The nation as a whole is experiencing dramatic increases in crime rates, after years of having them drop; and people have new concerns about whether the federal government is importing jihadists along with innocent refugees and installing them around the country as their neighbors.
Gay people tend to gravitate to urban areas governed by Democrats, partly so they can find each other and partly because liberal Democrats do sometimes eventually get around to enacting legal reforms gay voters want (usually when they begin to lose campaign donations for talking the talk without walking the walk). As such, they experience all the costs of living under Democratic misrule as do other urban groups. Four broad areas stand out: crime, schools, economic opportunity, foreign policy.
Though estimates of the percentage of gays in the population are usually around 2 percent, they are thought to be closer to 5 percent of voters. Even at that higher number there were basically 6 and a half million gay voters in 2012, for whom the gay Democratic groups spent over $50 million, or around $9 per voter – in addition to the general election spending of other partisan groups, Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, etc. – spent on every voter regardless of orientation.
ISIS terrorists threatened an attack on D.C. If one happened, how would the city react? A transsexual with a gun may have just given us a clue.
No “mainstream” journalists report left-wing campaign financing. Just as none of them ever ask Mrs. Clinton or other Democrats decrying “dark money” in campaigns why they accept George Soros’s contributions. Anonymous promises to return with some follow up later on the Clinton campaign and more on Luke Sissyfag Montgomery and who’s paying whom.
It’s been a tough month so far for Democratic Party pajama boys.
The consensus is that it was a debate between the GOP and the Democratic media, and that the former won, with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie doing the most to raise their profiles.
Maybe Bernie Sanders does understand the drug industry — it’s a semi-socialized system where socialism creates shortages and other problems, and then socialists like Sanders can call for expanded government control to fix the problems they’ve created, in a downward spiral toward increasing state control of society, diagnosed in 1929 by economist Ludwig von Mises in his book Interventionism, as he watched Europe collapse into fascism.
This month GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Jeb Bush debated whether George Bush kept America safe during his administration, since 9/11 did happen on George Bush’s watch. It’s not the kind of thing you are supposed to say, just as you aren’t supposed to cast aspersions on Senator John McCain’s war record. Saying things like that are supposed to get you chased out of American political life.
Her husband is famous for running late, and Hillary Clinton now does so as well. Perhaps she was some “way-yaz tye-ard” from 11 hours of testimony on Benghazi the day before, but Mrs. Clinton was 50 minutes late to her rally at Market Square in Old Town, Alexandria yesterday.
It was a day of evasive answers, where Hillary Clinton rolled her eyes, palmed her face, shuffled papers, and rarely made eye contact with those on the committee asking her questions. She did everything but break out in a Nixonian sweat.
By 2024, new laws had saved the American economy, and the world, from falling off a cliff in 2016. They also had made it tricky for some corporate chieftains to navigate the regulatory thicket. Those that could afford RepuCorp’s platinum level E&O policies usually fared well. (Especially if they also contracted with its sister lobbying division.) Those that couldn’t often worked for firms that ended up being acquired by those who could, which to Jonathan’s mind just meant the most competent people ended up being in charge.
I suspect attendees at the latest Million Man march wanted some substantial fare about how more African Americans — facing rising unemployment — could belong and have a purpose in the American economy, beyond wearing a funny suit and volunteering to do crowd control. I don’t think they got those answers; Ben Carson, Rand Paul, and Donald Trump weren’t there.
This week newly elected D.C. city council members, David Grosso and Elissa Silverman, proposed what they take to be a model of progressive legislation, a mandatory 16 week paid leave for maternity, paternity, transexual surgery, death of a parent, returning from military service, and other major life events believed to make returning to work difficult.
So it’s funny that Alexandra Pelosi, a film maker who has made nine films, mainly for HBO, has made a 45-minute filmlette, San Francisco 2.0. It’s an attack on Silicon Valley, the sharing economy, Internet entrepreneurs, Uber, Lyft, AirBNB and the new jobs with high salaries they generate, which have drawn thousands of high income childless young people to the Bay Area, who have driven up rents and real estate prices, but don’t really need or use government welfare.
Virginia has one of the country’s most difficult ballot access laws – you need 10,000 registered voters to sign to be allowed on the ballot. In 2012 only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul managed to make it into the Virginia GOP primary, while others, including Virginia resident Newt Gingrich, gave up. As Hillary Clinton’s crowds shrink below those of Senator Bernie Sanders, it would be a major embarrassment if he turns in enough signatures and she doesn’t, though this is unlikely since Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clinton Inc.
The gay liberation movement actually started because of opposition to business regulation (elaborated in a brilliant piece by Nick Sibilla, a writer at the free market public interest legal firm the Institute of Justice). In Stonewall, regulations made it illegal to serve alcohol to gays and other unseemly sorts, or to get a liquor license if you were gay.
Uber et al have a lot of advantages over the traditional taxi cabs: generally lower prices; the certainty of knowing you’ve hired a ride share vehicle and it is actually coming to you, as opposed to attempting to hail a cab; and being able to contract for and pay for a ride without the rider knowing your race, radically reducing the racial discrimination against black consumers well known to African Americans and regularly depicted in American comedy. It’s capitalism and free markets abolishing racism and bigotry and making people wealthier by giving them more options and lower prices. As capitalism always does.
A few hours before the second GOP presidential debates were set to begin in California, some 50 Democrats protested outside the Democratic National Committee’s multi-million dollar office complex on South Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., demanding that DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz allow more debate.
Back when she was avoiding voters and the press even more than she is now, Hillary Clinton was going to gay and lesbian fundraisers soliciting money — what else would a Clinton do? — from LGBT Democrats who are among her most loyal supporters.
The Obama Iran deal, the details of which few of its defenders actually discuss, and which the Obama regime didn’t want to let anyone see until after it was all signed, sealed, and delivered, has three substantive aspects: 1) Giving the Iranian regime and other Iranian entities over $100 billion is assets that have been frozen in foreign financial institutions, 2) ending economic sanctions against Iran, and 3) creating a program for inspecting Iranian nuclear industries to ensure they are not being used for weapons production.
So far Obama has succeeded in placing record numbers of Americans on food stamps and disability. Record numbers are unemployed and underemployed. Record numbers are dependent on one central paymaster, the federal government, i.e., Barack Obama. Obama’s policies have also aimed to reduce the number of people in the private sector who create jobs. Specific industries that led themselves to independent contractors and small and mid-sized business owners have been under regulatory attack from Obama policies.
For months the oft-noted hallmark of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president was that she took no questions from reporters and held no press events aside from those with a very few hand picked friendly journalists with carefully controlled formats.
In some parts of the country that only pay tributes into the imperial city, there is no new construction to even look at. Which is why so many people now are looking at new kinds of candidates, from Donald Trump to Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul instead of D.C. insiders.
I wonder if a foreign policy of direct people-to-people assistance (not totally legal when it comes to donating weapons) might do better for the Kurds than the government-to-government policy we have been pursuing?
