Showing posts with label Debates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debates. Show all posts

Friday, May 11, 2018

Poll Confirms Republican Travis Allen Won California Gubernatorial Debate: The first poll had him at 43% and a second one had him at 72%



...Allen and John Cox were the sole Republicans on the Democrat-dominated debate. In addition to Newsom, the other Democrats included former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, State Treasurer John Chiang, and former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin.

Allen said he would repeal Gov. Jerry Brown’s gas tax. “I am the original author of the repeal the gas tax,” he said, adding, “Jerry Brown lied to the California people in 2010 when he was elected on a simple promise of no new taxes without voter approval. He bribed four legislators a billion dollars of your tax money to pass the largest gas tax increase and car registration fee increase ever in California.”...

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Professors Tell Students: Disagree With Climate Change? Shut Up, Get Out



...three professors from the University of Colorado, who have declared that on the subject of climate change, their students aren't allowed to dissent with their views:
Three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recently told their students via email that man-made climate change is not open for debate, and those who think otherwise have no place in their course.
...The email also banned discussion on class message boards, and told students who have a problem with that to drop the class.

First, why is a Humanities course talking about climate change?

Oh, right: Everything must be used to advance the narrative, even if it has no place in the discussion.

While you might expect better from college professors, they either don't know or don't care that their "98 percent of climate scientists" argument has been debunked, junked, and ridiculed for a long time now, and not just by fly-by-night blogs no one has heard of, either.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

“Due to the overwhelming interest in the FOX News Facebook Debate Event Night on August 6th and in a concerted effort to include and accommodate the now 16 Republican candidate field — the largest in modern political history — FOX News is expanding participation in the 5 PM/ET debate to all declared candidates whose names are consistently being offered to respondents in major national polls, as recognized by Fox News,” said Clemente in a statement.



The 9 p.m. debate will include the 10 candidates with the highest average in national polls, as determined by Fox News. The 5 p.m. forum will now include all the rest.


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Republican Presidential debates for 2016 election start next month.
August 6, 2015 - Location – Cleveland, OH - Time 9pm ET
September 16, 2015 - Location – Reagan Library, CA - Time
October, * 2015 – Location – Colorado – Time – *TBD
November * 2015 – Location – Wisconsin – Time – *TBD
December * 2015 – Location - Las Vegas, Nevada – Time – *TBD
January * 2016 – Location - Iowa
February 6, 2016 – Location - St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire – Time – *TBD
February 13, 2016 – Location - South Carolina – Time – *TBD
February 26 – Location - Texas – Time – *TBD
March * 2016 – Location – – *TBD
March 10, 2016 – Location – Florida – Time – *TBD

*Debate sponsor have not yet named all of specific dates

Monday, July 27, 2015

POLLS: Carly Fiorina Moves into Top 10...







Republican Presidential debates for 2016 election start next month.
August 6, 2015 - Location – Cleveland, OH - Time 9pm ET
September 16, 2015 - Location – Reagan Library, CA - Time
October, * 2015 – Location – Colorado – Time – *TBD
November * 2015 – Location – Wisconsin – Time – *TBD
December * 2015 – Location - Las Vegas, Nevada – Time – *TBD
January * 2016 – Location - Iowa
February 6, 2016 – Location - St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire – Time – *TBD
February 13, 2016 – Location - South Carolina – Time – *TBD
February 26 – Location - Texas – Time – *TBD
March * 2016 – Location – – *TBD
March 10, 2016 – Location – Florida – Time – *TBD

*Debate sponsor have not yet named all of specific dates

Friday, July 24, 2015

Let All 16 Candidates Debate





What happens when you try to rerun the last election? Answer: You lose.



Curt Anderson, a consultant to Bobby Jindal's 2016 presidential campaign, has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal arguing that all 16 major candidates should be on stage at the first Republican National Committee-sanctioned debate on August 6 in Ohio. He writes, in part:
The Republican Party should be looking forward instead of backward—and seeking every opportunity to feature its roster of excellent candidates, rather than trying to find ways to constrict the field. The voters will do that, as is their prerogative. The simple truth is that competitive primaries usually make a party stronger, not weaker.

It’s also true that whenever the smart guys in Washington get together and try to shortcut the democratic process by imposing a candidate from the top down, it generally goes poorly. Whatever happened to the idea of freedom? Or democracy? Or robust argument? As a Republican, I wonder: When did we start fearing debates? And if we do fear debates, what business do we have trying to win elections?
...A debate with 16 participants just doesn't work. It's not feasible. That's a hard reality...

