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A recent poll of six battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan, showed Trump beating or tying Warren in all of them except for Arizona. \n Nightmare scenario: Warren wins the nomination, but when her neo-Marxist agenda is exposed, Middle America recoils in horror. \n The economic elite is already sounding the alarm. \n Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase says Warren “vilifies successful people.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates says her proposals would imperil “innovation” and “capital formation.” \n Writing in the New York Times, Obama adviser Steven Rattner describes a Warren presidency as “a terrifying prospect.” \n Warren would “extend the reach and weight of the federal government far further into the economy than anything even Franklin Roosevelt dreamed of (and) ... turn America’s uniquely successful public-private relationship into a dirigiste European-style system.” \n “If you want to live in France” — where half the GDP is controlled by the regime — says Rattner, “Warren should be your candidate.” \n What finally shocked anti-Warren liberals into action was her recent revelation of how she intends to pay for her “Medicare for all” plan. \n Warren’s plan would require at least $23 trillion more in federal spending over a decade. Other experts say the added costs could run to $32 trillion, raising the U.S. government’s share of the GDP by one-half and abolishing the private health insurance plans of 156 million Americans. \n “Many of America’s global champions, like banks and tech giants, would be dismembered,” writes Rattner, “Shale fracking would be banned, which would send oil and natural gas prices soaring and cost millions of Americans their jobs.” \n Beyond “Medicare for All,” Warren has other plans. Universal child care and free schooling from pre-kindergarten through college and the cancelation of student loans, plus a new look at reparations for slavery.\n HOW would President Warren pay for all her “plans”? \n She would raise the corporate rate to 35% from 21%, and slam a 40% tax on the profits of companies that try to flee the country. \n She would raise the capital gains tax, impose new estate taxes, raise Social Security taxes on folks with higher incomes, and confiscate 2% of the wealth of those with $50 million in assets and 3% of the wealth of those with $1 billion, every year. \n Writes Politifact: “All told, we counted $7 trillion in new spending over a 10-year period, and that’s without Medicare for All. On the flip side, Warren offered specific tax proposals that came to $4.55 trillion.” \n Still, Warren’s socialism is not what her main rivals, all white men, are zeroing in on. They’ve decided to play hardball. \n Thursday, under a headline, “Warren Faces Accusations that She’s ‘Angry,’ Which Supporters Say is Sexist,” the Washington Post reported: \n “Two of the leading male candidates in the Democratic presidential primary race — Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg — have escalated separate lines of attack as they attempt to counter the field’s most prominent woman: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is antagonistic and angry.” \n Warren has a “my way or the highway” approach, said Buttigieg, she is “so absorbed in the fighting that it is as though fighting were the purpose.” \n Biden says Warren, who has a real shot at taking the nomination, reflects “an angry unyielding viewpoint that has crept into our politics.” \n This is “treacherous,” warns the Post, “given that many Democrats remain upset over what they view as the sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton, the party’s last nominee.” \n The Democratic Party today defines itself as an inclusive party of women, gays, Hispanics, African Americans and other people of color. \n Yet three months out from the decisive early contests of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, the party is going into the semifinals of its contest for a leader and future president without a single person of color in the final four. \n Moreover, the three white males are denigrating and piling on the woman who is the front-runner with attacks on her personality for which conservatives, if they used such tactics, would be charged with “dog-whistling” the white working class.\n WHEN ONE looks at the approval-disapproval rating of the president, re-election appears problematic. When one looks at the Democrats’ agenda and field of candidates, the odds of Trump’s re-election seem a good deal better. \n This thing is by no means over.\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:2de5135ecb0d1e07a6be1b23433cc603' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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That was enough to win him admission to Yale, Oxford and Yale Law School. \n His mother consciously parlayed her way to success by becoming a violent revolutionary after realizing that she wasn’t going to set the world on fire with her SAT and LSAT scores. \n Poor Kathy couldn’t get into Oberlin — and then she couldn’t get into Yale Law. She was terrified of “losing her place” as her father Leonard Boudin’s “most cherished offspring,” as Susan Braudy put it in her book, “Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left.” (All this is covered in lascivious detail in my book, “Demonic.”) \n By contrast, Kathy’s brother, Michael — the Republican — had nearly perfect board scores, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, went on to Harvard Law School, worked for a white-shoe