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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Larry Elder Presents: ...and another thing - Episode 131 Preview

Larry Elder Presents: ...and another thing - Episode 131 Preview

July 30, 2015 2016 presidential campaign , And Another Thing 0 Comments
Larry talks about Donald Trump still rising in the polls, Iran nuke deal and the Israelis, Ronald Reagan and more.



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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Town meeting of the world with Ronald Reagan & Bobby Kennedy in 1967

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Monday, July 27, 2015

Most Blacks Are FAR Worse Off

Most Blacks Are FAR Worse Off

July 27, 2015 Blacks , Don't Know How Bad 0 Comments

ICYMI:  Most Blacks Don't Know How Bad Obama's Been For Blacks

By Aaron Blake, Oct 15, 2014 Washington Post

A couple weeks back, President Obama channeled Ronald Reagan and asked the American people to consider whether they were better off today than when he took over as president.

The answer, at the time, appeared to be no. And now, it's looking like a definite no.

The new Washington Post-ABC News poll asked people a pretty direct question: "Would you say you yourself are better off financially than you were when Obama first became president, not as well off, or in about the same shape as then financially?"

The results: Just 22 percent of Americans say they are better off financially than when Obama took over in January 2009. Slightly more (30 percent) say they're worse off, and nearly half (46 percent) say they're in about the same situation.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

ES Twitter Flash

November 12, 2014 ES Twitter Flash , President Barack Obama 0 Comments


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Thursday, August 7, 2014

FLASHBACK: Economy: Reagan Gets No Credit, Obama Gets No Blame

August 07, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Barack Obama 0 Comments
President Barack Obama / President Ronald Reagan
By Larry Elder, Jun. 30, 2011

Ronald Reagan did nothing. Barack Obama saved the nation from total collapse.

How else to explain the absence of jobless pitchfork-wielding Americans storming the White House? How else to explain the contrast between the explosive Reagan Recovery and the dud on our hands right now? Fortunately, the left is up to the task.

"The secret of the long climb after 1982 was the economic plunge that preceded it. By the end of 1982 the U.S. economy was deeply depressed, with the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression. So there was plenty of room to grow before the economy returned to anything like full employment," said left-wing economist, Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in 2004. Oh.

An economy that is "deeply depressed," Krugman insists, or at least he did seven years ago, naturally comes back strong. To what principal factor did Krugman point to in calling the 1982 economy "deeply depressed"? Unemployment. It peaked in the early '80s at 10.8 percent, even higher than during "The Great Recession" (aka the economy "inherited" by President Barack Obama). In 2010, the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent, which means the early '80s still holds the record for the "worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression."

What most people care about are jobs. By that standard, Reagan faced an even tougher economy. Throw in a higher rate of inflation -- 1980's 13.5 percent average vs. 2011's 2.6 percent -- and much higher prime interest rates -- 20 percent vs. 3.25 percent -- and the early '80s looked even grimmer than The Great Recession.

Krugman gives no credit to the Reagan policies of lower taxes, deregulation and a slowdown in the rate of government spending. He believes Reagan's policies (SET ITAL) harmed (END ITAL) the economy. Krugman approvingly quotes Bill Clinton, who, as a presidential candidate, said: "The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect."

Enter President Barack "Hope and Change" Obama, with a Democratic majority in the House and a supermajority filibuster-proof Senate. Out went policies like reductions in income taxes, corporate taxes, capital gains and dividends. In came transfers of money from one pocket to another to "spread the wealth."

Under ObamaCare, the Democrats placed the entire health care system under the command and control of the federal government. Through a nearly $1 billion "stimulus" package, Democrats spent money on "shovel-ready" projects with a promise to "save or create" 3.5 million jobs. To rein in "greed" and to fight "climate change," the Obama administration imposed billions of dollars' worth of new regulations on businesses. Through "quantitative easting," the Federal Reserve effectively printed money to keep interest rates low, a widely disputed policy designed to encourage banks to lend and businesses to borrow.

So where is it? When do we see the massive bounce-back from this "deeply depressed" economy, at minimum the kind of bounce-back that occurred in the '80s in spite of the allegedly harmful policies of Reagan?

