Musings
Musings on the
Week
November 16, 2019
Freedom – "Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn’t pass it
to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.“ Ronald
Reagan.
Politics – All of the Democrat
presidential candidates view
America as morally bankrupt, socially dysfunctional, economically oppressive,
and has
racial bigotry weaved into the very fabric of its national soul, and must be transformed into a new socialist utopian “America.”
Politics – One of the
downsides of suppressing “hate
speech” is never hearing opposing views and becoming deaf to dissent, and
being surprised
when confronted with reality.
Politics – Democrats mocked the idea of a “deep
state” as a right wing conspiracy theory, but now they not
only admit the deep state does exist and they think
it’s a good thing!
Politics – The Deep State
exists both domestically and internationally and has been populated with
patronage appointments as well as partisan hires over the last 50 years, so draining the swamp
will take much longer than Trump hoped.
Politics – TEA Party
Movement was grassroots activism for positive change, so the Democrat “resistance”
now wants to become permanent community activists for socialist change.
Politics – Elizabeth Warren will never be president, because she is another
terrible candidate, incorporating most of Hillary Clinton’s flaws and none
of her modest virtues.
Politics – As the current Democrat clown car of presidential candidates
empties, new clowns may join: Hillary Clinton,
Michal Bloomberg, Michelle Obama, Eric Holder, or Deval
Patrick.
Politics – The impeachment “inquiry” is simply the most
recent in a long series of “coups”
that seek to overturn the 2016 election and preclude a 2020 reelection bid, each characterized by about
a month of media-driven hysteria: the voting machines fraud hoax, the initial
2017 impeachment effort, the attempt to warp the Electoral College voting, the
Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, the 25th Amendment, the McCabe-Rosenstein
faux coup, various Michael Avenatti / Stormy Daniels
/ Michael Cohen psychodramas, and finally the failed two-year long Mueller
Russia-collusion investigation.
Politics – The American public has yet
to hear anything that could be packaged as Articles for
Impeachment since style, attitude, and process are not illegal thus no crime committed, no “Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” no impeachment!
Politics – Nancy Pelosi has
consistently promised that she would not pursue
impeachment absent clear and overwhelming bipartisan support, which thus far is
notoriously absent!
Government – When
God is acknowledged, then natural rights are unalienable; when
government is god, then rights are the property of the government, to be dispensed,
or not!
Government – The First
Amendment protects free speech, but progressives criminalize any speech that threatens their political agenda as “hate speech.”
Government – The president is “draining the
swamp” with decentralization,
moving whole departments close to the people they serve – too bad we can’t enable Representatives and Senators to
govern from their home districts enabled by electronic conferences and voting.
Media – Few doubt that the major U.S. media outlets, under the guise of journalism,
function as political activists, filling the airwaves
and internet with the Democrat talking points.
Media – Fully 96% of
impeachment-related coverage
was hostile to the president, but during this
same period, despite incredible economic news in America, those same CBS, NBC,
and ABC broadcasts dedicated less than 1% of total news
coverage to the booming economy.
Media – The Mainstream Media is better named the Democrat
Media Industrial Complex since its Democrat Party driven cabal of
liberal newspapers, news media, cable news outlets combined with entertainment
giants and social media elites to produce a partisan
narrative.
Media – With less than a year until
the 2020 election, a majority of registered voters
say they think it’s likely that President Donald Trump
will win a second term in the White House.
Economy – "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible
for almost all the economic growth in the United States.” Ronald Regan.
Economy - Many forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European
redistribution, continue to fail: Russia and China are still struggling with the
legacy of genocidal communism; Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of
Soviet-imposed socialist chaos; Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Venezuela are unfree, poor and failed states; and Baathism,
a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism ruined the postwar Middle East.
Finance – The
Federal Reserve has been acting like it has only one tool in its toolbox, the hammer of monetary policy, to pound down and pry up interest
rates.
Finance – It may be time to finally stop funding and supporting the Export-Import
Bank, the poster child for corporate welfare, by removing it from the
upcoming spending bill.
Immigration – Besides closing the border, the immigration system needs work: enforce existing laws, define English as national language,
close the “birthright”
citizenship loophole.
Taxes – A good next step for tax
reform is to index capital gains taxes to inflation,
to encourage investors to make long term investments.
Taxes – Wealth taxes are
unconstitutional,
since confiscation (stealing) wealth (personal property) is illegal, even if the purpose is
for federal government redistribution.
Environment – Climate Change
is an observation proven by historical data, while climate change
causes are hypotheses with mixed results data, and at this point only an
assertion.
Environment – BioScience Journal issued a “consensus” statement on climate science by 11,224 “scientists”
who turned out to be true-believers with opinions, but little expertise.
Education – In over 40 years of American
education, a slight increase in student enrollment has brought with it a
drastic increase in budgets, an almost doubling of staff, and little to no
effect on learning outcomes, with much of that increase has
come from support staff.
Feminism – There is a strange war going on between identity groups in which feminists and
their “allies” are
arrayed against transgenders and their allies.
Abortion – With the exception of Tulsi Gabbard, all the Democrat presidential
candidates favor “safe,
legal, and unrestricted abortion,“ a
significant change from years past.
Communism – "Communism works only in heaven, where they don’t
need it, and in hell, where they’ve already got it." Ronald Reagan.
Israel – The State of
Israel was formally created by Persia 2,500 years ago, 500
years before the birth of Jesus Christ and 1,100
years before the birth of Muhammad bin Abdullah.
Turkey – Turkey is an enigma
with its feet in two worlds:
one is the NATO democracy embracing free
market capitalism and the other the Islamic Ottoman Sharia theocracy.
Bolivia –
Bolivia, ruled by embattled far left
Hugo-Chavez-trained dictator Evo Morales, is the latest socialist regime to be failing with widespread
protests calling for regime change.
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocnnbbommonsensesite.com/
