Despite major damage-control mode, Hillary Clinton’s consistently fluid email story seems to be heading toward the proverbial dam. After U.S. intelligence agencies identified additional classified emails on HRC’s private server, including ones containing intelligence on covert “Special Access Programs,” Mrs. Clinton’s campaign “even accused the inspector general — an Obama appointee confirmed by a Democratic-controlled […]
Why Rollover Your 401(k)
You wouldn’t be the first person to wonder who in the world comes up with these phrases: “Rolling over your 401(k).” As if investing isn’t confusing enough, the wording is so bad you can’t help but think about a dog trick. This is supposed to be serious stuff. Most of you corporate warriors that have […]
Clear and Deliberate Criminality
Originally posted August 3, 2015. Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer knows a little about classified documents and security. Here, Mike tells readers that while he knows “nothing about the content of her (Hillary’s) mails – save for those now published and identified as classified — I do know that Mrs. Clinton’s use of […]
Are Trump Supporters Misguided?
Do Trump’s supporters ever tire of the condescending suggestion that they are children or halfwits who know not what they do? “Why am I supposed to honor people who want Donald J. Trump to be president?” asks NRO’s Jay Nordlinger. They’re angry, I’m told. We must respect and honor their anger. Well, I’m angry too […]
Debt Disaster: $107,000/Household
The Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards, a featured speaker at the Cato Club Naples 2016, notes in the Cato Tax & Budget Bulletin published in September, 2015 that “Federal debt now totals more than $13 trillion, or about $107,000 for every household in the nation.” Last week, regarding the latest CBO Budget, he wrote “Federal borrowing […]
Taxes—the Devil Is in the Details
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 […]
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 […]