Nov 20 | Benny & Jerry's Sued for Unhappy Cows

Crime & Punishment Are modern-day Hitler Youth alive and well and living in upstate New York? That seems to be the takeaway from a massive student protest at Binghamton (New York) University. First a refresher: [Hitler Youth]( well-remembered for banning and attacking Boy Scouts (no, really). The unofficial motto of those brain-washed Hitler robots: “Obey or be punished.” The College Republicans at Binghamton University didn’t “obey.” They invited world-renowned economist Arthur Laffer. One likely reason for the protest? President Donald Trump recently awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Police were in attendance at the event. It was hoped their presence would prevent repeats of earlier on-campus dust-ups. Organizers asked attendees to wait until the end of the talk to ask questions, according to The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin. Protesters ignored the request. "Despite those measures, the lecture was immediately disrupted and the speaker was entirely prevented from addressing the audience led by an individual using a bullhorn," Brian Rose, the university’s vice president of Student Affairs, said in a statement reported by the Press & Sun-Bulletin. There’s your punishment, Republicans. Two unidentified attendees were arrested. An “investigation” is continuing. Interesting that Laffer was prevented from speaking in Binghamton. The area has no job growth, twice the unemployment rate of the national average and last year posted the fourth-worst performance of 15 New York metro regions, according to a 2018 report by the Press & Sun-Bulletin. As a former writer there with ties to the community, trust me – it has only gotten worse. Laffer is known as “the father of supply side economics.” His groundbreaking public policy has led to some of the most prosperous times in the U.S. One of his earliest successes was Proposition 13, the groundbreaking California initiative that drastically cut property taxes in the state in 1978. He has successfully advised everyone from President Ronald Reagan to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Perhaps if these young “scholars” listened instead of shouted they’d understand they are on a modern-day suicide mission. ([Read More]( Leading Ladies Ready for some rationing? That’s what Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) has in mind. That’s how she’d keep health care costs low with her “Medicare for All” plan. The statement was made by health care policy expert Christopher Pope to The Washington Free Beacon. "The more radical part of [Warren's plan] is the very, very bold rationing scheme for health care," Pope, a scholar at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, told the Free Beacon. "A big part of how she tries to make the numbers work is really very tightly restricting access to care and funding of health care services." In a surprise to no one, Warren’s campaign did not respond to calls for comment by the Free Beacon. Don’t fret too much though. Warren recently said that the “Plan” would go into effect until the third year of her imaginary Presidency. National Review and others wager that means she knows she can’t make it happen – ever. “Warren’s fundamental mistake was to believe, like almost all the Democrats early in the race, that she had to chase Bernie Sanders around the track, which inevitably involved backing his signature health-care proposal,” wrote National Review Editor Rich Lowry. “But it became immediately evident that it’s one thing to promise to eliminate all private health insurance if you are a self-declared socialist; it’s quite another if you imagine yourself anything short of that.” [(Read More)]( Driving Green Madness Ben & Jerry’s may think of themselves as an ultra-liberal company. But they still have work to do. The Vermont ice cream company is on the receiving end of a lawsuit. The plaintiff? An environmentalist. The charge? Fraudulent advertising. The problem? All Ben & Jerry’s cows aren’t happy. “During the past several years, Unilever [Ben & Jerry’s parent company] has breached consumer trust by representing the Ben & Jerry’s Products as being made with milk and cream sourced exclusively from “happy cows” on Vermont dairies that participate in a special, humane “Caring Dairy” program,” according to the lawsuit reported by Hot Air. Sadly, only half the cows are “happy.” The rest are plain old dairy farm cows. The deceit! [(Read More)]( Trump's Quote of the Day (J SCOTT APPLEWHITE / AP) Retweeted by President Donald Trump -- Tweet by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz) “Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) shatters the myths created by the "whistleblower" No violation of law or executive order No mention of POTUS 2020 Bid No pressure or demand from RealDonald Trump With myths like these, is it any wonder why Schiff has the "whistleblower" in hiding?” [(Read More)]( Watch Your Words Posted without comment -- “Picture 1994: “This is a great script. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,” said the then-president of a studio sublabel. Fortunately, there was a single black person in that studio meeting 25 years ago who told him that Harriet Tubman was a black woman. The president replied, “That was so long ago. No one will know that.” By Gregory Allen Howard writing in The Los Angeles Times. [(Read More)]( Notes From A Deplorable, 20 N. Orange Ave., 32801, Orlando, United States You may [unsubscribe]( or [change your contact details]( at any time.