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WCRC meeting – November 2014
Now that the election is in the rearview mirror, the Wicomico County Republican Club moved off its campaign mode and began working on next year's agenda. Among the items of business were establishing a nominations committee and elections committee for next year's crop of officers, which will be different in several positions, as well as finalizing arrangements for the club's Christmas Party December 7.
But for the first time in several months we had a guest speaker, even though he was a familiar face to a lot of us. Carl Anderton reviewed his campaign and put forth a few of the items he was looking to achieve in relatively brief remarks before the gathering this evening. Fondly recalling that he had made his intentions known to the WCRC in June of 2013, Carl thanked all those who helped, particularly the crew which knocked on thousands of doors in the district.
It wasn't easy, though. A campaign that was "hitting its stride" after an early October debate at the Chamber "had to start all over" after a mailing came out depicting Norm Conway as a masked criminal. (Anderton revealed his wasn't the only district so targeted; a Cecil County race had a similar mailing.) But the local GOP team overcame that obstacle, and once results from two key precincts were known Anderton realized he was over the top. But that "shellshocked" feeling you may have noticed on Election Night was genuine – Carl was "incredibly blessed and overwhelmed" about this "opportunity of a lifetime."
There will be work to do in Annapolis, though. Carl sarcastically noted he was "excited about the going-away present" of hundreds of millions of dollars in budget shortfalls, particularly since the FY2016 budget is mainly being created by Martin O'Malley. But the important thing to Carl is to "bring back the quality of life on the Eastern Shore."
Asked about the prospect of an elected school board, Carl said he "absolutely" supports it, and received some pointers from current legislators on how to bring it to fruition.
We also got to hear a little bit from incoming County Executive Bob Culver, who will be sworn in next Tuesday. Culver revealed that we would have a special guest at the ceremony in Governor-elect Larry Hogan.
Bob also noted that he was hard at work already, addressing some changes he'd like to make to Rick Pollitt's last bond request. He also talked about an elected school board, calling on a new vote from the incoming County Council to back it.
Yet cleaning up county government isn't the only thing which will change. The physical office of the County Executive would also undergo some renovations to update the look to be more appropriate for a county on the rise. And if you're worried about taxpayer expense, don't be because Culver added he'd be footing the bill for the new carpet and paint.
Newly-appointed county GOP Chair Mark McIver called his election "a humbling experience," adding he was "psyched and excited" to take over the party. One of the first orders of business for the new committee, though, will be helping to select a Wicomico County Board of Education member to replace Larry Dodd, who will become the new District 3 Council member. McIver thought it would be a good goal to create a pool of interested Republicans from which we could appoint members to appropriate entities for their interests. "I want to hear from the Republicans in Wicomico County," McIver concluded.
But basically once we finalized some plans for the Christmas Party and heard a comment about the "excellent job" the executive board did in allocating contributions to various candidates, we were through, It was a meeting which came in under an hour, but a lot got done in that time span.
The next time we formally meet will be January 26, 2015. Obviously the speaker is to be determined.
All quiet on the western front
They say success has many fathers while failure is an orphan. In the case of the Maryland Republican Party, the inverse seems to be true: thanks to the outstanding election results, people seem to be satisfied with the status quo. I may be out of the loop insofar as voting, but I'm still on the list distributed to the state party because I remain an officer on our local central committee.
Just in case the candidates were really checking their e-mail lists and omitting me because I don't have a vote (although I would probably be first in line for a proxy) I asked a few of my cohorts if they were getting any campaign-related items and aside from knowing Diana Waterman and party treasurer Chris Rosenthal were seeking new terms the answer was no. Considering the state of the race in 2010, it appears the convention will be fairly innocuous compared to organizing conventions in the past; perhaps victory is the balm which heals old wounds. As one of my respondents noted, "Frankly I don't see anyone having an easy time of defeating (Diana) – unless s/he can sell the Party on the idea that cleaning out the officers is the right thing to do after the most devastating victory in memory."
So in terms of party unity this may be the best convention since 2002, which is before my time in this state. It doesn't appear Larry Hogan will want "his" chairman put in place at this point, although in two years it may be a different story.
Perhaps the one interesting point of view to be presented will be the now semi-annual Friday night gathering of the Maryland Liberty Action group, a get-together which will feature some good speakers: Delegate-elect Robin Grammer, Carroll County Commissioner Richard Rothschild, and MLA director of operations Christina Trotta (a fan of this site, by the way.) It's a good representation of the libertarian side of the GOP, and it's a crowd which tends to skew younger than the average Central Committee member.
With a focus on what we can expect during the upcoming 2015 General Assembly session it will certainly be worth it to stop by if you're at the convention. They start a little earlier than most of the other hospitality suites (a 6:00 start) so you can check them out before heading over to the other suites sponsored by the various candidates. (Pro tip: as I recall – and unlike a lot of our other venues over the years – Turf Valley had suites in two very separate areas of the complex, so check your local listings.)
Victory has been a rare experience for Maryland Republicans, so if the convention has the same joyous mood as our local election night party, Turf Valley should be rocking on December 5.
A more colorful shopping day
This time next week bleary-eyed shoppers may already be ready to call it a day at a time when most normally arrive for work.
Playing on the theme of "black Friday," the Patriot Voices advocacy group is seeking to make that shopping day a "red, white, and blue Friday" by encouraging shoppers to buy American. The "Made in the USA Christmas Challenge" is one that promotes both American-based manufacturing and small businesses by also promoting Small Business Saturday the following day. Patriot Voices founder and former Senator Rick Santorum noted:
This Christmas season, millions of hard-working families are struggling to make ends meet. If we hope to lift up all Americans, we must first support those families and the jobs they hold. This means supporting American companies and American-made products at the check-out line. While our effort may be small in the grand scheme of the holidays, everyone must do their part to making sure we support our family, friends, and neighbors.