Monday, July 20, 2015

While our political system is based on objective debate, many on the Left now want to shut down discussion and silence dissent.



...While it is true that attempts to marginalize political opponents isn’t the exclusive domain of progressives, in the last couple of decades it is the political left which has perfected these tactics to an art form. Perhaps it is because these latest efforts reflect a full manifestation of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. An important strategy from this famous anarchist is to avoid at all costs an honest debate over whether socialist policies actually work.

And it’s not just conservatives who are sounding the alarm. Bill Maher, the left of center host of his own show on HBO has said that liberals are too easily offended and that an overly politically correct society actually breeds more hostility between the parties. Jerry Seinfeld, lifelong Democratic and famous comic, has said that he doesn’t play college campuses anymore because students have been brainwashed into being offended at almost anything.

While political correctness is a national problem, it is much worse in California. Indeed, for all the alleged “openness” of the California lifestyle, here are the three things about which you cannot possibly have a rational discussion with a liberal: Global warming, immigration and traditional marriage....

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

End Of Discussion



Agree or disagree, from flags to gay marriage, some folks want you to keep it to yourself. The unbridled furor of the Left and its vast echo chamber is now full-throated, and demanding – demanding! – that any and all who disagree with them publicly to just . . . SHUT UP!

They want an . . . END OF DISCUSSION. And probably a lot more.

Was there ever a more timely book, then, than the new acclaimed work by Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, END OF DISCUSSION: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)?



Friday, January 16, 2015

Here we go: RNC announces nine official GOP presidential debates, the first to be held in August

Fox gets three (two on Fox News, one on Fox Business), CNN gets two, and CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNBC get one apiece. MSNBC gets some magic beans. - HotAir

Of note: The NBC debate will be co-sponsored by Telemundo and will be held in Florida in February 2016, shortly before the primary. If Jeb Bush is still in the race by then, that’s his time to shine. Lotttt of pressure on McConnell and Boehner, meanwhile, to do something on immigration reform by then so that the remaining GOP candidates have something to tout to Latino voters tuning in.

If this seems like conspicuously fewer debates than we’re used to after the last two presidential cycles, that’s because it is. And there’s a reason for it.
1. Fox News, August 2015, Ohio
2. CNN, September 2015, California
3. CNBC, October 2015, Colorado
4. Fox Business, November 2015, Wisconsin
5. CNN, December 2015, Nevada
6. Fox News, January 2016, Iowa
7. ABC News, February 2016, New Hampshire
8. CBS News, February 2016, South Carolina
9. NBC/Telemundo, February 2016, Florida
There were 20(!) primary debates in 2012 and 23(!!) in 2008. Why nine this time? Well, the number could rise to 12: Per WaPo, the RNC’s already considering three more, one on Fox News in March 2016, another on CNN the same month, and a “conservative media debate” at some point. They’re hoping the race will be over by the time of those first two debates but the third seems likely, if only to appease the party’s base. There are also bound to be some debates held that aren’t sanctioned by the RNC, like, say, a “tea party debate.” The RNC considered passing a rule last year that would disqualify a candidate from all RNC-sanctioned debates if he agreed to participate in an unsanctioned one, but I haven’t heard anything about that rule today. And no wonder: Imagine the venom aimed at the party’s establishment if Ted Cruz or Rand Paul took part in a “tea party debate” and then got kicked offstage at the big RNC debate right before Iowa. The Committee may hate its base but it can’t be too obvious in showing it.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

What Do Illegal Immigrants Want?

Time to bring the immigration debate out of ‘the shadows’ - Peter Skerry/Weekly Standard

The predictable furor over President Obama’s executive order offering relief to approximately 5 million undocumented immigrants has obscured the fact that his initiative is much bolder in form than in content. Obama has gone to extraordinary lengths to offer less than what immigrant advocates have for years been insisting is an absolute necessity: full citizenship.

If Obama’s initiative should prove to be the first step on “the path to citizenship” for these undocumented, it is a hobbled and halting one, and the path long and tortuous. It is difficult to believe that this or any Congress now on the horizon will be willing to affirm Obama’s initiative. Neither is it likely, though perhaps less easy to predict, that Congress will risk the political consequences of rescinding it.