law firm, then took a top position in the Reagan administration. Today, he is a federal appeals court judge, appointed by the first President Bush. \n The only thing Kathy could do to impress her father — and our nation’s elite institutions — was to become a domestic terrorist. \n It worked. Her parents showily displayed Kathy’s motorcycle helmet from her participation in the “Days of Rage” in Chicago. Jean Boudin’s “pride in her aristocratic position on the left,” Braudy writes, made her “the match of any Palm Beach hostess.” \n In addition to the “Days of Rage,” which left a Democratic politician paralyzed, Kathy was part of the Weather Underground brain trust that blew up a Greenwich Village townhouse in 1970, killing three of the radicals. The bomb they were building was intended to kill servicemen and their dates at a Fort Dix dance. With body parts flying and walls collapsing around her, Kathy made it out of the house one step ahead of the police. \n Again, Kathy’s parents were delighted with the townhouse bombing. Her mother had always envied the owners for their wealth, anyway. Her father thought seeing his daughter on FBI “wanted” posters was “good for his legend.” \n As luck would have it, going underground after the townhouse explosion finally gave Kathy an excuse to get a nose job. She also dyed her hair bright red, mimicking Bernadine Dohrn, born Bernadine Ohrnstein. (These revolutionaries would engage in sex orgies to “smash monogamy,” but one convention the gritty radicals adhered to was the WASP ideal of beauty and gentrified names.) \n The only thing that terrified Kathy, Braudy says, was that “if stripped of her glamorous and dramatic revolutionary attachments and subterfuges, she would be the dullest person in Leonard’s circle of admirers. ... She would be a woman, no longer young, whose work was waiting tables and cleaning houses.” \n In fact, that’s exactly what she was. While Kathy and David play-acted being on the run, the FBI wasn’t even looking for them anymore. A newspaper in Wisconsin published David Gilbert’s whereabouts and — OH MY GOSH ... nothing happened. “No one arrested him,” Braudy writes; the “authorities weren’t interested in him.” \n It was time for drastic action. Those LSAT scores weren’t going to bury themselves. So in 1981, Kathy conspired with violent drug-addicted members of the Black Liberation Army to rob a Brinks armored truck in Rockland County, New York. They wanted drug money and she wanted fame. \n At the Nanuet Mall, her BLA co-conspirators murdered Brinks guard Peter Paige and wounded two others, then hopped in the getaway truck being driven by Kathy and David. \n The truck was stopped by the police minutes later, but 38-year-old Kathy emerged from the truck’s cab, playing an innocent housewife, frightened by all the guns. She begged the perplexed police to lower their weapons. No sooner were their firearms holstered than six BLA members leapt out, guns blazing. They instantly killed the force’s only black officer, Waverly Brown. Sergeant Edward O’Grady died a few hours later on the operating table. \n She’d done it. Kathy was a bona fide success! In jail, she received a string of celebrity visitors and fawning journalists. There would be documentaries, glorious write-ups, Oscar nominations and poetry awards. \n After decades of recounting her sufferings since the robbery that left Brown dead, Kathy was told that Brown’s son still attended the memorial service held for his father and Sgt. O’Grady at 4 p.m. every Oct. 20. \n “Really?” Kathy said. “I never knew the guy had a son.” \n According to our betters, that’s an “idealist.” \n She was granted parole in 2003 — supported by none other than William F. Buckley. (The elites circle the wagons!) Soon she was a professor at Columbia University and director of the school’s Center for Justice. \n These status-obsessed Yale rejects became “radicals” in order to win a lifetime of good press and cushy academic positions unavailable to them any other way. \n Look at David Hogg, rejected from a half-dozen non-elite schools, only to be accepted by Harvard — all for raising his scrawny little arm in a preposterous one-arm salute after a speech denouncing the National Rifle Association. True, Hogg’s SAT score (1270) was far below that of the average Harvard student (1484). It was even below that of recruited athletes at Harvard (1297). But he had turned himself into a left-wing activist just in the nick of time. Harvard here I come! \n The two “idealists” who raised Chesa Boudin were William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. On account of putting a bomb in the Pentagon, Ayers became a distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For praising the Manson family and leading a group of protesters in a little ditty that mocked the government official paralyzed during the “Days of Rage” rampage, Dohrn was made a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.\n ANOTHER leftist celebrity, Susan Rosenberg, had conspired to kill cops, blow up buildings and rob a Brinks truck; she was sentenced to 58 years in prison for felony murder and possession of more than 700 pounds of explosives. She was pardoned by President Bill Clinton on his last day in office. \n A couple years later, Rosenberg was offered a teaching position at Hamilton College. Apart from her fondness for bombs and cop-killing, Rosenberg’s credentials consisted of: a master’s degree in writing from a correspondence course in prison. \n Oh, by the way, when Kathy Boudin was finally arrested after the Brinks robbery, the police searching her Morningside Drive apartment found, amid the food stamps and welfare forms, Kathy’s application to New York University Law School. \n It’s one thing to say a person shouldn’t be punished for the sins of his parents. But America’s elite institutions treat cop-killing — even merely being the child of cop-killers — as the equivalent of being a star athlete or getting double-800s on your SATs. \n Say, instead of forcing taxpayers to take on the burden of student debt, how about letting the colleges eat their own student loans?