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Title: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 02:57:37 am
If you would indulge me, I'd like to experiment with this...  Posting notes of interest, articles, clips, etc.  I invite contributions since this is not about me.  I want to keep it interesting and pertinent.  If I fail... well, it will drift out into the ether.  What do you think?  Will you help me?

Here is the first installment from one of my all time favorites, Bill Whittle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvqPgYC4U0
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 03:30:59 am
More Bill Whittle... This is phenomenal... please watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTUcS-yQtQ#t=65
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 03:36:38 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjmUgjWle5w
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 03:45:32 am
Classic and so, so on point.  Milton Friedman...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ0-cDKMS5M
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 03:49:00 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3hY1eagq88
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 04:01:30 am
Dry... but very good....  the great Mark Steyn...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5IuHkJhtQ
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 04:04:37 am
This... this... is what a leader sounds like.  Oh Lord...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8y18YFH70
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: DCPatriot on September 20, 2014, 04:24:45 am
If you would indulge me, I'd like to experiment with this...  Posting notes of interest, articles, clips, etc.  I invite contributions since this is not about me.  I want to keep it interesting and pertinent.  If I fail... well, it will drift out into the ether.  What do you think?  Will you help me?

Here is the first installment from one of my all time favorites, Bill Whittle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvqPgYC4U0

Lando!   Thank you very much for turning me/us onto Bill Whittle.  Excellently produced and written.   :patriot:

Of course my first thought after seeing this was of concern for Mr. Whittle's health and safety.
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: DCPatriot on September 20, 2014, 04:33:15 am
More Bill Whittle... This is phenomenal... please watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTUcS-yQtQ#t=65

Wow!   :beer:

All I have to say about this one: 

Wish I knew it was available.  It would have saved me a lot of angst when all I would have had to do was say, "Oh yeah?  Watch this...and get back to me!" 
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 11:59:00 am
Lando!   Thank you very much for turning me/us onto Bill Whittle.  Excellently produced and written.   :patriot:

Of course my first thought after seeing this was of concern for Mr. Whittle's health and safety.

I have been a fan of Bill Whittle since back in the TOS days.  I was keeper of his so-called ping list and I corresponded with Bill regularly at his site Eject! Eject! Eject!.  Here is the link to some of the best essays you will read anywhere: http://ejectejecteject.com .  He has since moved on to bigger things but what a mind.

It is hard to explain but I was wired on anxiety when I started this thread.  It is sometimes difficult for me to participate in the depressing threads of the day so I started this one.  I hope it is not pretentious or that it detracts from others.  I welcome input from anyone and I will not be defensive or offended.  I thought a repository of the "various and sundry" could be useful.  The name might be viewed as pretentious - I don't mind changing it.  Let me know.
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 12:09:53 pm
Since we're discussing Bill Whittle, here is a powerful production discussing Israel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1IVjnRuXk
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 12:13:16 pm
Debunking the Palestine Lie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 12:31:12 pm
Bill Whittle's most watched production.  Powerful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAOrT0OcHh0
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: DCPatriot on September 20, 2014, 12:41:34 pm
Bill Whittle's most watched production.  Powerful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAOrT0OcHh0

Wow....seems so simple and logical.

Just imagine if every child...from kindergarten thru college were shown this each day in their classrooms.

....just after the Pledge of Allegiance.  (which btw...I am not crazy about either)
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 12:49:54 pm
Jim Carrey's Secret to Life  :0001:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLKadlRx2tU
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: DCPatriot on September 20, 2014, 12:51:17 pm
Since we're discussing Bill Whittle, here is a powerful production discussing Israel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1IVjnRuXk

I could probably spend an entire day watching these.....thanks again, Lando!   :beer:

...wish I could send this one to my two oldest sons.  
Title: Re: Lando's Landing
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 12:57:23 pm
I could probably spend an entire day watching these.....thanks again, Lando!   :beer:

...wish I could send this one to my two oldest sons.
:beer:
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 01:55:46 pm
Changed the title to The Repository.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 06:17:47 pm
Classy Aaron Rodgers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtrs5Zsad-k
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 06:23:13 pm
Truly incredible Ronald Reagan...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpH5L8zCtSk
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on September 20, 2014, 08:34:46 pm
Classy Aaron Rodgers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtrs5Zsad-k

Tremendously inspiring video.  He really is a classy guy.  And thanks Lando for this thread.  You are a true class act!   :patriot:
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 11:04:39 pm
Tremendously inspiring video.  He really is a classy guy.  And thanks Lando for this thread.  You are a true class act!   :patriot:

That smile on the young girl's face said it all.  He made a difference in her life at least for a little while.  What a gift.

As for the compliment... thank you.  I have received two today from people I admire!  Thank you again.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on September 20, 2014, 11:19:18 pm
That smile on the young girl's face said it all.  He made a difference in her life at least for a little while.  What a gift.

As for the compliment... thank you.  I have received two today from people I admire!  Thank you again.

The thanks go to you my friend, and yes, that smile made my day!
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 11:34:28 pm
Please take the time to watch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C372wVaBM-s
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 20, 2014, 11:43:59 pm
13 minutes very well spent. Re: Political Correctness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6c_dinY3fM
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 22, 2014, 02:09:43 am
I had no idea:
Aaron Rodgers helps girl spread word about her pediatric cancer campaign (http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/aaron-rodgers-helps-girl-spread-word-about-her-pediatric-cancer-campaign-153956758.html)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgVpnjev79Q
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 23, 2014, 12:17:17 am
Feminism vs. Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oqyrflOQFc
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 23, 2014, 12:29:34 am
Was it wrong to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmIBbcxseXM#t=250
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 23, 2014, 10:13:48 pm
Prepare to be wowed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ymriMhoj0
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 01, 2014, 01:26:29 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YQ8560E1w
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 01, 2014, 03:03:47 am
Elbert Guillory on the 2nd Amendment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8CzUdUD49k#t=23
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 27, 2014, 04:43:03 pm
Press Ignoring Nikki Haley's Opponent Wanting to 'Escort Whore Out the Door' (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/10/26/press-ignoring-nikki-haleys-opponent-wanting-escort-whore-out-door?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_term=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=haley-opponent-door)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLwiKhGtcHg

File under War on Women
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 27, 2014, 04:56:56 pm
CNN's Costello Gleeful As She Hypes Palin Family Brawl Audio (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2014/10/22/cnns-costello-gleeful-she-hypes-palin-family-brawl-audio)

More War on Women
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on October 27, 2014, 06:24:50 pm
The liberal press never brings out the most outrageous things liberal pundits and politicians say about women.  Good posting.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 27, 2014, 06:39:02 pm
FNC’s The Five Discusses MRC Study on Liberal Media’s Lack of 2014 Midterms Coverage
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2014/10/23/fncs-five-discusses-mrc-study-liberal-medias-lack-2014-midterm-coverage?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_term=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=fnc-midterm

Media Bias
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 27, 2014, 07:11:44 pm
Good posting.

Thanks MAC.   :beer:

I am hopeful that we can build a bank of material or "repository" which we can use as a resource or reference as the need arises.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 28, 2014, 02:11:49 pm
The Voter-ID Myth Crashes.....By Mona Charen  (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,152565.msg615134.html#msg615134)

Voter ID
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on October 28, 2014, 04:06:11 pm
Thanks MAC.   :beer:

I am hopeful that we can build a bank of material or "repository" which we can use as a resource or reference as the need arises.

Excellent idea, especially as the 2016 election begins next Wednesday!
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 28, 2014, 06:03:53 pm
The Sayings of Barack Obama..... By Ed Lasky (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,152581.msg615183.html#msg615183)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 28, 2014, 08:35:53 pm
Chicago Activists Unchained, Destroy Black Leadership  (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,152600.msg615244.html#msg615244)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 01, 2014, 06:17:46 pm
The American Civil War: Every Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBr3QeVPv2M#t=299
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 06, 2014, 03:20:48 pm
This Was How America Looked After Obama Was Elected in 2008… (then, 2014) (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,153383.msg618993/topicseen.html#msg618993)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: alicewonders on November 06, 2014, 03:51:43 pm
The American Civil War: Every Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBr3QeVPv2M#t=299

That was very interesting to watch, thanks Lando!

