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Relevance: 12% Posted on: October 23, 2013
by Paul Jacob We never met. Even if we had met, we wouldn’t have been friends: we wouldn’t have traded holiday cards, certainly wouldn’t have shared a drink or played tennis or joked together at a party. (I wonder if he played tennis.) Former Speaker of the House Thomas S.…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: April 13, 2014
In strategy meetings through the years, I’ve often heard conservative and Republican operatives complain, “If the mainstream media would only cover the issue fairly . . .” My advice? Don’t hold your breath. In lively discussions with friends from across the political spectrum, including a journalist or two, I’ve debated…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: January 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s second arranged presidential coronation is not going according to plan. America has just never treated royalty well. The political equivalent of the Nutty Professor, Vermont’s independent, democratic socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, is closing the gap against Hillary Clinton, Inc. among Democrats in Iowa and nationally as the…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: May 6, 2017
Sen. Rand Paul doesn't think that the way out of the health care morass is more subsidy. https://youtu.be/m5y2usV9bJo
Relevance: 11% Posted on: December 22, 2011
There’s a big difference between the U.S. Congress passing legislation and a hustler playing three-card Monte on a city street: No citizen is forced to hand money over to the street hustler. Yesterday, in an overwhelming 89 to 10 vote, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that the House is expected to agree to…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: April 21, 2012
This is fascinating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83IKbYVLfHY&feature=youtu.be
Relevance: 11% Posted on: June 27, 2013
While Americans appear mildly unsettled or perhaps “ticked off” about recent government revelations, elsewhere in the world citizens move from “unease” to “unrest” and outright “protest.” The demonstrations that erupted recently in Turkey and then in Brazil and elsewhere are, we are told, filled with the ranks of the young,…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: November 2, 2014
Two days from now, elections across the country will produce a “new” Congress, with all 435 seats in the so-called House of Representatives on the ballot and one-third of the U.S. Senate up for grabs. The state of play in Senate contests makes it appear increasingly likely there will be…
Relevance: 9% Posted on: October 8, 2013
Most Americans are aware, on some level, of the Firemen First Principle. Politicians face a shortfall in the budget, and wish to raise taxes, or debt, to cover it, but also must face the wrath of the public. So they pretend to bite the bullet, strategically placing onto the chopping…
Relevance: 9% Posted on: July 2, 2013
This is the season for major Supreme Court decisions, and a fine time to rethink the union’s constitution — and the document, too, which we capitalize: The Constitution of the United States of America. Now is especially propitious, in that recent decisions by the Robed Nine are solidifying a social…