Chicago’s murder rate is largely caused by the demonization of the police by city and federal politicians and bureaucrats.

The UN is telling Israel that it must give up land captured in a defensive war. This is the first time in history  this has happened. Why is the winner of a war required to give the loser their own country? Why is the winner of the war being asked to commit political suicide?

The US should no longer support the UN, which has stood by while the slaughter of innocents goes on in Syria and also has turned virulently against Israel, the only true democracy in the Middle East.

Higher minimum wages are job killers. The more workers are paid, the more disadvantaged they are.

Liberal institutions, such as a free press, constitutional courts and individual rights are often obstacles to effective government.

So-called “government watchdogs” are really just progressives posing as lovers of transparency but actually only advancing their own agendas.

Budget overruns happen because of union rules and unnecessary environmental regulation.

Trump’s cabinet is the most promising in decades because almost all of them are wealthy and so understand that wealth creation is the cornerstone of American society.

In a Judeo-Christian society such as ours, God is the ultimate authority over practical matters, and our policy on Israeli settlements should be considered in a Biblical context.

Racial bias does not cause racial disparities in inc0me. The welfare state has caused more racial disparities than even slavery.

Civil rights leaders claim to be acting in the interests of blacks but are really advancing their own agendas–which usually involve hanging on to power, money and relevance. The needs of the black underclass have nothing to do with the needs of the NAACP.

The Obama administration has waged an eight-year war on Israeli sovereignty and even Israeli democracy. This war will end on Jan. 20. Israel is surrounded by enemies whose fondest wish is its elimination. Obama used the smokescreen of “negotiations” to advance the illegal Palestinian claim to disputed territories. Israel is an embattled and bullied democracy.

Mishandled US diplomacy in the middle east foments Palestinian terrorism. Israeli intransigence and expansionism has nothing to do with Palestinian militancy. The feckless US has been an enabler of Palestinian terrorism.

Liberals and progressives like socialism because it eliminates the notion of personal responsibility by eliminating the freedom to fail.

The Obama administration’s so-called  domestic “war on terrorism” has only amounted to using policemen as human shields, but not going after the real terrorists. Obama’s motto ought to have been “terrorism–not our problem.”

President Obama’s entire post-Presidency is going to consist of whiny, self-justifying excuses for his ruinous presidency.

President Obama rarely accepts that people have honest disagreements with his policies. Instead, he characterizes any such disagreement as racist.

Until Obama undid it, American military strength controlled the world and made possible a productive peace with stable institutions. We need to return to these notions of “America first” and “peace through strength. These memes justify military intervention anywhere in the world; assume that America is always morally in the right, and gloss over America’s military and political failures–Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

A buoyant US economy under Trump will create enough wealth to go our and buy up distressed economies and properties around the world. This will be the real new Pax Americana.

Obama’s last-minute land grab of protected public lands is part of the liberal agenda of shielding land use decisions from public input.

The Labor Department should be renamed the Workforce Department to set the stage for a new, comprehensive workforce strategy to make American business more competitive. The current Labor Department keeps American workers from finding jobs and holds them back once they are employed

Obama’s foreign policy of American retreat has left the world’s authoritarians advancing aggressively. We need to return to a realpolitik of carrying a big stick. This justifies an aggressive US foreign policy that will replace diplomacy with bullying, corruption,and intimidation.

Thanks to Obama, we are stumbling into another age of nuclear proliferation. He also has encouraged Al Qaeda and ISIS. Never mind that Trump himself is the one who has stirred the proliferation pot.

The fundamental aim of the US-Iranian agreement has less to do with curbing Iranian nuclear proliferation than aligning Washington’s interests with Tehran.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been protecting the wrong side of a financial transaction, because, after all, the financial crash was caused by greedy consumers.

Financial sector regulatory under Obama amounted to evidence-free money grabs against unpopular banks, corporations and financiers.

Gitmo is a secure and humanitarian location for holding dangerous terrorists.

Unlike Obama, Trump cannot be intimidated by the Chinese, and will not separate economic from security issues.