\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:7200d6e41046b910dc80cc60a450f928' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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A recent poll of six battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan, showed Trump beating or tying Warren in all of them except for Arizona. \n Nightmare scenario: Warren wins the nomination, but when her neo-Marxist agenda is exposed, Middle America recoils in horror. \n The economic elite is already sounding the alarm. \n Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase says Warren “vilifies successful people.” Microsoft founder Bill Gates says her proposals would imperil “innovation” and “capital formation.” \n Writing in the New York Times, Obama adviser Steven Rattner describes a Warren presidency as “a terrifying prospect.” \n Warren would “extend the reach and weight of the federal government far further into the economy than anything even Franklin Roosevelt dreamed of (and) ... turn America’s uniquely successful public-private relationship into a dirigiste European-style system.” \n “If you want to live in France” — where half the GDP is controlled by the regime — says Rattner, “Warren should be your candidate.” \n What finally shocked anti-Warren liberals into action was her recent revelation of how she intends to pay for her “Medicare for all” plan. \n Warren’s plan would require at least $23 trillion more in federal spending over a decade. Other experts say the added costs could run to $32 trillion, raising the U.S. government’s share of the GDP by one-half and abolishing the private health insurance plans of 156 million Americans. \n “Many of America’s global champions, like banks and tech giants, would be dismembered,” writes Rattner, “Shale fracking would be banned, which would send oil and natural gas prices soaring and cost millions of Americans their jobs.” \n Beyond “Medicare for All,” Warren has other plans. Universal child care and free schooling from pre-kindergarten through college and the cancelation of student loans, plus a new look at reparations for slavery.\n HOW would President Warren pay for all her “plans”? \n She would raise the corporate rate to 35% from 21%, and slam a 40% tax on the profits of companies that try to flee the country. \n She would raise the capital gains tax, impose new estate taxes, raise Social Security taxes on folks with higher incomes, and confiscate 2% of the wealth of those with $50 million in assets and 3% of the wealth of those with $1 billion, every year. \n Writes Politifact: “All told, we counted $7 trillion in new spending over a 10-year period, and that’s without Medicare for All. On the flip side, Warren offered specific tax proposals that came to $4.55 trillion.” \n Still, Warren’s socialism is not what her main rivals, all white men, are zeroing in on. They’ve decided to play hardball. \n Thursday, under a headline, “Warren Faces Accusations that She’s ‘Angry,’ Which Supporters Say is Sexist,” the Washington Post reported: \n “Two of the leading male candidates in the Democratic presidential primary race — Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg — have escalated separate lines of attack as they attempt to counter the field’s most prominent woman: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is antagonistic and angry.” \n Warren has a “my way or the highway” approach, said Buttigieg, she is “so absorbed in the fighting that it is as though fighting were the purpose.” \n Biden says Warren, who has a real shot at taking the nomination, reflects “an angry unyielding viewpoint that has crept into our politics.” \n This is “treacherous,” warns the Post, “given that many Democrats remain upset over what they view as the sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton, the party’s last nominee.” \n The Democratic Party today defines itself as an inclusive party of women, gays, Hispanics, African Americans and other people of color. \n Yet three months out from the decisive early contests of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, the party is going into the semifinals of its contest for a leader and future president without a single person of color in the final four. \n Moreover, the three white males are denigrating and piling on the woman who is the front-runner with attacks on her personality for which conservatives, if they used such tactics, would be charged with “dog-whistling” the white working class.\n WHEN ONE looks at the approval-disapproval rating of the president, re-election appears problematic. When one looks at the Democrats’ agenda and field of candidates, the odds of Trump’s re-election seem a good deal better. \n This thing is by no means over.