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on November 06, 2014, 05:50:01 pm
This Was How America Looked After Obama Was Elected in 2008… (then, 2014) (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,153383.msg618993/topicseen.html#msg618993)

With due respect to those who were saddened to see how the earlier one you posted (CW) turned out, I think most here like this one! 
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 06, 2014, 05:55:47 pm
With due respect to those who were saddened to see how the earlier one you posted (CW) turned out, I think most here like this one!

You're bad MAC.  You're bad.  :smokin:
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on November 06, 2014, 06:38:56 pm
You're bad MAC.  You're bad.  :smokin:

Heck, I've been called worse...

 000hehehehe
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 10, 2014, 03:39:32 pm
Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014  (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=153760.new#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 15, 2014, 02:27:29 pm
Bill Whittle
Number Six - Envy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyE0IE6EA1s#t=224
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 15, 2014, 02:42:19 pm
This is brilliant.
Bill Whittle - Racism - Democrats and Republicans switch sides?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwqhoVIh65k&list=PL1PTFoLadMM01SZym5PBddfrCjIYnXR0C
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 15, 2014, 03:44:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siW0YAAfX6I
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 16, 2014, 03:05:38 am
This is very good, especially the last half.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAA_So0d01w
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 16, 2014, 03:22:17 pm
(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5b/64/f2/5b64f20a26a4236d5a4d733604c45630.jpg)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: alicewonders on November 16, 2014, 03:37:27 pm
(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5b/64/f2/5b64f20a26a4236d5a4d733604c45630.jpg)

If you would show those two graphics to the typical Democrat voter - they would accuse you of photoshopping it.  Never in a million years could you convince them otherwise.  Their minds are sealed shut.

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: DCPatriot on November 16, 2014, 03:40:11 pm
If you would show those two graphics to the typical Democrat voter - they would accuse you of photoshopping it.  Never in a million years could you convince them otherwise.  Their minds are sealed shut.

It's why records are sealed for decades after many historical events....such as the Kennedy Assassination and Obama's college transcripts.

Time has a habit of dulling outrage.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 07, 2014, 06:22:07 pm
19 Signs That You Live In A Country That Has Gone Completely Insane (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,156033.msg628080/topicseen.html#msg628080)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 08, 2014, 12:26:59 am
Boiling Frogs’ Official Response to President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address (https://boilingfrogs.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/boiling-frogs-official-response-to-president-obamas-2013-state-of-the-union-address/)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 13, 2014, 06:46:36 pm
Inconvenient Truth… Blacks Commit 25X More Violent Assaults Against Whites Than Whites Against Blacks (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,156582.msg629873/topicseen.html#msg629873)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 20, 2014, 03:26:24 am
 Sixteen Years Ago (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,157151.msg632060/topicseen.html#msg632060)

Clinton Impeachment
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: xyno on December 27, 2014, 02:33:17 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsotix5PvwM
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: xyno on December 27, 2014, 02:43:40 am
Wealthy donors sided with Democrats in midterms (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,157553.msg633419/topicseen.html#msg633419)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on January 27, 2015, 09:54:46 pm
Outstanding.  Bravo Bill Whittle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 03, 2015, 06:09:53 pm
Gallup: The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment  (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,161243.msg644774/topicseen.html#msg644774)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 06, 2015, 05:37:44 pm
So Obama Wants to Talk About the Crusades? Let’s Educate Him (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,161563.msg645772/topicseen.html#msg645772)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 17, 2015, 03:16:41 am
Do the Wealthy Really Pay Their ‘Fair Share’? Economics Professor Breaks It All Down

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/16/do-the-rich-really-pay-their-fair-share-ucla-economics-professor-breaks-it-all-down/ (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/16/do-the-rich-really-pay-their-fair-share-ucla-economics-professor-breaks-it-all-down/)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 17, 2015, 05:50:48 pm
[Here’s Audio From The Event Michael Bloomberg Is Trying To Block From Being Broadcast [AUDIO]] (http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/16/heres-audio-from-the-event-michael-bloomberg-is-trying-to-block-from-being-broadcast-audio/)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 21, 2015, 04:22:41 pm
Rudy Is Right (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,163017.msg650263/topicseen.html#msg650263)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 23, 2015, 03:29:49 pm
Forget The Terrorists: Malls Already Under Attack from Black Mob Violence (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,163204.msg650913/topicseen.html#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 23, 2015, 03:38:42 pm
I have created a site and have built a list, with links creating a history of the Scandals of the Obama administration.  It is meant for conservatives to use to the administration's paid astroturfers and left wing blog assassins.  There are separated files on some scandals such as Benghazi, the VA, Amnesty, and the traitorous Bergdahl deal.  Also, a fairly good list of Military officers removed and the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood in the White House.

The main page is the day's current news cycle and I have found that these stories are generally what you will hear discussed on most conservative media the next day.  You have links to these stories that will arm you with information if you wish to be so armed.

I call the website 'Nachumlist'.  Here is the link to home page from which you may go to any of the other pages.

http://nachumlist.com/ (http://nachumlist.com/)

If you have stories not posted that you think would be worthy to post, please post links below, or contact me and I will be happy to check it out.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on February 23, 2015, 03:45:48 pm
alamo-girl.com (http://alamo-girl.com)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 23, 2015, 03:54:09 pm
alamo-girl.com (http://alamo-girl.com)

Thanks Bigun.  A-G is legendary in her chronicling the escapades of the Clintons.  And you wonder why the "net neutrality" push?
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 02, 2015, 05:48:33 pm
WaPo: Do the rich pay their fair share? (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=163951.new#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 03, 2015, 07:27:11 pm
Morgan Freeman on Black History Month (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,164067.msg653744/topicseen.html#msg653744)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 13, 2015, 02:06:45 am
Wisconsin and Minnesota: A One-Sided Political Competition (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,164915.0.html)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 17, 2015, 05:00:54 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ONP37X5.jpg)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: PzLdr on March 17, 2015, 09:33:56 pm
If you would show those two graphics to the typical Democrat voter - they would accuse you of photoshopping it.  Never in a million years could you convince them otherwise.  Their minds are sealed shut.



As we used to say objecting at a trial, to your line about their minds being sealed, "Objection. Assuming a fact not in evidence, that they have a mind."
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 17, 2015, 10:03:03 pm
As we used to say objecting at a trial, to your line about their minds being sealed, "Objection. Assuming a fact not in evidence, that they have a mind."

Thanks for taking a look.  Hope the page is worthwhile!
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 18, 2015, 12:47:27 pm
Fact Checker Just Slapped Obama On The Grill Because Of These Whoppers About Guns (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,165590.msg658482/topicseen.html#msg658482)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 27, 2015, 11:40:21 am
(http://i.imgur.com/8ppRHVm.jpg)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 29, 2015, 01:09:43 pm
Combined State, Federal and Local Taxes - Cents/Gallon - February 2014
(http://www.exxonmobilperspectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/API-US-Map.jpg)

A gasoline tax map that explains a lot (http://www.exxonmobilperspectives.com/2014/02/07/this-gasoline-tax-map-explains-a-lot/?utm_source=Outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Perspectives_-_Full_Site)
February 7, 2014 by Ken Cohen

In last week’s post about ExxonMobil’s 2013 earnings, I noted that we (ExxonMobil) earned about 5.5 cents for every gallon of gasoline and other petroleum products we refined, shipped, and sold in the United States.

Consider this: The federal and state and local governments collected 40 to 60 cents per gallon in taxes.

The American Petroleum Institute just updated their map showing the combined local, state and federal tax rate in each state as of Jan. 1, when new taxes took effect.

API US MapThe federal gasoline tax is the same from coast-to-coast –18.4 cents a gallon – which means any variations have been implemented by state and local governments.

The highest gasoline tax in the country is in California, where it now exceeds 70 cents a gallon. Combined with California-specific fuel-blending regulations that drive up refining costs, these taxes help make Golden State gasoline prices the most expensive in the country.

Several other states, such as New York, Connecticut, and Hawaii, are close to California in terms of the fuel-tax burden their residents bear, though none has yet joined in crossing the 70-cent-per-gallon threshold.

I encourage you to study API’s map, or dig into its interactive version for state-and-local-level specifics.

