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Rights: Health even for the dying?
Or immortality, perhaps?
by Theodore Dalrymple

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 Pulosi Progressives — The Winning Formula 
 for Republicans 
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By Robin Smith:  Political parties once had the power to stand on their own platforms of ideas and policies. Voters would ideologically or practically align with Democrats or Republicans based on values and issues. As money and the power of incumbency have grown, along with the now-24/7 cable news cycle and the rise of social media platforms, individuals in leadership, particularly those of significant tenure and position, have become the face of their respective partisan groups.
          It's true that some conservatives and Republicans cringe at that fact. Now that President Donald Trump is moving his agenda, complete with his, er, extraordinary mannerisms, as the face of the Grand Old Party, angst is on display among the Republican ranks. Democrats are buoyed by this fracture and perpetuating the fairytale of Russia/Trump collusion to derail any agenda.
          But there's a chink in the Left's political battle armor that's proving to be an existential threat to their work to regain the House majority in the 2018 mid-term elections: The face of the Democrat Party and the political Left is House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi.
          In the special congressional elections that have occurred following Trump Cabinet appointments, Democrats intentionally declared each one served as a referendum on Trump's unpopularity. Yet all four special elections were lost by well-funded Democrats. So much for the all-out rejection that is supposedly brewing among the American electorate against Trump's agenda.
          Two of these congressional races must be noted. First, in Montana, the GOP candidate to replace Ryan Zinke was charged with misdemeanor assault of a reporter the evening before voters went to the polls. Despite his popular folksy Democrat rival looking to benefit from a nationwide flurry of horrible press for manhandling a member of the "fake media," Greg Gianforte won — maybe because he manhandled the media. Not only did Trump not cost Republicans a seat, but the accepted belief that media is the problem worked in favor of a fed-up Gianforte, who was pressed with a hail of questions about the GOP health care proposal. Montanans chose that over the whole state being represented by Nancy Pulosi's values.
          In Georgia's 6th congressional district, a peach of a race shaped up with historic fundraising. Democrat nominee Jon Ossoff, who hadn't found it necessary to yet live in the district he sought to represent, couldn't vote for himself, nor could most of his California donors and big money coming from Planned Parenthood. When records show that of the almost $24 million raised by the Democrat, nine times more contributions came from California than within Georgia, Karen Handel, the GOP candidate was accurately able to state, "He's raised millions outside of Georgia from Nancy Pulosi and outsiders who just don't share our priorities. My opponent doesn't live here [and] doesn't share our values." Ossoff and Pulosi lost to Handel.
          In short, Pulosi's unabashed hard-left stances based on sensationalized information are rejected, as were Barack liar-nObama's. But Nancy gets a little extra help in her public disapproval due to some of her antics. Let's walk down memory lane.
          Who can forget the oldie but goodie during the cram-down-our-throats passage of the insultingly name "Affordable" Care Act? Then-House Speaker Pulosi declared, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Or what about her later declaration that "I believe the [Republican-controlled] House of Representatives, at this time, is an unsafe place for children and other living things"? In December 2016, the California congresswoman whose worth is estimated at $100 million avowed, "I don't think people want a new direction. Our values unify us and our values are about supporting America's working families."
          Another favorite videoed moment of Pulosi was in January 2017, just days after Trump's inauguration. Democrats marched in protest of Trump's so-called "Muslim ban," which merely called for a temporary pause in travel from nations Barack liar-nObama identified as being of risk. Oh, the theatrics as the anti-Trump crowd watched Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana trotted out to the microphone to challenge Trump's move. The hot mic picked up Pulosi feeding lines to him: "Tell them you're a Muslim. Tell them you're a Muslim."
          So, as Pulosi provides reliable ammunition for Republicans — and no, the use of this metaphor is not a call to arms or violence — why does she remain as the face of the Democrats?
          It's simple, really. The 77-year-old, first elected to Congress in 1993, is a fundraising powerhouse on the Left. Since rising to House leadership for Democrats in 2002, she is credited with raising almost $568 million for leftist candidates. Perhaps it's no wonder the Democrat Caucus has moved so hard-left. Furthermore, as noted in the June 27 CNN analysis declaring "Nancy Pulosi Can't Be Beaten," you can't beat anybody with nobody. The shallow pool of candidates who might oppose Pulosi's leadership are not viewed as credible — there are no young guns in the wings who pose a threat.
          Pulosi's unpopularity is no recent development. Back in 2013, Gallup showed she earned the distinction of being the most unpopular congressional leader. Just over the last eight weeks in 11 House districts that are targeted by Democrats for 2018, Pulosi's job favorability didn't surpass 37.2%.
          Democrats may want a new face of their party, but their blindness to the authentic issues facing working Americans has been exposed. Republicans have much work to do in the House (and Senate) to capitalize on what's become a gaping hole in Democrat armor — the obstinacy of the hard-Left. Thank you, Madame Pulosi. 
~The Patriot Post
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Is Radical Islam
Horrifying the West into Paralysis?
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by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ September 2015. Thousands of Syrian migrants crossing the Balkan route were heading toward Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel was on the phone with Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, talking about a number of measures to protect the borders... where thousands of policemen were secretly located along with buses and helicopters. De Maizière turned for advice to Dieter Romann, then head of the police. "Can we live with the images that will come out?" de Mazière asked. "What happens if 500 refugees with children in their arms run toward the border guards?" De Maiziére was told that the appropriate use of the measures to be taken would have be decided by the police on the field. When de Maizière relayed Romann's response to the Chancellor, Merkel reversed her original commitment. And the borders were opened for 180 days. "For historical reasons, the Chancellor feared images of armed German police confronting civilians on our borders."...Germany is no longer our friends.  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10603/radical-islam-west
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China Reports They’ve Perfected
New “Invisible” Hypersonic Missiles
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by Benjamin Arie
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Technology often changes the face of war. Developments such as the airplane and the machine gun dramatically affected how World War I was fought... while aircraft carriers played a key role in World War II, and the helicopter came of age in Korea and Vietnam. Chillingly, a new “invisible” Chinese weapon could potentially change warfare again… and the United States may be falling behind. A report by News Corp. Australia indicates that China has perfected an ultra-fast propulsion system that could send missiles at speeds so fast, they would be extremely difficult to detect and defeat — virtually invisible to current missile defense systems... http://conservativetribune.com/invisible-chinese-weapon/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-07-05
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China Issues Dire Warning On North Korea:
“Sooner Or Later It Will Get Out Of Control...
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 by Mac Slavo
{shtfplan.com} ~ While the world watches in jest as Japanese residents prepare for the possibility of a confrontation with North Korea by panic buying nuclear shelters and air purifiers... we may soon realize that their efforts to desperately acquire protective gear and equipment for nuclear disaster were quite prescient. Yesterday, North Korea successfully tested what is reportedly an ICBM Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile capable of striking Alaska from the Korean peninsula. Coupled with their purported advancements in nuclear technology, North Korea may now have the ability to launch devastating attacks on their southern neighbor, Japan and even the United States. And if they have not yet achieved the ability to fit a nuclear warhead on an ICBM and deliver it effectively to its target, they are inching closer by the day. So close, in fact, that Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi’s recent remarks on the matter suggest that we are nearing a dangerous breaking point...http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/chinese-envoy-issues-dire-warning-on-north-korea-sooner-or-later-it-will-get-out-of-control-and-the-consequences-would-be-disastrous_07042017
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Newly Discovered Photo May
Solve Mystery Of Amelia Earhart
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by Ted Goodman
{dailycaller.com} ~ A newly discovered photograph of legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart suggests that she may have actually survived her final flight in 1937 before being captured by the Japanese... NBC’s Today Show previewed an upcoming History Channel documentary on Earhart’s disappearance Wednesday. The network said that the new evidence “could rewrite history.” Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, took off from Oakland, Calif. in May 1937 for an attempt at the longest around-the-world flight in history. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean during the final leg of their record setting attempt...Preview this Sunday.   http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/newly-discovered-photo-may-solve-mystery-of-amelia-earhart/
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 U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Delivers
Economic MOAB With Trade Warning to China
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Exactly as predicted. President Trump is aboard AF1 headed to the EU. After discussions with the President this morning, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers prepared remarks... at the United Nations on the topic of North Korea’s continued military escalation. Her full remarks are below. Note she discusses speaking with President Trump this morning about trade with China. Specifically note her comments about trade: In the final analysis, China will either take action to remove the North Korean threat, or the United States will collapse the economy of China with the biggest set of economic actions against China in the history of economic sanctions... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/05/boom-u-n-ambassador-nikki-haley-delivers-economic-moab-with-trade-warning-to-china/
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Rights: Health even for the dying?
Or immortality, perhaps?
by Theodore Dalrymple
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Standing at a bus stop in Paris recently, I noticed an advertisement for Medecins du Monde, Doctors of the World, a charity similar to the more famous Medecins Sans Frontieres. "Liberty, equality, health," it proclaimed: in other words, health replaced fraternity in the trio of French republican virtues or aspirations.

