Independence Hypocrisy, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate

Independence Hypocrisy, by Walter E.Williams | Creators Syndicate:
"Officials in Catalonia, Spain's richest and most highly industrialized region, whose capital is Barcelona, recently held a referendum in which there was a 92 percent vote in favor of independence from Spain.
...Some Bavarian people are demanding independence from Germany, while others demand greater autonomy.
...Germany has done in Bavaria what Spain and Italy, in its Veneto region, have done; it has upheld the integrity of state borders.
...Fallon writes that by doing what it's doing in Bavaria, "Berlin is violating international law on national self-determination. 
It denies to Bavaria what it granted to the 19 states that seceded from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
In fact, Germany rushed to be first to recognize the independence of Slovenia and Croatia."
It did that, according to Beverly Crawford, an expert on Europe at the University of California, Berkeley, "in open disregard of (a European Community) agreement to recognize the two states under EC conditionality requirements."
The secessionist movements in Spain, Germany and Italy have encountered resistance and threats from the central governments..."

It's Final -- Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use

It's Final -- Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use:
"OK, can we please stop pretending biofuel made from corn is helping the planet and the environment? 
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released two of its Working Group reports at the end of last month (WGI and WGIII), and their short discussion of biofuels has ignited a fierce debate as to whether they’re of any environmental benefit at all.
The IPCC was quite diplomatic in its discussion, saying “Biofuels have direct, fuel‐cycle GHG emissions that are typically 30–90% lower than those for gasoline or diesel fuels.
However, since for some biofuels indirect emissions—including from land use change—can lead to greater total emissions than when using petroleum products, policy support needs to be considered on a case by case basis” (IPCC 2014 Chapter 8)..."
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It's Always Worth Remembering, Life in the Soviet Union Was Terrible

It's Always Worth Remembering, Life in the Soviet Union Was Terrible:
"This November marked 100 years since the October Revolution and the beginning of the Soviet Union’s disastrous 69-year experiment with communism. 
While the horrors of Nazism are well-known, half of British 16- to 24-year-olds have never heard of Lenin, let alone the Holodomor terror-famine.
And although explicit apologists for the Soviet Union are no longer a significant intellectual force in Britain (except those who advise the Labour leadership), my generation is largely unaware of what life was like in the USSR.
The once vibrant field of Sovietology is slowly dying, and the failures of central planning are fading from memory.
The Adam Smith Institute’s new book Back in the USSR, by José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente, aims to illustrate exactly what life was like in the Soviet Union.
Were there queues to buy food?
How good were Soviet appliances?
How did the USSR industrialize so quickly?
Was there poverty, unemployment, or inequality?
In painstaking detail, Ricón assesses the historical evidence and the claims of leading scholars to provides answers to these questions.
The resulting picture is grim..."
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Another One! Mueller Deputy Was Personal Attorney of Ben Rhodes

Another One! Mueller Deputy Was Personal Attorney of Ben Rhodes:

"This could be a significant development because according to a report by Adam Kredo in the Washington Free Beacon last February, deep-state loyalists led by Rhodes had been working diligently behind the scenes to undermine the Trump White House and orchestrate the ouster of Michael Flynn, a strong opponent of the Iran nuclear deal.

Rhee was almost certainly part of that effort."

What's Worse Than Liberal Socialism? Marxist Socialism

What's Worse Than Liberal Socialism? Marxist Socialism
"I wrote last week about evil of totalitarian ideologies such as communism and fascism and pointed out that both antifa and Nazis should be treated with complete disdain and ostracism.

And that led me to find common ground with my left-of-center friends, even though I don’t like many of their policies.

I don’t like redistribution… programs are financed with taxes and that the internal revenue code is enforced by coercion… if you catch me in a cranky mood, I’ll be like the stereotypical libertarian at Thanksgiving dinner and wax poetic about what’s wrong with the system.

