Totalitarian Tester

Why should you vote for Matt Rosendale?  I'll tell you why:  Matt Rosendale will go to Washington D.C. and vote like a Conservative. 

John Tester, on the other hand, will vote exactly how his masters, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, tell him to.  Now, he may not be completely under their thumb, but NOBODY can take the kind of money he's taken from the Democrat machine and not be beholden in some way, shape, or form.  Senators from this state may go to DC saying they'll buck the money guys, but after 12 years, they are bought and paid for, at least Tester is.  NO ONE should be in DC that long and I firmly support Convention of States and the term limits supported therein.

Just look at what our Senator said about Ron Jackson when Trump suggested the unlikely candidate for head of the Veteran's Administration.  Dear Lord, the crap he spewed about the long-time white house doctor was diabolical.  Using heresay stories to impune the character of a man who has served our country through multiple administrations, Tester did the bidding of his masters and smeared the good doctor until he was forced to resign.  Close friends say that Admiral Jackson could not defend himself because it would have involved revealing classified information and he was not willing to do that OR to put his family through the hell that we clearly see the Left is willing to rain down upon any Trump nomination.  So, there again we see clearly that John Tester is willing to smear his political enemies and in the process exhibit his clear lack of moral character. 

No longer are those politicians on the Left like John Tester willing to battle their political opponents on the issues, instead, Tester takes the easy way out choosing the much easier smear tactics usually reserved for use by campaign lackeys.  Tester isn't afraid, it seems, to personally smear his opponents.  Take the Eagle Crest development, for example, and the spurious commercial "approved" by Tester that accuses his opponent of building faulty foundations and calling Rosendale a "fraud." Impuning his opponents character with outright lies apparently doesn't trouble John Tester one bit.  Here is a quote from one of the lawyers representing the defendents in the Eagle Crest development case, "I deposed Matt Rosendale, and I found him to be somebody well prepared for deposition and someone who is on the up and up and ethical,” Stephanie Oblander said, adding his company provided the necessary information to contractors. The Great Falls Tribune story continues, 'Oblander, a supporter of Rosendale who said she was critical of Tester, said she was an attorney in two of the lawsuits in which Eagles Crossing, an entity owned by Rosendale, prevailed in 2015 and 2016.  She said Eagles Crossing was vindicated in the two lawsuits that decided developer duty. She believes the ad is unfair.'  Huh, so, once again, Tester is willing to impune the character of his opponent with outright lies and half-truths. I'm thinking the head of the Crow tribe may have Tester figured out which may account for his change in support from Tester to Rosendale. 

I could write several more pages of crap spewed forth by the Tester campaign and John Tester himself, but we have already established his willingness to smear, so let's look instead at Tester's record in the Senate.  The moderately conservative Democrat from Montana who supports gun rights, small business, and economic policies that help the people of Montana disappears when he arrives in Washington DC.  Instead, the life of relative luxury in his big ol house in DC kicks in and he forgets all about those relatively conservative promises he made to get elected in a relatively conservative state.  Instead, he heads out to his favorite DC restaurants and joins his Leftist buddies drinking and laughing at the rubes in Montana who sent him there.  It's time for this guy to be put back out to pasture, and my guess?  He doesn't return to Montana except to visit, instead choosing the high life as a K Street lobbyist just like hundreds of other Senators whose voters finally figured them out. 

So, when you're thinking that maybe those ads claiming Rosendale is some lackey for insurance companies might have validity, take a gander at John Tester's Federal Election Commission webpage and check out the massive dollars being funneled into Tester's campaign by, yep, you guessed it, big insurance companies (the really big ones who got to sit in on the closed-door meetings with Harry Reid during the so-called Affordble Care Act "negotiations," and what is even more disheartening, every Democrat, Socialist, Leftist group on this earth has contributed to Tester's $15,000,000 war chest.  Hop on over to Rosendale's FEC page and you'll find that the reason you're hearing 4-to-1 Tester ads is likely due to the less than 5 million that Rosendale has at his disposal to defend himself against the constant attacks leveled against him day and night in one of the most expensive campaigns of all time.

