Trump and Hillary

Trump's new finance chairman donated twice as much to Dems as GOP   "Mnuchin has donated $125,000 since 1998 to political candidates, with more than half that amount going to Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

He also ran George Soros's hedge fund."

So Trump can't beat Hillary?  "Various sources have been reporting that overall Democrat turnout is down this year, and of that reduced turnout, a significant portion belongs to Bernie Sanders, as it did in Indiana this past Tuesday.  Conversely, the Trump movement has been ginning up voter turnout numbers since the primary season started.  Tuesday’s numbers bear that out."

OBAMA IS IN NO POSITION TO SAY THE PRESIDENCY ISN’T A REALITY SHOW

The American Spectator   "In response to Donald Trump's impending ascension to the Republican Party nomination, President Obama does what he does worse - lecture. To wit:

We are in serious times, and this is a really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the United States. Every candidate, every nominee, needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny. 

"And what would President Obama know about being subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny? President Obama is in no position to criticize Donald Trump's candidacy as a reality show when his entire political career has been a reality show with a fawning press in tow.

"Let's remember that this is the same man who consented to being "interviewed" by a woman who eat Fruit Loops in her bathtub. President Obama has also had time to sit between two ferns with Zach Galfianakis, hang out in the wilderness with Bear Grylls and get coffee with Jerry Seinfeld.

"It's hard to listen to President Obama to say we live in serious times when he was perfectly content to watch a baseball game in Havana with Raul Castro and dance The Last Tango in Buenos Aires as Brussels burned. I'm sure President Obama would have hit the links if he could have, but I guess he reserves that for really special occasions such as when American journalists are beheaded by ISIS.

"While I believe Republicans have got themselves into a fine mess by seeing fit to nominate a Hillary donor to be their standard bearer, Obama is not the person who can credibly deliver that message where it concerns Trump's shortcomings. If not for the incompetence, condescension and disingenuousness of President Obama there would be no prospect of Donald Trump in The White House in the first place."

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Thomas Sowell Fears An Unmitigated Disaster

Thomas Sowell   

". . . Trump blithely remarked that South Korea should be left to its own defenses. Whatever the merits or demerits of that as a policy, announcing it to the whole world in advance risks encouraging North Korea to invade South Korea ­­ as it did back in 1950, after careless words by a high American official left the impression that South Korea was not included in the American defense perimeter against the Communists in the Pacific.' " 

. . .

. . . "Those who talk about "the will of the people" need to know that neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton represents the will of the people. Polls repeatedly show these two with the highest negative reactions of any of the candidates in either party. A majority of the people polled have negative reactions to each.

 "Hillary Clinton's much ­vaunted "experience" has been an experience in carrying out a policy that has failed disastrously from the Middle East to Ukraine to North Korea. We don't need more of that kind of experience.

"What was once feared most by the Republican establishment ­­ a third party candidate for President ­­ may represent the only slim chance for saving this country from a catastrophic administration in an age of proliferating nuclear weapons.

"If a third party candidate could divide the vote enough to prevent anyone from getting an electoral college majority, that would throw the election into the House of Representatives, where any semblance of sanity could produce a better president than these two."

My struggle with these thoughts and choices:
If either of these people becomes our President, remember this Biblical teaching: respected Bible scholar Bob Deffinbaugh reminds us that God Himself chooses our rulers.

We can seek comfort in this, though I wonder where is our source of earthly authority: our leaders or the Constitution to which they must submit?
I fear that God is using these ungodly people to remove Western cultures from any influence in the world and shaping world conditions for these times.

How must we speak as our nation chooses those who rule over us? Should the Founding Fathers have been submissive to the rule of King George instead of issuing the Declaration of Independence? Elsewhere in history thousands have died while disobeying their leaders' orders to persecute groups that were held in disfavor by those rulers. What if the leaders we have to choose between have shown themselves to be corrupt and cowardly?

In this nation where our role as citizens requires us to be wise in choosing leaders, I feel we must declare what we see of the character of candidates just as the prophet Nathan confronted King David with his adultery.

But when those leaders are in power we are commanded to submit to them and here is where my duties as an American clash head-on with my calling as a Christian. The Tunnel Dweller

The ideological earthquake and the aftermath

"If Trump is a great big middle finger aimed at a Republican establishment that has abandoned its principles, isn’t it curious that the party has chosen a man without any?"