The folks at Patriot Voices also added:
The 2nd annual Patriot Voices "Made in the USA" Christmas Challenge will bring attention to the need to buy American-made goods and shop at local small businesses this holiday season. Senator Santorum will encourage Patriot Voices members and Americans around the country to sign a pledge to shop locally and buy American made goods this Christmas.
Oddly enough, in doing a bit of research I found Santorum sought this pledge in 2012, which either makes this the third rendition or means they skipped 2013. Regardless, it's a pretty good idea.
For several months I've placed an emphasis on manufacturing jobs, believing it's a great way to grow the economy and also return our country to a position of prominence in the world such that we had during the Greatest Generation, a time when we produced our way to victory in a world war. This is a continuation of that effort and it's a worthwhile one. (It also doesn't hurt that I know a good source for finding American-made products, one which just happens to be based in Santorum's home state.)
Realistically, it would be difficult to get everything on your Christmas list "made in America." In particular, those loss leader electronics which will be fought over on Thanksgiving night and/or the wee hours of Friday morning when stores open are generally made overseas. Unfortunately, we don't make Xbox or PS4 consoles here nor do we produce most tablets, iPhones, or other such gadgets. I don't think this has to be a permanent problem, though – it just takes some sound reworking of tax and regulation policies along the lines of that which Rick has supported in the past. Those philosophies led a lot of people in the Midwest and South to vote for Santorum in 2012 – even I did after my top choice(s) dropped out of the running.
Honestly, I'm not much of a shopper. But those who power-shop are encouraged to join in this effort because the job you could create might be that of your neighbor or family member. A new opportunity for a struggling breadwinner can be the greatest gift of all.
Rather than talk about the executive amnesty that I fear the Republican leadership in Washington will find a way to accommodate, I want to show you how the other half lives.
Many months ago I somehow got on the mailing list of a liberal Democratic candidate named Rick Weiland, who ran and lost this month for the Senate seat in South Dakota. Senator-elect Mike Rounds crushed Weiland by 20 points in the election but for some reason Weiland still thinks he's relevant and decided to take out his frustrations using the Keystone XL pipeline vote as the vehicle. While I took out the fundraising appeal links, this is still fun to observe:
The only crock bigger than the Keystone Pipeline is Senate Democrats dumping on our environment to try to save one of their own.
Talk about business as usual, talk about midterm lessons unlearned, talk about just plain stupid!
You've already lost the Senate. Polls show that Mary Landrieu, whose runoff election you hope to influence, has absolutely no chance of winning. So what do you do, backstab your president, our Native Nations and the entire environmental community on behalf of a pipeline that will not only not create jobs or any energy security, but will pour additional billions in profits into the hands of the big money special interests who just spent a fortune to crush your party at the polls.
That's genius, DC Democrat style. And it is the reason my campaign is not over. In fact, it has just begun. As a political party, and as a country, we have one chance and one chance only. END THE HAMMERLOCK BIG MONEY HAS ON BOTH OUR POLITICAL PARTIES.
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For 18 months we ran for Senate with little more than my videographer son Nick, myself, a lot of shoe leather, and the help of a handful of friends with more passion and skill than common sense.
I want to keep that team together, retire our small debt, and get back into the fight, right now. If the DC Democrats selling us out on Keystone XL doesn't show why we can't wait, what will?
Please, send just a few bucks and stay tuned. We may have gotten washed over by the same wave that drowned so many Democrats. But unlike them, we're not rolling over, belly up and bloated, we're fighting on.
We are going to make South Dakota a demonstration project, and a nationwide beacon for the fight against big money.
And if you don't think that matters to you, think about this. Does Elizabeth Warren's voice matter beyond the boundaries of Massachusetts, or Bernie Sanders beyond Vermont, or did Paul Wellstone make any difference outside of Minnesota?
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We have assembled a merry band of very low maintenance truth tellers out here on the prairie. Keep us going with a buck or two and you'll get the most entertaining, noisy, truth to power megaphone in America. Maybe you'll even get a new song or two!
So stay tuned. We are not done yet, and Keystone XL shows why.
The fight for a constitutional amendment and other reforms to drive big money out of politics and put the most constitutionally ignorant Supreme Court in American history back in the jack in the box from which it sprang has got to be won or it will be Keystone XLs and stolen Presidential elections as far as the eye can see.
Yes, this guy is apparently serious. Dude, you didn't fall victim to a "wave" when you got less than 30 percent in a statewide election. Nor does Weiland admit that there were big-money donors on his side as well – then again, the guy is way out on the edge on some issues, like ethanol, so there will always be some who think he's the best thing since sliced bread.
While Weiland has a point about the cynical political games being played in Washington, the problem isn't the Keystone vote, the fate of Mary Landrieu, or any sort of political contribution. In fact, I would argue the Keystone XL pipeline would be the best bet for the environment because Canada is going to extract those tar sands whether environmentalists like it or not. We can pipe the oil underground in a vessel which would provide relatively trouble-free transport or we can ship it by rail car with the inherent safety risks. (Or Canada can pipe it to the Pacific coast and send it by tanker to China, which has its own set of perils.) To me, Keystone XL makes a whole lot more sense than growing corn to be fuel for the family SUV and not food for the dinner plate.
But I suspect Rick Weiland would have found something to complain about besides his dismal electoral record – he's now lost statewide elections in 1996, 2002, and 2014. His "fight against big money," though, is truly against the wrong source of that massive pile of cash – after all, we spend more on many other common items than all the 2014 federal campaign spending put together.
