Which is to say – the turning upside down of a system for not a lot of benefit for anyone and will result in higher costs (in more ways than a few) for everyone.

The average family income of a minimum wage worker is more than $44,000 a year – far more than can be earned by someone working at minimum wages.  But 42 percent of minimum-wage workers live with parents or some other relative.  In other words, they are not supporting a family but often a family is supporting them.  Only 15 percent of minimum-wage workers are supporting themselves and a dependent, the kind of person envisioned by those who advocate a “living wage.”

Ponder these facts along with the related fact that more than half of all

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That would be my junior US Senator Kelly Ayotte and the junior US Senator from Kentucky (er, Texas), Ted Cruz.  From Big Government:

What it should tell you is that McCarthy obviously is a Washington insider, and his fall from grace as future Speaker obviously is bad news to the insiders or the establishment in Washington, both parties. And the reason for that is it is perceived that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (96%) and the House Conservative Caucus are behind this, these Tea Party yokels, and it is viewed as these upstart conservatives taking control of the House, and they’re outsiders.

So you see that the insider elites are bound together not by ideology, but by class. If they were bound together by ideology there wouldn’t be a Republican in the establishment in Washington, there wouldn’t be a Republican lead allowed in. But the establishment in Washington is made up of people of both parties. The people not in it are conservatives, but Republicans, moderate level Republicans, liberal Republicans, communist Republicans, and all Democrats are in the establishment. Conservative Republicans aren’t.

And remember, Kelly Ayotte has a Conservative Review/Liberty ranking of

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Ayup, the example that proves the point and David Zebuhr ran full tilt into it.  Spending time out in San Diego last week, it was clear to see this ‘tude up close and personal – moral superiority weaponized.  There can be no discussion, there can be no debate – Zebuhr makes the Progressive end point clear:

From: “David Zebuhr” <dzebuhr@yahoo.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2015 4:25 PM
Subject: Road Usage Fee
To: {all the NH State Senators}

I am calling for the resignation of Rep. Norman Major, R-Plaistow on the basis of his clear and strong demonstration of his dementia.  There is nothing even remotely rational or moral about his “Road usage fee”  that is a steep tax specifically and exclusively against those who have the temerity to register vehicles that fail to guzzle large quantities of gasoline. 

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The first Democrat primary debate is tonight. It’s being moderated by CNN who has already claimed they are going to toss them fluff questions rather than have them actually debate each other.

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After their by-week the New England Patriots rolled in to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas prepared for a defense the Cowboy’s didn’t bring. Instead of their traditional 4-3 they switched up to a  3-2, a defense the Patriots had not practiced for; they suffered for it through most of the first-half. Brady was sacked 5 times in the first quarter. But they worked it out. The half ended with New England up 13-3 thanks to changes that added some late second quarter breathing room as the offense began to adapt to what the Dallas defense was doing.

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On Saturday at the Republican Liberty Caucus’ biennial meeting, author and political activist fromNew Zealand Trevor Loudon, was one of the keynote speakers. He has written a new book calledEnemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress. He talked about some of the information and research in his book during the speech as well as an idea to unite Republicans during the primaries.

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Anderson Cooper, CNN talking head and host of this week’s first Democratic Presidential Primary debate stated today that CNN will *not* be pitting the Democrat candidates against their on-stage opponents.   He was clear in his explanation that the debate questions will simply help bring out each of the candidate’s positions on certain issues.  Says Cooper:

“I’m always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote some sort of a face off…look, these are all serious people. This is a serious debate. They want to talk about the issues and I want to give them an opportunity to do that.”

Juxtapose this with Jake Tapper’s (also a CNN talking head) approach to the second Republican debate and of course we see the double standard.  There’s more to this than just a simple double standard, though. 

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This weekend the national Republican Liberty Caucus held their biennial conference in Nashua. Hundreds descended upon the Crowne Plaza Hotel to partake in panel discussions, a straw poll vote and to hear speakers from Rand Paul and Ted Cruz to Trevor Loudon and Grover Norquist.

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Problems with Climate alarmism abound, not the least of which is the Rosetta stone from which our doomed future is predicated. Computer models.

Instead of saying ‘the pause’ fits with ‘missing energy’ which fits with ‘missing sea-level rises’ the excuses pile on excuses. What happened to the missing seal level rise? Apparently the ENSO effect dumped it on Australia. So sea levels need adjustment too. When the data doesn’t fit, we don’t adjust the model, but we do adjust the data. What bad luck –all the major instruments are cold biased. What are the odds?

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