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Relevance: 25% Posted on: August 28, 2015
Going into 2015, news media mavens had all but declared the race as settled: Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton. But voters didn’t cooperate with their “betters.” Republicans flocked to Donald Trump, a weirdly charismatic figure, and Democrats fell enthusiastically for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-designated socialist. Why hordes of…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: March 16, 2012
The light bulb serves as the symbol for invention, for that Eureka! of inspiration. It seems somehow fitting that Congress has slated the Edison filament bulb for extinction. Socialism is the promotion of stasis; government is a sinkhole of creativity: by interfering in the marketplace for indoor lighting, the U.S.…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: October 17, 2017
You can’t suspend the law of gravity. Nor, apparently, the laws of bureaucratic lethargy and inertia. Diana Rickert was a policy analyst with the Illinois Policy Institute who accepted a job with the administration of Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. She lasted six weeks. The assignment: combine and streamline several governmental…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: August 23, 2010
In his commentary “Term Limits Are a Poor Substitute for an Informed Electorate,” blogger Andy Sochor repeats a familiar claim: That formally term-limiting political tenure implies the irrelevance of intelligent involvement in political life, and even discourages our participation in it. This assessment would have surprised the Romans in their…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: February 17, 2014
New York State is deeply blue. That’s the color mapmakers use to show Democratic control. That’s also the state the state’s economy is in, depressed by those same Democrats’ policies. So, to lighten the mood, Governor Andrew Cuomo is splurging $140 million tax dollars for TV ads. One spot features…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: April 26, 2012
Wait for it: There’s another financial bubble ready to pop. I’m not an economist, so I could be as wrong as, uh, a Keynesian strung out on (and pushing) “economic stimulus.” But the usual signs of an over-priced market sure seem to apply to higher education, today. After all, colleges…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: July 29, 2018
Something happened this week that may prove bigger than the possible rapprochement with North Korea. Click through to Townhall to read the big reveal. Then come back here for some background. And stay tuned for further coverage. Sasse Statement on Trade Bailouts (U.S. Senator for Nebraska Ben Sasse) Trump makes…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: September 24, 2009
With all that’s going on in Washington, don’t forget: There’s a lot happening on state and local ballots. Consider these recent newsline items from Ballot Box News: Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez is under fire for giving big-ticket raises to favored insiders while calling for steep budget cuts. A day…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: October 20, 2021
Glenn Greenwald calls it a “mountain of data.” On his Rumble account, “System Update,” the journalist shows “how authoritarian self-identified followers of the Democratic Party have become.” While admitting that “authoritarian tendencies” are in every group, Greenwald insists that “when you examine this data . . . and really compile…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 24, 2016
Will this nation be spared a President Hillary Clinton? Click on over to Townhall . . . and find out, well, who won’t stop her: Democratic Party voters. Then come back here for more reading: UK Daily Mail: Hillary’s emails contained classified information from HUMAN SPYING as the State Department says it won't meet…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: December 4, 2016
Our lame duck president seems intent on making waves on his way out of the pond. Not all those waves seem designed to flood the world with freedom. Click on over to Townhall, for the latest affront to freedom and the American Dream. USA Today: Obama supports registering women for…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: March 6, 2016
The Bill and Hillary Show has never stopped playing in America. Click on over to Townhall, for this weekend's expansion of Friday’s Common Sense. Then come back here for a walk down Memory Lane — and don’t be fooled, at this point, it still makes a difference! Of the original…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 5, 2015
While the Ohio measure to legalize marijuana did not pass, this week, the Washington State measure to wrest tax limitations out of a recalcitrant legislature did indeed succeed, with a 54 percent win. Win some, lose some. But in both these cases, there is some evidence for a general smartening…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: July 27, 2011
I just came across a paper on an old bout of hyperinflation — the “Kipper- und Wipperzeit” financial crisis in 17th century Germany — worth studying, considering that today’s smart money is on the radical debasement of today’s already-undermined dollar. The Kipper- und Wipperzeit hyperinflation started out as a government…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 13, 2014
Is taking bread from the mouths of those who labor to feed the appetites of able-bodied adults who decline to work your idea of economic justice? Or of injustice? A recent Cato Institute study by Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes found that welfare benefits exceed the minimum wage for workers…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: April 26, 2019
Vladimir Putin may not be as powerful as feared. Not only does he apparently not pull the strings of the much-accused-of/now-cleared-of-collusion “Trump Puppet,” Putin also does not write comic lines for the “acting” president of Ukraine. You see, a few days ago Ukrainians held a run-off election to choose a…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 4, 2011