But the $3.7 billion spent on the 2014 election is a rounding error that's a factor of about 1 to 1,000 what the federal government spends each year. THAT is the pile of money which we need to address by shrinking it to a more appropriate Constitutional size. As I see it, less money in Washington would lead to less incentive to spend a lot on campaigns.
The example of Weiland well illustrates how the other side feels. To them, it's all about the feelgood issue du jour, whether its the Keystone XL pipeline, the Citizens United decision, or one of another hundred things where life is unfair and the only solution is bigger government. Yet we have tried it their way for over 80 years now and problems aren't being solved. This is the question they need to honestly ask themselves: with their track record, is government the answer to problems or does it perpetuate those issues to maintain a reason for existence? To bring it closer to home, ask yourself what happens to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation if the waterway is ever cleaned up?
We have entered the era of the perpetual campaign, which in and of itself provides a reason for being. If government was truly practiced in the best interests of the people, the big news of the day wouldn't come from Washington or the state capitals but from the achievements of the common man which still occur throughout our nation. Getting money out of politics isn't the answer – the solution really lies in rightsizing our government.
Under the radar
After he lost the 2012 Senatorial primary to Dan Bongino, Richard Douglas has kept a somewhat low profile. Eschewing a possible run for Attorney General this year, Douglas has instead focused on particular issues such as the Bladensburg Peace Cross earlier this year and his latest, a criticism of Maryland's two sitting Senators for a lack of action on freeing Marylander Alan Gross from a Cuban prison.
In today's Daily Record (11/19), I was astonished to read the Capital News Service whitewash of the Maryland U.S. congressional delegation's record of failure on Alan Gross.
Marylander Gross remains in a Cuban jail because Maryland's weak, irresolute U.S. Senators have done precisely nothing to force our weak, irresolute President to make Cuba howl. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski have used none of the tools available to majority-party senators, or in Mikulski's case, to the chair of the Senate's most powerful standing committee, to bludgeon the Obama White House into meaningful action to free their fellow Marylander.
To try to force presidential action, Cardin and Mikulski could easily have blocked Obama legislative priorities, Obama executive nominations, treaties, senior bureaucratic promotion lists, and spending bills. But they didn't, and these are glaring omissions in the Capitol Hill playbook. They confirm that Cardin and Mikulski have pulled their punches with their ideological teammate in the White House.
Whitewash can't conceal the truth. Maryland's U.S. Senators and the White House have shown weakness and a lack of resolve on Mr. Gross. That same brand of weakness and lack of resolve helped put Russian troops in Ukraine, and allows Islamist terrorists to murder Americans almost at will.
In January, the new Republican majority in the Senate could finally force President Obama to break a sweat over Alan Gross, five long years into his imprisonment. We'll see. But what a pity that Maryland's U.S. Senators, clucking furiously on the sidelines, have utterly failed to use the tools which the Framers gave them to force Obama to do his job.
Douglas was quite critical of Cardin in his 2012 run, but hadn't really had much need to be critical of Maryland's senior Senator. It's Mikulski's seat which will be at stake in 2016, though, and Douglas's statewide experience may lead some to ask whether he's thinking of challenging Mikulski. With the Senate political landscape being almost exactly the opposite of 2014′s (where Republicans will have at least 24 seats to defend against just 10 for Democrats) the chance to pull an upset in Maryland is intriguing in the wake of Larry Hogan's win.
Naturally, the prospect of a rematch of the two top GOP contenders from 2012 means Dan Bongino will be in the conversation as a possible contender. But will Bongino want to undergo yet another campaign, the third one in five years?
With the experience Douglas boasts as a former Chief Counsel of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former General Counsel of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in an election where cleaning up Barack Obama's foreign policy messes may be a key issue, the prospect of someone with Richard's expertise going up against Mikulski – or a new Democrat should Barb decide to retire – is quite interesting. Surely we will see in the coming months if it's a race Richard wants to run.
Common Core subject of TEA Party meeting
On Thursday night an interesting meeting is slated in Ocean Pines.
Jillian Patterson, VP of Policy for Education Freedom Committee will speak about fighting Common Core at the state and local levels and strategies for defeating it. Ms. Patterson will include some basic information about what Common Core is and why parents should be concerned with its current implementation, followed by Q&A.
County Commissioners and School Board members will be invited.
The Worcester County TEA Party is the sponsor of the event, which will be held at the Ocean Pines Community Center.
Most interesting to me is the last line, because some will judge the worthiness of the newly-elected (or re-elected) county commissioners and school board members on whether they show up and listen attentively to this speaker. Fortunately for Worcester County. any school board member who doesn't wish to enlist in this (admittedly uphill) battle can be ousted in the next election. It's something we here in Wicomico County cannot boast about yet, although I'm confident our new leadership team will begin the long-overdue process of addressing this inequity.
But Maryland is likely going to be one of the last states to reconsider the Common Core standards, which have gotten such a bad rap nationally that the state dubbed them the "College and Career-Ready" standards, eschewing the "Common Core" moniker. So it will be interesting to see what the report which is due from that bill will say, and whether any mention of the states which are dropping Common Core is made. This despite the fact that Governor-elect Larry Hogan has said we "need to hit the 'pause' button on Common Core and to give control back to teachers and parents."
The chances are fairly good that a Common Core repeal could be introduced in the General Assembly this year, although likely not at the behest of Hogan. The question is how many Democrats will cross the MSEA teachers' union and help pass the bill out of committee if it even gets a vote. That's where we come in, with the "encouragement" to make sure such a bill escapes the committee chair's drawer.
