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- Face-Off: MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Patton vs. The ‘Bonus Army’ of the Great Depression
- "If We Can Save One Life!"- What Happens When You Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
- Question Raised: Will COVID Contact Tracing be Weaponized to Help Biden Win the Election?
- Trump Can Ride to Victory on a Law & Order Message
- Michael Moore's "Planet of the Humans"
- The Midnight Patriotism of Paul Revere
- No photo needed to vote in Virginia
- Fairfax Don’t Need No Education - When Equality Becomes the Enemy of the Good
- Fake News or Just Plain Lies
- Actually, the Corona Virus Is Exactly Why We Shouldn’t Do the Green New Deal
- This is the Crisis that Every Citizen Can Not Let Go to Waste
- Gun Owners, We Support You!
- It’s Not Fair, Change the Rules - Why We Have the Electoral College
- Capitalism is Books
- The Three-Fifths Clause
- The Ruling Class and the Unruly Class
- We the Deplorables
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Face-Off: MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Patton vs. The ‘Bonus Army’ of the Great Depression
- An excerpt from the forthcoming book Cockpit of the Capital: The Wild, Hidden History of Capitol Hill
by Ed Moser
July 25, 2020
Copyright © 2020 by Edward P. Moser and Rowman and Littlefield
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On June 17, 1932, thousands of veteran soldiers gathered on the east promenade of the Capitol Building.... Under a 1927 federal law, the men of the “Bonus Expeditionary Force”, or B.E.F., could take out loans against their bonuses. However, they couldn’t receive the full payments until 1945. So, with most out of work and out of savings, they demanded the money now. For themselves, and for the 4.7 million other Americans who’d served in the Great War....
Starting in late May [1932], some 25,000 veterans, wives, and children had gathered in Washington to rally for the bonus. Out-of-work farmers, miners, factory hands, clerks, and mechanics had come in from every region in the U.S., and had thrown up 27 makeshift camps around the city. Quite a few were African-Americans, integrated into the novel army....
The House voted to approve payment of the pensions, by a vote of 211-176.... The Senate was much more reluctant about the precedent of granting funds under pressure, as well as the bill’s cost. On June 17, it debated the measure throughout the day and into the evening. The milling crowd of veterans, law enforcement officers, and the curious, about 10,000 in number, waited anxiously on the grounds. Mocking George M. Cohan’s hit First World War tune, “Over There,” and its lyrics, “The Yanks are coming”, some sang out: “The Yanks are starving, the Yanks are starving…”
... A bit of trouble came to Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, as his driver took to him to Capitol for the vote. A stone hurled by a protestor smashed through his car window. It landed next to his startled grandson, future novelist Gore Vidal. He would remember his granddad telling him, “’Shut the window.” The perceptive lad recalled seeing “shabby-looking men holding up signs and shouting at occasional cars…{reminding me of} white skeletons like those disjointed cardboard ones displayed at Halloween.”
Walter W. Waters, a lean, excitable, and rather inconstant man, was the head of the Bonus Army. From Oregon, and in his early thirties, he’d been a sergeant and a medic in the war. At 9:30 p.m., Senate aides called him into the legislative chamber.
He soon strode outside with news of the outcome. He announced to the veterans the Senate had voted the bill down.
There was silence among the multitude. And fear at what might happen next....
Read the rest of the story in Ed’s forthcoming book, due out later this year, including these exciting topics:
Ed Moser was a speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush and writer for Jay Leno's The Tonight Show. Ed’s latest book is The White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square
- An excerpt from the forthcoming book Cockpit of the Capital: The Wild, Hidden History of Capitol Hill
by Ed Moser
July 25, 2020
Copyright © 2020 by Edward P. Moser and Rowman and Littlefield
PERMALINK
On June 17, 1932, thousands of veteran soldiers gathered on the east promenade of the Capitol Building.... Under a 1927 federal law, the men of the “Bonus Expeditionary Force”, or B.E.F., could take out loans against their bonuses. However, they couldn’t receive the full payments until 1945. So, with most out of work and out of savings, they demanded the money now. For themselves, and for the 4.7 million other Americans who’d served in the Great War....
Starting in late May [1932], some 25,000 veterans, wives, and children had gathered in Washington to rally for the bonus. Out-of-work farmers, miners, factory hands, clerks, and mechanics had come in from every region in the U.S., and had thrown up 27 makeshift camps around the city. Quite a few were African-Americans, integrated into the novel army....