American Petroleum Institute Interactive Map (http://api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/industry-economics/fuel-taxes/gasoline-taxhttp://api.org/oil-and-natural-gas-overview/industry-economics/fuel-taxes/gasoline-tax)  (Excellent detail)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 29, 2015, 02:09:15 pm
I thought I'd add this to the compilation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAO5_Hk06Mc
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 02, 2015, 02:23:10 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/ceAvtdm.jpg)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 02, 2015, 02:31:05 pm
Indiana governor backs down, calls for fix to religious law (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,166864.0.html)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 04, 2015, 12:48:31 pm
Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar To Record 93.2 Million As Participation Rate Drops To February 1978 Levels (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,167147.msg663564.html#msg663564)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 04, 2015, 12:52:53 pm
History Lesson: How Dwight Eisenhower Dealt With Illegal Immigration (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,167193.msg663684/topicseen.html#msg663684)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: DCPatriot on April 04, 2015, 03:21:24 pm
(http://scontent-1.2914.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11061272_10205892802860856_4828699593376171976_n.jpg?oh=81870a499f3944bc9a5a76e0dd2e7ab8&oe=559F26BA)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 06, 2015, 01:46:23 am

Here are 1,027 well sourced examples of Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc. (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,167290.msg663957/topicseen.html#msg663957)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 06, 2015, 03:41:17 pm
Liberals May Regret Their New Rules (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,167266.msg664011/topicseen.html#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 14, 2015, 01:57:17 am
Top 20% of Earners Pay 84% of Income Tax; top 1% pay 50% of income tax (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,167838.msg665804.html#msg665804)

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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 14, 2015, 11:47:31 am
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html (http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html)

Caspar and the Jesus Paper

(Debunking the "Hockey Stick" climate change graph.)

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 14, 2015, 04:57:27 pm
The redistribution racket (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,168076.msg666145/topicseen.html#msg666145)

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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 15, 2015, 04:30:17 am
Five Absurd 'Equal Pay' Comments in Time for Bogus Holiday (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2015/04/14/five-absurd-equal-pay-comments-time-bogus-holiday?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_term=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=equal-pay)
By Julia A. Seymour | April 14, 2015 | 10:42 AM EDT

Editor’s Note: Story contains graphic content and links to explicit video. Cherry blossoms are blooming and as sure as a springtime rainstorm liberals are repeating false claims that women make significantly less than men do for the same work. Why? Discrimination, of course.

More at Link.  Good links imbedded in article.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 16, 2015, 11:36:55 am
Chicago: Economic Death Spiral After 84 Years of Democratic Control - Larry Elder (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=168227.new#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 16, 2015, 11:47:17 am
The Romance of Poverty - Ben Shapiro (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=168220.new#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 24, 2015, 04:26:57 pm
US Knife Laws

http://www.knifeup.com/knife-laws (http://www.knifeup.com/knife-laws)

Interactive map, definitions and explanations. A lot of info at link.

(http://cdn.wideopenspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/knife-law-knifeup.jpg)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: alicewonders on April 24, 2015, 05:19:25 pm
Thanks Lando. 

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 27, 2015, 04:25:07 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 27, 2015, 06:00:25 pm
Bill Whittle: Ferguson and the Real Race War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTUcS-yQtQ

Data used in report is from National Crime Victimization Survey using 2010 data:

Violent crime... white-on-black and black-on-white raw data:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83131384/billwhittleblackonwhitecrime1.jpg)

Simple disparity of raw data:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83131384/billwhittleblackonwhitecrime2.jpg)

However, there are general census/population differences:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83131384/billwhittleblackonwhitecrime3.jpg)

Simple adjustment or normalization for population disparity:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83131384/billwhittleblackonwhitecrime4.jpg)

And here it is normalized for the more severe Aggravated Assault:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83131384/billwhittleblackonwhitecrime5.jpg)

Thank you Bill Whittle.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 28, 2015, 02:20:21 pm
Here are 1,052 well sourced examples of Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc.
By Dan from Squirrel Hill
Posted on August 15, 2013. Updated on April 28, 2015

https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/ (https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/)

Well-sourced and categorized.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 28, 2015, 06:17:22 pm
181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary's State Department (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,169309.msg669729/topicseen.html#msg669729)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 30, 2015, 12:33:36 am
The Must-See Graphic Barack Obama (And The Media) Want To Keep Hidden…D.W. ULSTERMAN (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,169436.msg670082/topicseen.html#msg670082)

Job growth net of population growth.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 02, 2015, 12:37:30 pm
Baltimore as a Democrat City (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,169637.msg670729/topicseen.html#msg670729)

Statistical/historical data within article.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 05, 2015, 07:28:48 pm
The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much
By PAUL F. CAMPOSAPRIL 4, 2015
The New York Times

BOULDER, Colo. — ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. These radical cuts forced universities to raise tuition year after year, which in turn forced the millennial generation to take on crushing educational debt loads, and everyone lived unhappily ever after.

This is the story college administrators like to tell when they’re asked to explain why, over the past 35 years, college tuition at public universities has nearly quadrupled, to $9,139 in 2014 dollars. It is a fairy tale in the worst sense, in that it is not merely false, but rather almost the inverse of the truth.

The conventional wisdom was reflected in a recent National Public Radio series on the cost of college. “So it’s not that colleges are spending more money to educate students,” Sandy Baum of the Urban Institute told NPR. “It’s that they have to get that money from someplace to replace their lost state funding — and that’s from tuition and fees from students and families.”

In fact, public investment in higher education in America is vastly larger today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was during the supposed golden age of public funding in the 1960s. Such spending has increased at a much faster rate than government spending in general. For example, the military’s budget is about 1.8 times higher today than it was in 1960, while legislative appropriations to higher education are more than 10 times higher.

In other words, far from being caused by funding cuts, the astonishing rise in college tuition correlates closely with a huge increase in public subsidies for higher education. If over the past three decades car prices had gone up as fast as tuition, the average new car would cost more than $80,000.

Some of this increased spending in education has been driven by a sharp rise in the percentage of Americans who go to college. While the college-age population has not increased since the tail end of the baby boom, the percentage of the population enrolled in college has risen significantly, especially in the last 20 years. Enrollment in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs has increased by almost 50 percent since 1995. As a consequence, while state legislative appropriations for higher education have risen much faster than inflation, total state appropriations per student are somewhat lower than they were at their peak in 1990. (Appropriations per student are much higher now than they were in the 1960s and 1970s, when tuition was a small fraction of what it is today.)

As the baby boomers reached college age, state appropriations to higher education skyrocketed, increasing more than fourfold in today’s dollars, from $11.1 billion in 1960 to $48.2 billion in 1975. By 1980, state funding for higher education had increased a mind-boggling 390 percent in real terms over the previous 20 years. This tsunami of public money did not reduce tuition: quite the contrary.

For example, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in 1980, my parents were paying more than double the resident tuition that undergraduates had been charged in 1960, again in inflation-adjusted terms. And of course tuition has kept rising far faster than inflation in the years since: Resident tuition at Michigan this year is, in today’s dollars, nearly four times higher than it was in 1980.

State appropriations reached a record inflation-adjusted high of $86.6 billion in 2009. They declined as a consequence of the Great Recession, but have since risen to $81 billion. And these totals do not include the enormous expansion of the federal Pell Grant program, which has grown, in today’s dollars, to $34.3 billion per year from $10.3 billion in 2000.

It is disingenuous to call a large increase in public spending a “cut,” as some university administrators do, because a huge programmatic expansion features somewhat lower per capita subsidies. Suppose that since 1990 the government had doubled the number of military bases, while spending slightly less per base. A claim that funding for military bases was down, even though in fact such funding had nearly doubled, would properly be met with derision.

Interestingly, increased spending has not been going into the pockets of the typical professor. Salaries of full-time faculty members are, on average, barely higher than they were in 1970. Moreover, while 45 years ago 78 percent of college and university professors were full time, today half of postsecondary faculty members are lower-paid part-time employees, meaning that the average salaries of the people who do the teaching in American higher education are actually quite a bit lower than they were in 1970.

By contrast, a major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.

Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.

The rapid increase in college enrollment can be defended by intellectually respectable arguments. Even the explosion in administrative personnel is, at least in theory, defensible. On the other hand, there are no valid arguments to support the recent trend toward seven-figure salaries for high-ranking university administrators, unless one considers evidence-free assertions about “the market” to be intellectually rigorous.

