Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party suffered its worst pummeling since 1935. Is the Democratic Party about to suffer the same misery? Bernie Sanders is uncannily aligned with Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn, notes Joseph C. Sternberg in the WSJ. Sanders and Corbyn match up in ideology, affect and career trajectory. Corbyn was adroit at rallying “a youthful and […]
Another Health Plague – Congress’s Spending Disease and Corona Virus
In another show of political opportunism, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have yet another gripe. This time it’s funding for fighting Corona Virus, reports the WSJ. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request “long overdue and completely inadequate.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the Administration’s proposal to tap some of the money from an Ebola […]
Bernie’s Silver Lining in Cuban Revolution
Despite Bernie Sanders’s penchant for touting Fidel Castro’s massive literacy program in Cuba when Fidel came into office, there are some serious flaws in the Vermont Senator’s thinking, reports the WSJ. Before the 1959 revolution, some 80% of Cuba could read. That put the island’s education level far ahead of most of its Latin American […]
Election 2020 Looking Like Election 1972 All Over Again?
On the eve of the Democratic debate in Charleston, S.C.’s most influential Democrat admitted to the Courier of Charleston that he is still undecided among three presidential candidates. The Columbia Democrat spoke particularly positively about U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden. He also warned that Democrats risk a landslide […]
Bernie: Clueless to Cost of His Health Care Plan
“I can’t rattle off to you every nickel and every dime.” Bernie Sanders admitted that his plans to increase the power of Washington are so expansive that even he cannot guess how much it will costs. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, reports James Freeman in the WSJ, Cooper asked Sanders if he knows the […]
Victor Davis Hanson Emasculates Bernie Sanders
Does it not strike you as odd that not one of Bernie Sanders’s rivals on the debate stage really hit the Vermont Socialist where he is most vulnerable? Government Mandated Redistribution Victor Davis Hanson does and lists a few of Bernie’s more glaring faults: Bernie’s reprehensible past empathy for the genocidal Soviet Union, Bernie’s praise […]
The Sequel: Russo-Phobia Part II
Given that there’s no evidence backing up allegations that Russia was actively trying to help President Trump win the 2020 election, it’s an allegation few people outside of the media or never-Trump fever swamps take seriously. It was all a hoax based on a shoddy piece of political opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign, […]
The Guilty Billionaire vs Bernie’s Socialism
In the wake of Mike Bloomberg’s awful debate Wednesday evening, will the painful experience convince the businessman and former NYC mayor that, “with his current strategy of contrition and leftward policy lunge” he most likely won’t win the Democratic nomination? Run as an Entrepreneur and Education Reformer The editorial board of the WSJ has a […]
Coronavirus and China: Like Something out of “1984”
In another thoughtful column, Victor Davis Hanson discusses how terrifying the Chinese Communist government really is: From Townhall: The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern […]
Bloomberg Needs to Embrace His Record
Howard Safir, New York City’s police commissioner between 1996 and 2000, argues in the WSJ why Mike Bloomberg should not apologize for fighting crime while he was Mayor. Instead, he insists, Bloomberg should be proud of how he and NYPD implemented stop, question, frisk. Mr. Bloomberg was a very good mayor. In the 2000s, he […]
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