The House voted to approve payment of the pensions, by a vote of 211-176.... The Senate was much more reluctant about the precedent of granting funds under pressure, as well as the bill’s cost. On June 17, it debated the measure throughout the day and into the evening. The milling crowd of veterans, law enforcement officers, and the curious, about 10,000 in number, waited anxiously on the grounds. Mocking George M. Cohan’s hit First World War tune, “Over There,” and its lyrics, “The Yanks are coming”, some sang out: “The Yanks are starving, the Yanks are starving…”
... A bit of trouble came to Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, as his driver took to him to Capitol for the vote. A stone hurled by a protestor smashed through his car window. It landed next to his startled grandson, future novelist Gore Vidal. He would remember his granddad telling him, “’Shut the window.” The perceptive lad recalled seeing “shabby-looking men holding up signs and shouting at occasional cars…{reminding me of} white skeletons like those disjointed cardboard ones displayed at Halloween.”
Walter W. Waters, a lean, excitable, and rather inconstant man, was the head of the Bonus Army. From Oregon, and in his early thirties, he’d been a sergeant and a medic in the war. At 9:30 p.m., Senate aides called him into the legislative chamber.
He soon strode outside with news of the outcome. He announced to the veterans the Senate had voted the bill down.
There was silence among the multitude. And fear at what might happen next....
Read the rest of the story in Ed’s forthcoming book, due out later this year, including these exciting topics:
- Tear gas and tanks on Capitol Hill
- The irony facing Patton
- How MacArthur behaved true to form
- How Eisenhower thought one way and acted another
Ed Moser was a speechwriter to President George H. W. Bush and writer for Jay Leno's The Tonight Show. Ed’s latest book is The White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square
"If We Can Save One Life!"- What Happens When You Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Good
- What the Coronavirus and Floyd George incidents have in common and what they tell us about our society
by Loren Spivack
July 18, 2020
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At first glance, a Chinese virus and a bunch of loathsome fanatics burning down cities simply because they are incapable of producing ANYTHING themselves (and, don't kid yourself, that IS the motivation) don’t seem to have much in common. (Except metaphorically.) But these, the two leading news stories of 2020 (anyone looking forward to the next one?) do have a lot to teach us about our underlying social maladies.
The cult of false perfectionism. It has long been a staple on the left that society MUST be perfect. We're entitled to perfection! So, all the socialist has to do is point to some, apparently, imperfect outcome of capitalism: usually some reprobate making too much money (i.e. more than the socialist is.)
This becomes proof that capitalism is "irredeemable." And so socialism must be instituted. It's no use pointing out that every, single, solitary time socialism has been tried in the past, it's made things a million times worse. Because, you see, they've fixed the flaws of socialism and THIS time everything's going to be perfect.
The truth is, conservatives (and libertarians too) don't believe in perfection. God is perfect. Humans aren't. And no human society is ever going to be perfect unless it’s run, directly, by God. (A consummation devoutly to be wished, but we don’t have the ability to institute it!) So, capitalism is merely way better than every other option. And that just doesn't have the same flair as "perfect." Especially, if all you focus on are it's (relatively few) flaws instead of its (enormous) benefits.
The latest twist in the cult of false perfection, is the need to abolish death. The truth seems obvious: every single one of is going to die. And, in the cosmic scheme of things, we're all going to die really soon! There is a psychological need in the modern west to pretend otherwise. That's why parents get arrested for letting their 10 year old walk 2 blocks to school alone. (As if it's less damaging to the kids to see their parents arrested!) Does anyone, (ANYONE?) really believe that altering the angle of your airplane seat, by 2 degrees, makes any meaningful difference in the likelihood that you'll survive a crash? But it's enforced more strictly than the laws against armed robbery
But in the immortal words of Governor Cuomo, "if we can save one life..."
And that's exactly the problem. What we do to save one life, almost always costs very many more. It’s pretty clear that when the Corona madness has come to an end, far more will have died from the lockdown (suicides, drug overdoses, alcoholism, delayed medical care, lack of exercise, etc., etc.) than died from the virus. But no one will care. Because a key feature of this cult of "perfection" is, that since actual immortality is impossible, particular causes of death get fetishized and others ignored.
We see the same thing with gun control. There is no question that guns save more lives (particularly of the good guys) than they take. But try explaining that to your left-wing neighbor when some lunatic shoots people, and it's on television. Any attempt to confiscate the guns of 100 million Americans (door to door?) would cost more lives than leaving them where they are. But that doesn't matter "if we can save one life!"
So, George Floyd was wrongfully killed. Reasonable people are going to understand that in a country with 330 million people there are going to be murderers. That's why we have police! And, as we've learned, among the tiny number of police shootings that are actually criminal (on the part of police) most involve white victims. And black-on-black crime claims many, many, many times more lives, etc., etc.
But it's more than that. The Washington Post, in an effort to prove the opposite, started cataloging police shootings and found a grand total of two (2) unarmed black suspects who were killed by police that weren't ruled justified. (And the officers were tried and convicted.) Compare that to 100 African-Americans who die in bathtubs every year. More than 100 die falling down the stairs. Unjustified police shootings may actually be the least likely cause of death for African-Americans that there is! (The only challenger for that title seems to be shark attack.) And, of course, the resulting riots have killed more African-Americans. And the anti-police attitudes that have been spawned will result in far more African-American deaths. But, hey, if we can save one life....
