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Steve set the stage, once again with his “The Paris treaty Is Just Another Progressive Climate Con” post (although I think I’ve mentioned somewhere as well).  Here’s a good example of why it is all about the Benjamins and not the BTUs (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Turkey Retreats From Paris Climate Treaty…

Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan admits the only reason for being in the Paris Climate Treaty was to get money from the U.S. and other more wealthy nations.  Now that the U.S. has pulled out of the treaty, there’s no reason to expect the financial benefits.  Proving yet again, for the eleventyth time, that the entire construct of the Paris Climate Treaty had nothing to do with the actual climate (ie. weather), and everything to do with economic wealth distribution.

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And the news is from CNN (oh wait, should it be believed??)!  Yikes – they’re even saying the stuff we are:

Several factors could be driving the uptick, Gallup said. Premiums rose substantially in 2017 for those who don’t qualify for federal subsidies, and many consumers had fewer choices on the exchanges because insurers bailed out of Obamacare this year.

That which is unsustainable won’t continue. Now, will the GOP in Washington have the political guts to

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D. Hawthorne over at American Greatness has something on which to contemplate given the trajectory this country is following when compared to what the Founders intended:

The American Founding: The Declaration’s Natural Rights ? Individual Character Formation to Create Good Citizens Capable of Self-Government ? Culture with Vibrant Mediating Institutions ? Limited Government
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Today’s Progressive Revolution: Relativism in a Naked Public Square ? Society Dominated by a Powerful Elite ? Atrophied Culture ? Individuals as Wards of the State

And then he goes to state what he means for each of these:

• The American Founding: The Declaration’s Natural Rights
• The American Founding:  Creating Good Citizens Capable of Self-Government
• The American Founding: Building a Culture with Vibrant Mediating Institutions (don’t miss the bit about “social justice”)
• The American Founding: Limited Government

And then he compares those foundational ideas and goals with what we see with what the Progressivism has wrought:

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Yeah, those “Open Borders” people are all about keeping them open – until it actually affects them and their families:

Hollywood superstar George Clooney is reportedly going to move his family back to the United States amid a myriad of terrorist activity in England. Clooney, who is pro-refugee, currently lives in England with his wife Amal and newborn twins Ella and Alexander. According to a report from Life and Style Magazine, Clooney and his family are making the move over increased security concerns in the United Kingdom.

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This is hilarious and yet another example of unions going over the top and diving into the proverbial “No logic and bad optics” chasm. Another one of those “you’ve GOT to be kidding me” stupidity of a government union.  College brings in goats to eat weeds and the AFSCME wants to put in a grievance that union members no longer have jobs because of four legged critters? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

The 400-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a wooded lot is taking away jobs from laid-off union workers.  “AFSCME takes protecting the jobs of its members very seriously and we have an agreed-upon collective bargaining agreement with Western Michigan,” said Union President Dennis Moore. “We expect the contract to be followed, and in circumstances where we feel it’s needed, we file a grievance.”  The grievance alleges that the university did not notify the union that it was planning to use goat crews on campus, according to a chief steward report supplied to the Battle Creek Enquirer.

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It’s all about the demonization.

You know, Democrats just love to blow through “words” or “memes” about their opponents.  It isn’t enough to call them (er, that would be us) wrong, silly, or dumb.  No, it is always a case of trying to make us so distasteful personally as to make people in the middle shirk from the stances when it comes to voting.  An example of what they’ve done to themselves is that at the turn of the last century, Democrats (and some Republicans) that loved the idea of Socialism (and anti_Constitutional values) but knew it would never fly at the ballot box called themselves “Progressives” – they just couldn’t be truthful.  They wore that out and switched to being “Liberals” until they made that radioactive and have now switched back to Progressive.  I do think it rather laughable that some of them, Bernie Sanders among them, call themselves “Democrat Socialists” as if there is a difference between being that and just being a Socialist.  After all (and if you remember), none of the leading Democrats would dare tell anyone with a microphone what the difference was between a Democrat and a Socialist.  But I digress.

White Supremacist – you have to appreciate the irony of Democrats, who founded the Ku Klux Klan, trying to label others as being the racists.

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