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What Did American Politics
Look like before Government Was Reviled?
GEORGE WILL
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How Many Illegal Aliens Live in America?
The most frequently cited number of illegal aliens in the U.S. is 11 million. But where does that number originate? According to William Campenni at The Daily Signal, "Three main players were involved in generating that number of 11 million illegal immigrants: Pew Research Center, the Center for Immigration Studies and the Department of Homeland Security. But they were only masseurs of the source data, which comes from the Census Bureau by means of two surveys: the Current Population Survey and the American Community Survey." Campenni argues that in reality no one knows what the number is because illegals often sneak across the border; they're not checking in when they come. He adds, "Sarah Saldana, who runs Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the chief deportation agency and part of Homeland Security, testified Dec. 2 before Congress that the illegal population could be as high as 15 million." Furthermore, "In 2005, a Bear Stearns study estimated the total number of illegal immigrants at 20 million using other data perhaps more valid than sole reliance on Census Bureau surveys." What if, 11 years later, that number is far higher still? In short, there's really no sure way to know, but those invested in amnesty have an incentive to make the number as low as possible. -The Patriot Post
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Don't Cry for Me, Gun Controller During his Tuesday press conference rolling out his over-hyped executive actions on guns, Barack nObama even shed a "tear" for the children. "Every time I think about those kids [killed at Sandy Hook Elementary], it gets me mad," he said, wiping away a tear. "Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness — those rights were stripped from college kids in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara," nObama said. "And from high schoolers at Columbine. And from first graders in Newtown. First graders. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken by a bullet from a gun." He continued, "We do have to feel a sense of urgency about it, because people are dying and the constant excuses for inaction no longer suffice."
And to think, nObama once said, "Part of this job is also the theater of it" and that's "not something that always comes naturally to me." Please.
He then proceeded to introduce measures that would do absolutely nothing to reduce crime or so-called "gun violence." He'll target only the law-abiding, and he will likely continue the lax enforcement for which his administration has grown so infamous. Every American should be incensed when lives are taken senselessly, but also when craven politicians stand on the coffins of innocent victims to trumpet their preferred gun control policy. If nObama really wanted to save lives, he'd work with Congress to push for things like fewer "gun free zones," which just happen to be where nearly every mass shooting takes place.
Instead, he lectured: "I believe in the Second Amendment. It's there written on the paper. It guarantees a right to bear arms. No matter how many times people try to twist my words around, I taught constitutional law, [so] I know a little bit about this. I get it. But I also believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment." He's just not interested in those ways. And the Constitution is far more than just a piece of paper, however much nObama seeks to shred it. -The Patriot Post
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Clinton Can't Distinguish Between Democrat and Socialist
For at least one question, Chris Matthews lived up to the name of his show on MSNBC, "Hardball with Chris Matthews." When interviewing Hilly Clinton Tuesday, he asked her to define the difference between Democrat and socialist. She couldn't, beyond saying that no, she wasn't one. "I can tell you what I am," she replied. "I'm a progressive Democrat who likes to get things done, and who believes that we are better off in this country when we're trying to solve problems together, getting people to work together." Matthews asked the same question of Democrat National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in July. She, too, could not give a satisfactory answer.
This is dangerous for Clinton and establishment Democrats. Not only can she not draw a sharp distinction between herself and self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders, but the lack of explanation as to why she isn't socialist will cost her votes, as 50% of the U.S. population will not vote for a socialist, according to Gallup. If it walks like a socialist and talks like a socialist... This leads us to conclude that the Democrat Party is filled with DINOs — Democrats (people who advocate democracy) in name only — and a sinister ideology has replaced the party's old ideals.
"Not only is there little distinction between Soviet and German socialist systems of the 20th century," Mark Alexander wrote in an essay about the "new" Democrat Party, "but there is no consequential distinction between Marxist Socialism, Nationalist Socialism, or the most recent incarnation of this beast, Democratic Socialism. The objective of socialism by any name, is to replace Rule of Law with the rule of men, and the terminus of this transformation is tyranny." -The Patriot Post
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White House and GOP
Conspired on Education Takeover
Alex Newman
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Russia Tries to Rein in Hezbollah
After IDF Convoy Attack
Eliezer Sherman
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White House refuses to explain
delay in Iran sanctions
NICOLE DURAN
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A White House spokesman on Monday declined to say why the nObama administration changed course and decided to delay sanctioning Iran for its illegal ballistic missile tests... but also rejected the idea that the sanctions were delayed because of pressure from Tehran. "Ultimately we will impose those financial penalties, we'll impose those sanctions, at a time and place of our choosing, when our experts believe that they will have maximum impact," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday. "And those decisions are not subject to negotiation by the Iranians — or anybody else for that matter." The administration was expected to levy new sanctions on companies and individuals involved in Tehran's ballistic-missile program on Wednesday but then on Thursday did an about-face..
