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Relevance: 35% Posted on: July 8, 2019
On July 8, 1839, American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born. On this same date in 1907, businessman and politician George W. Romney was born. Died on this date, American founding politician, Luther Martin [pictured], in 1826. Martin is famed among founding fathers for refusing to sign the U.S. Constitution,…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: September 6, 2012
There’s a man behind a curtain somewhere doing whatever one does to a teleprompter. Load? Arm? Detonate? Last week, in Tampa, a Republican teleprompter put words into the mouth of Speaker of the House John Boehner, then chairing the convention, specifically these words: “In the opinion of the chair, the…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: October 16, 2012
The Nobel Committee, having whetted its appetite for absurdity with a long string of goofy Peace Prize Awards, especially but not limited to the 2009 award for Barack Obama (who had done nothing but get elected to earn it), went all the way by giving the 2012 award to the…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: March 24, 2023
American politics has become amazingly “gerontocratic.” Congress is run by really old people, the faces of the Supreme Court Justices are as wrinkled as the Constitution they allegedly serve, and the oldest U.S. president in our history is a Silent Generation stumbler with one foot in the grave and the…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: May 16, 2012
The day before the official debut of Brian Doherty’s Ron Paul’s Revolution — the new book on the man, his crusade and his many enthusiastic supporters — Ron Paul slipped his 2012 presidential campaign into neutral: Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: July 8, 2021
Died on this date, American founding politician, Luther Martin [pictured], in 1826. Martin is famed among founding fathers for refusing to sign the U.S. Constitution, seeing the new compact as unduly centralizing and nationalistic. On July 8, 1839, American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born. On this same date in…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: June 1, 2016
Neoconservative writer Bill Kristol doesn’t like the prospect of Donald Trump running as the Republican presidential candidate this year. And Kristol’s not just going to talk about it. He’s trying to get something done. But instead of doing the rational thing and lobbying each and every delegate to the Republican…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: February 14, 2018
The Republican Party doesn’t need to bury the corpse. Its victim has been assimilated, like the Borg did with alien peoples in the Star Trek universe, or maybe it was just soaked up as if the GOP were a giant fungus amongus. So, what’s dead? The Tea Party, which was…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: August 15, 2016
“If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly,” Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday, “I would be beating Hillary by 20%.” Argue the percentage, sure, but acknowledge the obvious bias. Asked by MediaBuzz host, Howard Kurtz, about a “tilt against Donald Trump,” Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: May 10, 2016
It’s a time for choosing, I concluded yesterday, for Republican voters — between the so-called “establishment” Republicans endorsing Donald Trump’s candidacy and those, such as House Speaker Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and both President Bushes, who have declined to endorse. Sen. John McCain’s admonition that, “You have to listen to…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: July 8, 2022
Died on this date, American founding politician, Luther Martin [pictured], in 1826. Martin is famed among founding fathers for refusing to sign the U.S. Constitution, seeing the new compact as unduly centralizing and nationalistic. On July 8, 1839, American industrialist John D. Rockefeller was born. On this same date in…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: February 10, 2021
Want to know how Washington works? Or doesn’t work? Drafting legislation to provide COVID (and COVID lockdown) relief, President Joe Biden and Congress contemplate just how big to make the next round of government checks sent to “the inhabitants of America.” And which folks to send the freshly printed moolah.…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 20, 2013
It’s no surprise to long-time observers of the Obama administration, the Internal Revenue Service, or government in general that the IRS has targeted non-lefty groups for reasons the agency laughably contends are non-ideological. The current brouhaha is only part of the story. Here’s another part. Frank VanderSloot is a businessman…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: December 13, 2013
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives,” wrote G.K. Chesterton. “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” This pretty much sums up modern politics. And it pretty much explains my lack of…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 22, 2013
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry says “no one was fundamentally harmed” by the IRS’s targeting of Obama-unapproved applicants for tax-exempt status. (Go to 4:00 of the video to skip the preceding lies.) Elsewhere, detestable Bill Maher inquires: “Is it unreasonable [for IRS] to target an anti-tax group?” Good lord. I’ve discussed the…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 15, 2012
The common-sense column this weekend is up on Townhall.com, now, so please click on over and give it a try. And then come back here for links: Hilary Rosen what Hilary said what Hillary said, years ago Jane Fonda Ron Paul on Mitt's wealth
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 5, 2016
There’s no accounting for taste, especially regarding humor. For instance, the 1966 film “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” is, to me, a classic. And I think Donald Trump’s recent sarcasm — “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: April 15, 2015
Is it a good thing or a bad thing that a presidential candidate demonstrates an ability to raise enough money to effectively reach the “inhabitants of America” with his political message? On Friday, National Public Radio’s The Diane Rehm Show took a further drag on our tax dollars to take…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: December 26, 2016
All informed, concerned adults should vote. If they want to. Yes, I am all for ballot access, and suggestions that we must minimize the vote in any election elicit a shiver: calls for voter participation reduction give me the creeps. But that does not mean that every push for increased…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: January 23, 2012
Newt Gingrich came from behind for a smashing victory in South Carolina’s primary last Saturday. And yet a more interesting story may be emerging in Iowa: Rick Santorum, not Romney, is apparently the Republican caucus winner. Though that’s not counting the eight precincts whose official results forms went missing. This…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: June 6, 2012
In 1947, at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, the free-market conference in Switzerland, august Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises harrumphed that young Milton Friedman and many other budding anti-socialists of those dark days of mid-century Western culture were, in reality, “all a bunch of socialists.” Mises stormed…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: August 7, 2016
