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What Marco Rubio Should Have Said
In last Saturday’s Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio faltered when Chris Christie attacked him as an inexperienced, programmed candidate along the lines of an outclassed President Obama. Rubio almost proved Christie’s point when he repeatedly made the same point that … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged 2016 campaign, Chris Christie, current events, Marco Rubio, Republican debate
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Bob Costas Clinging To His Political Correctness
And now NBC sports anchor Bob Costas has stepped forward to add his wrong-headed views to the controversy about the Washington Redskins team name (see here). During the Cowboys-Redskins game on Sunday night, Costas asked viewers to “consider equivalent terms about other ethnic minorities.” When … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sports
Tagged Bob Costas, current events, NFL, Redskins, sports, team name controversy, Washington Redskins
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Lip Service From The WSJ
The editors of the WSJ are quick to praise markets and competition. But when push comes to shove, when either DOJ or FTC actually challenges the anticompetitive practices of a dominant firm or combination of firms, the WSJ always comes down on … Continue reading
What’s Left For Regressives?
Flush from the gay rights victory at the Supreme Court, “progressives” are now wondering what’s left for the progressive movement. Writing in Slate magazine, for example, Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick offer up a laundry list of progressive causes that they be-lieve all good progressives should pursue, now … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, collective action, competition, current events, free markets, self government
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Benghazi Apologetics
Glenn Kessler is the putative “fact-checker” for the Washington Post, but he steps out of that role in a recent column, which the Post styles not as fact checking, but as an “analy-tic look” at the news about Benghazi. According to Kessler, the administration didn’t intentionally lie about … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Politics
Tagged Benghazi, current events, glenn kessler, Hillary Clinton
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The Morality Of Capitalism
In an op-ed piece for the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein suggests that the nation is caught up in a historic debate over free-market capitalism and poses the question: is capitalism moral? Pearlstein points out that over the last thirty years, the experiment with communism has been “thoroughly … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged antitrust, big government, capitalism, competition, current events, free markets, liberal mind, morality, Steven Pearlstein
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Good Riddance To Hugo Chavez
Let’s see – rumor has it that Hugo Chavez and his family amassed a fortune of $2 billion during his 14 year reign in Venezuela, which would amount to an average salary of about $142.8 million per year. Not bad … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, People, Politics
Tagged current events, hugo chavez, mob rule
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Obama Is Not A Centrist
Liberals love to misuse language to obscure their policies and plans for America. Government spending is characterized as “investment,” gun control is renamed gun “safety,” price controls are “cost containment” measures, and proposed legislation that would eliminate the secret ballot in union elections is called … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged authoritarians, big government, centrist, current events, divided nation, freedom, liberals, ObamaCare, political spectrum
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Liberals And Redskins
Well, about once a year, various liberals at the Washington Post pull out and dust off their old columns in which they claim the nickname of Washington D.C.’s professional football team is offensive, racist, etc., and demand that the team change its … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sports
Tagged current events, liberals, racism, Redskins, sports mascots
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