From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:
The fallout continues for North Carolina’s unvarnished hatred of LGBTQ people. It looks like the Obama Administration is looking into cutting off federal funding according to the NYTimes…
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From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:
The fallout continues for North Carolina’s unvarnished hatred of LGBTQ people. It looks like the Obama Administration is looking into cutting off federal funding according to the NYTimes…
From Max’s Dad:
Trump on abortion. Christ only knows how many that pig has paid for over the years but yesterday’s yeah throw the sluts in jail answer to a barking dog’s question was just so Trump. First of all you know he didn’t mean any of it, as the frayed cards in his diseased brain flipped as he struggled to answer as he thinks his dopey followers think he should. There have to be consequences. Then as the yapping yorkie continued to yip and yip and as Trump tried to go to the Catholic card to trip up the ankle biter, the inevitable happened. Trump became Trump.
From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:
This week Hillary Clinton responded to a heckler accusing her of taking campaign money from the fossil fuel industry by saying she was tired of the Sanders campaign lying about her. Her response went viral on social media, and was covered by cable news.
Sanders response was to once again accuse her of taking corporate money — something he claims he does not do.
From PZ Myers at Pharyngula:
I guess Ken Ham is feeling the sting of all those comments about the absurdity of his efforts to build a “life size” ark — he’s got cranes and steel reinforcements and concrete and a swarm of construction crews laboring to assemble his boondoggle, yet somehow, this giant imaginary boat was supposed to have been built by one guy and his sons 4000 years ago, out of wood. How to reconcile the contemporary tech of his construct with the basic woodworking skills of a Mesopotamian carpenter? Easy!
From Jon Perr at Perrspectives:
Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress signed a landmark agreement codifying new rules for the House and Senate under the next GOP President. Negotiated by Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY), John Cornyn (R-TX), Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Paul Ryan (R-WI), the 10-point deal provides guidelines for filibuster, judicial nominees, executive branch appointments, the debt ceiling, government shutdowns and other recent areas of conflict between the parties.
From The Intersection of Madness and Reality:
The media is predictably singing the praises of rap mogul Diddy for opening a charter school in Harlem. Now, before I get into this post, many of you will wonder why I am talking about this, despite this looking like a bit of good news for a change. The answer is that the area of education reform is a mess, and causes confusion on so many sides. It’s hard for some people to see things for what they are, and the hidden forces behind education reform a.k.a school privatization have been pretty good at masking much of their aims under the guise of “it’s about the children.” Except, that it’s really not.
From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:
Welcome to ground zero. Wisconsin is the center of the political universe thanks to the presidential primary on Tuesday. We’re the only state having primaries that day, and all the attention is on us. Now we know a bit what it feels like to be Iowa and New Hampshire in January.
So while all eyes are on Wisconsin, the attention quickly turns in our direction. Waukesha, Washington and Ozaukee counties are the center of the Republican universe in Wisconsin. We generate the Republican votes for the rest of the state.
On Tuesday, residents of Waukesha County were treated to a visit from the two non-Trump candidates, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. It was an interesting juxtaposition.
In response to Burr Deming’s Trapped in the Palace of Cows
The Republican Party is caught in a new sociological vortex. It began when non-liberals forced out liberal Republicans. So the party shrank and grew more conservative. The new conservatism meant that conservatives could make life unbearable for moderates. And so the party shrank a little more, and grew yet more conservative. Conservatives who were not extreme enough followed, and now extreme conservatives who consider even talking to Supreme Court nominees have reason to worry. Some will eventually leave voluntarily. Some will hang from electoral scaffolds.
– Burr Deming, April 1, 2016
Mr. Deming, you may be correct about the inevitable demise of the GOP; however, I don’t think a lack of moderation is the reason why. After all, extremism increasingly abounds in the Democrat party.
Indeed, only a generation ago, it would have been unthinkable that a self-avowed socialist could have made a viable run for president with budget-blowing promises of free college educations and many other dangled carrots of increased entitlements. Economics and history are no longer objectively taught though, so the dangers of socialism simply aren’t apparent to our youth these days. The candidates for the Democrats fall to either a principled socialist or a corrupt and jaded establishment candidate, accordingly.
Yes, Trump is about as dangerous as they come as an insurgent candidate, but it isn’t because he evokes extreme conservative principles. His answer the other day on what the purpose of the federal government was is quite telling as an example of this fact. After all, on nearly all major issues he was reliably a Democrat only a few short years ago. Mitt Romney was even ironically disgusted with Trumps hair-pin turns on policy issues.
The Republican Party will cease to be a viable national party if they do not stand for constitutional and moral principles. Their attempt to pick “moderate” candidates that don’t espouse those principles is why they have alienated many of their party members. But let me assure you, it isn’t a matter of moderation versus extremism. It is a matter of constitutional principle versus a misguided and failed “anything to win” populist mindset.
Frankly, if the presidential race does eventually come down to a contest between Hillary and Trump, which seems to be the very personification of a choice between to evils, I will not choose the lesser. I will chose neither evil.
T. Paine can also be found at Saving Common Sense, a site devoted to the virtues of conservatism.
Trapped in the Palace of Cows (8:02)
Who Destroyed the Republican Party?
How was it done?
The real answers are hidden in plain sight.