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The principle of spontaneous order – or of “undesigned order,” as it might more properly be called – can be viewed as the first principle of economics.  Indeed, James Buchanan has recently gone so far as to suggest that it is the only principle of economics.  The principle is, in any case, a cornerstone of modern economics, whether we trace modern (i.e., post-mercantilist) economics back to Adam Smith and the other Scottish moral philosophers, or to the Physiocrats.  With this principle, scholars for the first time could see economic phenomena as interdependent events.  Indeed, this principle made it possible to reason systematically and coherently about economic phenomena.  Much of nineteenth century economics can be seen as consisting of developments of this principle (along with minority criticisms of the principle and the systems of thought deduced therefrom).

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Because if it was easy, EVERYONE would be doing it. And they have been.  And that is the whole purpose of the exercise -to make it UNeasy for illegal aliens that eschew our laws to cross our borders (reformatted, emphasis mine):

LIBERAL WRITER: Trump’s Border Wall Would be DANGEROUS for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Sometimes you really have to marvel at the stupidity of progressives and now is one of those times. One of the main reasons Donald Trump is doing so well in the polls is because he’s saying what many Americans are thinking about illegal immigration and border security.  National Journal columnist Clare Foran worries that if a wall is built on the border, as Trump has suggested, people who try to cross into America illegally could be injured.  Her new column is truly stunning.

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Remember, Progressives are just incremental Socialists and Communists believe that Socialism is just a way station to Communism.  Also remember that US Congresswoman (and head of the Democrat National Committee) Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was either unable or unwilling to say on national TV (Chris Matthews, Meet The Press) what the difference was between her Party and Socialists (given self-declared Socialist Bernie Sanders is running for HER Party’s nomination for President).  And I just put up how the New Left (i.e., Communists) made their march through our cultural institutions and right into taking over the Democrat Party (which, in my eyes, no longer Democratic in nature and hasn’t been for a long time with exhibit A being President Obama’s absolute disdain for both the philosophy of and nuts and bolts of the US Constitution).

So, a lesson of political history is in order in case you haven’t gotten the picture yet – Communism’s goals, 1963 and now (reformatted and emphasis mine):

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Once again, we see the hubris of planners and those that have never signed the front of a paycheck in companies that have low profit margins in low skilled worker industries (re: restaurants)(emphasis mine):

In June of last year, the Seattle city council passed a $15 minimum wage law to be phased in over time, with the first increase to $11 an hour taking effect on April 1, 2015. What effect will the eventual 58% increase in labor costs have on small businesses, including area restaurants? It’s too soon to tell for sure, but there is already some evidence that the recent minimum wage hike to $11 an hour, along with the pending increase of an additional $4 an hour by 2017 for some businesses, has started having a negative effect on restaurant jobs in the Seattle area.

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If he’s not careful, his workers are going to end up like those in Seattle – what happened when a town in California raised it’s minimum wage (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Small businesses are already struggling to survive the spate of minimum wage increases to $15 per hour in parts of California.
Last month, the small Bay Area town of Emeryville, California, (population 10,000) decided to act as flag-bearer for raising the minimum wage in California, hiking its minimum wage to $14.44 per hour.  Even though businesses with less than 56 workers are exempt from the $14.44 rate and do not have to raise their wages to $15 until 2018, Vic Gumper, who owns Lanesplitter Pizza, with outlets in Berkeley, Oakland, Albany and Emeryville, decided not only to bite the bullet but swallow it, paying his workers $15 to $25 an hour while eschewing tips or raising prices.

This MUST have been a guy who knew “his numbers” – the important stats about his business that served as his indicators of “working?  not working?” as to whether he could BETTER the now mandatory minimum wage.  WHY else would he have gone whole hog (er, large special) in raising his labor costs?  Was he one of those mean, profit mongering, money greedy capitalists taking advantage of the help to line his own pockets? Umm….

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as he was talking about coal generated electrical plant.  Which means coal.  He never got his Cap N Trade program FORMALLY legislated so he used his EPA to effectively do the same thing.  Coal plants are shutting down because of punative GHG regulations.  And with no market, coal companies are going under – not because people voted for a different energy source via the marketplace but because a few unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats (and True Believers that the US economy must be sacrificed for the betterment of the world) said so.  Coal must be verboten!

