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Relevance: 35% Posted on: December 29, 2009
Bribery, insider deals, political influence — must this be how we do business? No. Horror stories abound, featuring developers and governments in dark collusion, grabbing stunned innocent persons’ private property. This corrupt, banana-republic way of getting things done hardly serves the public interest. It serves, instead, the dealmakers and the…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: January 13, 2017
Corporations cannot and do not tax, conscript, and kill under claim of legal authority to do so. Only governments do that. Click below for a high resolution version of the image:
Relevance: 35% Posted on: January 21, 2016
Bernie Sanders has risen in the polls. He may even beat Hillary Clinton in the first caucus and primary contests for the Democratic presidential nomination. A cause for celebration! Witnessing a huge hunk of Americans accept Mrs. Clinton, the consummate and corrupt insider, is too disheartening. Bernie Sanders, for all…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: October 28, 2016
On Tuesday, Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld exhorted Americans to stop Donald Trump at all cost. The Donald, he asserted, is dangerous because too touchy, too childish in his egoism, to withstand the pressures of the presidency of these United States. “In the statement, Weld made no mention of Clinton,”…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: May 13, 2015
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner ran for his state’s highest office while simultaneously spearheading a wildly popular initiative — a proposed constitutional amendment to place state legislators under term limits. Unfortunately, the amendment was blocked from voters. An appeals court ruled it outside the scope of the state’s initiative process, and…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: October 25, 2016
That grin. That cackle. Please: No more! While there is much to be said against Donald Trump, and I’ve said some of it, the sheer unlikability and . . . distastefulness . . . of Hillary Clinton is . . . precedented. Historically, she reminds me of two past Republican…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: January 21, 2014
Some things about government are eternal. The latest New Jersey scandal a-brewing has it that Hoboken’s mayor was informed her city was to be denied federal aid following Hurricane Sandy unless she went along with a real estate project favored by Governor Chris Christie. Shocking, but hardly . . .…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: February 14, 2017
Last Friday, I applauded massive protests that erupted in Romania — over a since-rescinded governmental decree to decriminalize graft up to $47,000. On Sunday at Townhall, I wondered why there weren’t similar demonstrations against the corruption afflicting Prince George’s County, Maryland. The county, bordering the nation’s capital, lavishes its nine…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: April 5, 2022
Statewide term limits on Florida’s school boards are finally here. The limits passed by Florida’s legislature and signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis are not the best one could hope for. State senators pushed for and got a 12-year limit rather than the eight-year limit preferred by house members.…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: January 17, 2023
When you’re right, you’re right. And all of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s critics are right that it was wrong for Lightfoot’s deserves-to-fail reelection campaign to solicit teachers to solicit students of the city’s public schools to work for her reelection campaign in exchange for class credit. A former city inspector…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: July 15, 2021
“How is this not a subject of bigger concern in the country?” Emily Jashinsky asked last week on The Hill’s morning TV program, Rising. Hunter Biden’s “addiction and dysfunction are the public’s problems, too,” explained Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist, “given that Hunter was wrapped up in an influence-peddling…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: March 16, 2018
A fundamental error pervading the thinking of nearly all parties, political and social, is that evils admit of immediate and radical remedies. ‘If you will but do this, the mischief will be prevented.’ ‘Adopt my plan and the suffering will disappear.’ ‘The corruption will unquestionably be cured by enforcing this…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: June 20, 2008
We could use a few million-dollar ideas to help fight juvenile crime. How about a half-million-dollar idea? The Justice Department gave $500,000 to the World Golf Foundation. The foundation’s beneficiary program is called “First Tee.†It’s designed to get youngsters interested in that most civilized of sporting passions, golf. Employees…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: May 12, 2009
So strong their support for Pat Toomey’s challenge, Republican primary voters in Pennsylvania have chased Senator Arlen Specter over to the Democratic Party. Could a similar revolution happen across the Delaware River in New Jersey’s race for Governor? PolitikerNJ.com reports that Jersey’s “GOP establishment insiders” aren’t “in panic mode” —…
Relevance: 32% 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…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 30, 2011
Not everything we are taught in school is accurate. In school, as in the papers, when truth and legend vie with each other, too often the legend wins out. Take Thanksgiving. I was taught that it was all about the Pilgrims, and their bounty coming from helpful Squanto and other…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: January 1, 2008
It was the battle of 2006 and could be the battle of 2008. In this corner, Senator Tom Coburn, inveterate foe of porkbarrel spending and other rampant congressional abuses. In the other, shameless porkbarreller par excellence Senator Ted Stevens. In the American Spectator, Stephen Moore reports on an altercation between…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: May 2, 2012
