“…and saying “character matters” undermines Donald Trump even though character doesn’t matter and even if it did, he’s got character out the ying yang.”
Read MoreWarren shows no understanding of what profit is. It is the signal that determines the best allocation of resources. The better ideas attract the most capital through the profit incentive. Profit is a byproduct of innovation and ideas. Ms. Warren would substitute this with a government bureaucracy who will determine the proper allocation of resources. The would not only squelch economic growth and innovation, it would increase corruption exponentially as businesses curried political rather than consumer approval. Startups would head overseas.
Read MoreBy acknowledging human flaws and addressing them, conservatives permit human potential to flourish. By seeking a non existent perfection socialists require central control and power that frustrates human potential and growth.
Read More“What do you imagine would happen to the price of a Honda Civic if the federal government gave every young person in the country ten grand and a subsidized loan that could only be used for the purchase of a Honda Civic? “
Read More“..a Stanford graduate now usually knows less history than his Hillsdale counterpart. A successful self-made businessman can know a lot more about the economy than does a Harvard M.B.A., and a state-college graduate is likely to have better ethical bearings that the Clintons with their Yale Law degrees.”
Read More“The larger the state is, the more capable it is of picking winners and losers, and the more aggressively it will be lobbied to do so in a particular way. And while it is easily misunderstood in this age of the modern regulatory state, the tariff is perhaps the earliest example of big government — the state intervenes in otherwise free markets to bring about a result it finds socially or economically desirable. “
Read MoreFrom the first progressive era the left has preached democracy but delivered a credentialed new aristocracy with increasing contempt for the voters who do not acquiesce. It is called democracy when the mass abides the elite, populism when they do not.
Read More“Who produces, possibly coercively and forcibly, the goods and services that are considered “human rights”?”
Read MoreIdentity politics only works when another identity is excluded. It only exists in opposition. Identity politics is racist.
Read MorePrivate sector unions seek a greater share of a growing economy. Public sector unions seek a greater share of an expanding government.
Read MoreJudge selection was a key reason many skeptics supported Trump over HRC. While we may have cheered many decisions made by the court that would never have made it through Congress, we have made that the focus of our voting. The result may be that liberals will become less activist on the court and more deferential to the states’ power.
Read MoreWe are supposed to consider every transaction anybody on Trump’s team had with the Russians to be an existential threat, yet we are supposed to ignore the $500,000 speaking fee Bill Clinton got and the millions they gave to the Clinton Foundation.
Read MoreCan America survive Trump? Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway commented that a business that can not withstand a little bad management is not that great a business.
Read MoreThe ADL suffers from mission creep. While anti-Semitism is the last acceptable bigotry, the ADL chooses to expand its mission to fighting hate in all its forms. Anti-Semitism is developing much deeper roots in the left. The ADL ignores this in the pursuit of a political agenda that subverts its true mission.
Read MoreThere are several Democratic voices struggling to get beyond the demonization, pathologizing, and other excuse mongering. Such attacks only cause the Democrats to move further left and double down on the contempt for the voters that cost them so dearly. Ignoring reality avoids the pain of the loss, but offers no path to redemption.
Read More‘Men of religion combat freedom, and the friends of freedom attack religions; noble and generous spirits vaunt slavery, and base and servile souls extol independence; honest and enlightened citizens are enemies of all progress, while men without patriotism and morality make themselves apostles of civilization and enlightenment!”
Read More“The idea that international institutions, built on the blood-stained rubble of two world wars, must give way to some glorious new era of nationalism is inflaming the minds of people across the West. It’s a very weird epidemic of Year Zero thinking on a global level. “
Read More“I see that it is government alone that inherits all the prerogatives extracted from families, from corporations, or from men: the force of a small number of citizens, sometimes oppressive, but often protective, has therefore been succeeded by the weakness of all.”
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