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Relevance: 19% Posted on: January 4, 2023
“Is this just human stupidity?” I asked that, last week, regarding the flourishing of the Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 in China. The Communist-run country is undergoing a huge spike in infections, millions of infections, after years now of totalitarian tracking and quarantine protocols. I had mentioned the regime’s lack of interest…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: August 18, 2016
In 2014, Bruce Rauner won the top job in Illinois politics leading a term limits ballot initiative. The initiative garnered 600,000 voter signatures, more than enough to go to voters. But House Speaker Michael Madigan, the one man running Illinois (into the ground), recruited a henchman to file suit. After…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: September 27, 2016
Rule of thumb: don’t enact today laws that, had they been obeyed by folks in the original 13 states of our union, would have prevented independence. Voters in Missouri, South Dakota, and Washington have the “opportunity” to enact such laws this November. In “Beware of Anti-Speech Ballot Measures,” Tracy Sharp…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: January 9, 2013
Congress has just raised payroll taxes. It has done it before, and will do it again. Our august solons excuse themselves, however, by pleading that the 2 percentage point hike is merely the sunset of a tax holiday. And necessary to shore up a faltering system. It’s not a triumph…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: September 9, 2016
Who will choose the next president of these United States? Voters? A private non-profit organization? The media? The Electoral College? The U.S. House of Representatives? Russian hackers? No joke, that last. Beyond the suspected Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee, the FBI warned last week that hackers, likely Russian,…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: February 27, 2018
“Argh, we’re going to become North Korea,” a dejected Chinese citizen wrote on his country’s social media site, Weibo. His comment, later removed by China’s “safe space” police, responded to the Communist Party’s announcement that it would soon remove term limits on President Xi Jinping. While neighboring North Korea has…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: March 7, 2017
Last week, the other shoe dropped. When last we touched upon Arkansas state legislator Micah Neal, he had pled guilty to steering hundreds of thousands of state tax dollars to a small private college in exchange for big, fat bribes. He also implicated the state’s No. 1 term limits opponent,…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 10, 2021
Blemishes on journalists for leaping to conclusions, rather than doing actual reporting and investigation, are now erupting like terrestrial super-zits of stratovolcano proportions. I could be talking about the Kyle Rittenhouse case, or any number of other issues where corporate media has spectacularly failed us, but the Trump years left…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: November 9, 2022
The GOP has just issued a 1,000-page report about corruption in the Department of Justice and its Federal Bureau of Investigation. Based largely on the disclosures of 14 whistleblowers, plus what’s in plain sight — what we’ve all been able to see for ourselves over the last several years —…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: July 27, 2023
U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika is not having it, as yesterday’s headlines indicate. The super-lenient “deal” that Hunter Biden’s lawyers made with the Department of Justice to let the president’s son off with barely a scrape stinks. And she’s not signing off on it. But there is a hitch,…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: June 30, 2017
Susan Rice, National Security Advisor in President Barack Obama’s administration (2013 – 2017), is being picked on, she speculates, for reasons pertaining to her race and gender. Handy evasion. At issue is not her infamous prevarication in the Benghazi affair. We are used to being lied to about foreign policy,…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: March 23, 2015
Two hundred forty years ago, the situation was dire. In the Virginia Colony, not too far from where I live, representatives to the Second Virginia Convention were debating the problems they were having with their “masters” in Britain — and the more dangerous, violent situation that was developing to the…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: September 28, 2022
Was there once a golden age of probity in government? Where no corruption, self-dealing, or partisan double-standards prevailed? Well, surely there have been times when politicians generally tried to pretend harder. A story in the Washington Post epitomizes current attitudes. “The nation’s most prestigious scientific body said Tuesday that it…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: January 7, 2019
The Economist magazine has announced its “Country of the Year.” It’s Armenia. The idea behind the award is to recognize the nation that has “improved the most” during the past year. The honorific implies no rosy assumptions about the future. Obviously, a country can backslide. The Economist’s editors admit that…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: November 27, 2015
Is Big Government necessary to accomplish Big Things? Big government built the pyramids. Big government erected the Great Wall of China. Big government put Man on the Moon. But humanity could have reached Luna over a thousand years ago, had Roman civilization not gone into a death spiral. Bill Whittle…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: September 30, 2016
