Monday, August 17, 2015

Liberal media love John Kasich, and so does Michigan's libertarian radio talker Steve Gruber

Liberal media love Governor John Kasich of Ohio.

For example:

WaPo:


Slate:


MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell:


Fake conservative radio talker Steve Gruber on Lansing's 1240 WJIM loves him too: 


And here was Gruber's "me love you long time, sailor boy" in June:


It just goes to show once again that libertarianism has more in common with liberalism than it does with conservatism.

Liberal Stevie, John Kasich doesn't stand a chance!

Just 2% of registered voters believe Hillary Clinton has told the truth about her email

Wait until you see his war face


Sunday, August 16, 2015

Trump: I want to make America great again


Obama's going to give Iran nukes and George Will is worried about giving them to Donald Trump


Reminds me of the lefties who once worried about Reagan's temperament in an arms race against the USSR.

Trump comes out swinging with illegal immigration policy paper


Grab your box of Depends. The Donald means business.

Some highlights:








  • Triple the number of ICE officers
  • Implement nationwide e-verify
  • Mandatory deportation of all criminal aliens
  • No more catch and release
  • Cut-off federal funds to sanctuary cities
  • Criminalize visa overstays
  • Deploy ICE with local police in gang raids
  • End birthright citizenship
  • Increase prevailing wage requirements for H-1B visas to stem the tide of foreign hires at US workers' expense
  • Immigrants must prove they are self-supporting
  • Terminate the jobs program for foreign youth
  • Suspend issuance of green cards to foreign workers until employment improves for citizens
  • Make Mexico pay for the wall, or impound remittances derived from illegal wages ($22 billion in 2013) and increase fees on temporary visas of Mexican CEOs and diplomats, on all border crossing cards, on NAFTA worker visas and at all ports of entry from Mexico
  • Generally restore the rule of law and order by actually enforcing existing laws

New FOX NEWS poll boosts Trump to +12 lead over Jeb Bush in Real Clear Politics average for GOP nomination


Donald Trump threatens with a big stick, invokes Generals MacArthur and Patton this morning on NBC's Meet the Press


"General MacArthur, General Patton, they didn't talk, they got the job done. ... They're spinning in their graves when they see everybody talking."

Election 2016: bok jop hae


Saturday, August 15, 2015

Donald Trump said Chris Wallace had "blood pouring out of his eyes too" in the same interview about Megyn Kelly

Inquiring minds want to know: How much of Washington D.C. can he fire?
But you didn't know about that because the subsequent coverage made it all about Megyn Kelly.

Here's the full interview with Don Lemon on CNN and Trump says that at about 4:55 in.

So clearly what's on Donald Trump's mind in characterizing the debate is the mercenary character of the debate moderators, and he was completely within reason to suggest that different interpretations emanated from deviant thinking.

h/t Jim Goad here: "Why place things in context when there’s an agenda to pursue?"


Poor little rich girl Megyn Kelly complains she hasn't had a vacation in six months when many of us haven't since Obama became president seven years ago

Poor little rich girl, here:

Kelly talked on Wednesday's program about how she hasn't had a real vacation for six months. She'll be back on August 24.

New US oil swap with Mexico gives them light sweet crude, us heavier grades bypassing refinery mismatch

According to the story here, perhaps as many as 100,000 barrels a day of light sweet US crude oil will head south to Mexican refineries in exchange for heavier grades for which US Gulf refineries are a better match.

Rand Paul and Chris Christie, Nos. 8 & 9 in the polls, attack No. 1 Donald Trump

He's a lumberjack . . . he's OK
Rand Paul mocked Trump here in the middle of the week while affecting the country style, promptly fleeing the country to do a medical mission in Haiti this weekend. Not quite the same stuff as suspending the campaign to go to Washington to vote for bailouts like McCain did in 2008, but combined with his record of disdain for fundraising and his reaction to the legal trouble hitting his campaign team just before the Ohio debate, running away is what it looks like. Bad optics, so to speak.

And speaking of bad optics, an unsuited Chris Christie here called The Donald unsuited to be the president while wearing a pastel sport shirt, saying a President Trump simply can't tell Speaker Boehner he's fired. Well, not dressed like that.
Easter's over governor

Friday, August 14, 2015

Greeks pass third draconian austerity/bailout package 222 to 64 with 11 abstentions

Looks like Alexis Tsipras' Syriza MPs defected in a big way: 32 No votes this time with 11 abstentions and 1 absent. This could prove fatal to Tsipras' continuance as Prime Minister. The Syriza coalition of the Left with 149 members partners with Independents with 12 in the 300 seat parliament. Tsipras' core support in parliament appears to have fallen to 39%.

The "erratic Marxist" Yanis Varoufakis voted No, after voting Yes and No previously, and reportedly offered to resign his seat so that Tsipras may appoint a reliable vote to replace him. 

The Guardian has full coverage here.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Trump's Real Clear Politics poll average drops because Real Clear dropped the CBS poll

I took a screen shot of the poll average this morning at 9:32 thinking Real Clear Politics would replace the CBS poll it dropped, which reduced Trump's lead, but so far today RCP has not done so. Trump goes from 22.8 to 22.5 in the average as a result, and in the spread from 10.8 to 10.7. Did Real Clear Politics change the order also to deceive?

Here's the last average including the CBS News poll
Here's the average today with CBS News poll removed

Monday, August 10, 2015

Japan will finally restart one nuclear power reactor tomorrow after 4-year shutdown since Fukushima accident

Reported here:

Japan's 48 functioning reactors have largely been shut since the catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011, one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.

Kyushu's Sendai reactor is one of at least 25 expected to restart over the course of the next decade as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims for nuclear power to generate 20-22 percent of the country's electricity by 2030, compared to 30 percent before the nuclear closures. Another 20 reactors are in various stages of the restart process, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute.



Megyn Kelly the vampire: blood coming out of her eyes and her wherever

Beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melted into blood.
He tells her something that makes her blood look out.
Many will swoon when they do look on blood.