This Is What Tyranny Looks Like

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

This is a woman we will need to learn much more about in the coming weeks. Sarah Hall Ingram is a highly valued employee at the IRS. In the last three years she has received $103,390 in bonuses for her excellent work. She was the Commissioner of the Tax-Exempt and Government Entitles Division. Under her leadership, groups that expressed a fear of large, out-of-control government were systematically crushed by her branch of our large, out-of-control government. They were specifically singled out for harassment for political reasons. Secret information about the conservative applicants was leaked to leftist opposition groups to facilitate further harassment.

This was an organized political operation using State power to silence opposition voices. It is part of every tyrant’s playbook. It tells you everything you
need to know about the current state of our country to see that those who favor
a limited government, the explicit goal of our founding documents, are now considered enemies of the State.

In a 2009 speech, Ms. Ingram explained her approach:

“As a practical matter, we cannot subject every application for tax-exempt status to a painstaking, leave-no-rock-unturned review. Nor can we audit every organization’s 990 every year. Nor would you want us to do so, right? To govern is to choose, and we must choose appropriately which applications or 990s to focus most attention on.”

It is clear now that by “choose appropriately”, she meant to harass the limited-government groups endlessly and let liberal and Islamic groups sail right through the approval process.

The good news is that this woman is no longer in charge of that department. The bad news is that she has been promoted and is now the head of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office. She and her comrades could have access to all your medical records. They will “choose appropriately” who has trouble with the State controlled medical system and who sails right through. They will decide if it is appropriate to share your medical history with others.

But don’t worry. I heard the outgoing IRS Commissioner say in hearings this morning before Congress that he has reviewed the situation and found that there was “no partisanship” in the years-long practice of singling out conservative groups for IRS harassment. None at all. There is just no reason to think that specifically targeting one side of the political spectrum had anything to do with politics.

And when Commissioner Steven Miller was asked why conservative groups were targeted for prolonged scrutiny, he said that it just happened because people were trying to be efficient. Sure. Months and months of delays with endless demands for more paperwork is the efficient way to go.

Miller was forced to admit that secret information gathered from certain conservative groups was passed along by the IRS to the conservatives direct political opposition. So the IRS illegally gathered information and illegally passed it along for political reasons. Mr. Miller said that these actions were “inadvertent”.

There is more evidence of direct lies from IRS officials in Kevin Williamson’s column, “The Nine Lies of Lois Lerner”. One thing we learn from Williamson’s article is that the current campaign by some officials to act surprised and disappointed by the news of IRS criminality is just a scam to deflect their own culpability. Everyone knew the Inspector General’s report on the IRS was about to be released. The IRS needed to jump ahead of the report and act concerned. They were not concerned for years prior to being caught.

UPDATE – Jeffrey Lord explains why the problem with the IRS is much deeper than the current scandal. Read “The Liberal Union Behind the IRS” and you will see why the IRS has it’s artillery aimed in one direction. They are a powerful battle-group in the leftist army. That will not change until something like the Fair Tax is enacted and the IRS is dismantled.

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Trayvon, And Why The World Is Not What It Seems

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

You remember when that racist white guy gunned down that cute little 12-year-old black boy in Florida last year… shooting him for no reason at all? He just hunted the little boy down “like a rabid dog” and shot him in cold blood.

That’s the story that the race-baiters and most of the media told us about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. All the usual mob creators worked at creating angry mobs. Racial animosity was generated across the country and many rallies ended in the exhortation to register and vote. This is what the despicable professional race-baiters do for a living. This socially destructive orchestrated drama is part of every pre-election season.

Those of us who followed the story closely know that the initially reported story bears almost no relationship to the truth. That this incident was a terrible tragedy is the truth, but the nature of the assailant and victim is quite different from what we were told.

