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Are government vetting procedures defensible?

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Published last Thursday on Breitbart. While in Detroit rallying union members yesterday President Obama made a statement that the water crisis in nearby Flint, Michigan, where government water authorities have knowingly supplied 100,000 residents with unhealthy, high lead level water, demonstrated the need for more government. It followed a week of Democrats calling for the resignation of Michigan's Republican Governor for not solving the problem sooner. And blaming the crisis on Republican penny pinching. As it turns out, many levels of government, and politicians and bureaucrats of both parties, have known that Flint residents were being supplied with poisonous water...

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Should #BlackLivesMatter be radical libertarians?

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This was published this past weekend in two parts at Breitbart, Saturday and Sunday. The replies of the more socially conservative readers there are priceless. Republicans - and the broader group of people who simply don't want to see the Democrats in power - might then consider a strategy of attempting to reach gay voters, whom they've basically ignored. Actually appealing to gays by supporting gay marriage and other forms of legal equality in adoption etc. would be one approach, but there are others for people not ready to go there. Gay people tend to gravitate to urban areas governed by...

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This was published this past weekend in two parts at Breitbart, Saturday and Sunday. The replies of the more socially conservative readers there are priceless. It’s a common assumption – among Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals – that gay voters all vote for Democrats. In 2012, Barack Obama, according to exit polls, received three-fourths of the gay vote. But gay voters aren’t Democrats simply – in a Gallup study though a higher percentage of gays (44%) were Democrats than were heterosexual voters (32%), and a lower percentage were Republicans (13% versus 30%), they were also more likely to be independents...

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Sadly, as with the Iran Deal, a number of prominent libertarian writers are supporting Obama, quoting boilerplate about the "tired and huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Although if one reads the replies they are getting from their own libertarian readers, they are being told they are full of it. And the most libertarianish of the presidential candidates, Senator Rand Paul, has called for a moratorium on accepting Syrian refugees in the United States.

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2015 is the year transgender people became the new face of conservative politics. First Caitlyn Jenner declared herself to be a Christian, constitutionalist, Republican, and now Sophia Dalke has engineered a one (transgender) woman government shut down.

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I am personally very sympathetic to restricting - or at least not subsidizing - Syrian refugees and other Islamic immigrants, both here and in Europe. If you can only take so many, as must be the case, I prefer that we only take Christians (and Jews), Kurds, Yazidis, women with children, pre-teen orphans, etc. And that we vet them to make sure they don't have violent backgrounds or intentions. And if you want to take in some refugees, privately, maybe you (your church etc.) should be legally liable for what they do for some initial period.

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Charles and David Koch have announced that they have no plans to endorse or fund any of the GOP candidates before the primaries - even as they have finally upped their charm offensive, appearing on FOX and MSNBC shows so voters can see who they are, in contrast to a decade of smears by the "liberal" media and leftover blogosphere. Meanwhile, their counterpart in the Democratic Party, George Soros, is not holding back.

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Published earlier this week at Breitbart. It's been a tough month so far for Democratic Party pajama boys. First they lost Michael Bloomberg over a million dollars in Virginia, failing to take the state senate away from the GOP, after the New Yorker provided almost all the funding for Democrats running for local office in Virginia. Then they fabricated a hoax at the Democratic Party organ Politico claiming Dr. Ben Carson had lied and had their asses handed to them in a matter of hours, with even "liberal" CNN calling Politico's veracity into question. (Kyle Cheney, the Politico reporter who authored...

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This was published in October at Breitbart. Last month the left was in a tizzy over a hedge funder, Martin Shkreli (32), who bought Daraprim, an alleged AIDS drug, and tremendously raised the price. Shkreli hiked the price by 5500%, from $13.50 to $750. From the New York Times to the Daily Beast (whose headline labeled Shkreli an "asshole") liberal media found their caricature of the week to prove the evils of capitalism. (At a website called SheekyForums, things took an even darker turn on the totalitarian continuum, with readers played guess who's the Jew, concluding that even though Shkreli is reported to be Albanian,...

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A different version of this was published earlier at Breitbart. ------------------ Denounced in all quarters (The Daily Beast went so far as to adopt Governor Palin's adjective "lamestream"), last night's performance by the CNBC "moderators" put the lie to the belief that liberals favor collective action over dog-eat-dog competition, and showed them to be largely powerless when the GOP candidates formed a solidarity union against media bias. The consensus is that it was a debate between the GOP and the Democratic media, and that the former won, with Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie doing the most to raise their profiles. After a...

