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The Wrong Candidate to Reform Big-Money Politics
In the rocky roll-out of her campaign, Hillary Clinton has listed four goals for her presidency: expanding opportunity for the middle class, strengthening families and communities, confronting foreign threats, and somehow breaking the connection between money and politics. “We can fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it...
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Why “The Income Gap” is a Losing Issue
Democrats plan to focus on income inequality in the upcoming presidential election but a former advisor to Bill Clinton says they’re making a mistake. William Galston notes recent polls by CBS News and Gallup showing less than 4% who list the income gap as their main concern. Distance between rich and poor has definitely increased, so why isn’t the public...
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Why “The Income Gap” is a Losing Issue
Democrats plan to focus on income inequality in the upcoming presidential election but a former advisor to Bill Clinton says they’re making a mistake. William Galston notes recent polls by CBS News and Gallup showing less than 4% who list the income gap as their main concern. Distance between rich and poor has definitely increased, so why isn’t the public...
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A Phony “Crisis” that Harms America
In eight tumultuous years of the Bush presidency, it’s tough to think of even one famous case of an unarmed African-American killed by police. This doesn’t reflect some uncelebrated triumph for George W. Bush, but it does provide needed perspective on the current hysteria over black victimization by law enforcement. There is no evidence of a sudden...
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A Phony “Crisis” that Harms America
In eight tumultuous years of the Bush presidency, it’s tough to think of even one famous case of an unarmed African-American killed by police. This doesn’t reflect some uncelebrated triumph for George W. Bush, but it does provide needed perspective on the current hysteria over black victimization by law enforcement. There is no evidence of a sudden...
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Why Is Pakistan More Legitimate than Israel?
Whenever I have received a call from a listener to my radio show challenging Israel’s legitimacy, I have asked these people if they ever called a radio show to challenge any other country’s legitimacy. In particular, I ask, have they ever questioned the legitimacy of Pakistan? The answer, of course, is always “no.” In fact, […]
The...
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Meet the candidates for 2016
On the Transcripts page of my website are the 36 relatively recent interviews I have done with the men and woman who are at least seriously thinking of running for president in 2016.
There are 16 who have been on the other side of the microphone from me at least once — some multiple times — since the New Year. Using last names, in alphabetical order, they...
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For California, Gay Astronaut Beats Sainthood
Which Californian represents the state’s splendor and greatness most appropriately; the Catholic saint who founded nine settlements that grew into major cities or a recently deceased astronaut who completed two missions on the space shuttle?
Does the answer change because the astronaut in question – Sally Ride– happened to be female and gay?
Apparently...
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For California, Gay Astronaut Beats Sainthood
Which Californian represents the state’s splendor and greatness most appropriately; the Catholic saint who founded nine settlements that grew into major cities or a recently deceased astronaut who completed two missions on the space shuttle?
Does the answer change because the astronaut in question – Sally Ride– happened to be female and gay?
Apparently...
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Black Murderers Matter
The “Black Lives Matter” campaign is based on as big a lie as the “campus rape culture” lie; the Rolling Stone magazine gang rape at the University of Virginia fraternity lie; the gang rape by the Duke University lacrosse team lie; the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson lie; and all the other lies that animate...
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Happiness Soars – Along With Inequality
For contemporary liberals, income inequality is the source of all evil and the root cause for the world’s social, racial and economic problems. Capital In The Twenty-First Century, by the French professor Thomas Piketty has become the most influential leftist book of our time – one of those weighty, cinder-block tomes that nobody reads but everyone cites...
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Happiness Soars – Along With Inequality
For contemporary liberals, income inequality is the source of all evil and the root cause for the world’s social, racial and economic problems. Capital In The Twenty-First Century, by the French professor Thomas Piketty has become the most influential leftist book of our time – one of those weighty, cinder-block tomes that nobody reads but everyone cites...
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Where the West begins
Out where the handclasp’s a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That’s where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifler whiter, Where the bonds of home are a wee bit tighter, That’s where the West begins
It’s been almost a century since cowboy poet and...
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Inequality Is Up? But So Is Happiness
A prominent researcher at Cal Tech reports surprising data contradicting common liberal assumptions that inequality brings misery. Gaps between rich and poor grew dramatically during the recession but Steven Quartz reports “the percentage of Americans who say they are thriving has actually increased.” What’s more, “happiness inequality” has gone...
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Challenging “The Candidate of Experience”
The Hillary for President team takes great encouragement from recent polling showing Americans seeking “experience” in a candidate for president more than a “new direction.” They will therefore position their candidate as a seasoned “pragmatic problem solver” and “middle class champion.” But in terms of experience, what will they emphasize?...
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Rand and Ted Begin Their Excellent Adventure
But Who Won in the Dueling Announcements of Candidacy?
Rand Paul may not beat Ted Cruz in presidential primaries, but he certainly topped him in his announcement of candidacy.
In the end, neither of these freshman senators (Paul has served four years in Washington; Cruz has been there for two) is likely to win the GOP nomination but they are the first pair to...
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