It is even more difficult to imagine a president in the foreseeable future unilaterally granting this population any more than Obama has, apart from perhaps extending the order’s three-year limit. Similarly, the odds are against any future chief executive—especially a Republican—terminating Obama’s program. So rather than direct these 5 million individuals down a path to citizenship, Obama has almost certainly consigned them to legal limbo.... KEEP READING

Sunday, November 2, 2014

Christie's controversial Ebola quarantine now embraced by Nobel Prize-winning doctor

After days of blistering criticism from the ACLU, the CDC and even the United Nations secretary general over Gov. Chris Christie’s new, 21-day mandatory quarantine policy for all healthcare workers exposed to Ebola, the New Jersey governor has gotten a much-needed vote of support from a heavyweight name in the medical community: Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical researcher, Dr. Bruce Beutler. - NJ.com
Dr. Beutler, an American medical doctor and researcher, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2011 for his work researching the cellular subsystem of the body’s overall immune system — the part of it that defends the body from infection by other organisms, like Ebola.

He is currently the Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas — the first U.S. city to treat an Ebola patient and also the first to watch one die from the virus. In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Beutler reviewed Christie’s new policy of mandatory quarantine for all health care workers exposed to Ebola, and declared: “I favor it.”

Unfortunately, while the doctor’s support might provide much-needed credibility for Christie as he threatens to quarantine ever more healthcare workers returning from the Ebola fight in West Africa, it also comes with some chilling words.

“I favor it, because it’s not entirely clear that they can’t transmit the disease,” Beutler said, referring to asymptomatic healthcare workers like Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone who was quarantined in New Jersey for 65 hours before being transported to her home state of Maine on Monday afternoon.

“It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can’t transmit the disease, because we don’t have the numbers to back that up,” said Beutler, “It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even. People may have said that without symptoms you can’t transmit Ebola. I’m not sure about that being 100 percent true. There’s a lot of variation with viruses.”
Christie's Ebola quarantine policy questioned by second Nobel laureate as debate intensifies - NJ.com
Professor Peter C. Doherty, an Australian microbiologist, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his research on how the body's immune cells protect against viruses, like Ebola. Unlike his fellow Nobel Prize winner, American Dr. Bruce Beutler, Doherty doesn’t agree with Christie’s plan to automatically quarantine all returning healthcare workers exposed to Ebola in West Africa.

In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Doherty said “the evidence-based consensus among the professionals seems to be that this is not necessary” because “people are not infectious early, and anyone who has been in this situation will (as we’ve seen already in Australia) be so aware of the disease that they will report in immediately (if) there is any fever.”
Ebola-Quarantine Objections Are Frivolous - Andrew C. McCarthy/National Review Online
Alarmed by Ebola, Public Isn’t Calmed by ‘Experts Say’ - New York Times
Obama Leaves Maine Without Meeting Defiant Quarantine Nurse - Bridget Johnson/PJ Media
Maine Says Nurse Hickox’s Roommate Had Ebola
Sheila Pinette of the Maine CDC has released information that the roommate of Kaci Hickox, while in West Africa has displayed signs of ebola. Pinette says “The respondents roommate in Africa became infected without knowing how she became infected with Ebola. (Any potential risk to respondent from that incident has passed).” This is one of 35 points Pinette made while filing a verified petition for public health order yesterday with the state.
What did arrogant nurse Kaci Hickox know about her roommate’s Ebola, and when did she know it?

Monday, September 22, 2014

Pete Peterson on-air radio debate this morning at 10:00am on KQED 88.5 FM


I will be participating in my first on-air radio debate this morning at 10:00am on KQED 88.5 FM that is broadcast throughout Northern California. You can click here: ◼ http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen to LISTEN LIVE online.

The host will be taking questions from the listeners so feel free to call in!

◼ In case you missed it: LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE

Friday, September 5, 2014

Neel Kashkari Hammers Brown in California Governor's Debate

WATCH THE FULL DEBATE HERE:



"He's raising your gas prices to fund his vanity project, the high-speed train. What I call the crazy train." - Truth Revolt

In the first debate between Governor Jerry Brown and GOP challenger Neil Kashkari, Californians saw exactly why the 76-year-old Brown refuses to submit to a second debate. Kashkari, a business man and political neophyte, relentlessly hammered his career politician opponent on jobs and education leaving Brown appearing old, slow and unresponsive.

The performance was so one-sided even political analysts and the Left-wing San Jose Mercury News called it for Kashkari, easily:
Two veteran political analysts said they thought Kashkari won the debate.

"His answers were crisper and more direct," said Jack Pitney, a political science and government professor at Claremont McKenna College. "And he stayed on focus. He kept bringing the debate around to the topics he wanted to talk about, which were jobs and education."

Bill Whalen, a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, said "the governor was not knocked down," but agreed that Kashkari did better in terms of style and points.

