Can Socialist Monopoly compete with Capitalist Monopoly?

The People's Cube  . . . "Brilliant minds among the loser community have made repeated attempts to make new rules that would allow them to become winners. They mostly ended up with appointing one of the players to be a dictator (usually themselves), who promises to redistribute everything on the board equally so that everyone wins. The dictator appoints assistants and together they become the government. For this plan to work, the government must forcibly take over all the property on the game board. Thus the government becomes a monopolist and the sole big winner. All the others become perpetual lesser winners: equal among themselves, but not equal to the government and its officials. Let's broadly describe it as Socialist Monopoly. " . . .

Progressive Monopoly

Communist Monopoly

KRAUTHAMMER: Bernie Sanders, The Holocaust and identity

 "Jews must not make victimhood [their] chief legacy"

Charles Krauthammer 

"Bernie Sanders is the most successful Jewish candidate for the presidency ever. It’s a rare sign of the health of our republic that no one seems to care or even notice much. Least of all, Sanders himself. Which prompted Anderson Cooper in a recent Democratic debate to ask Sanders whether he was intentionally keeping his Judaism under wraps.

“ 'No,” answered Sanders: “I am very proud to be Jewish.” He then explained that the Holocaust had wiped out his father’s family. And that he remembered as a child seeing neighbors with concentration camp numbers tattooed on their arms.

"Being Jewish, he declared, “is an essential part of who I am as a human being.”

"A fascinating answer, irrelevant to presidential politics but quite revealing about the state of Jewish identity in contemporary America.

"Think about it. There are several alternate ways American Jews commonly explain the role Judaism plays in their lives." . . .

Also here: Krauthammer: Politics, the Holocaust and Jewish identity

"Charles Krauthammer says the role of Judaism should be balanced between the memory of martyrdom and the revival of Hebrew in a new age."  Sorry, but this source requires a subscription.

POLS WANT TO MAKE CITIZENSHIP IRRELEVANT — SHOWING DISRESPECT FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM

Mark-Viverito wants to grant voting rights to non-citizens

Infowars

"New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito has long refused to pledge even ceremonial allegiance to the American flag. No surprise, then, that she displays no respect for American citizenship, either.

Mark-Viverito wants to grant voting rights to non-citizens — including, perhaps, illegal immigrants — in all municipal elections. And she’s not alone.

Meanwhile, New York state’s newly minted Education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, champions licensing illegal immigrants to teach in New York’s public schools, as well as to practice 52 other regulated professions. Not that her views really matter, of course. The state Board of Regents just approved the change. (It’s a going-away present from Chancellor Merryl Tisch, soon to depart after seven years as felonious former Assembly speaker Shelly Silver’s hand-picked education czar.)

"To be sure, both schemes come wrapped in pretty ribbons." . . .

It’s all about making sure that New York never again suffers the presence of powerful Republicans.

Full article here.  Once more...fear her voters!

Attorney General Lynch Looks Into Prosecuting ‘Climate Change Deniers’

"None of the public officials involved in this abuse of the prosecutorial power of the government recognize the outrageousness of what they are doing or are urging the FBI and the Justice Department to do. They want to investigate and prosecute corporations and individuals for their opinions on an unproven scientific theory, for which there is not a consensus, despite inaccurate claims to the contrary."

Hans von Spakovsky

In news that should shock and anger Americans, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that not only has she discussed internally the possibility of pursuing civil actions against so-called “climate change deniers,” but she has “referred it to the FBI to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action.”

Whitehouse, Democrat

Lynch was responding to a question from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who urged Lynch to prosecute those who “pretend that the science of carbon emissions’ dangers is unsettled,” . . . "

 . . . "What Lynch should have said to Whitehouse is that the duty of the U.S. Justice Department (and the FBI) is to fairly enforce the laws of the United States in a dispassionate, nonideological manner based on the facts, not to investigate those who hold disfavored views regarding scientific controversies."   But . . .

That Obama is more popular than ever and politicians such as Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse are the choice of their state makes me fear their voters as much as I do those they elect. TD

LYING AS FAST AS SHE CAN, CONT’D

Power Line   "The editors of the New York Post widen the focus on Hillary Clinton’s performance at her most recent debate with Bernie Sanders. They call her performance “another pack of lies.”Here I would like simply to yield the floor to the editors of the Post:. . .  

An excerpt here:

. . . No: The Obama administration never got any suggestion from the field that the deadly attack was anything but a long-planned assault by terrorists. The “blame the video” idea was cooked up in Washington.

Not entirely Clinton’s fault — except that she chose to needlessly retail that spin to grieving families, rather than just say, “We will make whoever did this pay.” . . .

That debate audience who booed Jorge Ramos so loudly: were they unaware of Hillary's record or, as Bill Clinton's supporters were, totally devoid of concern over it? TD

Speaking of Bill Clinton:

Hillary’s Bill Problem Is Back

After Hillary said Donald Trump "demonstrated a penchant for sexism" in January, Trump sharply riposted by reminding everyone of some of the 1990s’ worst moments. "She wants to accuse me of things and the husband is one of the great abusers of the world," Trump said. "Give me a break." Hillary hasn’t mentioned Trump’s treatment of women since.

. . . "Actually, Hillary is pretty politically savvy, and she’s been playing the game most of her adult life. She also possesses many appealing assets other politicians don’t, including the discipline and Washington savvy Bill lacked when he became president in 1993. But the woman cruelly nicknamed Sister Frigidaire in high school, whose mother dreamed of her being America’s first female chief justice of the Supreme Court, does lack Bill's magnetism and smooth charm. And that is a problem for her, if for no other reason than he will be by her side for the duration of the campaign—and she is hardly the only one to note that, next to him, she's no "natural.' " . . .