Daily Musings 5/20/2016 - Krautheimer WAPO

WAPO: Donald Hillary and the bernie factor-- Charles Krauthammer

Except for adjectival expletives (demagogic, nativist, and other nonsensical and baseless adjectives) K has it right. Trump has a much better tactical understanding on how to respond to crisis. So, who do you want to pick up the phone at 3 AM, someone whose native understanding of the situation is excellent, or Hillary, who needs to consult her donor list before reaching a decision?

"The Republicans’ ideological about-face is even more pronounced. They’ve chosen as their leader a nationalist populist who hardly bothers to pretend any allegiance to conservatism. Indeed, Donald Trump is, like Sanders, running to the left of Clinton on a host of major issues including trade, Wall Street, NATO and interventionism. "

The ideological shift is away from Neocon's and strict conservativists like K. It is closer to the Kennedy Democrats that some of us oldsters were and well remember. Regan was one of us, one whose party, the Democrats, left behind on their search for socialism. I don't know what "to the left" means. I know I am for a strong foreign affairs, alliances and agreements that are favorable to the US and not just others, and internally for smaller government and leaving the states alone.  Those are the position of most Trump supporters, and, I hope, his.

The democrats are gripped in a fascinating dance towards socialism, I hope the remain in that dance and lose big.  But, no matter what happens, Trump is better than the "main stream" GOP which aligns with Democrats on eliminating our past (by eliminating references to the South) and eliminating, aligns with Democrats on passing budgets that are enormous, and have never had the nerve to stand on their principles instead of just talking about them.

Daily Musings - 4/19/2016 -

WAPO -Trump’s national field director quits amid major staff changes by Jenna Johnson/Ed O'Keefe

What is happening is proper management from the top. After successfully completing the insurgency portion of the campaign, Trump needs aids knowledgeable of insider tactics, laws affecting how to purchase delegates, and other arcane, distasteful things he must do to counter the RNC.

Hopefully, after he wins, he'll make the one man one vote rule stick. A candidate controls the votes he so painfully acquired forever. He votes them, delegates go to a conference to interact, get training, but not to select candidates. Deals are made between candidates, not between power brokers and delegates....more

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NYT: Bernie’s Israel Heresy by Roger Cohen

I am often sickened by the "even handedness" which ignore motives, money, and process.
The motives of those who murder/attempt to murder Jewish men, women and children pursuing civilian activities are motivated by hate. There is no particular value to their act viewed sociologically or politically. The Jewish population has already seen worse, and adjusted. The left and the right agree that the attacks must be stopped through a variety of economic and social pressures (closing access to Israeli Jobs, blowing up the houses of the families of the murdering terrorists). There is some dispute of how hard/soft to proceed, but these are quibbles, not really political arguments.
So no particular Palestinian goals can be achieved except the expression of deep hatred of Jews for being Jews. This needs to be taken into account if and when the "Palestinians" decide to actually discuss peace.
Money is provided to organize the terrorism, by Hamas, the PLO, and/or Iran. The propaganda in the schools, in the radio and television, and in the Mosques is intense and on going, and besides incitement there are actual terrorist plots like the bombing of the Bus today, or the digging of the Tunnel the IDF just destroyed close to Gaza.
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WAPO: How South Carolina could fail refugees and religion - by Mark Hetfield and Jack Moline

As the shocking rise in anti-Muslim bigotry collides with increasing concern about terrorism at home and abroad, legislation attacking refugees has spread rapidly spread across the country.

There is nothing shocking or bigotry involved. Humans generalize, it is a good idea and saves lives. Muslims are seen as a dangerous group, because they are.  Pew Study in 2013 showed

Give than over 40% of the Muslim population (on average) want to impose Sharia law on us with refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan reaching 90%, I believe we can generalize on this subject.

The rest of the article is clap-trap. They state is bad because they will hold organizations responsible for the behavior of immigrants they bring over. But there won't be any criminal behavior by them, in any case.

So, why not hold them responsible if there is nor criminality? No harm, no foul!

Daily Roundup 3/13/2016 - How the attacks on Trump were planned, failure of security.

LA Times: How black, Latino and Muslim college students organized to stop Trump's rally in Chicago

The LA Times presents a fairly dispassionate view of how shows how Soros through MoveOn targeted, organized and attacked Trumps freedom of speech. We can expect more violent confrontations now since Trump correctly pointed out that there was exactly one "violent" confrontation, which he condemns in Trump events which have had millions of participants.

Sanders, a politician after all, who was himself stopped by "Black Lives Matter" accused Trump of fomenting this. But he, of course, did not foment what happened to him. LIAR!

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The Attack on Trump was not adequately covered.

The attack on Trump has not been covered adequately by the press.

I saw a man whose ankle had been grabbed turning towards the guy grabbing him, and then being encircled by Secret Service Body Guards.  Very bad and dangerous failure by the SS, they should have stopped him at the borders of the un”secured buffer” zone. He could have been killed unless everyone one was checked for knives and guns, which I don’t believe is the case.