HOW TO REFORM HEALTH CARE
Here's how to give the poor access to good health care without clobbering middle class Americans or taxpayers. When I wrote this, Jack Wheeler reminded me of his Health Freedom vs. Health Fascism from May of 2009. It's not surprising, given that we think alike, that our "here's how" lists are so similar. Here's mine. Jack's is appended below for comparison. Specifics aside, one thing on which all conservatives should be able to agree is that the antidote to Obamacare health fascism is getting the government out of the way of health freedom. Comments on the Forum will be appreciated. And feel free to add your own suggestions on how to expand health freedom in America.
REAGAN AND ISIS
WWRRD? It's the question all Pub prez contenders need to ask and answer: What Would Ronald Reagan Do? It's particularly apposite regarding ISIS, to contrast RR with his successor, President No Strategy. It's easy enough to criticize and ridicule Zero for being such a limp-wrist in confronting America's enemies. It's quite another to clearly state just how you'd go about neutralizing their threats. The candidates to trust on this would be those who will say, "I'd do what Reagan would do, and here's what that is." So let's perform a thought-experiment. We're in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing at the White House for a meeting of the National Security Council, chaired by President Ronald Reagan. Secretary of State John Bolton begins: "Mr. President, you've been fully briefed on the ISIS terrorist movement. What should our strategy be towards them?" Reagan responds:
WHY GOVERNMENT CURRENCIES WILL BECOME OBSOLETE
If enough people have a demand for a particular product, whether it is prostitution, gambling, drugs and alcohol, or an anonymous, instantaneous and low-cost money transfer, it will be supplied. The big issue at the moment is money transfer. Governments want to know both the source of everyone's money and how it is spent in order to collect more taxes, regulate behavior, reduce certain types of criminality and increase political control. The IRS and other government agencies claim that all of the financial information they collect is strictly confidential -- which is a laughable claim in an age when Lois Lerner, Edward Snowden and all of those Chinese and Russian hackers flout the rules. As the government has become more and more intrusive in the financial affairs of individuals and businesses, the incentives for those who can develop ways to either legally or illegally get around the increasingly costly and abusive regulations has grown. This dynamic promises to create alternative private currencies that will make government currencies obsolete.
THE QUESTIONS HILLARY WON’T ANSWER
"We need to stop the flow of secret, unaccountable money," Hillary Clinton said Saturday (6/13) during her vaunted campaign "do over." That she said this without a trace of irony is no real surprise. Ever since the release of "Clinton Cash" - which documented the Clintons' love of secret and unaccountable money - the couple's reaction has been to pretend the scandal has nothing to do with them. Indeed, save for a generic response to a generic question on the topic, Hillary Clinton has yet to answer a single question about "Clinton Cash." What's fascinating is the surge of new revelations of Clinton sleaziness since my book's publication. There have been enough post-book revelations to fill a second volume, or a third. Here are just a few samples:
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/15
We'll start the week by going from the ridiculous to the sublimely ridiculous. The first: Malaysia has turned itself into a laughingstock joke of a country in front of the entire world. All to placate "mountain spirits," in reality the god Malaysians really worship, the god of anti-white racist envy. For the sublimely ridiculous, we go to Sargodha, Pakistan - but be warned: do not be eating or drinking anything when you read or watch this. Question: Can we do this with Somali ISIS wannabes in Detroit? Headline, Monday (6/08): In Terror Fight, Australia Debates Revoking Citizenship. You may think we're losing the Culture War, but on two of its most important fronts there's very good news. Also very good news in the Danger Is Opportunity Department. And of course, the best news of the week: that early this afternoon (6/12), Obamatrade went down in flames in the House, 302-126. This is a massive defeat for Zero, and for the entire Pub Rino Establishment. The whole thing is a garbage bag of weirdness. We'll close with a look at who's becoming the most intriguing prez candidate of all.
THE LIBTARD MEDIA’S FACEPLANT SMEAR ON RUBIO
"A Hillary Clinton match-up with Marco Rubio is a scary thought for Democrats," the New York Times reported May 22. Democrats with bylines are frightened too, hit pieces in the New York Times and the Washington Post indicate. Marco Rubio has gotten 4 traffic tickets since 1997, the Times reported June 5. One every 4 to 5 years may be below average for Florida. So reporters Alan Rappeport and Steve Eder beefed up their story by adding in the 13 tickets his wife got. What bearing does Jeanette Rubio's lead foot have on her husband's fitness for office? The Times' shady move promptly got the ridicule it deserved. "Taken together, Marco Rubio and Napoleon conquered most of Europe," tweeted John Ekdahl. "Taken together, Marco Rubio and Pontius Pilate agreed to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ," tweeted Steve Klein. It's so gratifying to see the libtard media do a total faceplant and subject themselves to merciless ridicule.