Krugman's analysis of the Reagan recovery -- a deep recession equals sharp recovery -- tells us that the economy should be storming ahead, especially given Obama's enlightened leadership. But in the seven quarters following the end of this recession, gross domestic product growth has averaged 2.8 percent. In the seven quarters following the Reagan recession, GDP growth averaged 7.1 percent.

Forecasters are now lowering expectations for economic growth. Ominously, "core inflation," which excludes "volatile" categories of food and fuel, is up. Unemployment, after dipping below 9 percent, is now back to 9.1 percent.

So how does the left explain this?

"This was a (SET ITAL) financial (END ITAL) (emphasis added) crisis," explains Robert Shapiro, a Clinton administration economist, "and these take longer to recover from." Does this explain why last spring the Obama administration confidently predicted a "Recovery Summer"? Does this explain why the Obama economic team predicted that the 2009 passage of "stimulus" would prevent unemployment, then at 7 percent, from reaching 8 percent? Krugman, of course, in refusing to credit Reagan policies for the Reagan Recovery, made no distinction between a "financial" and a regular old crisis.

It's flat-out tough to explain how anti-Reagan policies are supposed to produce Reagan-like growth.

Here's the real explanation. The top priority of the left isn't "jobs, jobs, jobs." Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Union and hero to the left, makes this clear: "Western Europe, as much as we used to make fun of it, has made different trade-offs which may have ended with a little more unemployment but a lot more equality."

The goal of the leftist is social justice -- using government to close the gap between the have and the have-nots, to secure the "right" to health care. Obama's policies are therefore an acceptable trade-off even though they kill jobs -- as long as it's somebody else's job that gets killed.


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Saturday, July 26, 2014

And Now This...

July 26, 2014 And Now This... , Muhammad Ali 0 Comments
Two Of The Greatest--EVER

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Friday, July 18, 2014

--Hell just froze over

--Hell just froze over

July 18, 2014 Chris Matthews , Korean Air Lines 747 0 Comments
Chris Matthews, Yes Matthews, Admiringly Recalls Reagan’s Response to KAL-007 Shootdown 

 By Brent Baker, Jul. 18, 2014, Newsbusters.org

Amazingly, Chris Matthews concluded Thursday’s Hardball by playing clips of how President Ronald Reagan reacted the Soviet shootdown of a Korean Air Lines 747 passenger jet in 1983 – even conceding, after a clip of Reagan charging the Soviets with terrorism and a “flagrant lie,” that “he was speaking for the American people.”

Matthews – probably inadvertently – illustrated how Reagan, unlike the current occupant of the White House, understood his role as leader of the free world under threat from evil forces.



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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Reagan Warned Us...So Many STILL Cannot See

July 05, 2014 President Barack Obama , Reagan Administration vs. Obama Administration 0 Comments


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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Who Is The Worst President Since WWII? --Imagine ranking without media/academia/Hollywood bias.

July 02, 2014 CBS News , George W. Bush 0 Comments
By Steve Chaggaris, Jul. 2, 2014, CBSnews.com

As if President Obama doesn't have enough to worry about running the country day-to-day, now his legacy can be added to his laundry list of concerns.

Mr. Obama edges out former President George W. Bush as the worst president since World War II, American voters say, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll released Wednesday.

Thirty-three percent chose Mr. Obama as the worst among the 12 presidents since Harry Truman, with 28 percent choosing George W. Bush and Richard Nixon tallying 13 percent. In 2006, Mr. Bush led the pack with 34 percent over Richard Nixon at 17 percent and Bill Clinton at 16 percent, much higher than the scant 3 percent who currently think Clinton is the worst.
Who is the finest first lady of them all?

When asked who the best president is since World War II, 35 percent of American voters chose Ronald Reagan, 18 percent picked Clinton and 15 percent selected John F. Kennedy. Only 8 percent said Mr. Obama was the best since World War II and George W. Bush barely registered on the "best" list with 1 percent.