On running the state
One concern I see and hear after the surprise Larry Hogan victory is that we don't want all of the Ehrlich retreads running the state government now that the GOP is back in charge. As it turns out, Hogan – the Secretary of Appointments for Ehrlich – selected another Ehrlich official, Secretary of General Services Boyd Rutherford, as his lieutenant governor and has tabbed James T. Brady and Robert Neill as integral parts of the transition team. Brady worked as a member of the Parris Glendenning administration and Neill is a Republican-turned-Democrat who served in the Maryland General Assembly for 18 years, sandwiching a term as Anne Arundel County Executive. Reports are that outgoing Harford County Executive David Craig, who also sought the GOP nomination for governor, is also being considered for a role.
This is all well and good, I suppose, since a stated goal of the incoming Hogan administration seems to be one of bipartisanship. But my question is how much it will build the Maryland Republican party if we tab Democrats for positions they've already had over the last 8 and 40 of the last 44 years? Building a farm team doesn't just come from elected officials and I'm sure that fresh eyes in a lot of positions will do a lot of good.
The Democrats lost, so let's act like winners and put good conservatives in charge of state departments, To do otherwise leaves the potential that we will have another opportunity to build on success slip away in 2018, dooming ourselves to more years in the wilderness. In short, let's use the electoral broom we just received to sweep these offices clean like Martin O'Malley did. It's the least we can do to push this state in the right direction.
The same direction
It's been a great month for Maryland Republicans, and after a few weeks to finish the counting of both our votes and our blessings on Thanksgiving, the party will meet early next month to elect its new leadership.
Unlike the last few times we have done this (I say "we" because I was a part of the process for eight years) the convention mood should be pretty joyous. Consider the situations where we've had this election in recent years I've been involved:
- In 2006 we elected Jim Pelura in the wake of losing the governor's race and taking a step backward nationally.
- In 2009 Audrey Scott was picked to finish Pelura's four-year term at a time when the party was broke, desperate, and suffered from infighting over Jim's activist role while he was Chair.
- In 2010 we lost the governor's race again after a contested primary, missing out on the TEA Party wave which otherwise swept the country with the exception of getting back the First District Congressional seat. Alex Mooney won based on a platform of improving the party's fiscal situation.
- In early 2013, Diana Waterman ascended to the position as the previous First Vice-Chair, taking over a party riven by discord between TEA Party conservatives and more moderate members. Mooney's promise of financial health had not come true, so the party was forced to downsize its headquarters in an effort to maintain solvency.
I did a little reading of my archives over the last few minutes in order to rehash the 2010 race (which was decided a week later than this year's convention will be) and it's interesting to note I spent the better part of a month talking about the race and its various players last time. Granted, we were talking about an open seat since Audrey Scott didn't want another term, but the success of 2014 means a lot of people should be happy with the current leadership.
Moreover, there is a slightly different dynamic at play this time around – by-law changes a few years back mean the recently-concluded term of Mooney/Waterman was the final four-year term for a party Chair. As of this election, the new Chair will be in office for just two years, through the Fall Convention in 2016.
This gives the party an opportunity to split the four-year cycle into two logical halves. The first half should be devoted to something which was done fairly well in this cycle with a few exceptions – candidate recruitment and growing the party. Once we see the 2016 results and know the health of the national party, we can go to more of a re-elect Hogan mode with fundraising being the main idea. Personally, I think Diana deserves the opportunity to lead over the next two years, while the Hogan administration can have its selection for years 3 and 4. The 2018 election will be important to our side as the winner controls redistricting, so egregious gerrymanders such as the Third and Sixth Congressional Districts can be addressed once the 2020 census is complete.
Unless I hold a proxy for the convention I won't have a direct say in the matter but I think the Maryland GOP would be well-served to avoid a divisive fight in this convention and work toward making inroads into more Democratic-controlled areas by identifying and recruiting good candidates, volunteers, and financial supporters for the 2018 cycle. I see no need to make a change if Diana Waterman wants the job for another two years.
Update: Going by her reply to my Facebook post promoting this piece, she's in.
Keeping up the momentum toward a high tide for Maryland conservatives
The announcement came to me in the days following the election last week – luckily it's not a completely pressing event so I could give you my observations this evening. I let MDCAN pick it up from here:
Maryland shocked the nation last week by electing a Republican governor. Not only that but Republicans picked up seats in the Statehouse and Dan Bongino only lost by a razor thin margin in a district gerrymandered specifically for a Democrat. Marylanders are showing they are ready to reject one-party control over the state.
There is still a lot of work to do to maintain the momentum though. Turning the Tides 2015 is a key part of that.
Join us to learn about what strategies worked and what helped weaken the one party monopoly in Maryland. Come to learn about how to infiltrate the pop culture and reach out to new potential voters. Perhaps most importantly, join us so we can show the state and the country a united front for making Maryland into the "Free State" once again. (Emphasis in original.)
I did not make it to the 2014 version, which had an ambitious agenda but didn't quite have the star power of the 2013 event I attended. That earlier event had the notoriety of Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, authors and columnists Diana West and Stanley Kurtz. and Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton, among others. The 2015 agenda includes such topics as Pop Culture, Black Conservatives, Common Core, border security, video journalism, Maryland's new administration, and what they call the Real War on Women. We just don't know all the speakers and panelists yet.
If the funds are there, I would like to be in the house (or more specifically, the DoubleTree.) Last time I went they had a blogger's row which really helped. But if you want to go, the tickets are discounted until November 28 and surely they make a nice stocking stuffer.
The lack of trust
It's already hard not to be cynical in this day and age, when politicians make used car salesmen look like Sunday School teachers by comparison, but the recent hullabaloo about remarks made by Obamacare (and Romneycare) architect Jonathan Gruber would be enough to shake even the most trusting of people. Maybe it's not to the level of finding out your spouse of fifty years has had an affair for 49.8 of them, but this revelation does serve to erode the public's trust in institutions even more.