I think I like Mitt Romney, the man. I have defended some of what he has said. But I doubt I will support him for the presidency — and if he gets elected, I’d likely spend as much time criticizing him as I did George W. Bush and as I…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: January 31, 2000
Close your eyes for three seconds — not if you're on the road right now though — and imagine what you would do if you were in the Congress. Fight for new legislation? Repeal misguided old statutes? Block pork-barrel spending? Combat corruption? Our dreams shape our horizons; they're an inspiration…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: April 18, 2016
Campaign finance reform is surely dead . . . if Hillary Clinton is elected president. Which would be good. Not Clinton being elected, mind you. What would be good is the death of so-called campaign finance reform — the kind supported by Democrats, including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: June 30, 2011
“War is the health of the state.” A generation after Randolph Bourne coined this maxim, followers of John Maynard Keynes — the architect of peacetime over-spending by governments — pushed their master’s notions to their illogical conclusion, saying that “war gets a country out an economic slump.” Why? How? You…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: January 31, 2000
Remember the Lone Ranger? With the help of Tonto, he fought corruption and injustice in the old West. His trademark was a silver bullet. In his new book Completing the Revolution, columnist and TV commentator Robert Novak says, "Term limits is the silver bullet, because unless you have term limits…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: September 8, 2008
John McCain is a man on a mission. But it was his admission that Republicans in Washington have lost their way that jumped out at me as I listened to his speech accepting the Republican Party presidential nomination. “I fight to restore the pride and principles of our party,” he…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 4, 2012
Go to Townhall.com this weekend to read “’Tis a Pity He's a Boor" — and come back here for the links and references: The Portland Press Herald: "Obama enters Limbaugh controversy” YouTube: “Sandra Fluke's Controversial Birth Control Testimony” Washington Examiner: “GOP: Dems ‘played games’ over Sandra Fluke,” by Byron York…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: December 16, 2019
“Do me a favor: start buying agriculture.” That’s what President Donald J. Trump says he said to the Chinese in agreeing to Phase One of a U.S.-China trade deal. Now, if China starts buying more American agricultural products, Trump might be aided in defeating his Democratic opponents next November. “The…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: August 28, 2003
Is it possible that what you do on the job is more important than how long you hold the job? I've always felt that you can get stuff done on Day One of any post. Just common sense. But many career politicians don't think like this at all. Many career…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 1, 2016
Ah, what a difference an epithet can make! But, in the case of last week’s biggie, will the harsh words backfire? A more extensive look at the logic of insider invective, at Townhall this weekend. Click on over, then come back here for kinder words: Common Sense: The Most Hated The…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: January 26, 2016
Spare this nation President Hillary Clinton. But how? If you think Hillary Clinton is going to be indicted for her illegal misuse of classified documents, you haven’t been paying attention. Attorney General Loretta Sanchez, appointed by President Obama, has discretion not to indict. She’ll use it. Want to argue that…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: April 16, 2001
"Vote for the Crook: It's Important." Years ago, a citizen-led campaign used that slogan. The point was to support Edwin Edwards for governor of Louisiana over David Duke Edwards, seemingly always under indictment for corruption; Duke, the former Ku Klux Klansman. Not much of a choice. That's why it may…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: August 27, 2012
As bad weather and thousands of good Republicans descend upon Florida, it’s worth keeping perspective: The best (and perhaps only) reason to vote for Mitt Romney is the same as the best/only reason Americans had to vote for Barack Obama in 2008: to punish the party previously in power. The…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: August 13, 2001
Sure, sometimes I'm a critic of the state of American democracy. But I'm also a fan. One reason I'm a fan is that I read the papers. Compare our situation with that of, say, Indonesia. Only a few years ago Indonesians were able to democratically elect their president for the…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: February 12, 2017
The high cost of our public servants can be shown beyond their mere inflated paychecks. Click on over to Townhall, then come back here. Washington Post: This suburb spends more than $110,000 a year on cars for its lawmakers Fox-5 (D.C.): Prince George's County Council Member Mel Franklin charged with…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: November 28, 2003
Losing an election is not the same thing as getting your head chopped off. The Manchester Guardian had a headline recently: "President Puts Head on Block." The story is about how South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun "put an electoral gun to his head" by calling for a national referendum on…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: April 4, 2016
Michigan’s governor just signed a $49 million emergency funding bill, designed by legislators to keep Detroit’s public schools open. Open for what? Will any of that dough actually make it to the classroom, where children might possibly be educated? Or, as I inquired at Townhall yesterday, is it merely another…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: December 5, 2008