\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:2de5135ecb0d1e07a6be1b23433cc603' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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user warning: Table './conserva_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = 'This Week's Conservative Focus . . . Warren Candidacy\n<img alt=\"\" src=\"http://conservativechronicle.com/sites/default/files/Shapiro.gif\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 116px;\" />\nThis has been an awful week for the purported new 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. For months, Warren has received nearly unmitigated praise from the media for her bevy of “plans.” She’s been praised as “wonkish” and “brainy” and “focused.” Her growth in the polls has been the dual result of a strong organizational effort by her campaign in early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and endless gobs of drool from reporters.\n BUT NOW the bloom is coming off the rose. \n For months, Warren has simply lied about whether she would raise middle-class taxes to pay for her Bernie Sanders-lite proposal to replace America’s health care insurance system with “Medicare for All.” To support that lie, on Friday, she released another one of her now-famous plans. It is a compendium of tissue-thin falsehoods, a plan about as plausible as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. According to Warren’s plan, she’ll somehow manage to institute a wildly generous Medicare For All policy — including coverage for illegal immigrants — at a one-third discount off virtually all major estimates. She’ll radically reduce reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals — and yet, care levels won’t suffer. She’ll cram down drugmakers’ prescription drug prices — but innovation won’t suffer. She’ll jack up taxes on the wealthy — but the wealthy won’t engage in tax avoidance. \n The plan is a joke. It’s a lie.\n BUT THAT’S Warren’s tendency: dishonest radicalism. At least Sen. Sanders, I-Vt., can be counted on to tell the unfortunate truth about soaking the middle class. Warren can be counted on to shift her policy proposals to appease specific constituencies and then lie about how she’ll pay for them. She’ll also lie about everything from her own ethnicity (Harvard Law School graduate David French rightly calls Warren an “academic grifter”) to her research on medical bankruptcy (she has claimed that “medical bankruptcies” represent a far higher percentage of all bankruptcies than can be supported by the facts). \n All of this underscores her unelectability. As her poll numbers have risen, so, too, has Democrats’ wishcasting that perhaps — just perhaps — her unelectability has been overestimated. Maybe, the argument goes, voters aren’t put off by Warren’s radicalism and tendency toward scolding self-righteousness. Maybe Warren can pull this thing off. \n Also last Friday, a poll came from the New York Times and Siena College. It pitted former Vice President Joe Biden, Sanders and Warren against President Trump in the battleground states and showed that among likely voters, Warren trails Trump in every major battleground state. She’s down by four points in Michigan, two in Pennsylvania, two in Wisconsin, four in Florida and four in North Carolina. Biden, by comparison, is up in all of those states except North Carolina. \n And Warren’s numbers are likely to drop. Remember, Trump’s numbers aren’t particularly malleable. Neither are Biden’s, since he has 100% name recognition. Warren, however, isn’t widely known by the public. That means Trump — whose chief political skill lies in his willingness to use every iota of dirt against political opponents — will have the opportunity to define Warren. If she’s riding weak against Trump now, wait until he dubs her “Lieawatha.” \n All of which explains why Warren has been faring worse in national polling of late. In early October, Warren actually surpassed Biden in the RealClearPolitics poll average of national numbers. Now she’s down nearly double digits again.\n SO HOLD the phone on that inevitable Warren nomination. Warren’s a weak front-runner. And she’s not getting any stronger.\n November 6, 2019\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:5a4df53964acf7b705f71e3ec98d6fb8' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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user warning: Table './conserva_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = 'At issue this week...    Media Bias  by David Harsanyi\n<img alt=\"\" src=\"http://conservativechronicle.com/sites/default/files/Harsanyi.gif\" />\nThis week, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, a group that has often infiltrated news organizations to uncover liberal bias, released an explosive “hot mic” video of “Good Morning America” co-host Amy Robach venting about ABC’s decision to spike a story about late serial sex predator Jeffrey Epstein’s nefarious activities three years ago. \n “I had this interview with (Epstein victim) Virginia Roberts,” Robach is seen saying in the video, “we would not put it on the air. The (British royal) Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story.”