What we know about George Zimmerman, the “white Hispanic” shooter includes the following:

The man is not a racist. He tutored minority children for free. He went to bat for a black man who he thought was treated unfairly by the police. A black friend who has know him for years spoke highly of his character.
Zimmerman’s neighborhood had been hit by many home invasion robberies. He had recently comforted a frightened neighbor after the woman was terrorized by a home burglary. He was concerned about the safety of his own family and was part of a neighborhood effort to be watchful. The sign at the entrance of his neighborhood said, “We report all suspicious persons & activities to the Sanford Police Department”.
Zimmerman did exactly as the sign said when he called the Sanford Police. He wanted the police to handle it. He did not try to run Trayvon down, nor could he have. Trayvon, at 5’11′ and 160 pounds, was much more fit than Zimmerman.
An eyewitness to the fight that led to the shooting was interviewed 90 minutes afterward. The witness said that he saw Martin straddling Zimmerman and violently battering him “MMA” style. The witness also said Zimmerman was the one screaming for help. A second witness also described a person on the ground with another straddling him and pounding his face.
When the police arrived, Zimmerman had a broken nose, two black eyes and cuts on the back of his head. Trayvon had abrasions on his knuckles and a bullet wound.

The real Trayvon that emerges from his own social media sites and from disciplinary records is not quite as palatable as the imaginary version sold to us by the media. The photo of Trayvon here is the photo he chose to represent himself in social media where he called himself ”No_Limit_Nigga”.

No_Limit_Nigga tweeted about his drugs, his “bitches”, his fondness for Mixed Martial Arts, etc., in barely literate conversations. One of his friends, or marijuana customers, tweeted, “damn were you at nigga needa plant”. A cousin heard that Trayvon had punched a bus driver and tweeted, ”Yu ain’t tell me yu swung on a bus driver”.

Trayvon had been suspended from school three times for offenses such as drug use and vandalism. The details of the third suspension are what I want to concentrate on here because they reinforce my point that the world is presented to you in a false way for political reasons.

Trayvon’s third suspension was the result of a school security officer finding Trayvon spraying “WTF” on the schools wall. The officer inspected Trayvons backpack and found evidence of marijuana, a bag of women’s jewelry and a screwdriver, which the officer called a “burglary tool” in his report of the incident. There were at least 12 pieces of women’s jewelry and a man’s watch in the bag.

When this incident was reported in the news after Trayvon’s death, Martins parents and their attorney indicated that the jewelry story was false and was simply a smear to make Trayvon look like a burglar, the very thing Zimmerman had feared that he was. Attorney Benjamin Crump said of the burglary insinuation, “ If it were true, why wouldn’t they call the parents? Why wasn’t he arrested?”

Those questions were answered recently by the bloggers at The Last Refuge. These citizen journalists uncovered an amazing plot to misrepresent facts about crime in the Miami-Dade School District. The plot to hide information from the public involved the School Superintendent and the Police Chief, who has since lost his job.

Because there was a plot to hide criminal behavior, there was no attempt in cases like Trayvon’s to solve the crime and return the stolen property to it’s owner. In Trayvon’s case, the stolen merchandise, which is in a police storage room, will likely be returned. The bloggers tracked down a burglary reported near Trayvon’s school where the stolen jewelry matches the description of the jewelry in Trayvon’s pack. Police have been notified of the apparent match.

Whether the issue is crime statistics, unemployment statistics, the cost of Obamacare, the “hockey stick” proof of global warming, the cause of the attack in Benghazi, the relationship of Islam to worldwide terror attacks, the seriousness of our President in controlling government spending, the relationship between gun laws and crime, etc., the news is filtered, shaped and delivered with a political agenda. Reality is somewhere under and behind the official story.

A Lovely, Lovely Kid

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

“He was compassionate. He was caring. He was a lovely, lovely kid”. That’s how neighbor Larry Aaronson described Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two Jihadist psychopaths who carefully packed bombs with nails and ball-bearings to inflict maximum physical damage on men, women and children they did not know. There were more bombs back home, presumably prepared to slaughter other strangers. Lovely, lovely boys.

The uncle of these terrorist brothers, Ruslan Tsarni, had a close relationship with the boys for many years, but it fell apart in recent years, partly because the older brother, “started carrying all this nonsense associated with religion, with Islamic religion.”

When the uncle asked the older brother why he had dropped out of school, Tamerlan said, “Oh, I’m in God’s business”. That would be the Jihad business, the killing non-believers business. His YouTube account has a “terrorists” video section and links to his Islamist mentors. It will be interesting to see who paid him for his religious work. Dzhokhar also expressed his higher calling in two tweets last month. “Never underestimate the rebel with a cause”, and “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.”