Robberies. Corruption. Furious government-enabled debt expansion in the name of curing the effects of prior furious government-enabled debt expansion. Murders. War. And now, carpooling. Yes, just when you think maybe it really is time to move to Canada to escape American insanity, you hear about how our neighbors to the…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: May 10, 2021
Journalist Tom Lemons may be jailed up to twenty years for investigating the Dawn Center, a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Hernando County, Florida. Lemons talked to former employees and to women who sought help there. He learned about theft of donations, filthy conditions, and a chronically lawless…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: October 25, 1999
What should be done when corruption is rampant? Ask the U.S. Congress that question and you may be surprised by the answer. Congress is a HUGE supporter of term limits. Yes, that's right. They LOVE term limits. No, I haven't skipped a dose of my medication. Congress is lecturing the…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 31, 2016
Yesterday I asked the question, “Who comes first: the vets or the politicians?” We all know who should come first. And we all know who actually does come first. The Is/Ought Dichotomy in full view — the fact/value distinction. America’s politicians have legislated themselves wonderful healthcare coverage. Meanwhile, they’ve legislated…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: December 17, 2017
It’s been quite the furor — over the FCC’s removal of the Net Neutrality regime that the Obama Administration FCC had placed upon the Internet. Is it really an expression of legitimate outrage over a grave policy . . . mis-step? Injustice? Faux pas? Could it be the end of the Internet?!?!?!? Maybe it…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: November 17, 2015
“I want to go home,” Arkansas State Senator Jon Woods whimpered last weekend. The poor, pitiful politician — announcing he would not seek election to another legislative term — cried that he had not “been fishing with [his] brother in a year.” “I have friends in my district who I…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: September 19, 2008
Sal Grosso, a retired man in his 80s, moved to Cape Coral, Florida, after a successful career as a troubleshooter for New York State’s phone network. Since then he has served as troubleshooter for the government of Cape Coral, writing a column, kicking up a fuss. And boy, does Cape…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: November 17, 2003
Howard Dean's decision to opt out of the presidential public financing system is supposedly that system's death-knell. If only it were true! The system is broken, but it doesn't need fixing. It needs to be buried deep in Yucca Mountain. They say private money is "dirty" and corrupting, while public…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: November 1, 1999
Senator John McCain of Arizona is running for President. One of his key issues is campaign finance reform. While most Americans want campaigns to be reformed, few paid any attention to McCain's recent legislation. The reason isn't voter apathy, but voter common sense. Career politicians have been promising to reform…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: June 4, 2001
I believe in term limits. Term limits increase electoral competition and curb entrenched political power. To some people, though, this means I must also be opposed to the political process itself. It's like saying that if you oppose the disease that's infecting a human body, you must also oppose the…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: January 8, 2008
One excuse for imposing ever more controls on political fundraising and political speech is that campaign money is “corrupting.†But you can get and spend money in a good way or a bad way. Say you steal it. Okay — bad. But suppose people give it to you voluntarily because…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: June 17, 2009
The good sense that California voters exhibited at the polls in May has been rewarded with continual attack and derision. Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO and Republican candidate for governor, recently said, “In many ways, the proposition process has worn out its usefulness.” She’s criticizing the initiative, and she’s not…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 16, 2019
The CNN onscreen contributor who snuck debate questions to the Hillary Clinton campaign in advance of the 2016 presidential debates is now a talking head on Fox News. “I am excited by the opportunity to share my perspective and views with the Fox News audience and to help shape the dialogue at this…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: October 23, 2018
Paul Jacob We have a choice: Govern ourselves or allow legislators and judges in our federal and state capitals to rule over us. I much prefer the former. Give me a republic in which important individual rights have been constitutionally secured and democratic elections established. In reality, that democracy part…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: December 12, 2012
Can you get in trouble with the law — or at least a government agency’s unlimited regulatory power — for peacefully telling the truth? You can, despite the protections articulated in the First Amendment and the greater respect sometimes accorded to freedom of speech than to other constitutionally protected rights.…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: September 21, 2012
“We’re all in this together,” folks say. I’ve even said it. But are we? Yesterday, I discussed Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded comments on the “47 percent” he believes are hell-bent on supporting President Obama . . . and an apparently different 47 percent not paying federal income taxes. Romney expressed…