John Hickenlooper has joined the crowded arena of Democrat presidential hopefuls. The businessman and former Colorado governor appears to be a centrist. But as the WSJ asks, is there room in the Democratic presidential primaries for a nominee who isn’t a socialist in name or agenda? Bernie, Not Crazy and Extreme? In Chicago last Sunday, […]
The Nightmare of California Dreamin’
Californians are proud of their state. It is the world’s fifth-largest economy in large part fueled by Silicon Valley’s Apple, Facebook and Google. The progressive, one-party state is a neo-socialist model for a nation moving hard to the left. But there is a snafu. A big one. California is about to face a devastating shortfall […]
Progressives at Odds with Reality
Defunct actor Jussie Smollett, a card-carrying member of the “progressive” resistance, now stands accused of fabricating the incident in which he claimed to have been attacked by two white men armed with bleach and a noose. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is not unlike many big-city police chiefs. Mr. Johnson has the “thankless task of […]
Bernie Sanders, Old-School Socialist or Retrograde
Uh-oh. Bernie Sanders has some serious flaws, and most of them are unfixable: Mr Sanders is White Male Old Straight Or as Progressives would remind you: “cisgendered Sanders is burdened by the utter lack of intersectionality,” NRO’s Rich Lowry writes. The situation is one of delicacy. Evidently Bernie announced his presidential candidacy on Vermont Public […]
A Postmodern Plague Destroying America
Is America facing a toxic postmodern plague? Well, yes. Toxic imbecility, argues Thaddeus G. McCotter in American Greatness, is consuming our country from within. And where is the hot zone where this imbecilic chicken first came home to roost and now appears ready to cook our goose? An educated guess is that it’s wherever educators […]
Bernie Sanders’ Crushing Failure in Vermont
It’s no secret that Bernie Sanders wants to increase death taxes. That, along with his other proposed taxes, seems to have triggered a burgeoning movement for tax reform in an effort to stem the tide of fleeing Vermonters from the Green Mountain State. Even Granola Lefties Not Buying into Sanders’ Policies Mr. Sanders, who won […]
Bernie Sanders Plan? Redistribution, not Retirement Savings
“No limit on the amount taxed” would be a perfect slogan for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, suggests James Freeman in the WSJ. Free-Riding Artisanal Socialism Or as Daniel Henninger writes in the WSJ, what we have today is “artisanal socialism free-riding on capitalism’s manifest success.” Mr. Sanders was in the right place at the right […]
A Widening Ideological Gulf
“From race, to environmentalism, to wealth, the gulf between ideological rhetoric and reality has rarely been wider,” writes Victor Davis Hanson in NRO. It’s a spot-on piece that one reader also finds so depressing he is threatening to partake in early morning cocktails. Modern progressivism makes all sorts of race, class, and gender exceptions for […]
Republicans “Sabotaging” Green New Deal?
Mitch McConnell, senate majority leader, wants to put the Green New Deal before the Senate for a vote. Not so fast, angry GND supporters protest. And cosponsor Sen. Ed Markey tweeted, “By rushing a vote on the #GreenNewDeal resolution, Republicans want to avoid a true national debate & kill our efforts to organize. We’re having the […]
Brigades of Citizens to Diaper Flatulent Cows?
Conrad Black is having what he refers to as an amicable running debate. He and a well-traveled friend are discussing the “level of concern justified by the steadily more extreme espousal of lunatic policy position by influential Democrats. ” Here are a few positions from top Democrats so far: Personal income top tax rates of […]
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