November, 2019, Part 3,Political Class Insanity: Was Epstein Murdered, Math is Racist In Seattle, and Another $15 Minimum Wage Failure

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) It is our opinion that there is nothing too low, too dastardly that the American political class would not do to protect their power and greed. Which raises an interesting conspiracy theory: is the sudden interest in impeaching Trump for no notable or unlawful offenses just a cover to divert attention away from the Jeffrey Epstein pedophile scandal? Recall that Epstein was the famous pedophile that had been associated with many famous people including Democrats Bill Clinton, George Mitchell, Bill Richardson, and others.

Could it be that Democratic party powers have a lot more to hide and lose relative to pedophile Epstein and needed to get attention off of the suicide/murder of Epstein and that is why this false impeachment scenario is playing out and having the press obsess about it? While attention has been on the impeachment circus, consider some of the latest revelations in the Epstein matter that the mainstream press has basically ignored:

• According to famous forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who sat in and observed Epstein’s autopsy, there is, in his professional opinion, an excellent chance that Epstein was murdered and did not take his own life.
• In a Fox News interview, he says all of the evidence points to a likely murder.
• According to the Fox interview: “Baden said the autopsy’s findings were more easily explained by homicidal strangulation, not suicide by hanging. Specifically, the doctor noted that Epstein suffered two fractures on the right and left sides of his throat at his Adam’s apple, and one fracture on a small bone just above his Adam’s apple.”
• Furthermore: “Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.” 
• He said that in his 50 years of experience he had never seen those injuries in a suicide situation.
• Thus, in his view, the official autopsy report is likely wrong and that Epstein was murdered.

Now, the doctor could be wrong. This rush to impeachment could have nothing to do with Epstein’s death. This conspiracy theory could be totally wrong. But we have seen in this blog many times how the political class will do anything to maintain the status quo and the murder of Epstein, especially since it involves the ultimate political power couple, the Clintons, does give one pause. 

Keep in mind that the embedded powers in Washington, including the Obama administration, the FBI, the CIA, and others in D.C. went to extreme lengths to create and push the Trump/Russia collusion fallacy to protect their own self interests. Two years ago few Americans would have believed that government entities would actually try to usurp a valid Presidential election. You cannot make that statement today. And if they were willing to overturn an election, it is not a stretch to think they would kill a pedophile to protect their interests.

2) In many liberals’ minds everything in the world today is racist. A Betsy Ross flag is racist according to Nike. The New York Times believes that suburban front lawns are racist. The list is endless which leads us to the observation: when everything is racist than nothing is racist. Trying to associate front lawns with the real racism battles that have been fought for equality is just plain stupid. And a disgrace to those brave individuals who stood up and faced real racism over the years and in some cases died for their bravery.

Which brings us to the latest idiocy when it comes to calling everyone and everything racist:

• According to an article by Warner Todd Huston on October 24, 2019 on the Godfather Politics website, somehow the buffoons running the Seattle public schools have concluded that mathematics is racist.
• Not that mathematicians are racists, the use of numbers is somehow racist.
• According to the article: “The Seattle Public School system seems to feel that math is racist and the course needs to have “ethnic studies” added because math is a tool of “racial oppression.”
• The school system has actually put a committee together to take racism out of math.
• Apparently, according to the powers to be, there are different math “frameworks” and that the committee wants to eliminate the idea that there is only racist “western” math.
• In the most ridiculous assertion, the committee claims that math is “subjective” and denies the concept that a math answer could be “right.”
• Also, the committee somehow found that math is “used to disenfranchise people and communities of color.”

In the real world, two plus two is four, regardless of what version of math you are using. That is the beauty of math, it is precise, it is universal, it is unemotional. To think that 1) there are multiple answers to two plus two and 2) that somehow answer to two plus two is not necessarily four is ridiculous beyond belief. 

There are one and/or two processes at work here. Educators have nothing better to do than come up with this nonsense rather than become better teachers or that this is part of a bigger, Orwellian plot where both language and math is corrupted and usurped to serve those in power. I do not know the true reason for this nonsense but it is nothing but nonsense and a waste of time and taxpayer resources. It diverts attention from the failure of government controlled education to actually educate our kids.

When everything is racist, including math, then nothing is racist.