Last week, these lovely good men did something… something, in their view, to please God.

Dzhokhar was so comfortable with his actions that on the night of the massacre, he tweeted ” LOL, those people are cooked” and “I’m a stress free kind of guy”. The psychopath attended a party the next night.

As observers, we witnessed the standard rush of the media to name conservatives as the likely perpetrators. It was Patriots Day, Axelrod said, and you know the kind of people those patriots are. In a racist rant, Salon openly wished the bomber was a white man. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour said she “hoped beyond hope that this doesn’t turn out to be what it might be?”

She had that hope because it is becoming increasingly difficult for the media to sell the delusion that radical Islam is not at war with the West.

Our President rushes to judgement in every case where he thinks that will help him politically. With Gates in Boston, Gifford in Arizona, Trayvon in Florida and Benghazi in Libya, false accusations were quickly made, and in the case of Benghazi, maintained against all evidence. Yet, on the night Dzhokhar was captured, Obama was there to counsel us against “jumping to conclusions” and to suggest that we honor “diversity”. He said we must, ”take care not to rush to judgment — not about the motivations of these individuals; certainly not about entire groups of people.” Certainly not.

He has the same problem as Amanpour. Sane people will make rational judgements about this case and others like it.

Sure, we will have to endure weeks of media stories about how America let these poor boys down, how we could have done more, how it is our fault. We will be told that we just don’t know what motivated them. It’s such a mystery.

I don’t think it is a mystery to most Americans. Despite all the ostrich-like foolishness by political and media ‘leaders’, most of us know that war has been declared against us and we do not take kindly to “Death To America” preachers. Fundamentalist Islam is no less a threat to us than any other totalitarian ideology. They want us to submit to the coming worldwide caliphate, or die. I don’t like either option. Tolerance in the face of this open threat is suicide.

Few people understand this more clearly than Andrew McCarthy. His column, “Jihad Will Not Be Wished Away”, is worth reading in its entirety. Some excerpts:

It was in fact the jihad that stubbornly refuses to be wished away. It will have to be defeated. It was never a molehill we were exaggerating into Mohammed’s mountain. After 1,400 years of aggression, we can safely say it is not anytime soon going to evolve into the ballyhooed “internal struggle for personal betterment” — not for the tens of millions of Muslims for whom Islamic supremacism is, quite simply, Islam.

…We are in a war driven by ideology. “Violent extremism,” which is the label the government and the commentariat prefer to put on our enemies, is not an ideology — it is the brutality that radical ideologies yield. Our enemies’ ideology is Islamic supremacism. To challenge and defeat an ideological movement, you have to understand and confront their vision of the world. Imposing your own assumptions and biases will not do. Islamic supremacists do not see a world of Westphalian nation-states. They do not distinguish between Russia and America the way they distinguish between Muslims and non-Muslims. Their ideology frames matters as Dar al-Islam versus Dar al-Harb: the realm of Islam in a fight to the death against the realm of war — which is everyone and everyplace else.

The fact that you think this is nuts, or that I’m nuts for saying it out loud, has nothing to do with whether they believe it. They do — and they don’t care, even a little, what you think.

You do not defeat an ideology by hoping it will change or disappear.”

Many lovely, lovely boys are being trained by leaders of a supremist religion to hate and kill those who oppose their plan for worldwide domination. There is no value in pretending otherwise.

These People Can Vote…

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There are few things that make you feel more hopeless than videos like this:

or this:

Their vote counts as much as your vote….

The Tiresome Imperial Schtick

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

President Obama presented his budget yesterday and at his press conference we saw the ‘performance’ we have learned to expect from him. There can be variations in the subject matter, but the form of the speech, in brief, goes something like this:

The body posture is erect. The manner is self-assured. With his chin raised, he pans the room, gazing above the crowd in an imperious manner. He pauses for dramatic effect. We are lucky to be in his presence as he imparts his wisdom from on high. He speaks:

I am here to announce a bold new initiative. We need to expand the size and scope of government in these ways ______________. This will help everyone. All the experts agree with me that this is a good idea. All reasonable people agree with me.

