NOT GOOD Scaramucci Fired

SCARAMUCCI
FIRED

This is not good.

Anthony Scaramucci has been removed from his position as White House communications director, just 10 days after his appointment to the post.

Although little in the way of positive would come out of Mooch as communications director, he was after all part of the Ivanka-Jared cultural Marxist wing surrounding Trump, the firing signals more power in the hands of the military around Trump.

Scaramucci was removed at the urging of the new White House chief of staff yformer Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, according to multiple sources.

I consider this move a signal that the military wing is in charge. Trump now has a military man in Kelly as the chief-of-staff, and a Secretary of Defense and a National Security adviser who are military men.

That Kelly was given permission to fire Mooch signals that Kelly will have a major influence.

I am almost tempted to say a military coup has been completed.

Libertarians should find the current military influence on the President repulsive.

-RW

UPDATE

Scaramucci was escorted out of the White House, a source told CBS News.

Bible Studies at the White House---and the Problem

CBN News reports:

 A spiritual awakening is underway at the White House.

Some of the most powerful people in America have been gathering weekly to learn more about God's Word, and this Trump Cabinet Bible study is making history.

They've been called the most evangelical Cabinet in history – men and women who don't mince words when it comes to where they stand on God and the Bible...

Health Secretary Tom Price, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Agriculture Secretary Sunny Perdue, and CIA Director Mike Pompeo are just a few of the regulars...

America's top cop, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, also attends the study...

Vice President Pence is also planning to join the study as his schedule permits. He also serves as a sponsor.

It must be kept in mind that there are a bunch of war hawks in this religious group. Pompeo, Perry and Pence are the obvious ones. Sessions is very likely to be. The others probably are.

This is the danger of attempting to mix religion (or culture )and libertarianism. They are not necessarily in sync.

Attempting to link Private Property Society with them is very dangerous. Who is to say your religion or culture will win?

Let anyone practice any type of religion or culture he wants on his property but the battle must be for the ideals of a private property society. I certainly would prefer to live in a PPS area where people are civil (God fearing?) but it is fine with me if in other areas people choose to act uncouth or just different.

To think we should advocate that everyone in the world not only respect private property but also adopt our specific cultural views, increases the battle multi-fold.

On a daily basis, I pass by a couple of bars that appear to be the haunts for white trash. I couldn't imagine walking into the places, but those people have a different culture and perspective than I do. They leave me alone and I leave them alone.

I wander into the Castro district about once every three years. I consider it sort of a safari adventure. It's usually with friends from out of town. I couldn't imagine living in the area or spending any significant time there. But, again, I leave them alone and they leave me alone.

I know that others in the libertarian community hold the view that certain cultural views must be linked with libertarianism but in my view this is an interventionist and statist view.

If I live in an area where private property is respected and people are civil, I really don't care what other cultural views or practices are going on the private property of others.

The real problem is to stop people from thinking they should be telling others what they should be doing on land near or far---or even worse telling me what to do, culturally or otherwise.

-RW

Chelsea Clinton Caught Spreading Fake News!

A Former Hostage and Security Agent Talk Terrorism

In 1987, American-British journalist Charles Glass was kidnapped in Beirut, spending 62 days in captivity before he escaped. Fred Burton was a special agent at the time. Thirty years later, they discuss what happened from two very different vantage points.

Fron the blurb to his new book, Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe:

Since its commencement in the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country’s population, forced to flee their homes. A stalemate now exists in the country with the government of Bashar al-Assad maintaining its grip on most of the cities in the west, while large swathes of the countryside in the north and east are under the control of the Islamic fundamentalist groups ISIS and the Nusra Front. The Caliphate announced by ISIS in the summer of 2014 occupies some 35% of the country, as well as vast territory across the border in Iraq.

The nuances of this conflict have never been well-understood in the West, least of all, it seems, by governments in the US and Europe, who, anticipating Assad’s sudden departure, made

Judge Andrew Napolitano Warns Students: Some of You May Die in Government Prisons

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a senior judicial analyst for Fox News, was a guest lecturer last week at Mises University in Auburn Alabama. During an opening lecture where he discussed natural rights, the development of the Constitution and footnote 4 of United States v. Carolene Products Co., he closed the question and answer period following his lecture by saying he saw dark clouds coming for the country and warned the students that some of them may die in government prisons by standing faithful to first principles.

The full warning is here  (1 minute 33 seconds):

 

-RW

Does Trump Understand the Concept 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty'?

President Donald Trump told police at a gathering in Selden, New York on Friday that they shouldn't be too careful when putting suspects into paddy wagons.

“Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over” their head, he said, putting his hand above his head for emphasis. “I said, ‘You can take the hand away, O.K.?’”

 

What happened to civility and a system of justice rather than police handing out punishment? What happened to innocent until proven guilty? What happened to due process?

At best, this is a bizarre boorish white trash comment from the President. Blue Lives Matter said he was trying to be funny.

More likely it reflected once again Trump's infatuation and "can do no wrong" perspective of anyone in government. He is a statist of the most dangerous kind.

Trump's comment needs to be condemned by every libertarian.

It was even too much for some police organizations.

The president’s remark was denounced by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Police Foundation.

In a statement on Saturday, the New York police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, said the department’s training and policies about the use of force “only allow for measures that are reasonable and necessary under any circumstances, including the arrest and transportation of prisoners.”

