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As someone whose livelihood depends on political email traffic, my ears perk up whenever email becomes more than just background noise and instead makes national news. So, a few days ago, when digi…
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Before we begin, can we stop referring to Wisconsin as Midwestern nice?
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Lots of extreme things have been said about Donald Trump, but when you look at his own words there is surprising news: He appears moderate, says positive things, and uses effective language.
In the...
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The senator is essentially drawing his own primary map in hopes of halting Donald Trump.
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Reddit, the popular site dubbed '"the front page of the Internet," has been flooded with pro-Trump material over the last two months. What's going on?
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It's so cute I'm going to die!!
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Our Vision
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Whenever Hannity hosts Trump, critics say, it's mainly to tell the casino tycoon "how awesome he is."
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Actor Morgan Freeman drew some fierce backlash on social media when he posted a photo tagged with the location "Jerusalem, Israel."
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“The Fallen State" TV, hosted by Jesse Lee Peterson convened a special a town hall forum with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz supporters Sunday night (4/10/16) in ...
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Why didn’t The Donald invest more heavily in his ground game?
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The strategist publicly questions Trump’s electability, but privately his PAC tells donors Trump can win.
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Can we trust Donald Trump to get rid of government-run healthcare?
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Can we trust Donald Trump to stand firm on immigration?
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There is a proposal in Illinois for the state to put a device on cars to see how many miles citizens are driving. The state would take that data to use in order to charge a tax on drivers depending...
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This old clip from 2009 was thrown over my transom today. It is a bracing reminder of the stakes in this election, which might be the last chance to reverse course on further empowerment of government control over healthcare.
I had forgotten about it, but listening to lefty Robert Reich say what an “honest” (Democrat) presidential candidate would say if she told the truth, it is a good reminder of the health care mess in which we find ourselves with government controlled health care.
Reich believes that young people should pay more for healthcare–now occurring on schedule with Obamacare — that the elderly and sick should be denied life-extending care, and drug companies punished financially resulting in less innovation. From his 2009 speech (referenced in James Taranto’s column:)
Look, we have the only health-care system in the world that is designed to avoid sick people. [laughter] That’s true, and what I’m going to do is I am going to try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people.
But that means you–particularly you young people, particularly you young, healthy people–you’re going to have to pay more. [applause] Thank you.
“And by the way, we are going to have to–if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive, so we’re going to let you die. [applause]
“Also, I’m going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government in terms of Medicare, Medicaid–we already have a lot of bargaining leverage–to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs.
But that means less innovation, and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market, which means you are probably not going to live that much longer than your parents. [applause] Thank you.”
The key words in that clip are: “We’re not going to give you…” Technocrats like Reich remind me of medieval lords, controlling all resources, they then decide your share.
In this regard, the power over life and death is the ultimate power.
Reich regularly writes about how the rich screw the rest of us. But technocrats like Reich are the real want-to-be screwers.
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Donald Trump continued this week to lose ground to Sen. Ted Cruz in the race for second-ballot delegates, whose votes will matter in a contested convention. In the latest setback, a caucus in one of the seven congressional districts in South Carolina picked delegates who are likely to support Cruz if
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After almost seven years of fighting Senate President Steve Sweeney over court picks, Chris Christie folded and named a liberal Democrat to the state's highest court
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It looks like Cruz is going to win the winner-take-all state of Nebraska and all 36 of its delegates in May when they hold their primary. And that’s great news! But that’s not what this…
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His lead over opponents Cruz and Kasich has eroded a little but remains in double digits
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Many of Marco Rubio's delegates are no longer bound
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Written by Nick Giokas Here’s an Op-Ed I wrote that didn’t make it past the editorial stage when the “Internet Intifada” kicked off some months ago. I’ve edited it for the current context. If you w…