What cannot be defended, however, is the claim that tuition has risen because public funding for higher education has been cut. Despite its ubiquity, this claim flies directly in the face of the facts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-reason-college-tuition-costs-so-much.html?WT.mc_id=2015-MAY-WCASeq-OPINION&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=WCARETARG&_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-reason-college-tuition-costs-so-much.html?WT.mc_id=2015-MAY-WCASeq-OPINION&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=WCARETARG&_r=0)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: DCPatriot on May 05, 2015, 07:35:58 pm
Meant to tell you before, Lando.  Thank you for this thread.   It's a great source of 'exhibits' and material for any of us debating/discussing with a liberal or somebody of a different political persuasion.   :beer:
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 05, 2015, 07:50:49 pm
Meant to tell you before, Lando.  Thank you for this thread.   It's a great source of 'exhibits' and material for any of us debating/discussing with a liberal or somebody of a different political persuasion.   :beer:

 :beer:  Trying to make it so...  I want to take some time to split the topics into categories.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 05, 2015, 08:28:02 pm
Bill Clinton gave 542 speeches between 2001 and 2013. He made $104.9 million.
By Team Fix
Washington Post
May 4, 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/04/bill-clinton-gave-542-speeches-between-2001-and-2013-he-made-104-9-million/?postshare=9411430785266628 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/04/bill-clinton-gave-542-speeches-between-2001-and-2013-he-made-104-9-million/?postshare=9411430785266628)

There's new attention being paid to the speaking fees Bill Clinton commanded since he left office, thanks to questions raised by NBC's Cynthia McFadden in an interview with the former president.

Back in June 2014, the Post did a deep dive into Clinton's speaking fees and reported the following:

Bill Clinton has been paid $104.9 million for 542 speeches around the world between January 2001, when he left the White House, and January 2013, when Hillary stepped down as secretary of state, according to a Washington Post review of the family’s federal financial disclosures.

Although slightly more than half of his appearances were in the United States, the majority of his speaking income, $56.3 million, came from foreign speeches, many of them in China, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom, the Post review found.


The chart below shows all of those speeches -- and how much Clinton got paid for each one.  His biggest payday? He made $750,000 for a single speech in Hong Kong in November 2011. Not bad for a day's work.

Click the chart to see the full interactive. (Link in article)

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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 08, 2015, 02:27:33 pm
Americans Not In The Labor Force Rise To Record 93,194,000 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,170152.msg672174/topicseen.html#msg672174)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 08, 2015, 06:49:58 pm
The 25 college majors that will lead to the lowest-paying jobs
Business Insider
Kathleen Elkins
May 8, 2015

Before declaring your major, make sure you're passionate about the subject you decide on, particularly if you're considering working with children.

Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce found in their recent report, "The Economic Value of College Majors," that education majors are paid the least — specifically those specializing in early childhood education, who earn a median annual salary of $39,000.

While the paychecks are not particularly enticing, people in education find a high level of meaning from their jobs. And the satisfaction from helping others tends to outweigh the lack of pay growth.

The education field is also unique in that it provides job security. "It's high security but low wages," Anthony Carnevale, director of the Center on Education and the Workforce, tells us. "So you have to ask yourself what you value — security or wages?"

Human services and community organization ranked second lowest, with a median annual paycheck of $41,000.

Choosing majors is not just about the dollars and pennies — it involves your interests and values — but it can be helpful know the facts and figures in order to make an informed decision.

Here is the full list of the lowest-paying college majors:

(http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/554bad6becad043f1efcce9f-800-1210/screen%20shot%202015-05-07%20at%202.15.13%20pm.png)

http://www.businessinsider.com/college-majors-that-lead-to-the-lowest-paying-jobs-2015-5 (http://www.businessinsider.com/college-majors-that-lead-to-the-lowest-paying-jobs-2015-5)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 08, 2015, 09:03:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWgOAtCn8k

Also at:
Bill Whittle:I believe in free speech, but... (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,170166.msg672271/topicseen.html#msg672271)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 13, 2015, 02:59:20 am
The War on Poverty After 50 Years
By Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield
September 15, 2014

Abstract
In his January 1964 State of the Union address, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” In the 50 years since that time, U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs. Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all U.S. military wars since the American Revolution. Yet progress against poverty, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, has been minimal, and in terms of President Johnson’s main goal of reducing the “causes” rather than the mere “consequences” of poverty, the War on Poverty has failed completely. In fact, a significant portion of the population is now less capable of self-sufficiency than it was when the War on Poverty began.

This week, the U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to release its annual poverty report. The report will be notable because this year marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In his January 1964 State of the Union address, Johnson proclaimed, “This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.”[1]

Since that time, U.S. taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on anti-poverty programs (in constant 2012 dollars). Adjusted for inflation, this spending (which does not include Social Security or Medicare) is three times the cost of all military wars in U.S. history since the American Revolution. Despite this mountain of spending, progress against poverty, at least as measured by the government, has been minimal.

(http://www.heritage.org/~/media/infographics/2014/09/bg2955/bg-war-on-poverty-50-years-chart-1-600.ashx?h=455&w=600)

The Welfare–Poverty Paradox

This week, the Census Bureau will most likely report that the poverty rate last year was about 14 percent, essentially the same rate as in 1967, three years after the War on Poverty was announced. As Chart 1 shows, according to the Census, there has been no net progress in reducing poverty since the mid to late 1960s. Since that time, the poverty rate has undulated slowly, falling by two to three percentage points during good economic times and rising by a similar amount when the economy slows. Overall, the trajectory of official poverty for the past 45 years has been flat or slightly upward.

The static nature of poverty is especially surprising because (as Chart 1 also shows) poverty fell dramatically during the period before the War on Poverty began. In 1950, the poverty rate was 32.2 percent. By 1965 (the first year during which any War on Poverty programs began to operate), the rate had been cut nearly in half to 17.3 percent.[2]

The unchanging poverty rate for the past 45 years is perplexing because anti-poverty or welfare spending during that period has simply exploded. As Chart 2 shows, means-tested welfare spending has soared since the start of the War on Poverty. In fiscal year 2013, the federal government ran over 80 means-tested welfare programs that provided cash, food, housing, medical care, and targeted social services to poor and low-income Americans.

(http://www.heritage.org/~/media/infographics/2014/09/bg2955/bg-war-on-poverty-50-years-chart-2-600.ashx?h=487&w=600)

Overall, 100 million individuals—nearly one in three Americans—received benefits from at least one of these programs. Federal and state governments spent $943 billion in 2013 on these programs at an average cost of $9,000 per recipient. (Again, Social Security and Medicare are not included in the totals.)
Today, government spends 16 times more, adjusting for inflation, on means-tested welfare or anti-poverty programs than it did when the War on Poverty started. But as welfare spending soared, the decline in poverty came to a grinding halt. As Chart 2 shows, the more the government spent, the less progress against poverty was made.

How can this paradox be explained? How can government spend $9,000 per recipient and have no apparent impact on poverty? The answer is that it can’t.
The conundrum of massive anti-poverty spending and unchanging poverty rates has a simple explanation. The Census Bureau counts a family as “poor” if its income falls below specific thresholds,[3] but in counting “income,” the Census omits nearly all of government means-tested spending on the poor.[4] In effect, it ignores almost the entire welfare state when it calculates poverty. This neat bureaucratic ploy ensured that welfare programs could grow infinitely while “poverty” remained unchanged.

Living Conditions of the Poor in America[5]
Consumption by Poor Families. Since the Census Bureau dramatically undercounts the actual incomes of the poor, it should be no surprise to find that the U.S. Department of Labor routinely reports that poor families spend $2.40 for every $1.00 of their reported income.[6] If public housing benefits are added to the tally, the ratio of consumption to income rises to $2.60 for every $1.00. In other words, the “income” figures that the Census Bureau uses to calculate poverty dramatically undercount the economic resources available to lower-income households.

Amenities. Because the official Census poverty report undercounts welfare income, it fails to provide meaningful information about the actual living conditions of less affluent Americans. The government’s own data show that the actual living conditions of the more than 45 million people deemed “poor” by the Census Bureau differ greatly from popular conceptions of poverty.[7] Consider these facts taken from various government reports:[8]

Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, at the beginning of the War on Poverty, only about 12 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.

