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Thursday, December 1, 2016
The Inevitable End of the Prototypical Liberal Presidential Candidate
What is it like in the Clinton household now that the last prototypical liberal presidential candidate has lost her run for the White House? Hillary the Inevitable? I attempted to correct that mediawide delusion months ago, as I did in 2008. Where is my Pulitzer?
A Holiday Recipe for Government Growth
Economic research shows that the corporate tax is harmful to workers’ wages and overall economic growth. If left to their own devices, politicians still wouldn’t be likely to reduce or eliminate the destructive tax. They only act when tax competition — whereby taxpayers shop around for favorable tax environments — forces their hand.
For Secretary of State: John Bolton
President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly considering seriously at least two men for the critical position of secretary of state. One, former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has divided the Trump team between those who think it is a good idea and those who think Romney’s severe criticism of Trump during the campaign disqualifies him.
Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences
The mix of politics and culture is far too complex to be predictable. Even the best-laid political plans can lead to unintended consequences, both good and bad — what we sometimes call irony, nemesis or karma. Take the election of 2008, which ushered Barack Obama and the Democrats into absolute control of the presidency, House and Senate, also generating popular goodwill over Obama’s landmark candidacy.
Clinton vs. Trump II, 2020
Every sane person expects Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s attempt to overturn the election with her vote recount effort to crash and burn. Given this, why would the Hillary Clinton campaign file a motion in support of a Stein-initiated request for a hand vote recount in Wisconsin?
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Memo to the Next Ex-President: Be a Bush, Not a Carter
In the months and years ahead, tens of millions of Americans will have strong feelings about Donald Trump’s presidency, and most won’t hesitate to express their views. One American who should is Barack Obama.
1 Every 5 Hours: NYC Late-Term Abortion Capital
In New York City, where the Statue of Liberty stands, 1,752 unborn children — at least 21 weeks of age and still in their mother’s wombs — were killed in 2013.
Price Tagged for HHS Post
It’s past Thanksgiving, but the president-elect continues to give voters plenty of things to be grateful for. With half of his Cabinet filled, Donald Trump added another solid conservative to his team in Congressman Tom Price (R-Ga.). The pro-life surgeon, who has been a longtime friend of FRC and families across the country, is the president-elect’s pick to head up what has become one of the most powerful agencies in Washington: the Department of Health and Human Services.
Still Honoring Castro and His Debacle
One of the world’s last brutal communist dictators, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, died last week at the age of 90. While Cuban exiles celebrated long into the night, on America’s “objective” networks, they pulled out hankies and mourned this despot’s filthy works and celebrated the hellhole he made.
Justin Trudeau: Baby-Faced Commie Apologist Unmasked
Wasn’t one vapid pretty boy named Justin from Canada enough? At least Justin Bieber is eye candy without the heartburn. Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, is the twinkly-eyed boy toy who makes informed adults wanna hurl.
Dr. Price to HHS
[Yesterday], President-elect Trump announced his selection of Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) to be secretary of Health and Human Services. This is a crucial appointment given that HHS is one of the largest federal departments, with 78,000 employees.
DeVos: Great Pick for Education Secretary
If the teachers unions are outraged by Donald Trump’s selection of Betsy DeVos as the new secretary of education, our president-elect must have made a good choice.
Drain the Swamp!
President-elect Trump says he’s uniquely qualified to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. He can do it, he said at one debate, because as a businessman, he understands American cronyism. “With Hillary Clinton, I said, ‘Be at my wedding,’ and she came to my wedding. You know why? She had no choice because I gave.”
Why Does the Left Go Easy on Dictators?
When evil Cuban dictator Fidel Castro finally died last Friday, the left seemed deeply ambivalent. President Obama noted “the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation,” as though Castro had been some sort of high school guidance counselor. Former President Jimmy Carter recalled all the wonderful times he spent by the sea with Castro, the sun gleaming off the waves. He said, “We remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — a.k.a. handsome Bernie Sanders — described Castro as “remarkable ... a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century.”
Even in Death, Castro Still Has ‘Useful Idiots’
Fidel Castro died as he lived: to the sound of useful idiots making allowances for his crimes. (That’s not my term: It was Lenin who called liberal apologists for Communism “useful idiots.”)
Let’s Fight Tyranny
For more than a half-century, it has become abundantly clear that our nation faces increasing irreconcilable differences. At the root is the fact that there is one group of Americans who mostly want to be left alone and live according to the rule of law and the dictates of the U.S. Constitution while another group of Americans wants to control the lives of others and ignore both the rule of law and constitutional restraints on the federal government. Should those Americans who favor the rule of law and constitutional government fight against or yield to those Americans who have contempt for the rule of law and constitutional government? Let’s look at a few of those irreconcilable differences.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Can Democrats Quit Identity Politics?
For the Democrats, no activity is immune from reflexive accusations of sexism and racism, not even soul-searching.
Will Donald Trump Do for Infrastructure What He Did for Wollman Rink?
In May 1986, a 39-year-old Manhattan real estate developer named Donald Trump promised to get Wollman Rink in Central Park up and running — something the city government, despite spending $13 million, had failed to do for six years. Trump delivered, ahead of time and under a $3 million budget.
Welcome to the Party of Trump
I stirred up some controversy last week when I told a conference of several dozen House Republicans that the GOP is now officially a Trump-working-class party. For better or worse, I said at the gathering inside the Capitol dome, the baton has now officially been passed from the Reagan era to the Trump era. The members didn’t quite faint over my apostasy, but the shock was palpable.
The Left’s Love Affair With Fidel Castro
In a statement following the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, President Obama spoke of “the countless ways in which (Castro) altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation.”