Originally posted June 4, 2015. Although it is still early in the presidential campaign and fully detailed plans are not expected for a while, Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner writes that there are enough clues to grasp a general idea of each candidate’s leaning. “All the 2016 candidates want to cut taxes—but which taxes, and by […]
Archives for January 2016
Surging John Kasich and Realist James Baker
Writing in The American Conservative, Scott McConnell tells readers that near the end of a recent event John Kasich was asked who he considered a good secretary of state. Kasich answered Jim Baker. Scott continues, “Naturally I wondered whether Kasich was really up to date on the symbolic meaning of Jim Baker’s name in Republican […]
An Uncomfortable Thought …
“What if the American people don’t want smaller government that spends less?” asks NRO’s Jim Geraghty. Does a country where the popular vote in the last six elections went for Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Bush, Obama and Obama really crave smaller government? Polling indicates that 70 percent want a smaller deficit . . . but the […]
TRUMPED!: New Ad Hammers Cruz on Immigration
Trump’s campaign has closed the gap in Iowa, and is trying to knock the Cruz campaign out. This ad on Cruz’s immigration history is an uppercut to the chin.
Going for Broke
Originally posted June 16, 2015. America has a big problem—our country’s growing national debt. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone account for roughly half of federal spending today, a portion that will only grow larger in the future and increase more rapidly with the government’s newest entitlement program — Obamacare. The simple truth is that […]
Brent Scowcroft and the Realists
Originally posted March 31, 2015. James Antle, III, writing in the America Conservative, notes that Republican realists, including Brent Scowcroft, understood “how to use power and respect it’s limits.” The GOP’s most hawkish national-security hands want to maintain a monopoly on foreign-policy advice for Republican presidents and other elected officials. As the James Bakers age […]
Freedom or Free Stuff?
Americans need to understand, early in the presidential season, that Bernie Sanders is a philosophically linked cousin of Karl Marx. You know, the father of the Communist Manifesto. The old Soviet Union is a storybook model of Communism/Marxism. How did that all work out? Americans need to know that Sanders wants to take control of […]
“13 Hours” and Hillary Clinton’s Complicity
Had the Obama administration been straightforward and told the American people the truth about Benghazi, Benghazi would not be political hot potato it now is. “But with the 2012 presidential vote less than two months away, the White House tried to displace reality with the preposterous YouTube story,” writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. But […]
Good ‘Ole Vanguard GNMA
When times are tough, Vanguard GNMA (VFIIX) is a friend you’d never dream of living without. Check out the action for GNMA for just the first few weeks of this year compared to that of the more speculative NASDAQ Composite Index (both rebased to 100 at 12/31/2015). I don’t need any more than this to prove […]
That $100 Billion for Iran?
Is the $100 billion “nuclear deal” foreign aid? No, the money is already Iran’s money. It simply has been freed up with expiration of sanctions. Pat Buchanan writes, Iran’s accusers should produce their evidence, if any, that Iran had, or still has, a nuclear bomb program. Otherwise, they should shut up with the lying and […]
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