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Post Date: 2018-07-18 08:05:47 by Deckard
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Brazile, Rice, Obama Gave Russian Hackers Free Rein
Post Date: 2018-07-17 16:34:28 by nolu chan
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Brazile, Rice, Obama Gave Russian Hackers Free Rein By Daniel John Sobieski American Thinker July 17, 2018 The conveniently timed indictments of 12 more Russians by Deputy A.G. (or should we just face reality and ditch the word "deputy"?) Rosenstein, who will never see the inside of an American courtroom, probably includes the Russian who "hacked" into John Podesta's email account secured with the password "password." Rosenstein was no doubt pleased with himself to announce that 12 Russian spies were caught – er, spying, on President Obama's watch, by the way, but neglected to include one small detail in his announcement – namely, that DNC ...
The irrational hysteria over Trump and Putin [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-17 16:30:22 by nolu chan
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The irrational hysteria over Trump and Putin By Steve McCann American Thinker July 17, 2018 I spent a good part of yesterday watching the vast army of those incapable of generating an original thought – namely, the majority of talking heads on radio and television as well as politicians in both parties, droning on about the disaster that was the Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki. Once the first narrative was proffered by one of this gaggle, the rest dutifully repeated the talking points as if they were ventriloquist dummies. The bottom line: Trump is a buffoon inalterably subservient to the puppet master, thus betraying his country. Having watched the press conference, I did ...
John Brennan Misses Communist Russia [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-17 15:40:30 by nolu chan
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Special Report John Brennan Misses Communist Russia George Neumayr American Spectator July 17, 2018, 12:05 am He calls Trump a dupe, but Brennan actually was one for the Soviets. John Brennan’s anti-Trump tweets grow more and more maniacal. His latest tweet holds that Donald Trump’s Russian diplomacy in Helsinki “rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous.” That tells people all they need to know about the unseriousness of the left’s impeachment drive, not to mention exposing once again the demented malice behind the Obama administration’s spying on the Trump campaign. The ...
Trump's Putin Summit Is Another Reminder He Prefers Dictators to Democratic Leaders
Post Date: 2018-07-17 06:29:45 by Deckard
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The president has a long history of admiration for authoritarians and strongmen.Among the most consistent characteristics of Donald Trump's worldview is his admiration for dictators, authoritarians, and political strongmen—not in spite of their most thuggish tactics, but because of them. Trump often appears more comfortable in their company, and with their style of politics, than with the leaders of liberal democracies. This aspect of his personality was on display again today in his joint press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. At the press conference, Trump refused to acknowledge Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. That Russia interfered is ...
Constitutional Conservatives Fail the Drug Test
Post Date: 2018-07-16 08:40:12 by Deckard
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The announced retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court (effective July 31, 2018) has conservatives salivating over the prospects of Donald Trump’s nominating a constitutional conservative to the Supreme Court. Although Kennedy was nominated to the High Court by Ronald Reagan, he has at times disappointed conservatives with some of his votes, especially when it came to abortion, gay rights, and same-sex marriage (Kennedy authored the majority ruling in the Obergefell v. Hodges [2015] case, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide). This will be the second Supreme Court justice that Trump has had a chance to appoint. After the death of Associate ...
Libertarians on Liberty’s Post suppress dissent – Sad. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-15 06:51:33 by Gatlin
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Libertarians on Liberty’s Post now find it perfectly acceptable to pursue the tyrannical practice of blacklisting anyone whose words offend their delicate sensibilities. Unfortunately these narrow-minded individuals do not realize that the best remedy to validate their political ideology is to catechize remarks that disparage it by subjecting them to the crucible of open debate and rational inspection. Libertarians continually fail to show tolerance and adhere to cherished “libertarian” values while abdicating all confidence that their ideas will handily defeat opposition to their philosophy. Libertarians propose the impossible and internally contradictory notion that they ...
Julian Assange, CrowdStrike, and the Russian Hack That Wasn’t
Post Date: 2018-07-14 17:47:10 by nolu chan
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Julian Assange, CrowdStrike, and the Russian Hack That Wasn’t By Michael Thau American Greatness July 13th, 2018 Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 presidential election is predicated on Russian intelligence having hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computers. Russia’s guilt is such an article of faith among our political class, that a Republican-controlled Congress imposed sanctions and President Trump signed on, substantially worsening relations with an important and potentially dangerous nation. Outside the Acela Corridor, however, one finds more skepticism. A lot of ordinary folks wonder why the DNC wouldn’t let any outside parties examine ...
President Trump, Please Free Ross Ulbricht
Post Date: 2018-07-12 11:15:20 by Deckard
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Say what you will about President Donald J. Trump — his politics, his policies, his business dealings, his personal peccadilloes — the man demonstrated possession of a heart when he commuted the sentence of grandmother Alice Johnson 21 years into her life term for non-violent drug offenses. He’s asked protesting NFL players to send him a list of people who deserve clemency in lieu of continuing to kneel in protest during the national anthem. It’s encouraging to find mercy among his many and varied qualities.On July 3, the Libertarian Party’s national convention unanimously requested that President Trump exercise that mercy in the case of Ross William ...