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Mitt Sells Out Again -- Supports Minimum Wage Hike By Larry Elder

May 10, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , CATO Institute 0 Comments
Mitt Romney
By Larry Elder, May 10, 2014

RomneyCare was not enough.

Now Mitt Romney wants to throw yet another Republican position out the window. This time Romney joins the clueless leftists in Congress who seek to use government to interfere with the freedom of two parties -- the seller and the buyer of labor -- to agree on the price of labor. Romney calls for an increase in the minimum wage.

The Harvard-educated MBA knows Economics 101. As with anything, an increase in cost causes in a decrease in demand. Pricing unskilled labor beyond its productivity means fewer workers will be hired. It’s that simple.

Romney thinks government-set minimum wage is smart politics. He’s wrong.

True, polls show that even Republicans support a minimum wage hike. But the Congressional Budget Office recently released a report saying that an increase in minimum wage from the current $7.25 an hour to President Obama’s proposed $10.10 by the second half of 2016 would likely result in 500,000 fewer jobs.

How wrongheaded are minimum wage laws? Economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman called minimum wage laws “one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.”

The libertarian CATO Institute says the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act allowed FDR to “issue executive orders establishing some 700 industrial cartels, which restricted output and forced wages and prices above market levels. The minimum wage regulations made it illegal for employers to hire people who weren’t worth the minimum because they lacked skills. As a result, some 500,000 blacks, particularly in the South, were estimated to have lost their jobs.”

How wrongheaded are minimum wage laws? The following, believe or not, is a 1987 editorial from The New York Times! They have, of course, reversed their position from opposing to supporting minimum wage. But at one time, even The New York Times had it right:

New York Times Editorial

January 14, 1987

The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00

The Federal minimum wage has been frozen at $3.35 an hour for six years. In some states, it now compares unfavorably even with welfare benefits available without working. It's no wonder then that Edward Kennedy, the new chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, is being pressed by organized labor to battle for an increase. No wonder, but still a mistake. Anyone working in America surely deserves a better living standard than can be managed on $3.35 an hour. But there's a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum wage is an idea whose time has passed. Raising the minimum wage by a substantial amount would price working poor people out of the job market. A far better way to help them would be to subsidize their wages or - better yet - help them acquire the skills needed to earn more on their own. 

An increase in the minimum wage to, say, $4.35 would restore the purchasing power of bottom-tier wages. It would also permit a minimum-wage breadwinner to earn almost enough to keep a family of three above the official poverty line. There are catches, however. It would increase employers' incentives to evade the law, expanding the underground economy. More important, it would increase unemployment: Raise the legal minimum price of labor above the productivity of the least skilled workers and fewer will be hired.

If a higher minimum means fewer jobs, why does it remain on the agenda of some liberals? A higher minimum would undoubtedly raise the living standard of the majority of low-wage workers who could keep their jobs. That gain, it is argued, would justify the sacrifice of the minority who became unemployable. The argument isn't convincing. Those at greatest risk from a higher minimum would be young, poor workers, who already face formidable barriers to getting and keeping jobs. Indeed, President Reagan has proposed a lower minimum wage just to improve their chances of finding work.

Perhaps the mistake here is to accept the limited terms of the debate. The working poor obviously deserve a better shake. But it should not surpass our ingenuity or generosity to help some of them without hurting others. Here are two means toward that end: Wage supplements. Government might subsidize low wages with cash or payments for medical insurance, pensions or Social Security taxes. Alternatively, Washington could enlarge the existing earned income tax credit, a ''negative'' income tax paying up to $800 a year to working poor families. This would permit better targeting, since minimum-wage workers in affluent families would not be eligible. Training and education. The alternative to supplementing income for the least skilled workers is to raise their earning power in a free labor market. In the last two decades, dozens of programs to do that have produced mixed results at a very high cost. But the concept isn't necessarily at fault; nurturing the potential of individuals raised in poverty is very difficult. A humane society would learn from its mistakes and keep trying.

The idea of using a minimum wage to overcome poverty is old, honorable -- and fundamentally flawed. It's time to put this hoary debate behind us, and find a better way to improve the lives of people who work very hard for very little.

