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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Miscellany: 3/29/16

Quote of the Day
That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. 
Simple can be harder than complex: Y
ou have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. 
But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

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Courtes y of the original artist via LFC


Footage of Fields Being Assaulted by Trump's Campaign Manager

Fields, former Breitbart reporter, is the woman in the cream-colored top to the right of Trump at the beginning of the clip. Lewandowski has a horseshoe hairline, bluish shirt and approaches Fields diagonally from behind Trump and grabs her left arm.

via Gawker
Via Mother Jones



I LOVE Tiger Mom!



Facebook Corner

(Reason). History shows the flaws in temporary "fixes" against populist takeovers.
I don't think the point is whether the third party would be successful in 2016. For those of us who are #NeverTrump (I happen to be pro-liberty conservative), we already realize that Trump will lose to Clinton or Sanders. The issue is more of preparing a vehicle in the future, as I'll discuss shortly.

 From a historical standpoint, what is truly disconcerting is the fact the Democrats never really got over the Bryan insurgency. Even after he lost to McKinley, he went on to capture 2 of the next 3 nominations, losing those, too. One could have argued that Teddy Roosevelt's populist progressive candidacy in 1912 in theory could have split off a number of Democrats.

 Third-party candidacies do win, of course, at least on the state level: we have 3 current senators proving that, and a former governor of Minnesota. Buckley did it in NY under the Conservative ticket. Of course, third party efforts often fizzle out, like the Bull Moose movement and Perot's Reform. It's hard to see the independent candidacies broaden beyond the current officeholders; even Buckley sought to win reelection as a Republican. 

 I have no idea what Erickson or others might do if Trump wins the nomination. I'm intrigued by the concept of a NY Conservative twist, where (let's call it the American Conservative Party) fields its own candidate for President and then nominates mostly GOP nominees down ballot. This could serve as a potential poison pill warning to future GOP nominees that unprincipled candidates like Trump.would be committing political suicide.

 The Trump candidacy, of course, is a failure of the RNC which allowed a self-serving political whore like Trump a path to the nomination, someone with s political agenda inconsistent with orthodoxy across the board, who is preaching a toxic anti-immigration policy, threatening trade wars and penalties against companies who invest overseas, trying to turn US alliances into cash cows, and continuing the unsustainable entitlement house of cards.

 Why the RNC didn't tell this piece of work to go his own way when he first threatened to go rogue, I don't know. Why the other candidates let him off the hook after he took the lead, I don't know. But now we're facing a nominee running against the consensus of his own party, and the Trump cancer may well kill the GOP.

Choose Life: Holocaust Survivor Child Meets His First Grandchild

If you don't recognize the melody playing in the background, it's Lennon's "Beautiful Boy".



Catchy Boy Band Collaboration



Political Cartoon

Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall
Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists

Stevie Wonder, "Go Home"

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