I’m not a crybaby. “Believe me” . . . as one fellow running for president is fond of saying. Yesterday, however, at the San Francisco Freedom Forum, I was admittedly glad that the ballroom was dimly lit. Listening to speakers from across the globe tell their stories of struggling for…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: May 6, 2016
Socialists often brag how their activism — through unions — gave the modern world its five-day workweek. One could spend a book picking at this boast, but no need: it’s overshadowed by the latest. A socialist country has just reduced the workweek to two days! Hooray for socialism! Or, no…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: August 18, 2020
Reminder: SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus that is said to cause COVID-19. Scientists and doctors are still learning about the novel virus and the new disease. Much of the information is uncertain, in part because it has become politicized, making it hard to navigate both medical and political…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: November 1, 2017
The office of special counsel, like that of the special prosecutor in days (and administrations) of yore, is a strange one. Not mentioned in the Constitution, it is institutionally slippery. An executive branch position designed to investigate the executive branch — there is no way it cannot be . .…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: December 3, 2019
Legislative bosses, the state’s most powerful special interests and a fake grassroots organization teamed up a month ago to figure out how best to attack Michigan’s popular term limits law. Now comes a lawsuit demanding that a federal court overturn these 27-year-old voter-enacted limits. “I’m just sitting here watching five…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: April 19, 2016
Last Saturday, The Washington Post’s top-of-the-front-page headline blared, “50 donors with outside impact.” If that doesn’t curdle your blood, readers were further warned of a new “Gilded Age.” Yes, in concentrated fundraising the Post heard “echoes of the end of the 19th century, when wealthy interests spent millions to help…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: June 5, 2019
A YouGov poll of British voters asking who should lead Parliament, conducted a week after Britain’s European Union Parliamentary elections and in advance of Prime Minister Theresa May’s June 7 departure as Tory leader, provides some shocks. In the poll, Labour and Conservatives trail behind the Liberal Democrats* and something…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: December 28, 2017
What’s all the fuss? Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) was escorted ahead of all the other passengers onto a United Airlines flight from Houston to Washington, D.C., taking seat 1A in first class. The congresswoman described it as “nothing exceptional or out of the ordinary.” Meanwhile, Jean-Marie Simon possessed a…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: May 3, 2016
To be called the Devil is rarely a good thing. But did John Boehner, former Speaker of the House, just hand Senator Ted Cruz a steaming, hot helping of hope? During an event at Stanford University, Mr. Boehner called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh” and then clarified his remark: “I…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 2, 2019
“AOC is right as rain here,” I re-tweeted Sunday. And what was the usually all-wet U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) right about? “By stymieing primaries,” the freshman representative had tweeted at her own party’s congressional leaders and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), “you deny most voters their best chance…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: May 21, 2017
Click on over to Townhall for a bit of closure regarding the latest wrinkle in the epic of Hillary Clinton’s corruption, the sexting follies of the husband of her chief aide. New York Daily News: Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sexting with 15-year-old girl, could serve up to 27 months…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: January 13, 2015
South Dakota’s Dr. Annette Bosworth reminds me of Egypt’s Ayman Nour. Mr. Nour founded the El Ghad party and back in 2005 became the first person to challenge then Egyptian President (read: dictator) Hosni Mubarak. Just months after losing badly to Mubarak in a rigged election, Nour was arrested, prosecuted…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: December 28, 2022
For well over a century, politicians have pushed Big Government/Big Business partnerships. The policy, indeed, is as old as politics. While we who like free markets often like [some of] the products of today’s biggest businesses, we must recognize that much of what these corporations sell us comes with strings…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: December 28, 2022
For well over a century, politicians have pushed Big Government/Big Business partnerships. The policy, indeed, is as old as politics. While we who like free markets often like [some of] the products of today’s biggest businesses, we must recognize that much of what these corporations sell us comes with strings…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 8, 2019
Back in the 1990s, we used to talk about “rogue agencies” of the U.S. Government. And for good reason: the Branch Davidian massacre and the Ruby Ridge fiasco were hard to forget. After 9/11/2001, however, we cut the agencies some slack. Why? Their incompetence and our hope. But it became…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: January 13, 2014
