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And he’s black, so they can’t blame White Privilege, although I’m sure they’ll find a way.

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Machine politics in the United States is pretty much an invention of the Democrat party, and they certainly dominate it today. This is one of the reasons why I would never live in a major city, all of which are run by Democrat machines (even in Texas).

Michelle Malkin brings the heat.

Two weeks ago, my husband and I received yet another cancellation notice for our private, individual health insurance coverage. It’s our fourth Obamacare-induced obituary in four years.

Just repeal the damned thing already.

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Gee, just as Obama used to do.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to bring the same policies that worked so well in the Soviet Union, and more recently in Venezuela, to New York City. “If I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed,” he says. “And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents.”

As shown in the urban planning classic, The Ideal Communist City, soviet planners also believed they were smart enough to know how every single plot of land in their cities should be used. The cities built on their planning principles were appallingly ugly and unlivable. They were environmentally sustainable only so long as communism kept people too poor to afford cars and larger homes.

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The State of Florida is threatening a woman with jail unless she stops telling people what to eat.

To clarify: Heather Kokesch Del Castillo of Fort Walton Beach is not wandering around the supermarket in giving unsolicited advice. People have been asking her—and paying her—for dietary and nutritional advice. Though all she is doing is talking to people as a health coach, the state has declared her an unlicensed dietitian and fined her more than $750. She faces misdemeanor charges if she doesn’t shut her mouth, with further fines of up to $1,000 for each incident and possibly even a year in prison.

She has turned for help to the lawyers at the Institute for Justice, who have been fighting overreaching occupational licensing schemes for years.

Occupational licensing is typically a method for existing players in a market to use the coercive power of government to restrict entry and reap oligopoly profits, all in the name of ‘protecting the consumer’, even though in most cases the consumer is neither consulted nor desires such protection. But you knew that.

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I am not making this up.

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Food waste and the school lunch program are intimately linked. While former First Lady Michelle Obama—and her campaign to make school food healthier—is not responsible for creating the problem of food waste in our nation’s schools, the law she championed, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, has made an already bad problem far worse.

Proglodytes just assume that people will queue up like sheep and do what they’re told. Maybe Europeans do that, but not Americans.

“That directive is costing schools an added $5.4 million a day, of which $3.8 million worth of produce goes directly into the trash, according to national estimates,” reads one recent editorial in a Connecticut paper chastising the USDA for all of the food waste its program creates. “A Harvard Public Health study found that 60 percent of the vegetables and 40 percent of the fruits are being tossed. Researchers at the University of Vermont found an overall increase of 56 percent in wasted food as a direct result of the mandate.”

Of course, in the old days, Mom made your lunch, which you carried in a paper bag, if you were me, or a colorful decorative metal box, if you were an Obama.

“If kids aren’t eating the food, and it’s ending up in the trash, they aren’t getting any nutrition—thus undermining the intent of the program,” said USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue in May.

Hey, why let facts get in the way of virtue-signaling?

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Great. More people will be leaving there. We have plenty of room in Texas, folks, and no ThoughtCrime laws.

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Perhaps he thought, being in the Security Theater profession, that they were colleagues of a sort.

I just listened to a podcast (look in iTunes for “Jonah Goldberg Remnant” by Jonah Goldberg (of National Review and the American Enterprise Institute) in which he has a conversation with Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. I enjoyed it a lot. I almost wish I lived in Nebraska so that I could vote for him. Sasse is a very articulate, very witty guy, and it’s a very fun time. Highly recommended.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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“I don’t know why you’re still, like, sitting down, y’all. I don’t understand. I really don’t understand. Y’all can take your f**king test, but people are dying out there,” one protester, who remained behind, stated, then accusing students of supporting white supremacists.

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Too little, too late.

That flapping sound is chickens coming home to roots. Unless they clean house among the faculty, the problem will persist.

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Yeah, let’s just RUSH RIGHT OVER and help these people….

Why is Puerto Rico even our problem? Every other two-bit island in the Caribbean is independent; LET THEM GO.

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Yet Another Corrupt Democrat Politician. (yawn)

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I can see the majority, but where’s the leader?

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Acting ICE Director Tom Homan noted the importance of the operation in keeping American’s safe from criminal illegal aliens sheltered in “sanctuary” cities and states.

“Sanctuary jurisdictions that do not honor detainers or allow us access to jails and prisons are shielding criminal aliens from immigration enforcement and creating a magnet for illegal immigration,” Homan said. “ICE’s goal is to build cooperative, respectful relationships with our law enforcement partners to help prevent dangerous criminal aliens from being released back onto the streets. Non-cooperation policies severely undermine that effort at the expense of public safety.”

Guess posing and posturing doesn’t really work on people with actual badges and guns.

What is being proposed in Congress is not a ‘tax cut’, because they are being very careful that every supposed cut is ‘paid for’, i.e. no matter what happens the government will get as much money (or more) as before.

