Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Not-the-face-of-Islam strikes again: Politically-correct Daily Express calls Muslims charged with sexual assault "Asian men"
Not-the-face-of-Islam strikes again:
How many Japs or Chicoms do you know named Mohammed Sadeer, Ittefaq Yousaf, Arfan Iqbal, or Naheem Akram?
The inflation-adjusted price of the average prime slave from 1860 is $44,100, very close to the 2014 raw average US wage of $44,569
The average price of a prime slave from 1860 was about $1,500. Using the consumer price index, that's the equivalent of about $44,100 in 2014. The raw US average wage in 2014 was $44,569 according to the Social Security Administration.
The annual mean price of the labor of a slave from 1860 brought a return on investment of about 12%, and on a month to month basis about 14%. In 2014, corporate profits before taxes came to 12.7% of GDP.
Total slave population in 1860 is estimated to be 3.95 million, 14.7% of the total white population.
The annual mean price of the labor of a slave from 1860 brought a return on investment of about 12%, and on a month to month basis about 14%. In 2014, corporate profits before taxes came to 12.7% of GDP.
Total slave population in 1860 is estimated to be 3.95 million, 14.7% of the total white population.
See The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert Evans Jr. of MIT (1962), here.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Trump in 1999: I am pro-choice . . . but I just hate it
That's not going to kill him, it's going to advance the narrative that Trump "grew" as he got older, grew out of his liberalism.
Video, highly edited, here.
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Another Obama achievement: deliberately bankrupting coal companies, destroying jobs and making electricity more expensive
From the story here at Bloomberg yesterday detailing the coal bankruptcies:
Obama has backed tougher limits on carbon dioxide blamed for climate change.
New mercury standards that took effect last year led utilities to retire 23 gigawatts of coal-fired electricity, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
On Friday, his administration said it will stop leasing public land to coal developers and will weigh raising royalty fees for exploration while it studies the fuel’s environmental impacts.
Both production and demand for coal this year will fall to the lowest level since 1983, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said this week. ...
Arch [Coal Inc.] has followed Alpha Natural Resources Inc., Patriot Coal Corp., Walter Energy Inc. and James River Coal Co., in bankruptcy.
In other news, mining (129,000) and logging jobs (2,000) declined 131,000 in 2015, the biggest decline since 1986 and the third worst year of declines since 1939.
Since 2007 net generation of electricity from coal has declined by almost 30% through October 2015.
While retail sales of electricity in 2014 are almost exactly identical to such sales in 2007, measured in kilowatthours purchased, the cost of that electricity has gone up over 18% over the same period as coal's role is being deliberately curtailed.
Larry Kudlow today on his radio show repeatedly criticized Ted Cruz' attack on New York values
The Larry Kudlow Show is available by podcast at wabcradio.com.
Unlike fellow Jew Mark Levin, Kudlow found Cruz' debate remarks thoroughly reprehensible and repeatedly called on Cruz to apologize to New Yorkers.
Cruz already is doubling down, however, saying Americans don't want the rest of the country to become like liberal Manhattan.
Cruz is making a big mistake about New York. It shows he has a tin ear for politics. Americans everywhere admire New Yorkers' pluck in the face of adversity, their heroism and determination. It is politically senseless to ask such people to choose now between Ted Cruz and New York when they already have spoken their affection for the city that never sleeps.
Americans will never love Ted Cruz as much as they already love New York.
Rand Paul pledges to do everything he can to stop Trump, and then support him if he's the nominee
Rand Paul, quoted here:
"He would be a disaster. We’ll be slaughtered in a landslide. That’s why my every waking hour is to try to stop Donald Trump from being our nominee. It sounds terrible, 'Oh you're going to support Donald Trump,' but I expect Donald Trump to support me as well if I win."
Friday, January 15, 2016
Mark Levin opens show discussing birther issue telling us it's not important, opens second half hour discussing it the same way
Like Ted Cruz isn't Mark Levin's preferred candidate, especially as in the middle of the first hour Levin tried to destroy Donald Trump using Trump's own previous statements about the differences between New Yorkers' values and those of the rest of the country.
Levin can't stand it that Trump turned this into a discussion about 911.
Levin finishes the hour claiming birthers have said to Levin that both parents must be born in the US.
I call bullshit on that.
I say prove it, Levin. Show us the evidence, and send it to Ann Coulter, whose arguments and column he hasn't dared touch.
Mark Levin is avoiding Ann Coulter.
