There has been a lot of talk among GOP hopefuls about the dangers of “career politicians.” Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina are just the most recent to claim that they are more qualified or trustworthy because they are not politicians. This may be similar to the proleptic Heinz ketchup ad campaign which attempted to put a positive […]
Continue reading →Ben Carson just announced his bid for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 2016 … to quite a mixed response. I’m not sure exactly why so many people, especially in the black community, are so singularly unenthusiastic about Dr. Carson. From the beginning of his public career, he has never pretended to be anything other than […]
Continue reading →Some feminists think it is sexist that Hillary Clinton is called by her first name when male candidates are called by their last. They think this uncovers a deep-seated inequality and all that: Laura F. Edwards, a history professor at Duke University who studies gender, said calling a woman by her first name is part […]
Continue reading →Political analyst Dick Morris thinks Rand Paul doesn’t have what it takes to win in 2016. Morris points out three ideological layers of conservative voter values, and he thinks Rand Paul wins in only one of those: The Republican Party is a three-layer cake consisting of economic libertarians, evangelical believers and national security advocates. Huckabee […]
Continue reading →It turns out that the most die-hard Ron Paul fans are already jumping off the Rand Paul 2016 bandwagon. Rand Paul is apparently a little too mainstream for most of them—too willing to take moderate positions where his father never compromised: “He’s moderating on most of them, not taking a real clear stance on a […]
Continue reading →When pressed, Jeb Bush said that he would not rule out new taxes if he were to win the presidency in 2016: Jeb Bush has enthusiastically endorsed a “grand bargain” tax increase with Democrats, says his father’s 1990 “Read My Lips” tax increase “created the spending restraint of the 90’s,” . . . and refuses to sign the Taxpayer […]
Continue reading →It recently came out that Hillary Clinton was conducting all of her state business through a personal email account (and even her own server) while she was Secretary of State, apparently breaking the rules for state correspondence: Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides […]
Continue reading →Is this just alarmism, or does it seem like Obama’s Executive Amnesty is designed for nothing more than getting more votes for the Democrat Party? Apparently, a loophole in the amnesty allows illegal aliens to vote, if they care to. That’s because they will have access to driver’s licenses and social security cards: While stressing […]
Continue reading →In an attempt to be “transparent,” Jeb Bush released a bunch of emails he has received in the course of his tenure as governor of Florida. The problem is he didn’t redact some SSNs, home addresses, and other personal information. So now some of his constituents could become the victims of identity theft. Oops. When […]
Continue reading →In a recent poll, 77% of millennials were unable to name one of the elected Senators from their state. At the same time, the vast majority of them, about the same number actually, said they planned to vote for the next president: More than three-quarters [of] millennials say they are at least “very likely” to […]
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