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Monthly Archives: June 2017
On the heels of my conversation with the Good Catholic Libertarian – Patheos (blog)
Posted: June 22, 2017 at 5:38 am
who wants diabetics to die as punishment for their sins of sloth and gluttony, the Trump Administration makes clear that this will be Administration policy too.
It needs to be clearly understood that the American Taliban Christians in the ranks of Trump defenders will support the denial of health care to every person whose illness they deem to be a divine judgment for sin. As court prophets to the rich and powerful, such prolife Christians will tell cancer victims, diabetics, the obese, pregnant women, STD and AIDS victims and a host of others that they are parasites who brought it on themselves and who should be punished with denial of health care because a just and righteous God wills it.
And all the while they pronounce death and judgment on the lebensunwertes leben in the name of a false Jesus, these Christians lie that it is a state social safety net and not their own brutal and vindictive hearts that keeps them from otherwise being as generous to sick as St. Francis of Assisi. Who do they think they are kidding?
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Student tries to get professor in trouble for assigning her libertarian reading – The College Fix
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Im paying too much to be forced to read ideological garbage
After he cut the microphone for the high school valedictorian who criticized the authoritative attitude of administrators, guaranteeing the suppression would go viral, Wyoming Area Secondary Center Principal Jon Pollard told the new graduates to watch what you put on social media.
Its advice that would have been better directed to another young person who showcased her narrowmindedness and disinterest in hearing other perspectives on Twitter.
University of St. Francis student Jennifer Martin tweetedWednesday that her professor (an adjunct, it turns out) gave her an assigned reading on national health care systems from the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that is widely respected in D.C. for the quality of its research and thought-provoking events (one such event covered here last fall).
Cato also got tens of millions in fundingover the years from Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers who are active in Republican politics, and it was co-founded by Charles four decades ago.
This was enough for Martin to declare that her professor had committed an academic sin, and she would get this person in trouble for giving her ideological garbage from a conservative propaganda machine to read. (Never mind the Kochs sued Cato for control of a board seat five years ago, and the settlement protected Catos independence.)
She even pinned it to the top of her Twitter feed.
What followed was a mostly civil back-and-forth between Martin a self-described liberal lover who claims repeatedly she would feel the same about reading a liberal think tank and some names that might be familiar to College Fix readers.
Former Fix writer Nick Pappas quipped: If I had to read the writings of communists, and listen to the words of terrorists, you can read what a few liberatarains [sic] think.
They argued a bit, with Martin saying Cato was not a reputable source and its article omitted data to push the limited govt agenda, and Pappas saying that Martin was setting an unrealistic standard for any article. (Current Fix writer Kayla Schierbecker joined in with a quip, too.)
Group blog Popehat, a great source of First Amendment-related posts, joked that If its any comfort its pretty clear you wont be able to understand [the article] well enough to be corrupted by it.
Various professors and young academics joined in to encourage Martin to broaden her reading to things she disagrees with and formulate thoughtful critiques.
The student kept insisting that political think tanks are not educational, but that she read the Cato article and it confirmed her view that Cato is political propaganda.
Philosophy professor Francis Beckwith of Baylor University (with whom I have a past connection via another think tank, the Discovery Institute) thanked Martin for giving him a good example of the genetic fallacy for his class.
Most responses were simply bemused. Charles Cooke is National Review Onlines editor, by the way, and the Niskanen Center (Will Wilkinson) is a much younger and explicitly activist libertarian think tank.
Before I go any further: The universitys website has no record of this professor Fran Steel that I could find, nor does Google, and USF (a Catholic institution) has not responded to my query as of late Wednesday.
But Martin refers to the professor further down the thread as an adjunct, and this could be an online class. USF is based in suburban Chicago, but it also has a healthcare-focused campus in Albuquerque, which would explain why Martin was offered a reading on healthcare policy.
We werent all sure at The Fix whether this was even a real argument by Martin, or if it was a prank or parody. It fits every stereotype we have of students who refuse to engage with an argument based on some wholly subjective standard (its not responsible, as Martin says).
And we do have trouble believing shed really object to reading an article in, say, a Center for American Progress publication. Heres another Martin tweet that is posted on her front page.
