Pro-Life Alaskans Should Reject Murkowski’s Pro-Abortion Extremism

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There appears to be some confusion among pro-life Alaskans on whether Lisa Murkowski is pro-life or not, but there shouldn’t be. From her earliest days in the United States Senate, it has been abundantly clear where she stands on the sanctity of human life.

In 2003, she voted for a Sense of the Senate Amendment concerning Roe v. Wade that affirmed the Court’s decision, stating: “The decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade was appropriate and secures an important constitutional right, and such decision should not be overturned.”

In 2012, the Senator reaffirmed her support for the High Court’s decision, stating that “abortion in this country has been deemed legal, and the right to a safe and legal abortion has been confirmed by the courts, and I stand by that.” She even went so far as to accuse the Republican Party of a “War on Women.”

Murkowski has a consistent record of voting to confirm judges who will uphold Roe v. Wade as “the law of the land.”

But the worst of it is not just that Senator Murkowski supports abortion on demand and demonstrates a reckless disregard for the sanctity of human life, but that she has been one of just a handful of Republicans to fight for taxpayer funding for the nation’s largest abortion provider. This, despite the fact that Planned Parenthood has been repeatedly exposed as a lawless organization that protects sexual predators, discriminates against girls through sex selective abortions, and even supports illegally harvesting and selling aborted baby parts.

She has voted on multiple occasions for a controversial measure to appropriate federal funds for embryonic stem cell research, a policy that allows human life to be destroyed in the name of progress.

Murkowski has also repeatedly voted against the “Mexico City Policy,” a measure enacted by President Reagan to bar US taxpayer dollars from going to foreign non-governmental organizations that perform or promote abortions. President Obama struck down the law by executive order in 2009, a decision protected by Lisa Murkowski and the Democrats, most lately in June of 2015.

So don’t buy Murkowski’s empty rhetoric about support for the federal Hyde Amendment, in this case more appropriately tabbed the federal Hide Amendment. She does in fact support federal funding for abortion, despite overwhelming opposition from a strong majority of the American electorate.

Last fall the Republican Senate had an historic opportunity to vote on a late-term abortion ban. And while it seemed to enjoy wide public support, Senator Murkowski was a no-show for the vote. The Democrat Senate Minority was able to easily defeat the measure.

Make no mistake about it, there is no question where Lisa Murkowski stands on the Constitutional Right to life. She is a pro-abortion extremist. That’s why she has enjoyed the electoral support of Republican Majority for Choice and Planned Parenthood.

Pro-life Alaskans should reject Murkowski’s pro-abortion extremism and vote for a pro-life alternative in Tuesday’s Republican primary.

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Satanic Screw-Up by Alaska’s Most Conservative Borough Assembly

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A debate over religious freedom has led to a Satanist leading an invocation at one Alaska borough’s assembly meeting (Editor’s note: the Kenai Peninsula Borough is one of Alaska’s most conservative regions with what was once thought to be a very conservative borough assembly).

Following a discussion over whether to do away with invocations entirely, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly decided to open invocations up to all religions.

According to Assembly President Blaine Gilman, a group of pastors used to previously lead the assembly’s invocation. Under the new rules, however, anyone can choose to lead an invocation in the name of his or her religion.

During Tuesday’s assembly meeting, Iris Fontana led an invocation in the name of Satan on behalf of the Satanic Temple.

(Read more about the satanic prayer at the conservative borough assembly in Alaska HERE)

Here’s the transcript of the disgusting “prayer”:

Let us stand now, unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines, born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old. Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations.

Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true. Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of all or one.

That which will not bend must break and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is done. Hail Satan.

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Comment by Hillary Clinton Raises Further Questions About Her Health

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The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton just launched its official podcast, titled With Her.

In Friday’s debut episode, host Max Linsky interviewed Clinton about her typical day on the campaign trail.

“I wake up early,” she said, informing the host she gets up at “6:30 or so.”

