{"id":14041,"date":"2012-05-03T18:54:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14041"},"modified":"2012-05-03T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:54:31","slug":"massachusetts%e2%80%99-warren-checking-all-the-liberal-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14041\/massachusetts%e2%80%99-warren-checking-all-the-liberal-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts\u2019 Warren Checking All the Liberal Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/298774\/elizabeth-warren-box-lady-john-fund\" target=\"_blank\">John Fund<\/a> nails liberal Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren for being a consistent fraud.\u00a0 In the last week her bid to unseat Scott Brown has taken two steps backward with the revelation that although she listed herself as a Native American for over a decade as a law professor, she \u2013 at most \u2013 is only 1\/32 Cherokee; and even that connection is in dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The incident confirms Warren as a practitioner of the liberal art of claiming multiple diversity status; in her case as a woman and a Native American.<\/p>\n<p>Just as revealing is her decision year after year to pay Massachusetts\u2019 lower state income tax rather than a voluntary higher rate <em>as she insists wealthy people like her should do<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fund\u2019s conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Warren is free to believe that she has Native American ancestry, just as she is free to keep as much of her money as she is legally entitled to. But her choices in filling out forms are instructive. In checking the boxes claiming Native American status for so many years and in not checking the box to pay a higher state income-tax rate, she has revealed more than we need to know to brand her as yet another sanctimonious liberal who wants to have it all ways.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Warren\u2019s misfires keep up, Scott Brown will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0110\/Coakley_and_Schilling.html\" target=\"_blank\">once again<\/a> benefit from running against an unusually self-destructive liberal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fund nails liberal Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren for being a consistent fraud.\u00a0 In the last week her bid to unseat Scott Brown has taken two steps backward with the revelation that although she listed herself as a Native American for over a decade as a law professor, she \u2013 at most \u2013 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,2026,2975,159,725],"class_list":["post-14041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-election","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-massachusetts","tag-scott-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14045,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14041\/revisions\/14045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}