Musings
Musings on the Week
April 21, 2018
Law – “If Hillary Clinton and Illegal aliens
don’t have to obey the law, why should the rest of us respect the
law? Why shouldn’t we break
the law any time we think we can get away with it?” John
Hawkins.
Politics – While 22% of adults name Democrats as the better party to reform D.C. and
18% name Republicans, a full 40% say neither party does a good job at changing the
D.C.
Politics – The Democrat Party
commitment to racial equality has alienated it from the white working and
middle classes,
and now leaving it as the party of minorities, the marginalized, and their
young and elite liberal patrons.
Politics – The Democrat party
has horrible, out of touch leadership
with Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader from New
York, and is now looking to replace Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi from California with Joe Crowley from New York as the House Minority Leader.
Politics – Many of today’s
political battles are, at their base, a federalism tug
of war pitting the federal government against state and local governments, such
as sanctuary cities.
Politics – The cry-baby
sore loser Democrats are still energized to seize back power in
Washington and will vote in numbers but their platform
of higher taxes, open borders, gun confiscation and surrender to the Islamists
does not sell to Americans outside the beltway.
Politics – Republican victory in 2018
and 2020 will depend on turning out the core voters
and energizing the frustrated voters who finally see change in Washington
and want this change to continue, since Trump delivers
economic results and a return to global leadership.
Politics – Hillary Clinton is a self-centered, sore loser who has become an embarrassment to the Democrats and reminds
Republicans why they made the right choice voting
for Trump.
Politics – The only
satisfactory end to the Russia election investigation is for prosecution of all
those who broke the law in the: DOJ (Lynch, Yates, Bhahara),
FBI (Comey, McCabe, Strzok,
Page), State (Clinton, Abedin), DHS (Johnson), and IC
(Brennan, Clapper).
Media – Gallup polling found that 55% of Facebook users noted they
are “very concerned” and 25% “somewhat concerned” about
their personal data being sold to and used by other companies and groups,
especially since it is a violation of Facebook
policies.
Media – Facebook’s plans to crack down on fake news by turning to Pointer
Institute’s “PolitiFact,” ABC News’ FactCheck.org,
The Associated Press and Snopes,
organizations that have gotten caught peddling fake or
inaccurate news themselves.
Media – The New
York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for “public service” for
reporting on possible ties between Russia and President Trump’s inner
circle – created new category “Fake News.”
Spending – “If the government gives money to Planned Parenthood and
PBS, why would it be wrong for the government to give money to the NRA or
Heritage Foundation?" John
Hawkins.
Debt – Trillion-dollar
deficits are coming back faster than originally projected, reaching $1 trillion
as early as next year,
and the culprits for our ongoing debt crisis are lawmakers who refuse to reform
out-of-control entitlement programs as debt service grows larger and larger.
Economy – Discontented Californians
are voting with their feet
at a quickening pace, hemorrhaging middle-class residents while a few rich
Americans from the Northeast trickle in.
Pensions – In 2016, Pew Research found
that state pensions were $1.4 trillion in the red
and pension debt has increased for 15 straight years and with no signs of
abating.
Science – Nowhere in the U.S.
Constitution is the federal government identified as (primary)
source of funding for basic science research on anything, since it is a
private sector function.
Energy – The Energy Information
Administration projects that U.S. oil production
this year will be the highest ever recorded, as fossil fuels will be our
primary energy thru end of century.
Immigration – DHS to issue new guidelines that
would broaden the government’s definition of “public charge” of
non-citizens residing in the United States or applying for resident status, as
the primary goal is to ensure immigrants are
self-sufficient rather than burdens on taxpayers.
Gun Control – A modern CDC study concluded
that guns are used in cases of individual
self-defense between 500,000 and 3,000,000 times annually, saving
countless lives each year.
Gun Control – Although Democrats say they don’t want to confiscate guns;
all they want is common sense reforms, the latest Quinnipiac poll showed one third of Democrats support it.
Gun Control – David Hogg, the high school
student, gun control activist, called for a boycott of
Laura Ingraham advertisers which resulted in a few to
flee, but ratings to increase by 25%.
Education – Weak-minded
students are easiest to indoctrinate
as they accept without question, while students
with half-a-brain easily question illogical arguments with the internet and
uncover the brainwashing and reject the fallacious arguments.
Sexuality – The clinical
term for transgenderism is 'gender dysphoria,' defined
as feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to
be opposite to biological sex.
Civil Rights – The Mass
Action for Black Liberation group is breaking away from Black Lives Matter movement because BLM has become too leftist whether it helped blacks or not.
Religion – The smug leftist elites condemn Chick-fil-A
restaurants, but pesky citizens love the food and the service and ignore the underlying religious overtones for the quality
meals.
Welfare – In the mid-60s, the Great
Society’s War on Poverty has spent more than $15
trillion in means-tested entitlement programs to not only eliminate
poverty but to eradicate the root causes of poverty, but in that time the poverty rate has only dropped from 14.7% to 14.5%.
Terrorism – “Shouldn’t we roll our eyes at people who come up
with new reasons to be gratuitously offended most of the time? Aren’t people who are offended by
things that most people just shrug off, the ones with the problem, not the rest
of the world?" John
Hawkins.
Syria – Obama lied to the American
people and said Syria had no more chemical weapons and no ability to produce
more, but Assad has conducted 51 chemical attacks since
Obama broke that promise and allowed Assad to keep those weapons.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
