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by | Mar 6, 2018

Sometimes, in creating awareness of a problem, it can be just as necessary to point out what is not an example of that problem as to point out what is. When it comes to corporate welfare, sometimes meaningful definitions are…

by | Dec 28, 2016

Huh? A contest to identify the most clueless statement by John Kerry would doubtless lead to an avalanche of entries, most of them worthy. But he outdid himself today in his lame attempt today to justify the snit Barack Obama…

by | Nov 15, 2016

Gwen Ifill, co-host of PBS NewsHour and exceptionally accomplished journalist, passed away today at the age of 61. I only met Gwen Ifill once, when she and her team invited me to participate in a nationally televised PBS special on…

by | Nov 9, 2016

How did Bob Tyrrell get it so right? No other magazine recognized Donald’s potential. He and Jeff Lord were there in 2013 when Donald talked at our Robert L. Bartley Dinner. They saw something in the president-elect’s demeanor and message…

by | Nov 8, 2016

There’s all this speculation about the election. And it’s all horsefeathers. No one has a clue, because the voting patterns on this one will be entirely different from previous elections. That’s why I’m about to tell you what’s really going…

by | Nov 4, 2016

The Hillarity at the New York Times continues. The other day it published an op-ed piece “Why American Needs a Female President.” It was by one Angie Kim, a writer in Virginia who as a third-grader in South Korea had…

by | Nov 2, 2016

Now that the polls have tightened, some of the NeverTrumpers are beginning to wonder whether Trump is quite so horrible after all. There are, after all, jobs to given out, should he win. I regard this as entirely amusing, as…

by | Nov 2, 2016

One of Hillary’s Greatest Hits was her sudden announcement when running for Senate in New York in 1992 that she was a lifelong Yankees fan. This contradicted mountains of testimony from friends that she was a long-suffering Cubs fan, like…

by | Nov 1, 2016

A few quick points: 1.  All FBI/DOJ can do in one week with 650,000 emails — a number consistent with a full backup of all emails on Huma’s devices since Hillary’s homebrew server was set up Jan. 13, 2009 (the…

by | Oct 28, 2016

No one knows exactly (or even inexactly) what it means, but FBI Director Comey’s bombshell letter to Congress essentially reopening the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s crooked server is a bigger October Surprise than anything yet — and October still…

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