Hillary Clinton has made it clear. She is running as President Obama’s political and policy heir, notes Review & Outlook in the WSJ: Mrs. Clinton’s project is even more progressive than Mr. Obama’s. Believe it or not, there are still subsidy gaps in the cradle-to-grave entitlement state, and this is a candidate who regularly talks […]
The Clinton Foundation—Charity Begins at Home
The Clinton Foundation, created in 1997 as a nominal nonprofit, has served as a shadow Super PAC for the Clintons. It covers the Clintons travel expenses and keeps their retinue employed between elections, discusses Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. The payroll has included Huma Abedin, who drew a State Department salary even as she managed […]
Hillary’s Brutal Poll Numbers
From The Washington Post come four key poll numbers for Hillary Clinton that have been steadily getting worse for months and now are basically worse than ever before: 68% say Clinton isn’t honest and trustworthy (according to a CNN poll). Her image has never been worse. (Clinton’s favorable rating is currently 16 points net-negative—unprecedented in […]
Is Hillary Human?
The problem last night with Bill Clinton’s speech in which he tried to “humanize” his wife, was that the more Bill talked, “the weirder it was that he didn’t address the elephant(s) in the room, “ writes Jonah Goldberg in NRO. I’m not saying there weren’t effective bits. But my God that speech was boring […]
Feeling the “Bern”
With temps in Philadelphia in the mid-to-high 90s this week during the Democratic National Convention, police are expecting “much larger and potentially more turbulent demonstrations.” One burning issue the police will not be able to monitor, however, is the heat rising from hopping mad Bernie supporters who feel their candidate has been cheated out of […]
NATO Terminal?
Could a Donald Trump presidency be the last nail in NATO’s coffin? “NATO is an alliance showing multiple signs of a terminal condition,” writes Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Trump “would be almost certain to demand major reforms, and it is not out of the realm of possibility that he would […]
Worse than Trump? The Establishment
“Donald Trump’s speech was important,” writes Peggy Noonan in the WSJ. “He is a vivid figure and for a year has elicited strong reactions. By now he’s exhausting. We have Trump Fatigue. Also, who doesn’t know how he feels about him? His acceptance speech was an opportunity to break through in a new way and […]
Roads Less Traveled
Dick and I will no longer be looking in the rearview mirrors of our Harley-Davidsons. After 24 years of riding over 120,000 miles, we are hanging up our riding gear. Sad? In many ways, of course. But the flip side is that we have seen plenty of this country from two wheels without one serious mishap. […]
Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court Litmus Test
In an effort to woo Bernie Sanders followers to vote for Hillary, Mrs. Clinton is intensifying her promise to rewrite the 1st Amendment, which would limit political speech that she and Bernie’s followers don’t like. In a taped speech to Netroots Nation (a conference of progressives), here’s what Mrs. Clinton promised: Today, I’m announcing that […]
The One Guy Accountable
President Obama at the memorial service for five dead policemen in Dallas: “We refuse to fund drug treatment and mental health programs.” Francis Menton responds in the Manhattan Contrarian: Huh? You sure wouldn’t get that impression about “drug treatment programs” from reading the National Drug Control Budget from your Office of National Drug Control Policy. […]
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