That being said, I much prefer the coercion found in western democracies compared to the totalitarian versions of coercion found in many other parts of the world. At least we have the rule of law, which limits (however imperfectly) capricious abuse by government officials. …our Constitution still protects many personal liberties, things that can’t be taken for granted in some places. Moreover, there is only a trivially small risk of getting abused by the state in western nations because you have unpopular views. And there’s little danger of persecution by government (at least nowadays) based on factors such as race and religion. This is what makes liberal democracy a good form of government (with “liberal” in this case being a reference to classical liberalism rather than the modern version). Unfortunately, there are some people in America that don’t believe in these principles.

Now let’s look at an aspect of this issue from a left-of-center perspective.

Writing for the New Republic, John Judis analyzes the different types of socialism. 

He starts with some personal history of his time as a socialist activist...

Much here, read on!!

...Which is why this image is more accurate.

The bottom line is that Nordic-style big government is misguided, but state-über-alles totalitarianism is irredeemably horrible."

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History for December 8

History for December 8 - On-This-Day.com
Horace 65 B.C., Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) 1542, Eli Whitney 1765


James Thurber 1894, Sammy Davis, Jr. 1925, Jim Morrison (Doors) 1943


1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment she was conceived.


1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.


1941 - The United States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada also declared war on Japan.


1949 - The Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa due to Communists pressure.


1952 - On the show "I Love Lucy," a pregnancy was acknowledged in a TV show for the first time.


1991 - Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government to be dead. They forged a new alliance to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. The act was denounced by Russian President Gorbachev as unconstitutional.


1993 - U.S. President Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police could not search a person or their cars after ticketing for a routine traffic violation.

BUSTED: Elizabeth Warren's CFPB Used Secret "Slush Fund" To Funnel Billions Into Left-Wing Causes

BUSTED: Elizabeth Warren's CFPB Used Secret "Slush Fund" To Funnel Billions Into Left-Wing Causes:

"Was the real reason behind Senator Elizabeth Warren’s outrage over Mick Mulvaney’s appointment as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about her own political survival?"

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Celebrate "Resistmas" With This Angelic Hillary Clinton Tree Topper | The Daily Sheeple

Celebrate "Resistmas" With This Angelic Hillary Clinton Tree Topper | The Daily Sheeple:
"When a company announced that they are marketing a Hillary Clinton ‘Christmas Tree Angel’, the internet responded in typically hilarious fashion.

A British company is selling the 3D printed Clinton tree topper for a whopping £80, around $140, marketing it as “a Woman To Look Up To.”
“The most presidential of tree toppers. 3D sculpted in her iconic power suit with angelic wings.” 
The company website states, adding “She’s the First Lady of Christmas Tree Decorations.”
Liberals dubbed the figurine, along with one of singer Beyonce and tennis player Serena Williams a celebration of ‘resistmas’."

'Alternative space’ created for students angry over black female conservative's gun rights speech - The College Fix

'Alternative space’ created for students angry over black female conservative's gun rights speech - The College Fix:
"Mount Holyoke College Republicans are slated to host gun rights activist Antonia Okafor Thursday night for an event titled “Female Empowerment and the Second Amendment.”
But the black, female conservative’s pending visit to the school has been met with angst from some students who are upset at the idea that women’s rights and safety is being linked with their right to bear arms.

Okafor is founder of EmPOWERed and a nationally recognized campus carry activist.

One group on campus, Mount Holyoke’s Climate Justice Coalition, has organized an “alternative space,” as opposed to a protest, for students upset over Okafor’s talk.

Not to be confused with a safe space, where coloring books, Play-Doh and soft music are often provided, the coalition stated on Facebook that they felt the alternative space was the best way to channel their anger.