“No Justice, No Peace” is an old, vaguely threatening leftwing bumpersticker slogan advocating the amorphous concept of “economic justice.” That basic utterance, whatever it means, has currently been labeled “income equality,” leaping off car bumpers and into the political mainstream as the issue de jour of President Obama and congressional…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: October 10, 2019
Scrolling down @realDonaldTrump’s prolific Twitter feed, I cannot help but wonder: when does the president find time to do his job? I am not the only one to wonder. Still, as President, Trump sure is a great . . . troll. “I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 17, 2017
“Turkey’s democracy died today,” CNN headlined its report on yesterday’s national constitutional referendum. The measure contained 18 significant changes designed to further empower the country’s already seemingly all-powerful President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. CNN is behind the times. Turkey hasn’t been a real democracy for some time. Even before last summer’s…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: July 14, 2013
This weekend's Common Sense Townhall.com column goes deep into our nation's capital, where the city council mimics the folly of Congress, passing legislation that cannot possibly have the results council members say they hope for. Click on over, and come back here for more reading: “D.C. Council approves ‘living wage’…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: December 26, 2017
“They’ve been burned. They’ve been hammered. They’ve been bludgeoned,” George Washington University law professor Miriam Galston explained to the Washington Post. “They’re trying to survive.” In this heartbreaking discussion at this special time of year, the “they” are the poor, long-suffering folks . . . at the Internal Revenue Service. According…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: February 26, 2024
The current president of Argentina is an avowed “anarcho-capitalist.” He isn’t really — but close enough for government work. It’s more accurate to say that Javier Milei is a capitalist and libertarian. He has taken on the job of extricating the Argentinian economy from the mire of socialism and corruption…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: November 25, 2014
“What too few in Washington appreciate — and what the new Republican Congress must if we hope to succeed — is that the American people’s current distrust of their public institutions is totally justified.” So wrote Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in The Federalist shortly after the big election earlier this…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: October 24, 2019
Civil asset forfeiture is one of those government practices that good people, when informed of it, often express, at first, incredulity. How can something like that exist in these United States?!? Good question. One reason seems to be that very incredulity. Normal Americans trust their government not to be evil.…
Relevance: 17% 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: 17% Posted on: September 14, 2020
Legislators, anxious to further weaken their own term limits, placed Issue 2 on the Arkansas ballot. The current limit is already a loiteringly long 16 years — thanks to a dishonestly worded, legislatively referred 2014 ballot amendment, which weakened the voter-initiated limits.* Voters came back in 2018 to restore…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: May 16, 2023
When 51 ex-intelligence officials signed the October 2020 “laptop letter,” they were lying to get Joe Biden elected as president. Yet, they also contributed to antagonizing Russia, further instilling distrust, and perhaps playing a part in the calculus prompting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a year after Biden was installed into…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: October 14, 2019
“Where’s Hunter?” Donald Trump asks in front of his pro-Trump rallies (and of course on Twitter), referring to Joe Biden’s son and his cushy Ukrainian sinecure. From the beginning of the Phone Call quasi-scandal, the upshot sure seemed to portend disaster for the Democrats, in general, and Biden’s presidential bid…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: November 19, 2019
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its awards, the presenters say, “And the Oscar goes to . . .” We should hand out an award for lying in government — and name it after President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. On March 12,…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: August 14, 2023
You don’t send a salamander to put out a fire or a leech to drain a swamp. Similarly, you don’t appoint David Weiss as a special counsel to “investigate” the Hunter Biden case. Not if you want justice. Weiss, who has been on the case since 2017, was responsible for…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: February 23, 2016
The Apple-FBI squabble over encryption signals a new age dawning. One of the dead San Bernardino mass murderers, a terrorist committed to Islamic jihad, possessed a password-locked Apple iPhone. The FBI claims that it has not been able to crack it. A judge has ordered Apple to do the job.…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: August 21, 2018
