via a new advocacy group, 5G Action Now.
The Michigan Republican, who previously served as House Intelligence Committee chairman, formed the advocacy group this year to sound the alarm about the importance of defeating China in the 5G race and to push for the rapid deployment of 5G technology inside the U.S. 5G Action Now spokesman Ian Prior said the group intends to help establish the U.S. as the world leader in 5G.
“Our goal is to elevate the conversation regarding American national security and the economic benefits of winning the 5G innovation and deployment battle against China,” Mr. Prior said. “5G will spur economic growth in rural America, create an environment for technological expansion, and put the U.S. on strong national security footing for generations to come.”
Where Does America’s Newfound Enthusiasm for Socialism Come From?
Who ever imagined that the Democrat Party would move so far let that their main selling point would be “socialism”? With the leading candidate for Democrat nominee for president and the most influential junior member of the House declaring themselves “democratic socialists”—as if the modifier “democratic” was ever honored in socialist regimes—and most Democrat candidates for president supporting similar policies as the self-declared socialists, this is not President Clinton’s or even President Obama’s Democrat Party. The Democrat Party has not only congregated in far left field, but half of the party has also climbed over the fence.
According to a Rasmussen poll reported on 27 February 2020, “45% of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism.” Of all voters, “eighteen percent (18%) believe the individual has more power” than the government under socialism. (Breakdown by party is not specified, but it seems likely that most are Democrat.) According to a Pew poll reported on 25 June 2019, 65% of Democrats and voters who lean Democrat have a favorable attitude toward socialism.
How did this newfound love for socialism come about? Just as with a disease pandemic we search for the origin of the disease, so too with an ideological pandemic, we need to know the origin of this ideological transformation. As it turns out, the origin of our socialist epidemic is clear. According to Ned Ryun, “The Left’s long march through our educational system, which has resulted in deep dishonesty about socialism and Communism and indoctrinated generations with socialist ideas and a loathing of America, set the stage for Sanders.” Let us explore in more detail what happened in our universities and then in our schools.
The leftist transformation of education in America began with the counterculture of the 1960s which rejected wholesale the values and institutions of modern America, replacing them with getting high, dropping out, returning to subsistence agriculture, and commune living — in short, anything contrary to the status quo. As the years went by, many, disillusioned with poverty and social chaos but not having lost their distaste for America, returned to education, some eventually becoming teachers and professors. The counterculture rejection of America became the theoretical debunking of America through the adoption of revolutionary Marxism in its many varieties, Leninist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, Maoist, and its many heroes, such Mao, Che Guevara, and Ho Chi Min. Thus, through the second half of the 20th century, professional organizations of anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists had Marxist sections and regular Marxist sessions at their annual conventions.
‘Global espionage operation’: US wages all-out campaign to convince UK to reject Huawei
The United States is engaged in an all-out effort to convince the United Kingdom to reject Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from the country’s fifth-generation wireless infrastructure, warning of the national security risks posed by potential backdoor access by the Chinese Communist Party.
Both the Trump administration and the Senate have sent warnings to the U.K.’s leaders this week. The U.S. has long sought to convince allies not to use Huawei, threatening to stop sharing intelligence with countries that don’t ban the company in their high-speed wireless networks. The Justice Department charged the Chinese telecom company in a global racketeering scheme linked to Iran and North Korea last month.
U.S. officials said intelligence shows Huawei has been able to access mobile phone networks secretly through “back doors” designed for use by law enforcement for more than a decade, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The British government defied the U.S. in late January when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the U.K. would allow Huawei to supply equipment in some parts of the network. But several Tories in the House of Commons are trying to ban Huawei from the U.K.’s mobile networks entirely by the end of 2022.
Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “if our NATO allies incorporate Huawei technology, it may very well have a severe impact on our ability to share information, to share intelligence, to share operational plans, and for the alliance to conduct itself as an alliance.”
“I think we also need to work together, some countries, on alternatives to Huawei because otherwise, we will find the alliance compromised in due course,” Esper warned.