\n ROBACH now claims, through a network statement, that she was caught “in a private moment” of frustration over the lack of progress on a story. “I was upset that an important interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn’t air because I could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations.” \n Sorry, but Robach’s response to the firestorm doesn’t square with her initial comments, in which she states that “Roberts had pictures, she had everything ... it was unbelievable what we had. (Bill) Clinton, we had everything.” \n “Everything” sure sounds like sufficient corroborating evidence for any new organization. Even if employing the most scrupulous journalistic standards, a major outlet like ABC wouldn’t need three years to substantiate — or dismiss — a story that features pictures, dates, and a credible witness. \n We certainly know that ABC didn’t need “everything” — or very much of anything, for that matter — when it was running scores of pieces online and on television, highlighting every risible accusation against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. \n I’m not even talking about the prime accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, whose allegations still haven’t been corroborated, but rather about someone such as Julie Swetnick, who was all over ABC News at the height of the confirmation battle. Swetnick accused Kavanaugh not only of sexual assault but also of being present at parties where women were being drugged and “gang raped.” She wasn’t remotely credible. \n Was Robach’s colleague, former Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos, meeting ABC’s editorial standards when he allowed Swetnick’s shyster lawyer Michael Avenatti to smear Kavanaugh without offering a shred of substantiating evidence for her claims? Why couldn’t Roberts be interviewed similarly interviewed?\n ROBACH contends in the hot-mic video that producers told her they spiked the story because no one knew, or cared, about Epstein. Yet Roberts had alleged that Epstein kept her as a sex slave and forced her to perform sex acts on people like Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz. Do you think viewers cared about this high profile men? I imagine so. \n Three years ago, you might remember, Bill Clinton’s wife was in the midst of her revving up her presidential run. One imagines a story detailing her husband’s vacations to a pedophile’s island retreat might have been newsworthy. \n By the way, now that the Epstein has broken, has Robach wrapped up that reporting on Clinton, yet? \n The notion that Robach believed she was merely venting during “private moment” isn’t plausible, either. Any regular guest — and Robach is on TV every day — knows that a gaggle of producers is listening to everything that’s being said, and that everything that’s being said is going to be on tape.\n YET, INSTEAD of facing these questions, ABC has convinced another network, CBS, to fire the staffer who blew the whistle on spiked Epstein story in the first place. Or in other words, paired with NBC News’ burying of the Harvey Weinstein story, we now have evidence of three major media institutions colluding to bury stories about serial abusers. One wonders how many young women might have been saved if they hadn’t.\n November 8, 2019\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:16d6cf6bc2e1d1b41669fcbb738e544b' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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They are especially agitated because median household incomes have risen by $5,000 under Trump, compared to $1,100 in seven years under President Barack Obama. The data also undermines the case against Trump. Elizabeth Warren likes to say in every speech, “The middle class has been left behind by Trump’s policies.” That’s flat-out wrong.  \n The self-proclaimed “fact-checkers” on the left went to work to try to discredit the numbers. This includes the Washington Post, PolitiFact and others. \n As an aside, we have a big problem in America when the “fact-checkers” are all playing for the liberal team. A case in point is the liberal PolitiFact, which used the screaming headline “Trump’s Shaky $5,000 Boast.” The Post gave Trump two Pinocchios for claiming these income gains and said “Trump Inflates His Economic Record.” \n A standard complaint is that these numbers are assembled by a private organization called Sentier Research. But the two Sentier statisticians who analyzed this month’s Census Current Population Survey — a gold mine of economic information — are probably the most knowledgeable people in the country on this data. \n The two of them worked in the income division of the Census Bureau for a combined 40 years. They are scrupulously nonpartisan. “We just report the data,” says Sentier’s Gordon Green. \n The Post challenged the reliability of this data — even though, on numerous occasions, the Post (and the New York Times) have cited Sentier’s research. Apparently, Sentier is reliable when it tells the Trump-haters what they want to hear and wholly unreliable when the data supports him. \n Admittedly, these monthly numbers are a first estimate of what’s happening with incomes over time and up to the moment. They catch the trends over time. In the absence of this data, the latest income data is far lagged by at least a year, and so this tells us with about 90% accuracy what’s going on in real time.  \n Next, the Post complained that the income data needs to be adjusted for inflation. Actually, all the Sentier data is inflation-adjusted.  \n Next, they quoted Lou Jacobson of PolitiFact, who claimed that “even taking the expected 2019 statistics into account, the increase under Trump in the official data ... should be smaller than the increase Sentier’s data shows.” Sorry, Lou, we already know this was a fumble in your own end zone. The latest data that’s come out just last week shows the income numbers rising to $5,200, not falling.