America is Paying Attention?!: The poll numbers are telling. The American people are finally growing tired of the “fake news.†The blatant politicization of the mainstream media is backfiring on the left. Average Americans are growing tired of the “resist†movement that has one and only one goal in mind, to stop this President.
The crazy progressive Left is so convinced that big government (at our expense), can and will fix everything they turn a blind eye to; the failures, abuses, and lessons of history.
The Democratic Party has been hijacked by crazies of the far Left, and middle America is finally saying enough is enough. As the truth comes out about the government-sponsored hoax on the Russian dossier, Obama Administration officials spying on our people for political purposes, Obama’s IRS targeting political opponents… the Left’s house of cards is starting to crumble.
Keep sharing the news… inform your neighbors… don’t be afraid to challenge liberal’s “truth speak.â€
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.†– George Orwell’s 1984
China Tariffs: No one likes unnecessary tariffs. But the Left and the Left-wing mainstream media is trying to make it sound like President Trump is creating a “trade war.†NO… he’s responding to China’s illegal and manipulative ways of stealing American technology and using our goodwill against the best interest of American workers.
Take a few minutes and read some of the articles below. Once again, it’s unfortunate that we have to question the mainstream media that happily allows itself to be politicized by the Left and just joins in the partisan rhetoric.
The Brainwashing Of A Nation: Below is a very good article that describes the challenge we face from the Left. It’s worth reading and understanding what is happening every day in America. You might even consider sharing this one.
60 Plus Weekly Newsreel: A great, short and easy to listen summary of the week’s news in a short video who just don’t want to read it all:) Please enjoy and share with friends.
Here is the summary:
GOP Rep. Introducing Bill Offering Alternative Medicaid Program
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Social Security Impostor Scam: It’s Growing, and this is How it Works
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Trump Average Approval Ratings Skyrocket To Highest Point In Years
President Donald Trump has his highest approval rating in over two years, a new polling average released Monday shows.
The president’s average approval rating currently sits at 45{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9}, according to RealClearPolitics (RCP), which is based on a compilation of polls from April 26 to May 13. The 45{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9} mark is Trump’s highest RCP polling average since February 2017.
Since the infancy of his presidency, Trump’s approval ratings have sat at about 40{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9} but have recently begun to tick up into the mid-to-high 40 percentage points — a significant improvement less than 18 months out from the 2020 presidential election.
Four Groups of Traditional Democrat Supporters That Should Walk Away
As the Democratic Party continues lurching to the far left, there are at least four groups of traditional Democrat supporters who should do some soul searching and ask themselves whether today’s Democratic Party and candidates still deserve their votes, given the rhetoric they are hearing and the direction the party is going.
First, African Americans. We all know that the Democratic Party has been counting on African Americans’ steadfast support for several decades now. But, what have African Americans gotten in return? On the education front, the Democrats have consistently sold out young black children to teachers unions by restricting school choice. Such a policy ends up trapping many black children in failing schools, despite the fact that African American students in charter schools are scoring 4 percent higher on reading tests than those in traditional public schools and are more likely to go to college.
On the economic front, according to a BlackPressUSA 2015 report, under President Obama, the unemployment rate was at 14 percent and the poverty rate for African Americans was at 27 percent. But under President Trump, African Americans’ economic outcomes have drastically improved. Their unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 percent in 2018 and their poverty rate dropped to 21.2 percent in 2017 (the most recent data), both historical lows. With a strong economy, we can bring both rates further down.
The Media is Lying to you About Trump’s China Tariffs
The hysteria must have a political agenda because the amount that’s being charged is peanuts
Are you kidding me?
I’m used to partisan, inaccurate drivel from all sides these days, but the media’s coverage of President Trump’s tariffs and the so-called “trade war†takes some kind of cake.
There’s no serious doubt that some in the media would absolutely love to tank the stock market. They figure that would hurt Trump’s re-election chances in 2020. Monday’s stock market slump, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.82{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9} tumble 2.4{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9} and the Nasdaq Composite 3.4{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9}, looked just like what the doctor ordered.
I write this, incidentally, as someone who is no fan of the president. But I remember when politics was supposed to stop at the water’s edge.