This is really just one dimension of the current decadence of American society. We have more prosperity, convenience, opportunity, luxury, etc. than any society in the history of the world. And less disease, violence and, yes, less racism than any society ever. We amuse ourselves by going crazy over silliness. Our ancestors who faced REAL epidemics (without global lockdowns!) and REAL racism (without a 10th of the anger of our spoiled brats today) would be shaking their heads.
I suppose the ultimate decadence is destroying the civilization that has made life so easy. Then our children can start with nothing again.
- What the Coronavirus and Floyd George incidents have in common and what they tell us about our society
by Loren Spivack
July 18, 2020
PERMALINK
At first glance, a Chinese virus and a bunch of loathsome fanatics burning down cities simply because they are incapable of producing ANYTHING themselves (and, don't kid yourself, that IS the motivation) don’t seem to have much in common. (Except metaphorically.) But these, the two leading news stories of 2020 (anyone looking forward to the next one?) do have a lot to teach us about our underlying social maladies.
The cult of false perfectionism. It has long been a staple on the left that society MUST be perfect. We're entitled to perfection! So, all the socialist has to do is point to some, apparently, imperfect outcome of capitalism: usually some reprobate making too much money (i.e. more than the socialist is.)
This becomes proof that capitalism is "irredeemable." And so socialism must be instituted. It's no use pointing out that every, single, solitary time socialism has been tried in the past, it's made things a million times worse. Because, you see, they've fixed the flaws of socialism and THIS time everything's going to be perfect.
The truth is, conservatives (and libertarians too) don't believe in perfection. God is perfect. Humans aren't. And no human society is ever going to be perfect unless it’s run, directly, by God. (A consummation devoutly to be wished, but we don’t have the ability to institute it!) So, capitalism is merely way better than every other option. And that just doesn't have the same flair as "perfect." Especially, if all you focus on are it's (relatively few) flaws instead of its (enormous) benefits.
The latest twist in the cult of false perfection, is the need to abolish death. The truth seems obvious: every single one of is going to die. And, in the cosmic scheme of things, we're all going to die really soon! There is a psychological need in the modern west to pretend otherwise. That's why parents get arrested for letting their 10 year old walk 2 blocks to school alone. (As if it's less damaging to the kids to see their parents arrested!) Does anyone, (ANYONE?) really believe that altering the angle of your airplane seat, by 2 degrees, makes any meaningful difference in the likelihood that you'll survive a crash? But it's enforced more strictly than the laws against armed robbery
But in the immortal words of Governor Cuomo, "if we can save one life..."
And that's exactly the problem. What we do to save one life, almost always costs very many more. It’s pretty clear that when the Corona madness has come to an end, far more will have died from the lockdown (suicides, drug overdoses, alcoholism, delayed medical care, lack of exercise, etc., etc.) than died from the virus. But no one will care. Because a key feature of this cult of "perfection" is, that since actual immortality is impossible, particular causes of death get fetishized and others ignored.
We see the same thing with gun control. There is no question that guns save more lives (particularly of the good guys) than they take. But try explaining that to your left-wing neighbor when some lunatic shoots people, and it's on television. Any attempt to confiscate the guns of 100 million Americans (door to door?) would cost more lives than leaving them where they are. But that doesn't matter "if we can save one life!"
So, George Floyd was wrongfully killed. Reasonable people are going to understand that in a country with 330 million people there are going to be murderers. That's why we have police! And, as we've learned, among the tiny number of police shootings that are actually criminal (on the part of police) most involve white victims. And black-on-black crime claims many, many, many times more lives, etc., etc.
But it's more than that. The Washington Post, in an effort to prove the opposite, started cataloging police shootings and found a grand total of two (2) unarmed black suspects who were killed by police that weren't ruled justified. (And the officers were tried and convicted.) Compare that to 100 African-Americans who die in bathtubs every year. More than 100 die falling down the stairs. Unjustified police shootings may actually be the least likely cause of death for African-Americans that there is! (The only challenger for that title seems to be shark attack.) And, of course, the resulting riots have killed more African-Americans. And the anti-police attitudes that have been spawned will result in far more African-American deaths. But, hey, if we can save one life....
This is really just one dimension of the current decadence of American society. We have more prosperity, convenience, opportunity, luxury, etc. than any society in the history of the world. And less disease, violence and, yes, less racism than any society ever. We amuse ourselves by going crazy over silliness. Our ancestors who faced REAL epidemics (without global lockdowns!) and REAL racism (without a 10th of the anger of our spoiled brats today) would be shaking their heads.
