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Archive for June, 2016
Elizabeth Warren
17
Jun
Never in doubt, but mostly always wrong. The champion of the poor would make them poorer with her policies.
Democrats: the party of death
17
Jun
The Democratic Party controls both houses of the New Jersey state legislature. Yesterday, in a procedural maneuver, the Democrats prevented Gov. Christie from reducing the onerous requirements to legally carry a firearm in the state. Although the Democrats are congratulating themselves for blocking Gov. Christie’s desire give New Jersey firearms owners the right to protect themselves and their families in public, the obvious take away from the Democrats’ actions are simple: they do not want people to be able to defend themselves in public venues like Orlando nightclub where 49 innocent souls were defenseless because it was “gun free zone”. Gun free zones are invitations to any one bent on committing mass murder.
The UN Declaration of Human Rights agrees…
16
Jun
…the right to self defense is a fundamental human right. Owning a firearm is the best way to protect, your life, liberty and person. Members of the LGBT community should do what is legally necessary to protect their lives, and be uncompromising defenders of the Second Amendment.
Article 3.
“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
The battle over taxes in Trenton
16
Jun
A bipartisan group of New Jersey lawmakers are balking raising the “gas tax” and eliminating the estate tax. (There are additional tax cutting provisions in the gas tax bill, which would reduce taxes on average families by more than $1000 per year.) It is understandable why Republican legislators do not want to raise the “gas tax”; it would shatter the myth they are paragons of fiscal conservatism. Democrats, on the other, hand not want to eliminate the estate tax claiming it is a giveaway to the state’s wealthiest residents.
Sen. Raymond Lesniak, who may run for the Democratic nomination for governor next year, said the compromise proposal on the table is an example of “tax injustice.” All taxes are unjust because they are coercive. Taxes are an involuntary exchanges (legalized theft), hence they violate a fundamental principle that supposedly we all supposedly embrace, theft is wrong. Yet when it comes to taxes the notion of justice is thrown out the window and replaced with “needs” of the people, but more accurately the “needs” of the government.
Hillary and Donald on the Orlando massacre
15
Jun
Justin Raimondo examines the presumptive presidential candidates reactions to the Orlando killings and US foreign policy.
Mass shootings throughout American history
13
Jun
Law professor Butler Shaffer wrote two insightful posts about the Orlando massacre that are on the money, here and here.
Economics professor and historian Tom DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln and other books, weighs in about the worst massacres in US history.
It’s the blowback, stupid
12
Jun
Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid,” convinced enough voters to oust incumbent George H.W. Bush, even though the economy was as not a bad as Clinton depicted. But it was the perception that the economy was in the dumps that propelled him to victory in spite of President Bush having a 90% approval rating after the Gulf War that commenced in January 1991 that drove Iraq out of Kuwait.
The US led coalition to oust Saddam Hussein and the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia set into the motion the reactions—the first World Trade Center bombing, in February 1993, and then the horrific events on September 11, 2001. The Bush II administration reaction to the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon was the US invasion of Iraq (March 2004) after the incursion into Afghanistan to capture Osama bin Laden.
The massacre today in Orlando is another example of blowback. The architects of our bipartisan foreign policy will never admit that it has been US intervention in the Middle East that is triggering these mass shootings. In other words, we will have additional mass shootings because of the Bush/Obama/Clinton foreign policy.
Will Donald embrace an interventionist policy in the Middle East as the way to deal with ISIS? Or will he realize the chaos of the Middle East and the inevitable blowback from the Middle East is the direct result of US foreign policy?
David Stockman spells out in great detail how and why blowback occurs. Until the architects of our foreign policy come to their senses, the blood of innocent Americans will be on their hands together with that of the murderers.
Abolish political parties
12
Jun
In her column today Montclair State University political science and law professor Brigid Callahan Harrison calls for New Jersey state GOP to disavow Donald Trump’s presidential run. Prof. Harrison asserts that Trump’s intemperate remarks about Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was presiding over a lawsuit against Trump University, is enough reason for Republicans to abandon the Donald’s unorthodox campaign for the president.
At the end of her column Harrison quotes House Speaker Paul Ryan who states that the presidential campaign should be about ideas, not personal attacks. I totally agree. Presidential candidates should offer their “vision” for the Nation and let the voters decide who should occupy the Oval Office. So instead of two major political parties dominating the presidential campaign, let’s abolish political parties and have individuals run for the presidency on the vision thing. Let’s eliminate presidential party primaries and have candidates go directly to the people in a general election campaign.
In this year’s race for the White House we would have several Democrats and more than a dozen Republicans trying to win the hearts and minds of the American people. As far as how this will play out of in the electoral college is anyone’s guess. However, shortening the political campaign would be a great relief to the American people. And presidential candidates would be forced not to rely on the party bosses to grab their respective parties nomination but go directly to the American people for support.
With a substantial number of Americans unhappy with the presumptive choices who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees, abolishing political parties would create a more level playing field in the presidential campaign.