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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the majority, “Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered. The same is true of those who oppose same-sex marriage for other reasons.”

I was shocked to hear a dear friend jump into Bernie Sanders’ camp upon his revulsion with Hillary. He said he assumed that Sanders as President would not be able to accomplish the blatantly hard line socialist policies Bernie promises, such as 90% income tax rate, as if that made Sanders acceptable.

Sanders said to CNBC: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country.” This is pure populist rhetoric typical of the Kingfish. It says nothing about the policies that Sanders would pursue, or even if he would pursue a policy to help hungry children in this country, nor any details about his intended policies to help hungry children. Nor does it recognize that the trillions of dollars already spent on the War on Poverty have shown: “Based on a measure of pre-tax, pre-transfer income, the poverty rate would be about as high today as in 1967: over 28 percent.” (quote: Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, 2014 report) “Nearly 50 million Americans still live in poverty, however, including 13.4 million children, and so there remains a need to do more to help the poor. The 1964 Economic Report of the President estimated that the total shortfall in income necessary to bring all poor families up to the poverty level was $11 billion (about $71 billion in today’s dollars), or about 1.6 percent of the country’s annual Gross Domestic Product.” (IBID)

Of course, Obama’s Council of Economics Advisers report glowing results of the 50 year War on Poverty, which they explain by manipulated statistics, and recommend spending more, raising the minimum wage, and basically continuing to make Americans dependent on their government.

By one simpler measure, observe the rapid growth of the Food Stamp program during the Obama administration. If poverty is declining, then why is the rate of Food Stamp users increasing?

Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and expert in government welfare programs reported in the subtitle of his article in the Wall Street Journal, (link below) “Fifty years and $20 trillion later, LBJ’s goal to help the poor become self-supporting has failed.”

Dear Bernie and friends, clearly, more of the same socialist policies will not be helpful. Lovers of liberty recognize government welfare as totalitarian policy.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303345104579282760272285556

Click to access 50th_anniversary_cea_report_-_final_post_embargo.pdf

Democrat politicians and media have created a straw man issue and inserted it into the public’s mind share – that is, a 150 year old Confederate battle flag which was created by Democrats in the South who fought for states rights (one of which was their believed right to own slaves). The same Democrat party supported the KKK and fought against freedom for slaves, fought against the right to vote for women, blacks and Indians. This is the same Democrat party that today funds and fully supports financial welfare dependence (i.e. slavery to the government) of blacks, women, Indians and now Hispanics. This is the very same Democrat party that funds and fully supports government-funded abortions (even late term) which have decimated the population of black people in America. Incredibly, Democrats are accomplishing the eugenics goal of the KKK, Margaret Sanger and John Holdren, Obama’s chief science advisor. Incredibly, they have done that by making a majority of the population believe that Republicans are racists and conducting a “war of women” and minorities. Incredibly, they are doing this by asserting federal authorities which do not exist in the Constitution against the rights of the states and individuals which do exist.

If your goal is getting rid of racism, then you must get rid of the source that maintains and foments identity politics: the Democrat Party.

Excerpt:  “The fact that many people are still prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States, in times made incredibly dangerous by the foreign policy disasters on her watch as Secretary of State, raises painful questions about this country.

A President of the United States — any president — has the lives of more than 300 million Americans in his or her hands, and the future of Western civilization. If the debacles and disasters of the Obama administration have still not demonstrated the irresponsibility of choosing a president on the basis of demographic characteristics, it is hard to imagine what could.

With our enemies around the world arming while we are disarming, such self-indulgent choices for president can leave our children and grandchildren a future that will be grim, if not catastrophic.”

More here:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/thomas-sowell/hillary-and-history/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6677d599b9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6677d599b9-156960277

Revolution usually comes from the left and revelation from the right. This is not name-calling, it’s an observation of life.   Revolutions have seldom led to success for the revolutionaries or those they proposed to help.  Revolutions are usually based on an idea, an ideology, which has become incredible.

Ideologies collapse under their own weight because they were created atomistically…they are theories created in isolation (which is normal) but then not reconnected and tested against the empirical realities of life before being put into practice.  The ideology did not fit the reality.  In other words, they are impractical.  As the saying goes, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”   Ideologies are subsets of reality that may be totally rational as a subset theory, but collapse when interconnected to the facts of reality.  The theoretician did not connect all the dots. Thus, Keynesian economics collapses. Socialism and communism collapse.  Atheism collapses.  Moral relativism collapses.

Fascists and tyrants almost always are overthrown in violent revolution by the people or else the chaos of war.  When people spend their lives, energies, resources and hopes on ideologies and then their ideology collapses, these people become angry and hateful.  Rage and hate can come from any direction, but like today, it usually comes from the left because the left tends to cling to ideologies and disregards natural connections.  When the left finally realizes their mistake, then they finally revolt.  The right has been waiting.  A more successful model of adaptation is to overthrow the erstwhile tyranny when their direction becomes clear and before they entrench their power in government.

