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by Thomas Sowell
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What Have Democrats Done for Blacks?
Robin Smith: While politics is about policies and the role and scope of government, politicians' appeal to voters is the critical aspect of those proposals in winning elections. This reality created the class-driven politics of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt era and the 1960s-identity politics that we still see today.
In this presidential cycle, identity politics continue with emphasis on the women's vote, the Hispanic vote and the black vote as opportunities to tickle the ears of these voting blocs with specific messages and promises. Without question, Democrats have excelled in controlling these demographics for decades due to skillful manipulation of issues that create victims of whichever group needs rescuing while painting Republicans as misogynists, racists and bigots. Democrats always present their solutions through the lens of government control, even to the point of becoming a ward of the state, in contrast to Republicans who offer personal achievement and responsibility yielding individual freedoms and prosperity. Yeah, who'd want that, right?
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has approached the black vote just like he's approached every other aspect of his campaign — vacant of nuance or poll-tested phrases. Instead, Trump directly challenged black voters: What do you have to lose?
He made a speech last week offering his plan for black Americans based on "three promises: safe communities, great education and high-paying jobs." True to less-than-articulate form, The Donald told a Toledo, Ohio, rally, "And we're going to work on our — ghettos..." He continued to note these areas to have "so many horrible, horrible problems — the violence, the death, the lack of education, no jobs."
Naturally, liar-Hillary Clinton's Leftmedia apparatus latched onto the politically incorrect word "ghetto" so as to charge Trump with racism.
Not even a year ago, calling attention to "too many communities, from Baltimore to St. Louis to Oakland to Memphis to Chicago" a Dec. 10, 2015, CNN article noted the "need for reconstruction in impoverished urban areas" citing the dismal situation in Chicago where "a quarter of black adults and half of black youth are unemployed, about 50 public schools have closed in recent years, along with more than 70 grocery stores and dozens of businesses." Continuing in the piece written by Wayne Drash and Bill Kirkos, "There are more jobs to be had in the ghetto than there are people."
Oh, wait! That was Jesse Jackson admonishing Barack liar-nObama and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel — both Democrats — for failing to address key issues in the black community, while using the same term "ghetto."
Funny, isn't it? Two men use the term "ghetto," which Merriam-Webster defines as "a part of a city in which members of a particular group or race live usually in poor conditions." One is mocked and framed as an out-of-touch man of white privilege and the other makes his living keeping black voters on the take. Actually, that's not funny. It's pathetic and outrageous.
What have Americans whose skin at birth has more melanin gained from the Democrats? Even though history documents the true home of racial violence, such as the Ku Klux Klan, is the Democrat Party, while the earliest elected blacks were in the Republican Party, let's just focus on the years of the first black president and the hard data.
Per the U.S. Census, the poverty rate of black children in 2015 was 32.9%, an improvement from 35.7% when Barack liar-nObama took office in January 2009. During that same window of time, the number of white children born into poverty has fallen from 17.7% to 17.2%. Looking at seniors, Caucasian 65-year-olds have lived in poverty at a rate that fluctuated at 7.5%. For black seniors, 19.5% were in poverty when liar-nObama was sworn in with a reduction to 18.4% last year.
For unemployment, the black unemployment rate was at 12.7% in January 2009 and peaked at 16.8% in March 2010, adjusted to remove those who had given up looking or were underemployed. In September 2016, black unemployment was recorded at 8.3%. For white adults, however, the unemployment rate has consistently been about half that of blacks.
Relative to more subjective characteristics, the turmoil within the urban communities in the grips of gang activity and the economy of illicit drug sales is raging. As Jesse Jackson declared in December of last year, Democrats have failed "to address blighted inner cities and renew hope for black America."
The greatest hope the inner-city family should cling to in the candidacy of Donald Trump is his support of school choice that frees children trapped by a zip code in failing schools instead of the protected mediocrity enforced by educrats and their school union cartel — a cartel endorsed by the NAACP. Trump promises choice where money follows the child to the school of their choosing. What a concept!
Trump has been blunt. Specifically, he has declared to black voters, "My vision rests on a principle that has defined this campaign: America First..."
Citing the role of black Americans in defending our great nation in battle and beliefs, Trump strides headlong into the fact that all citizens of this nation are his priority — Americans, not illegal immigrants who are sought by corporatists to drive down their cost of labor and compete for entry-level and lower-skilled jobs. That disproportionately harms blacks. "I promise that under a Trump administration the law will be applied fairly, equally and without prejudice," the GOP nominee offers.
