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Marco Rubio, The Other GOP Establishment Candidate?

I was expecting a howler of idiocy from the NY Times’ Nate Cohen after the beginning Marco Rubio, who announced his bid for the presidency on Monday in a call to donors, has been called the “best communicator” in the Republican Party. Over and over and over again. But he has little to show for […]

The New Inquisition

How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many people today can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things? Meanwhile, attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people’s […]

Hillary Candidacy Doesn’t Worry Me

Please forgive me, but I’m singularly unimpressed with Hillary Clinton in general, but especially as a Democratic presidential candidate. I’m neither smug nor complacent about the likelihood of defeating her, but I am incautiously optimistic. I hope I’m not wrong; the country can’t take four more years of the same disastrous policies. Frankly, I’m a […]

Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy Is Depressing

Hillary Clinton has announced that she is running for president of the United States. What her likely nomination says about the Democratic Party and tens of millions of Americans is depressing. Other than Barack Obama — whose resume consisted of being a charismatic black — it is hard to come up with a less accomplished […]

Not a Perfect Ending but a Better Ending

My friend Julia died as we knew she would. Cancer had ravaged her body for a decade. She no longer could breathe. She was at home, under hospice care, when she asked for a dose of morphine that she knew would kill her but also keep her final moments free of pain. I mention Julia’s […]

Taxing Peter to Improperly Pay Paul (or His Corpse)

Taxes are obviously on everybody’s mind this time of year, which makes it the perfect time to ask where — or to whom — all our money is going. First things first: In 2014, the government collected roughly $3 trillion. It spent $3.5 trillion. In other words, it had to borrow $500 billion to pay […]

A Very Fluid Race for the Republican Nomination

Two weeks ago, Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for president at Liberty University, and last week, Rand Paul announced at the Galt House hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Marco Rubio is expected to announce this week at the Freedom Tower in Miami. Others will follow. So what have we learned about the race for the Republican […]

The ‘new’ Hillary Clinton

In the video announcing her presidential candidacy, Hillary Clinton says the economic deck “is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” She should know because she has gobbled up a lot of cash for speaking fees and the Clinton Foundation. The video also includes the word “reinventing,” a kind of self-reset button (it […]

ISIS issues a threat: Calls for an repeat of 9/11

As if ISIS isn’t dangerous enough to the middle east, this week they released a new video calling for attacks to the U.S.   In the 11-minute video, ISIS calls for supporters to launch attacks within the U.S.   At this juncture I would note the New York Times’ front page article on December 29 […]

Looks Like Walter Scott Tased Michael Slager

Officer Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott in the back is exactly what the liberal establishment needed to paper over a growing awareness that the Michael Brown and Eric Garner spectacles were built on deceptions and downright lies. However, when something sounds too good to be true, there is probably more to the story. It appears […]