Linsky inquired, “I heard a rumor that you don’t use an alarm clock.”

“No, that’s not true. That’s not true,” she repeated. “That’s another one of those rumors that people spread.”

But then Clinton waffled.

“I usually wake up before my alarm clock goes off, so technically maybe that’s right,” she said.

Clinton told Linsky she relies on her cellphone as her main alarm in the morning. “Sometimes if I’m really tired when I, you know, collapse, it’s backed up by a real alarm clock,” she said.

Linsky then asked her which ringtone she relies on to help her awake. The former secretary of state said her ringtone has to be the “most obnoxious sound that [she] can find on the ringtones” to help her get up.

“You mean that crazy siren one?” the host asked. “Yes. Exactly,” she replied.

Clinton stated she needs something that “pierces through our deepest consciousness.”

Clinton’s admission she “collapses” was seen by some as raising further questions about her health as a potential commander in chief.

Wesley Pruden of the Washington Times wrote Monday, “Her stumbling, fainting, severe coughing and moments of odd behavior on the campaign have been much talked about by the reporters following her, but this knowledge was veiled in a discreet silence, until now.”

Pruden then cited a report also questioning Clinton’s health issues over the last four years.

“The Drudge Report cited four health episodes over the years Hillary has campaigned for president: needing assistance climbing stairs this year, a blood clot on the brain in 2012, a fall while boarding an airplane in 2011 and a fall on her way to the White House in 2009,” Pruden wrote. “One of the accompanying photographs, by Reuters, shows her losing her balance while touring a substance abuse center in Charleston, S.C.”

Likewise, a recently released email from longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin to another staffer said Clinton is “often confused.”

Just a week ago, Clinton stated she “short-circuited” when she was trying to clarify previously stated comments. Republican rival Donald Trump seized on her self-description, and on Saturday called her “unstable.”

A poll released Thursday found that 59 percent of voters say all major presidential candidates should release their most recent medical records to the public. (For more from the author of “Comment by Hillary Clinton Raises Further Questions About Her Health” please click HERE)

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Marc Faber Issues a Stunning Warning That a Gigantic 50 Percent Stock Market Crash Could Be Coming

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Are we about to witness one of the largest stock market crashes in U.S. history? Swiss investor Marc Faber is the publisher of the “Gloom, Boom & Doom Report”, and he has been a regular guest on CNBC for years. And even though U.S. stocks have been setting new record high after new record high in recent weeks, he is warning that a massive stock market crash is in our very near future. According to Faber, we could “easily” see the S&P 500 plunge all the way down to 1,100. As I sit here writing this article, the S&P 500 is sitting at 2,181.74, so that would be a drop of cataclysmic proportions. The following is an excerpt from a CNBC article that discussed the remarks that Faber made on their network on Monday…

The notoriously bearish Marc Faber is doubling down on his dire market view.

The editor and publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report said Monday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” that stocks are likely to endure a gut-wrenching drop that would rival the greatest crashes in stock market history.

“I think we can easily give back five years of capital gains, which would take the market down to around 1,100,” Faber said, referring to a level 50 percent below Monday’s closing on the S&P 500.

Of course Faber is far from alone in believing that the market is heading for hard times. Just recently, I wrote about how legendary investor Jeffrey Gundlach is warning that “stocks should be down massively” and that he believes this is the time to “sell everything“.

And on Tuesday, Donald Trump told Fox News that the stock market is “a big bubble”…

“If rates go up, you’re going to see something that’s not pretty,” the billionaire businessman told Fox News during a Tuesday morning phone interview. “It’s all a big bubble.”

Worries that the Fed has created a market bubble have shadowed the second-longest bull market in history as the central bank has kept its key rate near zero and expanded its balance sheet by $3.8 trillion in order to pump liquidity into the financial system.

Trump actually has a vested interest in seeing the stock market go down, because that would help his chances in November.

