Why the Democrats Oppose Economic Freedom

E. Jeffrey Ludwig   "The seeds of the modern bureaucratic or administrative state go back to the Progressive Era of American history in the early 20th century. But progressive regulation morphed into the hyper-control of our present federal government during the New Deal. Modern students, whose history education has been directed by teachers who “accept” the reality of a federal leviathan, are often unaware of the fact that before 1916 there was no income tax in the United States, and that federal revenues were primarily through import duties. The income tax was justified by the need to support the ever-expanding regulatory environment being promoted by Democrats, with a small amount of crossover by Republicans."

Doing a theme on Hillary Clinton's loss to Trump? Let us help you.

Hillary Lies Again; The loser of 2016 slanders President Trump’s inaugural address.   . . . "Hillary Clinton grossly underestimates the intelligence of those who hear her words. Thus, she wears on her raiment her total contempt for the very people over whom she claims to have a veritable birthright to reign."

Clinton: 'Sexism And Misogyny Are Still Endemic' To America
. . . "What advice would you give [women running for office] about how to grapple with the kind of sexism that you grappled with during the campaign?"

Loser, Crooked & Bitter Hillary: “Maybe I missed a few choices.”  . . . "Hillary is milking her 2016 Presidential election loss and her sense of entitlement for all only Hillary believes that it is worth." . . .

If she was afraid of Trump when he was behind her, why did she choose to stand in front of him?

Lady, Let It Go: Hillary Is Convinced Trump Associates Colluded With Russia to Defeat Her

Totally Self-Aware Hillary Clinton Compares Herself To The Game Of Thrones’ Mad Queen   "And the award for the most un-self-aware person on the planet once again goes to failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for comparing herself to the most evil woman in pop-culture."

Hillary’s Election Memoir “What Happened” Is Finally Out. Guess Who Or What She Is Blaming?

Hillary Clinton on So-Called ‘Dreamers’: ‘Well, they should be sent back’  
“Well, they should be sent back as soon as it can be determined who responsible adults in their families are, because there are concerns whether all of them should be sent back,” said Clinton. “But I think all of them who can be should be reunited with their families.”


Cluelessness, thy name is Hillary Clinton  . . . "The Democratic Party has made it clear they want Hillary to stop whining and go away. “When you lose to somebody who has 40% popularity, you don’t blame other things,” Chuck Schumer told the Washington Post in July." . . .

FACT CHECK: Clinton Claims ‘Nearly Every Newspaper’ Endorsed Her Bid For The Presidency   . . . "Although Clinton received far more newspaper endorsements than any other candidate in the 2016 general election, many of the largest newspapers did not endorse her or any candidate at all." . . .
Which tells us more about her endorsing newspapers than it does about her.

Hillary Clinton said in a WNYC interview Tuesday that if she had won the election, people would have seen her as a “genius.”

Clinton: I Think Democrats Will Continue To Face A ‘Very Difficult Media Environment’

Weasel Zippers  "Hahahahahahahahahaha. (Breathe) Hahahahahahahaha."

"Via Free Beacon:

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday lamented the disadvantage that Democrats face in media coverage, arguing they will continue to confront a “difficult” press going forward.

Clinton said on the “Pod Save America” podcast, hosted by former Barack Obama speechwriters, that the political right has created “propaganda channels” that create “obstacles” for Democrats.

“That’s what I call Fox News. It has outlets like Breitbart and crazy Infowars, and things like that,” she said.

Clinton argued that Russia and social media sites like Facebook “aided and abetted” these outlets during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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The Art of the Deal

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Hillary Clinton and What Happened to the Nature of Woman

I'm sorry, but this lady is just so entertaining that I can't help myself. TD

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This article will have weird-hatted rioters in the streets with their tiki torches.
Don't blame me, this article just appeared here.  TD

American Thinker

Years ago I had a male acquaintance who announced that whenever he does something that annoys his wife she recites The Catalog: everything mean that he had ever done to her since they first met 50 years ago. They shoulda called Hillary’s book The Catalog.

. . . "But liberal women don’t have that culture, and so they marinate in their mistakes and their cats and wonder What Happened, and blame the patriarchy for everything.

"They should try Christianity; they might get to experience the pleasure of having anti-religious bigots in the Senate asking them if they are now, or have ever been, a Christian."  Christopher Chantrill

Hillary Clinton’s blame list for her defeat keeps growing

"For someone who claims she has taken full responsibility for her loss of the November 2016 election, Hillary Clinton certainly has a long list of people to blame for it. It takes quite an effort to count them up, but Gregg Jarrett of Fox News has kept an updated list, but the body count keeps growing. Here is his latest count:" . . .  Thomas Lifson

UPDATE: Amazon, Walmart Slash Hillary Clinton’s ‘What Happened’ Book 40% Before Tuesday Release

Two huge booksellers, Amazon and Walmart, have already cut the price of Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2016 tell-all by 40 percent -- and it isn't even available yet.

