The federal government can put Social Security and Medicare on the credit card for as long as demand for U.S. Treasuries is high. States and municipalities don’t have that luxury. There is an upper bound to what even the most progressive mayors and governors can grant the lobbies that mobilize voters for their campaigns. But it’s a glass ceiling. Public sector unions are eager to break it.
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“In his conceit that historical progress is assured and irreversible, and that challenges to such progress are reducible to irrational prejudice, Obama is a paradigmatic liberal. “
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from Matthew Continetti at National Review, Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble What passes for news today is speculation and advocacy, wishful thinking and self-fashioning, mindless jabber and affirmations of virtue, removed from objective reality and common sense. The content is
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from Matthew Continetti at National Review, Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble The other day, for example, Bob Schieffer observed on Face the Nation that one in five journalists live in New York, D.C., or Los Angeles. The news is manufactured
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from Matthew Continetti at National Review, Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble There is still excellent journalism. I would point, for starters, to the work on charter flights that led to the resignation of Tom Price. But the overall tone of
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from Matthew Continetti at National Review, They’re Wrong About Everything The fact is that almost the entirety of what one reads in the paper or on the web is speculation. The writer isn’t telling you what happened, he is offering
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from The National Review, Matthew Continetti writes Who Rules The United States: The last few weeks have confirmed that there are two systems of government in the United States. The first is the system of government outlined in the U.S.
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from The National Review, Matthew Continetti writes Who Rules The United States: Here was a case of current and former national security officials using their position, their sources, and their methods to crush a political enemy. And no one but supporters
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From The Washington Free Beacon, Matthew Continetti writes Trump Short Circuits Washington: Not only are there two Americas. There are two governments: one elected and one not, one that alternates between Republicans and Democrats and one that remains, decade after
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From The Weekly Standard in 2010, The Process is the Substance by Matthew Continetti: Once the shock wore off, the Democrats decided that if they could not pass their reform following normal procedure, they would simply change the procedure. Hence the
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From National Review Matthew Continetti writes Liberalism is a Hoax. Excerpts: What are the apocalyptic predictions of climate alarmists but Sorelian myths intended to shape legislation, regulation, and the culture in the radicals’ favor? To merely profess agnosticism on the subject of global warming is
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From National Review Matthew Continetti writes Liberalism is a Hoax. Excerpts: It is sometimes difficult to understand that, for the Left, racism and sexism and prejudice are not ethical categories but political ones. We are not merely talking about bad
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Matthew Continetti writes in The National Review Online Oligarchy in the 21st Century Excerpts: The campaign against inequality and the call for higher taxes and the regulatory burdens placed on extractive industries further the self-interest of the liberals who rule our
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Matthew Continetti writes in The National Review Online Oligarchy in the 21st Century Excerpts: If the business editors of the Times were aware of the irony of lamenting the political influence of great wealth on one half of their page while handling
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from The National Review Online Matthew Continetti writes The Inequality Business: Excerpts: It’s a funny thing about the inequality debate that has consumed the American intelligentsia for the past several years: The individuals who are most interested in identifying, describing,
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The January 2013 issue of Commentary asked 53 writers and conservative leaders What is the Future of Conservatism? This is part of the response from Matthew Continetti, addressing the appeal and the gaps in the Democrat’s Life of Julia: Julia’s relationship to government is tenuous. She
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Julia Must Be Stopped
The January 2013 issue of Commentary asked 53 writers and conservative leaders What is the Future of Conservatism? This is part of the response from Matthew Continetti, addressing the appeal and the gaps in the Democrat’s Life of Julia: Julia’s relationship to government is tenuous. She