Absolutes come from the right.  Those absolutes were always there as natural laws.   We progressively become aware of them as we go through life, or we ignore or forget them.  The absolutes of natural laws eventually are revealed even if hidden, thus they are revelations.  There are absolute rights and wrongs, contrary to the claims of moral relativists for the last 100 years.

Liberty is the absence of ideology.  The path which increases liberty provides the best chance to adapt to the natural changes in life.  But, our intuition about change is not always correct.  We tend to overlook the many but reproducible fractals that occur in natural absolutes.  In the real world, change over time is rarely if ever a straight rational line from point A to point B.  It is a curve-fitting, an adaptation.  Ideologies inhibit if not prohibit adaptation, denying liberty.

The commonly accepted belief about Darwin’s theory of evolution is that it is the strongest who survive.  But Darwin did not say that.  It is not the strongest who survive, but rather it is the most adaptable who survive.

One hundred and forty million years ago reptiles began adapting, changing into what we know today as birds.  And almost all of that genetic code is still in your DNA today, in addition to the genetic code of bacteria and most other forms of life.    At the present rate of expanding knowledge, humans will be able to personally control and change their DNA code and other forms of biological code in 100 years or less.  However, there will be fractals of natural laws of which we are not yet aware because we are living among them and discovering them as we go.  The consequences are today unknown, but it would be a denial of natural law to prohibit the inevitable experiments.  For example, the first humans who decide to grow wings and fly may also discover that they cannot also regenerate their internal organs and thus cannot extend their lifespan.  Or those who decide to extend their lifespan indefinitely may also discover that they also become unable to have children.  Fractals are the natural changes in absolute laws which occur at event horizons.  Today, we cannot predict what the outcome of these experimental events will be, but natural law (in this example: entropy always increases and is thermodynamically irreversible) says that these experiments in adaptation will occur.  Life is an expanding fractal.

Life will continue changing and expanding.  Adaptation is accepted theory, not an ideology.  An ideology is a rationale based on assumptions.  Resistance to adaption is futile and self defeating if continued.  This means that you should discriminate.  Discrimination is itself a natural law of survival.  The immune system is the origin of the nervous system including the brain, which is fundamentally a system of discrimination and self defense based on fractal differentiation, a testing of fractal molecular variations until a successful fit to form succeeds.  Denial of your natural ability to discriminate, to decide, to judge what is best for yourself and your family is denial of nature itself, a denial of reality.  Reject political correctness.  Judge and let yourself be judged.

Increasing government control by any mechanism contradicts the natural law of entropy and is obviously moving in the wrong direction, which is moving in the direction of self-destruction.  The objective of governments today and their bureaucracy is to maintain the status quo for those in power.  Growth of the bureaucracy is built into the technology of government management.  In stark contrast, the bold, genius objective of the U.S. Constitution – including its first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights – is to protect people’s liberty, since liberty is a right derived from natural laws and God.  The Constitution and Bill of Rights were specifically designed to protect the people from their government, to limit government.  (Don’t believe me.  Read the papers of the founders and framers to discover their genius.)

Anyone wishing to subvert and change the Constitution is your enemy.  Today, there are many and we count the President among them.  Demonstrably, the group of enemies includes members of Congress, many in the boated bureaucracy and certain members of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Their intent and actions are to defeat liberty by blurring the lines drawn in the Constitution, by convincing you that the Constitution is a “living document,” that it should be subjugated to international laws, and by introducing confusion and  changes in laws which defy natural laws.  They persuade you in mass media that we should tolerate behaviors that we abhor.

For example, redistribution of wealth by anything other than the freely shared gift by an individual is rejection of natural law and acceptance of an unproven hypothesis of collective consciousness.  This is true regardless if proposed by a church, a government or a non-governmental organization and for whatever reason it might be proposed.  This   redistribution hypothesis is derived from the ideology of “social justice,” a belief-based ideology (as opposed to a theory or law which has been empirically tested) which encompasses moral equivalence, moral relativity, multi-culturalism and supposed “rights” (which are really choices) specific to an identified group.  It is the in-vogue means of persuasion for political conspirators to control you.  A free man will stand against it with all his being.

So-called “social justice” is the ideology derived from collectivism which is being used, has been used since the 1950’s, to ‘close the American mind’ in the words of the late philosopher Allan Bloom.  Everything, for example the social cost of carbon, is to be judged based on “social justice.”  If you believe that, then you are signing up for Aryanism,  Nihilism, more divisiveness and more of the everlasting war predicted in the dystopian book “1984” by George Orwell.

The existential threat to America from Islam is here and now in America, no where else.  Until that existential threat is addressed, it is foolish and self-destructive to engage them anywhere else.  There is no need for America to send our people, money or weapons to fight ISIS in the Middle East, Indonesia or Africa.

