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“Old people have a duty to die and get out of the way.” – Governor Richard D. Lamm of Colorado, 1984. Few people put it as directly as Governor Lamm, but advocates of socialized medicine have a problem with human longevity. And they seem unaware of the marketing problem that creates for their healthcare ideas. […]

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A path to a Trump victory exists without Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes. Trump presently has 214 electoral votes. Alaska (3 EV)is almost certain, making it 217. North Carolina (15 EV) is very likely, bringing it to 232. Arizona (11 EV) is still possible and not mathematically improbable, getting Trump to 243 electoral votes. Preview Open

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It is said that gaffes occur when a politician accidentally tells the truth, but how does that explain Joe Biden?

Joe Biden’s gaffes are not the normal kind, defined as a politician accidentally telling the truth. That is something the former Vice President doesn’t do — accidentally or otherwise. Most of his gaffes are whoppers, easily debunked but reported as gospel by a fawning press.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. QOTD: Mediocrity is Over-Rated

 

Budowsky: Chief Justice Roberts can rescue democracy | TheHill

The people I can’t stand are those who strike a delicate balance between logic and absurdity and congratulate themselves for not being extreme.” – Thomas Sowell

Chief Justice John Roberts, who balances his logical decisions with absurd ones, added to the absurd half of his ledger with his refusal to issue a temporary stay on Pennsylvania’s violation of its own election laws. After all, it is only a closely contested swing state; one that could decide the presidential election.

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Joe Biden And The Power Of Breaking The Fourth Wall | Cognoscenti

You, Public, don’t deserve to know what I meant by that headline, but I’ll tell you anyway.

The Biden campaign has created a talking point so stupid even Jake Tapper wouldn’t buy it. That is, if the Republicans confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, they are guilty of court-packing – and such an act is unconstitutional. The Left’s opinion of its own supporters (the non Bubbas) is almost as low as its opinion of Trump supporters.

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 … but the debate was better. And Pugilist Pence demonstrated how to win. This is a follow-up to a post titled Cheer up, the Debates are Going to Get Worse. Preview Open

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We have all watched the spectacle of very bad politicians getting re-elected time and time again. Think Marion Barry or Harold Washington. Mayor Ray Nagin got re-elected after refusing to evacuate New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mayor De Blasio got re-elected. Then there is just about every elected official in California.

We see mayors do nothing while their own cities get burned down and wonder just how bad is bad enough. Will they get re-elected?

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I’m writing under the assumption that President Trump will recover in time to participate in both of the remaining debates, and by Oct 15th something else will be dominating the news. Let’s pray that this is the case and that Melania and the others, like Gov. Christie, also have a full recovery.

Chris Wallace was the best moderator of the 2016 debates. The bad news is he’ll likely be the best moderator of the 2020 debates.

Wallace surprised me. His animus toward Trump is well known, but I thought he would keep that under control. Especially since Biden refused to be interviewed by him. And Wallace did a professional job in 2016, in contrast to the other moderators.

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Show this list to your Trump-hating friends, if they’re still talking to you. The list is shorter than it would otherwise be, for that purpose. The list is limited to verifiable things that were done by mainstream Democrats, and that an honest leftist would agree were wrong (or at least silly.) It’s for the latter […]

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The Democratic talking point that the riots are happening in “Trump’s America,” isn’t going to be laughable forever. It’s laughable now because it’s obvious that Democratic mayors and governors are allowing it to happen and refusing help from the President. Add to that what they are doing to their own police. Preview Open

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Can the mayors and governors that openly refused to do anything about the rioting be charged as accessories to the crimes committed? Given these officials’ public statements, it would be hard for their defense teams to introduce reasonable doubt. (I think.) Preview Open

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When you hear the phrase “Los Angeles County Election Official,” the first word that comes to mind probably isn’t “genius.” The election officials are responsible for elections in a county so big that it has over 4,500 voting locations. They decided to reduce that number to 978.

The same officials were surprised when the 978 polling locations were crowded on Super Tuesday.

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A recent National Review article is titled “The Return of Conservative Economics.” When a politician or a political writer says his great new idea is “conservative,” grab your wallet and run the other way as fast as you can. Not only will it not be conservative, it will likely be daft — and accompanied by the force of law. The NRO article is a perfect example of this. It opens with:

Today we are announcing the formation of American Compass, an organization dedicated to helping American conservatism recover from its chronic case of market fundamentalism. In preparation, we have been perusing the mission statements of many of our nation’s think tanks. Nearly every group has one. Oddly, the right-of-center’s preeminent public-policy institutions all have the same one: to advance the principles of “limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty” or “free markets and limited, effective government” or “free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom” or “individual liberty, limited government, free markets” or “economic choice and individual responsibility” or “individual, economic, and political freedom; private enterprise; and representative government.”

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“Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.” – Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), in Casablanca, to Nazi Major Strasser who had taunted him with the idea of Hitler invading New York.

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If the former vice president that had an atypical relationship with a Ukrainian oil company was Dick Cheney instead of Joe Biden, would Trump’s actions be inappropriate? Just askin’. Preview Open

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Isn’t this the is first time a president was threatened with impeachment for being the victim of a crime? Preview Open

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I haven’t been following the news closely enough to understand what is happening with the Texas U.S. Senate Race. Is Ted Cruz really in danger of losing to a nut-case like Beto O’Rourke? In Texas?? How did that happen? Preview Open

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