"He was more coherent than the governor," Whalen said. "More times than not, the governor went off into Jerry Brown mode where he was not answering the questions."
Calif. Gov. Brown burned by timing of Tesla decision in gubernatiorial debate - Washington Times

Tesla Motors’ decision Thursday to build its giant electric-car battery plant in Nevada instead of California came at an awkward moment for Gov. Jerry Brown.

The announcement was made hours before this year’s first and only California gubernatorial debate. Sure enough, the Democrat received an earful during the televised forum from Republican candidate Neel Kashkari about the exodus of companies from the Golden State.

“I don’t think Gov. Brown did nearly enough on Tesla and any number of businesses,” Mr. Kashkari said. “Gov. Brown frequently says, ‘Well, businesses come and go.’ It’s not businesses coming and going. It’s Tesla. It’s Toyota. It’s Schwab. It’s Nestle, on and on, and they’re all going. There’s a real problem.”

Two Bald Guys And Their Plastic Bags - FOX&HOUNDS

Kashkari. He won just by showing up and appearing on the same stage as Brown That provided more attention than he’s gotten in the campaign. But he did better than that. He was sharp, to the point and offered a critique of Brown that’s dead on—the governor is an incrementalist in times that require much bigger changes. His performance was strong enough that Brown complimented a few times on his salesmanship.

Brown. He was still breathing at the end of the debate, all but assuring that he’s winning a new term.

GOV. JERRY BROWN: NEARLY 30% OF CA KIDS ILLEGAL OR 'DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH' - Breitbart

It’s LoCOElections Season! Time to Grill the Candidates for City Council (and More)! - Hank Sims/Lost Coast Outpost

Hey, did y’all watch the California Gubernatorial Debate last night? LoCO’s instareaction was that poor old Jerry Brown got creamed by crazy-eyed Republican slickster Neel Kashkari.

Brown kept awkwardly retreating back to his comparatively limp talking points — “Um, hey, what about your buddies at Goldman Sachs?” — whenever he felt at a loss, which was often. Kashkari, a Lex Luthor lookalike, kept possession of the ball pretty much throughout, peppering Brown on prison realignment, public pension reform, education, the water bond, the loss of Tesla — etc. Kind of brutal....

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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Don't forget to watch the debate tonight!


Voters Are The Losers As Brown And Kashkari Have Only Debate Tonight...Tonight, Democrat Governor Jerry Brown and his Republican rival Neel Kashkari... - Breitbart

Breitbart California’s Editor-In-Chief Joel Pollak has penned ◼ some pre-debate analysis that underscores the distinct challenge facing Kaskari--analysis that is worth reading before you tune into tonight’s 7pm hour-long debate, which is being ◼ streamed live on the CalChannel website.

ALTERNATE YOUTUBE FEED



KQED, the Los Angeles Times, Telemundo52 and The California Channel are proud to present the California gubernatorial debate for the 2014 election, which will be held on Thursday, September 4, at 7pm at California Channel’s Sacramento studios. The one-hour debate will be broadcast live on statewide television and radio and also be streamed live on the Web.

The debate will be moderated by John Myers, the senior editor of KQED’s new California Politics and Government Desk. Panel of journalists for the debate include Times Editor-at-Large Jim Newton and Telemundo52 Morning News Anchor Dunia Elvir.

Gov. Brown to Debate Kashkari on Sept. 4 - KQED

RECAP:

Kashkari, Brown clash over economy, education, plastic bags - Sacramento Bee

In their first and only scheduled debate of the campaign, Republican challenger Neel Kashkari emerged from the starting block Thursday with a torrent of attacks on Gov. Jerry Brown, assailing the three-term incumbent for failing to lead on the economy and education and building on his case that it’s time for new leadership.

Jerry Brown says he ‘probably will’ sign plastic bag ban - Sacramento Bee
Fact check: Kashkari's tax plans - Sacramento Bee
Fact check: Kashkari's finances - Sacramento Bee
Brown’s claim: Kashkari is a wealthy banker.

The truth: Kashkari, a former Goldman Sachs executive and U.S. Treasury Department official, estimated his net worth at less than $5 million before he spent about $2 million of his own money in the primary election.

It is unclear whether he is wealthier than Brown.
Fact check: Brown and high speed rail - Sacramento Bee
Fact check: Is Brown too close to teachers union? - Sacramento Bee
Fact check: California poverty - Sacramento Bee
Kashkari’s claim: California is No. 1 in poverty.

The truth: California’s poverty rate is the nation’s highest when using an alternative calculation that includes the cost of living.
Fact check: California’s ranking - Sacramento Bee
Kashkari’s claim: California ranks 46th in education and 44th in jobs.