The Arkansas Chamber of Commerce’s CEO and chief lobbyist, Randy Zook and Kenneth Wall, have formed Arkansans for Common-Sense Term Limits. The Chamber has a burning hatred for term limits — Common-Sense or otherwise — just like every other lobbyist and special interest. But Zook and Hall are fibbing in…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: May 19, 2015
Last week, the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission abruptly canceled its planned public meeting. On the OCMC’s agenda was to have been the proposed weakening of legislative term limits, from the current eight-year maximum to 12 years, which the august Legislative Branch and Executive Branch Committee had advanced, 8-1, to the…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: April 19, 2019
Worried about the Deep State undermining democracy in Washington? What about the Deep State in Missouri? Today, Ron Calzone will sit in a St. Louis courtroom with his wife, Anne, intently listening to arguments in his case, Calzone v. Missouri Ethics Commission, before the entire Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. …
Relevance: 15% Posted on: May 10, 2012
“The best,” Milton Friedman liked to remind us, “is often the enemy of the good.” Last week I expected one of my readers to cite the great economist against me. On Wednesday I had offered six (count ’em: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) reasons why conservatives might cheer…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: February 19, 2017
As conflict grows week by week, month by month — left vs. right, black vs. white, insider vs. outsider — and as good will is quickly being abandoned for fear, hatred, and loathing, one American organization is dedicated solely to tracking “hate groups.” Or is it? Click on over to…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: February 14, 2019
Without a special kicker, why should police bother to do their jobs? The subject is civil asset forfeiture. This legal procedure makes it easy to take property from criminals. For the War on Drugs, civil forfeiture was so loosened as to allow police to take property from anyone .…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: May 14, 2018
When I attended a public school — many decades ago, in a galaxy far, far away — teachers told students that cheating was unacceptable and would be punished. Harshly. Today, the idea has students laughing — all the way to graduation. Last year, after DC Public Schools officials breathlessly announced…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: September 12, 2017
by Paul Jacob With a Republican commander-in-chief in the White House, both houses of Congress in Republican hands, and a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed by Republican presidents, it shouldn’t be terribly surprising that Democrats and progressives would be unhappy with Washington, D.C. What might be surprising is…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: February 26, 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 that sing the…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: July 1, 2019
“We certainly cannot comment,” said a spokesman for the Chief Financial Officer of the nation’s capital city, “on documents that are not supposed to be public.” Welcome to Washington, D.C., where governing is done opaquely. In a typically shady political maneuver, a $215 million contract was awarded to Intralot, a…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: November 22, 2012
I arrived in Buenos Aires a few days ago, and didn’t stay long. It wasn’t an official event, not even a Fact Finding Expedition. My main business was in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I attended the 2012 Global Forum on Direct Democracy. Citizens in Charge, an organization I spearhead, had sponsored…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: February 23, 2016
Bernie Sanders has always given a comically slippery definition of democratic socialism. For years he simply called himself a socialist, but given the dismal and bloody history of that word, he's modified his label (and has repeatedly modified its definition). Bernie: Socialism has failed in the past because it's been hijacked by ruthless dictators.…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: July 4, 2013
July 4, 2013 Some 237 years ago we made a clean break from the corrupt Old World of Europe. Fifty-six men risked it all to proclaim in the Declaration of Independence that We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: October 16, 2011
My week began with a celebration: The centennial of California’s initiative process. I wrote about it at Common Sense, the daily commentary I’ve penned since 1999 (you can sign up for the email version on the Citizens in Charge website). “The enormous impact of California’s initiative process can hardly be…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: December 18, 2014
Earlier this week, Jeb Bush, former governor of the State of Florida, announced on Facebook that he is “exploring” a 2016 run for the Republican nomination for the presidency. I have mixed feelings, to say the least. There’s the whole dynastic problem. Another Bush? Or, is Jeb the cost of…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: October 22, 2019
Hillary Clinton’s recent statements linking Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) to the Russians — Mrs. Clinton’s current favorite enemy — provided Rep. Gabbard with an opportunity for a return volley, dubbing Mrs. Clinton “the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: February 2, 2016
A real-life politician has admitted to having been wrong, even going so far as to dismiss a previous comment as “stupid.” This presidential contender wasn’t abject about it — didn’t “apologize.” He simply explained how and why he had erred. No, it wasn’t Hillary Clinton, she of many errors and…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: May 17, 2016
