Some time ago I predicted that Perry wouldn’t matter and Cain would fade. I had no idea how right I would be.
Bachmann is and has been done for a long time. Santorum has a Google problem. Paul is too old.
This race is now between Mitt and Newt.
Either one, for different reasons, will beat Obama.
Posted in Elections 2012, Politics: National
Tagged Herman Cain, Michelle Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick P, Rick Santorum
I suspect that a child, with loving parents, will grow to be a confident young adult. Certainly the variances of life will come to play, but love begets love.
Of course it does.
Individual Liberty, when left alone to flourish, is wonderful thing to behold:
Last night I was talking to a more Liberal friend of mine. Both lovers of things political and dedicated to the “Ought”, we often discuss the on goings of the world, the nation and all things political. During our discussion the topic of privatization came up. Typical “battle lines” were drawn. Me with my, “There is precious little the government can do well” and his “It is the role of the government”.
Well, he asked me to demonstrate one thing that the private sector does better than the government. My answer, deliver packages, things like the mail. Companies like FedEx and UPS do it better and they do it while making a profit. Further, to make my point, I claimed that there is nothing that says these things have to be done by the government. They are not specifically called out in the Constitution.
He said, “Ahhh, yes. The Post Office IS called for specifically in the Constitution”.
I checked.
He was right. I was wrong.
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
Clause 5: To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
Clause 6: To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
The Constitution DOES call for the Government to establish a Post Office.
However, even as I’m writing this, it occurs to me that the requirement is that the government establishes these post offices. I wonder if people think that the government must actually RUN them with government employees?
For example, the same clause calls for the government to post roads. But not all roads are government run, owned or managed. We have roads that are in private hands.
Anyway, the point is I didn’t know that Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7 called out the Post Office.
Huh.
It turns out that appreciating brunettes over blondes doesn’t matter when fighting wars:
MANAMA, BAHRAIN – Marine Gen. James Amos, the face of opposition in the military to lifting the ban on gays serving openly, now acknowledges his concern that repeal would undermine the war effort has proven unfounded. In fact, he said, Marines have embraced the change.
In an interview, Amos called the repeal in September of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy “a non-event.”
That is in contrast to his cautionary words to Congress in December 2010, shortly before President Obama signed the repeal legislation. The ban was not lifted until this year to allow the Pentagon to prepare troops for the change.
“Successfully implementing repeal and assimilating openly homosexual Marines into the tightly woven fabric of our combat units has strong potential for disruption at the small-unit level as it will no doubt divert leadership attention away from an almost singular focus on preparing units for combat,” Amos testified. Still, he said at the time that if the law were changed, it would be faithfully followed by the Marines.
He now sees no sign of disruption in the ranks — even on the front lines.
“I’m very pleased with how it has gone,” Amos said during a weeklong trip that included four days in Afghanistan, where he heard not a word of worry about gays.
As it turns out, appreciating one sex versus another has the same non-effect.
I had occasion to shop for some cold medicine tonight; wife is sick.
When I went to purchase the Advil, the clerk informed me that I would have to show proof of identification. See, it turns out that tweekers take the active ingredient in this medication and cook it into meth. Sooooo, you need to present valid picture ID to purchase it.
Anyway, as the pharmacist dutifully entered my information in the anti-tweeker database, I was struck by two thoughts:
An occasional commentator and Economics Professor here in North Carolina recently posted that the Alabama Immigration law is suppressing jobs in that state. As proof, he cited this article:
(CNN) — Fierce critics of Alabama’s controversial new immigration law — and one of its staunchest supporters — are pointing to the arrest of a German Mercedes-Benz executive last week to make their case.
Police in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, pulled the man over because of a problem with the tag on the rental car he was driving, and then detained him when he didn’t have proper identification on hand, according to Alabama’s homeland security director.
Somehow, this is sufficient evidence that immigration laws in Alabama are keeping jobs out of the State. However, even the article doesn’t think that’s the case:
[Senator] Brewbaker told CNN that requiring immigrants and foreign visitors to carry identification is common around the globe.
