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Well, if you want to lose faith in humanity and see the stupidity of hipster liberals in New York City, this is the video for you. Ami Horowitz took to the streets to talk about income inequality with some of the most insufferable people on the planet: progressives. Of course, they all felt it was a critical issue. One man was a member of the Working Families Party in the state. So, which country can we look to for guidance in solving this issue? How about socialist hellhole Venezuela? Its the nation with rolling blackouts, inadequate medical supplies, no toilet paper, no food, and rampant crime. Venezuelans are looting to survive, where people are eating pets and eating out of trashcans. With food supplies running low, government-run committees have been set up to assisted with distribution, but for those who have criticized the government, no food for you. Thats 21st Century Socialism.

Horowitz then asks the interviewees, all of whom no doubt are "still feeling the Bern," if they think that we should model ourselves on another country that promises "income equality": Venezuela, which, he explains, is in the midst of an economic death spiral to the point where it is experiencing dire food shortages and frequent violence between citizens and police forces. Despite the hellish reality of Venezuelas failed socialist state, all of his interviewees still thought Venezuelas day-long food lines would be preferable to the United States selfish, "undignified" capitalistic system.

Even though theres some downside, theres some violence there and some food lines," Horowitz says to bandana guy, "but still everyone has to do the same thing they wait in line equally."

Though the young man appears to be quite knowledgeable about Venezuela, nodding and agreeing with Horowitz' description of its crisis situation, he still agrees with Horowitz that its better to "wait in line equally."

"That is, I think, a fair system," says Horowitz.

"I agree," says bandana guy emphatically.

Interviewee after interviewee agrees that modeling ourselves after Venezuela is a great idea because America is just too unfair and "undignified."

"If you gotta wait in line for stuff, we should all wait in line together," says Horowitz.

Either these people dont read, dont care, or dont know. Regardless, slamming America while idolizing a left wing nation thats an economic nightmare; thats progressivism for you.

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Progressives On Socialist Hellhole Venezuela: Hey, It's Better Than The US - Townhall

Much of the country has demanded the elimination of references to, and images of, people of the past from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee who do not meet our evolving standards of probity.

In some cases, such damnation may be understandable if done calmly and peacefully and democratically, by a majority vote of elected representatives.

Few probably wish to see a statue in a public park honoring Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the founding members of the Ku Klux Klan, or Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the majority opinion in the racist Dred Scott decision that set the stage for the Civil War four years later.

But cleansing the past is a dangerous business. The wide liberal search for more enemies of the past may soon take progressives down hypocritical pathways they would prefer not to walk.

In the present climate of auditing the past, it is inevitable that Margaret Sangers Planned Parenthood will have to be disassociated from its founder. Sanger was an unapologetic racist and eugenicist who pushed abortion to reduce the nonwhite population

Should we ask that Ruth Bader Ginsburg resign from the Supreme Court? Even with the benefit of 21st-century moral sensitivity, Ginsburg still managed to echo Sanger in a racist reference to abortion (growth in populations that we dont want to have too many of).

Why did we ever mint a Susan B. Anthony dollar? The progressive suffragist once said, I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

Liberal icon and Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren pushed for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II while he was Californias attorney general.

President Woodrow Wilson ensured that the Armed Forces were not integrated. He also segregated civil-service agencies. Why, then, does Princeton University still cling to its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs? To honor a progressive who did a great deal of harm to African-American causes?

Wilsons progressive racism, dressed up in pseudoscientific theories, was perhaps more pernicious than that of the old tribal racists of the South, given that it was not regionally centered and was professed to be fact-based and ecumenical, with the power of the presidency behind it.

In the current logic, Klan membership certainly should be a disqualifier of public commemoration. Why are there public buildings and roads still dedicated to the late Democratic senator Robert Byrd, former exalted cyclops of his local Klan affiliate, who reportedly never shook his disgusting lifelong habit of using the N-word?

Why is Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, once a Klansman, in the 20thcentury, still honored as a progressive hero?

So, what are the proper rules of exemption for progressives when waging war against the dead?

Do they tally up the deads good and bad behaviors to see if someone makes the 51 percent good progressive cutoff that exempts him? Or do some reactionary sins cancel out all the progressive good at least in the eyes of self-styled moral superiors to those hapless Neanderthals who came before us?

Are the supposedly oppressed exempt from charges of oppression?