Nearly three-quarters have a car or truck; 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks.[9]

Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television.

Two-thirds have at least one DVD player, and a quarter have two or more.

Half have a personal computer; one in seven has two or more computers.

More than half of poor families with children have a video game system such as an Xbox or PlayStation.

Forty-three percent have Internet access.

Forty percent have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV.

A quarter have a digital video recorder system such as a TIVO.

Ninety-two percent of poor households have a microwave.

For decades, the living conditions of the poor have steadily improved. Consumer items that were luxuries or significant purchases for the middle class a few decades ago have become commonplace in poor households. In part, this is caused by a normal downward price trend following the introduction of a new product. Initially, new products tend to be expensive and available only to the affluent. Over time, prices fall sharply, and the product becomes widely prevalent throughout the population, including poor households. This is a general sign of desirable economic progress.

Liberals use the declining relative prices of many amenities to argue that even though poor households have air conditioning, computers, cable TV, and wide-screen TVs, they still suffer from substantial material deprivation in basic needs such as food and housing. Here again, the data tell a different story.

Poverty, Nutrition, and Hunger. Despite impressions to the contrary, most of the poor do not experience undernutrition, hunger, or food shortages.[10] Information on these topics is collected by the household food security survey of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA survey shows that in 2009:
Ninety-six percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry at any time during the year because they could not afford food.
Some 83 percent of poor families reported that they had enough food to eat.

Some 82 percent of poor adults reported that they were never hungry at any time in the prior year due to lack of money to buy food.

As a group, America’s poor are far from being chronically undernourished. The average consumption of protein, vitamins, and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and in most cases is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100 percent above recommended levels.[11]

Most poor children today are, in fact, supernourished and grow up to be, on average, one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II.[12]

Housing and Poverty. TV newscasts about poverty in America generally depict the poor as homeless or as residing in dilapidated living conditions. While some families do experience such severe conditions, they are far from typical of the population defined as poor by the Census Bureau. The actual housing conditions of poor families are very different.[13]

Over the course of a year, only 4 percent of poor persons become temporarily homeless. At a single point in time, one in 70 poor persons is homeless.[14]
Only 9.5 percent of the poor live in mobile homes or trailers; 49.5 percent live in separate single-family houses or townhouses, and 40 percent live in apartments.

Forty-two percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.

Only 7 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.

The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Sweden, France, Germany, or the United Kingdom. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)[15]

The vast majority of the homes or apartments of the poor are in good repair and without significant defects.

By his own report, the average poor person had sufficient funds to meet all essential needs and was able to obtain medical care for his family throughout the year whenever needed.

Of course, poor Americans do not live in the lap of luxury. The poor clearly struggle to make ends meet, but they are generally struggling to pay for cable TV, air conditioning, and a car, as well as food for the table. The average poor person is far from affluent, but his lifestyle is equally far from the images of stark deprivation purveyed by advocacy groups and the mainstream media. The challenges go much deeper than a lack of material resources.

Was the War on Poverty a Success?
Do the higher living standards of the poor mean that the War on Poverty has been successful? The answer is no, for two reasons. First, the incomes and living standards of less affluent Americans were rising rapidly well before the War on Poverty began. (See Charts 1 and 2.)

Second, and more important, to assess the War on Poverty, we must understand President Johnson’s actual goal when he launched it. The original goal of the War on Poverty was not to prop up living standards artificially through an ever-expanding welfare state. Instead, Johnson declared that his war would strike “at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty.”[16] He added, “Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.”[17]

In other words, President Johnson was not proposing a massive system of ever-increasing welfare benefits, doled out to an ever-enlarging population of beneficiaries. His proclaimed goal was not a massive new system of government handouts but an increase in self-sufficiency: a new generation capable of supporting themselves out of poverty without government handouts.

LBJ actually planned to reduce, not increase, welfare dependence. He declared, “We want to give the forgotten fifth of our people opportunity not doles.”[18] He claimed that his war would enable the nation to make “important reductions” in future welfare spending: The goal of the War on Poverty, he stated, would be “making taxpayers out of taxeaters.”[19] Because he viewed the War on Poverty as a means to increase self-support, Johnson proclaimed that it would be an “investment” that would “return its cost manifold to the entire economy.”

Measuring Self-Sufficiency
How has the War on Poverty fared with respect to President Johnson’s paramount goal of promoting self-sufficiency? What return have the taxpayers reaped from their $22 trillion “investment”? Paradoxically, the answers to these questions are best provided by the Census Bureau’s official poverty statistics.
As noted, Census poverty figures are misleading as a measure of actual living conditions because they exclude nearly all welfare assistance. They do, however, provide a fairly accurate measure of a family’s wages and earnings. This means that the official Census “poverty” figures are, in fact, a good measure of President Johnson’s original goal of promoting “self-sufficiency”: the ability of a family to sustain itself above the poverty level through its own work and investment without reliance on welfare aid.

(http://www.heritage.org/~/media/infographics/2014/09/bg2955/bg-war-on-poverty-50-years-chart-3-600.ashx?h=455&w=600)

Chart 3 repeats the official Census “poverty” figures from Chart 1 but relabels them more accurately as a “self-sufficiency” index. The story told by the chart is striking.

In the decade and a half before the start of the War on Poverty, low-income Americans experienced dramatic improvements in self-sufficiency. The share of Americans who lacked self-sufficiency was cut nearly in half, falling from 32.2 percent in 1950 to 17.3 percent in 1965.

During the first six years after Johnson announced the War on Poverty (1965 to 1970), self-sufficiency continued to improve steadily. New government programs were initiated. Means-tested welfare spending increased sharply from $57 billion in 1964 to $141 billion (measured in constant 2012 dollars).

Some authors suggest that the continuing decline in official poverty from 1965 to 1970 demonstrates the initial success of the War on Poverty, but over 90 percent of the increased spending during this period was in the form of non-cash benefits that the Census does not count for purposes of measuring poverty.[20]

It is therefore impossible for the expansion of means-tested welfare to have directly produced the large decline in official poverty that occurred during this period.

Programs that in theory could have reduced poverty indirectly by raising wages and employment were regarded as largely ineffective and were limited in scope. For example, in the late 1960s, only 300,000 participants per year were enrolled in Job Corps and related training programs.[21]

Thus, it is implausible to suggest that the decline in official poverty between 1965 and 1970 was due substantially to the direct or indirect effects of War on Poverty programs. Rather, official poverty declined and self-sufficiency improved for the same general reason that these improvements occurred before 1965: a steady rise of wages and education levels.

Unfortunately, the situation changed in the early 1970s. The steady improvement in self-sufficiency slowed and then came to a halt. For the next four decades, self-sufficiency has remained stagnant or has slightly worsened.

The big picture is clear: For 20 years, from 1950 to 1970, self-sufficiency (and official poverty) improved dramatically. In the next four decades, there was no progress at all; the self-sufficiency rate remained essentially static. In terms of President Johnson’s main goal of reducing the “causes” rather than the mere “consequences” of poverty, the War on Poverty has failed completely, despite $22 trillion in spending. In fact, a significant portion of the population is now less capable of self-sufficiency than it was when the War on Poverty began.

(http://www.heritage.org/~/media/infographics/2014/09/bg2955/bg-war-on-poverty-50-years-chart-4.ashx)

What Went Wrong?
The lack of progress in self-sufficiency for the past four decades is stunning. Many factors have contributed to this problem. For example, high school graduation rates, after increasing rapidly throughout the 20th century, largely plateaued after 1970.[22] Broad economic factors also played a role, especially the slowdown in wage growth among low-skilled male workers since 1973. On the other hand, employment and wages among women increased, and this should have led to increased self-sufficiency.[23]

Although President Johnson intended the War on Poverty to increase Americans’ capacity for self-support, exactly the opposite has occurred. The vast expansion of the welfare state has dramatically weakened the capacity for self-sufficiency among many Americans by eroding the work ethic and undermining family structure.

When Johnson launched the War on Poverty, 7 percent of American children were born outside of marriage. Today, the number is over 40 percent. (See Chart 4.) As the welfare state expanded, marriage stagnated and single parenthood soared.

