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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Miscellany: 2/11/16

Quote of the Day
Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and 
you may be disappointed. 
Strive to be the best and you may succeed: 
he may well win the race that runs by himself.
Benjamin Franklin

Tweet of the Day
The troll responded with a collage of massive crowds at Trump rallies.
Moving on. There was a flame war with colorful language that I'm not going to reproduce here.
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How the Dems Killed Illinois Manufacturing With Bad Policies



Taxes and Fair Share



Facebook Corner

(Reason). Tonight’s New Hampshire primary results represent a rebuke not only to America’s two-party political system, but to America’s entire class of political and economic elites.
I realize a number of libertarians are rejoicing that two grossly incompetent "outsiders" have got their party leaderships worried over their party's chances over maverick politicians out of the mainstream of their party's positions. It seems Lew Rockwell at every opportunity on his website openly rejoices how Trump has the GOP in a state of panic. The Democrats remember how Nixon steamrolled McGovern, and Sanders is left of McGoverrn. The GOP knows alienation of immigrant groups played a role in Romney's defeat, and it could be stuck with an even worse candidate with unfavorables off the charts and cause catastrophic losses over the entire ticket.

This has nothing to do with new politics or ideology. For example, Sanders and Clinton have very similar policies. The rebuke of Clinton has more to do with her huge baggage and lack of political skills. As for Trump, he is a celebrity. Citing his opposition to the Iraq War as a Democrat is really cherrypicking--he is not a principled non-interventionist, he has openly advocated taking Iraq's oil, restoring waterboarding and worse in the War on Terror, and sharply increasing the DoD budget.

Stop rejoicing at the success of unconventional candidates who are far more Statist than the mainstream. Be really careful of what you wish for; libertarians would face worse problems than we do now in the status quo. Fascism from the left or right is repulsive; Trump in particular openly admires strongmen running Russia and North Korea

Political Cartoon
Courtesy of Glenn McCoy via Townhall
Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists

Jim Croce, "I'll Have to Say I Love You In a Song". Croce's last Top 10 hit.