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Charles Krauthammer   . . . "This is the narrative: GOP political leaders made promises of all kinds and received in return, during President Obama’s years, major electoral victories that gave them the House, the Senate, 12 new governorships and 30 state houses. Yet they didn’t deliver. Exit polls consistently showed that a majority of GOP primary voters (60 percent in some states) feel “betrayed” by their leaders.

"Not just let down or disappointed. Betrayed. By RINOs who, corrupted by donors and lobbyists, sold out. Did they repeal Obamacare? No. Did they defund Planned Parenthood? No. Did they stop President Obama’s tax-and-spend hyperliberalism? No. Whether from incompetence or venality, they let Obama walk all over them.

"But then comes the paradox. If insufficient resistance to Obama’s liberalism created this sense of betrayal, why in a field of 17 did Republican voters choose the least conservative candidate? A man who until yesterday was himself a liberal. Who donated money to those very same Democrats to whom the GOP establishment is said to have caved, including Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton."

"The ideological realignment is stark. On major issues — such as the central question of retaining America’s global pre-eminence as leader of the free world, sustainer of Western alliances and protector of the post-World War II order — the GOP candidate stands decidedly to the left of the Democrat.
And who knows on what else. On entitlements? On health care? On taxes? We will soon find out. But as Trump himself says of being a conservative — at this point, who cares?"

"As of Tuesday night, certainly not the GOP."

Will I vote for Trump? You better believe it; a vote for any Republican candidate is a vote against Hillary.

We must under no circumstances allow the Clinton's or ANY Democrat for that matter near the White House.

We are voting for a Supreme Court and Hillary is the most destructive choice, though Heaven only knows who Trump will choose.  TD

Meeting With Bill Clinton, Donation To Foundation Preceded Businessman’s Release From Iran Jail

Daily Caller

"Just before an Iranian-American businessman was freed from jail in Iran in Oct. 2010, his son met with Bill Clinton and also made the first of what would become more than $1 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.

"Sources tell The Daily Caller that Nima Taghavi, who owns businesses in California, grew impatient in 2010 with negotiations to secure his father Reza’s release from an Iranian prison, and so he turned to the former president for help.

"To arrange the meeting with Clinton, Taghavi first contacted Doug group that Clinton advised.

"The elder Taghavi was detained in May 2008 during a trip to the Islamic regime and accused of financing terrorist activity after he gave $200 to an Iranian man who turned out to have ties to a terrorist group suspected in a mosque bombing in Shiraz. Taghavi, who was 69 years old when arrested, said he was only doing a favor for his friend in the U.S. and had no idea that the man who would receive the money was involved in terrorism."

George W. Bush Sitting Out Election With H.W., No Plans to Endorse Trump

NewsMax 

"George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, will be sitting out the presidential election and have no plans to endorse Donald Trump, a spokesman said on Wednesday. 

"The Washington Post reported that it is the first time in five presidential election cycles that Bush 41 is not endorsing the Republican nominee.

"A spokesman for his son, Bush 43, made a statement Wednesday evening after Ohio Gov. John Kasich followed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to the exit, noted The Guardian.

" 'President George W. Bush does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign," said the spokesman for the two-term president before President Barack Obama.
Jim McGrath, spokesman for George H. W. Bush, told The Guardian that the elder Bush has stepped away from politics.

" 'At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics," McGrath said. "He naturally did a few things to help Jeb, but those were the 'exceptions that proved the rule.'" . . .

Mayor de Blasio Urges New Yorkers to Avoid Chick-fil-A

Grubstreet

"Chick-fil-A's New York invasion has finally gotten real enough to trouble the mayor. The chain's third New York City location will land at Queens Center Mall this fall, and Chick-fil-A's growing footprint is starting to frighten city officials in general, and Bill de Blasio in particular. Not because the first stand-alone location was closed over health concerns, or because Chick-fil-A's sandwiches aren't nearly as good as some of NYC's excellent roster of homegrown chicken sandwiches, but because the mayor still takes issue with the owners' history of anti-LGBT policies. Per DNAinfo, he told reporters Tuesday, "What the ownership of Chick-fil-A has said is wrong," adding, "I'm certainly not going to patronize them and I wouldn't urge any other New Yorker to patronize them. But they do have a legal right."

