NEWS FEED MONDAY: Democrats Push for a Recession

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 19, 2019
  • 2 min read

These three things are all true: The United States almost certainly isn’t in a recession right now. It may well avoid one for the foreseeable future. But the chances that the nation will fall into recession have increased sharply in the last two weeks.

— New York Times, August 16 1969

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that “there’s no recession on the horizon.”

— Fox News Sunday, via Real Clear Politics, August 18, 2019
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Can Warren Beat Trump?

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 17, 2019
  • 1 min read

Joe Biden’s strongest selling point — that he’s the most likely to beat Donald Trump — is losing some of its edge, as Elizabeth Warren vaults into second place because a growing number of Democrats think she can win the general election.

— Bloomberg

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Bloomberg reports that more Democrats are seeing Liz Warren as a comer. She can beat Trump in 2020, they believe. Seems there’s no population limit in the Democrats’ Jonestown. They’ve got a factory churning out the Kool-Aid, folks!
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NEWS FEED SUNDAY: Woodstock: Three Days of Muddy Debauchery

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 17, 2019
  • 1 min read

WHITE LAKE — Tens of thousands of young music fans today began abandoning the muddy chaos of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

Advertised as three days of “peace and music,” the fair in this Catskill community has turned into a massive traffic jam in a giant mud puddle that has resulted in the death of one youth and the hospitalization of scores of others, many of them suffering adverse drug reactions.

— UPI Archives, August 16 1969
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Philly, ICE, and Out of Control Cop Hate

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 15, 2019
  • 2 min read

You can’t make this up. Six cops were wounded in a shootout with a bad dude in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood in Philly. Looks like Nicetown has some really mean streets. Locals turned against cops there, too. Cop hate is growing worse by the day. Beat cops in America’s gritty cities aren’t the only ones at risk, though.
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Needed: More Showgirls Running for Congress

Rob Meyne

  • Aug. 14, 2019
  • 4 min read

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that politicians will do almost anything to get elected. If that astonishes you, I would refer you to other recent news: water is wet, fish swim, and birds fly.

If hypocrisy were money, the political class could retire, en masse, move to desert islands, leave the rest of us alone, and let Buck, your yard guy, run the country. If he cares as much about us as he does about the palm trees, he’s my guy.
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Sure, nuclear war sucks, but the Mets pitching is worse

Rob Meyne

  • Aug. 12, 2019
  • 3 min read

Several lifetimes ago, I was privileged to work at the Republican National Committee during President Reagan’s re-election campaign. We may talk about that more in the months ahead, but it comes to mind today because of a piece by John Stossel.

In communications training, we would help candidates discuss political issues in terms that show how they impact specific values, those things Americans care deeply about. If you tell people you want to cut taxes, you must make the connection that it will leave you with more money to save, spend, or invest, thus enabling you to go on vacation, save for college, and more.
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NEWS FEED FRIDAY: Springfield, Mo. – A Gun Saves Lives at a Walmart?

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 9, 2019
  • 1 min read

Police say the man then made his way out an emergency exit where a former firefighter held the man at gunpoint. At that moment Springfield Police arrived on scene and detained the man.

— KY3-TV News NBC

QUICK TAKE

Guns are evil, we hear over and over from the gun control mob. But guns are only tools and only bad in the wrong hands.
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Do Spoons Make You Fat?

Rob Meyne

  • Aug. 9, 2019
  • 3 min read

It probably shouldn’t be necessary to expound on the horror of mass shootings. Anyone who doesn’t understand, or share, the sentiment, isn’t deserving of a seat at the table of rational discourse. That said, it’s possible there isn’t an issue where political hypocrisy is more pervasive.

For years, the cry from conservatives was “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

As clearly truthful as that statement is, it irritates anti-gun folks. More recent permutations of the thought include notions such as “If guns cause murder, spoons make me fat.” Do pens misspell words or computers force you to look at online porn? Many readers no doubt would love to think those are valid excuses. We’ll keep you posted.
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Democrats’ Dayton Silence

J Robert Smith

  • Aug. 7, 2019
  • 2 min read

Banging the drums loudest about the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, Beto, Bernie, Biden, and Liz Warren. Not, mind you, to mourn the dead and commiserate with the bereaved. Expressions of sympathy were cursory from that unfabulous four. But to dump on Trump. To brand the president a white supremacist sympathizer, a gun-happy, wannbe exterminator of Hispanics. Or so MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace claimed – until she backtracked.
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Pass the Piano, Trump Should Tweet More, and Other Things No One Says

By Rob Meyne

  • Aug 6, 2019
  • 4 min read

One of the extraordinary things about President Trump is the extent and intensity of feelings among those who dislike him. If you’re making a list, don’t plan on being able to finish it over a quick RC and Moon Pie from 7-11.

For those who like him, it can be off-putting. Surveys do show the overwhelming majority of Republicans support the President. It is typically somewhere in the mid-80s. To be frank, if he doesn’t have a huge majority of GOP voters at this point, he might as well just ask what kind of beer the White House should begin stocking for Sleepy Joe or Fauxcohantas, fold his tent, and go home.

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