They are concerned, folks, because in a state where Trump won by 20 points, they know that there are Republicans who must be supporting Tester and they are scared to death that those Republicans might just wake the hell up and vote with the President in this election.  So, take a HARD look at the claims that John Tester is making with all that money, and THINK about why it is VITAL to the U.S. at this point in time that Montanans term limit their 12-year Senator and send a Conservative to support our President to do the Conservative things that we know are true and good like banning this ridiculous sanctuary city/state movement, protecting our sovereign borders, continuing to support economic development by cutting taxes and lowering government spending (well, hopefully THIS time around anyway), supporting Liberty through sound fiscal policy, and finally, voting the Conservative values that are strong in America's Last Best Place.  Support Rosendale for U.S. Senate and increase the Conservative Caucus' numbers because Conservatives know full well, they are the only representatives we can count on in this crazy political climate.  Now, go vote your Conservative values!

Linlee Nelson
Small Business Owner
Missoula, MT

Do We Due Process? Or Don't We?

When I was in high school (Judge Kavanaugh would have been in my graduating class), I remember being educated in my health class about what to do in the case of rape.  A local woman police officer came to our class and talked to us about what was necessary in law enforcement in order to bring a successful case against a rapist. 

 It was shocking; shocking that we had to go to the hospital first, that this thing called a "rape kit" with semen samples and vaginal fluids would be collected, that pictures would be taken, immediately, in order to see bruises in the vaginal area before they disappear.  I remember thinking that it would be like being raped all over again.  This is what women do every day in our country; they "suck it up," get rape kits and go through unadulterated hell, again, in order to bring their rapist to justice. 

 I remember thinking that it was monumentally unfair that a woman, who had just been violated, would have to be violated all over again in order to put her attacker behind bars. This is one of the reasons that women are different, why they deserve support, why I belong to an organization that supports them, because women have an extra burden in our society and in our system of justice, a burden that men do not have.   In order to bring a rapist to justice, women have to endure hell, again. 

Due process is one of those foundational concepts in a society that depends on the rule of law. Should we put it aside for women who come forward many, many years later? Should we give the benefit of doubt to the accuser? The burden is an awesome one. And what if the woman has an agenda? Are we to believe that women cannot lie?  

_;The statistics cited for false accusations are ambiguous and indeterminate.  For instance, most sources cite that as much as 10% of accusations of rape are proven false and that of those, a very tiny percentage result in jail time for the accused.  It's good that a tiny percentage are falsely imprisoned, but imprisonment is not the only result that can ruin the accused.  Just the accusation made by a woman who has no record of suspicious behavior is enough to result in lost job opportunities, broken marriages and the types of things that happen in cases where one's reputation is destroyed.  The statistic that may be more interesting is the number of accusers who spend time in jail for falsely accusing someone which I am guessing is roughly equivalent to the number of those who spend time in jail after being falsely accused. Neither of these numbers help us in our search for truth and justice.  Simply citing a statistic and claiming that 9 out of 10 women are telling the truth and that makes false accusation OK is like saying that 9 out of 10 murderers are lying about not killing someone, so the person who says they didn't kill someone is a murderer.  A low percentage chance of a false accusation is not a good defense of the accusers' believability.  That's 1 out of 10, and that's enough for me to look for corroborating evidence.  I no more want to convict an innocent person of murder than I want to convict an innocent man of rape. Percentage chances are lousy determinative factors; they are what they are: percentage chances, not evidentiary proof.

There are women on social media right this minute saying that they don't care, that men deserve to lose their jobs, their families, and that those who are prosecuted unjustly should just "get over it."  Statements that separate the men in our lives from us as if it is always someone else's man who will be accused are unrealistic and reckless.  Most women don't exist separately from the men in their lives: their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons. We love them, we care for them, and we receive love and support from them.  So, making statements that "men deserve it," or that we don't "care" what happens to them are idiotic and sexist, in the worst possible way.

Women every day, in business and in the criminal justice system depend on due process in their own lives.  If we throw due process under the bus, we will ;become a dictatorial country where, I can assure my readers, women are not treated well.  Ask women in Venezuela or Estonia where they would rather reside, in a country where the rule of law is respected or a country where you can be accused and convicted in the same sentence?  