Set to be released Tuesday, both have priced "What Happened?" at $17.99.

Publisher Simon and Schuster set a price of $30.

Much of what's in her book has already been reported on, thanks to leaked copies of the Democratic presidential candidate's latest work.

The price cut, however, has likely helped to boost sales. It is No. 1 on Amazon.

The - dare we say it? - deplorable news/ entertainment media corrupts even the Miss America contest

McCarthyism Reigns as Miss America Contestants Urged to Blast Trump
"Miss North Dakota, Cara Mund, answered the Trump-hating question “correctly,” and she is now Miss America." . . .

Nancy Hayes  "More people would watch these events IF they weren’t politicized by the MSM or the liberal left. These young women were grilled on Trump’s policies. Miss America was one downright nasty or one big Trump bashing party."
. . . 
"Though the annual Miss America pageant Sunday night contained a lot of anti-Trump nonsense, as does anything connected to entertainment these days, one patriotic contestant managed to sneak a very unexpected but much appreciated defense of President Donald Trump into the show."

That contestant was Miss Missouri, Jennifer Davis, who defended the president when asked about the ongoing investigation about his campaign allegedly colluding with the Russians last year to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.

“ 'There are multiple investigations into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia on the election — well, did they?” judge Jordin Sparks asked, as reported by The Washington Post. “You’re the jury: guilty or innocent? And please explain your verdict.” 

"To be clear, Sparks isn’t the typical entertainment world airhead. Her outspoken Christian beliefs have been evident since she burst onto the scene on “American Idol” in 2007, and she made a name for herself in evangelical circles before that performing at pro-life events."  

“Right now, I have to say innocent, because not enough information has been revealed,” she replied. “We are still investigating this, (major clapping from the audience) and I think we should investigate it to its fullest extent. If we do find the evidence that they have had collusion with Russia, the justice system should do their due diligence and they should be punished accordingly.”

"And as The Daily Wire pointed out, the crowd cheered while she was giving her answer.

Your Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed   "American progressives have fnally gone all the way to a totalitarian vision, demanding control over not just your behavior, but your thoughts and beliefs. This as the price of simply living without being attacked. " . . .

9/11 – Remembering Firefighter Danny Suhr, killed by a falling body

Legal Insurrection

Member of Engine Co. 216, he left behind his wife and two-year-old daughter.

. . . "This year we remember all the people who fell on that day, but particularly Firefighter Daniel “Danny” Suhr, 37-years-old, the first documented NYFD member killed that day. Danny was killed as he rushed to the scene, and was hit by one of those falling bodies.

"The transcribed interview with Captain Paul Conlon describes what happened. The NY Postreported in August 2013:" . . .

. . . 'Among the many anniversary posts, I’ve written about the recording that Melissa Harrington Hughes left on her home answering machine for her husband, 9/11/01 and Memory:"

"And the sound of the PASS (Personal Alert Safety System) alarms worn by firemen, which continued chirping after the buildings collapsed, each one representing a life lost. I never have been able to erase that sound from my memory:"

Acclaimed conductor fired for joke with black friend

WND

"African-American tenor outraged over innocent exchange labeled 'racist'"

. . . "He has been victimized and I’m very upset about it,” he said of Halls. “It was an innocent joke that has been entirely taken out of context.”

Mobley

"Halls and Mobley were chatting at a reception for this year’s Oregon Bach Festival when Mobley recalled a concert in London he described as having an “antebellum,” or pre-Civil War South, feel to it.

Halls responded, according to Mobley, by saying he “apologized on behalf of England.” Then he put on an exaggerated Southern accent and joked: “Do you want some grits?”

“ 'I’m from the deep south and Matthew often makes fun of the Southern accent just as I often make fun of his British accent,” explained Mobley. “Race was not an issue. He was imitating a Southern accent, not putting on a black accent, and there was nothing racist or malicious about it.”

. . .

"Mobley said he appreciates the efforts of some white people to confront racism, but some go too far." . . .

And here in the UK Telegraph, even.

OK, Hillary, you win! You can be president right now. Just leave us alone! Bitter Hillary Update:

Update: CLINTON BLAMES COMEY, RUSSIA, WIKILEAKS, FACEBOOK, FAKE NEWS, VOTER ID LAWS, SEXISM, AND MISOGYNY FOR LOSING

‘And let’s not forget sexism and misogyny, which are endemic to our society’

And she blames American society as a whole, wouldn't you say?

