Cautionary words for America from Dr. Thomas Sowell

Are you familiar with Dr. Thomas Sowell?

"Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. . . . After leaving the service, Thomas Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics.". . .  "In 1990, he won the prestigious Francis Boyer Award, presented by The American Enterprise Institute."Currently Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute in Stanford, Calif."

Sharing, I think, my concern that the nation which chose a petulant, vindictive juvenile president for - not one, but - two terms, has not learned and is ready to choose another petulant leader. TD

Doctor Sowell writes:
Last Chance for America? " The "Super Tuesday" primaries may be a turning point for America -- and quite possibly a turn for the worse. After seven long years of domestic disasters and increasing international dangers, the next President of the United States will need extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character to rescue America.
"Instead, if the polls are an indication, what we may get is someone with the opposite of all these things, a glib egomaniac with a checkered record in business and no track record at all in government -- Donald Trump.

"If so, the downward trajectory of America over the past seven years may well continue on into the future, to the point of no return." . . .

Last Chance for America? Part II   "After the results of "Super Tuesday," we find ourselves with front-runners in their respective parties who each could, as President of the United States, take the decline of America under the Obama administration, even further down, to a point of no return.

"As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was in charge of the foreign policy that destroyed governments in Egypt and Libya that were no threat to America's interests or allies, and plunged both countries into a turmoil from which only Egypt managed to rescue itself, while Libya has become another hotbed of terrorist activity.

"Yet Secretary Clinton is running on her "experience" -- even though it is an experience of unmitigated disasters for America, around the world. " . . .

"But politicians do not always do things that make sense for the country, whether in 15th century China or 21st century America. But we will know the answer to that question by the end of this month. And generations yet unborn may have to live with the consequences of that answer."

Cruz wins Kansas GOP caucuses, battles Trump in Ky., Maine

From Drudge At 8pm CST

KENTUCKY
TRUMP 42% CRUZ 30% RUBIO 13%
MAINE
CRUZ 43% TRUMP 37% KASICH 11%

AP  "WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Ted Cruz claimed an easy victory in Kansas and battled with Donald Trump for Kentucky and Maine in Saturday's four-state round of Republican voting, fresh evidence that there's no quick end in sight to the fractious GOP race for president. Kansas Democrats gave Bernie Sanders a win, as voters in three states chose between the Vermont senator and Hillary Clinton." . . .
"The Texas senator defeated Trump by more than a 2-to-1 margin in Kansas, and early returns showed he and Trump were in tight races in Maine and Kentucky caucuses. Cruz, a tea party favorite, attributed his strong showing to conservatives coalescing behind his candidacy, calling it a "manifestation of a real shift in momentum.' " . . .

Politico:  Sanders beats Clinton in Kansas.
. .  . "Three states — and 109 delegates — are in play on Saturday, and the results could prove that Sanders is still in the game. Going into the weekend, Sanders was badly lagging Clinton in the delegate count, having secured 432 to her 1,066. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination." . . .

Sen. Sanders said the GOP debates sound like '6th-grade food fight'

Cruz and Trump Make BIG Gains On Super Saturday…Rubio, Not So Much  " '‘What it represents is Republicans saying it would be a disgrace for Trump to be our nominee and we’re going to stand behind the strongest candidate in the race.’"

Todd Starnes: Cruz rises to top as Rubio and Trump wallow in mud at GOP debate   "Thursday night's debate featured uncivil behavior from the Republicans -- sophomoric and crass -- bordering on obscene.

Sen. Marco Rubio behaved like a petulant child. Donald Trump flipped and flopped so many times that he flopped back to the positions he originally flipped on. 

"The only person on that stage who looked and sounded presidential and has a shot at getting elected -- was Sen. Ted Cruz.

"He stayed out of the locker room name-calling and focused on the issues.

"Senator Cruz understands the problems facing our great nation are no laughing matter." . . .

What about Kasich? He does have the most experience, if counterbalanced a bit by his being irritating to me.

Is this the end of the West as we know it?

. . . "Right now, we are two or three bad elections away from the end of NATO, the end of the European Union and maybe the end of the liberal world order as we know it."

Does this count the previous two bad Presidential elections just past?
Probably not, as this source is a pro-Obama one. 
At times like this it is well that we recall the hand of God on world history and know that whatever happens, for good or ill, the future is in His hands and that Israel will be at the center of it. TD
(This article posted in it's entirety as we feared it would soon be inaccessible.)  

