Voting Guide For Democrats + The Progressive Political Class

Traumatized Nation Terrified To Make Its Voice Heard In Another Election...The Onion

I decided to do a favor today for all those Democrats and the progressive political class who plan on voting next Tuesday. It's time for The Political War Zone to publish a voting guide.

I'm going to keep it very simple. By all means vote Democrat:

• If you like big government even if it remains incompatible with freedom and liberty.
• If you like restrictions on our rights as revealed by our government spying and threatening Americans and members of the press.
• If you like a lawless administration.
• If you like the IRS intimidating Americans who happen to be members of a particular political class. In other words, a government and administration that wields the power of government against ordinary citizens.
• If you like the first thing your government does is reaching for a lie.
• If your an African-American and are satisfied with official unemployment in your community remaining at 11% and unemployment among your youth ranging from 30 to over 40% in some demographic areas.
• If you like the number of actually unemployed Americans approaching 19 million.
• If you like more bad people owning guns rather than more good people owning legal firearms.
• If you like the U.S. losing its geo-political prestige, strength and influence across the globe.
• If you like the U.S. being intimidated by the likes of Iran, Russia, and N. Korea. Or an administration that prefers to bully Americans rather than rattle its sabres against its enemies. 
• If you like an administration---that by its own admission---had no strategy against the rise of ISIS.
• If you like an administration that's come up with few original ideas or policies.
• If you like phony exploitation wars against women, minorities and class. 
• If you like the rise of terrorism across the globe because the current administration keeps erasing its own red lines.
• If you like the world's leading health care system ravaged by Obamacare.
• If you like Americans living in record-high poverty.(44M+)
• If you like a record-high number of Americans receiving food stamps. (46M+)
• If you like to watch the middle-class keep shrinking resulting in the previous two points above.
• If you like the president of the U.S. spending more time attending fundraisers, taking countless vacations rather than governing. In addition to giving plumb government jobs and contracts to big donors. 
• If you like terrorist released from detention then found fighting for ISIS or some other terrorist group.
• If you like political correctness trumping reasonable common sense in decision making.
• If you like an administration and government awash in confusion, scandals and incompetence.
• If you like thugs like Al Sharpton continuing to have influence within the highest levels of our government.
• If you like the current national debt quickly approaching $18T and interest being paid at that debt of almost $3T amounting to just under $8,000 per citizen.
• If you like more and more Americans losing their life-long pensions.
• If you like pumping billions of taxpayers money into failed school systems.
• If you liked billions of taxpayer's money wasted and lost on green initiatives.
• If you like an administration and government that never accepts responsibilities for its failures and manages to blame others.
• If you like giving amnesty to thousands of illegal immigrants as they jump ahead of those immigrants who follow the legal pathway to citizenship.
• If you like voter fraud.

If you like all of that and more, then by all means vote for Democrats. Hope this helps.

Ebola Reveals The Arrogance + Selfishness Of Some In The Medical Community

...If I return from West Africa, I would of course quarantine. I'm not a narcissistic anti-human sociopath...John Nolte Tweet 