Marco Rubio's official biography misrepresents his parents as exiles from Castro's Cuba
Castro took over Cuba in 1959 after a guerrilla insurgency begun in December 1956. Marco Rubio's parents left Cuba in 1956, according to this story in the Tampa Bay Times:
'To press their case, birthers dug up Rubio’s parents' immigration papers. While the eligibility question is unresolved, in some eyes, the file (which the Times independently obtained) confirmed his parents were given citizenship in 1975. Rubio at the time said he did not know why his parents waited, though experts told the Times that it wasn’t uncommon for some immigrants to wait.
'The immigration dossier broke some news: It showed Rubio’s parents came to the United States in 1956, not after Fidel Castro took over, as Rubio’s ... official biography noted and he repeatedly implied when talking about his “exile” parents.'
In yesterday's Republican debate in South Carolina, Rubio similarly misrepresented himself on a number of issues.
Rush Limbaugh is so stupid he thinks today's bad sales numbers were deliberately delayed until after the State of the Union address
The data release occurs on a regular schedule, which can be accessed here. There's no conspiracy to make Obama look better, as Limbaugh stated in the show opener today.
New York Values: Osama bin Laden can kiss my royal Irish ass, and I live in Rockaway and this is my face bitch!
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| FDNY firefighter Mike Moran |
Here, The Concert for New York City, October 20, 2001.
Reuters/Ipsos poll indicates 25% to 28% of voters doubt Ted Cruz is eligible to be president
From the story here about the poll taken in the days leading up to last night's debate:
"A quarter of Republicans think White House hopeful Ted Cruz is disqualified to serve as U.S. president . . . Republican voters nearly mirror independents and the broader electorate in their belief that Cruz cannot hold the White House, with 27 percent of all voters and 28 percent of independents responding he should be disqualified."
Cornered like a rat, Ted Cruz last night resorted to a straw man argument to defend his presidential eligibility
From the transcript here:
"At the end of the day, the legal issue is quite straightforward, but I would note that the birther theories that Donald has been relying on -- some of the more extreme ones insist that you must not only be born on U.S. soil, but have two parents born on U.S. soil. Under that theory, not only would I be disqualified, Marco Rubio would be disqualified, Bobby Jindal would be disqualified and, interestingly enough, Donald J. Trump would be disqualified."
No one is arguing that to be eligible both parents must have been born on US soil, only that both parents must be citizens at the time of the candidate's birth in a US jurisdiction.
The extreme non-existent standard propounded by Cruz isn't necessary to exclude him, Rubio and Jindal (and Obama), only the constitutional one which defines natural born citizenship as beyond the reach of statute. Cruz' citizenship is statutory, not constitutional, and that is why he is excluded from eligibility. He acquired citizenship through the law, not through the Constitution:
'Because Cruz's citizenship comes from the law, not the Constitution, as late as 1934, he would not have had "any conceivable claim to United States citizenship. For more than a century and a half, no statute was of assistance. Maternal citizenship afforded no benefit" -- as the Supreme Court put it in Rogers v. Bellei (1971).
'That would make no sense if Cruz were a "natural born citizen" under the Constitution. But as the Bellei Court said: "Persons not born in the United States acquire citizenship by birth only as provided by Acts of Congress." (There's an exception for the children of ambassadors, but Cruz wasn't that.)'
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Ann Coulter's Progress: Only constitutional illiterates confuse citizens and natural born citizens
Here:
'A child born to American parents outside of U.S. territory may be a citizen the moment he is born -- but only by "naturalization," i.e., by laws passed by Congress. If Congress has to write a law to make you a citizen, you're not "natural born." ... Mostly, the Cruz partisans confuse being born a citizen with being a "natural born citizen." This is constitutional illiteracy. "Natural born" is a legal term of art. A retired judge who plays a lot of tennis is an active judge, but not an "active judge" in legal terminology.'
She seems, however, unaware that the 1790 Naturalization Act poses less of a problem for interpretation than she thinks, seeing that it was repealed by the Act of 1795, which scuttled the 1790 terminology "natural born".
Clearly the Congress had made an error in 1790, and realizing that making those born abroad natural born conflicted with the original intent of the constitution to restrict the designation to those born to citizens on US soil, Congress fixed it.
And this nugget Coulter pulls out is quite lovely in that regard:
"The only difference drawn by the Constitution is that only the 'natural born' citizen is eligible to be president." -- Schneider v. Rusk (1964)
Now if only we could get everyone to connect the dots.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
You can blame Nikki Haley, who responded to Trump not Obama, on Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
Reported here:
". . . House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell picked Haley to deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s final State of the Union address."
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