There are some backward extremist people who don’t agree with me. They don’t care about people like I do. They just care about rich people who do not pay their fair share at all and are taking advantage of you. I am going to take money from those rich people to pay for this expansion of government power.

The teleprompter provides a customized version of this speech everywhere this performer appears. The speech is usually full of bold lies. You can get the flavor of the lies and demagoguery in yesterday’s performance with these clips from the speech:

…here’s a clear and unassailable fact: our deficits are already falling.Over the past two years, I’ve signed legislation that will reduce our deficits by more than $2.5 trillion — more than two-thirds of it through spending cuts and the rest through asking the wealthiest Americans to begin paying their fair share.

My budget will reduce our deficits by nearly another $2 trillion, so that all told we will have surpassed the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction…

Our deficits are falling at the fastest pace in years.

But if we’re serious about deficit reduction…

When it comes to deficit reduction, I’ve already met Republicans more than
halfway. So in the coming days and weeks, I hope that Republicans will come
forward and demonstrate that they’re really as serious about the deficits and
debt as they claim to be.

[Because the numbers in the budget do not work and the document is filled with smoke and mirrors, the President closed with...] “The numbers work. There’s not a lot of smoke and mirrors in here.”

In addition to the press conference, the President sent a letter to Congress about his budget. The letter further illustrates his willingness to misrepresent the facts. Some excerpts:

[My budget] implements the Affordable Care Act, giving every American access to the high-quality, affordable health care coverage they deserve, and reducing the deficit by more than $1 trillion… [It is probably difficult for him to suppress laughter at this statement.]

The Budget does all of these things as part of a comprehensive plan that reduces the deficit.

…these initiatives and ideas are fully paid for, to ensure they do not increase the deficit by a single dime.

…we have moved aggressively to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.

…we have begun to ask the wealthy to do their fair share ….so the wealthiest pay their fair share …so millionaires and billionaires do their fair share to cut the deficit.

Finally, this Budget continues my commitment to reforming and streamlining our Government …targeting and eliminating wasteful spending wherever we find it.

But this Budget shows how we can live within our means.

Can we agree that this man is either detached completely from the real world or is confident that his imperial schtick will will continue to snooker about half the population. It may be a combination of the two.

The Obama budget increases the rate of government spending. It continues the wild growth of government and expands 79 welfare programs. It increases the deficit. And it calls for a trillion dollars in economy-damaging tax increases. Like his previous budgets, this budget makes it clear that this President has no intention of slowing the growth of government.

REALITY

Margaret Thatcher – A Woman of Substance

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

The writers at Power Line blog have written tributes to The Great Lady that are worth reading. Steven Hayward’s piece begins with this quote written about Churchill upon his death:

The death of Churchill reminds us . . . of our duty. We have no higher duty, and no more pressing duty, than to remind ourselves and our students, of political greatness, human greatness, of the peaks of human excellence. For we are supposed to train ourselves and others in seeing things as they are, and this means above all in seeing their greatness and their misery, their excellence and their vileness, their nobility and their triumphs, and therefore never to mistake mediocrity, however brilliant, for true greatness.

And ends with this picture…

What Happens if Work is Punished?

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

It is an economic truth that what you subsidize you get more of and what you tax you get less of. So if you were to punish work and reward slothfulness you would get less of the former and more of the latter. A government can buy as many poor people as it is willing to pay for. If the pay is good, people will seek non-work in large numbers.

In our country, the non-work pay can be quite good as the following stories demonstrate. First, a clip from the Tyler Durden column, When Work is Punished:

Exactly two years ago, some of the more politically biased progressive media outlets took offense at our article “In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of Four Making Minimum Wage Has More Disposable Income Than A Family Making $60,000 A Year.” In it we merely explained what has become the painful reality in America: for increasingly more it is now more lucrative – in the form of actual disposable income – to sit, do nothing, and collect various welfare entitlements, than to work. This is graphically, and very painfully confirmed, in the below chart from Gary Alexander, Secretary of Public Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (a state best known for its broke capital Harrisburg). As quantified, and explained by Alexander, “the single mom is better off earning gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income & benefits than to earn gross income of $69,000 with net income and benefits of $57,045.“

Do follow the link to Durdens column. It is a good elaboration on the trend that will devour us.