I suppose the ultimate decadence is destroying the civilization that has made life so easy. Then our children can start with nothing again.
Question Raised: Will COVID Contact Tracing be Weaponized to Help Biden Win the Election?
June 13, 2020
(h/t Michigan Conservative Union)
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A recent article describes how the Democrats are mobilizing to use pandemic Contact Tracers and Compliance Officers to ensure Joe Biden wins in November.
The article lays out a number of concerns:
Is any of this conclusive? No, but it’s plausible speculation and certainly enough for people interested in election integrity to start asking their elected officials some tough questions.
June 13, 2020
(h/t Michigan Conservative Union)
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A recent article describes how the Democrats are mobilizing to use pandemic Contact Tracers and Compliance Officers to ensure Joe Biden wins in November.
The article lays out a number of concerns:
- “Among the first NGO’s to receive grants to carry out Contact Tracing work is PIH – Partners In Health. This group [is] funded by the Clinton Foundation....”
- A Hillary Clinton tweet: “No voter should be forced to choose between their safety and exercising their civic duty this fall.”
- “At-home methods of electronic voting and mail-in that do away with exit-poll cross-checks, is the preferred general strategy the Democrat Party will use to steal the election.”
- “Because Contact Tracers can enter the homes and because some voting polls may also be closed, we can see where Contact Tracers will ‘assist’ voters in their homes with their mail-in ballots. We can predict that in Democrat voting households there will be a disproportionate increase in ballots that actually wind up being counted.”
- “Cancelling In-Person voting. Towards 1., for Contact Tracers to ‘quarantine’ likely Trump voters not as individual households but by ‘infected precinct’. The presence of the Covid-19 ‘disease’ in a precinct, will be determined by Contact Tracers’ data (from both apps and human agents). The governor will be able to declare that elections should be online, by mail, or using greatly limited polls. These Contact Tracers will be able to use ‘voluntary’ apps to narrow down alleged infection rates by block, neighborhood, precinct/county.”
- “Contact Tracers to Police In-Person Polls. To have Contact Tracers work as Compliance Officers under the governor’s instructions at polls, which will slow-down voting and suppress the vote, close polls early or limit exit polling in line with social distancing norms.”
- “To have Contact Tracers work as GOTV ‘volunteers’ on off-hours and weekends, both on telephone and in person in door-knock efforts for the Biden campaign. Critical here is that in areas where movement is limited, Contact Tracers as essential workers will not have to abide by such limitations. Or, in their capacity as Contract Tracers, they will also leave election literature at locations they visit. This may seem illegal, but this is what NGO and union employees do regularly. This strategy simply increases the size of the army and having the advantage of the freedom of movement in what will prove to be a highly unusual election.”
- “To give Republican households a health and safety visit on Election Day. To have Contact Tracers focus on Republican homes, and bog the family down on election day with a health and safety check....”
Is any of this conclusive? No, but it’s plausible speculation and certainly enough for people interested in election integrity to start asking their elected officials some tough questions.
The Trump Moment Has Arrived
by Loren Spivack
June 1, 2020
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Traveling and speaking, as I used to do back when the United States still had freedom of assembly, I was confronted almost everywhere with the same question: would Trump be reelected?
My answer always conveyed my broad optimism, but with a caveat: It’s going to be close! This is because our country is so evenly divided. Half the country despises Trump, as much as the other half loves him. And the division seems largely immune to the normal political variables. Two weeks ago National Review coined the phrase "teflon election," to describe the current situation where, at the height of the economic boom (in February) Trump's popularity barely went up. And, in the pits of the government induced recession that followed, it’s barely gone down.
Everyone seems to have already made up his mind. And the election looked like a nail-biter, regardless. Until now.
President Trump is now faced with his first and, almost certainly, his only chance to turn his reelection into a 60-40, Ronald Reagan style rout.
This is because the leftists are overplaying their hand and falling for their own propaganda (two things that they are predisposed to do.) And are handing Trump the first issue of his presidency that isn't a 50-50 proposition.
Now, the left is just brimming over with bad ideas. The problem is that some of them are popular (at least in concept). I would have no trouble explaining, to anyone willing to listen, why the "green new deal" and "universal basic income" are two of the worst ideas in the history of bad ideas. But not a lot of people are willing to listen.
And, to the 'skulls full of mush,' graduating from an educational system that we inexplicably turned over to the communists a generation or two back, paying people not to work, with freshly printed money, sounds brilliant as all heck.
But there's one leftist idea that isn't so popular and the consequences come around a lot faster than economic catastrophe, even when the latter is already baked into the cake. And that is their cockamamie view of law enforcement. Frequently that entails letting all the criminals back onto the streets over whatever excuse comes along. (The Corona Virus will do.) It's also patently racist.