There's an old maxim that "absolute power corrupts absolutely," and nowhere does it seem to be better displayed than in our all-encompassing federal government. No better proof exists than the Gruber example: here is an un-elected bureaucrat, appointed on behest of the state, who admits to writing a law that no one really read (remember, we had to pass it to know what was in it) in such a deceptive manner that it couldn't be scored by the Congressional Budget Office, all the while considering those of us who pay the salaries of these governmental hangers-on and grifters as rubes worthy only of contempt.
Surely this is only the tip of the iceberg, though. In less than 250 years we have taken this republic – a republic, we were warned, would exist only as long as we could keep it – and turned it into some murky composite of the worst features of democracy and dictatorship. We are at a point where there are just about as many adults not working or working for the government as there are private-sector employees. While it's a dramatic oversimplification to state that those who work in the private sector are the "makers" and the rest are the "takers," the one-to-one ratio is very worrisome.
The problem is that perception is becoming reality before our eyes. Take, for example a proposed land deal which would have benefited a backer of Martin O'Malley – that is, until the public caught wind of it and made the state change its plans slightly. Just ask yourself: how many other crony capitalist deals come down before the public finds out, when it's too late to back away? The road to wealth in 2014 America doesn't seem to be that of hard work and inspiration anymore; instead, it seems to be finding the right sleazy politician to donate a few thousand dollars to and wait for the no-bid contract or grant to roll your way.
I guess the two things I consider missing from government today are honesty and a moral compass. Of course there are honest, decent people in government but too many seem to believe they are entitled to all the spoils they can get. And this is why I have always come down on the side of what I call "rightsizing" government, figuring if the pot of money becomes smaller it won't be as worthwhile to use your greedy hands to scoop up ill-gotten cash.
We didn't need to pass Obamacare because there was already an admittedly imperfect but reasonably successful system in place – the problem was that the "wrong" people benefited from it and that had to change as far as proponents like Jonathan Gruber were concerned. Now we're at a point where there will be a small but extremely vocal minority which would speak out if Obamacare were eliminated. And as we've seen time and time again in recent America, there isn't a group too small to be heard if they want more government or a breakdown of our moral fabric.
It's the rest of us "too stupid to understand" people who have to work harder just to keep pace.
The first of many
Back in August, I noted that Ben Carson had formed his own political action committee and predicted that he was going to take the next step:
I believe this step is the prelude to setting up the exploratory committee, regardless of how the fall elections go. No one wants to get in the ring this soon because many of those who are considering a 2016 bid have to make it through this year's election first. Once the election and holidays pass us by, I would expect Carson to make a go of it.
Looks like Ben's only waited for the election, as he's airing a paid documentary in a number of media markets (including Baltimore and Washington) this weekend. Here's a teaser from producer Armstrong Williams.
I didn't watch the documentary (since no local station carried it and it's not up on Youtube yet) but odds are the show will be long on sizzle and short on substance. That's typical of the early stages in any political campaign, and the election begins sooner than you might think: in 14 to 15 months we'll be anxiously awaiting the results of the Iowa caucuses on both sides to start weeding out the contenders who have made it that far by raising sufficient campaign funds to compete.
Obviously the question is whether Carson can compete, both financially and in the arena of ideas. I look at the Ben Carson campaign similarly to the Herman Cain effort in 2010-11, but there's a key difference in that Cain had what I thought was a viable economic proposal in his 9-9-9 plan while Dr. Carson seems to have his support based on the fact he's a God-fearing outsider. I don't find anything wrong with that, but the lack of political experience is quite the hurdle to overcome – particularly given the fact our current failure of a president never served in an executive post unlike four of his immediate five predecessors, with the other serving as vice-president for eight years.
There are a number of current and soon-to-be-former Republican governors thought to be 2016 candidates who have a track record to run on, and more importantly have most of their skeletons out of the closet. Rumors of an extramarital affair did Cain in, and the Democrats already have latched onto a number of statements Carson has made in an effort to doom his nascent campaign.
Perhaps, though, Carson's very early apparent entrance into the race is necessary to maintain momentum, and he will need a big early push to make it through a field from both parties salivating for an open seat and the chance to either undo Barack Obama's damage or finish off the nation a little bit more.
A doable goal?
Yesterday we received word that the unemployment rate dropped again, with another month of job growth in the 200,000 range. It's not the Reagan recovery of the 1980s – when we had 15 straight months of job growth in 1983-84 that would put this latest number to shame, including a whopping 1,115,000 jobs created in September 1983 – but it is a reasonably decent run.
Yet just as manufacturing didn't share in the Reagan-era gains as much as other sectors did (in fact, it lost some ground), the second Obama term has also fallen well short of manufacturing growth goals. I've discussed this group and its job tally before both here and on my former American Certified site, but the Alliance for American Manufacturing tracks progress toward the one million manufacturing jobs Barack Obama promised in his second term.
AAM's president Scott Paul isn't all that pleased about it, either.
The good news is that manufacturing jobs have grown over the past few months. The bad news is that they haven't grown fast enough. I'm very concerned that a surge of imports from China and a paucity of public investment in infrastructure will continue to hamper the great potential of the productive sector of our economy.
Hopes of achieving the White House goal of 1 million new jobs in the Administration's final term are fading fast. Without some progress on the trade deficit and a long-term infrastructure plan, I don't see that changing. No doubt the economic anxiety that many Americans still feel is compounded by stagnant wage growth and diminished opportunities for middle class careers.
