[Bread and Circuses - Politics and other Silliness]

While tearing down everything that's great about our country, the left has always permitted us to celebrate patriotic holidays. But this year, on the week that we commemorate the unveiling of the Declaration of Independence, Nike yanked a Betsy Ross tribute sneaker off the market because the American flag didn't sit well with Colin Kaepernick. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is telling wild, provable lies about America's border agents. This Fourth of July, let's look at the tactics used by the left to blacken the reputations of American heroes. To wit, the lie that the principal author of the declaration, Thomas Jefferson, fathered a child with his slave, Sally Hemings. The charge was first leveled in 1802 by a muckraking, racist, alcoholic journalist, James Callender, who had served prison time for his particular brand of journalism. He had tried to blackmail Jefferson into appointing him postmaster at Richmond. When that failed, Callender retaliated by publicly...

https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/here-are-8-stubborn-facts-gun-violence-america In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent future school shootings. As emotions morph from grief to anger to resolve, it is vitally important to supply facts so that policymakers and professionals can fashion solutions based on objective data rather than well-intended but misguided emotional fixes. Are there ways to reduce gun violence and school shootings? Yes, but only after objectively assessing the facts and working collaboratively to fashion commonsense solutions. Here are eight stubborn facts to keep in mind about gun violence in America:     Violent crime is down and has been on the decline for decades.     The principal public safety concerns with respect to guns are suicides a...

Global Warming: http://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming.asp http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=3 The LA Times featured cold fusion in ’89 before its debunking. Environmentalists were aghast! “It’s like giving a machine gun to an idiot child.” – Paul Ehrlich (mentor of John Cook of the SkepticalScience blog, author of “Climate Change Denial”) “Clean-burning, non-polluting, hydrogen-using bulldozers still could knock down trees or build housing developments on farmland.” – Paul Ciotti (LA Times) “It gives some people the false hope that there are no limits to growth and no environmental price to be paid by having unlimited sources of energy.” – Jeremy Rifkin (NY Times) “Many people assume that cheaper, more abundant energy will mean that mankind is better off, but there is no evidence for that.” – Laura Nader (sister of Ralph) CLIMATEGATE 101: “For your eyes only…Don’t leave stuff lying around on ftp sites – you never know who is trawling them. The two MMs have been ...

Light bulbs and iPhones were invented for profit, not public service, but they’ve undoubtedly done more to help “humanity,” “society,” “community” or however you choose to describe the intended recipient of “help” that dominates so much of the discussion in politics, than any humanitarian or government program ever has. “Humanity,” “society” and “community” are in quotation marks because these are abstract concepts that are defined by people who want to use government force to compel other people to work for them. In contrast, “individual” and “family” are not defined by other people. Those concepts exist independently of anybody else’s opinion, and without government force. A free country protects individual rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence means when it says we have the “unalienable rights” of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that governments are instituted “to secure these rights.” You have the right to provide for yourself and your...

The mainstream media (MSM) have been sensationalizing mass shootings for the last three decades, reaching a crescendo in the last several months. They sensationalized gun violence as a way to put pressure on and force Congress to pass unconstitutional gun control laws that disarm the law-abiding citizen while doing nothing to stop criminals. These laws range from attempting to ban assault weapons to passing so-called Red Flag laws — all of which as written circumvent the Second Amendment or violate the Due Process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. In countering the gun control propaganda and discussing mass shootings two points that are never cited by the MSM need to be brought forth and emphasized. First, there is the fact that   these deranged madmen perpetrating mass shootings must be taken down from the zenith of celebrity status in which the MSM has placed them and instead sink them into the nadir of the cesspool where they belong! “But how can we...

Myths are like an air mattress. They are terribly comfortable, and when deflated, cause a serious jolt. Josh Billings: "It ain't what people know that causes trouble. It's what they know that ain't so." Myth #1: Robber Baron myth - that in the 19 century there was an era of unrestrained rugged individualism in which heartless monopoly capitalists exploited the poor unmercifully. Myth #2: Great Depression myth - 1929-late 30s was a failure of private enterprise. Myth #3: Demand for government service - govt. had to step in because of failure of private market and great demand for government services. Myth #4: Free Lunch myth - that there is such a thing as free lunch. Myth #5: Robin Hood Myth - That government operates by taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Myth #1 - has roots in the Greenback Party movement - "all problems could be solved by printing more money"; Free silver movement - William Jennings Bryant "Will mankind b...

