9 Reasons To Reject Hillary

From Dick Morris.com (Apr. 15):

Here are nine reasons why electing Hillary Clinton as president would be a mistake.

1. She is a hawk who will get us into another war.
2. She tends to follow certain advisers slavishly, almost to the exclusion of her own views.
3. She has no knowledge of economics, nor much interest in it. Economics has always been Bill Clinton’s turf.
4. She has no deep sense of who she is. Hillary Clinton is endlessly adaptable.
5. Her worldview is shaped by her grudges.
6. Her fundraising has totally compromised her freedom of action.
7. She is paranoid and suspicious.
8. She approved NSA wiretapping of foreign leaders.
9. Her contempt for the press is legendary and will lead to more and more secrets.

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Not a very good portrait of her but Dick Morris was with the Clinton admin. the last four years. The 2nd reason is particularly disturbing. A perfect cult follower. Reason seven is not better. That sounds like Nixon which the Left doesn’t want to hear. 

Report: ISIS camp just a stone's throw from U.S. border

From One News Now.com (April 16):

A public-interest group is very concerned about what's going on at a terrorist camp just inside Mexico, not far from a major U.S. Army installation. 

High-level sources in Mexico have confirmed to Judicial Watch that ISIS is operating a camp about eight miles from El Paso, Texas, which sits on the U.S.-Mexico border. The camp is located in an area (known as "Anapra") dominated by a drug cartel, making it an extremely dangerous and hostile operating environment for the Mexican Army and Federal Police operations.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, tells OneNewsNow this ISIS cell represents a clear threat to the United States.

"We're very much concerned obviously about what's going on," he shares. "Our understanding also is the 'coyotes' – those engaged in human smuggling – have helped move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border in New Mexico." [read more]

It’s bad enough America has drug gangs wanted to cross the border now it looks like terrorists are threatening America’s border. The border really needs to be secured.

The Progressive Income Tax

Since today being tax day, I would like to share a Prager University video about the Progressive Income Tax:

Dick Morris did a video about how prohibition caused the income tax.

President Lincoln created the first progressive income tax during the Civil War. The Revenue Act of 1862 was created to fund the war. The two-tier system highest tax rate was 5% (which the Left now days calls too low). If you made less than $600 you were exempted from the tax. According to Wikipedia, the tax didn’t fulfill its purpose. Most progressive taxes don’t.

It’s kind of a shame Lincoln had to create such a tax system because the progressive tax system (especially a heavy progressive tax system) is a Marxist idea. Although, he wasn’t the first person to reference it. The early Romans had progressive income tax. The tax rate under normal circumstances was 1% of property value, and could sometimes climb as high as 3% in situations such as war.

If America had a flat tax rate with no income exemptions then Congress would be less likely to raise it and keep the tax rate low otherwise they would be sticking it to the poor and not just the rich. Then again that would make the poor keep more of their own money (as well as every other tax payer). This would mean that the poor could someday become independent from the progressive politicians and not keep them in power. We can’t have that can we?

Talking about low tax rates here an interesting and informative video about the Laffer Curve.

How America’s Next President Can Lead on Foreign Policy

From Daily Signal.com (April 5):

Talent matters. That holds true in foreign policy, as well as in sports. So there should be no surprise when a mediocre national-security squad suffers a string of foreign-policy setbacks. Top-rank talent may not guarantee any administration an unbroken winning streak in foreign policy, but it sure improves the odds.

So what should the nation’s next president be looking for when assembling his or her national-security team?

Start with Talent, Not Programs

Managing complicated foreign-policy conundrums requires talented people with insight and wisdom. They need to be skilled decision makers and effective leaders. Such people can be found in government. Unfortunately, government rarely empowers the right people at the right time.

If a president seeks to improve foreign-policy outcomes, simply rearranging the rusty chains that bind our national-security apparatus together does little to help. Jimmy Carter was one president who learned this lesson the hard way.

One of Carter’s campaign promises was that he would exercise better oversight of our foreign-policy machinery. In “Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House“ (1980), Betty Glad documents Carter’s belief that the National Security Council Staff was out of control—an all-powerful cabal undercutting leadership from the top, but at the same time bureaucratic, burdensome and slow moving. Once in the Oval Office, he scrapped existing NSC processes, reorganized and downsized.

For all the rearranging, the Carter “system” didn’t produce better policy outcomes. A string of foreign-affairs debacles, like the botched decision to withdraw U.S. forces from South Korea, raised questions about the soundness of the president and his national-security team.

To manage mayhem, the first and most critical task for a new president is to pick the right people for his team.

The qualifications for any job are a mix of skills, knowledge and attributes. Being an effective strategic leader requires three core characteristics: character, competence and critical thinking. [read more]

So, true. Too bad Obama doesn’t have any of the core characteristics. Interesting essay.