Washington Post  

Back in the 1950s, when the institutions were still new and shaky, I’m sure many people feared the Western alliance might never take off. Perhaps in the 1970s, the era of the Red Brigades and Vietnam, many more feared that the West would not survive. But in my adult life, I cannot remember a moment as dramatic as this: Right now, we are two or three bad elections away from the end of NATO, the end of the European Union and maybe the end of the liberal world order as we know it.In the United States, we are faced with the real possibility of Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump, which means we have to take seriously the possibility of a President Trump. Hillary Clinton’s campaign might implode for any number of reasons, too obvious to rehash here; elections are funny things, and electorates are fickle. That means that next January we could have, in the White House, a man who is totally uninterested in what presidents Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan — as well as Johnson, Nixon and Truman — would all have called “our shared values.”
Not only is Trump uninterested in America’s alliances, he would be incapable of sustaining them. In practice, both military and economic unions require not the skills of a shady property magnate who “makes deals” but boring negotiations, unsatisfying compromises and, sometimes, the sacrifice of one’s own national preferences for the greater good. In an era when foreign policy debate has in most Western countries disappeared altogether, replaced by the reality TV of political entertainment, all of these things are much harder to explain and justify to a public that isn’t remotely interested.Trump has advocated torture, mass deportation, religious discrimination. He brags that he “would not care that much” whether Ukraine were admitted to NATO; he has no interest in NATO and its security guarantees. Of Europe, he has written that “their conflicts are not worth American lives. Pulling back from Europe would save this country millions of dollars annually.” In any case, he prefers the company of dictators to that of other democrats. “You can make deals with those people,” he said of Russia. “I would have a great relationship with [Vladimir] Putin.”
And Americans aren’t the only ones who find their alliances burdensome. A year from now, France also holds a presidential election. One of the front-runners, Marine Le Pen of the National Front, has promised to leave both NATO and the E.U. , to nationalize French companies and to restrict foreign investors. Like Trump, she foresees a special relationship with Russia, whose banks are funding her election campaign. French friends assure me that if she makes it to the final round, the center-left and center-right will band together, as they did two decades ago against her father. But elections are funny things, and electorates are fickle. What if Le Pen’s opponent suddenly falls victim to a scandal? What if another Islamic State attack jolts Paris?

Video added by TD 

Bad candidates and an unschooled electorate would be a terrible combination. TD

Anne Applebaum writes a biweekly foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. She is also the Director of the Global Transitions Program at the Legatum Institute in London. View Archive

"Trump's speaking in ways that men today still speak, when they're not hounded by the modern eclipse of feminism. . . "

Ann Althouse posts Rush Limbaugh

"Men speak this way to each other. They crack jokes this way to each other. It does not make them bad people. And I think there's a yearning for it among a whole segment of the population, women, men, they want this kind of gruff, fearless, tell-it-like-it-is persona. They don't think it's destructive. They don't think it says anything bad about the country. They don't think it says anything bad about the people who speak it. And it may be over the top, but the reason it's happening is because there have been so many invisible shackles put on people who are walking around on eggshells in this country for the last 30 years, afraid to be themselves, afraid to say what they really think, be who they really are, for fear they're gonna get fired, for fear that somebody's gonna lodge a complaint against 'em and be called before some tribunal to explain themselves, when there's nothing wrong with them. So here comes Trump...."

"Said Rush Limbaugh on his show yesterday."

How the GOP could stop Trump at the convention

The Hill

"Republicans might have one hope for defeating Donald Trump: denying him the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination at the Republican National Convention in July.

"Party insiders who are deeply opposed to the businessman’s candidacy are looking at the plausibility of such a move, as he racks up victory after victory and the opposition to him remains divided among three candidates: Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich. 

"Such a gambit would be chaotic and controversial, however. It would likely also face one large hurdle that needs to be removed before the voting starts. 

"As things currently stand, only a candidate who has the backing of a majority of delegates from eight states can even make it onto the nominating ballot. 

"The easiest way to acquire such backing is to win eight primaries. But at present, Ted Cruz is four states shy of that mark, Marco Rubio has won only one contest and no other candidate, barring Trump, has won anything.  

"The eight-state rule would also plainly block the idea of some new candidate emerging at the convention — 2012 nominee Mitt Romney or Speaker Paul Ryan, for example — as a figure around whom Trump opponents could rally. " . . . 

Romney? The man we'd scream at on the TV because he was not capable of the emotion we felt at the Petulant President and his scorn for us? TD

Could they be these same people?

Will Liberal Media EVER Report on VIOLENT LEFTIST THUGS at EVERY SINGLE TRUMP EVENT?

Imagine if you will that the photos below are of TEA Partiers, or perhaps conservatives protesting Democrats: what do you think we would see of these people on MSNBC or CNN, et al. on the networks or mainstream media channels? Even Disney would include them in some of their programs! (Think not? One Disney movie had a bullying schoolgirl named Breitbart!) TD

“Bad vibes.” “Scary.” “Tense.” “Physical.” “New level of menace.” “Vicious.”  "Those are the words used by reporters who covered the New Orleans campaign rally by leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Friday evening to describe the leftist anti-Trump protesters who disrupted the rally and the reactions of fed-up Trump supporters." . . .

theGatewayPundit.com.  "This morning in Cadillac, Michigan far left protesters repeatedly interrupted, screamed profanities and were forced out of the Donald Trump rally.

"With thousands of people in attendance at his rallies there are dozens of fascist protesters who sneak in to each event.

"They disrupt, scream profanities, throw punches, roll on the floor, rush the stage. They even turned out the lights at a massive rally in Atlanta." . . . (Emphasis in the original)

. . . "The media hid this from the American public. Just like they do with all of the violent protesters at Trump rallies. You would never have any idea this was going on, day in and day out, if you relied on the liberal mainstream news – including FOX News." . . .

Anybody there wearing pink outfits?