(http://www.heritage.org/~/media/infographics/2014/09/bg2955/bg-war-on-poverty-50-years-chart-5.ashx)

As Chart 5 shows, there has been no significant increase in the number of married-couple families with children (both poor and non-poor) in the U.S. since 1965. By contrast, the number of single-parent families with children has skyrocketed by nearly 10 million, rising from 3.3 million such families in 1965 to 13.2 million in 2012. Since single-parent families are roughly four times more likely than married-couple families to lack self-sufficiency (and to be officially poor), this unravelling of family structure has exerted a powerful downward pull against self-sufficiency and substantially boosted the official child poverty rate.

Since the beginning of the War on Poverty, the absolute number of married-couple families with children in official poverty has declined, but as Chart 6 shows, the number of single-parent families in official poverty (or lacking self-sufficiency) has more than tripled, increasing from 1.6 million in 1965 to 4.8 million today. When the War on Poverty began, 36 percent of poor families with children were headed by single parents; today, the figure is 68 percent. [24]

The War on Poverty crippled marriage in low-income communities. As means-tested benefits were expanded, welfare began to serve as a substitute for a husband in the home, eroding marriage among lower-income Americans. In addition, the welfare system actively penalized low-income couples who did marry by eliminating or substantially reducing benefits. As husbands left the home, the need for more welfare to support single mothers increased. The War on Poverty created a destructive feedback loop: Welfare promoted the decline of marriage, which generated the need for more welfare.

Today, unwed childbearing and the resulting growth of single-parent homes is the most important cause of official child poverty.[25] If poor women who give birth outside of marriage were married to the fathers of their children, two-thirds would immediately be lifted out of official poverty and into self-sufficiency.[26]

The welfare state has also reduced self-sufficiency by providing economic rewards to able-bodied adults who do not work or who work comparatively little. The low level of parental work is a major cause of official child poverty and the lack of self-sufficiency. Even in good economic times, the median poor family with children has only 1000 hours of parental work per year. This is the equivalent of one adult working 20 hours per week. If the amount of work performed in poor families with children was increased to the equivalent of one adult working full-time through the year, the poverty rate among these families would drop by two-thirds.[27]

(http://www.heritage.org/~/media/infographics/2014/09/bg2955/bg-war-on-poverty-50-years-chart-6-600.ashx?h=455&w=600)

Conclusion
This lack of progress in building self-sufficiency is due in major part to the welfare system itself. Welfare wages war on social capital, breaking down the habits and norms that lead to self-reliance, especially those of marriage and work. It thereby generates a pattern of increasing intergenerational dependence. The welfare state is self-perpetuating: By undermining productive social norms, welfare creates a need for even greater assistance in the future.

As the War on Poverty passes the half-century mark, it is time to rein in the endless growth in welfare spending and return to LBJ’s original goals. As the economy improves, total means-tested spending should be moved gradually toward pre-recession levels. Able-bodied, non-elderly adult recipients in all federal welfare programs should be required to work, prepare for work, or at least look for a job as a condition of receiving benefits.

Finally—and most important—the anti-marriage penalties should be removed from welfare programs, and long-term steps should be taken to rebuild the family in lower-income communities.

Robert Rector is a Senior Research Fellow and Rachel Sheffield is a Policy Analyst in the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity at The Heritage Foundation.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/09/the-war-on-poverty-after-50-years (http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/09/the-war-on-poverty-after-50-years)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 13, 2015, 10:18:14 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 13, 2015, 10:37:51 am
Pure Class.  Monty Williams, the now-former head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans, speaks to WDSU about being fired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuYrKUqZCyk
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 06, 2015, 11:20:00 pm
The Fallen of World War II (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=172176.msg678125#msg678125)

Incredible presentation regarding the dead of World War II
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 07, 2015, 02:06:56 pm
D-Day

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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 20, 2015, 01:37:49 pm
When We Say ‘Conservative,’ We Mean . . . (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,172921.msg680429/topicseen.html#msg680429)

Jonah Goldberg at his best.  Conservatism defined.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 20, 2015, 02:38:34 pm
Hillary Clinton’s Hamptons Quandary (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=172925.new#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 26, 2015, 11:33:32 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 27, 2015, 01:30:25 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 27, 2015, 02:01:10 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 27, 2015, 02:09:41 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 27, 2015, 02:26:28 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 27, 2015, 02:28:31 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 27, 2015, 02:32:15 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 27, 2015, 02:35:39 pm
Finally...
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 28, 2015, 01:24:01 pm
Well, well, well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1-r1YgK9I
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on June 28, 2015, 01:39:25 pm
Well, well, well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I1-r1YgK9I

Oops... :laugh:
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 30, 2015, 03:13:55 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K9dS9wl7U
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 30, 2015, 03:20:55 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ONvxJOcus4
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on July 20, 2015, 02:21:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRwpgrUcpw
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on July 20, 2015, 02:25:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnEe4oaSC88
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on July 20, 2015, 02:55:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBAEJlR4pk
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: MACVSOG68 on July 20, 2015, 03:24:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBAEJlR4pk

I hope some of our candidates can borrow from this.  It's awesome. 
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on July 20, 2015, 03:41:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9_MVPq1SJY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDMai9b0UA
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: jmyrlefuller on July 27, 2015, 01:50:19 am
“Democratic socialism: the name for what happens when 51% of the people in a society decide they have the right to the other 49%'s stuff.”
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 04, 2015, 05:42:53 pm
Michelle Obama texting during Pledge of Allegiance

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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 11, 2015, 04:12:22 pm
http://reagancoalition.com/articles/2015/when-they-asked-jeff-foxworthy-about-obama-no-one-thought-he-would-do-this.html?utm_source=fnot2&utm_medium=facebook (http://reagancoalition.com/articles/2015/when-they-asked-jeff-foxworthy-about-obama-no-one-thought-he-would-do-this.html?utm_source=fnot2&utm_medium=facebook)

Jeff Foxworthy has made a name for himself as a comedian and the host of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? He was a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, during which he showed the public that he is not afraid to express his conservative views.

Recently, Foxworthy was asked to tell the public what he thinks of President Obama. Let’s just say that Foxworthy didn’t hold back.

He posted the following response to his Facebook page:

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman who is confined to a wheelchair or a three-year-old girl can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: alicewonders on September 11, 2015, 05:00:54 pm
Foxworthy is exactly right.

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 13, 2015, 12:38:37 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on September 19, 2015, 12:06:17 pm
40 Shocking Quotes from Barack Obama on Islam and Christianity (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,180721.msg713994/topicseen.html#msg713994)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 03, 2015, 12:04:16 pm
25 Ways to Be a Real Man (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=182031.new#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 03, 2015, 12:15:20 pm
Barack Obama’s Outright Lie To The American People Following Shooting Tragedy (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,181966.msg718911/topicseen.html#msg718911)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: alicewonders on October 03, 2015, 02:46:46 pm
Barack Obama’s Outright Lie To The American People Following Shooting Tragedy (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,181966.msg718911/topicseen.html#msg718911)

Yet, he lies with impunity. 

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 03, 2015, 03:48:12 pm
Yet, he lies with impunity.

Some years after he is out of office, we will learn a lot about this guy.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: alicewonders on October 03, 2015, 04:26:26 pm
Some years after he is out of office, we will learn a lot about this guy.

The media should be punished for their part in the whole thing.

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 04, 2015, 03:09:24 pm
Fracking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYrm4P5hCQE
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 04, 2015, 03:19:05 pm
Fracking and more.  This is simply awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giwRvzHs5oA
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 29, 2015, 11:33:53 am
Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,184357.msg729627/topicseen.html#msg729627)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 29, 2015, 05:12:16 pm
The refugee crisis, captured in one staggering animated graphic (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,184422.msg729765/topicseen.html#msg729765)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on October 30, 2015, 05:21:48 pm
November 2, 2007 - Obama making less than a quarter of Senate votes - (CNN)
 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=184541.new#new)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: GourmetDan on October 30, 2015, 05:38:39 pm
November 2, 2007 - Obama making less than a quarter of Senate votes - (CNN)
 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=184541.new#new)
Just proves how the msm drives what is perceived as reality... good is evil and evil is good because the msm says so...

Who controls the media anyway?


Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 08, 2015, 01:40:41 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 08, 2015, 01:50:35 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 08, 2015, 02:01:48 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 08, 2015, 02:04:48 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Oceander on November 08, 2015, 02:35:38 am
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The failings of collectivism might be (most likely) tolerable if collectivism could actually deliver on its promises; but the fact of the matter is that collectivism cannot deliver on any of its promises, certainly not those relating to justice or equality.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 08, 2015, 02:40:11 pm
America Rising Compiles Hillary Clinton’s Senate ‘Highlight Reel’ (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,185304.msg733343/topicseen.html#msg733343)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 08, 2015, 02:42:42 pm
The failings of collectivism might be (most likely) tolerable if collectivism could actually deliver on its promises; but the fact of the matter is that collectivism cannot deliver on any of its promises, certainly not those relating to justice or equality.

Thanks for posting.  This is a good thread to maintain, I think.  I hope others see the potential as well.  I've thought about ways to sort the topics as the darn thing grows.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EdinVA on November 13, 2015, 03:05:46 am
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 21, 2015, 01:34:06 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry3NzkAOo3s
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 29, 2015, 03:35:03 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on November 30, 2015, 03:39:34 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 05, 2015, 02:54:04 pm
I want to keep this one.
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From snopes:  True

Origins:   In May 2001 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama (the head monk of the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism), made a three-day visit to Portland, Oregon, during which he gave a talk to 7,600 area high school students in what was billed by organizers as the "Educating the Heart Summit."

As reported by the Seattle Times, during that talk the Dalai Lama responded to a question posed by a student about how to react to a potential school shooter by stating that it would "be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun," with the proviso that one should aim to wound and not to kill:
His message resonates in an era when schools must be on guard against violent acts by gun-toting students. Included in the audience were some 35 students from Thurston High School in Springfield, Ore., where Kip Kinkel went on a May 1998 rampage in which his parents and two students were killed and 24 other students were wounded.

Students, in a question-and-answer period, asked some hard questions.

One girl wanted to know how to react to a shooter who takes aim at a classmate.

The Dalai Lama said acts of violence should be remembered, and then forgiveness should be extended to the perpetrators.

But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, he said, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.

Many Americans might find the Dalai Lama's response surprising, given that he has expressed a dedication to nonviolence, and Buddhism is widely viewed in western culture as a religion that embraces pacifism. However, commentators have noted that the image of Buddhist pacifism is an exaggerated one which has been projected onto Buddhism by others:

Buddhist cultures, including Tibet, have not historically been pacifist. The previous dalai lama strove to develop a modern military. So the current one's dedication to nonviolence should not be taken as a matter of course. He was influenced by Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer whose pacifism was rooted in Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. His nonviolent approach is exceptional for a Buddhist political leader and integrates Indian and western concepts of nonviolent struggle.

The exaggerated image of pacifism projected on Buddhism (and Hinduism) was embraced and promoted by natives, as it conveyed moral superiority over colonialist oppressors and missionaries. Getting the message fed back by natives reinforced the original misconceptions.

But the ultimate source is Euro-Americans themselves, weary of a century of warfare and longing for a pacifist Shangri-La. Buddhist cultural values were never so simplistic and practically served rajas, khans, and daimyo for millennia. The main reason Buddhists' history does not match our expectations, aside from them being as human as the rest of us, is that our expectations have been mistaken. Some think that fantasies of a pacifist utopia benefit the Tibetan cause. It can also be argued that they encourage communists to contemptuously dismiss western support for Tibet and obstruct Buddhists from engaging their values.

The Buddhist world is racked with violence and it has never been more important to understand Buddhist ethics. These include never acting in anger; exhausting alternatives such as negotiation; striving to capture the enemy alive; avoiding destruction of infrastructure and the environment; and taking responsibility for how one's actions and exploitation cause enemies to arise. They also emphasise the great psychic danger to those who act violently, something we see in the large number of suicides among youth sent to these wars. Above all, rather than "national self-interest", the guiding motivation should be compassion.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 05, 2015, 03:13:16 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 05, 2015, 03:44:00 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 05, 2015, 10:22:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3zZr_Qbuaw
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 07, 2015, 12:51:47 pm
Lifting the veil on the ‘Islamophobia’  (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,187855.0.html)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 26, 2015, 11:23:12 pm
SPREAD THIS: Chuck Norris Reveals 1 HUGE Piece of Hillary’s Past She Did NOT Want America to See (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,189635.msg755700/topicseen.html#msg755700)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on December 26, 2015, 11:25:53 pm
Most Comprehensive Assault On 'Global Warming' Ever (http://www.dailywire.com/news/2071/most-comprehensive-assault-global-warming-ever-mike-van-biezen)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on January 02, 2016, 02:02:40 pm
Time For Torches & Pitchforks——-The Little Guy Is About To Get Monkey-Hammered Again (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,190187.msg758525/topicseen.html#msg758525)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on January 10, 2016, 04:08:10 pm
450 of 452 suicide attacks in 2015 were by Muslim extremists, study shows (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,190965.msg761727/topicseen.html#msg761727)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 06, 2016, 02:51:16 pm
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on February 19, 2016, 04:35:40 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 20, 2016, 08:16:13 pm
"God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools…and He has not been disappointed. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."

        -- Justice Antonin Scalia

Requiescat in Pace Justice Scalia

Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 22, 2016, 12:55:40 pm
Make Mine Freedom (1948)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVh75ylAUXY&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 25, 2016, 03:38:56 am
Not fact checked but surely close to accurate.

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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Wingnut on February 25, 2016, 02:22:22 pm
Fact checked below.  It's from our buds at snopes, and full of their liberal consternation..... but seems pretty accurate.

http://www.snopes.com/new-american-way-life/
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on February 25, 2016, 02:26:38 pm
Fact checked below.  It's from our buds at snopes, and full of their liberal consternation..... but seems pretty accurate.

http://www.snopes.com/new-american-way-life/

Thank you!!
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 08, 2016, 12:50:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgQw8EhPJWw
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 08, 2016, 12:58:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xh_VRrnMU
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on March 09, 2016, 08:39:26 pm
Here’s The FULL List of Wall Street Paychecks Hillary Collected (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,197912.msg805733/topicseen.html#msg805733)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 23, 2016, 11:45:18 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on April 23, 2016, 11:58:48 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 29, 2016, 02:47:56 am
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Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on April 29, 2016, 03:11:19 am
The Suppository? Interesting title for a thread...
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on June 07, 2016, 10:20:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdYOjUqlcFA&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 05, 2016, 07:48:32 pm
How Not to Waste Your Vote: A Mathematical Analysis (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,219362.msg1004710.html#msg1004710)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 10, 2016, 05:38:06 pm

Nine things you didn't know about the Second Amendment (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,125843.msg1011086/topicseen.html#msg1011086)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on May 07, 2020, 01:58:05 am
"The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be In agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:

The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it.....

A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the lend, it is superseded thereby.
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it."

From American Jurisprudence- a legal encyclopedia
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 07, 2020, 02:01:08 am
"The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be In agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:

The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it.....

A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the lend, it is superseded thereby.
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it."

From American Jurisprudence- a legal encyclopedia


Spot on. Thank you.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EdinVA on May 07, 2020, 02:19:31 am
"The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be In agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:

The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it.....

A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the lend, it is superseded thereby.
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it."

From American Jurisprudence- a legal encyclopedia
Does this apply to the intent of the law, or the letter of the law?
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 07, 2020, 11:53:14 pm
As a Wolf was lapping at the Head of a Fountain, he spy'd a Lamb paddling at the same time a good way off down the Stream. The Wolf had no sooner the Prey in his eye, but away he runs open-mouth to't. Villain (says he) how dare you lie muddling the Water that I'm a drinking? Indeed, says the poor Lamb, I did not think that my drinking here below could have foul'd your Water so far above. Nay, says t'other, you'll never leave your chopping of Logick, till your Skin's turn'd over your Ears, as your Father's was, a matter of six months ago, for prating at this saucy rate; you remember it full well, Sirrah. If you'll believe me, Sir, (quoth the innocent Lamb, with fear and trembling) I was not come into the World then. Why thou Impudence, cries the Wolf, hast thou neither Shame nor Conscience? But it runs in the Blood of your whole Race, Sirrah, to hate our Family; and therefore since Fortune has brought us together so conveniently, you shall e'en pay some of your Forefathers Scores before you and I part. And so without any more ado, he leap'd at the Throat of the miserable helpless Lamb, and tore him immediately to pieces.