Oh wait, WHO is buying up all the almost and now bankrupt coal companies?  Oh, the guy who has been financing all those environmental groups!  Mr.

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And you have to wonder why people are agreeing with Trump for saying “screw political correctness” but I bet some SJW (Social Justice Warrior with an inflated sense of worth, an even bigger sized ego, and an inverse proportion sense of sense) will say that is hate speech as well.  And that is what they do – silencing the debate by guilting you any which way they can.  They never met my Mom – she was so good at it that I can now proudly say she inoculated me against them; they can’t hold a match to her (oh, would that be a climate change nano-aggression?).

And being politically correct takes as much time as it does a lack of brains – I did not know these were no longer good things:

• “Baa, Baa Black Sheep” is racist.
• M.A.s may be racist, postmasters too.Stephen Davis, master of Pierson College at Yale, says the word “master” in his title is severely upsetting some students and driving them off campus.
• Liking white meat is racist.
• Hoop skirts are racist.
• Lunch bags look racist.

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From the article at the Union Leader (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Women go topless to send message of equality at Hampton Beach

To this ordinary schlub, it just seems that the feminist movement has lost its mind over the rather silly idea that parts of the female body can just be “declared” to be asexual just because they say to.  Sorry ladies, but it just doesn’t work that way.  Saying it:

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Rarely do I repost an entire article little commentary – this will be one of those times as the content and style of the piece is such that it hangs altogether on its own.  To pull a snippet here or another one from there would be a slight to the author and I still haven’t figured out how to do that without spoiling it.  In order for Conservatives to understand what has happened to their country, our country, it is necessary to see the history that is not written down in many places.  While this is far from being a treatise, it is long and it is thorough.  You need to read it (emphasis mine) as it outlines the WHY of Democrat National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Shultz.

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The Quiet Revolution: How the New Left Took Over the Democratic Party

By Scott S. Powell

Frustration with division and gridlock in Washington lead many Americans to impugn both political parties for the current broken and ineffective state of government. There is plenty of blame to go around, but below the surface there has been a quiet revolution going on in only one of the two parties — the Democratic Party — which is the main source of today’s irreconcilable division and moral confusion.

What’s remarkable is how the political and cultural center of American values has collapsed in the last two and a half decades with the Democratic Party having moved dramatically to the left. Recently, Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not explain the difference between the modern Democratic Party platform and that of socialism, while at the same time gushing over the prospect of Socialist Bernie Sanders having a prominent place at the 2016 Democratic Party convention.

If people today could somehow be transported back to the time of Harry Truman and Jack Kennedy, they would swear those standard bearers were Republicans with little in common with today’s Democratic Party. 

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This story from The Blaze is one where one guy, foreseeing what things could go wrong, prepared for a risk he judged rightly that came to be (emphasis mine, reformatted):

As wildfires blaze throughout Washington state, one man simply sat in his living room safe and sound as flames reaching up to 20 feet surrounded his home.  That’s because John Belles built his house, a concrete dome, specifically to withstand anything and everything nature could throw his way in Okanogan County.    According to KPTV-TV, the house hadn’t yet been tested by wildfire. But after the flames passed, the survivalist said there was no damage whatsoever to his home.

I take exception to the “survivalist” innuendo, for isn’t it a fact that anyone alive generally wants to continue to live (er, “survive”)? But it looked like he properly gauged his risk and got it right. He goes on with his recounting:

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It looks like this story of the EPA breaching an old gold mine and bespoiling the drinking and irrigation waters of the Animus river – deliberately and after the owner of this defunct mine warned them this might happened – has “legs”.  The EPA’s response was to “ton of bricks” him by threatening him with $35,000 per day fines.  In other words, if you don’t do what we tell you, we will bankrupt you.  Guess that’s the Obama way.

Anyways, a collection of more links:

EPA FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT COERCED MINE OWNER TO GRANT ACCESS

The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t responding to claims by Todd Hennis, owner of the Gold King mine in Colorado that the agency coerced him to grant access to his property. Once taking over, of course, EPA’s incompetent attempts to remove debris created a massive 3 million gallon toxic waste spill from the mine. Hennis told the CBS Denver affiliate that unless he allowed the EPA to have access and authority to conduct operations on the site the agency had threatened him with daily fines of $35,000…Breitbart News asked the EPA on Friday to confirm or deny Hennis’s claim, but has received no reply.

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