Another trend demonstrates how enticing an entitlement hammock can be. Ask yourself if there is there something about a recession that would cause widespread disability? I don’t think so either. Let’s ask the question a different way. Is there something about being paid for doing nothing that would be enticing to people?

Disability claims are skyrocketing. The government now spends more on disability than food stamps and welfare combined. Since the recession supposedly ended in 2009, around 150,000 jobs have been created each month. But an average of 250,000 people have applied for disability each month. It’s good non-work, if you can get it. And it is increasingly easy to get. In one Alabama county, 1 out of 4 working-age adults is lying in this golden hammock. USA Today reports that it is common for people to accept unemployment ’compensation’ until it runs out and then become disabled.

Just like poverty, a society can buy as much disability as it wants to pay for. The economic law that you get more of what you subsidize is true everywhere. So in Britain, where disability benefits were easily available, millions signed up. Like all utopian welfare states, Britain itself is becoming disabled with debt, so a decision was made to review each disability claim to check for fraud. Jonah Goldberg reports:

[Britain] asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. A third of recipients (878,000 people) didn’t even bother and dropped out of the program rather than be examined. Of those tested, more than half (55 percent) were found fit for work, and a quarter were found fit for some work.

So that’s around one-fourth who legitimately need help and around 75% who were scammers to differing degrees. Beyond the economic cost, it is not a good sign for the future of a country when this many adults are comfortable living as parasites.

Daniel Greenfield reports that if those on disability formed a state, the State of Disability would be the 11th largest state. One of the currently favored maladies in this state is “mood disorders”.

On a related subject, do not be fooled by the reported employment statistics. As bad as they are, reality is much worse. One key to understanding the truth is to know that 663,000 people dropped out of the labor force in March. There are now 90 million working age Americans who are not even looking for work. The deception in the reported statistics is that these people are not counted as unemployed. So, if everyone dropped out of the workforce, the unemployment rate would be zero…. and the media would report it as a vindication of Obamas brilliant policies.

Daniel Amerman has a detailed explanation of the employment deception here. An excerpt:

…a detailed look at the government’s own data base shows that about 9 million people without jobs have been removed from the labor force simply by the government defining them as not being in the labor force anymore. Indeed – effectively all of the decreases in unemployment rate percentages since 2009 have come not from new jobs, but through reducing the workforce participation rate so that millions of jobless people are removed from the labor force by definition.

A Co-operative Relationship?

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

It looks to me like a co-operative relationship may be developing among two of the world’s large religious groups. I may be wrong here, but if one group seeks religious domination and one group signals meek submission, that should minimize the conflict as we transition to an Islamic world.

The word Islam means submission. Islam is a political movement as well as religious. Many of its leaders openly seek and predict total world domination where all people submit to Islam. Islam is therefore the enemy of those who wish to live outside of Islamic domination.

Though it does not receive much coverage in the press, Christians are being slaughtered and persecuted around the world by Muslims. Here is a list of violent atrocities against Christians in this century. The long list may seem sterile in its chart-like format, but remember that each incident involves real-life people who were tortured or murdered for their beliefs. They had not submitted to Islam and they were tortured and killed as a punishment…. as suggested here.

In some countries, Islamists have achieved their goal. In Afghanistan, the last Christian church has now been destroyed. And it’s not just Christians being persecuted. Islamists are persecuting Buddhists in Thailand and Hindus in India.

So if you are a Catholic and your goal is to minimize conflict, you should be pleased that the new Pope is signalling his submissive intentions. In his March 29 sermon, Pope Francis supported the sentiments found in Matthew 5 and Luke 6, saying, “Christians must respond to evil with good”.

Matthew said, “resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also…. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

So if we have people who want to do some smiting and people who want to submit to smiting, that should make for a compatible relationship…. like a good bondage relationship with a dutifully submissive partner.

Let’s see how this turns out. My guess is that this strategy will have all the effectiveness of a gun free zone. That’s where nearly all the mass shootings are.

Let’s be honest with each other about biblical ethics. Consider these moral rules:

If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives.” (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortune teller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)

All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)

If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)

We don’t kill witches and gay people and disobedient children any more because we are better than that. We are smarter than that. We should be smart enough to see that advice like, “resist not evil” and “judge not, that ye be not judged” are the negation of ethics.

