Some thoughts on the political landscape of the day:
Voter Suppression?
- Apparently Pennsylvania recently passed a law requiring photo ID to vote (it is currently under dispute). I have mixed feelings about this: it's good in that it helps to prevent voter fraud but it may be a voting hurdle for those who do not have picture ID. I think that in conjunction with this law that the state should create a way to easily obtain an official state picture ID and maybe create a marketing campaign to help people be aware of the situation.
- In Florida they are trying to purge the voter rolls of illegal aliens, etc. Some people are outraged because Whites and Republicans are less likely to be targeted. I understand how this may seem unfair but doesn't it mean that there are fewer illegal aliens who are white and fewer illegal aliens who are registered Republicans? Also, if they are ILLEGAL they don't (or shouldn't) have the right to vote anyway.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/voter-suppression-and-political-polls/
Chick-fil-A -
- First off, I have always thought "Chick-fil-A" was a dumb name. Now, those who flooded Chick-fil-A establishments all over the country yesterday were doing it (supposedly) to back up the owner who expressed that they were in favor of traditional marriage. They also went to show their support of traditional marriage (or against making marriage apply to same-sex couples - however you want to see it). The issue was not pro-homosexuality or anti-homosexuality (I hope. There are always those who miss the point) but about defending marriage and expressing conservative values.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/02/no_tolerance_for_chick-fil-a_--_tea_party_critic_morgan_freeman_gets_a_pass_114977.html
Suburban Warfare -
-Perhaps the most startling article I have read recently (http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312807/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz?pg=2) talks about how Obama is part of a scheme to suppress the conservative vote by slowly forcing the integration of suburbs into cities. It's hard to explain and maybe a bit paranoid but it does bring up some very interesting ideas and definitely deserves some studying.
August 02, 2012
August 01, 2012
Thoughts for the Day
From Wolfshield:
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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson
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"Arizona and other states are fighting the Obama doctrine of cherry-picking which legal requirements the chief executive will enforce. This was the basis of the policy announced June 15 that the government would give large numbers of illegal immigrants de-facto amnesty by suspending deportation proceedings against them and allowing them to work in the country legally. The Department of Homeland Security added fuel to the fire Monday by announcing it was suspending agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws. These and other actions call into question President Obama's commitment to his sworn executive duty under Article 2, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed.' ... The framers of the Constitution didn't envision a president preventing states from upholding the law. . . . When the federal government abrogates its constitutional duty to protect the states, the states must protect themselves. A statute on the books is useless when the occupant of the White House calculates that it's in his political interest not to enforce it." --The Washington Times
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"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." --economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
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"Today, when a teenager has a [same-sex] affair, all the campus social-welfare machinery pushes her [him] toward declaring herself [himself] gay and accepting and 'celebrating' it. This is a serious mistake... It is absurd to say that one, two, or more homosexual liaisons make you 'gay' -- as if lavender ink ran in your veins. Young women [men] are often attracted to each other during a transitional period when they are breaking away from their parents, expanding their world-views, and developing their personalities. . . . To identify these fruitful Sapphic idylls with a permanent condition of homosexuality is madness, and the campus counselors who encourage such premature conclusions should be condemned and banished. They are preying, for their own ideological purposes, on young people at their most vulnerable." –Camille Paglia, self-identified lesbian professor, author, scholar
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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson
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"Arizona and other states are fighting the Obama doctrine of cherry-picking which legal requirements the chief executive will enforce. This was the basis of the policy announced June 15 that the government would give large numbers of illegal immigrants de-facto amnesty by suspending deportation proceedings against them and allowing them to work in the country legally. The Department of Homeland Security added fuel to the fire Monday by announcing it was suspending agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws. These and other actions call into question President Obama's commitment to his sworn executive duty under Article 2, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed.' ... The framers of the Constitution didn't envision a president preventing states from upholding the law. . . . When the federal government abrogates its constitutional duty to protect the states, the states must protect themselves. A statute on the books is useless when the occupant of the White House calculates that it's in his political interest not to enforce it." --The Washington Times
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"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." --economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
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"Today, when a teenager has a [same-sex] affair, all the campus social-welfare machinery pushes her [him] toward declaring herself [himself] gay and accepting and 'celebrating' it. This is a serious mistake... It is absurd to say that one, two, or more homosexual liaisons make you 'gay' -- as if lavender ink ran in your veins. Young women [men] are often attracted to each other during a transitional period when they are breaking away from their parents, expanding their world-views, and developing their personalities. . . . To identify these fruitful Sapphic idylls with a permanent condition of homosexuality is madness, and the campus counselors who encourage such premature conclusions should be condemned and banished. They are preying, for their own ideological purposes, on young people at their most vulnerable." –Camille Paglia, self-identified lesbian professor, author, scholar
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