The Trump Administration

What you get when you place people against government, IN your government.

Insanity.

Link:  Oh Dear God. They're Giving Rick Perry Nukes.

Betsy DeVos and the Plan to Break Public Schools

Quote of the day

"The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain." --Thomas Jefferson, 1809

President Obama makes brilliant move

Did you hear the announcement yesterday that President Obama asked Congress for the power to reorganize--and shrink--the federal government, especially as it applies to the Commerce Department? He's "...prodding Congress to give him greater power to merge agencies and promising he would start by collapsing six major economic departments into one." He wants to combine the Trade and Commerce Departments, at minimum. It really is downright brilliant. It hits the Republicans, the Right Wing, the Tea Party and "Conservatives" and even the Libertarians right where they live--or right where they want to live. That's what people don't realize about Democrats and the Left, too. They don't get that actually liberals also want smaller, more effective government. It's just that they (we) do want a safety net, so to speak, for the poorest of us but there's no reason we can't or shouldn't have smaller but more effective government. As I said, it's a brilliant move and it undercuts the very things the Republican candidates for his job say he--President Obama--won't do or isn't capable of. Fantastic. Now, if the Republicans in Congress don't give it to him, they'll look like idiots or hypocrites--or both--and he can use it against them. If they give it to him, he gets credit for shrinking and organizing government better. It's a total win situation for him. Link: http://times247.com/articles/power-grab-obama-wants-authority-to-merge-agencies-at-will

Quote of the day--on government and the "delclaration of rights"

"By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against monopolies, trial by juries in all cases, no suspensions of the habeas corpus, no standing armies. These are fetters against doing evil which no honest government should decline." ..........Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, February 7, 1788, Papers, 12:571

As the Beach Boys used to sing:  "Wouldn't it be nice?"

Oh, and Mr. Obama, we really would like that habeas corpus back.

Permanently.


I took this quote, too, from that blog of which I just became aware:  http://www.nocorprule.blogspot.com/

Nothing but a win?

Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Texas


No one else killed.