October 25, 2023
WHY 3RD-PARTY CANDIDATES DO NOT WIN FOR PRESIDENT -- AND 2024 WILL BE NO EXCEPTION
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., commonly referred to in the media as RFK Jr., a 69-year old environmental lawyer and scion of a political dynasty, is a Man-On-A-Mission. And that mission is to replicate 168 years of American presidential history and finish third or fourth in the 2024 election, no matter what the Joe Rogan podcast listeners say. He will create some sound-and-fury as an “independent” candidate but he will obviously lose. Like his political forbears in 1856, 1860, 1912, 1948, 1968, 1992, 1996 and 2000, RFK Jr. will join the dustbin of history populated with 3rd-Party losers Ralph Nader (who got 2.7 percent), Ross Perot (18.9 and 8.4), George Wallace (13.5), Strom Thurmond (2.4), Henry Wallace (2.3), Teddy Roosevelt (27.4), John Breckinridge (18.1), John Bell (12.6) and John Fremont (33.1). Kennedy looms as more like a Nader than a Roosevelt, the ex-president (R) who ran in 1912, got 22.4 percent, and proved to be a spoiler. Woodrow Wilson (D) was elected with 41.8 percent. 2024 is going to be a rerun of 1996, with RFK Jr. not getting more than 3-5 percent. Next year will feature a Biden-Trump rematch, which polls have shown a majority of Americans abhor. Cornel West is running as the Woke/Left candidate. Attached is a CHART detailing the vote of 3rd-Parties in 1856, 1860, 1912, 1948, 1968, 1992, 1996 and 2000. Full Article...
October 18, 2023
DEMOGRAPHICS, ISLAM, IRAN COULD SPELL ISRAEL'S DOOM
Imagine being a cavalry soldier in the U.S. Army stationed in the Black Hills of the Dakotas in 1876, then known as the Montana territories. Imagine that your commander is Lt. Colonel George Custer, who has been tasked with scouting the area as part of a military campaign to return 10,000 Cheyenne and Sioux Indians to their reservation. Now imagine you are Jewish and living in Israel, a Middle-East nation founded in 1948 with a 2023 population of 9,214,051. The country is 7,847 square miles, and 21 percent of the populace is non-Jewish. Within that tiny land mass, which is roughly the size of the state of New Jersey, are the West Bank, west of the Jordan River, abutting the Holy City of Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, just north of the Sinai peninsula, both collectively known as Palestine. Its population is about 7.2 million and the ruling political party is Hamas. And then imagine that you are surrounded by 425 million people in 18 nations, almost all Muslims, with some of them led by theocratic Islamic fundamentalists who consider Jews and Christians to be infidels. In other words, they believe the Koran says “kill them all.” Attached is a CHART showing Middle-East population growth 1990-2023. Here is an update on the 45th Ward and the Black Sisters' judge slate. Full Article...
October 11, 2023
SOME U.S. HOUSE SPEAKERS WERE POWERFUL, BUT MANY WERE NOT
At the risk of infuriating my readers on the Left, Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich was indisputably the most influential U.S. House speaker of modern times. That was because he changed the culture of the institution, not because he changed policy. The House has been an arena of gladiators, ideological warriors who detest and revile their adversaries, even those within their own parties, since 1994. That explains the fate of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and John Boehner (R-OH), who resigned in 2015 when his Right flank rebelled against his insufficiently belligerent anti-Obama stance. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) kept her majority in line from 2019-2022 by focusing on the evils of MAGA Republicans and Trump. There have been 55 speakers since America’s inception and only one (James K. Polk in 1844) became president and the two who became vice-president (Schuyler Colfax in 1868 and John Nance Garner in 1932) never moved up. But every speaker had some ambition to aggregate his/her power and/or to get to the White House. The major impediment to longevity as speaker was political fluidity. Attached is a CHART listing the most noteworthy speakers. Full Article...
October 04, 2023
"BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY" EXPLAINS U.S. MIGRANT INFLUX
In Christian dogma the promise of eternal life after death is a powerful message to those suffering through a miserable life on Earth. It helps to get more followers. So, too, is the Biblical command in Genesis 1:28 to “be fruitful and multiply” and “fill the Earth.” Americans are not being “sufficiently” fruitful. Computed over a decade, absent any immigration, the U.S. population would decline by 11.2 million from its 2020 U.S. Census count of 331,149,000 (see chart). So the concept of sustainability explains the ongoing migrant crisis at the Southern border where more than 10,000 people are now crossing daily, according to Reuters. Those 6.5 million-plus border-crossers (and maybe a million getaways) since 2021 are now asylum-seekers. Attached is a historical Chart depicting U.S. immigration from 1790 to 2023. Full Article...
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