If you feel sorry for the people being slaughtered daily by ISIS in these foreign lands, please remember that several other countries are much closer, under their own existential threat, and they already have plenty of military men and women, plenty of money and plenty of weapons.  The U.S. does not need to do their fighting.

Let me repeat.  Our existential threat from Islam is here at home and now.  Unless we address the moral divide created among us, we will be defeated and lose everything here at home.  This is and has been the offensive strategy of the Islam for many years.

Islamist strategy is published by them and translated into English.  The translation of the title is revealing:  “The Management of Savagery.”  It is easily accessed on the internet.  It is no surprise that Al Qaeda and ISIS have active and professional internet and public relations organizations.  It is no surprise that the U.S. and Russia are once again aggressive toward each other.  It is no surprise that ISIS is forming a new caliphate.  It is no surprise that ISIS is more savage that Al Qaeda.  It is no surprise that Islamic countries try to pull the U.S. and Russia into fighting ISIS.

In its first five years in office, the Obama administration entered into formal agreements to transfer more than $US64 billion in arms and defense services to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, with about three-quarters of that total going to Saudi Arabia. New offers worth nearly $US15 billion have been made to Riyadh in 2014 and 2015. Offered items have included fighter aircraft, attack helicopters, radar planes, refueling aircraft, air-to-air missiles, armored vehicles, artillery, small arms and ammunition, cluster bombs, and missile defense systems…

The Obama arms sales boom has bolstered the bottom lines of companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon. Each firm has been the lead contractor on one or more mega-deals like the $US29 billion offer of 84 Boeing F-15 fighter jets and related equipment to Saudi Arabia, a $6.5 billion sale of Lockheed Martin’s THAAD missile defense system to Qatar, and the proposed transfer of the Lockheed Martin/Raytheon produced Patriot Air and Missile Defense System to Saudi Arabia for $US1.8 billion…

Indonesia and Turkey, Eqypt and Saudi Arabia, each have large, powerful and trained military.  Each can easily destroy ISIS, if they wish.

Our problem is our moral problem here at home in America.  Until we are willing to profile and identify Islamists in America, no peaceful Muslim is safe in America.  Until we are willing to identify our enemy and remove them, until our elected leaders are forced by us to identify our enemy and remove them, then our nation is moving toward its intended destruction as planned by Islamists.

This is not something nebulous happening far off or in the future.  The destruction of America is underway now, today, in your town.  If you allow this is continue, the next stages of savagery will be at your door.  Teaching tolerance is Islamist strategy to penetrate and occupy nations.  Depleting the welfare programs of the countries they move to is Islamist strategy.  Destroying the will to fight is Islamist strategy.  Concentrating Muslims in communities and then electing Islamists to political office is Islamist strategy.  Converting violent prisoners and disaffected, rebellious youth to Islam is Islamist strategy.  The goal of their strategy is world domination.

If you are not Islamophobic, then you have been successfully conditioned by Islamism.  There is no moral equivalence between Islamic culture and our culture.  Enablement of Islamic strategy is accomplished by inducing liberals and academics to tolerate Muslim customs, behaviors and traditions under the philosophy of moral equivalence, as if there is no right or wrong.  But when Muslim population grows, they will wipe out those liberals and academics first.

No peaceful Muslim will trust America until America addresses the moral and existential threat from Islam within America’s borders.  They know their life is in danger from within their own community if they speak up.  It is the rare, heroic Muslim or former Muslim who speaks up and stands against them.  They are risking their lives for you.  Since 9-11-2001, Islamists have killed in the name of their Allah eight of their Muslim brothers, sisters and children for each non-Muslim.  As a result, most Muslims are already terrorized and conditioned, prisoners of the Stockholm Syndrome.

You must speak up and stand up against the Islamic threat within and elect politicians who will do the same.  You must not tolerate politicians who cannot or will not for whatever reason identify this enemy.  Demand that they bring home the men and women in our military, and our military equipment and money.  Tell them to stop arming, training and funding our enemy abroad.  If you do not do these things, then all is lost.

New research paper by a former UN IPCC lead author: 8000 years of ice core data were examined. From the abstract at the link below: “The average standard deviation of temperature was 0.98 ± 0.27 °C. This suggests that while some portion of the temperature change observed in the 20th century was probably caused by greenhouse gases, there is a strong likelihood that the major portion was due to natural variations.”

UN IPCC’s estimate of man-made warming plus natural warming is 0.85 degrees in total, an amount of warming which is less than the standard deviation 0.98 degrees for the last 8,000 years.

In other words, this amount of warming is not significant within the context of the Earth’s climate history.

• Philip Lloyd

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276276180_An_Estimate_of_The_Centennial_Variability_of_Global_Temperatures

The Viscount Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley takes Obama to task on Obama’s illiteracy.

Does the 'leader' of the free world really know so little about climate?

Defeating the Oligarchy in an Age of Apathy.