To the left, white people are the only group in the world wherein everyone's responsible for what any other white person does. They're also, uniquely, responsible for stuff their ancestors did. And they're responsible for people who were NOT actually their ancestors but looked like their ancestors.
Non whites, on the other hand are not responsible for anything. Even things they do with their own hands. Because, apparently, whites are responsible for that too.
Just in the last few days, I've learned from CNN that "all white people have a virus in their brain." And that it's a tragedy when rioters accidentally burn down a black owned business. Presumably they should be more careful to only burn down white owned businesses. (Although I think it's supposed to be ok to burn down Asian owned businesses too.)
This is not a 50-50 issue. Nothing creates conservatives faster than watching your city get burned to the ground by lawless thugs while the police stand down because the mayor's on the side of the rioters.
Law and order is not only a winning issue, it's a landslide issue. I'm a small government guy, if there ever was one! But the one thing government IS SUPPOSED TO DO is law and order.
Richard Nixon rode it to the presidency. Rudy Giuliani got 8 years as a Republican mayor of a completely Democratic city because he stood for law and order. Netanyahu, in Israel, has been Prime Minister forever (it seems) and completely destroyed the left in government, because he stands for public safety while the left sympathizes with the Islamic terrorists.
Trump needs to get in front of this, and the time is now. (He'll lose the election if he appears impotent in the face of chaos.) Here's my proposal:
1. He needs to make a national speech committing the full resources of the federal government to law and order wherever it is challenged.
2. He needs to declare the Corona Virus lock down over, from coast to coast. It has clearly contributed to the frustration we're seeing exploding in streets. And no one is taking it seriously anymore, anyhow.
3. He needs to federalize the National Guard and send it to wherever rioting is happening.
4. He needs to promise that anyone looting, rioting or destroying property will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If the local authorities won't do it, it will be done at the federal level (yes, there are several ways of doing this.)
5. He needs to promise that he will veto any federal aid to rebuild what is destroyed by the rioters. This is important. The Democrats are going to want to federalize the damage by having the red states, in effect, pay for the blue state rioting. Everyone, especially the blue state Democrats, needs to know, up front, that they're paying for the damage they allow.
6. The Justice Department needs to investigate the networks that are organizing and coordinating this rioting behind the scenes. This didn't all just pop out of nowhere. I smell a rat. And if they look into it, they'll find one.
7. A full pardon for the rioters who attacked CNN headquarters.
Everyone sympathizes with George Floyd. Virtually no one, outside the professional left, sympathizes with the looters and rioters. This is being done to change the trajectory of the election. Trump can turn the narrative around completely, and change the course of American history, if he acts NOW.
____________________________________________
"Free Market Warrior" Loren Spivack is a popular author, economist, political activist, and highly sought after speaker on economics and small government.
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by Loren Spivack
June 1, 2020
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Traveling and speaking, as I used to do back when the United States still had freedom of assembly, I was confronted almost everywhere with the same question: would Trump be reelected?
My answer always conveyed my broad optimism, but with a caveat: It’s going to be close! This is because our country is so evenly divided. Half the country despises Trump, as much as the other half loves him. And the division seems largely immune to the normal political variables. Two weeks ago National Review coined the phrase "teflon election," to describe the current situation where, at the height of the economic boom (in February) Trump's popularity barely went up. And, in the pits of the government induced recession that followed, it’s barely gone down.
Everyone seems to have already made up his mind. And the election looked like a nail-biter, regardless. Until now.
President Trump is now faced with his first and, almost certainly, his only chance to turn his reelection into a 60-40, Ronald Reagan style rout.
This is because the leftists are overplaying their hand and falling for their own propaganda (two things that they are predisposed to do.) And are handing Trump the first issue of his presidency that isn't a 50-50 proposition.
Now, the left is just brimming over with bad ideas. The problem is that some of them are popular (at least in concept). I would have no trouble explaining, to anyone willing to listen, why the "green new deal" and "universal basic income" are two of the worst ideas in the history of bad ideas. But not a lot of people are willing to listen.
And, to the 'skulls full of mush,' graduating from an educational system that we inexplicably turned over to the communists a generation or two back, paying people not to work, with freshly printed money, sounds brilliant as all heck.
But there's one leftist idea that isn't so popular and the consequences come around a lot faster than economic catastrophe, even when the latter is already baked into the cake. And that is their cockamamie view of law enforcement. Frequently that entails letting all the criminals back onto the streets over whatever excuse comes along. (The Corona Virus will do.) It's also patently racist.
To the left, white people are the only group in the world wherein everyone's responsible for what any other white person does. They're also, uniquely, responsible for stuff their ancestors did. And they're responsible for people who were NOT actually their ancestors but looked like their ancestors.
