The dark side of pragmatism is not obvious to most people. Like so many terms its application and meaning in the private sector can alter greatly when applied in the public realm. But changing reality while being numb to principles
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From whatever biased analysis I can render on Trump he seems to be a Progressive- much like Perot- He believes in strong central executive power, majoritarian democracy, pragmatism over constitutional or economic principles, and charismatic leadership. As a pragmatic leader
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from Investor’s Business Daily, Clinton Email Scandal: How A Biased Press Tried To Ignore It: The FBI now has 147 agents chasing down leads. A key person involved in the scandal has been granted immunity. Hillary Clinton — who has already
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from William McGurn in The WSJ Hillary’s Soft Despotism: This kind of authoritarianism doesn’t come with goose steps or brown shirts or large populist movements. It prefers bureaucracy to bombast. It presents itself as a solution to the complexities of
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Don Boudreaux writes Which presidential candidate will do the least harm? in The Triblive. At this moment — my assessment might change tomorrow — I have a slight preference for a Trump victory. The reason is that the same mainstream
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from John Podhoretz at The New York Post Apparently we should get on a boat and leave America ASAP: The two candidates for the Democratic nomination spent most of two hours arguing over who was the better diagnostician of the moral diseases,
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Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Madeleine Albright & the sad sound of feminist desperation by Suzanne Venker On Friday, Gloria Steinem told Bill Maher that young women are only voting for Sanders because that’s where the boys are. It seems women don’t think
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from Dick Morris at The Hill, Clinton deploys B Team Their strategy is laughable. After losing 84 percent of young voters in Iowa — and failing to recover them in New Hampshire — they sent in two aging fossils of
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From The Washington Times, Language Labels and Laws, by Richard Rahn The “progressive” Hillary Clinton wants more government regulation, spending, and taxation, while the “progressive” Bill Clinton told us two decades ago that the “era of big government is over”
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from National Review, Hillary’s Rationale for Opposing Citizens United Fell Apart in Last Week’s Debate By asserting that she can take money from these groups, including honorary fees to spend as she sees fit for personal rather then political benefit, and
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from Katherine Timpf at National Review, Sorry, Madeline Albright, but I’d Rather Go to Hell Than Support Hillary Clinton Second of all, I’d actually take the exact opposite view of Steinem’s: I’d say that the liberal women who support Bernie are
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From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Democrats’ Theme for 2016 Is Totalitarianism: Donald Trump may talk like a brownshirt, but the Democrats mean business. For those of you keeping track, the Democrats and their allies on the left have now:
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from Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal, Clinton is Already Vowing to Overreach: This is no small matter. “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands,” James Madison warned in Federalist 47, “may justly be pronounced
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Carly Fiorina schools Hillary on the economy in Hillary Clinton Flunks Economics in The Wall Street Journal: And yet Hillary Clinton said on Oct. 13 in the first Democratic presidential debate, “The economy does better when you have a Democrat in the
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Carly Fiorina schools Hillary on the economy in Hillary Clinton Flunks Economics in The Wall Street Journal: People at the top seem to be doing just fine under the policies she extols. As this newspaper reported last year, in the period
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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 Jonah Goldberg at National Review, Hillary Clinton’s Enabler-in-Chief The journalist turned Clinton White House courtier is in the news because he shows up in Clinton’s e-mails — a lot. (Roughly a third of the last e-mail dump contains e-mail
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from Hillary Clinton’s Empire of Dirt by Victory Davis Hanson in National Review We all understand the principles of medieval liberal exemption. Progressives often voice abstract anguish to win psychological absolution and political cover for their own moral lapses and
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from Cafe Hayek, A Canned Lie: As ‘responsibility’ is commonly understood in modern English, a responsible person is able and willing to respond to the events in question by personally bearing the bulk of the consequences. If Ms. Clinton were really to take responsibility,
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