GOPUSA Staff Walter E. Williams 11:40 am September 20, 2018 So much of our reasoning about race is both emotional and faulty. In ordinary, as well as professional, conversation, we use terms such as discrimination, prejudice, racial preferences and racism interchangeably, as if they referred to the same behavior. We can avoid many pitfalls of misguided thinking about race by establishing operational definitions so as to not confuse one behavior with another. Discrimination can be operationally defined as an act of choice. Our entire lives are spent choosing to do or not to do thousands of activities. Choosing requires non-choosing. When you chose to read this column, you discriminated against other possible uses of your time. When you chose a spouse, you discriminated against other people. When I chose Mrs. Williams, I systematically discriminated against other women. Much of it was racial. Namely, I discriminated against white women, Asian women, fat women and women with criminal bac...

https://www.quora.com/What-is-everyones-beef-with-Antifa-Isnt-anti-fascism-a-good-thing Anti-Fascism is nothing but Fascism with minus sign . The modulus is the same . Antifa is short from Antifascistische Aktion , a Far Left militant group founded by the German Communist party in 1932. It was basically the Communist equivalent of the Sturmabteilungen - the Brownshirts - of the Nazi party: a paramilitary violent gang organization, whose main purpose was political terror and phyiscal violence on political opponents. Nazis came and went, but Antifa re-emerged after the debacle of the WWII. In the postwar era the historical Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups and individuals in Germany as well as other countries, which widely adopted variants of its aesthetics and some of its tactics; this is known as the wider Antifa movement. The Antifa movement is incredibly violent and it is basically a safe haven for juvenile delinquen...

The Lost Generation - [born 1883-1900] WWI World War I (1914–1918) The Greatest Generation - [born 1901-1927] Great Depression, WWII World War II (1939–1945) The Silent Generation - [born 1925-1942] [Children of the Lost Generation] The Lucky Few, McCarthy Era, Korea, Vietnam (COLD WAR) Korean War (1950–1953)     Rock and Roll Vietnam War  (1955–1964 [a] , 1965–1973 [b] , 1974–1975 [c] ) Baby Boomers - [born 1946-1964] [Children of WWII Gen] Golden Age, "Post-War American High", Consumerism, first "Generationalists". Vietnam, Civil Rights, Hippies, Counter-culture, Me Generation, Generation W     Generation Jones -  [born 1954-1965] Stagflation, Post-Vietnam, Billy Joel? Generation X - [born ~1961-1981~] [Children of Silent Gen] MTV / Latchkey Generation, Grunge, Hip-Hop, don't define me, baby bust, no-name generation, the 13th generation (since American Independence) Fall of the Berlin Wall, Gulf War ==> Shift to Middle E...

***Overton Window Shift*** American Liberals and Conservatives are now on the Right side of the political spectrum. The Left now only includes Tribalist Totalitarian Collectivists. ^^^ you know the dangerous cocktail that German National Socialists and Stalinist Communists are made of ^^^ This is (still) a dirty little secret for many. Your classic liberal has much more in common with conservative views than they do the totalitarian left. This is one of the reasons why I object so often to the generic coining of the left as "liberal". Regressive postmodernism doesn't roll off the tongue as easily but is a much more accurate description. From an American political perspective, the leftists have reframed the political axis through hyperbolic castigation of those who disagree with any point of their intersectional craziness that classical liberals that used to sit under their umbrella are now forced to find refugee with free speech respecting conser...

It was created as such by Mexican restaurants. It does have historical signficance, however. It celebrates the day that the Mexican army, still under Spain, kicked the invading French army out of Mexico, which was there to collect on a debt that Spain owed to France. It is, in effect, celebrating beating the Repo Man. What is not celebrated is that the next year, the French returned with twice as many men and wiped the floor with them, not leaving until Spain paid its bad debt.  yes, except for Mexico alredy being free of spain then, as they were when we went to war with them.And athe French Emperor had to abandon his Austrian who thought he was Mexoco's Emperor. Mexico does not even celebrate Cinco de Mayo....it is just an excuse to drink in America. Well that is not really correct. It is not a bank holiday but it certainly is a day off from school for most children there. There are also parades and mock battles performed celebrating the Mexican defeat of the...

