President Obama is visiting Hiroshima, Japan just weeks shy of the 71st anniversary of the U.S. dropping of the atomic bomb. He has no plans, however, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
In much the same way that a drug dealer exerts de facto control over his addicted customers, the federal government exerts de facto control over the school your child attends.
With the right connections – particularly liberal connections – failure carries exactly no consequence.
Uncle Fed lives upstairs. He has a magical computer that lets him create money out of thin air.
Inevitably this election season the call will come to abolish the Electoral College. It was a bad idea four years ago. It will be a bad idea four years hence.
Students at Stanford University voted six to one against required courses in Western civilization. Yet the irony of casting ballots in a democratic process being a product of Western civilization is completely lost on them.
The Department of Veterans is nothing less than a microcosm of the entire federal government – a top-down Leviathan that is callously and willfully unaccountable to those it is charged with serving and to the taxpayers that pay for it.
Republican leaders have assumed that the middle class vote is firmly in the bag and that listening to some carping and bitching from that quarter is just par for the course. No big deal.
It is dangerously naive to think that the horrors experienced by France and Belgium in the past four months will remain confined to Europe.
Had GOP elites taken a moment sometime between 2009 and now to have a sip of tea, they might never have had to confront the threat to their power that they clearly believe Donald Trump to be.
Hillary Clinton’s national education “SWAT Team” is but another manifestation of the liberal belief that every societal problem calls for a massive federal program requiring billions of dollars and thousands of federal bureaucrats.
Mitt, but for your ineptitude as a candidate, all of us – including Donald Trump – would be calling you Mr. President today.
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State level in this case, Buddy.
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