After listening to an emotionally devastated Judge Kavanaugh list the many women who testified on his behalf, I believe that those who come forward saying things like, "I believe Dr. Ford," are not being intellectually honest.  Judge Kavanaugh deserves to have our Senators consider the preponderance of the evidence.  Those who follow the Chuck Schumer playbook will exclaim that they don't believe a Judge who has kept a calendar from 36 years ago and has submitted a letter from 65 women through all walks of his life who have testified to his non-violent nature.  Those people are not weighing the evidence without bias.  They are letting the Democrat playbook determine their vote.  

Dr. Ford has offered no supporting evidence in the form of corroborating testimony or written journals.  The people she claims were near or in the room have submitted written testimony that they were not there and the event did not take place.  The Democrats are demanding an FBI investigation, of course. What, exactly, is the FBI going to investigate?  They would take statements from Judge Kavanaugh (and would likely give him a high degree of credibility due to his long record of service free from accusation), and they would take statements from Ms. Ford.  The FBI would not take the lie detector testimony into consideration.  Mr. Judge has already submitted his testimony.  The FBI would take the testimony, fill out the 302 forms and send them back up to the committee.  If the Democrats honestly cared about the truth, they would have insisted on investigating these claims when they received Dr. Ford's letter many months ago.  It could have been done in closed session, privately, saving Dr. Ford from unpleasant confrontations.  But I think the Democrats were looking for political theater and they have gotten it, in spades.

The Judiciary Committee is performing the very same "investigation" that the FBI would perform and there is no conclusion because they cannot come to one based on Dr. Ford's testimony.  The FBI, as Joe Biden has famously declared, does not "make conclusions," so Sen. Durbin's theatrics as he asks Mr. Kavanaugh to turn to his left and ask a lawyer there to begin an FBI investigation is just that, theatrics. Theatrics in the face of emotional testimony on both sides where lives are being changed are despicable, but that is  typical for Senator Durbin who faithfully carries the party line and has not let an original thought cross his mind in many years.  

If we are going to destroy people's lives with no evidence, we are a country that will believe anything.  Will we no longer require that women provide rape kits as supporting evidence, or file police reports, or document the incident in a journal or tell their best friend, no matter the difficulty?  If we no longer require evidence, we set ourselves up for the worst kind of division.  False accusers will be able to level charges against your father, my brother, your son, and my dad without having to do the hard work required to make sure that evidence is collected and the accused gets his day in court.

The hard work of collecting evidence may not be popular with the women who write emotional stories about long-ago assaults, but it is vital to those who are serious about convicting violent offenders.  Due process is necessary and needed in a world where women must be taken seriously when they provide painful testimony, go through the process required to provide rape kits to a judge or jury, and show incredible bravery in testifying against someone who has harmed them physically.  We NEED due process and I, for one, support the rule of law.  

Are we to throw out due process because women are psychologically damaged and because they are damaged, they don't report?  This kind of accusation, if it is taken seriously by our political bodies, creates division between those in our society who believe in the rule of law and those who believe that there need be no evidence to prove assault, not to mention the division it will create between men and women!  Women have asked to be treated as equals in our society, but now we are asking for something more, to be believed no matter the situation.  We are asking for a special status, and for what?  For politics?  I don't believe that it gives our gender an advantage to request special status.  It might bring some women immediate gratification as men are trotted off to jail, but in the end, it will harm us by dividing us.

We can now expect, on both sides of the isle, to see a parade of accusers come forward with baseless accusations from 36 years ago in order to have their political "way" with the confirmation of judges.  Our courts should not be subject to this drama. I've heard women I respect say that coming forward 36 years later is "not political" and that claim is not based in reality.  Of course it's political: it's part of how we exist in our society and how we live within a society that is based on the rule of law.  

I will support women who do the hard work of collecting evidence and testifying under terrible pressure, but I will not support women who come forward 36 years after a drunken house party that never told anyone, never reported it to the police and never did the hard work. Testimony like Dr. Ford's diminishes the efforts of women who are, as we speak, doing the hard work to make the case against their attackers in our nation of laws.