Mark Ruffalo and other Hollywood celebrities convinced the EPA to assess that fracking can impact water quality. Liberals denounce anyone who cites uncertainties about carbon’s climate impact as “deniers.” So it’s ironic that they are now justifying their opposition to fracking based on scientific uncertainties. As for the EPA’s science, bending to public comment from litigants and actor Mark Ruffalo does not instill confidence in the agency’s integrity. The so-called “scientific community” of arch environmentalists are the real science deniers because there is no evidence that fracking harms the environment.

Environmental groups used to purchase land for conservation. Now they conscript government to seize it. The Imperial federal land grab is over.

Regulatory risks and costs  are the main driver in the decline of American manufacturing. Under Trump, these risks will go away and the manufacturing sector will boom.

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.” (Orwell, 1984)

Trump is right in by-passing the so-called “official” intelligence briefings because they consist of sheer propaganda from the Obama administration.

Obama’s only legacy will be the abuse power. He has not offered or passed any policy or law that has not been rejected by the American public.

The FDA is a totally politicized agency, and has nothing but contempt for private innovation.

Most people in the world do not want either democracy or free markets. Instead, they want strong leaders with dictatorial powers, such as Putin.

Business people have been treated as pariahs by Obama, but that is about to change.

Colleges and universities could save a lot of money if they required professors to teach even two classes per year.

The federal government is hellbent on achieving racial balance in housing and other areas,  whether minorities want it or not. The racism that they imagine exists in housing patterns is just that–imaginary. White Americans have never shown any animosity toward neighbors of color, so long as those neighbors seem respectable and able to afford the neighborhood.This obsession with racial balance in housing patterns caused the 2008 Great Recession as banks were forced to make loans to people of color who were poor credit risks. Racial disparities were always interpreted as racial discrimination, even if the would-be borrowers weren’t claiming any racial discrimination. HUD’s view of housing is warped–racial discrimination does not bother minorities as much as liberfals claim it does.

The environmental lobby has moved on from reducing carbon demand–via subsidies for electric cars and solar panels-to opposing any carbon energy.

Donald Trump won the presidency because voters were tired of of assaults on every piza shop owner who dissents from progressive cultural dictates.

The Dems believed that lifting the spirits of the American people with words was more important than delivering results.

There is no more joy in making a living in America for those who make things rather than words because the Regulatory Uberstate has made work a tedium and a torment. Regulations are nothing other than a drag on profits and time, and it is hatred of regulations that elected Trump. This absolutist rhetorical position of course does not recognize any of the benefits of regulation, which are notoriously difficult to quantify. GDP should come to be the only metric for effective government and for promoting the general welfare.

The best guarantee of a buoyant job market is labor flexibility–i.e., right-to-work laws. Workers with the fewest rights and protections are, by this logic, the most protected.

Arbitrary, political prosecutions of business will end the day Jeff Sessions become Attorney General. In the larger campaign to blame the 2008 financial crisis entirely on private business—rather than federal housing and monetary policy—the government has raided banks for more than $100 billion. Businesses will no longer be extorted for political gain as Trump ushers in a new era of growth. Government regulation is extortion.

Our education system has become a vehicle for promoting ideology, and not encouraging critical thinking.

There is no such things as “reliable” journalism any more because the patronizing, self-styled mainstream media has lost all credibility. Modern news is entertainment, which may or may not coincide with any facts or iteration of the truth.

The people most qualified for diplomatic posts (esp. ambassadorships) are people with no diplomatic experience.

The rationale for labor unions has long since passed. The last things workers need are so-called “workers’ rights.”

The Russian election hack was just another failed Russian escapade, but the Dems are crazed to turn it into something more substantive. All it exposed was the political cynicism and mendacity of John Podesta and the DNC.

If the Dems are so concerned about cyber security, why aren’t they complaining about Hillary’s exposing top secrets to foreign powers via her homebrew server.

A market-based home mortgage system would have prevented the 2008 financial meltdown. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac , and other government busy-body rules, guarantees, and regulations only encouraged the sub-prime loans to low-income families and minorities that caused the meltdown. Less regulation makes markets more equitable and transparent.

The West has lost its vitality to defend itself and its values against the Russians and ISIS.

Judging what is true is most often subjective. The current fake “fake news” hysteria, with it’s call for “fact checking” the news before it’s distributed, is a perfect example of bias masquerading as fact. Political debates could be settled if  Republicans would only accept what liberals refer to as facts.