Why Does the Law Not Warn?
Post Date: 2018-07-12 10:59:00 by Deckard
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Everyone who has children, or even nieces and nephews, understands that you have to warn a child before punishing him or her. If not, you teach the child a rash of bad lessons, like these: Punishment can rain down upon you at any time, with no warning. The world can’t be predicted. There are two kinds of people: those who order and punish and those who obey or suffer. The line between what is punished and what is not is unknown. Trying new things brings you shame and pain. I doubt that any of my readers would consider these as healthy attitudes for a child to assume. And that’s why we warn before we punish. We want them to understand that there are rational reasons for ...
KAVANAUGH THREATENS THE LEFT’S RIGHT TO CHEAT
Post Date: 2018-07-11 22:36:43 by nolu chan
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KAVANAUGH THREATENS THE LEFT’S RIGHT TO CHEAT Ann Coulter July 11, 2018 The fact that the media responded to the nomination of a Supreme Court justice by obsessively covering Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Russia and NATO proves that Trump has checkmated them with Brett Kavanaugh. Liberals know they can't stop Kavanaugh's confirmation, so they'd just as soon not hear any news about it at all. Please cheer us up with stories about Paul Manafort's solitary confinement! But there was one very peculiar reaction to the nomination. The nut wing of the Democratic Party instantly denounced Kavanaugh by claiming that his elevation to the high court would threaten all sorts ...
Why the Left Fears Libertarianism
Post Date: 2018-07-11 11:46:46 by Deckard
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Leftist criticisms of libertarianism have surged lately, a phenomenon warranting explanation. We libertarians could justifiably find it all quite confusing. For decades we have thought our battle a largely losing one, at least in the short term. We are a tiny, relatively powerless minority. The state has raged on, expanding in virtually every direction, for my entire lifetime and that of my parents. Yet nearly every week our beloved philosophy of non-aggression is subject to some progressive’s relatively widely read hatchet job. On the surface, it appears at least as misdirected as the rightwing hysteria about Marxists during the Cold War. But at least Marxism was the supposed tenet of ...
Opposing the Transgender Movement
Post Date: 2018-07-10 06:01:54 by Deckard
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The transgender war on cultural norms is not just about restrooms and pronouns. It's about denying biological fact and quotidian reality. It's about an epidemic of irrationality, a cultural contagion, a mass delusion claiming more victims every day. It's about silencing free thinkers who refuse to bow to the radical "gender" ideology. Absurd theories that deny scientific fact have been adopted by the mainstream press, the entertainment industry, the medical establishment, public schools, universities, corporate management, and government agencies. People who fear social isolation and charges of bigotry are following along. ...
The Christian Case For Libertarianism
Post Date: 2018-07-09 09:21:11 by Deckard
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The evils of government threaten all people, but ought to be particularly concerning to Christians.Ronald Reagan once said, “I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” With the Christian Right now taking up the banner of religious liberty in the face of an onslaught by the secular Left, evangelical conservatives should heed Reagan’s words and consider libertarianism as a palatable governing philosophy to advance their interests. In his book, “Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements” (2004), George Woodcock defines libertarianism as: “A political philosophy that upholds liberty as its principal objective. Libertarians ...
If Trump were Hitler, this is what would happen
Post Date: 2018-07-08 11:07:41 by Deckard
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Liberals, progressives, Democrats, and those who follow and support them are fond of calling President Donald Trump a fascist. Most have no idea what this means. They have a vague grasp on history and politics. According to the official version of world history, no villain was worse than Adolf Hitler. Not even Stalin and Mao, who killed far more than the Nazis. Trump is not a Nazi. He’s not even a fascist. If anything, he’s a crony capitalist. His business deals demonstrate this. He received tax breaks, grants and incentives to expand his real estate empire. Trump went so far as to sue New York Mayors Edward I. Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael R. Bloomberg after they ...
July 4 Is Matrix Reinforcement Day
Post Date: 2018-07-05 09:28:10 by Deckard
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Paul Craig Roberts July 4, 2018, is the 242 anniversary of the date chosen to stand as the date the 13 British colonies declared independence. According to historians, the actual date independence was declared was July 2, 1776, with the vote of the Second Continental Congress. Other historians have concluded that the Declaration of Independence was not actually signed until August 2. For many living in the colonies the event was not the glorious one that is presented in history books. There was much opposition to the separation, and the “loyalists” were killed, confiscated, and forced to flee to Canada. Some historians explain the event not as a great and noble enterprise of ...