Obama's Scandals are Coming Home to Roost

Those of you who know me understand that I am a Conservative, have been since I wrote my first paper in high school about the book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn entitled "Day in the Life of Ivan Dinesovich." 

Well, I'm floored.  The Obama administration was so completely corrupt, lying about crucial issues, this last one a real doozy.  The Obama administration "assured" Republicans again and again that Iran would not have access to the American banking system, but they outright lied.  And this was all to avoid what?  Outrage by the Right?  It certainly wasn't to gain support for a treaty because there was no treaty, and Obama knew that this farse would never have passed the Senate.  But I bet old Bob Corker, head Republican moron, would have changed his tune. 

Obama proudly brags that there were no scandals in his administration.   That's because his administration WAS a scandal.  From "deeming" a rotton, behind-closed-doors "negotiated" ACA to battlefield rules of engagement that have a patriotic army lietenant serving a 20 year sentence, to the outrage of sending spies into the Trump campaign after sweeping Hillary Clinton's many lies and evations under the FBI's politically influenced rug of protection, it is no wonder that Democrats like Doug Shoen are questioning the party leadership. 

The Democrat Party, under Barack Obama's leadership is a radical version of it's former self.  A Democrat Party once Pro-Abortion, pro-big government has turned into a party of multicultural open borders, government funding of just about anything, and a serious tilt toward socialism.  Any resemblance to the Democrat Party of JFK is gone. 

Most Americans don't follow politics enough to care.  They have a general idea of how they want to live their lives, what they believe in and what the party they support believes in.  But while they are comfortably living in a society undergirded by free market capitalism, they are free to dabble in the oxymoronic democratic socialism that so many activists hold close to their hearts.  No such thing exists, of course, because a socialist society is, by definition, one in which the means of production is controlled by the state.  But they continue to argue that we can have some kind of hybrid, where capital is freely exchanged, the means of production are still privately controlled, but the state has it's fingers in the pie to "protect" the public interests.  And, in fact, that's what we currently have.

I do not accept this hybrid as democratic socialism because it's not even close and the more we allow the state to control the means of production, the closer we move to socialism.  There IS NO democratic socialism because the tipping point results in Socialism and Socialism results in state control of more than just the means of production because human nature is what it is.  The great philosophers knew that once a social institution gains central power, they don't relinquish it, and the argument for democracy through the centuries has been fought again and again.  But we don't teach the great philosophers anymore.  If anyone reads Marx it's because they are taking Political Philosophy in college. And in those classrooms, Marx is revered for a system of control that my father (PhD Sociology) believes would work but that I believe has been shown, miserably, to fail. 

As Ivan Dinesovich dug marks into his cell wall, he contemplated the social construct that resulted in his confinement and found it lacking in human Liberty.  We give great powers to our political leaders and the rule of law is divided when those leaders are corrupt which leads us to a system where a Navy Corporal sits in jail for taking pictures on his submarine while his Secretay of State runs an unsecure server, wipes out thousands of emails, erases the hard drive with Bleachbit and destroys cell phones with hammers and runs for President, fully protected by a politically supportive justice department.

Obama's scandals are very real and myriad.  If life were fair, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Rod Rosenstein, Jim Comey, James Clapper and John Brennan would be carving dates into the rock walls of their cold, damp cells and enjoying the fruits of a system they so love during their long days working on collectivist farms. 

HEY, NUMNUTS!

HEY, NUMNUTS!

Yeah, I'm talking to you moronic 17-year old victims out there being bussed to your marches by George Soros or any other socialist, leftist wackjobs that eat up your ignorance and rush to display it on screens across the world.  You are ignoramuses who are using a tragedy to hand your rights away.  It seems silly, now, to say, "you will regret it," when I hear the voices of opposition rising in a fever pitch of whiney sensationalism: "How can you support selling military-style assault rifles to young, impressionable, possibly depressed 18-year olds?"  This is all said in a valley-girl, gay-styled inflection with an undercurrent of five-year-old whine. 

Ok, so if you step back and think about it, which only those who have reached a basic level of maturity can do, there are so many things wrong with that question that it is difficult to address each of the issues in sound-bite-sized arguments that might actually penetrate the muddled thoughts of those who think they are saving the world while they are tearing the fabric of free society asunder.