In a previous article on The Most Important News, I explained that the stock market has indicated who would win the presidential election 86 percent of the time since 1928. During the final three months before election day, if the stock market goes up the incumbent party almost always wins. But if the stock market goes down, the incumbent party almost always loses. The only times this correlation has not held up since 1928 were in 1956, 1968 and 1980.

For the moment, the stock market is defying the laws of economics, and that is a very good thing for Hillary Clinton. But if this bubble suddenly bursts and the market starts catching up with economic reality, that is going to turn out to be very favorable for Donald Trump.

And without a doubt, the fundamental economic numbers just continue to get worse. Earlier today, we learned that productivity in the U.S. has now been falling for three quarters in a row…

Productivity, a sore spot for the U.S. economy over the past few years, has now declined in three straight quarters, according to data released Tuesday.

Productivity in the second quarter unexpectedly fell 0.5%, well below expectations, the Labor Department said. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast a 0.3% gain in productivity in the quarter.

Productivity is down 0.4% from a year earlier, the first year-over-year decline since the second quarter of 2013.

On Tuesday we also learned that real estate sales in Las Vegas were down about 10 percent in July compared to the same period a year ago, and things are not looking so good in San Francisco either. Just check out what has been going on at Twitter…

Twitter is shaking up San Francisco. It’s the city’s 10th largest employer, and second largest tech employer, after Salesforce. But it hasn’t yet figured out, despite a decade of trying, how to make money. Last October, it announced that it would lay off 8% of its workforce. A couple of weeks ago, it reported a second-quarter net loss of $107 million along with disappointing user metrics and lousy projections. Its shares have lost 74% since their miracle-IPO-hype peak at the end of December 2014.

And now Twitter is dumping nearly one third of its total office space on the San Francisco sublease market.

Las Vegas and San Francisco are both prone to huge “booms” and “busts”. So the fact that it appears that both cities are starting to move into the “bust” end of the cycle is a very ominous sign.

Conditions are changing, and now is the time to position yourself for the exceedingly challenging times that are coming. As I end this article today, I want to share with you something written by Jim Quinn. He recently went out to visit his son Kevin in Colorado for a couple of weeks, and the following is how he ended his article about that trip…

After spending a week in this stunning paradise, it’s tougher than you know to go back to my two and half hour daily round trip commute into the slums of West Philly. John Muir’s words were right 100 years ago and they are right today. I am losing precious days and my days are spent trying to make money. I’ve got responsibilities. I’ve got bills to pay. I’ve got kids to get through college. We’ve got aging parents to help. I work because I have to.

I’m not learning anything in this trivial world of distractions and iGadgets. I don’t fit into this materialistic society. I don’t do small talk. I have no patience for fools. I prefer solitude. If I can survive this despicable rat race for seven more years, I’ll be joining Kevin in Colorado and living the life I’d like to live. The sun is setting and time is slipping away. Those mountains are calling me home.

I can definitely identify with what Jim is going through, because I once experienced similar emotions.

To Jim and everyone else that hopes that someday in the future they will be able to live the lives that they would like to be living right now, I would say this…

Don’t put it off.

Seize the day and find a way to make your dreams a reality.

Things are rapidly changing in this country, and if you keep putting off the life you want to be living for too long it may end up slipping away for good. (For more from the author of “Marc Faber Issues a Stunning Warning That a Gigantic 50 Percent Stock Market Crash Could Be Coming” please click HERE)

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Putin May Be on the Verge of Launching ‘Open War’ on Ukraine, Experts Warn

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest accusations against Ukraine and military mobilizations on the Crimean-Ukrainian border is causing alarm among Western analysts.

“Preparations for conventional conflict between Russia and Ukraine are accelerating and the likelihood of open war is increasing rapidly,” The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted Thursday. The think tank’s stark warning comes after Russia’s state security service accused Ukraine of sponsoring terrorism plots inside occupied Crimea that killed two Russian soldiers in separate incidents.