Former U.S. attorney: Clinton
could face criminal indictment
SARAH WESTWOOD
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Man Vs Wimp –
nObama Humiliates America,
Plays Cry Baby Card To Win Sympathy
Rick Wells
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More than a dozen US troops trapped by nObama’s peace partners, The Taliban — one soldier dead, two wounded
PAMELA GELLER
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ISIS Bomb Skills
'Truly The Stuff Of Nightmares'
Major Chris Hunter
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Council on Foreign Relations Panel
Outlines Divisions in Syria Conflict
John Grady
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Congress Could Quickly
End nObama’s Gun Grab
MIKE FLYNN
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Nuke this America! Iran flaunts
underground missile depot
Jeff Dunetz
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What Did American Politics Look
like before Government Was Reviled?
GEORGE WILL
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{nationalreview.com} ~ Soon, voters will have the opportunity and impertinence to insert themselves into the 2016 presidential conversation, which thus far has been the preoccupation of journalists and other abnormal people. The voting will begin in Iowa, thanks to Marie Jahn..
When, after 38 years as recorder for Plymouth County in northwest Iowa, Jahn decided to retire in February 1975, local Democrats decided to throw her a party. When it came to attracting a speaker, the best they could entice from their party’s national ranks was a former one-term governor of Georgia. According to Steven Hayward in The Age of Reagan:
When, after 38 years as recorder for Plymouth County in northwest Iowa, Jahn decided to retire in February 1975, local Democrats decided to throw her a party. When it came to attracting a speaker, the best they could entice from their party’s national ranks was a former one-term governor of Georgia. According to Steven Hayward in The Age of Reagan:
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The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: Carter’s obscurity was confirmed when he appeared on the syndicated TV game show What’s My Line? He stumped the panel, which not only didn’t recognize him, but failed to guess he was a state governor. When pollster George Gallup drew up a list of 38 potential Democratic presidential candidates in 1975, Carter’s name was not on the list.
The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: Carter’s obscurity was confirmed when he appeared on the syndicated TV game show What’s My Line? He stumped the panel, which not only didn’t recognize him, but failed to guess he was a state governor. When pollster George Gallup drew up a list of 38 potential Democratic presidential candidates in 1975, Carter’s name was not on the list.
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Eleven months after the fete for Jahn, Jimmy Carter finished second in the hitherto obscure Iowa caucuses, behind “undecided.” This semi-triumph became his springboard to Olympus. The caucuses would never again be obscure. The moral of this cautionary tale is that voters can be startlingly disruptive.
Eleven months after the fete for Jahn, Jimmy Carter finished second in the hitherto obscure Iowa caucuses, behind “undecided.” This semi-triumph became his springboard to Olympus. The caucuses would never again be obscure. The moral of this cautionary tale is that voters can be startlingly disruptive.
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Perhaps they are somewhat less likely to be so today. Surprises might be more difficult to spring now that there is saturation journalism about presidential campaigns that are in high gear a year before the first votes are cast.
Perhaps they are somewhat less likely to be so today. Surprises might be more difficult to spring now that there is saturation journalism about presidential campaigns that are in high gear a year before the first votes are cast.
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But American politics often has had quirky aspects, as historian Morton Keller demonstrates in his America’s Three Regimes: A New Political History (2007). The Republican party, Keller says, became known as the Grand Old Party in the 1880s, when it was about 25 years young. In 1840, when William Henry Harrison, scion of wealthy Virginia planters, ran for president as the hardscrabble “log cabin and hard cider candidate,” the resulting paraphernalia included glass log cabins containing whiskey from Pittsburgh’s E. C. Booz distillery, which enriched American slang. The Era of Good Feelings, the decade after 1815, was, Keller says, more an Era of No Feelings: In the 1820 presidential election, Richmond’s 12,000 residents produced 17 votes. Only 568 of Baltimore’s 63,000 residents voted. Nine percent of those eligible in New Jersey voted. No one will ever call 2016 part of an Era of Good Feelings. If, however, Donald Trump’s vitriol pumps up the number of voters, this will at least lay to rest the canard that high voter turnout is a sign of social health.