And, anyway, facts are facts. Most of what the public is being told about these tariffs is either misleading or a downright lie.
Former Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein: Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t a Bad Idea
“Tariffs might be an effective negotiating tool,†former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein says in a tweet Tuesday evening New York time.
“China relies more on trade and loses more,†he adds.”Tariffs may cause U.S. buyers to switch their purchases to local or non-Chinese companies, causing Chinese companies to lose revenues, Blankfein says in a separate tweet.”
“The United States may be feeling the pain of tariffs now, but they will hurt China in the longer term, said former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.”
“Tariffs might be an effective negotiating tool,†Blankfein said in a tweet Tuesday evening New York time. “Saying it hurts us misses the point. China relies more on trade and loses more.â€
China’s Brilliant, Insidious Strategy
Slowly but steadily they build up their economic, military, and technological superiority at our expense.
The Chinese Communist government does not have so much a strategy to translate its economic ascendance into global hegemony as several strategies. All of them are brilliantly insidious.
On matters of trade, China is always flexible in responding to critics of its asymmetrical, 30-year mercantilism. In the initial stages of Westernization, China was exempted from criticism over serial copyright and patent infringement, dumping, and espionage. Western elites assumed that these improprieties were just speed bumps on the eventual Chinese freeway to liberalism. Supposedly the richer China got, the more progressive it would. Huge trade deficits or military technological appropriation were small prices to pay for an evolving billion-person Palo Alto or Upper West Side.
After a time, the now-worrisome huge trade deficits and Chinese cheating were further contextualized as “our fault.†The Tom Friedman school of journalism chided our clumsy republican government as lacking Chinese authoritarian efficiency that could by fiat connect new planned utopias by high-speed rail and power them with solar-panel farms. The Wall Street–investor version of this school saw flabby, pampered Americans getting their just deserts as more productive and deserving Chinese workers outhustled and outproduced us. In such tough-love sermonizing, the more Michigan or Pennsylvania rusted, the quicker culpable Americans would either emulate China or die. China of course again agreed.
Marco Rubio Calls on Barr to Investigate John Kerry
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday calling for him to investigate former Secretary of State John Kerry for potential violations of the Logan Act or the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
President Trump had previously called on Kerry to be investigated after it was revealed that Kerry had been in secret talks with the Iranian government in a bid to salvage the Iran nuclear deal after Trump backed out of it.
“As you know, former Secretary Kerry’s actions since leaving office have come under scrutiny as they related to the Iran nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,†Rubio said in the letter to Barr.
Jim Comey’s own Words Justify Bill Barr’s Review
Attorney General William Barr has just blitzed former FBI Director James Comey on third down and there’s a feeling a sack is imminent.
Barr’s tasking of U.S. Attorney John Durham to review the “origins†of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign becomes the third examination of Comey and his special team, joining efforts by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Huber.
This is an entirely appropriate response to the fearful possibility that the FBI was misused by its past leadership for political purposes.
AG Barr understands well that the FBI is dead as an agency — undeserving of the nation’s trust — if it is commonly perceived to be a weapon for political vagaries rather than an impartial, objective enforcer of the rule of law so vital to the survival of democratic governance.
These three initiatives will either validate Comey’s claim that everything he and his team did was “by the book†or they will expose grievous abuses that will invite reforms to ensure this never happens again.
The Brainwashing Of A Nation
Unlike Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate, brainwashing does not turn people into hypnotized zombies who would be ready to kill a presidential candidate at a command. Instead, it transforms them into the sort of people who would be willing to kill someone for political reasons.
The distinction is why so few people understand the sources of political radicalism and violence.
Brainwashing isn’t magic, but it can look like magic. The sleight of hand that causes us to think so is our firm belief in our reason and free will. It’s easier to believe in changing minds through hypnotism and drugs, than to understand, what the successful practitioners of brainwashing do, that the human mind is more malleable than we like to think, and that the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious.
The art and science of brainwashing is well known. We don’t know it because we choose not to.
Brainwashing happens every day. It doesn’t have to mean a complete transformation of identity. On the simplest level, it means compelling someone to believe something that isn’t true.
