Author: Kip Hooker

Milton Friedman Anticipated Trump and Sanders in a 1974 Interview With Reason Magazine:

The two, chief enemies of the free society or free enterprise are intellectuals, on the one hand, and businessmen, on the other, for opposite reasons. Every intellectual believes in freedom for himself, but he’s opposed to freedom for others. . . . He thinks . . . [that] there ought to be a central planning board that will establish social priorities. . . . The businessmen are just the opposite — every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but, when it comes to himself that’s a different question. He’s always “the special case”. He ought to get special privileges from the government, a tariff, this, that, and the other thing. . . .

It is hard to categorize Bernie Sanders as an intellectual -after all we’re talking about a man that doesn’t understand interest rates, what standing has to do with the Supreme Court, how due process works and believes that child hunger could be solved by limiting choices in underarm deodorant- but other than that Friedman’s assessment pretty well describes the populist Republican and populist Democrat running for President in 2016.

Sorry, Girls Just Have to Deal With Being Assaulted for the Sake of Trans People: According to the proglodytes the only places in this country that shouldn’t be safe spaces are people’s private homes and the female restroom.

The Jig Is Up For Bernie Sanders… Look What He Just Got BUSTED For Doing: Bad news for socialism’s great white hype.

The View’s Raven-Symoné Vows to Leave US ‘If Any Republican Gets Nominated.’ As well as Trump is doing it seems likely that the GOP won’t nominate a Republican this year.

https://youtu.be/FOC8O0jXdds

Justin Amash: Why I Trust Ted Cruz:

As a libertarian Republican, I have spent several months promoting the candidacy of my friend Senator Rand Paul, who is, in my view, the most passionate defender of our rights on the national stage today. Since his departure from the presidential race, I’ve been asked many times: what now?

It’s easy to withdraw from politics when the positions and priorities of the candidates do not precisely mirror our own. But we owe it to our beliefs to find constitutional conservative political allies who not only respect our philosophy but also fight for our views to be heard.

We have found such an ally in Senator Ted Cruz.

For those that prefer a conservative to the corporatist liberal with bad hair and that other guy this endorsement may come as good news.

Obama gives Congress Guantanamo closure plan: No doubt Obama is setting up a fight that will end up in the Supreme Court. He will then point to this as why it is necessary for him to pick another Justice before his lame duck term ends. And we will be ready and waiting to point out that this is precisely why the next appointment should be made by a President that still has to answer to the people.

US-backed militia groups now fighting each other in Syria: At least it is better than that time that an Obama backed militia group turned into ISIS.

Egypt jails author for two years over sexually explicit novel: Sounds like the kind of power Elana Kagan believes the US Government should have.

We don’t say that the world is ending; just our expectation of due process and privacy.

Delegate Count Leaving Bernie Sanders With Steep Climb: Weak end for Bernie? (We’ve been saving that one for a while and are very much looking forward to repeating it with again, only with an exclamation point instead of a question mark.)

Major Swedish Newspaper Demands Facebook Censor ‘Offensive’ Posts: The last time we were this disappointed in Sweden we had just found out that they don’t really have a bikini team.

Don’t f–k with me’: Hear Kanye’s uncensored ‘SNL’ meltdown. Warning: Not suitable for women, children or thinking adults.

https://youtu.be/GpKG4103b2A

US Marshals arresting people for not paying their federal student loans: We’ve got a President that can send the Marshals after people skipping out on their student loans but can’t secure the border. The smart money is on this not being an accident but a calculated move to play well with populist rhetoric of the rich white guy from Vermont.

SCOTUS Analyst: Loretta Lynch ‘Most Likely Candidate’ to Replace Scalia: That is just what America needs. A Supreme Court justice that believes it is the government’s duty is not only to deny equal protection but to suppress free expression as well.

Justice Scalia’s Great Heart -May God rest his soul: A very moving anecdote about one of the truly great ones.

Sanders Backs Action Guaranteeing Extra Due Process for Border Refugees: The Same Bernie Sanders that has called for the suspension of due process for actual Americans, so long as their name appears on a secret list drafted by a secret committee, is now calling for action to “guarantee due process” for illegal invaders from the south.

Flashback: Obama on Supreme Court? ‘A great idea,’ Clinton says. Right now Hillary Clinton, or those working for her are trying to calculate just how much support she can get out of Obama if she were to promise him a seat on the court after her inauguration.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Talks to Young Voters: Are you a bit sad because yesterday New Hampshire decided to go with a protectionist that wants to rig the system in favor of crony corporations and a protectionist that wants to rig the system in favor of non-productive crony consumers? Hopefully this video of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog invading a safe space, marking it as his territory and then doing his dog business all over the smug faces of entitled, self-riotous proglodytes will cheer you up! Warning: NSFW language.

EXCLUSIVE: New O’Keefe Video Shows How Easy It Is To Commit Voter Fraud In New Hampshire [VIDEO] So out of state voters can easily commit voter fraud in New Hampshire. Good to know, especially if you’re a candidate -and Senator- from a small New England state that borders New Hampshire. A small state, say like Vermont.

Nearly 13 million people enrolled in ACA plans for 2016: Congratulations Obama! You successfully managed to use the police power of the state to force another 13 million people to comply with their own exploitation. Surely this sets a new high-water mark for our democracy.

The Private Sector Is Now Providing Basic Services to Flint:

Charity has always been an essential element of the American ethos, with private citizens, corporations, and philanthropies helping out in times of need. Yet the Flint case might give some reason for pause. Failures of government and the effective disenfranchisement of Flint voters produced the crisis, and now private-sector philanthropy is jumping in to fill the gap. But that may introduce its own problems.

It seems that the people over at the Atlantic don’t understand how accountability works. Consumers free to end their association with private companies leverage far more power than citizens that can’t stop paying their water bills even when what they’re paying for is poison.

Minimum Wages Surged In 6 Cities Last Year; Then This Happened: Looks like Bernito Sanders needs to rethink a large part of his economic plan.

Valeant CEO Faces Congress:

At the hearing, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) opened by saying, “It’s not funny — people are dying” because drug companies “jacked up” prices.

Sure this guy is a massive d-bag but we hardly see how, for all his sanctimony Mr. Cummings is any better. Cummings is one of the reason we have Obamacare. A program which has “jacked up” prices, lowered quality of service and threatens people with being locked in a cage should they elect not to purchase a product that they neither want nor need. And yet we will all be satisfied with the bread and circus of these proceedings against the smarmy CEO’s while behind the scenes economic ignoramuses like the congressman will be scheming to come up with the next round of regulations that will create even more of the drug scarcity that Shkreli exploited in the first place.