Democrats decided to run a candidate under criminal indictment for the past year plus.
Republicans decided to nominate a questionable non-politician in response to their disaffection with inside elites.
Which demonstrated they cared less about America's future?
You decide.
This is long but very important if you question WikiLeaks: http://www.
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Hillary resorts to her usual dump tactic by attacking Comey. Will she also dump her "other daughter" before this mess is over? By demanding Comey be transparent she is putting pressure on him to speed up an investigation of thousands of e mails which he cannot do unless he wishes to blow this investigation as he already has the previous one. Will he be prevented by the Atty. General from doing his job and, if so, will voters elect a woman who might have a criminal indictment hanging over her head simply because she wears a pant suit? How many more decades do Americans want our nation held hostage by questionable acts on the part of the Clinton family?
Meanwhile, Trump plows ahead calling attention to Obama's failed Obamacare, Comey's investigation and whatever else he deems a winnable strategy.
Will voters finally "drain the swamp? " How long with voter's tolerate Clinton Fatigue?
Stay tuned. (See 1, 1a and 1b below.)
A must listen by a 13 year old who gets my vote: https://youtu.be/Rh7LRZpZpd0
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Iran safer than France for Jews? (See 2 below.)
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EPA head is a dictator like bureaucrat and fits the "mole/mold image Obama wanted for that position. (See 3 below.)
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1) Hillary Slams FBI for 'Unprecedented' Interference in Election
By Todd Beamon
Hillary Clinton Saturday ripped the FBI for its "unprecedented" interference in the 2016 election after FBI Director James Comey told Congress that he was reopening an investigation into her private email use and slammed Donald Trump for "making up lies" about the decision.
"I'm sure that some of you may have heard about a letter that the FBI director sent out yesterday," Clinton told a rally in Daytona Beach, Fla. "Well, if you're like me, you probably have a few questions about it.
"It is pretty strange," she said. "It's pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right before an election.
"In fact, it's not just strange, it's unprecedented — and it is deeply troubling because voters deserve to get full and complete facts."
Clinton said that her campaign "called on Director Comey to explain everything right away, put it all out on the table."
In his letter to Congress on Friday, Comey said that he was reopening the FBI's investigation after discovering emails from Clinton's private server on the laptop computer shared by longtime aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner.
Comey's decision followed the FBI's investigation into another of Weiner's "sexting" scandals, revealed in late August when The New York Post published photos of his online exchange with several women, including a 15-year-old girl.
In July, the FBI concluded that Clinton had been "extremely careless" with her private server use despite finding several e-mails being marked as classified.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch days later accepted the agency's findings and closed the nearly two-year probe without bringing criminal charges.
In Florida Saturday, Clinton then bashed Trump "already making up lies about this.
"He is doing his best to confuse, mislead and discourage the American people.
"I think it's time for Donald Trump to stop fear-mongering, to stop disgracing himself, to stop attacking our democracy.
"We can't let him get away with this, can we?" Clinton asked.
In a rally in Colorado, Trump equated the new investigation to the 1970s Watergate scandal and accused Lynch of working to protect Clinton.
But Clinton later cautioned her Sunshine State supporters: "Like any campaign, there have been ups and downs and ups and downs — but I've got to tell you: I feel so motivated, so excited, so ready.
"Everybody gets knocked down," Clinton added later. "What matters is whether you get back up."
She then returned to bashing Trump, encouraging supporters to "stage an intervention" if they knew anyone who might back the Republican nominee.
"If you know anybody thinking about voting for Donald Trump, stage an intervention," Clinton said. "Remember, friends don't let friends vote for Trump."
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Dems’ Denial and the War on Comey
The irony is delicious. Democrats spent the last few months of praising FBI Director James Comey as a man of integrity and defending him against a deluge of attacks from Republicans who were angered by his decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton despite what he called her “extremely careless” handling of classified information. But Comey’s shocking announcement on Friday that he was re-opening the investigation has made him Public Enemy One as far as Clinton and her supporters are concerned.
For a law enforcement agency to act in such a matter toward an active candidate is a blatant intervention in the presidential election. It is not unprecedented but it is highly problematic. Yet the Democrats’ high dudgeon rings false. After all, Comey’s refusal to act on Clinton’s clear violation of security regulations — when so many lesser officials have been severely punished for carelessness — was also a function of politics. The difference being that his initial decision favored the Democrats while Friday’s move inconveniences them.