Update to the update: Hillary Clinton Blames Chief Justice John Roberts For Contributing To Her Loss

Watch Hillary Clinton Blame Everything Under the Sun for Her Election Loss in Under Two Minutes   "Hillary Clinton may have lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, but she's in a strong position to bring home a gold medal in self-serving blame-storming -- though knowing her, she'll likely blow that large lead, too.  If you're keeping score at home, feel free to tally the outward-facing excuses she offered in less than two minutes during an interview with CBS News' Jane Pauley on Sunday morning.  Life is just so unfair:

"But the laundry list in that clip excluded a cold, hard truth: Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate.  She a corrupt, unlikable liar who managed to blow a gimme race against a profoundly flawed opponent whose unfavorable rating among the electorate was an extraordinary 61 percent. None of those inescapable truths are about Comey, or Putin, or voter ID, or identity politics. They're about her character flaws, Democrats' foolishness in stacking the deck for her, and the power of the voting public's desire for change. Given her scathing assessment of the Trump administration and the media's relentlessly negative coverage thereof, one would think a prevailing sense of (previously-undetected) buyers' remorse would have taken root among throngs of American voters. Not so much: " . . .

The difficult truth of 9/11

Graphic. Bloviating Zeppelin  . . . "Now you have a choice. Imagine. You can burn to death via the flames behind you, or you can knock out a window. If you fail to knock out a window, yes, you burn to death. If you knock out a window or locate a window aperture already damaged, you have time to contemplate. Perhaps a few minutes, perhaps a few seconds. Do you turn to face the flames? Or do you seek the very thing that keeps you alive and has done so for years? The open air?

"Perhaps now the flames are licking at your back. You have seen some of your friends, or persons you don’t know, step out into the abyss, their choices having been made. Again, your choice: do I burn to death or do I simply jump?" . . . Many jumpers out of the towers.

When did the Miss America pageant turn into a Nasty Woman protest?

Todd Starnes   "The 2017 Miss America pageant was not so much about empowering women as it was bashing President Trump.

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 "A panel of celebrity judges goaded finalists into condemning the president on his response to the Charlottesville terrorist attack, climate change, Confederate War monuments and whether he colluded with the Russians.

It was as if Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton were sitting underneath the Atlantic City boardwalk, sipping Chardonnay and writing this year’s questions.

I’m surprised none of the judges asked if President Trump is the anti-Christ. Yes? No? Please explain.

“There are multiple investigations into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia on the election,” singer and judge Jordin Sparks said. “Well, did they? You’re the jury. Guilty or innocent and please explain your verdict?”

"Miss Missouri, Jennifer Davis, did not hesitate in responding.

“ 'Right now, I have to say innocent because not enough information has been revealed. We are still investigating this and I think we should investigate it to its fullest extent. If we do find evidence that they have had collusion with Russia, the justice system should do their due diligence and they should be punished accordingly,” she replied.

"Miss Missouri was picked as the first runner-up.

"I have no doubt that had she declared that President Trump was guilty as sin and deserved to rot in jail – she would be wearing the crown today.

"Get a load of the question Miss Texas, Margana Wood, had to field:" . . .

Equifax Executives Sold Stock Worth Over $1 Million Before Announcement of Giant Data Breach

Patterico  "You may have heard about the Equifax breach in which hackers got access to Social Security numbers of up to 143 million people — probably including you and me. Looks like some Equifax executives may have profited (or at least avoided losses) on the news:

Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.

The trio had not yet been informed of the incident, the company said.

The credit-reporting service said late Thursday in a statement that it discovered the intrusion on July 29. Regulatory filings show that three days later, Chief Financial Officer John Gamble sold shares worth $946,374 and Joseph Loughran, president of U.S. information solutions, exercised options to dispose of stock worth $584,099. Rodolfo Ploder, president of workforce solutions, sold $250,458 of stock on Aug. 2. None of the filings lists the transactions as being part of 10b5-1 scheduled trading plans.

"You probably will not be surprised to learn that the stock plummeted today on the announcement. Had these executives held on to the stock, they would have lost a lot of money. But instead, knowing about the breach, they sold the stock before the breach was announced.

"It sounds outrageous, but the company claims that the sales represented “a small percentage of their Equifax shares.” Different people define “small” differently. I have a feeling the SEC will be taking a close look at this. If there were hijinks, someone might be going to prison. (Then again, maybe these dudes are members at one of Trump’s golf clubs and will skate. You never know!)

It is an interesting question whether insider trading should be illegal. The fact that we may recoil at it does not mean it is necessarily bad for society. And there are rational arguments that suggest that insider trading is a good thing, because it helps spread information. As economist Bob Murphy says:

In a nutshell, insider trading is beneficial because it moves market prices closer to where they ought to be. Those profiting from “inside knowledge” actually share that knowledge with the rest of the world through their buying and selling.

"Murphy argues that if you parse out who actually loses when insider trading occurs, it’s not the public at large, but just other investors who might have done better through dumb luck. Meanwhile, when insiders profit from their greater knowledge, that knowledge is spread, to the benefit of the public." . . .