In Las Vegas last Tuesday, a reporter grilled Hillary Clinton on whether she had wiped her email server clean. She contemptuously responded, “What? Like with a cloth or something?”
Not Trapping Candidates into “Gotcha” Answers
“I’m not gunning for anyone the way the [Fox News] panel was after Donald Trump,” said Hugh Hewitt, the conservative talk show host and one of CNN’s moderators of the next GOP debate. Trying to trap candidates into ‘gotcha’ answers does not serve GOP primary voters. Allowing the candidates to speak directly to voters on […]
$62K per Year for a 4-Year Party?
Stephen Moore, whose son graduated from Northwestern to the tune of $62,500 a year for room board and tuition, explains why Hillary Clinton’s college tuition plan won’t work. In fact it will only make things worse in an industry (higher education) that has seen little productivity improvement. Hillary’s plan would only make the crisis worse […]
Is Hillary the Titanic?
There has been no mention of Hillary Clinton’s ethics by any of her rivals—not even from Bernie Sanders, who surged ahead of Mrs. Clinton in the recently released New Hampshire primary poll. Democrats are “beginning to freak out”, writes Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. Here is Mrs. Clinton trying out an inequality argument, as she […]
Carly Fiorina—Anti-Crony Capitalism
In an interesting theme in Carly Fiorina’s campaign—opining on the crony capitalism that is so much a part of our economy and politics—she notes, “What we have now is less and less free market and more and more crony capitalism.” The Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains: Crony capitalism is an insidious system in which businesses’ […]
Toxic Sludge and the EPA
Last week, the EPA’s hazmat team, inspecting an abandoned Gold Rush-era mine near Durango, Colorado, breached a retaining wall that dumped three million gallons of toxic sludge into a creek that is a tributary of the Animas River, writes the WSJ. The plume of lead, arsenic, mercury, copper, cadmium and other heavy metals turned the […]
Hillary’s Income Redistribution Plan
Hillary Clinton is proposing that new subsidies be offered to those going off to college as well as to those who have already left. She would “refinance” student loans and offer more generous income-based repayment plans. As NRO points out, although Clinton’s plan is not as aggressive as her opponents Bernie Sanders or Martin O’Malley, […]
A Simple Fix for the VA
The VA system is still chugging along, “pretending to provide care, quality managers pretending to review such care, and supervisors harassing the providers about the care provided elsewhere. Meanwhile, veterans wait and wait to get care they need,” writes Dr. Nasser Gayed in the WSJ Read here from Dr. Gayed, recently retired after 25 years […]
The Sparky GOP Debate
Starting out the debate with all eyes on Trump, the WSJ’s Peggy Noonan writes that as the evening progressed, the strength of the GOP field overshadowed the “boorish and ungentlemanly” Donald Trump. The debates, writes Ms. Noonan, were sparky, hot as a pistol—the crowd electric, the questions adversarial. I really don’t know if fiery debates […]
A Wrecking Ball to the Economy
With Hillary Clinton’s announcement of her plan to nearly double the capital gains rate for investments held less than six years, Stephen Moore writes that it shows a deep and disturbing ignorance of the effects of the capital gains tax and its impact on growth. As Mr. Moore points out, Hillary’s plan to raise the […]
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