3) We have often pointed out the idiocy of having politicians force higher and higher minimum wages onto the marketplace. In all cases, the people that higher and higher minimum wages are supposed to help, the lower earning workers in the economy, the worse and worse the economic plight of those very people becomes.

Businesses only have a fixed amount of money they can use to operate their businesses. So when a government entity forces them to spend that limited amount of money on higher and higher wages, other parts of a business suffer. Often that means that businesses have to cut expenses and often the expenses they cut are their labor costs.This results in the cruel reality: the good news is that your hourly pay rate went up, the bad news is that you no longer have a job because I had to cut labor expenses.

We have seen this reality happen across the country whenever politicians mandate higher and higher minimum wages. And it recently happened at the Target department store chain where higher wages actually made workers worse off economically:

• According to Bradley Cortright, writing for the Independent Journal Review, Target announced in 2017 that it would raise the minimum wage paid to its employees to $15 an hour by the end of 2020.
• At that time, the move drew praise from liberals and labor organizers across the country.
• But according to a report by CNN Business, things are not going well for Target employees despite the higher wages.
• While wages at Target have been going up, the number of hours Target is giving employees to work has been going down, offsetting the higher wage rate per hour.
• In many cases, employees are taking home less in their paychecks despite being paid higher per hour wage rates.
• CNN Business found one Target employee who was paid more than before but her hours had been cut in half: “An employee named Heather told the news outlet that she used to work around 40 hours a week, and since the rate hike was announced her work week has been cut in half. I got that dollar raise but I’m getting $200 less in my paycheck.”
• All of the employees interviewed by CNN Business said their working hours had been cut back significantly over the past year.
• This in turn has caused them to lose their Target funded health insurance since they have to work over 30 hours a week to qualify.
• The company has totally eliminated some backroom/inventory positions and has installed self-service kiosks where customers can check themselves out without the help of a human working a cash register.
• But none of this should come as a surprise since back in 2014 the former head of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, warned of unintended consequences of a $15 minimum wage.
• Heidi Shierholz, who was the chief economist at the Labor Department during the Obama Administration, said the drive for a $15 minimum wage was not always a good thing:, “Most workers aren’t getting any more of what they really need.”

And despite the warnings of economists and savvy business owners, despite the real life experiences of raising the minimum wage level too fast in Seattle and other places, liberal politicians continue to pander to the American people on what a great idea a $15 minimum wage is. They never tell those most affected by such policies, those in the lower income brackets, that while their wage rate will go up, the availability of jobs and the availability of working hours is likely to go down, along with their benefits, almost always resulting in a lower living standard.

Today’s insanity told us that: maybe impeachment is a diversion from the real reason and politically dangerous reason how and why Epstein died, liberals in Seattle have completely gone off the deep end thinking that mathematics is racist, and more examples why politicians who want to raise the minimum wage either are too stupid to understand basic economics or are too dishonest to tell voters what will happen if that rate is raised, i.e. they will be poorer.

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July, 2019, Part 7,Political Class Insanity: Kamala Harris Is Running For Queen, Stupid Gun Control Laws and the Hypocrisy of Biden and Sanders

It is another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

Let’s get started:

1) Democrats running for President have been very hard on corporate America and Trump’s business tax cuts. Never mind that American companies create untold wealth and economic growth and that the Trump tax cuts have led to historically low unemployment rates for all sections of Americans. 

And Obama was no better as he tried to close out a business loophole from a tax perspective. But do not tell Joe Biden any of this, a man who is both a Democratic Presidential candidate and Obama’s Vice President:

• According to Brittany De Lea, writing for Fox Business News on July 10, 2019, Biden exploited a business tax loophole to tremendous self enrichment levels, a business tax loophole that Obama had tried to eliminate.
• Apparently Biden and his wife have taken profits from their book sales and speeches and funneled them through S corporations in order to minimize their tax impacts.
• This S corporation strategy saved them about $500,000 in Federal taxes.
• This allowed the Bidens to avoid massive payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare.
• And despite being just a politician, Biden and his wife have earned a remarkable $15 million in the TWO years since he left office.

All of this is legal. But the hypocrisy of demonizing American businesses when you are using tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes that most other Americans are paying and then leveraging a lackluster political career into millions and millions of dollars shows that our political processes continue to be so broken.