What is encouraging about this thread is Martin keeps engaging with critics even as she says she shouldnt have to engage with Cato because of its (complicated) Koch relationship.
And given everything you hear about trolling and the inability of people of different views to have a civil conversation on anything, this is a pretty damn civil argument.
Lets hope Martin learns from this experience and becomes eager to explain why an argument is wrong, using her own responsible data, and not simply why the source of the argument invalidates it.
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Former Treasurer for the Polk County Libertarian Party of Polk County arrested for stealing funds from the party's ... The Daily Ridge Hamlin was elected as the treasurer of the Libertarian Party of Polk County in 2014 and was tasked with maintaining the savings and checking account for the Party. Beginning in January of 2015, Jason Hamlin began using funds from these two Party ... |
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Former pro-wrestler with ties to Kellyanne Conway seeks Illinois governor nod – Chicago Tribune
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Is there room for another heel in the Illinois governor's race?
Former pro wrestler Jon "The Illustrious One" Stewart says yes and he's looking to put his rivals for the Libertarian Party nomination in a half nelson, then body-slam Bruce Rauner and whoever the Democrats select in the general election.
"Politics is wrestling with suits and ties on," Stewart, 50, told Chicago Inc. "I'm comfortable on a mic, and I'm not afraid to tell the truth."
It isn't The Illustrious One's first run for elected office. Back in 1997, he unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for the state House on the North Shore with a little help from President Donald Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway.
"I was her first political client," said Stewart, who lives in Deerfield and now runs his family's used-car dealership. "She's probably one of the smartest people I've ever met so I'm not surprised she has got to where she is.
"I'm a little like her we both speak our minds, and sometimes we might speak out of turn, but we are not afraid."
But by Stewart's own admission, the best-known episode of his colorful life came in 2006 when he was mistaken for longtime "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart by a high school in Utah that accidentally booked him for a fundraising gala.
Stewart later took an unsuccessful stab at running for Congress as a Republican, before a falling-out with the late then-Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka led him to join the Libertarians in 2011.
Like Conway, Stewart remains a fan of Trump, who himself has dabbled in the pro-wrestling world. Stewart said he voted for Trump after previously backing Barack Obama because Trump is a necessary "Molotov cocktail thrown into the system in Washington, D.C."
That could cause problems for Stewart at the state Libertarian convention in March 2018, when party members will select their candidate in a caucus and might hold Stewart's failure to support Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson against him.
Two other Libertarian candidates, Matt Scaro and Kash Jackson, have also announced runs, and Illinois Libertarian Party Chairman Lex Green said Stewart "has to overcome" the irritation of party workers who spent $100,000 getting Johnson on the ballot in Illinois.
"But Jon is a good candidate, and there are many pragmatic libertarians who may be able to look past that," Green said.
Stewart is hoping that policies including a Trump-like plan to send 300 federal officers into Chicago's Englewood neighborhood to combat violence and replacing pensions with 401(k)s for new government hires will sway voters.
And he pointed to the 1998 election of former wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura as governor of Minnesota, as well as Trump's recent victory, as evidence of an enduring appetite for outsider candidates.
"When I first ran in the North Shore, I think most people were expecting a bleached blond guy in a leather motorcycle vest to show up, so they were surprised to find someone in a shirt who was engaged on the issues," Stewart said.
Though his campaign doesn't have much money, car dealers across the state have vowed to back him, he said, adding that people who underestimate him will be "surprised."
"The state's politics aren't working it's surreal at this point," he said. "How can the Democrats and the Republicans say, 'Give us one more chance?'"
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Apple’s Stock Will Treat You Just Fine If You Remember This One Golden Rule, Jim Cramer Reveals – TheStreet.com
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Relax, Apple (AAPL) shares will treat you just fine over the long haul.
"When you have these sellers come in, all you have to do is wait them out -- and one of the things I learned as a hedge fund manager is that patience is a true virtue,"TheStreet's founder Jim Cramer, who also manages the Action Alerts PLUS portfolio, said.
Some Apple bears were lurking on Friday.
Appleis set to increase year over year shipments for the iPhone this month, but it might see flat or even downward trending sell-through ahead of the expected iPhone 8 release in September, according to Cowen analyst Timothy Arcuri.