Putin escalated the accusation, saying ominously, “We obviously will not let such things slide by,” according to the New York Times. Ukraine’s government has denied any incursion into Crimea and dismissed Putin’s claims, but the country did put its troops on the highest state of readiness.

“Putin may be seeking to trigger a political crisis in Kyiv designed to topple Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko,” ISW further speculated. “The situation for now, however, is moving clearly in the direction of open conflict between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Donbas or elsewhere in Ukraine.”

Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, taking advantage of civil unrest in Ukraine. Russia also sponsors an active separatist movement in eastern Ukraine, and has deployed its own troops under false uniforms to fight the Ukrainian military. Russia is under international sanction by the U.S. and EU for its behavior in Ukraine. (Read more from “Putin May Be on the Verge of Launching ‘Open War’ on Ukraine, Experts Warn” HERE)

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State Department Report on Religious Freedom: Much Persecution, Few Positive Trends

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The U.S. State Department released its annual report Wednesday on religious freedom worldwide, which covered almost every nation in the world and many non-state groups, but excluded the United States, reported Yahoo! News. The report covers developments in 2015.

The International Religious Freedom Report for 2015 includes a long “global overview” of the report as well as individual reports on every other country. The country reports cover the country’s religious demography, its government’s respect for religious freedom, and what it calls “societal respect” for religious freedom, and the American government’s policy in respect to religious freedom in that country. The report also includes several appendices with the texts of international and American statements on religious freedom.

Top Persecutors

Among the top persecutors of religious people were, unsurprisingly, ISIS and Boko Haram, which “continued to rank amongst the most egregious abusers of religious freedom in the world.” Earlier this year, Secretary of State John Kerry stated that these groups and others were committing genocide of Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims. He added that the Islamic State’s “entire worldview is based on eliminating those who do not subscribe to its perverse ideology.”

In releasing the report, Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said “Daesh [ISIS] kills Yezidis because they are Yezidi, Christians because they are Christian, Shia Muslim because they are Shia. … They’ve not only killed, they’ve sought to erase the memory of those they’ve killed, destroying centuries-old religious cultural sites.”

ISIS, according to the report, pursued a “brutal strategy” that included “barbarous acts, including killings, torture, enslavement and trafficking, rape and other sexual abuse against religious and ethnic minorities and Sunnis in areas under its control.” In areas it doesn’t control, the group sent suicide bombers and car bombs to kill “continued suicide bombings and vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks against Shia Muslims.”

The terrorist group also exploits its own version of the blasphemy laws common in Islamic countries. One speaker at the press conference told the story of seven-year-old Muaz Hassan. He was playing soccer with friends in ISIS-controlled Syria. “During the game, he said a bad word out of his frustration. He was detained by Daesh for blasphemy or cursing God. In a matter of days, he was marched out into a public square and murdered by a firing squad in front of a crowd of hundreds, including his parents.”

ISIS and Boko Haram were not the only countries singled out in the Overview. The report calls out Syria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea, Eritrea, Brunei, Burma, Viet Nam, the Central African Republic, Hungary, Bahrain, Ukraine, and Russia. Most are either Islamic or Communist or ex-Communist countries. Only one, Hungary, is a Western nation and it is flagged for its government contributing to a statue of a WWII anti-Semite, which the government then rescinded.

Few Positive Developments, But Effective Blasphemy Laws

In a much shorter section of the Overview, the State Department lists some “positive developments,” though these were almost all one act of small groups, in comparison with the large, organized, often state-led assaults on religious freedom around the world.

Religious freedom is “gradually expanding” in Vietnam, while in Kenya and the Central African Republic groups of Christians and Muslims worked together. A second Catholic church was built in the United Arab Emirates and the government gave permission for the building of the first Hindu temple. A court in Canada prevented the government from requiring that “persons must remove religiously based clothing that covered their faces while reciting their citizenship oath,” an indirect way of saying that it can’t require Muslim women from wearing the niqab.