2) According to Gallup polling, gun control is about the 20th most important issue that concerns Americans. That means that there are 19 or so more important things that politicians should be focusing on before tackling a likely fictitious issue called gun control.

But that has not stopped Presidential candidate Kamala Harris from harping on the need for gun control, even if it means violating the Constitution:

• Harris recently dropped the un-Constitutional threat that if Congress does not act on her gun control plans she will violate the Constitution and do whatever she wants.
• Her words: “Gun violence is the leading cause of death for young Black men in America. We must stop this. When president, I will take executive action to ensure guns do not fall into the wrong hands.”
• And not only is she threatening to bypass the Constitution she issued an ultimatum to Congress: if Congress does not do what she demands within the first 100 days she will ignore them and do what she wants.

Not sure Harris is running for President or a queen, where she does whatever she wants, the Constitution be damned. Insanity.

3) But Harris is not the only "damn the Second Amendment" politician out there. New Jersey’s governor, Phil Murphy, recently signed four new gun control bills. This is about a year after he signed six other gun control laws.

Components of these laws include the following:

• Every gun dealer in the state now has to sell at least one “smart gun” that can only be fired by designated users.
• Criminals that previously had convictions of carjacking and making terroristic threats can now no longer buy guns in the state.
• It is now a third degree crime if someone tries to obtain a gun who is not allowed to have one.
• Encourages, not requires, gun retail dealers and operators of shooting ranges to attend a suicide prevention course.

And Murphy and the New Jersey political class are not done, other gun restrictions are pending:

• Require guns to be locked away when the New Jersey gun owner leaves their home or premises.
• Make it a second-degree crime in New Jersey to act as a straw purchaser and a third-degree crime to transport, sell or possess a firearm without a federally licensed serial number.
• Require gun owners in the state to renew their gun id card every four years and prove they have attended a gun safety training course.
• Require that a New Jerseyan be at least 21 years old in order to buy gun ammunition in the state.
• Require ammunition sales outlets to report their sales to the State Police.

A few questions for the governor:

• Do we really think that gun toting criminals are going to go to a gun safety course every four years?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals are going to renew their gun id card every four years?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals care what the degree of criminality exists?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals care about smart guns?
• Do we really think that gun toting criminals care about locking up their guns when not home?
• Do we really think gun toting criminals care it is a third-degree crime to transport, sell or possess a firearm without a federally licensed serial number?

Thus, new laws will restrict and make it more difficult for New Jersey citizens to utilize their Second Amendment rights while it will have no impact on criminals. Why? Because they are criminals, not a complex concept. Insane.

4) According to a recent Godfather Politics article by Warner Todd Huston, Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders quite the hypocrite when comes to having a minimum wage of $15 an hour:

• Sanders has hassled companies like McDonalds and Walmart for underpaying these companies’ employees.
• He has been a national advocate for a Federal mandated $15 an hour minimum wage.
• But his hypocrisy was uncovered when it recently became known that while he has badgering private companies to raise their employees wages to at least $15 an hour, he does not pay many of his staff this level of wages, with many of them getting only $13 an hour.
• An organized group of Bernie’s employees have sent a letter to Sanders campaign manager, Faiz Shakir: “Many field staffers are barely managing to survive financially, which is severely impacting our team’s productivity and morale. Some field organizers have already left the campaign as a result.”

But this is usually what happens in socialism dominated countries. The elite make the big bucks and despite promises of socialistic programs, regular citizens always get the short end of the stick. Elitist Sanders is a millionaire many times over, owner of at least three different homes in different parts of the country, but despite his high rhetoric he shortchanges his own employees. The hypocrisy is blatant and very telling.

That will do it for today: Democrats focus on a minor issue relative to Americans priorities and rich politicians consider themselves above the law and not bound by decency or integrity. More insanity to follow.

Our book, "Love My Country, Loathe My Government - Fifty First Steps To Restoring Our Freedom And Destroying The American Political Class" is now available at:

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It is also available online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Please pass our message of freedom onward. Let your friends and family know about our websites and blogs, ask your library to carry the book, and respect freedom for both yourselves and others everyday.

Please visit the following sites for freedom:


http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.bankruptingamerica.org
http://www.conventionofstates.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08j0sYUOb5w