Comey’s zigzag course through the maze of the email controversy is perplexing for both sides but the responsible party for this disruption is, as it was all along, Clinton. It was her obsession with secrecy — which critics not unreasonably think is rooted in the desire to obscure the truth about the conflicts of interest between what even their own retainers call “Clinton Inc.” and their foundation and government business — that necessitated the use of an insecure, private e-mail server in the first place and led us all down this tangled path. The former secretary of state is no more an innocent victim of an FBI October Surprise than was Donald Trump when the release of an Access Hollywood tape exposed him as a sexual predator.
That’s the main point we should be taking away from this episode. It’s not just that Americans are faced with a choice between two deeply flawed major party presidential candidates. It’s that their supporters are so blinded by their dislike of the other side that they are largely in denial about their own nominee’s manifest unfitness for high office.
That’s easy to see with Republicans and Trump.
His ignorance about the issues, embrace of simplistic and wrongheaded policies that are at odds with conservative principles are no secret. Nor is his willingness to appeal to the basest instincts of the electorate. The same is true of his bad character — a quality that most Republicans used to think was an important consideration when the person they were judging was Bill Clinton. To his base of supporters, Trump’s flaws are unimportant. It’s not so much that they have made a reasoned judgment about his strengths and weaknesses but that they have simply decided to pretend the latter is a function of liberal media bias or establishment malice rather than the unpleasant truth.
Yet Democrats are just as guilty of doing the same thing with their candidate.
The gang tackle of Comey this weekend is merely the latest example of how Democrats have hypnotized themselves into thinking that the Clintons’ baggage train of scandals involving their foundation and her emails is the creation of that same “vast, right-wing conspiracy” that Hillary’s been complaining about for two decades. While we don’t know exactly what will be found in these new emails, we already know the Clinton's believe obeying the rules is for other people and that she endangered national security to feed her desire for secrecy and repeatedly lied about it. So to spin this latest twist in the story as much ado about nothing is disingenuous. The unwritten main plank in the 2016 Democratic platform is a vow to ignore evidence of the Clintons’ corruption. While, as is true on the other side with Republicans and Trump, it is possible to argue that she is the lesser of two evils, what we are hearing instead is a brazen refusal to even consider the possibility that they are saddling the nation with a flawed president who will be weighed down by scandals her entire time in office.
Just as Republicans should have been holding Trump accountable for the October Surprise that seemed to wreck his long shot chances of pulling off an upset, Democrats should be blaming Clinton for what has happened, not the FBI. What the country is contemplating is not only two unfit candidates for president but also two parties that haven’t the courage to face the truth about their nominees. That bodes ill for the republic no matter which of them wins next month.
1b) Why This Orthodox Rabbi Supports Trump
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I am an Orthodox rabbi. I am also an attorney and an adjunct professor of law. I clerked 20 years ago for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judge Boggs, one of the most brilliant minds I ever have known in any of my walks of life, soon thereafter served as chief judge of the Sixth Circuit.
Of course, I am disgusted by the stories that dominate the election campaign. I am disgusted as a law professor, an attorney, a father of daughters, and as a rabbi. Women making accusations that they have been sexually abused — Paula Corbin Jones who received an $850,000 settlement from Bill Clinton; Kathleen Willey who went to Bill Clinton in the White House, desperate for a job after her husband killed himself; Juanita Broaddrick, a Clinton volunteer who insists he raped her; the new list of women whose names I am only now learning who say that Donald Trump groped or kissed them against their will. The abused women whose reputations and lives were destroyed by Hillary Clinton, as she defended her husband’s public profile after each “bimbo eruption.” Hillary referred to victims as “looney tunes” and worse, her team including the likes of James Carville and Sidney Blumenthal characterized them as “trailer trash,” and Hillary most infamously ruined the life of 12-year-old Kathy Shelton, raped by a 41-year-old whom Hillary was required to defend. There was nothing wrong in Hillary defending—every accused criminal deserves a good defense. But Hillary destroyed the girl in the process and proceeded years later laughing about that case and regaling an interviewer with anecdotes of that tragedy.
All of it disgusts me. So I have decided that on November 8 I am not going to vote for Clinton or Trump. Instead, I am going to vote for the federal judiciary. Along the way, I also am going to vote for an authentic economic recovery that will include repatriating trillions of dollars back home, for a stronger American footprint in the world, for a border that will protect Mexico from free-flowing American weapons that feed their drug cartels and that will protect America from the influx of potential terrorists and murderous drugs that now easily can pour through our porous borders.