“To suggest that police officers apply any standard in the use of force other than what is reasonable and necessary is irresponsible, unprofessional and sends the wrong message to law enforcement as well as the public,” he added.

-RW

The Replacement of Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff with General John Kelly is Extremely Disturbing

John F. Kelly and President Trump

Reince Priebus. as Donald Trump's chief of staff attempted to serve two masters, Trump himself and the establishment Republican crony elite. This made him terribly inefficient, something that was not a complete negative from a libertarian perspective when there was little in terms of liberty being advanced by the Administration.

If anything, Priebus was a minor plus by blocking the more anti-trade and domestic crackdown instincts of Trump.

With him gone, there is one less brake on the worst Trump instincts.

The Boston Globe's  Michael A. Cohen tells us that the new chief of staff, John Kelly, "is unhinged."

From Cohen:

Last week he delivered one of the more unhinged speeches that you will ever hear from a Cabinet secretary. It was a terrifying reminder of the depths this administration will sink to in order to sell its toxic policies...

Kelly jumped out of the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down. In discussing his agency’s mission, Kelly said this (slightly annotated).

“Make no mistake — we are a nation under attack.”

No, we’re not.

“We are under attack from criminals who think their greed justifies raping young girls at knifepoint, dealing poison to our youth, or killing just for fun.”

“We are under attack from people who hate us, hate our freedoms, hate our laws, hate our values, hate the way we simply live our lives.”

Since 9/11, approximately 94 people have been killed on US soil by jihadist terrorists — a bit more than the number of Americans killed every single day in gun violence.

“We are under attack from failed states, cyber-terrorists, vicious smugglers, and sadistic radicals.”

Cyber-terrorists have never killed an American citizen, no failed state threatens America and more Americans are killed by lightning strikes than sadistic radicals.

“And we are under attack every single day. The threats are relentless.”

No, they’re not...

Kelly is simply following a path well tread by other snake oil salesmen who’ve misused the authority that comes with public office to scare Americans into supporting bad policies.

Kelly may not be the worst of Trump’s Cabinet picks, but he is definitely the scariest — and his willingness to make comments so utterly divorced from reality and so clearly untrue should embarrass us all.

And this from the Washington Post:

Kelly did not gel with the previous administration, and his military career ended on a sour note in January 2016 after he repeatedly clashed with the Obama White House.

Officials there had grown tired of the four-star general speaking off message — about the president’s plan to shut down the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, about the perceived vulnerability of America’s borders, about the threat posed to American interests by any number of terrorist organizations. Their relationship had become so strained that in the weeks before he retired, multiple administration officials went to the media and accused Kelly and other military leaders of endeavoring to undermine the Guantánamo closure plan...

He has long argued that transnational organized crime is among the greatest threats to U.S. national security.

The Obama White House didn’t always appreciate it. But Trump couldn’t agree more.

I don't fear terrorists in the US but I do fear a White House that will trample on our freedoms to fight imaginary threats. Kelly appears to lead the pack in terms of seeing threats under every rock.

Give me the incompetent establishment lackey Reince Priebus any day.

Kelly replacing Priebus as chief of staff is not a move in the direction of liberty. The move should be condemned by every lover of liberty.

-RW

The Origins of Political Correctness

 -RW

More on Cultural Marxism here.

First Priebus Post-Firing Leak: Trump Once Summoned Priebus to Kill a Fly in Oval Office

It begins, although I did not expect it to start in such comedic fashion.

Via The Hill:

President Trump reportedly once summoned former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to kill a fly in the Oval Office during a meeting, according to a Friday report.

A source told The Washington Post that once during an Oval Office meeting, a fly began buzzing around Trump’s head, distracting him. Trump eventually summoned Priebus and told him to kill the fly. As a senior White House staffer, the chief of staff would not ordinarily be tasked with such matters.

  -RW

Scaramucci’s Wife Files for Divorce

Scaramucci, his wife and Trump/

Anthony Scaramucci, the White House’s new communications director, has been dumped by his wife because of his “naked political ambition,” multiple sources exclusively tell Page Six.

Deidre Ball, who worked as a vice president in investor relations for SkyBridge Capital, the firm he founded in 2005 and sold to ascend to the White House, has filed for divorce from “The Mooch” after three years of marriage after getting fed up with his ruthless quest to get close to President Trump, whom she despises, reports the gossip column.

HOT Prebius Out; Trump Names Military General as New Chief of Staff

This is a developing story return for updates.

UPDATE 1

Trump just loves the generals.

He has just named John F. Kelly, who was  Secretary of Homeland Security, as his new Chief of Staff. He is a retired United States Marine Corps general and the former commander of United States Southern Command.

UPDATE 2

The tweets that announced the change:

I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017

...and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017

I would like to thank Reince Priebus for his service and dedication to his country. We accomplished a lot together and I am proud of him!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017

UPDATE 3

Kelly approved more evasive TSA pat downs.

He is anti-pot legalization: Trump DHS Pick: U.S. Pot Legalization Efforts Are Harming War On Drugs

He considered separating kids from their undocumented parents: Homeland Security Chief Considering Separating Illegal Immigrant Kids From Parents

\He was hot for a more aggressive travel ban:Homeland Security Chief Tells Congress that Trump’s Travel Ban May Get Longer and Tougher...

Bottom Line: This is a very bad choice from the perspective of anyone who favors liberty. Probably Trumps worst appointment so far.

 -RW

UPDATE 4