Topics for the alternative event are slated to include:

-The concept of empowerment and “female empowerment”

– The second amendment and gun laws/culture

– Campus rape/sexual harassment culture

– Violence, particularly against people who are not white cis-men

Rush Limbaugh: Here's How We Can Really Thwart Mueller's 'Bogus' Trump Investigation | Daily Wire

Rush Limbaugh: Here's How We Can Really Thwart Mueller's 'Bogus' Trump Investigation | Daily Wire:

"In other words, "If you want to stop Mueller, don’t let the Democrats win the House," said Limbaugh.
Earlier in the episode, Limbaugh said the Democrats and their left-wing colleagues in the media know that the investigation is a "bogus," "manufactured" trap set by the Obama administration.
"They’ve known from the get-go that Trump didn’t commit any crimes,"

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BUSTED: Elizabeth Warren's CFPB Used Secret "Slush Fund" To Funnel Billions Into Left-Wing Causes

BUSTED: Elizabeth Warren's CFPB Used Secret "Slush Fund" To Funnel Billions Into Left-Wing Causes:
"Was the real reason behind Senator Elizabeth Warren’s outrage over Mick Mulvaney’s appointment as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about her own political survival?

The New York Post’s Paul Sperry reports that the CFPB is engaged in a wide-variety of corruption.

Everything from amassing secret ledgers to using penalties to ‘launder,’ funds into left-wing causes. 

Of course, because the CFPB operates independently of the U.S. Government, a full audit of the agency’s balance sheet have never been done. 

This sad reality may very well change under Mulvaney’s leadership..."

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CORRUPT: Clinton Aides Went Unpunished After Lying To Anti-Trump FBI Investigator | Daily Wire

CORRUPT: Clinton Aides Went Unpunished After Lying To Anti-Trump FBI Investigator | Daily Wire:

"FBI section chief Peter Strzok, who was fired by special counsel Robert Mueller for sending anti-Trump text messages, conducted interviews with two of Hillary Clinton’s top aides in 2016, who are both accused of lying about their knowledge of Clinton’s private email server when she was secretary of state.

Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin did not face any legal consequences for giving false statements to Strzok during interviews last year, the Daily Caller reported."

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Students call free speech 'violent' while disrupting lecture

Students call free speech 'violent' while disrupting lecture:

• A lecture on free speech at Western Washington University was delayed for about 20 minutes after student protesters commandeered the stage to decry free speech as "violent."
• The protesters were heckled by audience members upset at being denied the chance to hear the lecture, with one telling the activists that "no one came here to hear you talk."

A group of students at Western Washington University recently protested a lecture on free speech, calling support for the First Amendment “harmful” and “dangerous.”
The lecture, titled “Censorship and Free Speech in the Age of Trump,” featured University of Pennsylvania professor Jonathan Zimmerman, a notable free speech advocate, who was slated to discuss how to “how college campuses should think about free speech on campus...”

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Isadora Duncan?-----OUTRAGE IN AMERICA: Amusement Park Hammered With $32,000 Muslim “Discrimination” Fine For Upholding Safety Rule | JEWSNEWS

OUTRAGE IN AMERICA: Amusement Park Hammered With $32,000 Muslim “Discrimination” Fine For Upholding Safety Rule | JEWSNEWS: 
"A local business in the state of California was slapped with a fine simply for doing what they saw was safest for their customers. 
An amusement park in Livermore, CA was forced to pay out a cash settlement to several young ladies who were not allowed to ride go-carts at their park. 
At the time, the park had a safety measure in place to keep riders safe. 
This included banning a variety of loose clothing items that may come off or restrict vision. 
A loose piece of clothing coming off of a rider could be a danger to them or others.
...The policy was equally applied to headscarves, hats of all varieties, and yarmulkes. 
It was not targeting just the Muslim faith. 
The complaint against the amusement park pointed to this being a faith-based case. 
...In August of 2013, a group of seven Muslim girls and women along with a Sikh man were not allowed to operate go-carts while wearing head scarves or turbans. 
Each of the guests was offered another type of headgear to wear, but they refused..."
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#1 This day 1941-----Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller Orchestra