I am going to vote for a process that restores civil harmony in the inner cities by restoring respect for law enforcement even as we begin to address legitimate concerns that responsible African Americans have raised about bias. I am going to vote against sanctuary cities. I am going to vote for a stronger military that, after the past eight years, we now unfortunately will need to protect from Iranian terror exports and North Korean adventurism.
I am going to vote for an end to bullying and ceaselessly blaming and threatening Israel, our strongest and only truly reliable ally in the Middle East, the only country in that region that truly shares America’s deepest values. And I am going to vote to stem the perilous slide away from America’s traditional social core values of hard work, self-help, trust in G-d, respect for religion’s central place in our lives, and the sanctity of life.
If we do not have a robust rebound from the terrible recession of nearly a decade ago, let it not be because I voted based on some filthy talk that a candidate spoke 11 years ago. Let young Americans in our inner cities not continue to die in an endless spiral of gang violence because a tape recorded braggart childishly impressed a gullible young news journalist. And how sad it is to see men—Hillary’s male enablers like John Podesta, Rob Mook, Bill Clinton, and others no less cynical on the other side—preying on women’s legitimate and decent values by trying to sway voting blocs one way or the other based on issues other than the life-and-death concerns on today’s table.
How will we explain to our sons or grandsons who one day would be sent overseas to fight to stop an enriched Iran—nuclear-enriched, hundreds of billions enriched—when America’s continued weakness and failure to stand strong now ultimately will leave us with no choice but to fight later? Shall we tell them: “Well, you see, we did not elect the candidate who would have stood stronger because 11 years earlier he was recorded saying the most disgusting things as he bragged on a bus to an impressionable journalist?”
We elected John F. Kennedy. He certainly was no saint. U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) was deemed an elder statesman and moral vicar, despite a background of frolicking that reached its nadir with a woman left to drown at Chappaquiddick. We elected Bill Clinton twice, because the Silicon Valley economic explosion was afoot, and the cultural and media elite saw no reason to let a stained dress disrupt that. To this day, Clinton—one of only two U.S. presidents ever impeached—is the most honored statesman at Democratic Party conventions.
Oh, how I wish this were a different election with different candidates! But my choice is set. One candidate will work for open borders and has a lifetime of proven public life that is stamped by two overriding symbols: failure and lying.
She even lied about her first name. Who lies about their name?
Cattle futures. Arriving in Bosnia under gunfire. Rose Law Firm billing records. Whitewater. The White House travel office firings. Donors’ privileged access to the White House Lincoln bedroom. The missing White House furniture. The missing 33,000 emails about “yoga schedules” and “wedding plans.” Repeating “I don’t recall” 39 times.
Her reset with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a failure; he now holds Crimea and threatens all of Ukraine, even as he has extended Russia’s reach back into the Middle East. Her failures in Libya, leaving us with an ambassador murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, and a failure to evacuate or support our troops are so legion that she never utters the word “Benghazi” during the campaign. The calculated and cynical lie blaming it all on a cheesy YouTube video that barely was seen by anyone. Thatis what difference it makes.
African Americans and Latino Americans deserve what I have. They deserve economic opportunity, the kind of fabulous education that I got and that I gave my kids, which opened the kinds of doors that food stamps and “entitlements” never will match. The Obamas and Clintons know what a fabulous education is all about; they gave it to their kids. We owe African Americans and Latino Americans the best schools, charter schools, and magnet schools, where educators are selected and promoted based on merit and academic results and not coddled by arcane teachers’ union rules.
Moreover, we owe them the respect they deserve to aspire for what we cultivated in our own families: the message that Government assistance and “caring” never will replace or match the kind of wealth and personal pride one can acquire and attain by looking to one’s own hard work, devotion to family, sensible risk-taking, and willingness to delay gratification briefly in order to reap greater rewards in time. Trust in government never can replace trust in G-d, and every boy deserves to grow up with a working father as a role model.
Perhaps most of all, I care about the federal judiciary—not just the Supreme Court. I remember what the Sixth Circuit was like when I clerked there 20 years ago. Our judicial system has been changed. Most of us do not see it. Most federal appellate decisions never get appealed, and most that get appealed never get considered by grant of certiorari. Therefore, when a federal appellate circuit issues a ruling, that becomes the law for four or six or more states.