Farm-labor icon Cesar Chavez once sent union thugs to the border to physically bar U.S. entry to undocumented Mexican immigrants, whom he derided as wetbacks in a fashion that would today surely earn Chavez ostracism by progressivesas a xenophobe.

Kendrick Lamar, one of the favorite rappers of former president Barack Obama, had an album cover featuring a presumably dead white judge with both of his eyes Xd out, surrounded by black men celebrating on the White House lawn. Should such a divisive racialist have been honored with a White House invitation?

What is the ultimate purpose of progressives condemning the past?

Does toppling the statue of a Confederate general without a referendum or a majority vote of an elected council improve racial relations? Does renaming a bridge or building reduce unemployment in the inner city?

Do progressives have their own logical set of selective rules and extenuating circumstances that damn or exempt particular historical figures? If so, what are they?

Does selectively warring against the illiberal past make us feel better about doing something symbolic when we cannot do something substantive? Or is it a sign of raw power and ego when activists force authorities to cave to their threats and remove images and names in the dead of night?

Does damning the dead send a flashy signal of our superior virtue?

And will toppling statues and erasing names only cease when modern progressives are forced to blot out the memories of racist progressive heroes?

READ MORE: Our War Against Memory Destroying Symbols: Where Does It End? The Left Opens Fire on Columbus Statues

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, to appear in October from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing [emailprotected]. 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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WYE MILLS After the events in Charlottesville, Va., where white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups rallied and clashed with anti-hate groups, Eastern Shore progressives gathered Friday night, Aug. 18, to denounce hatred, bigotry and white supremacy.

Thousands of cars heading to Maryland and Delaware beaches for the weekend passed sign-waving, anti-hate rally-goers asking for peace amongst humanity. Cars honked as they zoomed by, many times followed by waves and cheers. In some instances, though, middle fingers were shown.

Organized by Talbot Rising and Together We Will Delmarva, more than 50 people stood at the corner of U.S. Route 50 and College Drive near Chesapeake College and denounced all forms of hatred and bigotry.

The protests in Virginia, which have sparked national outcry and further protests against hate-groups, left one dead Aug. 12 after a vehicle plowed into a crowded Charlottesville intersection of counter-protestors acting out against the Unite the Right rally, which injured others, as well.

Many rally-goers said they felt a need to denounce bigotry, violence and other forms of inequality, and an obligation to speak out against the current administration.

Ann Turpin, 81, of Centreville said, Silence is compliance, and we cannot allow that.

Turpin, who has eight grandchildren, said it is important for people to voice their opinions by at every opportunity and to call their senators before we get to the crisis point.

White supremacists and neo-Nazi groups were protesting against the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue from downtown Charlottesville.

Queen Annes County NAACP President Eric Daniels said the events in Charlotesville are a travesty that will bring us all together all over the country. In the face of tragedy, Daniels said, Americans form bonds and stand up for what they believe in.

He said having rallies and speaking up is important to remind people we dont want that in our neighborhood, we dont want that in our state, we dont want that in our country.

Hannah Eastman, 15, president of Queen Annes County High Schools Young Democrats Club, said she believes bipartisanship debates are key to moving forward, and if that is not achievable, theres no chance of curing this deep divide between people.

Denice Lombard of Talbot Rising said being silent would send out the wrong message.

The message we want to send is hatred, bigotry ... white supremacy wont be tolerated, and we will build an army of love to counter it if it does come up, Lombard said.

One goal, she said, is to complete the unfinished mission of Marylands native son Frederick Douglas in uniting people regardless of race or creed. Lombard said people have been enslaved, tortured, died and lived in fear to achieve racial justice, and we wont go back.

Deborah Krueger from Together We Will Delmarva said the peaceful rally was to show Eastern Shore residents support peace and stand against violence and hatred.

We just wanted to make people know that over here, the same as lots of other places, were not going to stand for that, she said.

Also a member of the Queen Annes County Democratic Club, Krueger said letting other Democrats in the area know they arent an island is a goal in hopes more people will stand up and speak out.

Were in remarkable times, not remarkably good times but remarkable times, Bozman resident Ridgely Ochs said. ... If not now, when? And if not me, then who? Its a hot day, but Im happy to be here.

Early Friday morning, a statue of Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney was removed from the Maryland State House lawn, the same fate many statues of Confederate-era symbols have had in the past week. Taney, who penned the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling, stated black individuals could not be U.S. citizens.