Two of the key issues AAM harps on are, indeed, currency manipulation and infrastructure investment, although they also took time recently to praise Obama's manufacturing initiatives and chastise Walmart for their 'buy American' effort because much of it comes in the form of produce and groceries. Around these parts, we don't really mind that emphasis because we produce a lot of American-grown poultry so if Walmart is willing to invest in us we're happy to provide. (Then again, that promised distribution center would be nice too.) Of course, AAM is backed in part by the steelworkers' union so one can reasonably assume their view is the center-left's perspective.
Even so, the group is useful because it makes some valid points. And I think we should have some focus on creating manufacturing jobs in Maryland, as the defunct gubernatorial campaign of outgoing Delegate Ron George tried to do.
Thus, I think the incoming Hogan/Rutherford administration should make it a goal to create 50,000 new manufacturing jobs in Maryland over his first four-year term – if he succeeds, you better believe he deserves a second. According to BLS figures, as of September an estimated 103,000 people are employed in manufacturing in Maryland. But if you look at past data, it's not unprecedented to have 150,000 (as late as November 2002) or even 200,000 (as late as June 1990) working in the field. And when you take the confluence of a state that is supposedly #1 in education and combine it with the proximity to both major markets and inexpensive energy sources, there's no reason we should have lost 30,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector under Martin O'Malley – or 16,000 under Bob Ehrlich, for that matter.
But how do you turn things around in four years? Maryland has to make people notice they are open for business, and there are some radical proposals I have to help with that turnaround.
First of all, rather than tweak around the edges with lowering the corporate tax rate, why not just eliminate it altogether? The revenue to the state from that toll is $1.011 billion in FY2015, which is far less than the annual budgetary increase has been. Would that not send a message that we are serious about job growth and immediately improve our status as a business-friendly state?
The next proposals are somewhat more controversial. To the extent we are allowed by the federal government and its environmental regulations, those who choose to invest in the state and create jobs should have an easier path to getting environmental permits and zoning approvals. Even if a moratorium is temporary, making it easier to deal with MDE regulations would encourage job creation. Most of Maryland's towns and cities already have industrial sites available, but we shouldn't discourage construction in rural areas if a job creator needs more space.
We've also heard about the construction of the Purple Line in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and the Red Line in Baltimore - combined, the two are expected to fetch a price tag of $5.33 billion. For that sum, it seems to me we could build a lot of interstate highway – even if this $4 million per mile figure is low (and it would be 1,267 miles of highway based on the combined cost of the Red Line and Purple Line) we could do a lot to assist in moving goods through and from Maryland, whether by finishing the originally envisioned I-97 through to the Potomac (and with Virginia's assistance, to I-95 near Richmond) or enlisting Virginia and Delaware's help in improving the U.S. 13/58 corridor to interstate standards to provide a secondary route around Richmond, Washington, and Baltimore.
Once we eliminate the onerous restrictions proposed for fracking and begin to open up the western end of the state for exploration, and (dare I say it?) work on making Maryland a right-to-work state like Virginia – or even creating right-to-work zones in certain rural counties like the Eastern Shore and Maryland's western panhandle – the potential is there to indeed create those 50,000 manufacturing jobs – and a lot more! It just takes a leader with foresight and the cajones to appeal to the Democrats in the General Assembly as well as a Republican Party unafraid to take it to the streets in the districts of recalcitrant members of Maryland's obstructionist majority party.
But even if we only create 40,000 or 25,000 manufacturing jobs through these policies, the state would be better-positioned to compete for a lot of other jobs as well, and the need is great. For too long this state has put its economic eggs in the federal government's basket and there's a changing mood about the need for an expansive presence inside the Beltway. Rightsizing the federal government means Maryland has to come up with another plan, and this one has proven to be a success time and time again across the nation.


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[-1] August 25, 2014 at 2:47pm
Show me anywhere in the constitution that prayer is unconstitutional and I will prove you wrong. The only group that is not allowed by the constitution to show preference to one religion over another is the United States Congress!!! Last time I checked this school district was NOT the United States Congress. Please explain but dont give me the SCOTUS interpreted it to mean this or that, The founders plainly stated in document ofter document that the constitution was a literal document to be followed as written!!!!
[2] August 25, 2014 at 2:42pm
I still dont understand how the GOD haters can read any where in the constitution that this was illegal. I know the document inside and out and it is really grasping for straws to claim separation of church and state. The constitution I learned just says CONGRESS shall establish no religion……….. Last time I checked a school or city council or state government is NOT the Congress of the United States
The Constitution does not need to be interpreted, it needs to be upheld, honored and Followed as written its just that simple
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[3] August 25, 2014 at 2:39pm
I still dont understand how the GOD haters can read any where in the constitution that this was illegal. I know the document inside and out and it is really grasping for straws to claim separation of church and state. The constitution I learned just says CONGRESS shall establish no religion……….. Last time I checked a school or city council or state government is NOT the Congress of the United States
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We all still sin everyday the difference you refuse to look at is, when I sin i have to ask GOD to forgive me thats just part of being a christian. This woman is saying, even though the scripture is clear about ALL sexual immorality, that what she is doing is not a sin. Thats the problem I have!! Sin is sin, sex outside marriage is a sin gay or straight, she is saying that its not and yes gay marriage is a sin it can only be sanctified by GOD as 1 man and 1 woman
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July 30, 2014 at 5:39pm
Hey RJJ, Just got to know if thats Gadsden Al??? If so Im over in HB and its nice see an Alabamian on the Blaze from time to time
[1] June 25, 2014 at 2:16pm
then is it ok if I marry my sister, my mom, dead grandmother, cat, laptop, daughter, how about i marry my wife and stepdaughter and have 2 wives or maybe 3 or 10. No one is denying gay people marriage, they just have to meet the criteria. So should blind people be allowed to drive? Where does it end. you have to meet the standards, I cant marry my mom or daughter or my cat so do you think I should be able to marry my 10 yr old daughter if she want s to marry me
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[8] June 24, 2014 at 10:00am
Gays have the same right as anyone else…… They can marry a person of the opposite sex, of legal age, willing to marry and not close blood relation. How is that unfair? those rules are applied to everyone equal. What if I want to marry my cat, my sister, my daughter, my 6 year old neighbor, my laptop, my dead grandmother? are people bigots for not letting me marry who I "LOVE"??? See sounds stupid doesn't it? Marry who you want as long as it is within the rule state law and if you want to have a religious ceremony to marry who ever then you can as long as your religion says its ok and you dont try to make me recognize what ever it us
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Its a LIE!!! I am a CIO with 25yrs in IT and that is impossible for any federal agency. Federal guidelines require that you keep off site backups for email storage and it is impossible to crash and only destroy email sent or received to certain parties. You either lost everything or you lost nothing I CALL BS!!!!!! Give me 30 minutes on the email box and I can tell you 100% what happened but I already know. She archived her email and the exchange pst/ost files were pulled from the server to her local box which is evidence that she was hiding something
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Spot on, its not really a good idea to drop 5.56 into .223. 5.56 has a different load which has a little higher chamber pressure. 99% of the time its fine but in a cheaper made gun the higher pressure can cause damage and sometimes injury. I recommend always check the barrel a verify 5.56 never .223 just in case.