Non whites, on the other hand are not responsible for anything. Even things they do with their own hands. Because, apparently, whites are responsible for that too.
Just in the last few days, I've learned from CNN that "all white people have a virus in their brain." And that it's a tragedy when rioters accidentally burn down a black owned business. Presumably they should be more careful to only burn down white owned businesses. (Although I think it's supposed to be ok to burn down Asian owned businesses too.)
This is not a 50-50 issue. Nothing creates conservatives faster than watching your city get burned to the ground by lawless thugs while the police stand down because the mayor's on the side of the rioters.
Law and order is not only a winning issue, it's a landslide issue. I'm a small government guy, if there ever was one! But the one thing government IS SUPPOSED TO DO is law and order.
Richard Nixon rode it to the presidency. Rudy Giuliani got 8 years as a Republican mayor of a completely Democratic city because he stood for law and order. Netanyahu, in Israel, has been Prime Minister forever (it seems) and completely destroyed the left in government, because he stands for public safety while the left sympathizes with the Islamic terrorists.
Trump needs to get in front of this, and the time is now. (He'll lose the election if he appears impotent in the face of chaos.) Here's my proposal:
1. He needs to make a national speech committing the full resources of the federal government to law and order wherever it is challenged.
2. He needs to declare the Corona Virus lock down over, from coast to coast. It has clearly contributed to the frustration we're seeing exploding in streets. And no one is taking it seriously anymore, anyhow.
3. He needs to federalize the National Guard and send it to wherever rioting is happening.
4. He needs to promise that anyone looting, rioting or destroying property will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If the local authorities won't do it, it will be done at the federal level (yes, there are several ways of doing this.)
5. He needs to promise that he will veto any federal aid to rebuild what is destroyed by the rioters. This is important. The Democrats are going to want to federalize the damage by having the red states, in effect, pay for the blue state rioting. Everyone, especially the blue state Democrats, needs to know, up front, that they're paying for the damage they allow.
6. The Justice Department needs to investigate the networks that are organizing and coordinating this rioting behind the scenes. This didn't all just pop out of nowhere. I smell a rat. And if they look into it, they'll find one.
7. A full pardon for the rioters who attacked CNN headquarters.
Everyone sympathizes with George Floyd. Virtually no one, outside the professional left, sympathizes with the looters and rioters. This is being done to change the trajectory of the election. Trump can turn the narrative around completely, and change the course of American history, if he acts NOW.
____________________________________________
"Free Market Warrior" Loren Spivack is a popular author, economist, political activist, and highly sought after speaker on economics and small government.
On the Web
Author Page
It’s Not Easy Being Green, Unless You’re Making Boatloads of Money at It
- Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” Exposes the Green Energy Scam
By a former leftist who worked for environmental groups
May 30, 2020
Film removed from YouTube - Now on Vimeo
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On the eve of this past Earth Day, Michael Moore released a new documentary on his YouTube channel. The movie takes a completely unexpected turn: a leftist film studio revealing the sham that is the green technology movement and its cynical backing by prominent environmental leaders. “Planet of Humans” is directed by long-time left-environmentalist and Moore collaborator Jeff Gibbs who also serves as narrator.
Gibbs travels across the country visiting all the high-profile green technology sites that the green establishment promised for years would not only better the environment but create plentiful jobs as well. What he found was that these heavily government-subsidized projects failed terribly to deliver what the glitzy media fanfare once promised. At solar panel and windmill sites he found that they contributed far less to the overall share of the electricity supply than expected, as they were so dependent on the vagaries of sunshine and wind. And this is when he found them still operative. Countless others were lying abandoned and rusting away as the short life-spans for solar panels and windmills made them cost-prohibitive to replace. More startling, he found frightening amounts of toxic materials needed for their construction, as much as in electric batteries for electric cars.
Finally Gibbs travels to biomass facilities. Yet again he is aghast to find they are but shams. The fuels used are none other than trees cut down from beautiful forests not only in North America but around the globe. Moreover, their power output is not only insufficient to make a real difference, like solar and wind sources, but their emissions pollute the local environment. So, Gibbs asks, how did we get this lie foisted upon us?
Gibbs reviews the financial backgrounds of all the main green celebrities at the beginning of the documentary who championed these policies: the Sierra Club, Earth Day founder Denis Hayes, Richard Branson, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Michael Bloomberg, Vinod Khosla, and Bill McKibben. In each case, he finds all have deep financial interests in the large corporate entities who stand to gain billions in the green technology revolution. Gibbs’ conclusion: it’s all one giant scam.