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This was published earlier this week at Breitbart. President Obama's management of foreign policy - droning hundreds of innocent bystanders (more than did President Bush), bombing a hospital and killing 22 doctors and patients, arming ISIS terrorists - may be precipitating a realignment of Americans in their views on foreign policy. This week GOP presidential candidates Donald Trump and Jeb Bush debated whether George Bush kept America safe during his administration, since 9/11 did happen on George Bush's watch. It's not the kind of thing you are supposed to say, just as you aren't supposed to cast aspersions on Senator...

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This was published yesterday at Breitbart. Perhaps she was some "way-yaz tye-ard" from 11 hours of testimony on Benghazi Thursday - Hillary Clinton was 50 minutes late to her rally at Market Square in Old Town, Alexandria yesterday. Hillary's Virginia campaign, which has been collecting the 5,000 signatures she needs to be on the Democratic primary ballot, had announced her speech for half past noon, but she showed up at 1:20 pm. The TSA-like Secret Service metal detectors and table search gates set up at the normally open venue used weekly by a farmer's market had been open since...

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This was published, minus my initial bawdy joke (the reason I wrote it), this morning at Breitbart. Sidney Blumenthal now becomes the second Jewish American to achieve international notoriety from a job under Bill Clinton. It was a morning of evasive answers, where Hillary Clinton rolled her eyes, palmed her face, shuffled papers, and rarely made eye contact with those on the committee asking her questions. She did everything but break out in a Nixonian sweat. Democratic media will be defending her for taking so much time to answer questions in a calm voice, claiming she has put all the issues...

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Published Tuesday at Breitbart. Jonathan Martin was RepuCorp's top insurance salesman. Though many of his colleagues had had to find other employment since the 2016 crash - health insurance, hazard insurance, and mortgage insurance were now only available through government sponsored enterprises, that didn't really use commission based salespeople. Not to mention that fewer and fewer people were buying homes. Or cars for that matter. But Jonathan was at the top of his game, having just bought both a new car and a new home, since his field, Errors and Omission insurance, was booming. He's started out way back at...

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A shorter version of this was published Tuesday at The Hill. Megyn Kelly has to be one of Roger Ailes smartest investments ever. Kelly has been able to get many people who should not have gone on her show to do so, including the lying homunculus Dr. Jonathan Gruber and the cadaverous Dr. Ezekial Emmanuel, whose appearances on her show were majorly bad PR for the Obamacare for which these highly credentialed men were sent - and paid handsomely - out to flak. It's almost wrong to watch these radically physically unattractive mandarins blinded by Kelly's looks and their own delusional...

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What kind of sociopath has a child by a serial rapist?

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Paid family leave is paying to make black families to leave.

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A shorter version of this was published earlier at Breitbart. Ready for Hillary peeps held a rare fundraiser last night you didn't have to be a Wall Street banker to attend, with a moderate turn out of about 70 Hillaryites, despite a storm from Hurricane Joacquin and a breakdown of DC's government transportation system, Metro. Metro breaks down daily now, but last night's rush hour breakdown was at the K Street Farragut West stop that carries lawyers and lobbyists from DC to their homes in posh northern Virginia. My bar mate before the speechifying started was a 30 something yuppie waiting for his...

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SILENCE = Death Jan 25, 2016

Why the state can’t get the lead out Jan 25, 2016

Generic levitra info Super levitra force 80 mg Police Brutality and Obamacare Nov 29, 2015

Gay voters – part 2, Republicans Nov 26, 2015

Gay Voters – part 1, Democrats Nov 25, 2015

Libertarians mistakenly support Obama again – the Syrian refugee crisis Nov 22, 2015

Libertarian engineers one woman partial government shut down for a day Nov 20, 2015

Libertarians and Obama’s refugee policies Nov 18, 2015

The Empire Strikes Back Nov 17, 2015

Hillary and the Pajama Boys Nov 12, 2015

Hedge fund socialists get their come-uppance Nov 11, 2015

The (Last) GOP Debate Nov 10, 2015

Two libertarian cheers for Donald Trump Oct 27, 2015

The Late Hillary Clinton Oct 26, 2015

Hilary Iscariot Oct 24, 2015

2024: a novel? Oct 23, 2015

A Koch and a smile Oct 22, 2015

Clintons in the Crossfire Oct 16, 2015

Who’s leaving whom? Ethnic cleansing in an imperial city Oct 11, 2015

Ready for Hillary slums for ballot access Oct 7, 2015