Attack the outsider — the first resort of the unarmed arguer. My Townhall column praising Washington State anti-tax activist Tim Eyman raised the ire of Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. He insinuates that it’s easy for me to like Eyman, for I never need to “catch the late boat after…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: February 13, 2024
In another pathetic pre-recorded speech, played before Sunday’s Super Bowl, President Joe Biden lambasted America’s corporations for “shrinkflation.” “As an ice cream lover,” he explained in the vid, “what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons have actually shrunk in size but not in price.” The Guardian…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: June 19, 2015
Real and effective “anti-establishment” ideas come from unexpected places. That is, they are unexpected if you read only the dominant media and its insider sources, or follow politics only during the quadrennial presidential farce. Quite a few news junkies would be surprised at David Stockman’s critique of current Federal Reserve…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: January 3, 2012
Those who prosecute our laws have a solemn responsibility to seek justice, not simply victories in court. Their duties include not prosecuting the innocent and allowing defendants to examine all evidence. Yet, in their zeal to look good with superiors — or to have better material for their political re-election…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 30, 2012
The just-re-elected president had promised to slash the deficit in his first term. That didn’t happen, but there’s talk of back room deals being made right now, saith Politico: Taxes will go up just shy of $1.2 trillion. . . . Entitlement programs, mainly Medicare, will be cut by no…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: April 16, 2024
Paul Jacob on what Big Pharma’s darling did on Tax Day.
Relevance: 24% Posted on: June 10, 2019
Larry Hogan, Maryland’s popular Republican governor, has vowed to “clean house” in the wake of the scandals rocking the “private” non-profit University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), set up by the State of Maryland. It isn’t just former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who resigned from the UMMS board after it…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: May 7, 2008
Art imitates life. That emblematic movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, echoes in Michigan as I speak. Jefferson Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, is the boy scout leader appointed to the U.S. Senate because this political kingpin thought Smith would be easy to hoodwink. But Mr. Smith finds corruption, and…
Relevance: 24% Posted on: November 8, 2012
President Barack Obama is on Tuesday’s ballot, seeking four more years as president of the United States. Like many Americans, I find that prospect deeply troubling — downright scary. Some say the nation cannot survive another four years of Mr. Obama. Though that belief probably underestimates our resilience as a…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 14, 2013
Former FEC commissar Trevor Potter says the Supreme Court “should get more politically savvy.” Potter really means the High Court should agree with him, and allow incumbents in Congress to write the campaign finance rules under which they — and their opponents — operate, undisturbed by constitutional review. Last week,…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: February 13, 2020
“If I can make it there,” goes the song New York, New York, “I’ll make it anywhere.” But, when it comes to self-dealing, corrupt politics, isn’t it really Washington, D.C. that deserves the moniker of Big Rotten-to-the-Core Apple? Meet Jack Evans, who is making it . . . er, competing…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: April 5, 2021
“We can do $10 trillion,” declared Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) last week. “I know that may be an eye-popping figure for some people,” explained the photogenic pop-eyed pol, “but we need to understand that we are in a devastating economic moment, millions of people in the Unites States are unemployed,…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: July 26, 2017
“This raises some very big libertarian questions,” said Nigel Farage yesterday. About what? The “rights of parents against the state.” The outspoken Brexit supporter and former leader of the UK Independence Party was referring to Charlie Gard, the sick, dying 11-month old British baby, whose parents sought to take to…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: August 15, 2018
The best defense of Donald Trump’s presidency, so far? He is smarter than the rest of us, and knows how to negotiate with bad guys and insider players. We have to discount what he is saying, the theory goes, because he is not telling truths . . . obviously. He…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 23, 2015
Congo-Brazzaville’s president, Denis Sassou Nguesso, is quite the statesman. He’s actually done what many an illustrious American pol with an obsession about “campaign finance” would merely like to do, but cannot (that darn First Amendment!): prohibited all talk about politics prior to the next election. Indeed, the government has shut…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: January 26, 2016
Yesterday, we decried the rigged superdelegate voting process used by establishment Democrats to Hillary Clinton’s benefit — and party members’ detriment. Today, we switch parties to find the GOP establishment in full panic mode, so terrified at the prospect of a Ted Cruz victory that they’re now rallying around Donald…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 18, 2018
“It’s overkill of epic proportions,” John Kass writes in the Chicago Tribune, “like using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat, or firing off a nuclear weapon to kill a sparrow.” In three columns, Kass tells the story of David Krupa, a 19-year-old DePaul University student, who gathered over 1,700 voter…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: November 20, 2023