How Self-Driving Cars Could Make You Sick

From The Blaze.com (April 10):

As self-driving cars become a more tangible reality for the future of road travel, their ability to let riders do something other than pay attention to the road is one of the main draws. But one detail might have been slightly overlooked on this front and that’s the factor of motion sickness, a new study says.

Anyone who has been a passenger on a road trip and has tried to read while riding has probably experienced some level of queasiness.

Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute surveyed more than 3,200 adults from six countries, including the U.S., about the types of activities they would do instead of driving in an autonomous car. More than a third said they would do things like read, text, watch movies, play games and work, a news release about the study stated. [read more]

Basically when cars drive themselves the driver becomes a passenger which allow him to look around and site see and not pay attention to the road. I am not sure it is a good idea to have the car totally autonomous though. Since self-driving cars are made by people and people are imperfect then self-driving cars will be too. A human should still be able to take control of the car if the cars goes out of control. What about ice, snow or even a downpour of rain? The car could hydroplane. I suppose a builder can put in sensors to handle that.  And what about driving around mountain roads? Can an owner trust a self-driving car to do that safely?

Then there is the issue of some malicious computer person hacking into the car’s program.  And then there are viruses and worms. The car owner would definitely want to keep your car’s software up to date.  If the car is going to use some sort of speech-to-text software to tell it its destination it better be really accurate or have someway for the user to input the destination.

Finally, Glenn Beck on his radio show brought up an interesting point. If self-driving cars become the norm will driver’s ed still be taught? And will the gov’t outlaw non-self-driving cars because they think self-driving cars are safer on the road? Surely race cars and demolition derby cars won’t be self-driving because that would be really boring.

Miscellaneous Thoughts Part 35

• America went off the gold standard. Hope we don’t go off the God standard.
• Obama said “No religion is responsible for violence and terrorism.” I beg to differ. The Aztecs, Satanists, and other pagan religions offer human sacrifices to their gods. He should have said peaceful religions don’t commit violence.
• A movie that should never be made: Indiana Jones and the Lost Golden Accordion.
• Someone should invent a computer mouse that goes to sleep when the computer turns off. That way the battery in the mouse is conserved.
• Dr. Kelly McGonigal’s three powers of willpower (I will, I won't, and I want) sound like Freud’s three parts of the psyche (ego, super-ego, and id).
• You can be a rich sob. You can be a poor sob. It doesn’t matter what your financial situation is—you’re still a sob. The only thing that matter in the end is your character and how you treat your fellow man. In the end that’s what really matters to God.
• Instead of chanting “no justice, no peace” maybe Al Sharpton and his henchmen should be chanting “no truth, no justice.” After all isn’t that why witnesses take an oath to tell truth during a trial? Then again the truth doesn’t matter to the far Left.
• If minorities according to the Left are always tolerant then what does that say about a Muslim baker not making a wedding cake for a gay couple getting married? Both are minorities. That actually happened. The lame-stream press yawned.
• The real reason why the Left didn’t trust the Tea-Party getting together was because it was spontaneous. It wasn’t planned by a community organizer. They don’t trust anything that isn’t planned.
• A prediction: Bill O’Reilly’s next book will be called Killing MLK or Killing King.

20 Reasons Why Hillary Would Wipe Her Server Clean

From The Hillary Daily.com:

Hillary is a hoarder. So is Bill. So if she actually removed everything from her server, she had to be convinced that it would be more dangerous to keep the emails than to ride through a scandal, no matter how rough.

This scandal isn’t about Hillary’s privacy, it’s about her self-preservation. So here’s what would make her do it:

1. The emails contained damaging information about Benghazi that conflicted with her testimony and statements.

2. The emails — and those of her closest aides — showed her improper use of her position to benefit the Clinton Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, Teneo, and herself.

3. If she gave the Benghazi Committee electronic access to the emails, they could easily determine whether any had been edited or altered. It would have been extremely difficult to delete just some of the information in the emails. If she tried to doctor them, the system would likely show when it was last edited. Any edits after she left the State Department would be highly suspicious and the earlier versions could probably be retrieved anyway. So, it would be much easier to give out only hard copies, which can be easily doctored without detection and which would be difficult to search electronically.

4. The emails would show the improper coordination with the Clinton Global Initiative and U.S. corporations. Huma Abedin worked for the State Department as Clinton’s right hand person, Teneo, and the Clinton Global Initiative all at once. She used one of Hillary’s private email accounts on Hillary’s server. Were her emails deleted too? [read more]

Can you imagine Richard Nixon erasing all of his tapes? What are you hiding Hillary? God help this country if she ever gets elected president. I guess she is just following Obama’s lead by not being transparent.