An article last week in Politico described Curly Haugland as a “rule-mongering crank,” a “gadfly,” “stubborn” (twice), a “pain in the ass,” and a “pedantic curmudgeon.” And that was merely in the first paragraph! Who is this Curly fellow, you ask? He’s the ultimate authority in the Republican Party, one…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: November 20, 2013
Mr. Humpty Dumpty provided the lesson. Not a novel lesson, I grant you. All the great sages gave similar warnings: “Don’t bite off more than you can chew”; “Look before you leap”; “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” So, I repeat, not novel. Call it oval, in honor…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: July 3, 2009
Some 233 years ago we made a clean break from the corrupt Old World of Europe. Fifty-six men risked it all to proclaim in the Declaration of Independence that: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: July 11, 2011
July 4, 2011 Some 235 years ago we made a clean break from the corrupt Old World of Europe. Fifty-six men risked it all to proclaim in the Declaration of Independence that: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: May 8, 2019
Last week’s coup in Venezuela flopped, it’s reported. But “coup” isn’t quite right: a popular rebellion failed to spark defections from key military commanders, who have become the end-all and be-all of Nicolás Maduro’s reign-at-rifle-point and rule by decree. Anyone with open eyes can see the illegitimacy of the Maduro…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: September 19, 2017
by Paul Jacob A spoiler, in politics, is a challenger whose main effect is to ruin it for insider politicians. It’s an obvious pejorative. But is the contempt for spoilers deserved? The way politicians and some in the media talk, it is as if competition were a bad thing.…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: July 4, 2011
July 4, 2011 Some 235 years ago we made a clean break from the corrupt Old World of Europe. Fifty-six men risked it all to proclaim in the Declaration of Independence that: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: January 22, 2019
Surely there’s something good in the first legislation put forth by the brand-new Democratic House majority — though nothing jumps to mind. The 571-page smorgasbord bill “addresses voting rights, corruption, gerrymandering and campaign finance reform,” writes Thomas Edsall in The New York Times, “as well as the creation of a…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: December 31, 2018
In recent years there has been a great burgeoning of public debate about ideas. Politics. Ethics. UFOs. You name it. This “burgeoning” has mostly taken place online. Some people are so good at it that they have made their whole livings at it, parlaying advertisements and donations into successful careers.…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: April 2, 2014
Increasing public debt is bad for a number of reasons. Journalist Matthew Yglesias, speaking on vox.com, gives voice to a very different, more Pollyannish perspective: “Debt is just not a problem right now,” he says. Why? “The U.S. can never run out of dollars.” After all, the Fed can just…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: May 8, 2023
“Prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to charge President Biden’s son Hunter with tax- and gun-related violations,” The Washington Post reports. Last October, the paper disclosed that, after a four-year investigation, federal agents had “gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him.” Hunter Biden’s failure to honestly…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: December 28, 2017
Paul Jacob, December 3, 2017 No one seems especially shocked. Last week on WAMU, the National Public Radio affiliate that broke the story, the Washington Post’s Robert McCartney called it “fraudulent” and “a terrible embarrassment.” But he quickly added, “It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise, though, to anybody…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: September 8, 2018
Paul Jacob In the fourth season of Showtime’s Weeds, drug smugglers use a tunnel connecting border towns in California and Mexico, with the American side of the tunnel opening up under a maternity shop. Yet when a drug-smuggling tunnel was found, last month, connecting a defunct Arizona KFC to a…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 3, 2018
Welcome, Townhall readers: for more links, go to our splash page for this column. Paul Jacob Our upcoming biennial exercise of democracy is not just a matter of choosing between the crooked liar and the racist thief. Aside from filling any number of federal, state and local offices, there will…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: May 7, 2014
Government of, by and for the people. Yeah, right. If government were “of, by and for” us — as President Lincoln spoke so eloquently over the fallen at Gettysburg — well, for starters, we’d have term limits. Especially in Illinois. The Land of Lincoln has sadly become the nation’s capital…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 26, 2019
What part should we play in terror, torture, oppression? Asking for a friend. Well, friends . . . some three-hundred-and-thirty million of them. Egypt. The government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi just stormed the newsroom of one of Egypt’s few remaining independent media outlets, Mada Masr. “Mada has shown nothing…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: April 12, 2016