"The Queens location is still months from opening, but Councilman Danny Dromm, who's gay, says it's nevertheless time to boycott. Dromm held a completely unrelated press event of his own yesterday criticizing Chick-fil-A for "forcing their employees and volunteers to adhere to a policy that prohibits same-sex love," and for funding anti-LGBT organizations. "It is outrageous that Chick-fil-A is quietly spreading its message of hate by funding these types of organizations," he said.

"A Chick-fil-A rep simply reiterated that the chain's new culture is "to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their beliefs, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.' " 

Maybe there should be a tax on all uses of the word "hate".

Lib Rage Salon Pleads With Feminists Not To Abandon Bernie Sanders…

Weasel Zippers
"Supposedly Bernie is a man (hence he has a penis) so I’m guessing that disqualifies him among many feminazis."

Feds appear to be removing website posts claiming glaciers will be melted from Glacier National Park by 2030

Thomas Lifson  "Either there is a cover-up of embarrassingly overstated fear-mongering or (barely plausibly) it coincidentally happens that routine updating of United States Geological Survey web postings has temporarily removed those posts.  Writing at Wattsupwiththat, Dr. Roger Roots:

. .  . (I have often pointed out that the government’s photos from prior decades tended to not specify calendar dates. Because glaciers tend to build up in winter and then melt all summer long, the specificity of calendar dates is quite important.) . . .

"The USGS has some explaining to do.  I would say that a congressional committee hearing would be appropriate, calling in USGS officials to explain the disappearance.

"It is time to hold warmists, especially those in official positions, responsible for the fear-mongering, which has had severe fiscal consequences for the federal government and which has pushed individuals and companies to make decisions they would otherwise not make."

Two warmists pictured here:

CRUSADING OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TARGETS NORTH CAROLINA LGBT LAW

This Balkanized society constantly seeks more groups with grievances.

Downtrend

"With it being an election year and the Democrats needing to cast as wide a net for aggrieved identity groups as possible it was only a matter of time until the Obama Justice Department poked it’s nose into the controversy surrounding North Carolina’s bathroom law. The meddling feds who previously inserted themselves into racially tinged issues in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland are now looking to beat back the Tarheel State’s law enacted to prevent perverts from prowling women’s restrooms.* In a piece of news announced today Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s gangbusters sent a threatening letter to Governor Pat McGrory over the law.

As reported by CNN “Justice Department challenges North Carolina transgender law”:

The Justice Department has sent a letter to the North Carolina governor and state university system leaders notifying them that the state’s transgender law violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act, according to a Justice Department official.

House Bill 2, the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, puts in place a statewide policy that bans individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex. The law also reserves the right to pass nondiscrimination legislation to the state government, saying state laws pre-empt any local ordinances." . . .  Emphasis added, TD

Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, 'it was easy'

Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne

 "The infamous Romanian hacker known as “Guccifer,” speaking exclusively with Fox News, claimed he easily – and repeatedly – breached former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal email server in early 2013.   

" 'For me, it was easy ... easy for me, for everybody," Marcel Lehel Lazar, who goes by the moniker "Guccifer," told Fox News from a Virginia jail where he is being held.

"Guccifer’s potential role in the Clinton email investigation was first reported by Fox News last month. The hacker subsequently claimed he was able to access the server – and provided extensive details about how he did it and what he found – over the course of a half-hour jailhouse interview and a series of recorded phone calls with Fox News. Fox News could not independently confirm Lazar’s claims.

"The former secretary of state’s server held nearly 2,200 emails containing information now deemed classified, and another 22 at the “Top Secret” level.

"The 44-year-old Lazar said he first compromised Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account, in March 2013, and used that as a stepping stone to the Clinton server. He said he accessed Clinton’s server “like twice,” though he described the contents as “not interest[ing]” to him at the time. " . . .

From three years ago: Breach exposed e-mails with Hillary Clinton

Difference between Democrats, Socialists, and Communists

The Peoples Cube   "In a recent MSNBC interview, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz couldn't explain the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist. Neither could young college students in the video below. In fact, what difference at this point does it make? Perhaps it's time for us to weigh in (with a nod to our General Secretary for the image idea). 

This next from Campus Reform

. . . "At first the Florida Representative laughed and brushed the question off. “You’re Chairman of the Democratic Party,” host Chris Matthews pressed Wasserman Schultz. “Tell me the difference between you and a socialist.”

"Instead of answering, Wasserman Schultz responded to a completely different question." . . .

She then demonstrates the true meaning of "begging the question"