On Saturday, before yesterday’s election in Argentina, The Washington Post called him “Trump-like”; The New York Times, on Sunday, compared him to Donald Trump in the first sentence of its results profile, proclaiming his win, in its title, a “victory for the world’s far right.” The two pieces deserve careful…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 27, 2019
As the Democratic Party presidential campaign began heating up earlier this year, one of the stars faintly streaking across the sky was Washington State Governor Jay Inslee. In the over-populated ranks of presidential wannabes, he stood out not for being exceptionally nutty, but for so memorably presenting the new Nut…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: February 23, 2016
Zombie government wants to eat our brains. Did I overstate this on Sunday? Most folks don’t look at the Apple/FBI controversy over digital security quite that starkly. The National Security Administration sure doesn’t see it that way. The NSA is in the “information harvesting business,” says Business Insider. And boy,…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 12, 2016
The first I heard of an actual enumeration of federal “intelligence agencies” was from Hillary Clinton. In the final presidential debate, she claimed that the truths spilling out of the Podesta emails had been revealed courtesy of Russian hackers, and she knew this because all 17 U.S. “intelligence agencies” had…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: September 23, 2016
Colorado is a really nice place — and not just for the weather and scenery. I mean politically. It’s arguably the only state in the union where the politicians, lobbyists and special interests are much more politically frustrated than are the people. By way of the initiative and referendum process,…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: August 23, 2016
This election year? Anger and angst permeate the electorate. We are united only in frustration. Which leads to some mutual distrust. Not good. Neither the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, nor the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, will receive my vote. But that doesn’t mean I don’t respect people who will vote…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: September 4, 2020
“Democrats need to keep their eye on the ball,” a Democratic Party strategist confided to The Washington Post on deep, dark background, “and not say things that are, on balance, a loser when everything is on the line.” To what “loser” is this anonymous capital insider referring? “D.C. Mayor Muriel…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: June 29, 2016
Romanticism. The yearning for greatness; the need for speed. Efficiency! It’s all there in California’s high-speed rail project — hopes and dreams and a sense of the grandeur of progress. And yet the bullet train project, approved by voters in 2008, is a fiasco. One can blame the voters, I…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: February 3, 2016
The Iowa caucuses were pretty much a dead-heat for the Democrats, with Hillary Clinton winning a number of precincts by the flip of a coin and barely edging out Sanders. Leaving aside conspiratorial notions like trick coins, the Democratic results are most interesting in one obvious way: half of the…
Relevance: 22% 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: 22% Posted on: November 9, 2016
The most indecent aspect of this bizarre election year? The “grab them” comment . . . from a decade ago? The lies about lies about lies? The “debates”? Maybe not. Maybe it’s the infamous “mainstream media.” Last week I wrote about the most obvious case, that of Donna Brazile and…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: June 1, 2022
Major disruptions such as pandemic policy in China and the Russian invasion of Ukraine obviously crimp trade and supply chains. But given such impacts, should governments here in the United States be making things better or making things worse? Oil is one example of a good that would be more…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: June 7, 2013
Given that former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been so frequent a target of smears himself, one would hope he’d be loathe to engage in same. But at a recent forum, the software maestro was less than his moral best when asked about the book Dead Aid: Why Aid is…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: January 26, 2021
Former CIA Director John Brennan raised eyebrows, last week, when he said on MSNBC that officials in the new administration “are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas, where they germinate in different…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: July 10, 2013
It turns out it’s not so easy to buy Afghani politicians. You might think they’d come cheaper than American pols, but you might be wrong. Seems the most you can “buy” is access to a politician. The very quiddity of a politician, the difference that makes a difference, is the…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: January 26, 2018
Congress’s failure to establish, last week, any semblance of budgetary responsibility led to one of those “government shutdowns” that the press likes to yammer about so breathlessly. Then, early this week, Senate holdouts caved, allowing a short-term fix to bring the federal government fully back to life, like the monster…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: June 11, 2015
Afraid that scandal-alluring Hillary Clinton may prove too flawed a presidential candidate, some Democrats are talking to billionaire and former three-term New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about a 2016 presidential run. Mrs. Clinton’s “slide is accelerating,” writes New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. “A damaging new poll goes to…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: September 23, 2014
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend the legal ability for the Export-Import Bank to run … for another nine months. The people’s legislature passed the “stop-gap” measure, 319-108, with both bipartisan support and bipartisan opposition. Just last month, President Obama expressed dismay that Republicans could possibly…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 24, 2011
