Monday, March 30, 2015

“Any crisis, real or invented, becomes a pretext to spend.”

◼ JERRY BROWN’S DROUGHT BILL LEAVES FARMERS DRY, QUENCHES THIRST OF SPECIAL INTERESTS - Breitbart

"In the final analysis, a billion dollar drought bill leaves the famers with some chump change, while multiple special interest groups get their share of the pot."

One might think that not even a climate change devotee like Jerry Brown could justify spending two-thirds of a 1.1 $billion drought relief fund on flood control.

Yet, that is what the governor plans on doing, reported the Wall Street Journal. Climate change makes “extreme weather events” more probable Brown contends. “All of a sudden, when you’re all focused on drought, you can get massive storms that flood through these channels and overflow and cause havoc,” he explained last week to lawmakers from the Golden State.

This contorted logic, the Journal correctly points out, demonstrates that “any crisis, real or invented, becomes a pretext to spend.” However, it is more than just finding another reason to spend tax payer funds. It is deceptive to allocate money for the purpose of offering “direct relief to workers and communities most impacted by these historic dry conditions,” and then spend it on flood control....

Of the $1.1 billion Drought Relief funds, only $40 million of that would bring emergency drinking water and food assistance for those who need it the most. The measure would give $30 million to green businesses specializing in water-efficiency projects that reduce greenhouse gases.
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Project Veritas: Another University is willing to have an ISIS Club.



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The Campus Left Begins to Implode

◼ If you pay any attention to the ways in which radicalism dominates the culture of the university these days, you're likely to feel as though you've gone through the looking glass. "White privilege." "Trigger warnings." "Rape culture." All of this (and much else) has turned academia into a bizarre, Orwellian simulacrum of itself. - Weekly Standard

...we may be witnessing the first dawning realization on the left about the problems inherent in their movement. Allow me to present three pieces, each from a liberal looking at contemporary campus politics....
I used to endorse a particular brand of politics that is prevalent at McGill and in Montreal more widely. It is a fusion of a certain kind of anti-oppressive politics and a certain kind of radical leftist politics. This particular brand of politics begins with good intentions and noble causes, but metastasizes into a nightmare. . . .

There is something dark and vaguely cultish about this particular brand of politics. I've thought a lot about what exactly that is. I've pinned down four core features that make it so disturbing: dogmatism, groupthink, a crusader mentality, and anti-intellectualism. I'll go into detail about each one of these. The following is as much a confession as it is an admonishment. I will not mention a single sin that I have not been fully and damnably guilty of in my time.... KEEP READING
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WAPO Columnist declares Ted Cruz ‘OBVIOUSLY NOT going to win’ in segment on media BIAS

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On this day in 1981 Ronald Reagan was wounded in an assassination attempt

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THE REAL REASON HARRY REID IS RETIRING

◼ Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) explains his shocking decision to not seek re-election and retire when his term ends in 2016 by telling the New York Times, “he was worried his race would consume campaign money that would be needed in other competitive states as Democrats try to regain control of the Senate.” - Michael Patrick Leahy/Breitbart

But the real reason Reid is retiring may have nothing to do with any of these excuses and everything to do with his concerns that a possible Republican Presidential victory in 2016 would lead to the appointment of a Republican Attorney General in January 2017.

A Republican Attorney General would be almost certain to initiate a criminal investigation into Reid’s abuse of his political power in a brazen intervention in the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) issuance of EB-5 visas to investors in a Las Vegas casino and hotel that was represented by his son, Rory Reid, as was highlighted in a report released by the Inspector General of DHS last week.

“I think Harry Reid’s getting out of town ahead of the posse,” former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova tells Breitbart News.
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