Musings on the Week
Musings on the Week
June 17, 2017
Leadership – “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does
the greatest things. He is the one
that gets the people to do the greatest things.” Ronald Reagan.
Politics – I left the
Republican Party a decade ago for the TEA Party, when they stopped representing mainstream
America; Donald
Trump is trying to resuscitate the
bankrupt GOP.
Politics – Democrats are not deeply
“anti-American” because their personal America,
as they want it to be, is very different from America as it is and has
been.
Politics – While the Democrat Party claims being the inclusive “big
tent”, its de facto leader does no favors by glibly insulting millions of voters with sweeping generalizations.
Politics – The Russia
election probe has all but collapsed as Director James Comey confirmed there was no creime,
no obstruction of justice, and Trump was never under investigation.
Politics – Obama violated
international law interfering in other country’s
elections in: Kenya (2006), Honduras (2009), Libya (2011), Egypt (2013), Israel
(2015), and Macedonia (2017).
Politics – It is not too
early to start shutting down the Russia election probe since it is obviously a phony political allegation with no underlying crimes that is
just wasting time and money.
Politics - Democrat National
Committee endorsed
Resistance Summer in June, so James Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders activist, tried to kill Republicans playing
baseball.
Politics – After unrelenting political attacks
since the election loss, Democrats are trying to act
surprised that one of their own acted out his rage by attempting to
murder Republicans.
Media – America
is not broken;
the Trump
administration is working to fix a broken
government against establishment and media headwinds never before seen
in politics.
Media – The mainstream media still
doesn’t get it: the Comey
testimony dominated the news inside the beltway, while economic news dominates the news everywhere else in the
nation.
Media – I suggest readers not listen to ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN news and not read the New
York Times or the Washington Post for several months to experience the
non-beltway view.
Leadership – “In my many years I have come to a
conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or
more is a congress.” John Adams.
Economy – Despite criticisms, Kansas
tried an experiment in supply side economics
cutting taxes which did not work, since required spending cuts were blocked undermining growth.
Debt –Illinois has
compiled $14.6 billion in unpaid bills,
with an annual deficit of $6 billion and its pension liability soaring up to
$130 billion.
Healthcare
– Nearly 2 million people (16%) signed up for ObamaCare
coverage and then failed to make a payment,
voting with their wallets on its usability and viability.
Energy
- Green
technologies
(e.g., wind, solar and electric vehicles) cannot
compete in the marketplace without subsidies, usage mandates or other favorable
government policies.
Environment
– Environmentalists
have embraced population control aiming to penalize
families for having children via a progressive tax that would increase with
each child.
Environment – It has taken far too long for science to finally contradict the
global warming fraud, contradicting the orthodoxy and questioning
underlying hypotheses.
Education – The last election has made selection of prospective colleges so much easier,
with so many revealed as liberal propaganda mills
taught by leftists that can be ruled out!
Abortion – Attitudes are stable with half of Americans saying abortion should be “legal only
under certain circumstances,” with only 18% saying it should be
illegal in all circumstances.
Leadership – “Government’s first duty is to
protect the people, not run their lives.” Ronald Reagan.
GWOT – The Constitution and Islamic Sharia law are totally incompatible, and no amount of
happy talk by politicians can allow them to coexist under American law.
Middle East – It
is not in America’s national interest to help the Middle East
fighting to redraw national boundaries into religious
ones: Sunni-stan (Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain); Shiia-stan (Tran,
Iraq); Kurdi-stan (Syria, Turkey); Alewite-stan (Syria,
Lebanon); and Israel,
of course!
David Coughlin
Hawthorne, NY
http://www.returntocommonsensesite.com/