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3government 'solutions' that have failed miserably
by Rita Dunaway
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Send Law Enforcement After
Susan Rice, Force Her To Talk
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ As Lou Dobbs pursues the truth of the criminality of the left in general and the liar-nObama and liar-Clinton syndicates in particular, he invited former Congressman Pete Hoekstra on for his input... Dobbs says, “Let’s start with Susan Rice bailing on the House Intelligence Committee, indefinitely but at least for now, but still seemingly willing to talk to the Senate Intelligence Committee, we’re told, we can’t verify that, but a date uncertain as to when she would do that.” He asks, “Are these two committees getting played here?” Hoekstra responds, “They may be, but, you know, the committee has an option, subpoena her. Make her appear before the committee.” Dobbs asks, “And what if she chooses to say, ‘No simply just can’t do it because it would be incriminating,” whatever the case?”...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-hoekstra-send-law-enforcement-after-susan-rice-force-her-to-talk/
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Israel and Hezbollah: The Battle before the Battle
by Jonathan Spyer
{meforum.org} ~ During the 2006 war between Israel and Hizballah, Israeli military actions were limited by the broader diplomatic situation. The expulsion of Syria from Lebanon had taken place a year earlier... The government of then prime minister Fuad Siniora in Beirut was considered one of the few successes of the US democracy promotion project in the region. As a result, pressure was placed on Israel to restrict its operations to targets directly related to Hezbollah activity alone. Ten years is a long time. Today, the view in Israel is that the distinction between Hezbollah and the institutions and authorities of the Lebanese state has disappeared... http://www.meforum.org/6817/israel-and-hezbollah-battle-before-the-battle?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=8fbd7e41cd-spyer_jonathan_2017_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-8fbd7e41cd-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-8fbd7e41cd-33703665by Jonathan Spyer
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Washington Post Gives Megaphone
to Far-Left Group’s Climate Fearmongering
by Brian McNicoll
{aim.org} ~ It was 46 years ago, almost to the day, that the Washington Post ran a story on how man’s behavior was affecting his environment... “In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees,” the Post reported. “Sustained emissions over five to 10 years could be sufficient to trigger an ice age.” But long before the shelf life of the Post’s prediction began to run out with no Ice Age in sight, the newspaper changed course and decided burning fossil fuel would make the weather hotter, not colder. It makes one wonder – Is the Post trying to deliver serious scientific information? Or does it just view pot shots at the energy industry as a way to sell papers? The question came up again on Monday, when the Post carried a story in its Metro section entitled, “Timeline of sea-rise impacts is predicted.”... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/washington-post-gives-megaphone-to-far-left-groups-climate-fearmongering/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jul-18-2017&utm_medium=email.
Democrats Panic as Colorado
Voters Cancel Their Registrations in Droves
{totalconservative.com} ~ According to a report from the Denver Post, some 3,400 Colorado voters have canceled their registrations in recent weeks, with some of them claiming their decision stems from President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission... and its controversial requests for voter information from all 50 states. The mass de-registrations, while representing a tiny fraction of Colorado voters, have nonetheless given Democrats another excuse to cry about “voter suppression,” a theme that promises to be at the front of their politics in the coming years. At the heart of the controversy is a request from the voter commission asking states to send the White House data from the voter rolls including felony convictions, military status, and voting history, along with personal information such as addresses and social security numbers... http://totalconservative.com/democrats-panic-colorado-voters-cancel-registrations-droves/
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FSM VIDEO
President Trump Participates in a Made in America Product Showcase
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u7qMTSerJY
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u7qMTSerJY
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Liberal Senator Admits She Gets Her Intel About GOP Senators From TV
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRziGcG8Htg
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRziGcG8Htg
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Former Trump campaign senior adviser speaks out on his House Intel testimony, Russia hysteria
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5510800310001
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5510800310001
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Watters Spars With Protester from Violent Anti-Trump Group
VIDEO: http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5509083595001
VIDEO: http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5509083595001
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Panel of Moms Weigh In On Media's Focus On Russia
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlpMRWZ7clk
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlpMRWZ7clk
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liar-nOBAMA 2016 FLASHBACK to Trump: "Stop Whining," "No Serious Person" Believes U.S. Elections Can Be Rigged Or Stolen
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Oregon Governor to Sign Unprecedented Bill Providing FREE Abortions for ALL
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5506895036001
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5506895036001
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"I'm Not the Left, I'm a Journalist" - CNN Host Spars with Rep Jim Jordan
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LnZ88nABUM
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LnZ88nABUM
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NBC Consults Dan Rather for "Ethical" Insight
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President Trump Holds a Joint Press Conference with President Macron (France July 2017)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlHZuZizu1M
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlHZuZizu1M
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by Rita Dunaway
3 government 'solutions' that have failed miserably
by Rita Dunaway
{wnd.com} ~ In their passion to achieve a government-crafted utopia, the liberal/progressive movement often does more harm than good. This is because their tool of choice – the government – can only apply superficial solutions that come with harmful side effects.
Efforts to correct “income inequality” and “fight poverty” through government entitlement programs are a prime example. As columnist George Will recently asked and answered, “What if large causes of poverty are not matters of material distribution but are behavioral – bad choices and the cultures that produce them? If so, policymakers must rethink their confidence in social salvation through economic abundance.”
Exactly. Even if the government could afford to provide for the basic needs of its citizens from a budgetary perspective (it can’t), doing so would not address many of the root causes of poverty: out-of-wedlock childbirth, divorce and unemployment.
Now consider the push to impose an increasing number and variety of legal restrictions and regulations upon gun ownership. While some basic requirements, like background checks, make sense as a way of making it harder for criminals to obtain weapons, many of the left’s proposals for “gun control” do more to burden law-abiding sportsmen and homeowners than to actually keep anyone safe from criminal activity.