Times too tough for much thanksgiving? Some of my readers, surely, are feeling the bracing effects (to put it mildly) of a severe economic slump — a so-called “recession” that I’ve been calling, more simply (and I think more honestly) a “depression” — and all I can say is I…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 13, 2015
Arkansas State Sen. Jon Woods’s reign of trickery is ending. As reported Monday, he has chosen not to seek another term in the legislature. It’s ironic. Woods defrauded Arkansas voters with a deceptively worded 2014 ballot measure. His successful scam weakening term limits allows him to stay in the Senate…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: May 21, 2015
The Republican Party of Ohio paid lawyers $300,000 to keep a competitor off the ballot. Typical two-party corruption. We can blame the party, yes — but also blame the system. A “two-party system” is, mathematicians tell us, the logical result of simple plurality/winner-takes-all elections. That is, when the first candidate…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: August 13, 2009
According to Ballotpedia.org, a wiki-based website created by the Citizens in Charge Foundation to track ballot initiatives, referendums and recalls, this year voters have already launched more than twice as many efforts to recall public officials than occurred all of last year. In Flint, Michigan, voters were set to recall…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: May 1, 2014
Government of, by and for the people. Yeah, right. If government were “of, by and for” us . . . well, for starters, we’d have term limits. Especially in Illinois. The Land of Lincoln has become the nation’s capital of corruption — four of the last seven governors went on…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 13, 2018
FBI agent Peter Strzok is offended. Deeply. He takes pains to clarify: he sent emails during the last presidential campaign expressing a willingness and readiness and commitment to preventing a Trump Presidency because he, Agent Strzok, is patriotic. Deeply. During yesterday’s contentious congressional interrogation, fielding questions regarding just how anti-Trump…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: October 3, 2023
It’s a mild form of terrorism . . . perpetrated by a sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) pulled a fire alarm in the Capitol, apparently to postpone a vote on a measure that would have kept the federal government operational, as it lurches into…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 16, 2012
It can happen to any organization. The original intent — or, at any rate, declared purpose — of the concern gets lost amidst the chaos of hard-to-manage projects and personnel, as individuals re-define their goals at variance with the official end; as corruption sets in; as functions decay into forms…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: January 10, 2016
It's the corruption, stupid — not the stupidity. This weekend at Townhall, what is our biggest problem? Click on over, then come back here: Gallup: Government Named Top U.S. Problem for Second Straight Year Washington Post: Solyndra Scandal Common Sense: Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab CS Meme: Arkansas Pay Raise…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: May 5, 2016
In art class, students learn about “negative space,” how positively one can react to artistic representations and indications of absence, of the space between objects, “blank” space. This land of shadow and reified Absence can have a powerful impact on our perceptions. Well, behold, the piece of work that is…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: December 19, 2016
Today the Electoral College meets to elect the 45th President of these United States. But if they fail to cast the required majority for a candidate, the contest goes into the House of Representatives, where each state gets one vote — Wyoming and California equally weighted — and a state’s…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 20, 2018
If I’ve heard it one million times, I’ve heard it ten: “We already have term limits; they’re called elections.” A statement usually offered as the beginning and end of wisdom regarding the problems term limits are designed to tackle. Equally “profound” is the collateral claim that “the only term limits…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: June 2, 2022
A prominent rating system has gone “woke.” “Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500,” Elon Musk tweeted a few weeks ago, “while Tesla” — the billionaire’s high-end electric car company — “didn’t make the list! ESG is a scam. It…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 9, 2023
“I’ve never said I’m going to unilaterally comply,” Senator Ted Cruz told Face the Nation. The Texan Republican was talking about term limits. On January 23, he and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) introduced an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to impose term limits on Congress.* But he was also addressing a…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 4, 2017
These united States* got their start, officially, on July 2, 1776. That’s when the Second Continental Congress voted to separate from King George’s government across the water. But it was two days later when that same Congress approved its formal Declaration, and it was the wording of that Declaration that…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: May 30, 2014
Virginia’s previous governor, Bob McDonnell, faces a federal prosecution, along with his wife, Maureen, for “illegally accepting gifts, luxury vacations and large loans from a wealthy Richmond area businessman who sought special treatment from state government.” With that high-profile scandal unfolding, legislators came to the capitol this year ready to…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 18, 2024
Paul Jacob on what politicians itch for the most.