Arcuri estimates 41.5 million iPhone shipments for June quarter, up from 40.4 million shipments the tech giant logged in the same quarter last year. But a 4-million-unit channel inventory drawdown from last June might dampen sell-through rates.
Shares of Apple rose 2.9% to $146.39 by Monday's close. The stock has dropped about 1.4% over the last five sessions amid a broader selloff in high-flying tech names.
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A new Hungarian liberal party challenges the autocratic Viktor Orban – The Economist
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In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control – Heat Street
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Want to understand what is wrong with the American left these days? WatchChelsea Handler rant on her Netflix show.
The progessive comicslatest painfully unfunny monologue was a full four minute rant ripping into Ivanka Trump, the President and even her own father, while neglecting to make a single coherent political point.
Like so many othersleft-leaning mainstream media pundits, newscasters, celebrities and comediansHandler uses vile language, puerile toilet humor, crass incest innuendo and utter disrespect not only toward the President and his daughter, but toward her own family. Yet her edginess is more desperate than most celebrity Resistance liberals.
This type of insulting language by progressives is so strikingly common nowadays that it no longer has any shock value. Once you strip away the facile attempt to be cool, edgy or hip by using insults and four-letter words all youre actually left with is an angry woman being crass, crude and downright disgusting.
Lets not pretend thatsneering diatribes by Handler and her ilk are anything new.Progressivism has dominated the media and driven popular culture ever since the 1960s.But the abuse has increased in its shrillness and shocking tone since Donald Trump became President.
What may have begun as questioning the status quo and the establishment has now descended into an all-out assault on civility, decency and morality. Anyone with a conservative viewpoint is considered a deserving target of the Lefts attack dogs.
Liberal celebrities now vent fury with smug, self-righteous glee on national TV, on newer venues like Netflix and Amazon, and in the old print media. In place of sophisticated political satire or any attempt at arguing ideas in an informed manner, the cultural apparatchiks of the media/entertainment complex have instead adopted the put-down tactics of 14 year old bullies.
They use lame insults and f-bombs to both amuse their fan base and to shut down any attempt at rational debate.
Some examples:
When in 2008 Sandra Bernhard expressed hope that Sarah Palin was gang raped in NYC by my black brothers. The Washington Post called itthe lefts favorite wordedgy! Now such sentiments are increasing in number and frequency.
Its not as if these celebrity interventions are effective. Doomed Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff enjoyed support from Samuel L. Jackson, Jane Fonda, George Takei and, of course, Handler. He still lost the Georgia House race. Ossoff even pathetically confessed to MSNBC s Nicole Wallace: Celebrities across the country? Thats not what animates people in Georgia.
Furthermore, these guilt-ridden pop-cultural progressive influencers of Western culture obscure the fact that they are part of an obscenely wealthy elite by directing envy and class rage away from themselves and onto anyone seen as promoting conservative values or beliefs.
Those who are untouched by the average persons reality preach to their audience that walls are wrong, before driving home to their gated communities or guarded mansions. Yet they believe that crass comments and personal insults make them down with the people.
Perhaps theyre hoping that if there is a real revolution, the starving masses will burn down their Beverly Hills and Hamptons homes last!
I keep hoping their followers will grow up and see the light; that Handler and Colbert and the others will check their own moral compass, mislaid by all that vile abuse, before prioritizing helping the poor, fighting injustice and making the world a better place.
But it seems that sneering cruel sarcastic variants of President Obamas 2008 comment that midwest voters cling to guns or religion are now the default setting in the battle of ideas.
Im not sure how we as a society deal with this kind of visceral hatred. But with every Handler rant and every Colbert crudity another brick drops from the wall that holds the center together. When that wall collapses no amount of sneering opinion pieces, foul-mouthed rants or abusive put-downs will be able to fix things.
The final irony is that the mega-rich wanna-be revolutionaries of the cultural-media class love to preach the virtues of positive discrimination but they might soon find out societal chaos is an equal opportunity destroyer of peoples lives.
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Georgias 6th Congressional District Republican candidate Karen Handel gives a victory speech to supporters gathered at the Hyatt Regency on Tuesday in Atlanta.