When perfectly reasonable voter-identification laws get thrown out, I look for the names of the judges who ruled. I see the Democrat presidents who appointed them. And when the Constitution is judicially upheld as a brazen presidential overreach is stopped by a court order, affirmed by an appellate panel, I look and see that those judges were appointed by Republican presidents. Our entire federal judiciary is on the line in this election, and these Article III judges all are appointed for life.
How does one explain to a victim of an unfortunate appellate panel’s ruling that “I could have voted for a federal judiciary that would protect the Constitution and refrain from legislating from the bench, but a braggart was recorded 11 years earlier, boasting in filthy terms, saying that he then did filthy, disgusting things that were less filthy and disgusting than what his opponent actively defended her husband and clients for doing. So I am sorry for losing the federal judiciary. And for abandoning America’s influence in the world. And for allowing more destructive drugs to enter the country illegally by permitting the border to become even more porous. And for the economy remaining mired with no meaningful job growth or income gains. And for the loss of affordable health coverage and for losing access to preferred doctors. And for not voting finally for change to stem the steep decline in the Judaeo-Christian religious and social values that built this great country and that shaped America’s extraordinary character.”
I cannot do that and cannot explain that. So I certainly will not vote for Hillary, the Clinton cabal, or her village pocked by fragmented special-interest sub-constituencies, each bewailing its own trigger-warning list of “microaggressions.”
I cannot vote for a politically correct mélange of “safe spaces” that are truly safe for none but the Clinton-connected elite whose multilingual education boasts a fluency in Latin consisting primarily of the “quid pro quo” pay-for-play corruption they spread everywhere they go, from secret Wall Street back-room speeches at $225,000 a hit, to Qatar million-dollar birthday presents payable to Bill Clinton and redeemable in the State Department.
Therefore, while I most definitely am not voting for Trump the Flawed, I definitely am casting my ballot for Donald Trump, the engine for the change America now needs.
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2) Iran's sole Jewish MP: Iran is safer for Jews than France
Siamak Morsadegh discusses the status of Jews in Iran and the prospects of an Iranian-Israeli war.
SOME DUBBED HIM ROUHANI'S Jew," and before that, "Ahmedinejad's Jew," but Siamak Morsadegh (Moreh Tzadek - righteous teacher in Hebrew), is an impressive, stout man who is much more than this: he's "the number one Jew" in Iran.
He was recently sent to Paris as part of a delegation led by the chairman of the Iranian Parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, who introduced him during his speech to the Diplomatic Academy in Paris as Iran's only Jewish MP, emphasizing how honored he was by his presence.
This is Morsadegh's third term as an Iranian MP, totaling nine years. Last year he was re-elected with 70% of the Jewish population's vote, which he says numbers some 25,000 people. Like other religious groups in Iran, the Jewish community has a reserved seat in parliament.
"As the representatives of the religions, we are not so involved in political life," Morsadegh explained, as we sat in the comfortable lounge chairs of the International Diplomatic Academy. "Our main role is regulating minority life through the government and improving the situation of our coreligionists. Generally, we are in the Center, not Left or Right. As a small community, we are not interested in factions and political disagreements. Religious minorities have different political activity. I was chosen by a heterogeneous political group, and I should have a moderate stance and deal mainly with cultural and social issues. Not as a political representative."
He was born in Shiraz to a family which produced many of the Jewish community's leaders. As a medical student, he was active in the socialist youth movement that supported the revolution and served for a long while as the editor in chief of a Jewish newspaper. Later he served as a medical professor and was appointed the head of the Jewish Committee of Tehran and the director of the Jewish hospital, Sapir. "I am a Jew and an Iranian," he says of himself. "I pray in Hebrew, but think in Farsi. I am religious and observe the Sabbath like most of Iran's Jews."
In 2013, when he accompanied Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during his first trip to the UN General Assembly, his presence was a sensation and it raised suspicions. The media quoted his harsh condemnations of Israel and its policies, as well as what seemed like exaggerated praise for freedom of religion and the ideal conditions for Jews in Iran. Today, with Iran being welcomed back in by the family of nations, in his first conversation with an Israeli journalist, his comments seem far from the cliches that were attributed to him back then. Perhaps there are signals here of a desire to start a new more peaceful era in the relations between Iran, the world Jewish community and Israel.
In my visit to Iran I was struck by the involvement of Jews in religious life, by the high attendance at prayers at the central synagogue in Tehran and by the worshipers' feeling of relative security. Just a single soldier guarded the synagogue and therefore I was not surprised when Morsadegh said that "Iran is much safer for Jews than France and there is no need for security at synagogues." The small difference is, of course, in freedom of expression and in fear of the watchful eye of the government.