In his remarks at the release of the report, the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom said that his office had been given “significant” increases in funding. The department was able to increase its monitoring of individual countries and spend more time in those where “here our religious freedom advocacy can make a constructive difference,” said David N. Saperstein.

Only 24 percent of the world’s nations have “serious restrictions on religious freedom,” he said, but these countries contain 74 percent of the world’s people. This year, he told the press conference, he wanted to highlight “the chilling, sometimes deadly effect of blasphemy and apostasy laws” that governments use to persecute religious minorities. Such laws, he said, quoting a U.N. official, “do not contribute to a climate of religious openness, tolerance, non-discrimination and respect. To the contrary, they often fuel stereotyping, stigmatization, discrimination and incitement to violence.” (For more from the author of “State Department Report on Religious Freedom: Much Persecution, Few Positive Trends” please click HERE)

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Defending the Earning Reserves

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The People’s Natural Resources, and revenue from their extraction, are to be managed by the legislature for the “Maximum Benefit” of the people.

ALL revenue from the development of AK Natural resources (not just the Permanent Fund (PF)) is ultimately ‘owned’ by Alaskans who are ‘shareholders’. The Governor does not have the constitutional responsibility of using Alaskan’s natural resources. The determination of what is “maximum benefit” for the people is made by the Legislature. The Alaska Constitution has a built-in safety of the PF (and arguably its earnings) requiring a vote of the people. The Governor’s recent initiatives to influence the spending authority for permanent fund earnings have generated a recall effort and litigation, either of which could hurt more than help. I certainly do not want the courts to be making decisions belonging to the legislature, and the legislature needs the collaborative help of the Governor to make the spending cuts to balance the budget … something that will be difficult if he is in a defensive mode.

Over time Alaskans have developed a constitutional system designed to divide every penny from natural resource revenue into two distinct categories: money appropriated by the legislature (general fund) and money only appropriated by a direct vote of the people (the constitutional PF). Both categories serve the same constitutional purpose: The people’s “maximum benefit”. The defining difference is government spending power of the PF is forbidden.

Arguably, the PF is ‘owned’ by Alaskans (in common) at a different level than other natural resource revenue. Obviously the definition of “ownership” has nuances, but in this context, it is at least clear that, unlike any other State, there is a property right and responsibility beyond legislative access tied only to residency. The constitution further creates the authorization for investment of the PF and for the legislative appropriation of return on investment earnings, without biasing its use for dividends or as general fund revenue.

The legislature subsequently passed laws authorizing a dividend to be appropriated equally to each resident from the PF earnings on investments of the PF, the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). These earnings are held in an earning reserves savings account (ERA). The legislature determined only a portion (50%) of the annual earnings can be distributed as PFDs, the rest has been growing the ERA to its current level of nearly $9 billion. This extra ERA growth has become the huge irresistible ‘plum’ the Governor and advocates for more government spending are after.

All ownership “nuances” are eliminated when the PFD checks are written. Taking the ER before it becomes personal property eliminates the accountability that would come with a traditional tax. Spending without this accountability link has created the most expensive state government in the USA.

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The PFD is taxable personal property and is meant to be managed and used by Alaskans under the inalienable rights guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States of America. Taxes are only politically feasible when voting Alaskans are content with the size of government.

“Restructuring the Permanent Fund”; “Protecting the Permanent Fund”; “Capping the Permanent Fund”… are code phrases for taking some of the coveted ERA and placing it directly into the general fund, just like the other 75% – the “spent” monetized natural resources. Simply ‘taking’ the money before it is personal property is not an option without a vote of the people who own it. It is not the right time to add ANY tax burden to Alaskans, but especially ‘taxes’ not clearly understood or specified in the constitution or state law. It IS the right time to make the cuts necessary to balance the budget while we have some transition money available in another savings.