The Fourth of July Has Nothing to Do with the Military
Post Date: 2018-07-04 09:57:49 by Deckard
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The Fourth of July is supposed to be celebrated as Independence Day—the day when the thirteen American colonies officially dissolved the political bands that connected them with Great Britain. As the Declaration of Independence concludes: We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all ...
It Is Imperative That The Next Supreme Court Nominee Is Questioned On Vital National Security Matters
Post Date: 2018-06-30 18:12:21 by Deckard
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Michael J. Glennon’s book on the dual nature of the American government, National Security and Double Government, is one of the most disturbing and disconcerting I have ever read. He posits that there is the “Madisonian” public government of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches found outlined in the Constitution, operating under the rule of law, with separation of powers, checks and balances, and openness and transparency. This is contrasted with the “Trumanite” clandestine deep state, established by the National Security Act of 1947 during the Truman regime. On every page he uncovers virtually unknown material in intricate detail ...
When Running From the Devil You Better Be Faster than Hell
Post Date: 2018-06-29 20:19:46 by Deckard
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by Doug “Uncola” Lynn: In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. – Benjamin Franklin Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any ...
Monty Python in the Politically Correct Crosshairs
Post Date: 2018-06-29 14:25:19 by Deckard
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Across the realm of popular culture, humor is being stripped of its, well, humor. Then the PC police came for Monty Python, the famed British comedy troupe. On June 19, the Daily Mail headlined a story: “No Joke: Head of BBC comedy says Oxbridge white blokes of Python wouldn’t get on TV now.” The article detailed the politically correct comments of Shane Allen, the BBC’s Controller of Comedy Commissioning (that title seems like a funny gag in itself), who declared that the comedic needs of today require “a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world.” One of the old Pythoners, John Cleese, was quick to rise in defense of his mates on Twitter: ...
Schools Have Created a Generation of Permit Pattys and BBQ Beckys
Post Date: 2018-06-28 12:57:26 by Deckard
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These people are indicative of the infantilization of the American adult. It seems like every week there’s a new Permit Patty (a grown woman who called the police on an eight-year-old selling water without a permit), BBQ Becky (another grown woman who called the police on a man BBQing without a permit), or someone who calls the police on a lemonade stand. Beyond being an irritant and filling society with busybodies of the worst type—who calls the police on kids?—these people are indicative of something deeper. These people are indicative of the infantilization of the American adult. Schools, Tattletales, and the Permission-Based Mindset One of the defining ...
Where Do You Draw the Line in Today’s Crazed Political Environment?
Post Date: 2018-06-27 07:34:38 by Deckard
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If you vote for Trump, then you the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border like Nazis going ‘you here, you here’. – Donny Deutsch on MSNBC last week Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche With each passing day, Trump’s hardcore supporters and detractors become more deeply entrenched in their respective corners and grow more hysterical. With every turn of the news cycle, we see two groups increasingly and equally convinced that only they and their allies can save the nation from total ruin. As ...
The Libertarian Case FOR Serving Sarah Huckabee Sanders (and Other People You Disagree With)
Post Date: 2018-06-26 05:43:59 by Deckard
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Her money is green, and you can talk to her while she's chowing down. My colleague Robby Soave has already published a libertarian defense of refusing to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Over the weekend, Sanders and her party were bounced from the Red Hen, a restaurant in Virginia. The restaurant's owner said "this feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals." Well, sure, knock yourself out. The doctrinaire libertarian defense of the owner is pretty straightforward: A business owner should have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, good, bad, and ...
Red Hen's LGBT employees should have made sure Sarah Huckabee Sanders got served
Post Date: 2018-06-25 11:36:43 by Deckard
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The LGBT community understands bias and has pleaded for tolerance. How could the Red Hen's LGBT employees lobby to eject Sarah Huckabee Sanders?When Sarah Huckabee Sanders walked into the Red Hen restaurant in western Virginia, it is a safe bet she just wanted to enjoy a meal. She was in America’s heartland and wanted what everyone else did that evening at the Red Hen — a farm-to-table dinner. What Sanders received, however, is a stark reminder that half a century later, America is still asking who has a seat at the lunch counter, and the dinner table.“I would have done the same thing again,” co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson told The Washington ...
Fake News With George Stephanopoulos — The Detention Issue
Post Date: 2018-06-25 11:05:02 by nolu chan
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Fake News With George Stephanopoulos — The Detention Issue By nolu chan June 25, 2018 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-24-18-tom-bossert-sen-jeff/story?id=56118783 'This Week' Transcript 6-24-18: Tom Bossert, Sen. Jeff Flake, and Rep. Luis Gutiérrez By ABC News Jun 24, 2018, 9:00 AM ET A rush transcript of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, June 24, 2018 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. For previous show transcripts, visit the “This Week” transcript archive. [...] BOSSERT: So, where we ran into our second problem this week, this executive order the president ...
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