WHERE CHICOMS MUST STOP BEING CHILDREN
The past several days have seen much commemoration of the most heroic episode of liberation in modern history: that of D-Day, June 6, 1944. By contrast, we've seen very little media comment about another pivot point of history that also took place in early June years ago. The complete moral opposite of D-Day, it was the Chicom slaughter of thousands in cold blood on Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989. The Chicoms then proceeded to consolidate their power, allowing crony capitalists aligned with them to become immensely rich while ruthlessly suppressing any objection to their rule. The explicit goal of the Chicom PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) has today become to replace the US as the world's premier military power. The strategy to do so they call The China Dream. There is a specific place in the world where the PLA is focusing their China Dream efforts. Stop them there and their dream is gone. So - here is what needs to be done. And here is the man to do it.
LIBERAL PROFESSORS ARE FINALLY GETTING WHAT THEY DESERVE
Recently, several liberal - or "progressive" as they want to be called now - professors have publicly complained that their students are hounding them for failing to consider their tender sensibilities by straying beyond the PC orthodoxy on sexual assault, sex identity, linguistic correctness, and a whole host of other progressive shibboleths. Northwestern "feminist" professor Laura Kipnis found herself in a Title IX star chamber for an article she wrote decrying the immaturity of her legally adult students. Over at Vox, another progressive confessed (anonymously as "Edward Schlosser," reminding us that academics are an invertebrate species): I'm A Liberal Professor and My Liberal Students Terrify Me. It's shocking that these progressives should now be shocked at such intolerance and persecution after decades of speech codes, disruptions of conservative speakers, campus inquisitions which ignore Constitutional rights, cancellations of commencement speakers, and ideological litmus tests imposed on new hires and curricula. Their shock bespeaks not principle, but rather indignation that now they are on the receiving end of the bullying and harassment they have long inflicted on conservatives and people of faith. Call it Karma: the campus intolerance that progressives are now whining about is the child of the progressive ideology many of the complainers still embrace. Let's revel in the details.
AMERICAN DARK AGES
History is not static and it does not progress linearly. There was more free speech and unimpeded expression in 5th-century BC Athens than in Western Europe between 1934-45, or in Eastern Europe during 1946-1989. An American could speak his mind more freely in 1970 than now. Many in the United States had naively believed that the Enlightenment, the U.S. Constitution, and over two centuries of American customs and traditions had guaranteed that Americans could always take for granted free speech and unfettered inquiry. That is an ahistorical assumption. The wish to silence, censor, and impede thought is just as strong a human emotion as the desire for free expression - especially when censorship is cloaked in rhetoric about fairness, equality, justice, and all the other euphemisms for not allowing the free promulgation of ideas. Welcome to Dark Age America - a Pre-Enlightenment Age when groupthink acceptance of a lie replaces truth on grounds of social utility. When current popular culture is not empirically grounded, but operates on the premise that truth is socially constructed by race, class, and gender concerns. When, in our current Dark Age, logic is ignored in lieu of ideology.
HOW HILLARY PLANS TO CHEAT HER WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE
Hillary Clinton has laid out her game plan for winning back the White House for herself and her husband next year. Let's hope Republicans are paying attention. Seeing as Clinton won't have the youthful exuberance that propelled Obama to his unlikely double victory, she plans to build a whole new electorate out of people who didn't vote for Obama. That was the gist of her speech in Houston last week (6/04), which her friends at MSNBC called a "far-reaching vision for expanding access to the ballot box." Who are the new voters to whom Clinton wants to give "access to the ballot box"? They include felons and noncitizens, along with anyone who can't prove identity, citizenship or residence within the voting precinct. Though Clinton gave lip service to the notion that "every citizen" should vote, her Democrat allies are in court trying to stop every reasonable means of verifying a voter's citizenship. That's no surprise because, according to a recent Rasmussen survey (5/29), "Most Democrats Think Illegal Immigrants Should Vote." Of course they do, for that's Hillary's plan to cheat her way into the White House.