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Monday, April 21, 2014

Reagan On Libertarianism

April 21, 2014 Libertarianism , Ronald Reagan 2 Comments



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Monday, March 31, 2014

Common Core MATH lesson Attacks Reagan, Lists Lincoln’s Religion As ‘Liberal’ --Ignores Reagan record on jobs, growth

March 31, 2014 Abraham Lincoln , Al Gore 0 Comments
By Eric Owens, Feb. 5, 2014, Daily Caller
Another week has gone by and, like clockwork, some more hilariously awful Common Core math lessons have oozed out of the woodwork.
This time, reports EAGnews.org and Liberty Unyielding, the culprit is Illuminations, an outfit created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and financially supported by the Verizon Foundation.
The Common Core-aligned lessons on offer at the Illuminations website are nothing if not illuminating.
Take, for example, the lesson plan entitled “How Could That Happen?” This math lesson for middle schoolers requires a math teacher to “engage students in a class discussion about whether or not they feel the results of” the 2000 presidential election were “‘fair.’”

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

"Nation of Entrepreneurs? We Rely on Innovation, Schools Don't Cultivate It" --Reagan called them "forgotten heroes."

March 26, 2014 Defining Ideas , Entrepreneurship 0 Comments
By William Damon, Mar. 25, 2014, Defining Ideas
Entrepreneurship has played a decisive role in American identity and aspirations, but it is a role marked both by uncertainty and longing. Ronald Reagan, who spoke fondly of a "nation of entrepreneurs," referred to entrepreneurs as "forgotten heroes." He remarked that "we rarely hear about them. But look into the heart of America, and you’ll see them. They’re the owners of that store down the street . . . the brave people everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and invest in the future to build a better America."

We do hear a lot about them today, at least about those who have created the enterprises that have filled the world with computing and communications devices and seem to be literally minting money in the process. Economic prognosticators see entrepreneurship as the main—no, perhaps the sole—pathway to a prosperous future. One labor expert quoted by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman asserts that successful job candidates these days need to be "inventors and solution-finders who are relentlessly entrepreneurial." The days of large labor forces with places for every good steady worker are vanishing fast. As many news outlets have noted, one recent canary in the mine is the valuation of a 55-employee company (Whatsapp) at nineteen billion dollars. It does not take many salaried jobs to run many of our emerging companies, a reality that future workers may need to adapt to by becoming entrepreneurs themselves.

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

"NBC’s ‘M-T-P’ Fawns Over Bill Maher, Omits History Of Disgusting Rhetoric" Called God A "Dick," Used "C" Word--Nada.

March 16, 2014 Bill Maher , David Gregory 0 Comments
Comedian Bill Maher is no stranger to making outrageous and offensive comments, usually directed at conservatives. His weekly HBO program “Real Time with Bill Maher” is an opportunity for the devout atheist and liberal to spew his anti-conservative hate, yet when a major television network profiles his comedy routine, his controversial style is ignored.
NBC’s Harry Smith sat down with Maher for an interview, which aired during the March 16th “Meet the Press” and the NBC reporter treated the comedian to a friendly puff interview without ever bringing up his tasteless comedy routine. Moderator David Gregory hyped the interview and observed how Maher has “been thinking about how dysfunctional politics has become in the country and he’s been dishing on both parties as he takes his message to red state America.”

The interview began with Smith commenting how Maher is “reliably funny and reliably liberal” and allowed Maher to openly argue that the Republican Party “drove the short bus to crazy town at a certain point.” Not once did  Smith ask Maher about his past comments, such as when he called President Reagan a “anti-government, union-busting, race-baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had an incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom.”
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Related:  Media Research Center -  "Hypocritical Cable Networks Eagerly Bash Rush But Embrace CrudeBill Maher."  [Warning: this article includes uncensored vulgarities to accurately represent what Bill Maher has said about conservative women.]  
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Friday, March 14, 2014

The Republican 'Agenda' --- And The Youth Vote

March 14, 2014 Antonin Scalia , Articles by Larry Elder 0 Comments
By Larry Elder

 Jan. 2, 2014
Michael Steele, then-chair of the Republican National Committee, criticized Obama's stimulus plan as "a wish list from a lot of people who have been on the sidelines for years ... to get a little bling, bling." Steele, who wanted to expand the GOP's appeal to young voters, used the expression to, in Steele's words, "take the party to the streets," while making the GOP more "relevant" to "urban-suburban hip-hop settings."