Widespread debates have been held about the removal of such statues, with some saying it is revisionist history. Others say that though history should not be forgotten, statues of slavery sympathizers belong in a different venue.

Earlier in the week, monuments of Lee and Stonewall Jackson were removed in Baltimore.

Talbot Rising is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization run by progressive volunteers who use peaceful resistance, education and advocacy for a variety of issues, according to its website.

Together We Will Delmarva is a liberal, politically driven group intended to facilitate communication and support amongst like-minded people, according to its Facebook page.

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When Conservative Canadian governments deport failed asylum-seekers and try to prevent them from arriving in the first place, they tend to boast about it. When Liberal Canadian governments deport failed asylum-seekers and try to prevent them from arriving in the first place, they tend to pretend its simply not happening. On migration policy, this is one of the key differences between our two natural governing parties. It basically boils down to branding.

The Trudeau government has taken traditional Liberal messaging considerably further, though. In March, amidst a global refugee crisis, having recently dropped the tourist visa requirement for Mexican citizens and with a surge of northbound border-crossers arriving concurrently (if not because of) the Trump presidency and with hundreds of thousands of undocumented people in the U.S. who could theoretically join that surge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted out this now-legendary piece of reckless, insincere nonsense: Regardless of who you are or where you come from, theres always a place for you in Canada.

Spoiler alert: there isnt.

In a press conference on Wednesday, Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel tried to frame the northbound exodus as a direct result of Trudeaus shameless virtue signalling. Asked what her government had done or would do differently, she responded, essentially, that her government wouldnt have all-but-explicitly encouraged people to give Canada a college try.

Its a stretch; this is mostly about circumstances beyond any governments control. But the extent to which this government refuses to speak in plain English is truly remarkable.

On Sunday, in a visit to the border region in Quebec, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Canadian consulates in the U.S. would try to warn people thinking of heading north to claim asylum that their chances of success were far from assured. Thats a very good idea. Many of the current border-crossers are Haitians whose asylum claims failed in the United States. A temporary post-earthquake moratorium on removals having expired, they now face deportation. Reports suggest they are being sold garbage advice in some cases literally that Canada is a sure thing. To preserve Canadas already stretched border resources, to maintain whatever public trust remains in the systems integrity, and to save vulnerable people from extortion and financial ruin, the government should be warning people away in no uncertain terms.

Heres what Garneau put on Twitter: We are continuing to engage with diaspora communities in the U.S.A. everyone deserves to know the facts about what it means to come to Canada.

And on Wednesday, heres what Trudeau put on Twitter: Were reaching out to folks in the U.S. to make sure people who want to come to Canada understand the proper procedures to do so.

For the love of God, man, there is no proper procedure with a snowballs chance in Port-au-Prince via which a failed Haitian asylum-seeker in the United States can come properly to Canada. What you mean is dont come. Well probably deport you anyway. So say it.

Theres no guarantee a blunt message would get the job done, mind you. No matter how often the Conservatives called asylum-seekers from European Union countries bogus refugees, the Immigration and Refugee Board kept recognizing their claims at a reasonable clip 2,500 from Hungary alone over the last decade, for a roughly 18 per cent success rate.

Unlike Hungary, the now-famous unofficial border crossing in Quebec is just a Greyhound and a cab away from anywhere in the contiguous 48 states. If Canadas consulates are indeed distributing the facts, then Haitians will know Canada has accepted nearly 50 per cent of claims from their fellow citizens over the last 10 years. Many claims that failed in the U.S. might well fail in Canada too but its a safe bet quite a few would succeed. (The U.S. accepts a significantly lower percentage of claimants.)

If my options were (a) deportation to Haiti, where I have nothing, or (b) a $200 trip to the border, a longish stay in Canada during which I can legally work and make some money, a long-shot chance at permanent residency and then, at worst, deportation to Haiti anyway, I know exactly which one I would pick.

What can the government do about this? Without straying dramatically from traditional policy options, not a hell of a lot. But it could stray from traditional Liberal policy and not let a massive backlog build up. On Wednesday, citing a UNHCR official, Global News reported asylum-seekers arriving today wont even get preliminary eligibility hearings until January. The longer a hopeless claim takes to be resolved, the greater the incentive to give it a whirl. The government could hire more people to deal with these claimants expeditiously, which the Liberals have said they will, thus reducing that incentive. But most radically, as off-brand as it would be, the Liberals might consider saying what they bloody well mean.