THE MORAL OF THE TWO FABLES ABOVE. 'Tis an easy Matter to find a Staff to beat a Dog. Innocence is no Protection against the arbitrary Cruelty of a tyrannical Power; But Reason and Conscience are yet so sacred, that the greatest Villanies are still countenanc'd under that Cloke and Colour.

—Aesop, "The Wolf and the Lamb," as recounted by Roger L'Estrange
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 08, 2020, 02:19:22 pm
@Bigun  Is this the thread you were looking for?
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on May 08, 2020, 02:36:38 pm
@Bigun  Is this the thread you were looking for?

Yes it is @Cyber Liberty @Lando Lincoln found it for me.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on May 08, 2020, 02:39:44 pm
As a Wolf was lapping at the Head of a Fountain, he spy'd a Lamb paddling at the same time a good way off down the Stream. The Wolf had no sooner the Prey in his eye, but away he runs open-mouth to't. Villain (says he) how dare you lie muddling the Water that I'm a drinking? Indeed, says the poor Lamb, I did not think that my drinking here below could have foul'd your Water so far above. Nay, says t'other, you'll never leave your chopping of Logick, till your Skin's turn'd over your Ears, as your Father's was, a matter of six months ago, for prating at this saucy rate; you remember it full well, Sirrah. If you'll believe me, Sir, (quoth the innocent Lamb, with fear and trembling) I was not come into the World then. Why thou Impudence, cries the Wolf, hast thou neither Shame nor Conscience? But it runs in the Blood of your whole Race, Sirrah, to hate our Family; and therefore since Fortune has brought us together so conveniently, you shall e'en pay some of your Forefathers Scores before you and I part. And so without any more ado, he leap'd at the Throat of the miserable helpless Lamb, and tore him immediately to pieces.

THE MORAL OF THE TWO FABLES ABOVE. 'Tis an easy Matter to find a Staff to beat a Dog. Innocence is no Protection against the arbitrary Cruelty of a tyrannical Power; But Reason and Conscience are yet so sacred, that the greatest Villanies are still countenanc'd under that Cloke and Colour.

—Aesop, "The Wolf and the Lamb," as recounted by Roger L'Estrange

Thanks @jmyrlefuller!  Very much worth remembering
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 23, 2020, 02:22:03 am
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbvz_eJHyPQ#)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: DB on May 23, 2020, 03:53:50 am
"The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be In agreement. It is impossible for both the Constitution and a law violating it to be valid; one must prevail. This is succinctly stated as follows:

The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it.....

A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the lend, it is superseded thereby.
No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it."

From American Jurisprudence- a legal encyclopedia

I think there should be some legal consequence for those who pass laws that are unconstitutional. It should cost something to violate the constitution. With a little fear they might just error on the constitutional side of things for a change.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on May 23, 2020, 01:23:38 pm
I think there should be some legal consequence for those who pass laws that are unconstitutional. It should cost something to violate the constitution. With a little fear they might just error on the constitutional side of things for a change.

 :yowsa: I fully agree.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EdinVA on May 23, 2020, 01:26:23 pm
I think there should be some legal consequence for those who pass laws that are unconstitutional. It should cost something to violate the constitution. With a little fear they might just error on the constitutional side of things for a change.
We need a supreme court that does not rewrite unconstitutional laws being contested in order to make them legal.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on May 23, 2020, 01:27:05 pm
We need a supreme court that does not rewrite unconstitutional laws being contested in order to make them legal.

 :amen:

And there should be consequences for those that do that as well!
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EasyAce on June 08, 2020, 12:21:56 am
We need a supreme court that does not rewrite unconstitutional laws being contested in order to make them legal.
@EdinVA
@DB
@Bigun

What we really need are Congresses that quit writing and passing unconstitutional laws in the first place.

If they can't or won't, we need presidents who remember a) they're not the nation's chief lawmakers, and b) that their oaths of office aren't just part of a swearing-in ceremony, and veto such laws, saying in plain language why, and letting it be on a Congress's head if they override the veto.

And if neither can't or won't, we need a Supreme Court to strike such laws down without rewriting them as @EdinVA says.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EdinVA on June 08, 2020, 12:30:54 am
@EdinVA
@DB
@Bigun

What we really need are Congresses that quit writing and passing unconstitutional laws in the first place.

If they can't or won't, we need presidents who remember a) they're not the nation's chief lawmakers, and b) that their oaths of office aren't just part of a swearing-in ceremony, and veto such laws, saying in plain language why, and letting it be on a Congress's head if they override the veto.

And if neither can't or won't, we need a Supreme Court to strike such laws down without rewriting them as @EdinVA says.
Exactly!
Between the courts and senior agency executives, we simply have to many unaccountable people forcing us down streets we don't want/need to go...
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 08, 2020, 12:43:44 am
And if neither can't or won't, we need a Supreme Court to strike such laws down without rewriting them as @EdinVA says.

As long as we understand that John Roberts is not a Justice we can hang on the Bad Orange Man.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EasyAce on June 08, 2020, 12:52:51 am
As long as we understand that John Roberts is not a Justice we can hang on the Bad Orange Man.
@Cyber Liberty
We can hang the BOM (sorry, you left me the opening!) for a good many things, but he did give us Neil Gorsuch. (And even there, he needed the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation to prompt him, since he probably wouldn't have known Gorsuch from Gorcey---Leo, that is ;)---on his own at the time.)
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 08, 2020, 01:00:36 am
@Cyber Liberty
We can hang the BOM (sorry, you left me the opening!) for a good many things, but he did give us Neil Gorsuch. (And even there, he needed the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation to prompt him, since he probably wouldn't have known Gorsuch from Gorcey---Leo, that is ;)---on his own at the time.)

Any old thing to keep the trope rolling, eh?   happy77
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EasyAce on June 08, 2020, 01:18:50 am
Any old thing to keep the trope rolling, eh?   happy77
@Cyber Liberty
I don't know about rolling a trope, and I've certainly never smoked trope, but I prefer to keep the tape rolling, such as when I get to fulfill one of my musical bucket list items this week. (Namely, playing in a guitar-organ-drums trio such as those once done by the like of Jimmy Smith, Baby Face Willette, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Big John Patton. I always did like that type of lineup for bluesy jazz and jazzy blues.)

On the other hand, when I was a kid I could hit frozen tropes to the opposite field . . .  wink777
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Bigun on June 08, 2020, 01:42:29 am
@EdinVA
@DB
@Bigun

What we really need are Congresses that quit writing and passing unconstitutional laws in the first place.

If they can't or won't, we need presidents who remember a) they're not the nation's chief lawmakers, and b) that their oaths of office aren't just part of a swearing-in ceremony, and veto such laws, saying in plain language why, and letting it be on a Congress's head if they override the veto.

And if neither can't or won't, we need a Supreme Court to strike such laws down without rewriting them as @EdinVA says.

Quite right @EasyAce!  To a man, the founders expected that no one would ever vote for a law that they personally thought to be unconstitutional and no president would ever sign one.  Nowadays they vote for it in order to see what's in it.  Very sad state of affairs.
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Cyber Liberty on June 08, 2020, 01:47:52 am
@Cyber Liberty
I don't know about rolling a trope, and I've certainly never smoked trope, but I prefer to keep the tape rolling, such as when I get to fulfill one of my musical bucket list items this week. (Namely, playing in a guitar-organ-drums trio such as those once done by the like of Jimmy Smith, Baby Face Willette, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Big John Patton. I always did like that type of lineup for bluesy jazz and jazzy blues.)

On the other hand, when I was a kid I could hit frozen tropes to the opposite field . . .  wink777

I used to collect tropes, but my ex got them all in the divorce.  Never missed 'em.   wink777
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: EasyAce on June 08, 2020, 02:38:39 am
I used to collect tropes, but my ex got them all in the divorce.  Never missed 'em.   wink777
@Cyber Liberty

Give 'em enough trope . . .
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: jmyrlefuller on July 08, 2020, 02:26:23 am
"We tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." —Charlton Ogburn, 1957
Title: Re: The Repository
Post by: Smokin Joe on July 08, 2020, 02:49:58 am
"We tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." —Charlton Ogburn, 1957
I like that! Nice quote, sad that it is true.