AR15S ARE NOT MILITARY STYLE ASSAULT WEAPONS!!

THEY ARE RIFLES

And stop with the "military guy" posts in social media by so-called ex-military guys who talk about AR15s like they are AK47s.  If these idiots are comparing the AK to the AR, they dont know what they are talking about and should be ashamed of themselves.  But they are young, buff, and cool, and therefore MUST know something!  Nope.

YOU ARE MARCHING TO TAKE YOUR OWN RIGHTS AWAY AND GIVE THE SAME IDIOTS WHO JUST VOTED TO PUT YOUR GREAT GRAND CHILDREN IN DEBT TO FUND BULLSHIT PROGRAMS GREATER POWER AND CONTROL OVER YOUR LIVES.  THAT MAKES YOU STUPID.

If you are out there marching, you are one of the usefully idiots that Stalin so adored. 

My favorite quote so far: Liberalism: when you believe teenagers don't know enough about guns to own them, but know enough about guns to decide whether or not YOU should own them.

This is all SUCH bullshit, and just because these are KIDS doing the marching, politicians are wringing their hands and losing their principles.   Well, STOP IT.  GET SOME GONADS and quit cowering while the Left steals our rights.  We are stronger than this.  Fight back!

Ryan Leads Timid Republicans in Repudiation of 2016 Vote

Before we all give up and run screaming, just remember that you knew that the Republicans were a bunch of lily-livered cowards and that our leadership talks the talk but rarely walks the walk.  We KNEW that Paul Ryan was not going to repeal Obamacare, we KNEW it, but some of us still can't believe it.  Even my local representative in my state legislature has been a huge disappointment because he is easily swayed by those who band together and convince themselves to ignore principled positions and do what is more "popular."  What is more popular is to spend money.  What in God's name our representatives would do if they actually had to cut spending, I guess we will never know.

So, what to do?  Why vote when none of the items on the agenda ever change?  I don't know about voting, I will probably continue to vote, but I will support Convention of States.  I don't really care that the John Birch Society and Eagle Forum are up in arms about it and that they think we will have a run-away convention if we manage to finally approve the Convention of States; I mean, who cares?  They are already running away from our Constitution as fast as they can and there is too much money in lobbying to every change the way that bills are created and passed.  It is time for Term Limits and our representatives will NEVER vote in Term Limits for themselves.  There are other things that must be addressed, but Term Limits are my sticking point.

I used to believe that Term Limits limited someone from serving effectively because of the learning curve.  No longer.  By the time these guys get to be representatives or senators, they are well aware of how to make money from politics.  Paul Ryan used to be a constitutional conservative, and he has fallen from grace.  He is no longer a Conservative and the stridency of his voice will tell you about his level of desperation to convince his audience that he still believes in Conservative principles when that is the furthest possible thing from the truth.  "These are Conservative Policies!" says Ryan in his highest tonal whine.  That's when you know that we're doomed. 

I hope Trump figures out how to navigate these dangerous waters.  It's tough when your leaders are bought and paid for and have convinced all who are willing to listen that Conservatism is alive and well.  Well, it probably is, but not in Washington D.C.!

With the downfall of Fox News, and the cowardice of the Republican leadership, our future seems even more bleak than it did before Obama destroyed the health insurance system in this country.  There are so many demands on a shrinking upper class whose tax dollars will never be able to stretch to fund all the social goodies that the politicians have promised.  No wall, no decrease in spending, none of the promises from the campaign are coming to pass and before you wonder too long about why this is happening, go read about Convention of States.  It may be our only hope.

Bark On

Written in response to a letter to the editor in the Independent just after the election of Donald Trump.

I read with building disgust the letter from an angry Liberal and the usual Conservative-bashing Mr. Brooks.  Millions of small business owners, Conservative teachers, construction-workers, administrators, etc. have spent the last 8 years suffering through Liberal economic policies and Social engineering schemes that DID NOT WORK.  Oh sure, you'll get your occasional Obamacare write-in saying how well it worked for them, but the fact of the matter is it worked for no one else.  It should alarm even the most totalitarian and obtuse that the program touted as a God-send by the political elite did not end up ruining THEIR lives...no, no.  They did not have to figure out how to pay a mortgage payment-sized premium for a policy with a $6,000 deductible.  They continued to see their Doctors and pay reasonable prices for their policies while the rest of middle-class America (what's left of it) reeled between $5,000 fines and $12,000-$15,000 premiums.  