That is not a ‘cut’.

What we’re seeing is a re-arrangement of how people are taxed, with some getting a bit of a break and the rest getting more broke.

Democrats, of course, no matter what happens, will characterize it as ‘a giveaway to the rich’, as if allowing someone to keep more of his own money, rather than giving it to the government, is the government somehow ‘giving’ him money. The reason for this is that Democrats, like all socialists, believe that anything you supposedly own is available for government to take and spend (or waste) as it wills — it actually belongs to the government, and you’re just allowed to keep it until they need it. Preferably earning them a return on it.

So whenever you hear the term ‘tax cut’ just translate it into your own mind as ‘tax re-arrangement’, which will allow you to interpret it properly, by looking at who wins and who loses in the re-arrangement.

As Lenin famously said, ‘Who? Whom?’ (Who is doing what to whom?) is the question to ask.

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Today Education Secretary Betsy DeVos withdrew the Obama-era letter instructing colleges to use the preponderance of evidence standard when adjudicating sexual assault.

DeVos called the previous guidelines—distributed to colleges in 2011 as part of a “dear colleague” letter, then clarified in 2014—well-intentioned but flawed.

“These documents have led to the deprivation of rights for many students—both accused students denied fair process and victims denied an adequate resolution of their complaints,” reads the new “dear colleague” letter, which was signed by Acting Assistant Secretary Candice Jackson and approved by DeVos.*

Another Trump win for the American people.

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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee want to block a Trump administration judicial nominee because of his conservative Christian views.

President Donald Trump tapped Jeff Mateer as a lifetime federal judge. But comments he has made on same-sex marriage and transgender rights are upsetting Democrats Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, according to The Dallas Morning News.

“There’s no question these views cast serious doubt on his ability to fairly enforce federal law and treat people impartially,” Feinstein said in a statement.

Article VI, section 3, of the United States Constitution provides, in relevant part: “… but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”  Senator Feinstein, who took an oath to support the Constitution when she was sworn in as a Senator, appears to be laying herself open to impeachment.

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On Tuesday, PBS’s Tavis Smiley show hosted two guests to discuss the issue of “white rage” in America in the age of Donald Trump. So did the taxpayer-funded network hold a balanced discussion with two opposing points of view? Of course not. True to form, the show was merely a conservative-free zone with two left-wing guests joining the left-wing host to go after Republicans with charges of “white nationalism,” “white supremacy,” and efforts to “move African-Americans back in their place.”

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When did a Democrat politician’s opinion ever have a connection with what he was criticizing?

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The bullwhip is never far from Democrat thought. Just ask Bull Connor.

Apparently his glow from the past is wearing thin.

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Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez (D) is ready to raise taxes. Residents of Massachusetts, consider yourself warned.

Gonzales posted a video to Facebook this week after receiving a copy of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. The Pledge, which ATR offers to every candidate and incumbent for state and federal office, is a written promise to a lawmaker’s constituents detailing their commitment to oppose all tax increases.

In his brief video, Gonzalez criticizes Grover Norquist, President and founder of ATR, for his resolution to limit government. After admitting that Massachusetts is “the most expensive state in the nation”, Mr. Gonzales affirmed his support for a tax increase.

“So Grover, here’s what I say to your Taxpayer Protection Pledge” said Mr. Gonzalez as he proceeded to rip up the printed document at the end of the video.

Refreshing honesty, especially for a Democrat. (They don’t call it ‘Taxachusetts’ for nothing.)

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Bureaucracies have successfully evaded congressional budget oversight for years by illegally hiring contract labor to take the place of employees, according to a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) report released Tuesday.

Bureaucracies commit thousands of felonies a day, misappropriating funds not approved by Congress and expanding agency influence at a time when government agencies should cut back.

Bureaucracies freeze hiring new employees, ideally to stop expansion and cut costs, when under pressure to reform or adapt to budget cuts. Many agencies continue to grow despite budget cutbacks, however, by illegally hiring outside contract labor.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Mere hours after Hurricane Irma, Miami-Dade County was ticketing residents for building code violations on their wrecked properties.

Celso Perez was helping his neighbors remove some fallen trees blocking their street when a county code enforcer rolled up and issued him a safety notice for having a downed fence. “I laughed,” Perez tells WSVN-TV. “I thought he was kidding. ‘You are kidding right? We just had a hurricane six hours ago.'”

It wasn’t a joke. The official told Perez that the downed fence—which encloses a pool—was a safety hazard, and that if it wasn’t fixed by the time he returned, Perez would be hit with a fine. The official then hung the safety citation on the portion of Perez’s fence that remained standing, leaving him and his neighbors to finish clearing the debris from their street.

Bureaucrats remain bureaucrats and are oblivious to common sense.

And Bernie wants such people in charge of our health care.

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And they want to put the government in charge of our health care? Nuh-uh.