Read Hayek As If Your Children’s Lives Depend On It
Had he not passed away (about a month and a half before his 93rd birthday in 1992), F.A. Hayek would have celebrated his 120th birthday a few days ago. Hayek carried the flag for what Peter J. Boettke calls “mainline†(as opposed to “mainstreamâ€) economics in the 20th century. About a decade ago, I exhorted students at an Institute for Humane Studies seminar to read Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom as if their children’s lives depend on it.
Boettke’s new book F.A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy, and Social Philosophy reinforces my assessment, and newfound public enthusiasm for socialism — democratic socialism, of course, like they practice in Norway, and not the top-down totalitarian variety of the Soviet Union and Mao’s China, which anyway was “not real socialism†— reinforces my sense of urgency. Boettke’s book will, I hope, induce more scholars to take Hayek seriously and to reexamine his contributions to economic science, political theory, and social philosophy.
The knowledge problem, which Hayek explained most famously in his classic essay “The Use of Knowledge in Society†and his collection of essays Individualism and Economic Order — which includes “The Use of Knowledge in Society†— is at the heart of Hayek’s work from beginning to end. How, Hayek asks, do people possessing fragmentary knowledge dispersed over some 7.5 billion minds coordinate and reconcile their disparate and often-conflicting plans?
As Boettke has written elsewhere with Zachary Caceres and Adam Martin, “error is obvious, coordination is the puzzle†(in a paper of that title). To Hayek (and Boettke), a lot of the economic modeling that explores the characteristics of and transitions between different equilibria obscures (or begs) the scientifically important and scientifically interesting questions about, for example, the institutional context governing political and commercial exchange.
Great Lessons on Governance – Mayor for Life: The Secret to Dick Lugar’s Success
There’s an old aphorism about being a mayor that goes, “Plowing streets isn’t a partisan issue.†In other words: Being a Republican or Democrat might signal the governing approach of a legislator or a candidate for state or federal executive office with a broad range of powers, but it doesn’t tell you much about how a mayor may manage a city. Once elected, a mayor—perhaps more than any other officeholder—is judged more on their ability to deliver results around nuts-and-bolts issues than their ability to advance an ideological agenda.
And yet so many obituaries for the late Dick Lugar note that he was a successful senator and he was a successful mayor, but fail to make the connection that he was a successful senator because he was a successful mayor. To most commentators, his eight years leading Indianapolis are merely a one-sentence biographical prelude to paragraphs about his thirty-six years of achievement in Washington.
But it wasn’t those achievements that earned Lugar the title of statesman, it was his approach to governing. And in so many of his later achievements, we see the approach of a mayor: Someone who understood that bringing people together, solving problems, and delivering results should be the goal of government, at whatever level.
Russia Won’t Start a (Conventional) War in the Baltics
Western military planners need to reorganize and align units in such a way that they can handle Russian hybrid warfare, while preparing for a conventional attack as a secondary measure.
The sound of BM-21 rockets streaking across the sky. The smell of spent brass and burned powder. The rumble of BTR-82 armored personnel carriers rolling through a narrow street. Rebels sprinting from building to building through an open field of fire. These sights do not evoke a striking imagine of a modern European country, but Russian posturing in the region might lead to this.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, international spectators believed this Eurasian military powerhouse would cease. However, the Russian Federation has returned to its old Cold War ways, increasing aggressive activities against its neighbors in an attempt to stymie North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) expansion. As seen with the annexation of Crimea in 2014 or the liberation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the 2008 Georgian War, Russia has used its military to destabilize bordering nations.
Many leaders are worried that similar actions could be taken against the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Unlike Ukraine, these three countries are a part of NATO, presenting a prime target for Russian president Vladimir Putin.
However, future aggression will likely come in the form of the hybrid warfare attacks as seen in Ukraine and Georgia rather than an all-out invasion like many think. As Catherine Harris and Frederick Kagan from the Institute for the Study of War have hinted at, “The Russian military is well-positioned to launch a conventional war in Ukraine and a hybrid war in the Baltic States, the opposite of what Western leaders seem to be expecting in each theater.â€
