From Bret Stephens at The WSJ, Bernie’s Wall Street Slander But the reason Mr. Sanders is drawing his big crowds is neither his fanatical sincerity nor his avuncular charm. It’s that he’s preaching class hatred to people besotted by the politics
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Worth noting: Cruz stood against the ethanol special interest and still won Iowa. Rubio was smoked by Christy for sounding simplistic and scripted. But I remember a 45 minute unscripted interview from the Miami Herald in 2010 when he was
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from Millennials heed the siren call of socialism by Joel Kotkin at Orange County Register The biggest and most important development has been the massive support among the new generation of voters for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his open embrace
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from Mona Charen at National Review, How Bernie Sanders Became the Conscience of the Democratic Party The idea that “the rich” sit permanently atop a pyramid of worker drones is false. Consider the companies that were once ubiquitous but are now
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from Mona Charen at National Review, How Bernie Sanders Became the Conscience of the Democratic Party No problem, the self-described socialist counters, he will raise the money by taxing the “greedy one percent.” The problem is — arithmetic. The top one
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From National Review and Jonah Goldberg, For the Left, It’s Always Time for a New New Deal You can explain all day how the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression and they won’t care. They’re like our new canine visitor Pippa,
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From National Review and Jonah Goldberg, For the Left, It’s Always Time for a New New Deal Bernie Sanders thinks you can pay for an 18 trillion dollar expansion of the welfare state — to make it align with a Denmark
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from Mona Charen at National Review, How Bernie Sanders Became the Conscience of the Democratic Party “Socialist” was once an epithet in American politics, but the Obama years may have effected a change. Fully 25 percent of Americans, Pew reported
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from Stephen Miller at National Review, Bernie Sanders Has an Inconvenient Message for the Democratic Party There is little to no curiosity among our media elite about how a Democratic candidate for president is able to campaign on a shrinking
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From The Bookworm Room, The collected (nit)wit and (un)wisdom of Bernie Sanders this rather long post is a one stop shop for a response to every Bernie Sanders inane post.
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From The Wall Street Journal The Democrats’ Socialist Surge by Jason Riley: excerpt: If the Democratic Party once felt the need to distinguish itself from socialism, that no longer seems to be the case. When Mr. Sanders entered Congress in
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from Bernie Sanders’s Dark Age Economics by Kevin Williamson in The National Review excerpts: Dollars are just a method of keeping count, and mandating higher wages for work that has not changed at all is, in the long run, like measuring yourself
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I attended the Freedomfest in Las Vegas last week. A last minute speech was arranged for Donald Trump on Saturday. I expected some resistance from this crowd of largely libertarian conservatives. Standing outside the hall was a lady with a
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From Townhall, What Donald Trump is Doing Right by S.E. Cupp Trump’s rise is a reflection of Americans’ utter distaste for politicians and the way they speak, not their identification with most of Trump’s views. After all, everyone has an
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from Bernie Sanders’s Dark Age Economics by Kevin Williamson in The National Review excerpts: Right now, we are embroiled in a deeply, deeply stupid debate over whether to raise the statutory minimum wage to $15 an hour. (I write “statutory minimum wage”
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from Bernie Sanders’s Dark Age Economics by Kevin Williamson in The National Review excerpts: Money is a medium of exchange, and prices are a form of communication. What do prices communicate? How much we value certain things relative to other
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Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe explains basic economics to the incredibly ignorant Bernie Sanders in It’s socialism, not deodorant, that starves the poor excerpts: “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different
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