But American politics often has had quirky aspects, as historian Morton Keller demonstrates in his America’s Three Regimes: A New Political History (2007). The Republican party, Keller says, became known as the Grand Old Party in the 1880s, when it was about 25 years young. In 1840, when William Henry Harrison, scion of wealthy Virginia planters, ran for president as the hardscrabble “log cabin and hard cider candidate,” the resulting paraphernalia included glass log cabins containing whiskey from Pittsburgh’s E. C. Booz distillery, which enriched American slang. The Era of Good Feelings, the decade after 1815, was, Keller says, more an Era of No Feelings: In the 1820 presidential election, Richmond’s 12,000 residents produced 17 votes. Only 568 of Baltimore’s 63,000 residents voted. Nine percent of those eligible in New Jersey voted. No one will ever call 2016 part of an Era of Good Feelings. If, however, Donald Trump’s vitriol pumps up the number of voters, this will at least lay to rest the canard that high voter turnout is a sign of social health.
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Given the pandemic distaste for today’s politics, it is consoling to remember that things change. In the late 19th century, Robert Ingersoll, a.k.a. “The Great Agnostic,” was the nation’s most outspoken atheist and a leading Republican, a combination unlikely today. In the third decade of the 20th century, even a politician with national aspirations could be proudly parochial: The Democrats’ 1928 presidential nominee, New York governor Al Smith, reportedly said he would rather be a lamppost on Park Row than the governor of California, and when asked his thoughts about the problems of states west of the Mississippi, he supposedly replied, “What are the states west of the Mississippi?” In 1952, the Democratic presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson, dismayed by the mainstream media’s conservatism, fretted about “a one-party press in a two-party country.”
Given the pandemic distaste for today’s politics, it is consoling to remember that things change. In the late 19th century, Robert Ingersoll, a.k.a. “The Great Agnostic,” was the nation’s most outspoken atheist and a leading Republican, a combination unlikely today. In the third decade of the 20th century, even a politician with national aspirations could be proudly parochial: The Democrats’ 1928 presidential nominee, New York governor Al Smith, reportedly said he would rather be a lamppost on Park Row than the governor of California, and when asked his thoughts about the problems of states west of the Mississippi, he supposedly replied, “What are the states west of the Mississippi?” In 1952, the Democratic presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson, dismayed by the mainstream media’s conservatism, fretted about “a one-party press in a two-party country.”
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Today, there is a sense in which there are few two-party states. In the presidential election 40 years ago, Carter against President Gerald Ford, 20 states were won by five points or less, including the six most populous states: California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, Ohio. (Note the absence of Florida, now the third-most populous state.) In 2012, just four states were decided by five points or less (North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Virginia). Today, Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics identify just seven states they consider “super-swingy”: Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia, all of which voted for George W. Bush and Barack nObama twice, and Iowa and New Hampshire, which have voted Democratic in three of the last four elections.
Today, there is a sense in which there are few two-party states. In the presidential election 40 years ago, Carter against President Gerald Ford, 20 states were won by five points or less, including the six most populous states: California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois, Ohio. (Note the absence of Florida, now the third-most populous state.) In 2012, just four states were decided by five points or less (North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Virginia). Today, Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics identify just seven states they consider “super-swingy”: Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia, all of which voted for George W. Bush and Barack nObama twice, and Iowa and New Hampshire, which have voted Democratic in three of the last four elections.
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But, again, things change. “One session of the Connecticut Legislature in the 1790s,” Keller writes, “devoted itself primarily to imposing a tax on dogs. The next session was given over to discussing whether or not to remove that levy.” This was, of course, long ago, before government became ambitious, caring, and reviled.
But, again, things change. “One session of the Connecticut Legislature in the 1790s,” Keller writes, “devoted itself primarily to imposing a tax on dogs. The next session was given over to discussing whether or not to remove that levy.” This was, of course, long ago, before government became ambitious, caring, and reviled.
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