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Archive of posts published in the tag: corruption

The Clinton Tradeoff

From the New York Times, Maureen Dowd writes An Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com excerpts: Because you assume that if it’s good for the Clintons, it’s good for the world, you’re always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires,

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The Foundation Slush Fund

from The American Spectator, The Founding Father… and Mother, by Jay Homnik excerpts: Here is the setup. You have an ex-President who wants to rake in loads of cash and exploit his fame and position to maximum profit. What to

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The Ethics of the Clinton Foundation

from The Wall Street Journal, The Clinton Foundation Super PAC by Kimberley Strassel: With the news this week that Mrs. Clinton—the would-be occupant of the White House—is landing tens of millions from foreign governments for her shop, it’s long past

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Clinton Commodities Trading- A Reminder

from The Shiny Object Fallacy by Kevin Williamson in National Review Online The wise political entrepreneur uses more opaque methods to make his purchases. Hillary Rodham Clinton walked away from the inquiry into her remarkably successful commodities-trading career unscathed, in

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The Cycle of Corruption

From Daniel Greenfield’s excellent blog, Sultan Knish, The Inequality of Access: Excerpts: Campaigns against income inequality invariably become mandates for corruption as aggrieved voters convinced that the system is rigged against them embrace the unfair advantage that they believe they are

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Bribery and Extortion

The concern about money and politics is worthy. But the fixation on billionaires with influence, whether it is the Kochs or Soros, is aimed at the wrong target. The larger problem is the corruption of the political class who rigs the game to extort payments from those who can pay.

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The Quality of Government

From Kevin Williamson at The National Review, A Deeper Naganism. Excerpts: But there is a critical variable that is at least partly within the direct control of government: the quality of government. The quality of government — its honesty, competence,

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