The usual cycle of political disillusion is compressing. We can now have our illusions eroded almost instantly, no waiting. This election year is unusual in a myriad of ways — not just the surprising success of an avowed socialist on the Democratic side and a billionaire businessman leading on…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: October 8, 2012
Americans are obviously divided on the current presidential race. We disagree, too, on a whole range of social and economic issues. But we remain firmly united when it comes to one straightforward political reform: term limits. Since 1990, when voters in California, Colorado and Oklahoma passed the first statewide ballot…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: July 30, 2014
We’re on the verge of a revolution in mass transit, but city, local and state governments — who in theory are “supposed” to be on the advance guard of progress in this realm — are mostly behind the curve. The revolution is peer-to-peer (P2P) ride sharing, courtesy of such smart…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: November 13, 2013
There is no mystery here. We know why the healthcare.gov website has failed, and why the emerging problems inherent in “ObamaCare” are bound to lead to even greater failure. Hubris. Pride. Incompetence. The “incompetence” so far shown, and the lies that so often follow incompetence like so many ducklings following…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: September 15, 2015
Ron Calzone has committed the most shocking political crime possible: daring to actively participate in his state’s legislative process as a private citizen and as leader of an NGO (non-governmental organization). Wait, no, it’s much, much worse than that: Calzone has also been effective. Now, that is serious. The restless…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: October 31, 2018
Paul Jacob Last week, I became so distracted watching the flocks of pigs soaring through the clouds overhead that I nearly missed the Chicago Tribune report, headlined “Bill Daley, whose brother and father ran Chicago for 43 years, backs a term limit for mayor.” It is no surprise that this…
Relevance: 11% 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: 11% Posted on: April 18, 2013
Republicans in Arkansas, Missouri and Montana are trying to gut the term limits laws passed by voters in those states. Wait, that's not quite exactly accurate. Most Republicans in Arkansas, Missouri and Montana love term limits. There appears to be something of a disconnect. You see, the Republicans working to…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: October 30, 2013
Virginians are poised to elect Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe to the highest office in the Commonwealth. McAuliffe holds a significant lead in the governor’s race in every published poll, even while more Old Dominion residents get a decidedly negative rather than positive vibe from the notorious loudmouth huckster.…
Relevance: 11% Posted on: March 27, 2013
Since the dawning of Obama Nation in 2008, Republicans have made significant gains at the state level — historic victories in 2010, and even small gains made last year, which at the federal level was a debacle for the GOP. Republicans now control both chambers of the state legislature and…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: August 21, 2020
Former FBI assistant general counsel Kevin Clinesmith pled guilty earlier this week to making a false statement to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) — often called the FISA court after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that created it. “According to the court documents, Clinesmith inserted the words ‘and not…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: May 14, 2023
One reader’s and all the world’s problems: in one episode! https://rumble.com/embed/v2kyphw/?pub=rnuf4
Relevance: 10% Posted on: December 11, 2008
Looking for something to be thankful for? How about the fact that you are not too big to fail? There are advantages to not being rich, or all that important. The rules don’t bend for you. That means you have a good chance of keeping your dignity, maintaining your self-responsibility.…
Relevance: 10% Posted on: August 12, 2014
The Republican Party seems to be losing ground. The latest and perhaps most interesting journalistic analysis of the fix the GOP is in can be found within an August 7, 2014 New York Times article by Robert Draper, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” One obvious challenge to the party…
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How do you replace anti-child school board members with persons of common sense? That is, with those who favor educating children rather than indoctrinating them with socialism and racism? This is not a battle that all parents need to fight directly on behalf of their own children. Those who can…
Relevance: 10% 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: 9% Posted on: May 1, 2013
Our dysfunctional and surly Congress magically came together, last week, skipping across the political minefield of the sequester. Days earlier, the Obama Administration had announced a cut of air traffic controllers’ workload (one working day in ten) to meet the sequester’s requirement for a 4 percent reduction in the FAA…
Relevance: 9% Posted on: October 1, 2014
I’m a republican. You’re a republican. It used to be that most Democrats were also republicans. Today, I’m not even sure that most Republicans are republicans. But I’m hoping you are, whether you vote R or D or something else. Or don’t vote at all. This is not an essay…
Relevance: 8% 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…