• Two weeks ago, I wrote my first piece addressing Ebola {"Ebola: As Experts And The Government Trip Over Their Own Rhetoric, Who Are We To Trust?"}. In short, I pointed out we all have a responsibility to ensure we don't instill hysteria in the general population. (I noted fear is good. It makes one alert). But we also have a responsibility to report the truth about Ebola to the public. And it's precisely there where we have the problems. In the last several weeks, we've been witness to 1-misinformation and several changes in the protocol regarding treatment and quarantine and 2-medical personnel returning from W. Africa who themselves have not followed the protocol guidelines. Namely, they were to self-quarantine themselves but decided to violate those protocols.
• We initially saw this behavior with Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC News Chief Medical Editor at NBC News. She allegedly decided to leave her self-imposed quarantine in Princeton and get some take-out at a local restaurant in Princeton, NJ.
• Dr. Craig Spencer reportedly told the NYPD he quarantined himself in his Manhattan apartment after returning from a tour in W. Africa treating patients with Ebola. It was later discovered he actually decided to go bowling, taking the subway, jogging and visited at least one restaurant. 
• And perhaps the most conspicuous example has been the behavior of nurse Kaci Hickox. She returned from W. Africa and was placed in quarantine in a tent outside of University Hospital in Newark, NJ. She claimed she didn't like the way she was being treated while being quarantined in a tent and all. She claims her rights were violated. Yes indeed, she happens to be a nurse who just returned from W. Africa performing a noble task taking care of patients with Ebola. Kudos! But where was she staying in Africa?---at the Marriott? And regarding living a tent, thousands upon thousands of people live in tents either camping or in emergencies or even when they happen to be homeless. Or as one observer remarked: "Are health workers who travel to Africa to save lives willing to jeopardize lives upon their return?" Great question. And today, upon her return to Maine, she told Matt Lauer of the Today Show that: "I don't plan sticking to the guidelines. I remain appalled by these home quarantine policies that have been forced upon me even though I am in perfectly good health..." {Her quarantine in Maine would end Nov. 10}.
• While there remains a lot of misinformation and disorganization {largely from the administration and the CDC regarding Ebola}, Nurse Hickox should understand that breaking the current established protocols could place others in jeopardy. In fact, states and local municipalities do have the legal authority to protect the health, safety and welfare of people within their borders. Most states have laws in place to enforce the use of isolation and quarantine. On the other hand, citizens should and must confront authorities if they believe those same authorities are in any way violating the patient's rights under The Constitution. I believe NJ had the legal authority to quarantine this particular patient. But we can leave that to the courts to decide if it ever goes that far.

The Vampires In The Political Class & Media Keep Sucking The Life-Blood Out Of America

Bill Clinton says he feels like a retired race horse. Now you know where they get Crazy Glue... WH Press Secretary Tweet

Regular readers of this blog know I occasionally bring up my experiences with Eastern Europe when it was under Communism. I saw first hand how Communism just sucks the life-blood out of good people. Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, you could always notice the conspicuous depression on most of the the faces of many people walking on the streets. They would always appear to be in a hurry, not smiling and just looked bummed out most of the time. That's what big government does. It's incompatible with liberty, freedom and a future sense. It's depressing.

All of that changed when Eastern Europe managed to remove the jack boots of Communism from the necks. They were smiling again. They were happy. They knew their lives would finally have some meaning. They knew they and their children would finally have a future.

I'm not accusing our government of being Communist. They are still far from it. But progressive political ideology and Communism are first cousins. In America today---under this administration---we see how the political elites (including the media) don't believe in individual liberty. Their entire focus is on the "collective," the community. For progressives, their political ideology trumps the welfare, well-being and security of the nation. We've seen that play out most recently with the debate on Ebola, travel bans and quarantines. Common sense indicates that you don't contain a disease by spreading it around. Yet, this administration decided to import it into our country. We've seen it in the behavior of an elite class that refuses to be quarantined thereby threatening the health of the public. We've also observed this behavior in an administration that has long refused to acknowledge the depth and seriousness of Islamist terrorism.

And if you think I'm delusional, allow me to relate a recent news story. When Bill de Blasio was elected Mayor of NYC, I wrote several pieces warning New Yorkers of the misery to come. In the past, I listed some examples (feel free to archive those pieces on de Blasio and company). They haven't stopped with spreading the misery. But this time, it can pose a danger to the rest of America. NY City Council passed two bills last week that would ensure NY remains a sanctuary for illegal aliens. That's not a big story. Many cities have already decided to walk on this side of insanity. No, NYC government has taken a leap into sheer stupidity. They want to offer sanctuary to illegal aliens even if they are convicted of violent crimes, including members of gangs and those on terrorist watch list. That's right. You read it correctly. Moreover, the law adds obstacles for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). The city won't honor any ICE detainee requests. And even when ICE agents get warrants, the city will ignore those warrants. This is an example of progressive politics gone bat-shit crazy. Yet, the outrage is conspicuous by its absence. In fact, I would venture to say this might be the first time you are reading this story. NY Post Today

The real danger is the progressive political class will take steps to even commit societal suicide. They'll even cross the line into lawlessness just to spread their warped ideology. One of the only problems with that type of governing is that they take the rest of us along for the ride. That's the transformation Obama promised. Unfortunately, many Americans didn't give any thought to what the consequences would be. We now know what they are.