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I am still trying to process the Governor’s recent comment that the veto somehow allows him to be the one to blame, thereby allowing the legislature to support his proposed revenue bills in the subsequent special session? It seems to reveal an incredibly low view of legislators. The implication is we make our decisions based on fear of blame rather than on the values and principles for which we were elected. I can only speak for myself, but I voted for the PFD appropriation in the budget for Alaskans to receive full PFDs because it was the right thing to do. I highly value the need to pay dividends to the owners (Alaskans) of the investment capital as promised.

Need for a Careful Decision with a Deliberative Process

The recently touted legal argument that the legislature MAY “legally use PF earnings” is accurate in the narrow sense of the words, but worthless! It doesn’t answer the real question of whether it is constitutionally or logically appropriate. Only the legislature makes the determination of what is “maximum benefit” for Alaskans. Our responsibility is to make clear laws to do the right thing — not to find a loophole allowing us to appropriate without a deliberate public process. Debate on this ‘legal opinion’ is a waste of time at this point. The legislative GF expenditure for PFDs is based on exactly the same legal authority and jurisdiction as would be the approval of spending from the earnings for any purpose. If the legislature chooses to spend the earnings merely to keep government afloat, potential consequences include:
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* Dividends will be capped or eliminated at some indefinite point when perceived needs warrant it.

* The PF investment board will encounter political pressure, beyond just the pressure to get the best monetary return.

* Misunderstanding of Legislative intent regarding use of the earnings reserves to settle future potential litigation. (This may have huge implications, for example, on the settlement of future retirement benefits shortfalls)

The point is simple. We have put MOST of the total natural resource money into the government checkbook to pay for government, and we have truly prospered in the pipeline era. The prosperity includes that which comes from jobs and services paid for with the high government spending. Now things are changing. Declining oil production and unexpectedly low projected prices have abruptly emphasized we cannot sustain our spending.

The next step must be to answer the question about ownership of the PF Earnings and propose a plan to keep us on the ramp to a balanced budget, a plan causing the least pain for most Alaskans. Alaskans could obviously choose to spend PF earnings to “extend the glide-slope” to bankruptcy or balance, but it must be just that — a choice of the people, not Governor imposition.

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Hillary’s Magical Thinking on the Economy

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Everyone likes to dream. In dreams, you can fly, you can win the love of those beautiful people who won’t talk to you in real life, and the laws of the universe no longer apply. But when we confuse dreams for reality, bad things happen. You shouldn’t jump off your roof in an effort to soar through the air, and you shouldn’t pretend that the rules that govern the natural world cease to exist.

Someone should tell this to Hillary Clinton. In her speech in Warren, Michigan on Thursday, she revealed why the Democrats’ economic policies have utterly failed to revitalize the American economy over the last eight years, and also why they tend to perform so well in elections. It’s what I call the “wouldn’t it be nice if” agenda, based entirely on magical thinking and fantasies totally out of touch with the harsh realities of economics. Of course, it all sounds great to voters. Who doesn’t like to engage wishful thinking from time to time? But when put into practice, these policies not only fail to deliver the promised benefits, but make things worse for everyone in the process.

The key example of this kind of thinking in Hillary’s speech came when she asserted that every American willing to work hard should be able to find a job that will support a family. That certainly would be nice, but unfortunately that’s not how jobs work. Employers don’t hire people because they want to support families, they do so because those workers have a skill to offer that is worth something. How much that skill is worth depends on many factors, such as the price consumers are willing to pay for the final product, how cheap it would be to have a machine do the work, or how much another potential worker with a similar skill would be willing to accept for the job. Hillary thinks she can just wave her hand and dictate how much jobs pay, but she can’t control how much consumers are willing to pay. Likewise, she can’t control the costs of automation, and she can’t control competition among workers for the same position. The price system for labor regulates all of these factors to create a working market, and when you just try to set wages by decree, you break the whole machine.