Gibbs’ exposé is truly remarkable in its sober analysis of the filmmakers’ own movement. But what made him and other left-environmentalists blind for so long? Free-market environmentalists have known all about this scam for well over fifteen years. Nonetheless, the dam may have broken: in less than one month since posting on YouTube, the documentary has been viewed an astounding eight million times. If this movie proves the beginning of the end of the green technology revolution, it will be a wonderful event. But, it would pose disturbing implications for the Right which would necessitate bracing self-introspection: Why did it take a leftist like Michael Moore to lead the change? Could the Right not have made during all these years such a documentary that would have garnered as much global interest? Does the Right have its Gibbs who would perform the same salutary function? If not, why does the Right continue to believe that it can effect lasting political change while remaining culturally, socially, and intellectually irrelevant? The Right should champion this documentary but also admit that the movie’s success lays bare the deep dysfunction of the Right which it can no longer afford to ignore
In addition, the Right needs to take advantage of this huge opportunity to capitalize on the disillusionment of the left-environmentalist base with their establishment. The documentary interviewed and covered dozens of grassroots scientists and activist groups who are very sincere, albeit misguided, in their concern for the environment. The Right should use the credibility won through its own long-standing opposition to the green technology hoax to extend an olive branch and form a coalition with those activists on the Left who are open-minded. Such a rapprochement could heal political divisions and offer a real opportunity to find some common ground by redefining the environmental movement. By marrying idealism with hard-headed reality, such an effort could lead to innovative solutions backed by broad public support for real social change.
- Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” Exposes the Green Energy Scam
By a former leftist who worked for environmental groups
May 30, 2020
Film removed from YouTube - Now on Vimeo
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On the eve of this past Earth Day, Michael Moore released a new documentary on his YouTube channel. The movie takes a completely unexpected turn: a leftist film studio revealing the sham that is the green technology movement and its cynical backing by prominent environmental leaders. “Planet of Humans” is directed by long-time left-environmentalist and Moore collaborator Jeff Gibbs who also serves as narrator.
Gibbs travels across the country visiting all the high-profile green technology sites that the green establishment promised for years would not only better the environment but create plentiful jobs as well. What he found was that these heavily government-subsidized projects failed terribly to deliver what the glitzy media fanfare once promised. At solar panel and windmill sites he found that they contributed far less to the overall share of the electricity supply than expected, as they were so dependent on the vagaries of sunshine and wind. And this is when he found them still operative. Countless others were lying abandoned and rusting away as the short life-spans for solar panels and windmills made them cost-prohibitive to replace. More startling, he found frightening amounts of toxic materials needed for their construction, as much as in electric batteries for electric cars.
Finally Gibbs travels to biomass facilities. Yet again he is aghast to find they are but shams. The fuels used are none other than trees cut down from beautiful forests not only in North America but around the globe. Moreover, their power output is not only insufficient to make a real difference, like solar and wind sources, but their emissions pollute the local environment. So, Gibbs asks, how did we get this lie foisted upon us?
Gibbs reviews the financial backgrounds of all the main green celebrities at the beginning of the documentary who championed these policies: the Sierra Club, Earth Day founder Denis Hayes, Richard Branson, Al Gore, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Michael Bloomberg, Vinod Khosla, and Bill McKibben. In each case, he finds all have deep financial interests in the large corporate entities who stand to gain billions in the green technology revolution. Gibbs’ conclusion: it’s all one giant scam.
Gibbs’ exposé is truly remarkable in its sober analysis of the filmmakers’ own movement. But what made him and other left-environmentalists blind for so long? Free-market environmentalists have known all about this scam for well over fifteen years. Nonetheless, the dam may have broken: in less than one month since posting on YouTube, the documentary has been viewed an astounding eight million times. If this movie proves the beginning of the end of the green technology revolution, it will be a wonderful event. But, it would pose disturbing implications for the Right which would necessitate bracing self-introspection: Why did it take a leftist like Michael Moore to lead the change? Could the Right not have made during all these years such a documentary that would have garnered as much global interest? Does the Right have its Gibbs who would perform the same salutary function? If not, why does the Right continue to believe that it can effect lasting political change while remaining culturally, socially, and intellectually irrelevant? The Right should champion this documentary but also admit that the movie’s success lays bare the deep dysfunction of the Right which it can no longer afford to ignore
In addition, the Right needs to take advantage of this huge opportunity to capitalize on the disillusionment of the left-environmentalist base with their establishment. The documentary interviewed and covered dozens of grassroots scientists and activist groups who are very sincere, albeit misguided, in their concern for the environment. The Right should use the credibility won through its own long-standing opposition to the green technology hoax to extend an olive branch and form a coalition with those activists on the Left who are open-minded. Such a rapprochement could heal political divisions and offer a real opportunity to find some common ground by redefining the environmental movement. By marrying idealism with hard-headed reality, such an effort could lead to innovative solutions backed by broad public support for real social change.