Relevance: 21% Posted on: August 10, 2018
Long I have criticized the Washington, DC, Metro — the transit authority in our nation’s imperial capital — most recently in March. But I am foursquare in support of the government body’s recent hazard warning: “Only take Metro if you have no other option.” Good general principle. But what’s the…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 25, 2021
The times may not seem to indicate jubilations and thanksgivings, but any time is a good time to practice gratitude — to those who deserve it, and on a more basic level, too — so, regardless of the pandemic, the misguided responses, social unrest, racial mistrust, the threat of totalitarianism…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: September 15, 2016
You probably know that America’s sugar industry is protected, making astounding profits because of high tariffs and artificially raised consumer prices. And you likely know that government has worked hand-in-hand with agribiz interests to cook up (and regulate) a competitive sweetener, high fructose corn syrup. You understand that there are…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 9, 2016
The fight against government theft of private property, through “civil forfeiture,” just got a little harder. There’s a new technology available: ERAD card scanners. And the Oklahoma City Police Department’s joint interdiction team has them, and can use the scanners to take money from you without your consent. What money,…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: January 19, 2023
“Who knew that our time-tested and powerful democracy could not survive a few days of debate and disagreement on our most important questions?” asked journalist Glenn Greenwald weeks ago during the House voting for Speaker. “To hear establishment mavens all tell the story,” he pointed out, “the failure of Congress…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 10, 2016
We are living in what I hope are the latter days of the Watergate Era. I’m old enough to remember Watergate. The un-making of President Nixon, before our very eyes, informed Americans in a deep and profound way. It led, in part, to the election of Jimmy Carter, often referred…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 28, 2016
Politicians in Tampa, Florida, have forced citizens there to vote for term limits, and then vote to keep those term limits again and again — against attempts to repeal or weaken the limits. So I keep my eye out for news from the city. Earlier this month, Mike Deeson, an…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 21, 2022
The courts have not been kind to President Joe Biden’s unilateral attempt to erase some $200 billion to $500 billion in student-loan debt. (By “erase” I mean force all taxpayers to pay debt incurred by the millions of borrowers eligible for the forgiveness program.) Last month, a federal judge issued…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 20, 2023
After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton legally challenged how several states conducted the 2020 election, dozens of lawyers submitted complaints. To the state bar. Their idea: disbar the Republican officeholder for daring to oppose the current Democratic narrative about “election denialism.” The Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel dismissed those initial…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 18, 2016
When will it all end? Paul Jacob’s diagnosis, prognosis, and ag(ony)gnosis on Townhall. Click on over, then come back here for the wrap up: Washington Post: Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House U.S. Government Archives: About the Electors YouTube: Unite for America TV…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 30, 2018
The right of free assembly is central to a free society. Not everyone understands this. Last week, conservative/“cultural libertarian” provocateur Milo Yiannopoulis went into the Churchill Tavern in New York to dine with fellow gay journalist Chadwick Moore. Also in the establishment? The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 4, 2023
Disney is taking big financial losses, after a series of bombs on the silver screen and on its own channel, including a billion on last year’s four film fiascos. Why? The company went super-woke. And could, therefore, go broke. Or, says Patrick Ben David, become a “zombie company,” unable to…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: October 2, 2014
I’ve argued that police be required to wear cameras on the job — for the sake of both the wrongly used and the wrongly accused. But ensuring that video is recorded and then, if necessary, used in tandem with other relevant evidence to secure justice doesn’t happen automatically. It requires…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: August 26, 2014
I am still not very confident about what really happened regarding the shooting of Mr. Brown on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. For all I know, the events went down somewhat along the lines as the police say. But Ferguson’s police department has been so incompetent about investigating, collating and…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 16, 2012
Her name is Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and she’s Argentina’s president. She is apparently chafing under the country’s presidential term limits. The last time I wrote about Mrs. Kirchner, five years ago, I had some advice: “Don’t cheer for Cristina, Argentina.” Thankfully, the Argentines aren’t cheering. In Beunos Aires, “Throngs…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 18, 2018