Even if you don’t want to delve into the economics of it all, this idea should be obvious nonsense. Do you really think a sixteen year old getting his first job bagging groceries should be able to make enough money to feed a family of four? If that were the case, no one would ever hire grocery baggers again. We’d have to do the bagging ourselves, and young people would lose out on an opportunity to earn a few extra dollars, as well as something to put on a resumé for future advancement.

Hillary continued her agenda of childish whimsy by calling for free college tuition for everyone. Doesn’t that sound nice? Except there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, and that includes college. Professors expect to get paid for their services (they need to be able to support a family, remember?), which means that someone is going to have to pay them. It costs money to build and maintain dormitories and classrooms. Electricity, heating, furniture, books, plumbing, computers, paper — all of these things cost money. The question is, who should pay for them? It makes far more sense to have the people who desire these services, and who benefit most directly from them, to foot the bill. Hillary thinks people who don’t particularly want or profit from them to pay instead. It doesn’t take a genius to imagine what will happen to the quality of college when dissatisfied customers lose their ability to withhold funding in response to poor service. There’s also no incentive for “free” colleges to keep prices down if those prices are being paid by extorting money from an unwilling public.

Hillary didn’t stop there. She also wants government-sponsored child care, as well as government-run health care, which she asserts will strengthen competition and drive down costs, in defiance of all logic and historical precedent. Here we run into the same problems as with tuition. Her “wouldn’t it be nice” musing on free services ignores the fact that someone always has to pay. When you destroy the consumer’s ability to choose how to spend his money, you also destroy any incentive for producers to do a good job at a low cost.

This is the problem with Democrats. They refuse to acknowledge how things actually work and they have a bunch of pie-in-the-sky dreams they want to make reality. Similarly, they think the right president can just make it happen. But just as a president is powerless to change the laws of physics by decree, they are also incapable of thwarting economic reality just because “it would be nice.” (For more from the author of “Hillary’s Magical Thinking on the Economy” please click HERE)

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Hypocritical NFL Tells Dallas Cowboys They Can’t Support Police

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The NFL made a disgraceful decision, refusing the Dallas Cowboys’ request to sport the “Arm in Arm” decal in support of both the serving and slain members of the Dallas police force.

The Dallas Morning News reports:

The Cowboys heard back from the NFL on Wednesday and were told by league officials they can’t wear the decal during any preseason or regular-season games, executive vice president Stephen Jones said. Jones added that the Cowboys can wear the decal during training camp practices.

“Everyone has to be uniform with the league and the other 31 teams,” Jones said after practice Wednesday. “We respect their decision.”

The Cowboys had unveiled the helmet decal to open training camp as they walked onto the field arm-in-arm with Dallas Police Chief David Brown.

Responding with class to the decision, the Dallas Police Department sent out a news release Thursday, saying the “sentiment mattered more than the results,” per The Dallas Morning News.

Some aren’t buying the NFL’s “uniformity” reasoning, as the league has made exception to their strict policy before. Most notably, they allowed not one, but three teams — the New York Jets, Giants, and the New England Patriots — to honor the victims of the tragic Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn. in 2012.

Mark Levin argued the NFL simply wanted to avoid controversy.

“Let me tell you why the NFL won’t do this…because they don’t want any trouble from the Leftists!” exclaimed Levin. “We’re reaching a point where I don’t even recognize my country any more. Do you?” (For more from the author of “Hypocritical NFL Tells Dallas Cowboys They Can’t Support Police” please click HERE)

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Hillary Would Give Us a Disastrous Third Obama Term

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When it comes to unity, the Democrats talk a good game. But, in the end, they promote disunity, because their electability depends on societal division and inciting anger, resentment and distrust.

I don’t need to cite examples of Democrats blaming Republicans for divisiveness and falsely extolling their own aspirations of unity; they are everywhere. From their talk of our “common humanity,” to their glorification of all kinds of diversity (except diversity of thought, of course), to their proclaimed monopoly on tolerance, it’s what they do.

