{"id":462,"date":"2016-04-05T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T23:45:08","slug":"bookworm-room-conservatives-deal-with-facts-and-reach-conclusions-liberals-have-conclusions-and-sell-them-as-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Bookworm Room \u2013 Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/cruz-challenges-donald-to-a-debate-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, a friend of mine came up with a wonderful scenario for the first debate against Hillary. (In his and my fantasy, Cruz has managed to win the convention. This fantasy would work for Trump, but less well than for Cruz, because Trump is also up to his neck in that swampy intersection between politics and business as usual.)<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the fantasy:Cruz walks out on the stage and announces, \u201cI do not understand why this woman is standing there. Solely on the evidence available, we know that she\u2019s broken myriad very serious federal laws and that she\u2019s substantially harmed national security. In a just nation, she would be indicted and, perhaps, even on her way to prison by now. Instead, we\u2019ve become a nation with two sets of laws \u2014 one, a harsh one, for ordinary Americans; and another one, a disgracefully lax one, for those politically connected to the ruling Democrat party. I can tell you here and now that, in a Cruz administration, the law will apply equally to all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/\">Bookworm Room \u2013 Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incidentally, a friend of mine came up with a wonderful scenario for the first debate against Hillary. (In his and my fantasy, Cruz has managed to win the convention. This fantasy would work for Trump, but less well than for Cruz, because Trump is also up to his neck in that swampy intersection between politics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bookworm Room \u2013 Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}