It's an Era of Angry Populism and No One Is Immune RL Jan 22 16

Politics

• It's an Era of Angry Populism and No One Is Immune
• The Naked and the Right
• GOP Field Bereft Of Free-Traders
• The Average Conservative Doesn't Care About Free Markets

• Gohmert: Evangelicals Should Worry Trump Will Return to Lifelong Liberal Principles
• Levin: Trump Running ‘Nixonian,’ ‘Alinsky-ite’ Campaign Against Cruz
• Coulter: Liberal and Conservative Media Unite Against Trump
• Don’t Let Trump Define Conservatism in His Image by Erick Erickson 
• The Battle for the Soul of the Right by Rich Lowry 

• Is Trump a McConnell-Rove Establishment Tool?
• Levin: ‘Agrarian National Populism’ Not Conservative — ‘Morons, Phony Intellectuals … Pandering’

• What Would a Donald Trump Presidency Look Like? | Daily Wire
• Ted Cruz

the Left

• Oscar-winning '12 Years a Slave' Actress Accuses Academy of 'Unconscious Prejudice'
• BET Founder: Studios Should Be Willing to Lose Money for Diversity
• Will Smith to Boycott White Oscars… ‘Diversity is the American Superpower’

• Jada Pinkett Smith: 'White Oscars' Controversy 'Isn't Really About the Oscars'
• Women of ‘The View’ Turn on Guest Host When She Asks If Exclusively Black Programming Increases Racial Division
• Breitbart’s Milo Launches Scholarship for White Men

Freedom of

• Social Media Giants Go Down the Slippery Slope of Censorship
• California bill over encryption backdoors could prevent Apple from selling iPhones on its home turf | 9to5Mac

• New York Bills Would Prevent No-Fly List Members From Obtaining Carry Licenses
• Police department charging TV news network $36,000 for body cam footage | Ars Technica

• The Kochs' Biggest Sin: Disagreeing with Liberal Narrative
• James O’Keefe’s Common Core Videos Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg, Part II
• Common Core Education Teaches “Dead White Guys Didn’t Discover America”
• Exclusive: Former Pearson Exec Reveals Anti-American Agenda in Common Core 

Clinton

• Clinton emails so secret some lawmakers can't read them | Fox News
• Report: Senior Lawmakers Not Authorized to View Most Sensitive Clinton Emails
• Clinton SPOX Says Intelligence IG Out to ‘Take Hillary Down’
• Former CIA Official: 'Zero Ambiguity' Over Hillary's Email Conduct, 'Absolutely' Endangered Lives 

BtF: Thnks, Executive, Foreign, Migration, 2016, the Mess, and the Others

Ohio and NAFTA

I can't speak to the facts here but i have no reason not to accept them. The Dems have been making an argument, cheered on by the some people in Ohio that NAFTA is the cause of all their problems. As they always do they have an answer, another useless and ridiculous one. The facts that i accept. the decline in the manufacturing losses in Ohio started in the early 80's, before Bush, before Clinton and before NAFTA. Ohio has the fifth highest tax rate in the US and has gotten there on a pretty steep incline.

Given that, NAFTA is not to blame. It is the fault of the people in Ohio and little can be done on the federal level to change that. The second complaint is the large number of foreclosures. That in the end is on the heads of the individuals. they signed the papers, not the sate or fed. There may have been some hard sell or a little misdirection but little to no illegal acts and in no way wide spread.

The solutions, well i am unclear exactly what they are but we have to include global warming and pollution as part of the fix. What does that have to job and housing loss in Ohio?

So media ( i am really starting to hate that term) have spent how many days on this? Was it a complete waste of time? Candidates for the President of the United States are having an argument over an issue, you have to cover it even if it is completely ridiculous. How many silly little tiffs have there been? The picture. The plagiarism charge.

These things are not only pointless and distracting they are they slowly over time warping our perception of issues, of what's important and, the worst reality.

A world View of the Pres.

CNN was asking some voters in TX about the debate last night. One of them thought it would be a good message, or that the world would except us better if we elected a black president. What? Why the hell do i care? The Pres. is the most visible, but that shouldn't play a role. his policies should. what a bunch of superficial nonsense.

Who would the world elect site

i thought this site might be of interest. After about a minute on the site i got kind of pissed. Part of the world don't understand the basics of this country let alone the the complexities of it. From what i recall N. Korea thinks we eat babies or something. Who gives a flying crap who they think the next POTUS should be. Other issues yes, that not a chance.