It is insidious to watch the left do its dirty work of demonization. It starts with a narrative constructed on false accusations and misleading innuendos. Then, the narrative is repeated enough until it becomes accepted truth. Finally, wider conclusions are drawn from it, casting ugly aspersions on the innocent. In the current iteration, the narrative began with accusations that President Donald Trump was a white supremacist and racist, fueled by  selective quotes  from his Charlottesville press conference. (See now the Prager U video, “ The Charlottesville Lie .”) Then, that narrative was repeated day and night by news pundits and politicians and educators and social media influencers. This results in the feeling that, “It must be true, because it is everywhere.” Now, in the final stage, the accusation is broadened: Anyone who votes for Trump is a racist – specifically, a white supremacist. This is what we are up against. This is not to say that President Trum...

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After President Trump's State of the Union Address, which included a compelling section calling for the prohibition of late-term abortion, senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris took to Twitter to register her objection. "Politicians should not tell women what to do with their bodies," she wrote, eloquently emphasizing each word with little clapping hand emojis. It was the most transphobic statement ever tweeted. I, for one, was devastated. Harris knows as well as anyone that gender is a social construct. Issues of reproductive health are not exclusive to women. Why would she assume that Trump was telling only women what to do with their bodies? Men can get pregnant, too. Men can have uteruses. Man can have ovaries. Men can give birth. Just as a woman might have a penis and no ovaries. Any anatomical combination is possible with any of the 346 genders. Kamala Harris knows this. All modern leftists know this. Yet, in an act of unspeakable bigotry, revealing her o...

Larry Elder - Jussie Smollett; demand for racism outstrips the supply Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., not only believed black and openly gay actor Jussie Smollett’s tale of being attacked by two N-word-spouting homophobic Trump-supporters, she — and many other big-name Democrats — knew exactly whom to blame. Waters said: “I know Jussie. I love him. His family’s a friend of mine. I know his sisters, I met his mom and I called already to Jazz, one of the sisters, to talk to her about what’s happening, what’s going on. … I’m pleased that he’s doing okay. But we have to understand this is happening for a reason. Why, all of a sudden, do we have people unable to study while black, unable to mow a lawn while black, unable to have a picnic while black, and being attacked? It’s coming from the President of the United States. He’s dog whistling every day. He’s separating and dividing, and he is basically emboldening those folks who feel this way.” The Rev. Al Sharpton, who became famous by falsel...

Were minimum wages ever intended to be a living wage? Charles Tips Charles Tips, Founding CEO of TranZact, Inc. Updated Jan 29, 2017 Originally Answered: Does minimum wage imply a living wage? No, it implies a lot of people not working, particularly minority youth. A full 90 percent of economists surveyed regarded minimum-wage laws as increasing the rate of unemployment among low-skilled workers. This is not out of ignorance. The early history of minimum-wage laws is wholly racist, designed to create economic hardship for “undesirables.”     A minimum-wage law was passed in British Columbia, Canada, in 1925 with the intent of pricing Japanese and Chinese immigrants out of working in the lumber industry.     In South Africa’s apartheid era, white labor unions urged that a minimum-wage law be applied to all races in order to keep black workers from taking jobs away from white unionized workers by working for less than the union pay scale.     ...

    GOPUSA Staff Walter E. Williams 6:53 am October 17, 201838 comments Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seeking to represent New York’s 14th Congressional District, has called for the abolition of the Electoral College. Her argument came on the heels of the Senate’s confirming Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. She was lamenting the fact that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, nominated by George W. Bush, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, nominated by Donald Trump, were court appointments made by presidents who lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College vote. Hillary Clinton has long been a critic of the Electoral College. Just recently, she wrote in The Atlantic, “You won’t be surprised to hear that I passionately believe it’s time to abolish the Electoral College.” Subjecting presidential elections to the popular vote sounds eminently fair to Americans who have been miseducated by public schools and universities. Worse...

WALSH: The Simple Preschool-Level Question That No Leftist Can Answer Photo by Karen Ilagan/GettyImages By Matt Walsh @mattwalshblog May 15, 2019 For the last few weeks I have been trying with increasing desperation to get a leftist — any leftist — to answer one simple question: what is a woman? Daily Wire TV You’ll notice that folks on the Left use the word “woman” quite a bit. They make many claims about women. They say that these creatures known as women have something called “women’s rights.” They say that these rights are under attack. They say that women are persecuted and disadvantaged by something called male privilege. They say that women are the victims of a wage gap. They say things like, “We need a woman President.” They also say that biological males can be women. They say transwomen are women. They say that someone can start out life as a male and transition into a woman. They make many other claims in this vein. But how can I understand any of these claims and declaratio...