It’s ironic that Democrats get away with this lie. It is Republicans—or, at least, the conservatives among them—who preach that a rising tide lifts all boats.

Democrats simply can’t be honest about economic policy. They have to demonize the wealthy to incite class warfare. They must perpetuate and expand government dependency programs, creating incentives for people to remain out of the workforce. They must vilify the rich for not paying their “fair share” of taxes, despite the undeniable fact that upper-income earners pay far more taxes—actual and percentage—and that the lower half of income earners pay no income taxes at all. How much “fairer” can it be?

I am old enough to remember then-Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to bring all people together in a spirit of harmony and healing. I also remember him doing just the opposite once elected.

And I remember Obama’s 2012 gamble of appealing directly to minorities and alienating other groups, apparently on the theory that disaffected groups outnumber the sum of all others (or, that agitating them would increase their turnout and ensure his victory). If a Republican candidate had dared such overt divisiveness, the mainstream media would have tarred and feathered him or her.

The Democrats are having a field day attacking Donald Trump, and he’s giving them way too much ammunition. But no matter who Republicans put up, Democrats will viciously disparage. To them, virtually all Republican candidates and officeholders are mean-spirited bigots by default.

If only Republicans could successfully communicate their case that perpetual malaise, which is the only thing Democrats offer anymore, is unnecessary and correctable. If only they could demonstrate that the Democrats’ socialistic and regulatory policies thwart prosperity for all groups of people (except, ironically, the very wealthy).

But the Republicans haven’t made their case, or it’s falling on deaf ears, because Democrats are paying people, in effect, to remain on their plantations. They are encouraging them not to be productive members of society. They are deliberately undermining the nuclear family. They are fomenting envy and disharmony. It’s tragic.

Look at Hillary Clinton’s ballyhooed economic plan. What an utter package of deceit! She tells us she’s going to create more than 10 million new jobs… by continuing the same miserably failed policies of Barack Obama. President Obama and Clinton claim they saved the economy from collapse after the 2008 financial crisis that their very policies helped create. But eight years later we’ve yet to see appreciable economic growth from this team. For them, 1 percent growth is the new 5 percent; Obamanomics has given us the worst recovery since World War II. Indeed, it is an insult to the term “recovery” to designate this mess as such.

No matter what he says now, Pres. Obama promised his obscene $800 billion “stimulus” package would actually stimulate, and it did the opposite. But Clinton would continue the ruse, expecting us to believe four more years of this insanity will produce different results. Her five-part plan is more of the same:

1. Investing in infrastructure. (Deja vu, anyone?)

2. Make college available for all. (But how will graduates get jobs in their recessionary economy?)

3. Make companies share more profits with their employees. (And these people claim they’re not socialists).

4. Make corporations, the wealthy and Wall Street pay their fair share. (I’ve covered this.)

5. Create policies that “support 21st-century families”—equal pay, paid leave, reduced child care costs.

Seriously, which of these strategies could conceivably unleash sustained economic growth? Other than the infrastructure spending (which also won’t create long-term growth), these ideas have nothing to do with expanding the economic pie, but only with redistribution. Not only is Clinton’s five-point plan destined for failure, she will expand the regulatory state, which smothers small businesses.

If Democrats ever believed in economic growth, they’ve long since abandoned it, going with the myth that we have a finite pie and that they, as Big Sister, must control how it’s allocated—the free market be damned.

I repeat: The Democrats’ viability requires keeping us at each other’s throats. They must divide us. Consider candidate Clinton’s recent shunning of police unions. She is so desperate to retain the Democrats’ long-held 90 percent African-American vote that she told the 335,000-member National Fraternal Order of Police she wouldn’t seek its endorsement.

The chilling truth is that Hillary Clinton would give us a third Obama term…and I don’t know how we can come back from it. (For more from the author of “Hillary Would Give Us a Disastrous Third Obama Term” please click HERE)

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