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Im not going to lie: Im not surprised by Tuesday nights result in Georgias 6th Congressional District election, but I am gutted by it. Republican Karen Handel, author of a book about Planned Parenthood titled Planned Bullyhood, ran a repulsive campaign. Advertisements by her allies tied Democrat Jon Ossoff to black bloc anarchists, Muslim terrorists, Kathy Griffin, and the shooter of Rep. Steve Scalise. As Dave Weigel wrote in the Washington Post, The ad strategy, and the campaign visit from Republicans such as House Speaker Paul Ryan, have had almost nothing to say about what Republicans were working on in Washington. The message was that Republicans would feel terrible if they had to watch Democrats celebrate. It worked; running on a platform of MOAR LIBERAL TEARS, Handel won with 51.9 percent of the vote. Kellyanne Conway tweeted Laughing my #Ossoff.
Some liberals are putting an optimistic spin on things: Its a good sign for Dems, they argue, that Ossoff got as close as he did to victory in a district that hasnt voted blue since Jimmy Carter was president. This isnt wrong, but it doesnt make the loss less painful. An Ossoff victory might have scared Republicans into siding with the majority of Americans who disapprove of the disgusting man occupying the White House. It might have spooked some of them out of passing a bill to gut health insurance for tens of millions of Americans. It would have made it clear that as nightmarish as the Trump presidency has been, as much as every day since Trumps inauguration has been poisoned by his presence, help is on the way in the midterms.
Help may still be on the way. As Nate Silver reminds us, the improved Democratic margins in this years special elections are consistent with the sorts of results Democrats would expect if they were on track to compete for the House next year. But an emboldened Republican Party is going to do a lot of damage between now and then. One of the tireless women who campaigned for Ossoff was Carianne Muse, a working mother of three whose two youngest children were born with severe hearing loss. Both kids have had surgeries that cost over $100,000 apiece that have been covered by insurance, she told me. When I changed jobs I didnt have any pre-existing condition issues at all, [thanks to] Obamacare. But if I got fired tomorrow and we had a new law, Id be terrified.
Im reading a lot of complaints about the Ossoff campaign this morning. Some people, including some of Ossoffs own volunteers, say he should have hit Trump harder. Others say his loss proves that an anti-Trump message is not enough. Maybe another candidate or another strategy could have won, but I remain impressed by Ossoff, a 30-year-old first-time candidate who took everything the Republican Party could throw at him without losing his composure, and whose decent and hopeful campaign inspired thousands of volunteers to work their hearts out.
If theres any reason for optimism, its those volunteers, who assured me again and again that, whatever happened on Election Day, theyre not going anywhere. A refrain I heard several times was, Were just practicing for the midterms. If liberal funders were smart, theyd put money into some of the grass-roots groups that have sprung up in the 6th District to make sure they dont wither in wake of Ossoffs defeat. Earlier, I wrote about Jessica Zeigler, a working mother of three who started a program to train recent high school graduates to mobilize their social networks for voter outreach. Someone should be paying her to do this full-time in every congressional district in Georgia. Zeigler is devastated, but she texted me, Friends are already organizing data-based feedback forms and strategy meetings. So we are resilient. Lets hope the country is, too.
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From the left: How Liberal Minds Closed on Immigration
The Atlantics Peter Beinart says liberals views on immigration were far more hardline just a decade ago. He points out that liberals publicly questioned immigration in ways that would shock many progressives today. A big reason for the change, according to Beinart, was political: Between 2008 and 2016, Democrats became more and more confident that the countrys growing Latino population gave the party an electoral edge. He also stresses the necessity of encouraging cohesion between immigrants and native-born citizens. Promoting assimilation need not mean expecting immigrants to abandon their culture. But it does mean breaking down the barriers that segregate them from the native-born. And it means celebrating Americas diversity less, and its unity more.
Paleocon: Raising a Generation of Authoritarians
According to The American Conservatives Pratik Chougule, Americas increasingly suffocating helicopter-parenting is teaching future generations the wrong lessons about American values. Whether or not an authoritarian scenario unfolds in the United States could depend on childrearing trends. Indeed, social scientists have long argued that the origins of authoritarian societies can be discerned in childhood pathologies, he writes. He points to last years election: Those who believe that is more important for children to be respectful rather than independent; obedient over self-reliant; well-behaved more than considerate; and well-mannered versus curious, were more than two and a half times as likely to support [Donald] Trump than those with the opposite preferences.