The Midnight Patriotism of Paul Revere
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An implicit core value of the Tea Party movement is patriotism - love of country. One way to refresh feelings of patriotism is to revisit the inspiring stories of the early American patriots like Paul Revere. There’s always something new to learn. Did you know the colonists patrolled the streets of Boston all night to watch for British troop movements, or that Paul Revere borrowed the horse for his famous ride? One of the accounts Revere left of his ride is an 8-page letter which you can read and explore here and here. Revere’s patriotism is part of America’s founding, well worth revisiting in a time when the political Left is trying desperately trying to strip America’s foundation away to make it easier to impose their will upon us. Stories of our heroes are one good antidote.
No photo needed to vote in Virginia
by Reagan George
April 27, 2020
Reprinted with Permission of the Author
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Below is my actual bill from Dominion Energy. It took me all of 10 minutes to prepare both bills the real one and the fake one. I did not have to buy any sophisticated software; in fact you probably have it on your PC or Apple. It was Microsoft’s PowerPoint. This is all you need to present the fake utility bill to vote in Virginia. NO PHOTO ID REQUIRED!
The reason given by Democrats is to open up our elections. This it does, it opens it up to rampant voter fraud, which is the real reason for doing it in the first place.
by Reagan George
April 27, 2020
Reprinted with Permission of the Author
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Below is my actual bill from Dominion Energy. It took me all of 10 minutes to prepare both bills the real one and the fake one. I did not have to buy any sophisticated software; in fact you probably have it on your PC or Apple. It was Microsoft’s PowerPoint. This is all you need to present the fake utility bill to vote in Virginia. NO PHOTO ID REQUIRED!
The reason given by Democrats is to open up our elections. This it does, it opens it up to rampant voter fraud, which is the real reason for doing it in the first place.
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The left is always complaining about the low voter participation rates after our elections. The participation rate is calculated by taking the number of votes cast divided by the number of registered voters.
What they ignore is they have intentionally corrupted the voter rolls in Virginia by not maintaining the central registration database of registered voters (VERIS). Virginia has many counties where the number of registered voters exceeds the number of eligible voters based on official census data.
They have also retained voters that should have been removed from VERIS. Such as:
To actually improve Virginia’s voter participation rate, we need to demand that our State Board of Elections clean-up the VERIS database, which by removing approximately one million ineligible voters reduces the denominator significantly. By the way, this is the same database that Democrats from Pelosi, Schumer, on down want to use to send mail-in ballots to everyone, whether they should have a ballot or not. This will be massive voter fraud on steroids across America, not just Virginia.
The Left wants greater participation in our elections, which is great. Unfortunately, participation by ineligible, non-existent, dead, moved, and non-citizens pump up of the number of votes cast, but decreases the public’s trust in our elections. Election integrity is much more important to our Republic than increasing the number of invalid votes; unless of course one of your leftist objectives is to fundamentally change America.
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What they ignore is they have intentionally corrupted the voter rolls in Virginia by not maintaining the central registration database of registered voters (VERIS). Virginia has many counties where the number of registered voters exceeds the number of eligible voters based on official census data.
They have also retained voters that should have been removed from VERIS. Such as:
- Voters that have moved out of state, estimated to be over 350,000 people;
- Dead voters, currently over 11,000, based on the most recent VERIS data from the State Board of Elections;
- Thousands of active voters that have never, ever voted;
- Thousands of non-citizens that leftist groups, such as the League of Women Voters, have registered to vote, thereby diluting legal votes cast by eligible voters;
To actually improve Virginia’s voter participation rate, we need to demand that our State Board of Elections clean-up the VERIS database, which by removing approximately one million ineligible voters reduces the denominator significantly. By the way, this is the same database that Democrats from Pelosi, Schumer, on down want to use to send mail-in ballots to everyone, whether they should have a ballot or not. This will be massive voter fraud on steroids across America, not just Virginia.
The Left wants greater participation in our elections, which is great. Unfortunately, participation by ineligible, non-existent, dead, moved, and non-citizens pump up of the number of votes cast, but decreases the public’s trust in our elections. Election integrity is much more important to our Republic than increasing the number of invalid votes; unless of course one of your leftist objectives is to fundamentally change America.
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Mr. George is a founding member of the Fair Lakes Area Tea Party. He is also a member of the Northern Virginia Tea Party, Fairfax County Republican Party, as well as, the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation. Currently, Mr. George is involved in establishing the Virginia Voters Alliance which is a state wide organization devoted to improving the voting process by sponsoring legislation, recruiting election officials/poll watchers, and combatting voter fraud in the Commonwealth. The Virginia Voters Alliance is empowered by the True the Vote organization located in Houston, Texas where it was successful in reducing fraudulent voter registrations in Harris County. Mr. George is a Management Consultant specializing in strategic planning, post-merger integration, enterprise system architecture, and project management. He resides in Chantilly, Virginia with his wife and daughter.