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Monday, September 14, 2015

Miscellany: 9/14/15

Quote of the Day
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done 
because he wants to do it.
Dwight Eisenhower

Tweet of the Day
Image of the Day

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Bobby Jindal Is Spot On About Donald Trump



Towards the Frontier of Free Markets in Health Care



Choose Life: Adorable Brazilian Baby Girl Scares Daddy Trying to Cut Her Nails



Idiotic GOP Proposed Restrictions on Immigration



Rand Paul on the Phony Conservative Donald Trump



Why Political Whores Destroyed the Constitution



Facebook Corner

(Reason). Donald J. Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, Scott Walker, et al turn their backs on Ronald Reagan in favor of nonsense, xenophobia, and outright cruelty. Here are the 5 craziest things GOP presidential candidates have said about immigration in the past few weeks.
Yeah, this is what I will never understand about libertarians. Illegal immigration isn't immigration, but they never want to have a rational discussion on what legal immigration SHOULD be, or what is wrong with it now. When you get down to the distilled essence of libertarianism, they don't believe in any kind of borders at all, which makes their love of the Constitution seem so very strange. Without borders, when, where, and how do you enforce any kind of law at all?
 OP is just a Know-Nothing troll. He ignores the win-win nature of immigration. I don't give a damn about your perverse nationalism. The restrictions unions and xenophobes put on our open immigration heritage are intrinsically unconstitutional and economically illiterate. (The Constitution discusses naturalization, not immigration constraints.)

(Reason). This is the biggest refugee crisis since World War II, a humanitarian emergency of the highest order, and the U.S. isn't doing enough to ameliorate it.
We have a moral obligation, through our irresponsible meddling in Syrian internal affairs, exacerbating the civil war, not to mention indirectly arming ISIS with hundreds of millions in weapons, ammunition, etc. We need to go beyond Obama's shameful token commitment of 10,000. We need to start at 100,000.

Iraq's Christians



Political Humor



Political Cartoon
Courtesy of Eric Allie via IPI

Courtesy of the original artist via the Washington Examiner
Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists

Lionel Richie, "All Night Long". Arguably his biggest #1 hit; I remember him performing this song at the Olympics.