"In the history of Iran, Jews have never been forbidden from being in any city, not even in the holiest cities, like Mashhad (a holy Shi'ite city in
which Jews were forced to convert to Islam in the nineteenth century - G.K.). Until this day, Jews live in Mashhad and Shiraz, in Tehran and in Isfahan. We have full freedom of religion. We have no problem with religious freedoms. We have a synagogue, school, kosher butcher, kosher restaurants. There are many Jewish organizations which deal with preserving the Jewish cultural legacy, cemeteries and special sites for ceremonies. However, we are a minority in a religious Muslim state, and that creates a few problems.
"Some of them have been solved. For example, up until five years ago Jewish schools were open on Saturday and the general day of rest was the Muslim day of rest, Friday. I said to President Rouhani that a school that is opened on Saturday is not a Jewish school, but rather it is a school attended by Jewish students. Since then, there are no more studies on Saturdays. Jewish children can go to a public school or to a Jewish school. Those who go to public school can attend the Jewish schools and synagogues on holidays, learn the Torah, Mishnah, Gemara and Talmud."
However, he admits that there are other problems. "As a Jew in Iran, the highest position that can be attained is member of Parliament, and there is only one such position. A Jew cannot be president, a minister or deputy minister and cannot have an official role in the army. In order to hold these positions, you must be Muslim, but you can, for example, get the highest degree possible from the university and teach. Many Jews learn at the university, and there are some Jews who lecture there.
Do tensions between Iran and Israel influence the treatment of the Jewish community?
"Always, even before the revolution, the Iranian government distinguished between Jews and Zionists. And to be a Jew does not mean that you agree with everything Israel does. When there is criticism of Israel, it does not constitute a problem for us. True, there may be people who start to ask questions about Jews during a bad crisis with Israel, but in our daily life, we see Judaism and Zionism as separate entities."
There were serious allegations of spying against Jews in Shiraz.
"There were all kinds of affairs, but now the situation is better, and I think that it will continue to improve everyday. There are a few more legal problems. Up until a few years ago there was a difference between compensation payments for the death of Muslims and non-Muslims, but following a fatwa (religious edict) from the Ayatollah Khamenei, today they are the same. Or, for example, inheritance law, which favors Muslims or Muslim converts. If the other beneficiaries belong to another religion, they will be disinherited. It is a law from one hundred years ago and we are making efforts to change it. But in general, the situation of the minorities in Iran is better today than in many western nations."
Holocaust denial was especially dear to President Ahmedinejad - Holocaust caricature contests exist in Iran until this day. How do you in the Jewish community deal with this?
"The Holocaust is reality. I am a Jew, and I believe that everyone knows that the Holocaust is a real historic event. Anybody who wants to deny the Holocaust - it's as if they are denying life, denying that the sun exists."
Could you protest and oppose this, then and today, without endangering yourselves?
"Yes. We protested. We sent a letter to Ahmedinejad in which we said that this was unacceptable behavior. Holocaust denial is not a national interest of the Iranian people. Holocaust denial will only serve to help, for example, the extreme Right in Israel and it increased Islamophobia and Iranophobia in Israel. Holocaust denial is politically worthless. It did not even contribute anything to the Palestinians. I recently read a book by Abu Iyad (a PLO leader who was killed in an Israeli raid in Tunis - G.K.), in which he said that Palestinians who cooperated with Hitler during World War II did damage to the Palestinian people."
From the lessons of the Holocaust, Morsadegh moves to an analysis of Israel's diplomatic situation, an area in which he shows great knowledge. Among other things, he doesn't necessarily sympathize with those formally supported by Iran. "I think that all of the Jews and all of the Muslims can live in complete peace, if the extremism ends. For example, if Israel would have reached a good agreement with the PLO during the time of the Rabin government, it would not be facing Hamas today. Whenever you fail to negotiate with a moderate enemy, you have to deal with an extremist enemy. The extremists on each side need each other. The Muslim extremists in the world need Netanyahu, and Netanyahu needs them. They are supposedly against one another, but in my opinion they help each other in their election campaigns and in sustaining the balance of power."
At the same time as I'm speaking with Morsadegh, next door, chairman Boroujerdi declares that Iran will continue to develop its missile capabilities, because "this is the only way to defend against the 200 nuclear bombs in the hands of the Zionists." I ask Morsadegh if despite the aggressive declarations there is, in his estimation, a chance for a future understanding between Iran and Israel.
