Small Victories

Macy's announced that it has ceased contributions to Planned Parenthood. Good for Macy's not wanting to be associated with a baby body parts supplier! Several other major corporations dropped PP last year after the body parts scandal broke, including AT&T, Coca Cola, Ford and Xerox. Good for them too! Step-by-step the pro-life side is winning the battle against this monstrous evil. 

www.lifenews.com/2016/12/07/macys-we-no-longer-donate-to-planned-parenthood-abortion-business/?

A Modest Proposal for College Reform

Victor Davis Hanson (who is in residence at the Hoover Institute at Stanford) makes a modest proosal to reform colleges that are charging students a bazillion dollars for an education that all too often doesn't even qualify them to handle the counter at Starbuck's:

"... how bizarre that colleges audit high-school diplomas by giving college-entrance tests (their theory being that straight A’s from Selma High school in California’s Central Valley are not comparable to straight A’s at the Menlo School in the Silicon Valley), but the schools themselves are not audited. Surely higher education would not object to a national college-exit exam as a requirement for receiving a bachelor’s degree. Call it a smaller version of the bar exam, or perhaps a reverse SAT or ACT test."

I like it. Everyone else is regulated, as Hanson notes, why not colleges? Why not indeed!
www.nationalreview.com/article/442777/biased-media-left-wing-colleges-ripe-reform-trump

Why Abolishing the Electoral College is a Colossally Bad Idea

Michael Barone, the election technician par excellence, tells us in Townhall why abolishing the electoral college would lead to California (and a few other big cities) imposing its political values on the rest of us poor schlubs. If you have seen the voting maps of the recent Presidential election, it was a solid sea of red washing against the shores of a few blue islands scattered across the country, mostly on the two coasts. These are the major cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. If the U.S. were to shift to a popular election for President, it wouldn't matter how closely divided the country was, the major cities could impose their collective will on the country. And they have been run so well. 

townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2016/12/06/ditching-electoral-college-would-allow-california-to-impose-imperial-rule-on-a-colonial-america-n2255270

Stephen Moore, also in Townhall, documents how middle class voters are fleeing these states because the quality of life and their business environments are atrocious with high taxes, high regulations, and sclerotic environmental regulations. Those fleeing understand that, as Moore points out:

"Even when it comes to income inequality, blue states fare worse than red states. According to a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute, three of the states with the largest gaps between rich and poor are those progressive icons New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Sure, Boston, Manhattan and Silicon Valley are booming as the rich prosper. But outside these areas are deep pockets of poverty and wage stagnation."

Even though they are consistently losing population, the big Blue states open the immigration floodgates to replace the middle class that is getting out of Dodge with low skill, government aid-dependent immigrants to keep their voting margins. The rich get richer and the poor poorer. Oh well, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. 
townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2016/12/06/the-progressivestate-depression-n2255643

One last interesting tidbit. Would it be a surprise that a map of the high crime areas across the United States corresponds closely to the voting map above? The answer is "no" if you have been paying attention but the politicians always wager that you are not. Unfortunately for many of them, in 2016 the voters woke up and did a thorough house-cleaning. We'll see what it yields but at least at the moment there is hope of a change for the better. Fall for the popular election baloney, however, and all is lost. The Founders knew what they were doing. 

www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/crime-rates-by-county/

The Big Bad Wolf

The Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetzov is a fearsome looking weapon. Ineffective, but fearsome looking. Once it paraded past Britain on its way to the Med and set up station off Lebanon, it then quickly offloaded its jets to a land base in Syria after several operational accidents. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again and they have. Same result. Spash one Su-33 that recently attempted a landing and proceeded to roll off the deck into the drink. Tell you what Mr. P - we'll put up the Teddy Roosevelt against your Kuznetzov and see which comes out on top. No? Spoil sport. 

www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/12/05/second-russian-jet-crashes-failed-carrier-landing-near-syria/

God Has the Last Laugh

Castro's jeep and trailer bearing his casket broke down on the way to his final resting place and had to be pushed by his honor guard. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/04/castro-ashes-breaks-down-viva-la-revolucion/

Never Forget

This is what happen when we forget and don't pay attention. Never forget.

Real World

Check out the video directed to Hampshire College kids who convinced their Brave New World college administrators to remove the American flag from campus because it offended them, or made them nervous, or mess their pants or something. It's time to grow up. 

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