What does it take to make a difference in politics? Is the thirteenth year the magic number, or does time in office guarantee nothing but corruption? Click on over to Townhall. Come back here for more information and perspective. YouTube: Nick Freitas Announces Senate Run to Unseat Tim Kaine Washington…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 22, 2016
By now, most people are probably OK with Treasury’s plan to oust Andrew Jackson off the face of the $20 Federal Reserve Note and replace him with Harriet Tubman. I certainly am. Ms. Tubman was a great hero of freedom. President Jackson has a more . . . mixed legacy.…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 2, 2021
A number of important criminal trials are bunching up together at the moment. The Rittenhouse acquittal came first, but the Coffee and Arbery verdicts, along with it, also qualified as major milestones. Looming over our heads is perhaps the headiest of all, the Ghislaine Maxwell honey pot case. But for…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 2, 2016
Once upon a time, the Democratic Party was fondly referred to as “The Democracy.” But that was a long time before the Clintons took control of the party’s heart and soul. It’s certainly been an insider’s game since. Case in point? The deliberate scuttling of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Debbie…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: June 17, 2020
Defund the police? First, take a moment to celebrate those on the American Left who have finally — miraculously — stumbled onto something they actually want the government to spend less money on. Second, consider policing expert and Washington Post columnist Radley Balko’s amply backed-up contention that “the evidence of…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: May 5, 2017
The separation of powers doctrine has been a bedrock principle of small-r republican government. Each branch — legislative, executive, judicial — should be independent, and check the power of the other branches. This requires that no person hold positions simultaneously in more than one branch of government. Which brings us…
Relevance: 19% 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: 19% Posted on: October 28, 2015
The standard case for government-run industry runs like this: some goods, by their very nature, are best provided by government . . . to ensure high quality and low cost. City sewers, firefighting, roads and education are traditionally explained as requiring government operation, organization, and tax funding. The trouble is,…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: December 28, 2015
While crime was plummeting throughout the country, last year New Orleans experienced a surge — rapes up 39 percent and armed robberies up 37 percent. Having reduced its police force by 500 officers due to budget problems, the Big Easy called in Louisiana State Troopers to assist a force “historically…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: May 9, 2014
Freedom battles tyranny across the globe, with the right to speak out politically essential for freedom to prevail. A decision handed down this week by U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa, in a case brought by Eric O’Keefe and Wisconsin Club for Growth, inspires much hope to protect speech and…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: December 5, 2022
In all the talk of the “stolen election” of 2020, perhaps too much has been made of accusations of specific and vague acts of vote fraud, and not enough of the chief dirty trick: The suppression of the news about the Hunter Biden laptop, a story about Biden Family corruption…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: December 27, 2017
Government is supposed to serve everybody . . . according to good, old-fashioned republican theory. But most governments serve some more than others. We can define as “corruption” any attempt to make government serve a few at the expense of the many — or the many at the expense of…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: February 5, 2018
The Republican memo soaking up so much attention paints an ugly picture of a republic gone off the rails — but it should not be mistaken for The Facts. We have smoke, sure. And the smoke can be seen, not unreasonably, as a sign of . . . a vast…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: August 12, 2019
Some news stories serve more as inkblot tests than as first runs at history. With the Jeffrey Epstein story we find sightings, Rohrschach-like, of both Minotaurs and unicorns, depending on the viewer. I am not seeing the sad unicorn of suicide in his story. Are you? Of course, there’s a…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 27, 2017
At the core of sexual harassment and misconduct is an unchecked power dynamic permitting the abuse. No surprise, then, that our unaccountable Congress is rife with it. What to do? Our sicko congressmen must immediately stop using taxpayer funds to provide “hush” money to keep their victims from telling their stories,…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: March 5, 2020
The Democratic Insider Machine’s pushing of sorta senile Biden against socialist Sanders is quite breathtaking. But that isn’t even the entirety of the Machine’s anti-democratic agenda. “The establishment narrative warfare against [Representative Tulsi] Gabbard’s campaign dwarfs anything we’ve seen against Sanders,” writes Caitlin Johnstone on her popular blog, “and the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 18, 2020
New Mexico, along with many other states, is going into lockdown. “The rate of spread and the emergency within our state hospitals are clear indicators that we cannot sustain the current situation without significant interventions to modify individual behavior,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is quoted in her office’s press release. …