Trump’s potential to be yuuuuge!
Donald Trump, if he understands anything, understands that for the middle class to thrive, small businesses must have relief from an anti-business government.
Author: Paul Gleiser
How many former East Germans would vote for Bernie?
Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, is seriously challenging frontrunner Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination for president. Sanders is particularly popular among young voters – those we now call “millennials.”
What about the lessons of this event, Mr. President?
President Obama is visiting Hiroshima, Japan just weeks shy of the 71st anniversary of the U.S. dropping of the atomic bomb. He has no plans, however, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
Independent school districts indeed.
In much the same way that a drug dealer exerts de facto control over his addicted customers, the federal government exerts de facto control over the school your child attends.
Our consequence-free betters.
With the right connections – particularly liberal connections – failure carries exactly no consequence.
Uncle Fed’s magical computer.
Uncle Fed lives upstairs. He has a magical computer that lets him create money out of thin air.
The quadrennial bad idea.
Inevitably this election season the call will come to abolish the Electoral College. It was a bad idea four years ago. It will be a bad idea four years hence.
The post-enlightenment at Stanford University.
Students at Stanford University voted six to one against required courses in Western civilization. Yet the irony of casting ballots in a democratic process being a product of Western civilization is completely lost on them.
The VA as microcosm.
The Department of Veterans is nothing less than a microcosm of the entire federal government – a top-down Leviathan that is callously and willfully unaccountable to those it is charged with serving and to the taxpayers that pay for it.
A supreme irony.
Republican leaders have assumed that the middle class vote is firmly in the bag and that listening to some carping and bitching from that quarter is just par for the course. No big deal.
America’s disappearing oceans.
It is dangerously naive to think that the horrors experienced by France and Belgium in the past four months will remain confined to Europe.
All for having passed on tea.
Had GOP elites taken a moment sometime between 2009 and now to have a sip of tea, they might never have had to confront the threat to their power that they clearly believe Donald Trump to be.