Morsadegh is optimistic: "Politically speaking, anything is possible, but clearly, until all of the peoples of the Middle East have their full rights respected by the government of Israel, it will not be ready for peace. I think that a two-state solution, or any solution that ensures Middle East peace, will be supported by all nations. It has already been stated many times that Iran is not interested in starting a war with Israel, because it knows that anyone starting a war in the Middle East is committing an act of suicide. It is a crowded part of the world and anyone starting a war here is ending his life. I think that Iran's leaders are sane enough and smart enough to prevent a war with Israel. I admit that a few years ago, I was suspicious of Netanyahu and I thought that he was crazy enough to start a war. Today I think that the situation has improved somewhat after the nuclear deal, and a war between Israel and Iran is an unacceptable possibility.
Do you have family in Israel?
"I do not have family in Israel. In Iran I have a father, mother, sister and wife. We have four children. My wife is writing her doctoral thesis on genetics at Tehran University. Most of my family lives in Iran. A few cousins live in the US."
Morsadegh, and this is an important reason for his status, is known as one of the senior surgeons in Iran, and he is the director of Sapir hospital in Tehran, which belongs to the Jewish community. However, he treats the entire population and is known for his high level and low prices. Many come to him and get treatment that raises the stock of the Jewish community in public opinion.
"I studied general surgery at the university in Shiraz. Today I work at Sapir, which is a charity hospital and gives free treatment to the needy. It opened up more than 70 years ago, during World War II, and I think that it is one of the only charity hospitals left in the world. I take all patients, regardless of religion, on a charity basis. For some eight years we have received help from the government, because, due to the high inflation, the Jewish resources in Iran are not sufficient to support a charity institution. The government funds half of our costs, and we would not be able to fund the hospital without the government."
The Iranian Parliament leaves the Academy building and Siamak Morsadegh rushes to catch up. I bid him goodbye with a greeting of "Chag Sameach" (Happy Holiday in Hebrew).
"Thank you. I wish you a happy Succot and a good and happy new year. And may God hear your prayers on Simhat Torah, and may all of the people of the world live together in absolute peace," he says.
"Love your neighbor as you love yourself," he adds in Hebrew. "Even in our region, Jews and Muslims can be together and respect each other, if all the extremists are silenced."
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EPA Commissar Orders Americans To Live Like It's 1899
By KERRY JACKSON
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy has issued a directive for the U.S. peasantry.
"People have to start living a life that's commensurate with reductions in greenhouse gases," McCarthy said during a recent social discussion with Mashable.
Who is this woman to tell anyone how they should live? Was she elected? No. Called by God? No. Hired by the American people? No.
McCarthy was appointed by President Obama. She runs a political agency for a political administration in maybe the most political city in world history. She's neither prophet nor angel.
Yet she makes a pronouncement as if she has the moral authority, the heavenly justification, to tell others how they must live. She demands we return to an era in which humans produced less carbon dioxide emissions and therefore lived much more primitively.
Why do we put up with such arrogance? Why are we constantly subject to these bullies?
McCarthy is not out there on her own. There is a small army of like-thinkers who cannot suppress their impulses to run other people's lives. Just last year a European Commission report said that the Paris climate agreement required "profound lifestyle changes." Activist Naomi Klein threatens us to "change, or be changed." Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to keep us away from foods he doesn't think we should have.
And Obama himself warned us about driving our SUVs, eating as much as we want and setting our thermostats at 72 degrees. Those privileges are reserved only for the select few who one day will surely have their own private ZiL lanes in Washington dedicated to their SUVs and luxury limousines.
The existence of the political left is entirely based on using the muscle of government to forcibly direct and control people's lives, and McCarthy's statement fits in snugly with that agenda. The left will use any means necessary to obtain and expand its power. The global warming scare. Minimum wage demands. Appeals for income equality. Social justice. Environmental justice. Forcing an ostensibly free people into doomed government health care and retirement programs. Ginned-up hate for corporations and banks. Sprawling suburbia. Campaign spending.
Everything is a crisis whose only solution is to hand over more power to those who are demanding it.
Will we ever be free of these people, this council of commissars, who would happily hold everyone else's lives in their hands? It's a legitimate question. And the answer doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in those on who desire liberty for themselves and all others.
It's disturbing to think that one day historians might write about how our great experiment in human freedom fell to the power-hungry forces who crushed it from within.
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