The truth: California schools are among the worst performing by national standards.
Fact check: California jobs - Sacramento Bee
Brown’s claim: California has added more than 1.4 million jobs since 2011.

The truth: The economy has been improving since January 2011, the month Brown took office.
Two bananas, one Coke Zero and a gubernatorial debate - Sacramento Bee

Tom Del Beccaro: California is the 8th largest economy in the world. There is an election for governor in 6 weeks. It is shameful that such large state has but one debate. Shameful. The media's refusal to demand more is an awful commentary on the state of our democracy.

Neel Kashkari arrives for debate

Monday, March 3, 2014

FNC Shows Flashback to Obama Ridiculing Romney: ‘1980s Are Calling to Ask for Their Foreign Policy Back’



Bret Baier opened a panel segment on his show Friday night with a flashback to President Barack Obama’s snide ridiculing, of Mitt Romney’s now seeming prescient concern about Russia’s “geo-political” threat, during the October 22, 2012 presidential debate. = Newsbusters

...Romney’s retort to Obama: “Russia, I indicated, is a geopolitical foe...and I said in the same paragraph I said and Iran is the greatest national security threat we face. Russia does continue to battle us in the U.N. time and time again. I have clear eyes on this. I’m not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia or Mr. Putin.”

PUTIN PLAYS CHESS WHILE OBAMA PLAYS MARBLES - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o

...“Russia without the Ukraine is a country. Russia with the Ukraine is an empire.” The scary thing is that nobody in the Obama Administration seems familiar with that saying, or much of anything else about the region. The fallback position for nervous Obama apologists at this point is to snarl at critics, “Well, what do you think he should do, nuke Moscow?” The point is not that a better President would be on a war footing against the Russian empire, but that a better President might have kept this crisis from bubbling over the way it has, or at least avoided further damage to American diplomatic prestige by fumbling the response so badly.

Obama Enters Putin’s World - Daniel Greenfield/Front Page

TODAY'S SRUDGE:
NATO: EUROPE'S PEACE AT RISK OVER UKRAINE...
China joins Russia 'in agreement' - Sky News
Russia has said China is largely "in agreement" over Ukraine, after other world powers condemned Moscow for sending troops into the country.

Hundreds of Russian soldiers have surrounded a military base in Crimea, preventing Ukrainian soldiers from going in or out.
'Ukraine Fever' Sweeps Balkans...
PUTIN TIGHTENS GRIP...
Sets stage for showdown...
Obama faces his own 'chicken Kiev' moment...
Plans economic warfare against Russia...
Medvedev Predicts 'New Revolution, New Bloodshed'...
MOSCOW BLOCKS 'PROPAGANDA' WEB PAGES IN RUSSIA...
Ukraine navy chief switches allegiance - yahoo
Ukraine accused Russia on Monday of pouring more troops into Crimea as world leaders grappled with Europe's worst standoff since the Cold War and the Moscow market plunged on fears of an all-out conflict.
West looks 'weak'...
Moscow catches world off guard...
Russia Cancels Oscar Coverage...

Monday, February 24, 2014

Heating up: Global Warming Climate change advocates try to silence Krauthammer

The myth of ‘settled science’ - Charles Krauthammer/Washington Post

“The debate is settled,” asserted propagandist in chief Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union address. “Climate change is a fact.” Really? There is nothing more anti-scientific than the very idea that science is settled, static, impervious to challenge....

Climate-change proponents have made their cause a matter of fealty and faith. For folks who pretend to be brave carriers of the scientific ethic, there’s more than a tinge of religion in their jeremiads. If you whore after other gods, the Bible tells us, “the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit” (Deuteronomy 11).

Sounds like California. Except that today there’s a new god, the Earth Mother. And a new set of sins — burning coal and driving a fully equipped F-150.

But whoring is whoring, and the gods must be appeased. So if California burns, you send your high priest (in carbon -belching Air Force One, but never mind) to the bone-dry land to offer up, on behalf of the repentant congregation, a $1 billion burnt offering called a “climate resilience fund.”

Ah, settled science in action.

Charles Krauthammer says it right up front in his Washington Post column: “I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier.” - Howard Kurtz/FOX

He does, however, challenge the notion that the science on climate change is settled and says those who insist otherwise are engaged in “a crude attempt to silence critics and delegitimize debate.”

How ironic, then, that some environmental activists launched a petition urging the Post not to publish Krauthammer’s column on Friday.

Ice-breaking ships help keep Chesapeake Bay waters safe - Miami Herald