“I know a good many people with Hyundai and companies like that have gone to live in Korea. They say, ‘We’re expected to carry our papers with us because we’re foreigners,'” he said. “That’s the standard worldwide. I don’t want Alabama to be any more onerous on visitors, as long as they’re legally present, than anywhere else.”
Yes, of course. Let us not forget that it’s a Federal Offense not to carry paperwork demonstrating that you are in America legally. A Federal Offense. It’s against the law. If you are in America legally as a foreign visitor, you are breaking the law if you don’t carry paper work on your body.
But I get the point. After all, the Mercedes executive was Hispanic and we all know that the Republicans are just racist haters:
For state Sen. Dick Brewbaker — one of the law’s backers — the arrest shows that officers aren’t racially profiling and that the state is enforcing the same types of requirements other countries have.
“This police officer in Tuscaloosa, he sure didn’t pull that guy over because he looked Hispanic,” Brewbaker told CNN. “He was just enforcing the law.”
See..? Wait? What?
The guy was pulled over for a crime, was asked to provide documentation and then arrested and he WASN’T Hispanic?
Stop it.
But I’m sure he was thrown into prison, tortured and has yet to be released. Right?
“The incident was resolved when our colleague — who was visiting from Germany on business — was able to provide his driver’s license and other documents to Tuscaloosa Police,” the company said.
What a burden! The man had to show documents proving he was who he said he was. And then released.
If anything, the Alabama law is CREATING jobs. Alabama farm workers are leaving the state in droves creating a shortage of harvesters. A shortage that the farmers are unable to fill with native American workers.
Indeed.
Open Question:
Would you be more or less likely to look for a new job if your current job no longer offered vacations and holidays?
So, what’s it been, a week? A week since that officer sprayed down those kids protesting on that college campus. And I still don’t know how I feel.
On the one hand, the images are horrible. The absolute nonchalant manner in which that coop was spraying down those kids was a bit creepy; just a bit [or more] too big state for me.
Again, on the other hand, this is how the Left rolls. They “protest peacefully” just sitting back waiting to bait authorities. They lock arms and lay down limp. And then when the cops move in, they claim abuse or brutality. The shots of the police trying to pull off protesters from one another to bring order to a chaotic scene are everywhere.
Back to the protests here though. It didn’t seem chaotic. It didn’t seem on the verge of violence. It seemed calm. Maybe the cops could have pulled ’em off one by one, I don’t know.
Then again….this goes back to one of my golden rules: When a police officer tells you to “move on”, it is most prudent to move on.
I don’t think that I’dve used pepper spray, I KNOW I wouldn’t be sitting in the street protesting, and if I was that cop, I probably would’ve pried ’em loose, one by one.
Whatever else you think, this is funny:
Posted in Government, Liberty, Pino's Law, Politics: National
Tagged Hippies, Pepper Spray
You can pick any significant number of consecutive years you want. Any, say 10-15 years. And compare the receipts from one year to the prior year. See what ya get. For example, I’ll pick the most recent set of years; 2000 through the estimates for 2016. Look:
There are 16 possible opportunities for receipts to go up or down. Of those 16, they go up for 12 of ’em. The time frames when they are going down is after the recession of 2000 and the shock of the 9/11 attacks. The second time frame is during the most recent recession. Other than that, the tax receipts increase. In fact, if you go back further than 2000, the next most recent decrease in revenues comes in the 1982-1983 year. That’s 17 consecutive years of tax growth.
So, what does this tell us?
It tells us that those who are calling for tax increases in order to satisfy the “increase revenue” meme aren’t looking at the full picture. Left alone, taxes will deliver year over year growth.
In fact, if you take the historic annual tax receipt increase since after the war and assume that going forward, you can easily balance the budget. For example, if we allow the budget to GROW, that is no cuts, but only grow by 2%, we have a balanced budget in 2023:
Easy.
Limit spending. Don’t raise taxes. Balance the budget in 12 years.
It’s spending people, spending. W do NOT have a taxing problem.