\n THEN, the skeptics whine that we shouldn’t compare Trump’s record with Obama’s because Obama inherited a deep recession. That’s true, of course, but incomes continued to plummet for two years after the Bush recession ended. Moreover, it was the Post that editorialized before the 2016 election that a Trump presidency risked ruining the U.S. economy and causing a “global financial calamity.” \n So it’s more than a little hypocritical for the Post to now claim that the Trump boom they never saw coming is simply a continuation of the Obama recovery. Every fair-minded person knows that if the economy were in recession now, liberals would be shouting, “Aha! Trump’s policies failed.” \n Here’s one of my favorite ridiculous claims by the Post: In attacking Trump’s “rumbling distortions” on income gains, a reporter noted that the middle class isn’t doing that well because “on an inflation-adjusted basis, (American) families are earning just 2.7% more (in 2016) than they did in 1999.” \n But the flat family income between 1999 and 2016 is exactly what makes the Trump surge in incomes so impressive. Yes, it’s true that incomes barely budged during the Bush and Obama years — up less than $1,200. Does Trump get the blame for that lousy record, too? \n If the Post and others in the liberal media really cared about middle-class families, they’d be cheering these gains for scores of millions of households. But the left hates Trump, and so they feverishly root against the economy. It’s not that these aren’t facts. It’s that the left doesn’t want the good news to be true. \n THIS IS why the Post refused to allow me to correct the record. The grand irony in all of this is these are the people who assign Trump Pinocchios. He isn’t the one guilty of rambling distortions.\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:49510ba27bd115f47963f22c393e8b83' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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Baathism — a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism — ruined the postwar Middle East. \n The soft-socialist European Union countries are stagnant and mostly dependent on the U.S. military for their protection. \n In contrast, current American deregulation, tax cuts and incentives, and record energy production have given the United States the strongest economy in the world. \n So why, then, are two of the top three Democratic presidential contenders — Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — either overtly or implicitly running on socialist agendas? Why are the heartthrobs of American progressives — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — calling for socialist redistributionist schemes? \n Why do polls show that a majority of American millennials have a favorable view of socialism? \n There are lots of catalysts for the new socialism. \n Massive immigration is changing the demography of the United States. The number of foreign-born U.S. residents and their children has been estimated at almost 60 million, or about 1 in 5 U.S. residents. Some 27 percent of California residents were born outside of America. \n Many of these immigrants flee from poor areas of Latin America, Mexico, Africa and Asia that were wrecked by statism and socialism. Often, they arrive in the U.S. unaware of economic and political alternatives to state socialism. \n When they reach the U.S. — often without marketable skills and unable to speak English — many assume that America will simply offer a far better version of the statism from which they fled. Consequently, many take for granted that government will provide them an array of social services, and they become supportive of progressive socialism. \n Another culprit for the new socialist craze is the strange leftward drift of the very wealthy in Silicon Valley, in corporate America and on Wall Street. \n Some of the new progressive rich feel guilty about their unprecedented wealth. So they champion redistribution as the sort of medieval penance that alleviates guilt. \n Yet the influential and monied classes usually are so well off that higher taxes hardly affect them. Instead, redistributionist taxation hurts the struggling middle classes. \n In California, it became hip for wealthy leftists to promote socialism from their Malibu, Menlo Park or Mill Valley enclaves — while still living as privileged capitalists. Meanwhile, it proved nearly impossible for the middle classes of Stockton and Bakersfield to cope with the reality of crushing taxes and terrible social services.\n FROM 2008 to 2017, the now-multimillionaire Barack Obama, first as candidate and then as president, used all sorts of cool socialist slogans, from “spread the wealth around” and “now is not the time to profit” to “you didn’t build that” and “at a certain point you’ve made enough money.” \n Universities bear much of the blame. Their manipulation of the federal government to guarantee student loans empowered them to jack up college costs without any accountability. Liberal college administrators and faculty did not care much when graduates left campus poorly educated and unable to market their expensive degrees. \n More than 45 million borrowers now struggle with nearly $1.6 trillion in collective student debt, with climbing interest. That indebtedness has delayed — or ended — the traditional forces that encourage conservatism and traditionalism, such as getting married, having children and buying a home. \n Instead, a generation of single, childless and mostly urban youth feels cheated that their high-priced degrees did not earn them competitive salaries. Millions of embittered college graduates will never be able to pay off what they owe — and want some entity to pay off their debts. \n In paradoxical fashion, teenagers were considered savvy adults who were mature enough to take on gargantuan loans. But they were also treated like fragile preteens who were warned that the world outside their campus sanctuaries was downright mean, sexist, racist, homophobic and unfair. \n Finally, doctrinaire Republicans for decades mouthed orthodoxies of free rather than fair trade. They embraced the idea of creative destruction of industries, but without worrying about the real-life consequences for the unemployed in the hollowed out red-state interior. \n Add up a lost generation of woke and broke college graduates, waves of impoverished immigrants without much knowledge of American economic traditions, wealthy advocates of boutique socialism and asleep-at-the-wheel Republicans, and it becomes clear why historically destructive socialism is suddenly seen as cool. \n Regrettably, sometimes the naive and disaffected must relearn that their pie-in-the sky socialist medicine is far worse than the perceived malady of inequality.