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!

Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S.

The following is my response to the  Washington Post 11/24/2015 article "Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S." Which is a tear jerking left wing attempt to paint all those who are careful with immigrants as heartless monsters uncaring about human life.

The only parallel between the US actions in WWII and todays actions in Syria are that in both occasions the US refused to use force to safeguard oppressed and endangered people. Eisenhower refused to bomb the train tracks leading to Auschwitz, even though bombs were available, and he was made aware of the plight of the Jews. Obama refuses to create a safe no-fly zone in Syria, even though this would not be difficult to do, or require ground troops. 
 
Jews, in WWII time frame did not have a fanatic subgroup thirsting for German blood, they did not engage in terrorism, they were lambs led to the slaughter. Syrians do have such a subgroup. Its called Al Qaeda, ISIS, etc. and just a few errors can cause hundreds of dead to this country. 9 killed 3K civilians in the US, 8 killed over 100 in France and 1 or 2 caused Belgium to close down for 5 days. How much collateral damage do we need to accept to be "humanitarian" instead of creating a safe zone in Syria? How much collateral damage do the poor civilians of Syria accept before Assad, who has killed over 300K of them, and displace over 2 million is overthrown?