The next item on this list of utopian Liberal ideas was an economic floor in the guise of a $15, or $14, or maybe $16 minimum wage that would, if every economic study ever done is an indicator, crush the already low employment numbers in minority and youth groups and further challenge already low-margin service businesses to survive.  

Liberals have been proven wrong in the economic arena for years, having to dream up scare tactics and utopian ideals to support economic models that don't work.  Economics professors in Liberal Elite Economics departments nationwide came up with study after study demonstrating how low tax policies kill growth and, in their most egregious act, developed the phrase "trickle-down economics" which Reagan never used and then proceeded to bash it over the heads of Conservatives, uniquely branding it as a Conservative policy that didn't work when, once and for all, this was NOT a Conservative ideal.  Instead, Reagan used the Milton Freidman reference that a, "rising tide lifts all boats."  

So successful was their branding and marketing of utopian ideals that the American people, after 8 years of Bush's middle-left economic policies and war after war, we're willing to dip their toes in the Keynsian swamp.  Never having been fans of Keynsian big-government ideas, Conservatives braced for the onslaught of taxes, government "infrastructure" spending, and the attendant low-growth policies of a Liberal administration.  And we got it, in spades. 

It started with the collapse of the biggest Liberal policy of them all that made Clinton's buddies who ran the Freddie/Fanny empire very rich ($90 million...look it up), the Clinton-sponsored Community Reinvestment Act.  Republicans, sometime stalwarts against government spending, we're guilted into voting for this monstrosity using the race card.  With very little evidence to support the need for broad-based loan relief in minority communities, just the hint that Congressional representatives could be racist if they didn't support this legislation resulted in its passage and the bank loan bubble of 2008.  That bubble and the actions earlier that year by the Federal Reserve raising interest rates 2.5 points put pressure on the variable-rate loans and those who had financed their homes with interest only variable rate loans saw their payments sky-rocket.  By the time the Fed realized that "inflationary pressures," the excuse given for increasing rates in the first place, we're non-existent, the damage was done.  Bankruptcies skyrocketed and even as interest rates started to sink, the giant bubble burst leaving all of America gasping as home after home went up for sale in a market where prices were crashing.  Life savings disappeared with a crash in the stock market and lives were ruined as family after family moved into homes with relatives or smaller, more affordable apartments.  This crash, this "crisis" was not wasted by the Frank Marshall Davis accolyte, Barrack Obama, and the rest was history.

What the Left, especially the young Left does not understand about this election is that Conservatives saw this election as the last chance before utter ruin.  Obama had consolidated the student loan market and created an economy that crawled along at 1% or less making it impossible for middle class families to send children to college.  Tack on the ruinous medical premiums and increasing medical costs despite all promises to the contrary, and little hope for more than snails-pace growth and more people than just Conservatives came out to vote on Tuesday. 

In case you missed it, this election was not about bashing gay people or force-feeding Liberals to the Lions which is what the angry Left is morosely shouting to those who might listen.  Instead, this was about small business owners fighting for survival, the middle class voting for change and the undeniable fact that Hillary Clinton did not close the case for higher taxes, a minimum wage hike, and the continuation of Obamacare. 

I'm not saying that Conservatives don't have opinions that differ with the Left about human rights, yes, human, you know, gay, straight, black, red, white and blue.  We do.  But Conservative positions are almost never as extreme as our fellow Montanan from Bozeman believes they are.  Conservatives are not filled with hatred any more than those on the Left.  We support Legal immigration, hardly an extreme position, and as for human rights, we support freedom and our Constitution.  We don't believe that minorities are due special rights under the Constitution, instead, we believe our Constitution conveys on all of us the same rights.  