Statistics show that the vast majority of crimes committed with firearms are not committed by the legal owner of the firearm, so it makes little sense to make it more difficult for citizens to legally acquire and carry guns; the citizens who jump through these legal hoops are not the problem.
Nevertheless, liberals like writer Warren Blumenfeld advocate onerous government restrictions upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, including limiting the number of firearms a person can own, the number of bullets a firearm clip can hold and “re-thinking” concealed-carry laws.
Right now, conservative watchdog group 2nd Vote, is conducting a scientific experiment to test its theory that in fact, “guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” The group has set up a live “gun cam” to monitor one particular gun for criminal behavior.
It may be a silly stunt, but it makes the point: More rules and regulations aimed at an inanimate object aren’t going to make us safer from criminals intent upon destruction.
Let’s look at one more example: funding for education. We see a continuous push for government to invest more and more money in education. Anyone who opposes it is demonized.
I don’t think anyone would argue about the value of good education and its importance to society, so if increased spending on education translated into better-educated students, then it would make a lot of sense. But a study released by the Heritage Foundation several years ago revealed that the steady increase in funding for education over time has not produced corresponding gains in educational achievement.
What does make a difference? According to another Heritage study, the structure and stability of the child’s family and parental involvement in schoolwork have a huge impact on academic performance.
But, sadly for the government-is-the-answer crowd, these are not factors that can be addressed by budgetary line items.
There is a lot to be admired about the liberal/progressive movement. I believe most of the activists within this camp are truly motivated by a legitimate, noble concern for others. This should be recognized and commended. But there is a gaping hole in their worldview; it’s the vacant place where one looks for a link between the proposed solutions – which invariably involve government – and the problems meant to be solved.
Government is not a tool capable of resolving all human struggles, and in America, that was recognized from the start. As Thomas Paine wrote, in “Common Sense,” “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections; the latter negatively, by restraining our voices.”
The role of government in improving human society is a narrowly limited one: to protect its citizens’ rights, to punish wrongdoing and to point people toward the universal Moral Law through basic legal codes that reinforce its fundamental tenets.
When government goes much beyond this, either by using such a broad brush to eliminate harm that it intrudes upon law-abiding citizens or by seeking to become, itself, a positive doer of good in society, the result will invariably be some combination of the following: a contraction of its citizens’ liberty, an erosion of their charitable instincts and personal responsibility, and a colossal waste of money.
Efforts to correct “income inequality” and “fight poverty” through government entitlement programs are a prime example. As columnist George Will recently asked and answered, “What if large causes of poverty are not matters of material distribution but are behavioral – bad choices and the cultures that produce them? If so, policymakers must rethink their confidence in social salvation through economic abundance.”
Exactly. Even if the government could afford to provide for the basic needs of its citizens from a budgetary perspective (it can’t), doing so would not address many of the root causes of poverty: out-of-wedlock childbirth, divorce and unemployment.
Now consider the push to impose an increasing number and variety of legal restrictions and regulations upon gun ownership. While some basic requirements, like background checks, make sense as a way of making it harder for criminals to obtain weapons, many of the left’s proposals for “gun control” do more to burden law-abiding sportsmen and homeowners than to actually keep anyone safe from criminal activity.
Statistics show that the vast majority of crimes committed with firearms are not committed by the legal owner of the firearm, so it makes little sense to make it more difficult for citizens to legally acquire and carry guns; the citizens who jump through these legal hoops are not the problem.
Nevertheless, liberals like writer Warren Blumenfeld advocate onerous government restrictions upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, including limiting the number of firearms a person can own, the number of bullets a firearm clip can hold and “re-thinking” concealed-carry laws.
Right now, conservative watchdog group 2nd Vote, is conducting a scientific experiment to test its theory that in fact, “guns don’t kill people; people kill people.” The group has set up a live “gun cam” to monitor one particular gun for criminal behavior.
It may be a silly stunt, but it makes the point: More rules and regulations aimed at an inanimate object aren’t going to make us safer from criminals intent upon destruction.
Let’s look at one more example: funding for education. We see a continuous push for government to invest more and more money in education. Anyone who opposes it is demonized.
I don’t think anyone would argue about the value of good education and its importance to society, so if increased spending on education translated into better-educated students, then it would make a lot of sense. But a study released by the Heritage Foundation several years ago revealed that the steady increase in funding for education over time has not produced corresponding gains in educational achievement.
What does make a difference? According to another Heritage study, the structure and stability of the child’s family and parental involvement in schoolwork have a huge impact on academic performance.
But, sadly for the government-is-the-answer crowd, these are not factors that can be addressed by budgetary line items.
There is a lot to be admired about the liberal/progressive movement. I believe most of the activists within this camp are truly motivated by a legitimate, noble concern for others. This should be recognized and commended. But there is a gaping hole in their worldview; it’s the vacant place where one looks for a link between the proposed solutions – which invariably involve government – and the problems meant to be solved.
Government is not a tool capable of resolving all human struggles, and in America, that was recognized from the start. As Thomas Paine wrote, in “Common Sense,” “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively, by uniting our affections; the latter negatively, by restraining our voices.”
The role of government in improving human society is a narrowly limited one: to protect its citizens’ rights, to punish wrongdoing and to point people toward the universal Moral Law through basic legal codes that reinforce its fundamental tenets.
When government goes much beyond this, either by using such a broad brush to eliminate harm that it intrudes upon law-abiding citizens or by seeking to become, itself, a positive doer of good in society, the result will invariably be some combination of the following: a contraction of its citizens’ liberty, an erosion of their charitable instincts and personal responsibility, and a colossal waste of money.
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