Russia. The Bear. Putin. The Tyrant. America. The Oblivious? Click on over to Townhall for further variations on a theme. With Trump in the picture. Then retreat back here, for your further edification: C-Span: Donald Trump on Russia and Missing Hillary Clinton Emails New York Times: Cash Flowed to Clinton…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: March 25, 2012
This weekend's Townhall.com column is about the Trayvon Martin case. Check it out, and come back here for relevant links: GOP Candidates on Shooting Obama on soul-searching for all of us Background on Trayvon Martin Background on George Zimmerman And finally, there's Geraldo:
Relevance: 24% Posted on: December 23, 2014
Some people sighed a big sigh this last week: a few with a grateful, “at long last” sense of relief; others with all the hopefulness that Sisyphus must’ve felt each time he put shoulder to boulder at the bottom of the mountain, and started rolling his fated rock up the…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 2, 2012
The first rule of No Fight Club is that there is no fight. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) went to the well of the U.S. House of Representatives to indignantly declare, “There is absolutely no fight.” Mr. Boehner is correct. That’s not the good news, it’s the bad. As with so…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 20, 2013
James “Whitey” Bulger adamantly denies two of the 19 murders he’s accused of committing and for which he’s now on trial in a Boston federal court, along with facing a dozen lesser charges. Decades ago, the 83-year old reputed mobster allegedly ran much of the city’s organized crime. Whitey may…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 15, 2012
Party politics is often underhanded. Many of our country’s founders knew this all too well, and tried to avoid the factionalism of party politics. But still, two political factions emerged, and our politics has been dominated by two parties ever since. And believe me, the two insider parties work mightily…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 13, 2012
Petroleum-based fuels are going up in price, so naturally people start looking for someone to blame. Call up the Usual Suspects: Speculators. These futures market folks never get credit for lowering the prices of gas, but they can always be counted on to serve as easy “bad guy” targets when…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: February 12, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview . . . and with a straight face. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: August 22, 2012
There are few things less inspiring than listening to Republican and Democratic Party candidates and their flunkies discuss entitlement reform. Last weekend, the Romney camp defended its newly acquired reform high-ground from assaults by the current administration. Rep. Paul Ryan had famously charged that the Democrats’ health care reform package…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: April 11, 2012
The art of polling is similar to almost any effort where interpretation is required: Context is important. The Reason-Rupe pollsters seem to get this. Their recent survey covers not only a lot of ground (the president’s job performance, possible candidates in the upcoming elections, health care, morality and war) but…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: August 28, 2013
Is the Republican Party bent on defining itself out of existence? Recent squabbles between the neoconservative Old Guard (Chris Christie, Peter King) and the scions (political as well as biological) of Ron Paul suggest this. The Republican Party exists as an alliance of several distinct ideological groups: social conservatives, libertarianish…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: September 14, 2012
President Obama loves a laugh line he uttered during his convention speech and is now on tour with it, using it to stoke up his campaign whistle stops. Obama told us that Republican policy amounts to this: “Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: November 8, 2012
If your candidate or issue didn’t win on Tuesday, then, sure, Western civilization is completely finished, kaput. No doubt. But still, let’s look at the bright side. At least the presidential election provided a $2.5 billion stimulus to the economy, without raising anyone’s taxes (yet) or borrowing a nickel from…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: March 16, 2012
Sometimes, before you can progress, you must first take out the garbage. This is certainly true of America’s vast library of laws and regulations. The solution? Repeal. Congress needs to go into a session devoted to repealing existing laws and regulations. The reasons for such a grand garbage disposal were…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: July 18, 2012
It’s often difficult to know where ideology ends and realpolitik begins. Politicians claim to be pure partisans of principle alone — “statesmen,” to use the old-fashioned term. But observe their behavior and quickly their personal and professional interests shake out of their sleeves. With the medical industry reform bill now…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: April 16, 2017
Politicians! A few years in office are enough. Arrogance needs nipping in the bud. Click on over to Townhall. Come back for the complete context. YouTube: “Okie from Muskogee” by Merle Haggard Deseret News: “Sen. Hatch's re-election bid proves the need for term limits” TPM: Hatch: “Sorry, Romney, Trump Is…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: January 10, 2014
Political donors often prefer to remain anonymous. It’s not just shyness. Anonymity can protect you from unscrupulous political opponents. The higher your profile — especially if you’re persuasive, or your story contradicts some treasured “narrative” — the higher your risk may be. At Breitbart.com, Mike Flynn writes that “non-disclosure of…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: May 25, 2012
When times get tough, the tough . . . switch currencies. A fascinating report by Eric Garland in The Atlantic tells of the upswing in “local currencies.” In the United Kingdom, the Brixton Pound is being floated, engraved on its paper notes the likes of “David Bowie in his Ziggy…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: October 21, 2007
On the Ides of October the first Baby Boomer applied for Social Security retirement. Not disability, mind you: retirement. A Maryland teacher, born a second after midnight on Jan. 1, 1946, will become eligible to receive early retirement benefits next New Year’s Day. And so begins the next crisis of…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: May 31, 2016
It’s been an unusual election year, and it’s far from over. This weekend, the Libertarian Party is holding its presidential nominating convention in Orlando, Florida, close to Disney World — or close to a Veterans Administration hospital . . . they’re so difficult to tell apart. Both have long lines.…
Relevance: 9% Posted on: May 21, 2014
Often, national politics seems like the Peanuts cartoon: Lucy grips the football, promising to hold steady; Charlie Brown runs to kick the ball, and Lucy swipes it away at the last moment. The American people want an end to all sorts of corruption and folly in Washington. That’s not asking…