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The company that owns one of the countrys largest shipyards was ready to lay off 400 workers to put pressure on Liberal cabinet minister Scott Brison if he followed through with plans to delay the development a much-needed supply ship for the Canadian navy.

New emails detailing the high-stakes political drama surrounding the acquisition of the interim naval supply ship, which was at the heart of the controversial suspension earlier this year of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman from his post as the Canadian militarys second-in-command, were released Wednesday after legal action by a group of media organizations including Postmedia.

In November 2015, Brison, the Treasury Board President, was pushing for a review of the plan, approved by the previous Conservative government, to convert a commercial vessel into a naval resupply vessel at Davie Shipbuilding in Quebec. The $670-million deal would see the ship leased to the federal government for a five-year period.

But representatives at Davie and affiliated companies worried a review would delay the project indefinitely and eventually scuttle the program. There was also growing concern that Brison was pushing for the review on behalf of Davies rival Irving Shipbuilding, according to the emails.

Alex Vicefield, head of Inocea, the international shipping conglomerate that owns Davie, was ready to raise the stakes because of Brisons actions. He wrote to company officials and lobbyists that Brisons desire for an independent review was strange since the project had already been reviewed numerous times by independent agencies brought in by the federal government.

Sounds like a delay tactic, Vicefield wrote in a Nov. 19, 2015 email. If it does transpire to be that, I will do a full page plea in the Globe and Mail to Scott Brison asking that this Nova Scotia minister put his regional bias aside for matters of national security. then I will lay off 400 guys next week.

The RCMP alleges Norman provided updates on a Liberal plan to derail the navys interim supply ship program to officials with Davie and other affiliated firms. The RCMP alleges Norman did so in the hope of influencing the government to proceed with the delivery of the vessel.

Norman was suspended from his job as vice-chief of the defence staff in January, after the RCMP executed a search warrant on his home. The force has been investigating Norman for over a year, but no charges have been laid against him.

Normans lawyer, Marie Henein, has released a statement in which the vice-admiral unequivocally denied any wrongdoing. Instead, she said, Norman has been caught in the bureaucratic cross-fire.

The interim supply ship program, known as Project Resolve, is seen by many as being critical to the Royal Canadian Navy since the service has for some time been without the capacity to resupply its warships at sea.

The ship was unveiled in July at Davie and will be available to the navy for operations by the end of the year.

Brisons officials have denied that the ministers request for a review was in any way linked to the Irvings, and Irving Shipbuilding has denied allegations of political meddling.

The ship to be converted under Project Resolve had already been delivered to Davie when James D. Irving, co-chief executive officer of Irving Shipbuilding, wrote a Nov. 17, 2015 letter to procurement minister Judy Foote and defence minister Harjit Sajjan. Irving requested that its proposal for a similar vessel, already rejected by the Conservative government, be re-examined.

After receiving Irvings letter the Liberal government put Project Resolve on hold.

In an email to a naval colleague, Norman complained about what he saw as the blatant politics on the file and what he called Irvings efforts to block Davie. He considered resigning.

Details about the Liberals decision to put Project Resolve on hold, as well as Irvings letter and details of cabinet discussions about the matter, were leaked to the CBC in November 2015. The leak embarrassed the then-new Trudeau government and sparked outrage in Quebec over the potential loss of hundreds of jobs that might result were Davie to lose the ship deal. The Liberals beat a quick retreat and shortly afterwards, Project Resolve went ahead.

But the RCMP was brought in to find whoever had embarrassed the government by leaking information.

In an email to Postmedia on Wednesday, Alex Vicefield provided further details about his original email. At the time, we were already working on the ship as we were under an initial contract. We had around 400 employees onboard. If the project did not proceed, we would have had to lay off those staff.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has suggested that Norman will face trial, prompting concerns among the admirals supporters about whether he will get a fair hearing.

The new documents also include details about a discussion that reportedly took place between former Conservative defence minister Peter MacKay and Brison during a conference in Halifax in November 2015

Spencer Fraser, CEO of Project Resolve, told Vicefield and others that Mackay (sic) really let Brison have it. Our friend said it was quite heated and that Mackay (sic) apologized as he thought he may have hurt the (Royal Canadian Navy) by being so vociferous.

The RCMP alleges that the friend referred to in the email is Norman.

In an earlier email, Fraser noted that Peter McKay (sic) told Brison to get his head out (of) his ass.not sure it helped but at least he did it.

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