If Republicans run as Republicans they will win - If Republicans run as Republicans they
will win - Political pollsters have a tough job. They have to create
formulas to determine if the person who they are interviewing is likely or
unlikely to vote, and it is within this calculation that their reputations are
made. Typically, those who are likely to vote in an off-year election are
pretty set. They are the people who always vote in elections, and a few others
who are motivated by specific issues. In a wave election, the numbers of those
motivated by specific issues escalates changing the electoral landscape as the
candidates who are beneficiaries of this increased participation sweep to
victory. The 2014 election is rapidly looking like something new and different.
Democrats are reportedly demoralized by the failed Obama Administration and
general fatigue. Republicans, on the other hand, in an orgy of expectation that
the primary elections believed the key to taking the Senate was getting the
“electable” candidates nominated. And get them nominated they did….[conservatives]
want to believe that the Republican Party is still the conservative political
party and is not just a different gang of thieves looking to plunder America’s
pocket books. If Republicans run as Republicans in the final
weeks of this election, they still can turn this into a rout. But then, they
might have to govern as conservatives, and perhaps they fear that even more
than being backbenchers……
Devolution is needed in America too - The world watched and waited to learn the fate of Scotland following its vote on the referendum for independence. For many other regions within the U.K., including Wales and Northern Ireland; within Europe, including Spain’s Catalonia and Belgium’s Flanders; and states within the U.S., including Vermont, Texas and Alaska; Scotland’s vote energized and inspired separatists’ movements — even though they were disappointed with the outcome. While Scotland voted “No,” and chose to remain in the United Kingdom, it made enough noise and caused enough concern in London, that, in effect, it won anyway. When the race appeared to be close Westminster panicked — the “parties went into scramble mode.” They vowed “to introduce legislation to grant Scotland’s semiautonomous government more powers [devolution] if voters reject independence.”….. Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self-Governance, agrees. He told me: “A desire for ‘self-governance’ is hard wired into humans. When asked the question, ‘who should decide the things that affect your life?’ the vast majority of people will answer, ‘me.’ This extends to the idea that local governance is better than edicts from a distant government. People have more power locally. ‘Who decides? I decide.’”…. A report about Scotland, and other separatist movements, in the Business Insider states: “From early on in the campaign they also focused more on making it less about all the things the U.K. is doing wrong and more about how they can do it better.” In the West, we know we “can do it better.” Let your state and federal elected officials know that you support state management of public lands and that you want decisions made at the local level — because we can do it better.....
Devolution is needed in America too - The world watched and waited to learn the fate of Scotland following its vote on the referendum for independence. For many other regions within the U.K., including Wales and Northern Ireland; within Europe, including Spain’s Catalonia and Belgium’s Flanders; and states within the U.S., including Vermont, Texas and Alaska; Scotland’s vote energized and inspired separatists’ movements — even though they were disappointed with the outcome. While Scotland voted “No,” and chose to remain in the United Kingdom, it made enough noise and caused enough concern in London, that, in effect, it won anyway. When the race appeared to be close Westminster panicked — the “parties went into scramble mode.” They vowed “to introduce legislation to grant Scotland’s semiautonomous government more powers [devolution] if voters reject independence.”….. Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self-Governance, agrees. He told me: “A desire for ‘self-governance’ is hard wired into humans. When asked the question, ‘who should decide the things that affect your life?’ the vast majority of people will answer, ‘me.’ This extends to the idea that local governance is better than edicts from a distant government. People have more power locally. ‘Who decides? I decide.’”…. A report about Scotland, and other separatist movements, in the Business Insider states: “From early on in the campaign they also focused more on making it less about all the things the U.K. is doing wrong and more about how they can do it better.” In the West, we know we “can do it better.” Let your state and federal elected officials know that you support state management of public lands and that you want decisions made at the local level — because we can do it better.....
Liberal Incivility and Gabby Giffords - When a gunman attempted to murder Rep. Gabriel Giffords in January 2011, the country was shocked by what was widely interpreted as an act that symbolized the incivility that had transformed American politics. That assumption, which was primarily aimed at undermining the Tea Party movement that had swept the midterm elections months before in the 2010 midterms, was soon debunked when we learned the shooter was an apolitical madman. But liberals have never ceased yapping about the implications of their opponents’ alleged meanness. Now it turns out the person who is doing the most to give the lie to this assertion is Ms. Giffords….. The kind of gutter politics practiced by Giffords’s advocacy group does nothing to further a productive debate about guns or any other issue. But it does bring to light the hypocrisy of liberals who believe their good intentions or inherent virtue should allow them to defame opponents in a manner they would decry as incitement to violence if it were directed at them.as Giffords has begun to realize that empathy for her situation doesn’t translate into a willingness by the majority of Americans to embrace her positions on gun control, her intervention in political races is now taking on the aspect of a political attack dog rather than that of a sympathetic victim…… But it does bring to light the hypocrisy of liberals who believe their good intentions or inherent virtue should allow them to defame opponents in a manner they would decry as incitement to violence if it were directed at them……
Should We Sometimes Ignore Mass
Murder but Condemn Lesser Sins? - Oddly,
progressives often say “yes” to this question, and have been doing so for
almost a century now. At the United Nations, President Obama stated: “In a
summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the
world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri—where a
young man was killed, and a community was divided.” Many listeners were jolted by the seeming
comparison of a sad but unpremeditated killing in Ferguson with the Russian
invasion of Crimea and the ISIS mass murder and beheading of those who disagree
with them. According to Victor Davis Hanson, “Here is one of the staple dogmas
of the Progressive mind: the sins and crimes of America that require apologies
and reparations, even as the millions of dead, tortured, and imprisoned in
other nations are shrugged off.”......Josephson published The Robber Barons in
1934....... “Before people pass judgment on Comrade Stalin they ought to come
here and see his Works ….Stalin, however, was starving millions of Ukrainians
and sending thousands of others to the Gulag in 1934, the year Josephson
uttered those words. When Josephson finally left the Soviet Union and returned
to America, he lamented, “How can I continue to write books merely for a
living, when the form of society in which I live is repugnant?”
My
Take – The
history of Americans who lauded Stalin included FDR, who also liked Hitler and
Mussolini until the war. A number of “progressives “ went to the Soviet Union and came back with glowing reports such as Lincoln Steffens who said, “I’ve seen the future and it works”. And
Walter Duranty, working for the New York Times, received a Pulitzer Prize for
his articles about the Soviet Union claiming no one was starving to death, in
spite of the fact that every reporter there knew otherwise.
We see the same
lack of proportion and integrity from the media constantly. The media went after the commissioner
of the NFL 24/7 because they didn't like the decision he made over a wife
beater. I kept asking - what crime did he commit that justified such intense
scrutiny? Yet if you were to ask almost anyone about the Pakistani's who
sexually molested children for many years in England no one would know what you were talking about - and that's just one small example. Outrage over small things while totally ignoring
crimes so huge as to stagger the imagination. The same holds true regarding the
environmental movement. The socialist monsters of the 20th century killed over
100 million innocent people, and the environmentalism has probably been
responsible for the deaths of that many and more, starting with the ban on DDT.
That's a story that isn't being played 24/7! No, instead we hear about a
non-crime that doesn't fit the leftist narrative with blithering leftist idiots
demanding that Goodell resign. Why?