Killing people who do not share your religious views is evil. Our choice is to resist such people…. or submit.

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For Them, The Cover Is Everything

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

There are some particularly despicable men who spend their time promoting racial animosity. MSNBC employs a few of them as show hosts, including the insufferably arrogant and shallow Toure Neblett . Toure knows that the proper place for black people in this country is on the Democrat Plantation, where they should be perpetually angry and complaining that there is no real chance for a black man in this country. As a plantation master, Toure works to stir up anger and to attack blacks who escape the plantation. Race-baiters like Toure hold black people down as surely as any plantation master ever has.

When Real Men, like Ben Carson, escape the plantation, little men like Toure rush to attack them. They cannot allow independent thinkers to flourish off the plantation. Because Dr. Carson is proudly off the plantation, he must be punished. So the little man recently spent some time ridiculing Dr. Carson on the air, calling him a token “black friend” for Republicans. Toure said Dr. Carson has “intellectual tumors” and is “unserious”.

With good values and decades of hard work, Ben Carson made it from poverty to the top of his profession as a pediatric neurosurgeon. People in the Racial Grievance Industry do not like stories like that. So Toure belittled the accomplishment with an Obama-like ‘you didn’t build that’ rant. Toure said Carson probably got government backed loans, so the self-made man story about Carson is false. It was government that made him who he is.

The classy Real Man responds to the little man here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhOM8aJJP0&feature=player_embedded

“ I like to say the reason I don’t talk about race that often is because I’m a neurosurgeon. And I look at the thing that actually makes the person who they are. It’s not the cover. But for them the cover is everything, because they’re very superficial thinkers.”

Amen, brother. To them the cover is everything because they are very superficial thinkers.

When the race-baiters were whipping up race mobs over Trayvon Martin, MSNBC was pushing lies and misinformation as fast as it could. Toure was in the thick of it and ridiculed CNN host Piers Morgan for allowing Zimmerman’s side of the story on his program. The resulting on-air battle between Morgan and Toure was an epic display of arrogant ignorance. You can see a short clip of it here, and it is truly worth watching. It’s Toure being Toure, and what a pathetic sight it is.

During the Presidential campaign, Toure found racism in every criticism of Obama. In fact, the criticism of Obama did not sound like racism, so Toure explained it as secret coded racism. For example, when Romney said Obama was running a campaign of anger and division, Toure said:

“That really bothered me. You notice he said anger twice. He’s really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama, the ‘otherization,’ he’s not like us.

“… this is ‘niggerization…. You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.”

There were, in fact, campaign ads that included the phrase, “he’s not one of us”. They were run by Obama in black districts.

Toure said that Paul Ryan, ”loves this line of ‘our rights come from God and nature’, which is so offensive to so much of America.” It’s offensive because
“our rights do not come from God or nature…. They come from the government…”

Last October, “The Cycle” hosted Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr., the authors of “Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It.” The book supports the self-evident point that pushing people into schools they are not prepared for does not help them.

Toure called their work “junk science” and said, “ If we follow your prescription then the entire leadership of America would become entirely white.”

Toure is saying that black people could not succeed on intelligence or merit. That is a terribly racist thing to say. And it explains his fear of Dr. Ben Carson.

Dreaming About Free Stuff

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Bryce Buchanan

Here are some illegal aliens dreaming about free health care, “because health happens when we dream together”.

Does healthcare happen “when we dream together”, or is the delivery of healthcare a substantially more complicated process?

If wishing will give us free healthcare for all, why stop at our borders? Why not get it for everyone in the world? I wish that everyone in the world could have the the very best healthcare there is, for free. Don’t you? I wish unicorns would just fly it around everywhere.

But if it turns out that dreaming doesn’t do it, that raises a few more questions.

Would a culture that favors free exchange of goods and services be more likely to develop high quality medical care than a centrally controlled coercive society?
If a free society develops high quality medical care, is it likely to improve health care if we move toward a centrally controlled coercive system?
Is a person’s desire for free stuff a legitimate claim on the lives and property of others?

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