At the bottom of the ad were two additional slogans:

Health for all

Rights for everyone

But what could health for all possibly mean? Health even for the dying? Or immortality, perhaps?

No doubt there has always been high-sounding verbiage in the world, but it is never entirely innocent, in as much as it implicitly demands consent without thought, much less contestation.

No one bothers to argue with a slogan, especially when it is so obviously virtuous, for what kind of monster would wish illness on anyone? Health for all is obviously desirable: as are many other impossible things.

The slogans do not explicitly say that health is a right, but the proximity of "health for all" with "rights for everyone" certainly encourages their conflation.

And indeed, it is not difficult nowadays to find not only health care but also health itself propounded as a human right.

The absurdity of this is obvious. If I discover tomorrow that I have a fatal tumor, my rights have not been denied me, any more than they were when I was born less handsome than I should like to have been.

Even health care is not a right, though it is obviously desirable that everyone should have access to it, for the simple reason that it is better to prevent or relieve suffering than not to do so.

But how can an idea as absurd as a right to health have become current? Actually, it fits in well with a certain kind of thinking about freedom and equality under the law.

Critics of the classical liberal concepts of freedom and equality point out that the opportunities of the rich to exercise their freedom of choice, and also to influence or escape the rigors of the law, are much greater than those of the poor.

As the jibe has it, the rich man and the poor have equally the right to sleep under the arches of a bridge. And, incontestably, this argument has had an effect on social policy in most countries.

What goes for money, however, also goes for health. The healthy man and the paralyzed have equally the right to play tennis: but in order for them both to have equal rights in practice, it is necessary either to cure the paralyzed of his paralysis or prohibit the healthy man from taking up his racquet.

Again, in practice, the second is far easier than the first.

In other words, those who demand of freedom and equality under the law that everyone should in actuality be placed in the same condition or position will soon destroy freedom without having achieved equality.

But to explain why requires more than six words on an advertisement at a bus stop.
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