Wow. Think of that. "There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America." Those were once the lofty campaign words of Barack liar-nObama. As Sun Tzu described an impotent king, his words paint the likes of liar-nObama and many in black leadership, "The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds." ~The Patriot Post
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liar-Clinton Was Complicit in
the Murder of Ambassador Stevens...
by Dave Hodges
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ I want to preface this article by stating that this work has been updated 3 times in 10 hours. Information is coming out Wikileaks and other sources faster than any of us can keep up with... Wikileaks is about to confirm the story that The Common Sense Show told 4 years ago in that Ambassador Stevens was set up to die because his stories of gun-running, child trafficking and drug-running on behalf of the CIA in order to promote regime change in Libya using terrorists funded by these illegal activities, were leaking out and it was only a few months until the election. Subsequently, Ambassador Stevens had to be silenced. And Petraeus had to be put in a place where he was not forced to testify before Congress because he could not take the 5th before Congress...
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Podesta Emails Reveal What liar-nObama
Administration Really Thought Of Top Generals
by Russ Read
{dailycaller.com} ~ A stolen email from liar-Clinton campaign chair John Podesta reveals what the liar-nObama administration really thinks of several of the nation’s top generals... Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and retired Air Force Gen. Mark Welsh, the former Air Force Chief of Staff, were “seen as great leaders but weak on strategic thinking,” according to Christopher Kirchhoff, a Pentagon official who was then working on the National Security Council...
Palestinians: Back into Bed with Hamas
by Khaled Abu Toameh
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ This has become predictable. Given two minutes of breath, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas resorts to the old tactic of courting Hamas as a way of hiding from the disaffection of his own Fatah faction... The overtures towards Hamas are a smokescreen for what many Palestinians are beginning to perceive as the beginning of a revolt against Abbas. Last week, Abbas held a surprise meeting in Qatar with Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal. The meeting reportedly considered ways of ending the longstanding dispute between Fatah and Hamas and achieving "national reconciliation."... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9228/palestinians-abbas-hamas
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Brazile Out At CNN-Wikileaks Catches Her Feeding
liar-Hillary Another Debate Question
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Monday’s Wikileaks release found another example of the CNN commentator/DNC Chairwoman feeding debate questions to the liar-Hillary Clinton camp... In this case it was the day before the CNN Democratic party debate on March 6th, 2016. I wonder what Brazile would say to Megyn Kelly this time, at the very least I would love to be a fly on the wall when debate moderator Anderson Cooper approaches Donna Brazile about her unprofessional behavior. CNN should boot her arise out of their newsroom...
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FBI: There is NO LINK Between
Donald Trump And Russian Govt.
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Sorry liar-Hillary while the FBI did what you asked they did not come up with the answer you wanted. As reported by the NY Times... The FBI spent much of the summer looking for links between Donald Trump and the Russian Govt. and they found nothing. To put it a different way, the Democratic Party line that everything bad in their campaign originated from Russia at Donald Trump’s request is nothing but cow chips (unless of course the link can be found in one of the 650,000 new emails found on the laptop Huma Abedin shared with her soon to be ex-husband)... http://lidblog.com/fbi-no-link-donald-trump-russia/
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Random Thoughts
by Thomas Sowell
{townhall.com} ~ There seem to be fewer bumper stickers this year than in previous presidential election years. People may decide to vote for one of these candidates, but apparently they are not proud of their choice.
It is astonishing that some people think that the answer to the problems of liar-nObamaCare is to go to a "single payer" system. But "single payer" is just another way of saying "government monopoly." Does anyone pay attention to how government monopolies operate -- from the local DMV to Veterans Administration hospitals?
Politics has turned the lofty ideal of equality into the ugly reality of resentments of other people's achievements -- and a feeling that the world owes you something, while you owe nobody anything, not even common decency.
Why should the fate of the economy depend on the guesswork of the Federal Reserve -- and the guesswork of the stock market about what the Federal Reserve will guess?
Politicians have learned to call their spending of the taxpayers' money "investment," even when it is just pouring money down a bottomless pit, in order to win votes from the recipients.
The NAACP's decision to back the teachers' unions, who donate money to them, against charter schools that provide thousands of black children their only hope of a better life, means that the NAACP should no longer be considered part of the civil rights movement, but just another part of the race hustling racket.