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[1] May 13, 2014 at 2:20pm
I have a program I call M-10! I beg everyone I know to change the federal deduction at work to married with 10 dependents, doing this you will have to put back money to pay taxes in April but you will not be giving this POS your money each payday in the form of an interest free loan. IT IS TIME TO BREAK THE BACK OF THE WELFARE STATE. Do some research and see how big of an impact we could have if only 25% of us who make over say $50k a year did this?????Add your comments
[1] May 13, 2014 at 2:15pm
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[2] May 13, 2014 at 2:13pm
after seeing the list I would love to know where these jobs are posted!!! I have 100′s of friends who work in Textiles that have been fighting for jobs since NAFTA was signed and I will bet my salary they would jump at a job with companies like these just for the benefits and job security. Wait, forget that, the jobs will not be posted until they get the immigration bill they want so they don't have to pay benefits and get by paying minimum wage
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May 12, 2014 at 4:55pm
Look folks if you want to have an impact, dont just sit and post. I have a program I call M-10! I beg everyone I know to change the federal deduction at work to married with 10 dependents, doing this you will have to put back money to pay taxes in April but you will not be giving this POS your money each payday in the form of an interest free loan. IT IS TIME TO BREAK THE BACK OF THE WELFARE STATE. Do some research and see how big of an impact we could have if only 25% of us who make over say $50k a year did this?????
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April 29, 2014 at 5:14pm
But the NE's get a lot of their power from the SE states with coal plants. I say make it a crime to sell or even transfer power outside the state its produced in. At least charge the power co in the state that receives the power 25 times the price charged to instate companies
April 29, 2014 at 5:12pm
Ok then every state listed should pass laws that make it a felony with a min of 25 yrs in prison and a hundred million dollar fine for any company that produces electricity to sell or even route electricity out of the state the plant is located in
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February 20, 2014 at 2:03pm
But the NFL does not own the stadium, the taxpayers from the state of Texas on the stadium. If the NFL wants to repay the state and local govt for the stadium I say no problem, ban who are what you want but until then it belongs to the people of Texas
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I agree 100%. And yes I have have left my hometown. As an adult I have lived in large cities up and down the east coast in the US and Canada and i wouldnt trade one minute of that for what I have have now back in my small Alabama town. Big cities have lots to do and lots to see but some people, like me, would rather have fresh open air, trees and creeks around me than concrete and steal
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February 17, 2014 at 4:37pm
If evolution is fact I will believe it 100% when you show me any single creature in history that evolved into another species?? You cant!!! If things evolved for millions of years why did they suddenly stop? If evolution were fact then animals today would be evolving into different species, right????? In all of mans recorded history can you find 1 animal that has been documented to give birth to an animal of another species? I dont mean a wolf mating with a fox and producing a hybrid i mean a wolf mating with a cat and producing a woat. Why are fish not evolving into land animals? why are monkeys not walking out of the jungle as people? So what you are saying in 10 million of years ago monkeys evolved into people and then just stopped evolving into people 9.9 millions of years ago. I have spent half my adult life in school (MS, PHD in computer science) and I have never say a single piece of physical evidence that any species evolved into another.
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February 13, 2014 at 5:25pm
That made me think about the dirtiest line in a TV show from that era: Ward dont you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night!
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The Muslim lurking behind the free speech debate: Siddiqui
Supreme Court ruling on hate speech shines a light into the dark corners of the long, inconclusive and divisive debate on Islamophobia.
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The Supreme Court has laid down the law on freedom of speech. Your right to free speech stops when you start spreading hate. Just as my right to swing my arm stops at your cheek.
This reaffirms the long-standing Canadian way of balancing freedom of speech and freedom from hate. It is constitutional to limit speech — "as little as possible," the court said — to curb hate, a purpose that is "pressing and substantial."
The latter assertion is the opposite of what we have been told in recent years by an unholy alliance of hate-mongers and the mainstream media, albeit for different reasons.
Bigots want to be free to spread their anti-Semitism and other venom. The media want as few restrictions as possible. Both cite the higher purpose of furthering public debate. But the court has shot down that defence.
Rather than advancing dialogue, "hate speech is antithetical to this objective in that it shuts down dialogue by making it difficult or impossible for members of the vulnerable group to respond, thereby stifling discourse.