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Gee, they ain’t never been in trouble with the law before.

Don’t just say it, bubba. Do it.

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A federal judge ruled Friday that the Michigan farmers who were banned from selling their produce at a farmers market on public property because of their religious beliefs about marriage may resume selling their goods there as early as Sunday while their case proceeds.

The decision provides much-needed relief to Steve and Bridget Tennes, owners of Country Mill Farms in Charlotte, Michigan. East Lansing city officials had banned the Tennes family from selling at the East Lansing Farmer’s Market over a Facebook post addressing the farm’s policy on hosting same-sex weddings.

“As the court found, East Lansing officials changed their market policy to shut out Steve because they don’t like his Catholic beliefs regarding marriage,” Kate Anderson, a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom who is representing the Tennesee, told The Daily Signal in an email.

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Efforts to implement single-payer have been tried in both large and small states, in states that are growing quickly and states that aren’t. Despite those variables, one thing remains fairly constant: Such programs require at least twice the amount of revenue consumed by every other state-level program in a single year.

The problem with socialism, as has been said, is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

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After less than a year of operation, Baltimore is shutting down its bike share program for a month because so many of its bikes were stolen or are heavily damaged.

I guess not everybody in Baltimore is a white leisure-class hipster who can be trusted to borrow a bike and then bring it back. Who knew?

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Of course they will. Democrats can’t buy their votes unless they get Free Stuff, which is why they came to this country in the first place. ‘The rich people control the government, and the government controls everything — hey, it’s just like home!’

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Licensing boards are perhaps the most powerful labor institution in American history.

The best estimates available suggest that roughly 30 percent of American workers are now required to get a license from one of those quasi-government agencies before they can enter the workforce. That’s about the same percentage of the workforce that was a member of a union in the 1950s, the decade when union membership peaked before falling off to about half that percentage today.

There’s no debate about whether the federal government has a role to play in regulating the activities of labor unions, of course. Should Congress do something about licensing boards?

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Ah, Democrats — they sure do love the children. Doesn’t that just warm your heart?

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Imagine going to the Post Office — or the DMV — for a checkup.

Or read any of the horror stories coming out of Britain. The British newspapers are all online.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Portland police will no longer maintain a database of suspected gang members, due to concerns that the vast majority of people with the gang label are racial minorities.

Starting Oct. 15, the Portland Police Bureau will end the 20-year practice of issuing gang member designations, which police say can lead to “unintended consequences” and a lifelong stigma even for those who have given up the gang lifestyle. Officials intend to notify the approximately 300 people on the gang list that the bureau will purge all records related to the designations, The Oregonian reported.

I am not making this up.

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For both good and ill, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is the closest the Republican Party has to the opposite of Donald Trump. He is the moral conscience that promises to check the president’s excesses, and he is the hypocritical Washington lifer whose cynical rhetoric and interventionist passions helped create the Trumpian backlash in the first place.

Trump has accomplished more in six months as President than McCain has in 30 years in the Senate.

That ought to tell you all you need to know.

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The Crust protect their own.

Curious about the ‘Deep State’? This is it.

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On a par with the typical Democrat methodology of ‘fixing’ things by making them worse: Obamacare, minimum wage, light rail, affirmative action, ‘diversity’, etc.

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An excellent idea. It’s been a joke since the day it passed. Why encourage disrespect for the law by having a law that nobody respects?

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The real question is, does Trump still think Ryan is a trustworthy negotiating partner?

I suspect not.

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But they have no hesitation ‘siding with Dems’ on issues ranging from DACA to Obamacare.

Sounds to me as if Trump has more reason to be livid than they do.

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I like it. No matter what kind of a sob story foreigners proffer, there are people in this country who are just as bad off or worse. If we’re going to spend money, let’s spend money on our neighbors before scattering it abroad.

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And Democrats are all about making up new crimes.

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The second largest Powerball payout in history, $758 million, was won by a Massachusetts woman. She elected to receive a lump-sum payment of $480 million. Massachusetts now has its first Republican woman.

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And I’ll bet every damned one of them voted Democrat.

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A multi-million dollar government effort to make school children eat healthier hasn’t worked, according to The Washington Post. But The Post left out one important detail: the Obama administration and First Lady Michelle Obama promoted the program. It was even part of her “Let’s Move!” program.

“The Department of Agriculture has invested seven years and several million dollars in a popular program that claims it gets students to eat significantly more fruits and vegetables,” The Post reported Aug. 24. “But as a recent critique of the research behind the program reveals, ‘significantly more’ often means an amount as small as a single bite of an apple.”

During the Obama presidency, the media repeatedly celebrated the Obamas’ lunch regulations, claiming they’d make school lunches “better” than what even parents provided. At the same time, students shared photos mocking their small, mysterious portions with the hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama.

Of course not. The Magic Negroes cannot be blamed any time, any where.