From the campaign trail: Lessons From Georgias Special
Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall admits that, for Democrats, Jon Ossoffs special-election loss in Georgia to Karen Handel is a big disappointment. But its not cause for a total rethinking of his partys electoral strategy. After all, it is one of a string of special elections in which Democrats have dramatically over-performed in Republican districts. And even though Dems didnt win any of those, if you apply the trend to the full House of Representatives, not just GOP safe seats, it suggests Democrats are quite likely to take the House next year. His takeaway: Even though Republicans have lost substantial ground and are operating in a tough environment theyve nevertheless been able to mobilize money and partisan affiliation to hold on in tight races. That cant be ignored. Its also very significant.
From the right: Putin Proves We Cant Abandon Syria
Russias threats in response to the downing of a Syrian aircraft shows why America cant leave, Paul Mirengoff writes at Power Line: Putin intends to help Assad and Iran dominate post-ISIS Syria. Mirengoff faults President Barack Obama for not standing up to previous Russian intimidation tactics. President Trump should not let Vladimir Putin tell him where the US can and cannot fly. He should not let Putin, on behalf of his friends in Iran, shut the US out of the end-game against ISIS and the post-ISIS jockeying for control. Even if Trump decides against a full-on ground invasion, he certainly should be willing to protect through air power the ground forces friendly to our interests.
Culture critic: Deafening Silence on Warmbiers Torture
Otto Warmbier, the American college student imprisoned and tortured by North Korea who died this week after being returned to his parents in a coma, was active in his campus Jewish community. Yet Jewish groups, the Anti-Defamation League chief among them, were all but silent on Warmbiers ordeal. Asks Tablets Liel Liebovitz: Why? Liebovitz points out that Warmbier had aroused not sympathy but angry attacks from the social-justice left: When the young college student was arrested last year, the regressive lefts flagships, from Salon to the blessedly defunct Nightly Show, gleefully mocked Warmbier, arguing that white privilege was the real reason for his predicament. Such bigotry is toxic to all Americans, but its particularly hazardous to Jews, whose suffering is too often explained away these days as an acceptable byproduct of excessive power and influence. All of which makes Jewish groups silence on Warmbiers murder shameful. Compiled by Brendan Clarey & Seth Mandel
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Former Abbott and Turnbull adviser Andrew Hirst to lead Liberals … – The Guardian
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Tony Abbott (right) speaks with his then adviser Andrew Hirst in parliament in 2015. Hirst is to be come the next president of the Liberal party on Friday. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Former political staffer Andrew Hirst appears set to become the new federal director of the Liberal party, and is expected to be anointed to the position at the partys federal executive meeting on Friday.
Liberal sources on Wednesday confirmed Hirst was expected to get the nod to run the partys next federal campaign.
Hirst has been a longtime backroom operative, and has worked for all party leaders since the Howard era, including for both Malcolm Turnbull in opposition, and Tony Abbott in government.
In recent times he has worked for the Liberal partys preferred pollster, Crosby Textor, running the firms Canberra operation.
Andrew Bragg has been acting in the role of party director since the departure earlier this year of Tony Nutt, but some party officials regard him as lacking the requisite hands-on experience in campaigns to head up the federal organisation on a permanent basis.
A critical review of the Liberal partys last federal campaign by former party director and federal minister Andrew Robb has identified a number of problems which culminated in Malcolm Turnbull almost losing the election.
The Robb review found the government was flying blind for key periods after Tony Abbott assumed power in 2013 right through to the 2016 federal election, because the research and data analytics functions were severely under-resourced.
The review found the Liberals were outgunned on the ground by Labor and progressive activist groups, and failed to develop a strategy to neutralise or rebut key attack themes, like the so-called Mediscare campaign.
It also criticised the lack of concrete policy sitting behind the Coalitions jobs and growth campaign slogan, and a lack of attention to defining political opponents, noting that a campaign for re-election needed to be formulated during the whole parliamentary term of government.
Hirst who served in Liberal party HQ during the last federal election will take the reins at a time when the party will be looking to sharpen its field operation, analytics and its digital campaigning.
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