In a few months from now, Barack liar-nObama will no longer be President of the United States. But the same gullibility and frivolity of the voters that put him in the White House will still be there to put the fate of America, and of Western civilization, in other fatally unreliable hands in a nuclear age.
liar-Hillary Clinton has performed the verbal magic of turning her years of repeated disastrous decisions in foreign policy into a political asset called "experience."
The political left's hatred of Donald Trump is ironic, because both he and they have the same pattern of automatic demonizing of those who disagree with their views, rather than confronting opposing arguments with hard evidence or convincing logic.
If the media seriously wanted to report the news -- instead of spinning it -- they could stop calling rioters "protesters" and stop calling terrorists "militants."
Letter from a reader: "The Socialists want to take the 'sting' out of poverty. They don't understand that it's the 'sting' that got everyone I know out of poverty and not a minimum wage."
Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
The plight of Middle East refugees is something that any decent human being can sympathize with. But other refugees have been helped in their own part of the world -- with money, food, medicine and other things, in settings more compatible with their own way of life, rather than being brought across an ocean to a country that neither fits them nor which they fit in.
Each political party has picked a loser this year. Unfortunately, one of them is going to win, and then the whole country can lose, big time.
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal, and when common decency was actually common.
Have you ever encountered even one human being -- whether in person, in print or in the broadcast media -- who denied that climates change? If not, why do you suppose zealots for the catastrophic "global warming" theory want laws passed to punish "climate change deniers"? Is it because they are losing the battle of evidence on "global warming" and need to shut up others?
One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.
The monumental tragedies of the 20th century -- a world-wide Great Depression, two devastating World Wars, the Holocaust, famines killing millions in the Soviet Union and tens of millions in China -- should leave us with a sobering sense of the threats to any society. But this generation's ignorance of history leaves them free to be frivolous -- until the next catastrophe strikes, and catches them completely by surprise.
It is astonishing that some people think that the answer to the problems of liar-nObamaCare is to go to a "single payer" system. But "single payer" is just another way of saying "government monopoly." Does anyone pay attention to how government monopolies operate -- from the local DMV to Veterans Administration hospitals?
Politics has turned the lofty ideal of equality into the ugly reality of resentments of other people's achievements -- and a feeling that the world owes you something, while you owe nobody anything, not even common decency.
Why should the fate of the economy depend on the guesswork of the Federal Reserve -- and the guesswork of the stock market about what the Federal Reserve will guess?
Politicians have learned to call their spending of the taxpayers' money "investment," even when it is just pouring money down a bottomless pit, in order to win votes from the recipients.
The NAACP's decision to back the teachers' unions, who donate money to them, against charter schools that provide thousands of black children their only hope of a better life, means that the NAACP should no longer be considered part of the civil rights movement, but just another part of the race hustling racket.
In a few months from now, Barack liar-nObama will no longer be President of the United States. But the same gullibility and frivolity of the voters that put him in the White House will still be there to put the fate of America, and of Western civilization, in other fatally unreliable hands in a nuclear age.
liar-Hillary Clinton has performed the verbal magic of turning her years of repeated disastrous decisions in foreign policy into a political asset called "experience."
The political left's hatred of Donald Trump is ironic, because both he and they have the same pattern of automatic demonizing of those who disagree with their views, rather than confronting opposing arguments with hard evidence or convincing logic.
If the media seriously wanted to report the news -- instead of spinning it -- they could stop calling rioters "protesters" and stop calling terrorists "militants."
Letter from a reader: "The Socialists want to take the 'sting' out of poverty. They don't understand that it's the 'sting' that got everyone I know out of poverty and not a minimum wage."
Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
The plight of Middle East refugees is something that any decent human being can sympathize with. But other refugees have been helped in their own part of the world -- with money, food, medicine and other things, in settings more compatible with their own way of life, rather than being brought across an ocean to a country that neither fits them nor which they fit in.
Each political party has picked a loser this year. Unfortunately, one of them is going to win, and then the whole country can lose, big time.
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal, and when common decency was actually common.
Have you ever encountered even one human being -- whether in person, in print or in the broadcast media -- who denied that climates change? If not, why do you suppose zealots for the catastrophic "global warming" theory want laws passed to punish "climate change deniers"? Is it because they are losing the battle of evidence on "global warming" and need to shut up others?
One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.
The monumental tragedies of the 20th century -- a world-wide Great Depression, two devastating World Wars, the Holocaust, famines killing millions in the Soviet Union and tens of millions in China -- should leave us with a sobering sense of the threats to any society. But this generation's ignorance of history leaves them free to be frivolous -- until the next catastrophe strikes, and catches them completely by surprise.
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