\n AND unfortunately, when socialists gain power, they don’t destroy just themselves. They usually take everyone else down with them as well.\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:d36e5e4936bad56478051ee2dcfa4cc9' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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Its editorial describes “Another Blood-Soaked Year in Mexico” where 17,000 people were murdered by July and the 2019 death toll is expected to reach 32,000. \n USA Today reports: “Through August of the current fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended 457,871 migrants arriving as ‘family units’ ... a 406% increase compared to the 90,554 family unit apprehensions during the same period the previous year. Migrant families from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador made up almost 92% of the total.” \n With cartel battles escalating into a war that Mexico City has no stomach for fighting, and a record number of migrants from Central America crossing Mexico to flood into the USA, what is the Democratic Party’s policy for halting the rising tide? \n Democrats are moving toward an “open door” policy on the U.S. border, an open borders embrace of any and all who wish to come. \n America, apparently, does not belong to those who live here and love the country. America belongs to anyone who chooses to come. America belongs to the world. \n Consider Bernie Sanders’ immigration proposal, outlined the week of the massacre of Mormon women and children. \n On Day One, President Sanders would declare a moratorium on deportations and offer a “swift pathway to citizenship” for all illegal migrants who have been here for five years. \n Bernie would break up ICE. Border-jumping would cease to be a crime and become a civil offense like jaywalking. The “Muslim ban” would be abolished. \n President Sanders would back sanctuary cities that refuse to work with U.S. law enforcement. Asylum seekers would not have to wait in Mexico as their claims were processed but would be welcomed into the USA. \n Family separations would end. Trump’s wall, which Bernie calls “racist,” would be history. The administration’s treatment of illegal immigration “as a criminal and national security matter is inhuman, impractical and must end.” \n Migrants who enter illegally would qualify for federal health care and the same social welfare benefits as U.S. citizens. Immigrant officials say Sanders’ proposals would create an irresistible magnet for millions of migrants from all over the world to stampede into the USA.\n THE NATION magazine calls Sanders’ plan “one of the boldest immigration plans any major politician has put forward in years, and comes amid a campaign season that has seen a major shift to the left among Democratic candidates on immigration. \n “With calls for a total moratorium on deportations, abolishing ICE and providing a path to citizenship for undocumented migration, the plan serves as a road map for what a fair and just immigration can be.” \n From another standpoint, Sanders’ proposal is a surrender to the reality that a leftist regime lacks the conviction or will to stop an endless stream of people from migrating here. \n Americans troubled over what is happening on the Syrian-Turkish border, or Ukrainian-Crimean border, might take a closer look at what will happen at our own border, and to our own country, if Democrats win the presidency and throw open the doors to unrestricted immigration. \n The federal budget, already running trillion-dollar deficits, and state budgets, too, will see huge increases in the cost of social programs, without the commensurate income tax revenues to pay for them. \n Even at present levels, illegal immigration is bringing in millions of people without the work, education or language skills to compete and assimilate rapidly in a first world, Western economy. \n These migrants pay virtually no income taxes, yet, would qualify for the same benefits as U.S. citizens. The inevitable result: another run-up in an annual deficit already running $1 trillion in the red. \n Politically, so massive a migration of peoples who, once they become citizens, vote 70%-90% Democratic means an end of the GOP as a truly national party. \n If we open the borders, how do we stop the drugs from coming in? How do we stop the cartels from following MS-13, which is already here?\n SOCIALLY, this country is as splintered as it has been since the 1960s. \n Will a barrage of migrants add to its diversity, or deepen the ethnic, racial and cultural divides that are turning us into two, three, many Americas?\n', created = 1573969695, expire = 1574056095, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:6856afb041bd3fbc6864f17eb08ba214' in /home/conserva/public_html/includes/cache.inc on line 112.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 12:33pm