"Speech that has the effect of shutting down public debate cannot dodge prohibition on the basis that it promotes debate."
Hate speech "adds little value to political discourse or to the quest for truth, self-fulfillment, and an embracing marketplace of ideas."
The ruling was unanimous — six-zip. Even Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin joined in, abandoning her earlier reservations about curbing free speech, recorded in a split decision in 1990.
The other significance of the ruling, unspoken so far, is that while it dealt with a Saskatchewan case involving homophobia, it shines a light into the dark corners of the long, inconclusive and divisive debate on Islamophobia.
The guidelines it has laid down should help define what may or may not constitute hate against Muslims, arguably the most maligned group since Sept. 11, 2001, and the most vulnerable.
The ruling has meaning for the Stephen Harper Conservatives and Pauline Marios' Parti Québécois, as well as some media, both English and French. In varying degrees, each has fanned anti-Muslim bigotry or fed at the trough of anti-Islamic muck.
Think back to some of the high-profile debates in recent years — in Quebec, during the 2008-09 controversies on "reasonable accommodation," and in Ontario, during the 2005-06 panic over sharia, the infamous 2006 Maclean's treatise on Muslims, and the 2011 kerfuffle over Friday prayers in Toronto schools, among others.
Reasonable people would differ over whether some of those debates crossed the line from being hurtful, offensive and even repugnant to being hateful. But the court's ruling, written by Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein, helps us decide:
"Hate is an effort to marginalize individuals based on their membership in a group. Using expression that exposes the group to hatred, hate speech seeks to delegitimize group members in the eyes of the majority, reducing their social standing and acceptance within society. Hate speech, therefore, rises beyond causing distress to individual group members. It can have a societal impact."
Hateful expression "portrays the targeted group as a menace that threatens the safety and well-being of others."
The judges upheld the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission's finding against an anti-gay campaigner for his hateful pamphlets, one of which warned that homosexuals were aiming to spread "filth" in public schools.
Muslims are far more widely accused of trying to spread sharia, everywhere. Even if so inclined, they would have to convince Parliament and the provincial legislatures to replace existing secular law with the Islamic code. What are the odds of that? Yet ostensibly sensible people warn darkly about an imminent sharia invasion.
Muslims are burdened with collective guilt, portrayed as dangerous and worthy of being marginalized, and their faith deemed unworthy of Charter protections.
The head of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy, for example, has said, "In its entire history, the Islamic civilization has invented and contributed less to human advancement than a pack of donkeys."
The 4,800-word Maclean's article argued that Muslims are prone to violence and pose a demographic, cultural and security threat to the West, including Canada.
"Of course, not all Muslims are terrorists — though enough are hot for jihad to provide an impressive support network of mosques from Vienna to Stockholm to Toronto to Seattle.
"Of course, not all Muslims support terrorists — though enough of them share their basic objectives (the wish to live under Islamic law in Europe and North America) to function wittingly or otherwise as the 'good cop' end of an Islamic good cop/bad cop routine."
When some Muslims complained to the federal as well as three provincial human rights commissions, including Ontario , they were vilified. There were demands, including by the Tim Hudak Tories , that such commissions be killed.
Last year, the Harperites obliged by axing section 13 of the federal human rights code that regulated hate speech. They wouldn't have done it had the controversy been over anti-Semitism or other forms of hate.
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An exhibition telling the history of the Royal beasts at Tower of London takes place this year as a part of the tower is opened to the public for the very first time. Recreating the menegarie of various exotic animals in sculpture form, the show invites you to discover the fascinating tales of how the beasts arrived, where they lived and how they were fed.
Royal Beasts at Tower of London
Telling the unusual and intriguing stories of the animal residents of the Tower over the course of 600 years, the exhibition features stories from the time when the Tower Menagerie was founded in the 1200s up to the 1830s, when it the animals were rehoused as part of the founding of the London Zoo. With 600 years worth of animals stories on display, this is a truly historic exhibition that captures a very unusual angle of the Tower's past.
Animals on display
In an attempt to recreate the feel of London's first private zoo, the exhibition Royal Beasts at Tower of London includes a collection of animal sculptures created by artist Kendra Haste. Depicted in fine wire and extremely lifelike, visitors to the show can see lions, monkeys and all kinds of exotic beasts as they roam the Tower's rooms. There are also several interactive displays, that mimic the sights, sounds and smells of animals that would have belonged in the Royal Menagerie many years ago.
Lions and tigers and bears
With many royal houses around Europe and the rest of the world keen to display their wealth and power, the royal menagerie become a status symbol amongst kings and queens during the medieval period. Owning rare and impressive animals not only gave the impression of wealth, but it also reflected the global exploration undertaken on behalf of the Kingdom and the links held with the native countries of the animals. Leopards, tigers, lions, elephants, zebras, alligators, kangaroos and grizzly bears have all at one time or another formed part of the royal beasts collection at the Tower of London, and was in the Elizabethan period even open to the public.
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And just as the animals who inhabit the London Zoo now give their keepers stories to tell the public about their quirks and habits, the animals that lived in the Tower have their own little histories. You can learn about the polar bear who fished in the Thames every day, the ostrich that ate nails and the leopard who stole people's umbrellas at Royal Beasts at Tower of London. You can also hear more about the sad cases of neglect and mistreatment that some of the animals endured, in the name of sport or entertainment, and see how zoos are much improved in the 21st century.
The exhibition on Royal Beast at Tower of London takes place from Saturday 28th May - Saturday 31st December 2011. Entrance to the exhibition is included in the entry tickets to the Tower of London. Tickets are £19.80 and £10.45 for children.
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