I remember fighting against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 80's and my contention was that, as a woman, I believed that my Constitution protected me "as a person" in every way that mattered.  For that I was name-called and told that I was a woman-hater, so get in line with the long, long list of name-callers, Mr. Angry Guy in Bozeman.  We've just lived through 8 years of hell and your yippy little voice added to the vicious outcry from the Left will not make a dent in the armor that Conservatives have developed in the last 8 years.  Bark on, my good man, but keep it non-violent because you teetered on threats and though we're pretty sure you are harmless, Conservatives are pretty big on the 2nd Amendment and we don't take well to veiled threats or violent behavior. 

It's time to grow up and realize that you rarely get everything you want, in life, or in politics, and spare the rest of us your gasps and the, "I just can't believe you THINK that way," statements that assume everyone around you agrees with you.  In fact, instead of reading nothing but the Independent, branch out!  Listen every once in awhile to those who disagree with you.  I know it's tough, but it builds character, makes your understanding of the world more complete and lends credence to the arguments you make because when you read more than material in your comfort zone, you can build stronger arguments.  And who knows, maybe the person in power that you need to convince might not immediately shut you down as a num-nutt partisan hack.

What DO Women Want?

The Liberal media for so long had a monopoly on political reporting.  No more.  The rise of PJMedia, CRTV, Breitbart, Fox News (to some extent) has changed the media landscape for those who are willing to explore the internet.  However, a huge number of people still absorb political news from the alphabet stations and traditional newspaper outlets.  These people see nothing but coverage that supports an ideology that, I believe, exists only in the minds of the Liberal Elite and its followers. 

Traditional Liberal proving grounds still churn out individuals who are convinced, often against their better judgement, upbringing, and common sense that the American people should put their faith, dollars, and energy into government-centric programs controlled by bureaucrats.  These centers of power then churn out "regulations" meant to prop up ideologies; regulations
that carry the power to force action.  Again and again, our society dreams up leviathan agencies to "control" the people.  George Orwell had nothing on the contemporary Left, nothing at all.

When I saw the coverage yesterday on the Million Woman march, with so many little pink hats, my immediate reaction, was, "You go girls!"  But as the day wore on, I realized that this march wasn't about women's issues, it was about Liberal women who hate Trump.  What a huge disappointment.  In a world where women face descrimination, mutilation, exploitation and struggles that far surpass any challenges these protesters will see in their lives, these women chose to protest a duly elected President in a country where women are more free and enjoy more rights than anywhere on this earth. 

After EIGHT years of Cart Blanche Liberal policies supported in large part by Republican leadership, these gals think the world is ending?  Hell, Ladies, it's just beginning!  And as tempted as I am to laugh at the spectacle,  it is also depressing to realize the extent to which the women's movement consists primarily of women who have bought into the big-government, anti-Constitutional Conservative agenda.  I have zero in common with these ladies, yet my philanthropic activities focus primarily on women.  And after watching the Liberal-leaning coverage from yesterday's big march, I realize that we're still so far away from getting our message across.

In a discussion about the media coverage on Fox news' Media Buzz this morning, it struck me that though Conservative media has changed the media landscape, it has not yet penetrated the psyche of the Elite New York media anchors and reporters.  When the anchor of Media Buzz refered to Trump's "war" with the media, he means ABC, CBS, NBC, the NY Times, and the Washington Post, but he does not make that distinction, and with only one guest to to support the Conservative point of view, there was no mention of it. 

I'm tired of the news outlets that I trust getting no recognition.  Real unbiased reporting happens, but it's rare, and it's time for Wally (anchor Media Buzz) to recognize that there is an entire country of Conservative women out here in fly-over country and we don't trust the Alphabet channels anymore.  We trust the reporting at PJ Media, The Washington Times, and CRTV.  We want the same recognition that the million Liberal Woman march got yesterday, and we want it now.  We've waited 8 Looong years, we care about women's issues, too, and we have nothing in common with the Leftist, Totalitarian, uncivilized, destructive, polluting behavior from yesterday.  We want to hear about the real Media in this country and we want to hear about Liberty...for all, not the closed-minded attitudes of the women from yesterday's March who would not allow conservative or pro-life women a voice.  And may I also take off my hat to Sean Spicer for laying down the gauntlet and defending us all against the Liberal lies of the last few days.