In 2008, Obama took 66 percent of the 18-to-29-year-old vote, and 60 percent in 2012. To broaden the GOP's appeal, consultants hold forums, town halls and focus groups to figure out ways to attract the youth vote. Is it the core message — low taxes, low regulation, secure boarders and strong national security — that young voters find off-putting? Is it the messenger? Former Democratic Chair Howard Dean once referred to the GOP as the "white" party.

An April 2013 Washington Post/ABC News poll found 65 percent of young people thought the Republican Party was "out of touch." Only 47 percent considered the Democratic Party "out of touch." Focus groups find young voters, largely because of the GOP position on abortion and same-sex marriage, dismiss the GOP as the party that "tells people how to live their lives."

Blame the GOP, in large part, for either being confused on its approach to social issues or confused on how to talk about them. On domestic issues, the GOP should be the "federalism," growth and empowerment party. Social issues such as gay marriage, abortion and drugs, where the U.S. Constitution is silent, are state matters to be fought at the state level — not matters addressed by the federal government.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Republican appointee and arguably the most conservative justice, said the courts lack the expertise and judgment to resolve issues like same-sex marriage, abortion and doctor-assisted suicide.

Scalia argues that such issues are state matters: "On controversial issues on stuff like homosexual rights, abortion, we debate with each other and persuade each other and vote on it either through representatives or a constitutional amendment. ... Whether it's good or bad is not my job. My job is simply to say if those things you find desirable are contained in the Constitution."

Social issues are important, but it's still the economy, stupid. Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, capturing 44 states. When he ran for re-election, he won 49 states. Did he win two landslide elections because he converted the country into embracing all of his positions? Of course not. A September 1984 New York Times article lead with this headline: "Polls Show Many Choose Reagan Even If They Disagree With Him." Reagan supported an amendment to ban abortion. Most Americans disagreed. On abortion, the Times wrote, "Half of those who disagree with Mr. Reagan on abortion say they plan to vote for him, while only 38 percent of them say they will vote for Mr. Mondale."

Did the Great Communicator effectively convey his empathy, his heart and his compassion? No, not compared to his opponent, former Vice President Walter Mondale: "Significantly," wrote the Times, "71 percent said yes when asked if Mr. Mondale 'cares about people like you;' 56 percent said that of Mr. Reagan." On the issue of "caring," advantage to Mondale.
So what was it? The Times provides an explanation: "There is clear evidence in the (New York Times/CBS News) poll that the economy is a critical issue in the campaign." On the economy, the poll asked about unemployment, inflation, the deficit and interest rates. Of those naming "unemployment" as most important, half planned to vote for Reagan. "But among the two-thirds who cited one of the other three problems," the Times said, "Reagan supporters outnumbered Mondale supporters by margins of greater than 2 to 1."

At its nadir, the recession Reagan inherited reached 10.8 percent unemployment, 21.5 percent prime interest rate and 13.5 percent inflation. Reagan turned this around with a combination of tax cuts, deregulation and slower domestic spending, assisted by a Federal Reserve determined to rein in inflation. His economic record, as of 1984, convinced voters — who otherwise disagreed with him on many issues — to give him a nearly 50-state sweep.

The party that says the federal government should butt out of social issues — the Republican Party — is the party that "tells us how to live our lives"? The party that tells an inner-city parent where her child will attend school, the party that attempts to stop you from drinking a sugary beverage from a big cup — the Democratic Party — is the party of empathy and compassion?


Reagan, like the people who wrote the Constitution, believed in federalism, that any power not specified in the Constitution resides with the people and the states. President Barack Obama criticizes Congress for "failing to act" on gun control. Yet he recently praised states like Colorado and California for taking action. That's called state action, Mr. President. It's how our republic is designed to work.

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