Donald Trump will end the war on cops, which is being conducted in the name of a bogus “diversity.” The false narrative about alleged police racism and brutality disguises the fact that police shootings help blacks more than whites. The police care more about black lives than anyone else in America.

The Dems increased energy efficiency standards for appliances solely to hide the cost of their “green” renewable binge as reflected in utility bills.

Dems believe that government agencies were only created to advance liberal policies, and that November’s electoral results are a mandate to do more of the same. Thus they’ll try and block any changes in central-government, top-down rule by federal bureaucrats.

FBI Director James Comey did more to help Hillary than harm he because he didn’t find her guilty of breaking the law. This is perfect Karl Rovian doublethink: guilty if called innocent.

We’ve reached the point where questioning the impact of something is no different from denying that it exists. Thus liberals call anyone who questions the science behind theories of “climate change,” and call anyone who disagrees with gay marriage for religious reasons a homophobe.

Evidence that Russia determined the outcome of the election exists only in the imagination of Democrats,

Rex Tillerson is probably the last person to substitute his former employer’s interest in Russian oil for the aims and interests of the country that appointed him, though this is the “narrative” being hastily adopted by his enemies

Obama’s Middle East policies have confused friends (Israel) with enemies (Iran), destabilized the region, allowed the Russians to dominate the region, and brought into question America’s reliability as a strategic partner.

Washington no longer works because government bureaucrats have become too big to fail. Thus it’s encouraging that Trump has brought so many military leaders into his cabinet and management team

College speech codes are the greatest threat to the First Amendment.Colleges are the most closed-minded and biased institutions in America

America faces a cultural, moral, and social catastrophe. Dems–the so-called coalition of the ascendant– exacerbated this catastrophe by telling the old white working class “Here’s your disability check., now go take your opoids while we take over the country.”

Under Trump, the federal government will once again be on the side of the people. This is an odd position to take since, to all appearances, Trump’s cabinrt wants to more or less eliminate the federal government.

Green power and electric cars do nothing to improve the environment, and actually end up being more toxic than conventional forms of energy and transportation.

We need Putin to defeat ISIS, so we should ignore all the political assassinations he has ordered, as well as his lies and repression of free speech and free elections. As Donald Trump put is, “our country does plenty of killing also.” Political outrage has become passe since Trump’s election

The real authoritarian regime has been the “unelected and increasingly assertive class that populates the federal bureaucracy and substitutes rule by regulation for rule by law.” Federal agencies meddle in our lives, and we’d be better off without these social engineers imposing their values on the rest of us. This act of doublethink demonizes governmental regulation, thus making it impossible to enforce or interpret any laws. It also gets Trump off the hook for any of his authoritarian acts by calling government bureaucracies the root of all evil.

Stories of Russian hackers undermining our election are based on nothing more than anonymous leaks and innuendo.

The result? Since 2007 the public debt of the G-7 nations, excluding sober Canada and Germany, has leapt to 130% of gross domestic product from 52%, according to each nation’s own reports. The EU’s monetary base has doubled, the U.K.’s is up 350%, and

The U.S. government has helped itself in debt financing, paying almost the same interest costs today as it did in 2007, despite almost tripling the publicly held debt. At the same time, bureaucrats won arbitrary and self-serving power over financial services. International regulators now override national and state laws without authority or input, turning domestic “independent regulators” into puppets. Political commissars embedded in banks own no shares yet veto board decisions. Money-market rules burden equities and public-purpose bonds, but favor federal debt. So do swap collateral rules and Basel rules on liquidity and capital.

The list goes on: Dodd-Frank’s Volcker rule threatens liquidity in market-making operations but exempts U.S. government securities. Housing regulators again proclaim that the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a “duty to serve” low-income buyers by underwriting higher risk mortgages. International regulators direct insurers to invest in public infrastructure, proclaiming the profitability of these projects when experience demonstrates otherwise. Ubiquitous capital requirements force financial institutions to buy highly leveraged government debt that pays ultralow returns.

 

This charge of “Europeanizing” the economy is shorthand for removing all financial regulation (including liquidity requirements and “ubiquitous capital requirements”), justifying huge corporate tax cuts (as if tax policy isn’t “centralized, arbitrary authority”), discouraging mortgages to minorities, etc.