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This Week's Conservative Focus . . . Warren Candidacy This has been an awful week for the purported new 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. For months, Warren has received nearly unmitigated praise from the...

ABC keeps covering for Jeffrey Epstein

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 12:33pm

Young people ignorant of history

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 12:30pm

COMMUNISM: November 13, 2019 A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that one in three millennials saw communism as “...

Real collusion

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:34pm

IMPEACHMENT: November 11, 2019 If you are paying attention to the Washington circus that is the impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s handling of the much maligned Ukraine call, this is what real collusion looks like: a media largely...

Who needs spiritual advisors

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:33pm

LEADERSHIP: November 6, 2019 As far as I can tell from a reading of history, while some presidents were friends of clergy, who sometimes advised them, to my knowledge, none hired them as staff members. Until the presidency of Richard Nixon. It was...

The importance of ‘no-men’

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:32pm

LEADERSHIP: November 4, 2019 Shortly after Jim Bakker’s release from prison in July 1994, I invited the disgraced TV evangelist to my home. There was an important question I wanted to ask him. SOME background: Bakker and his “Praise...

The Post and liberal media again get it wrong about Trump economy

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:23pm

TRUMP ECONOMY: November 12, 2019 First, a full admission about this article: I originally sent a version of it to the Washington Post for publication, but for reasons that will become obvious as you read on, they rejected it. HERE’S THE...

‘Nationalism’ shouldn’t be a dirty word

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:22pm

NATIONALISM: November 8, 2019 If there’s one thing that elite opinion tends to agree about on the left and the right, it’s that nationalism is a very bad thing. If anything, this view has become even more entrenched as nationalism has...

Warren’s prostitutes, AOC again, Medicare for all, impeachment summary

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:21pm

DEAR MARK: November 8, 2019 DEAR MARK: Is it true that Elizabeth Warren wants to legalize prostitution? Surely the Democrat party hasn’t fallen that far. – Savin’ My Money Dear Savin’: Well apparently this isn...

History has shown that socialism isn’t the cure

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:20pm

SOCIALISM: November 6, 2019 Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. RUSSIA and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after...

Bernie leads his party to open borders

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:15pm

BORDER SECURITY: November 12, 2019 Some 100 members of an American Mormon community in northern Mexico, nine of whom — women, children, toddlers — were massacred a week ago on a lonely stretch of highway, just crossed over into Arizona...

Leslie’s trivia bits - test your knowledge

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:14pm

TRIVIA BITS: November 11, 2019 Whether American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) are born male or female depends on the temperature where the eggs incubate before they hatch. Below 86 degrees Fahrenheit, they’ll all be female. Above 91....

Impeaching America’s future

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:12pm

IMPEACHMENT: November 8, 2019 What does the future have in store for us if Congress succeeds in impeaching President Donald Trump, the president who presides over the best economy America has had in the last 50 years? I think you can look to South...

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