Gov. Jerry Brown just made California the second state in the US to mandate a $15 / hour minimum wage. But instead of spitting up the usual talking points about how great a “living wage” will be for the everyone, Brown admitted that it’s probably a bad idea, then signed the legislation anyway.
“Economically, minimum wages may not make sense,” he said. Read More
Donald Trump’s campaign has always rung a faint bell for me, and finally it dawned on me why: he’s turning the presidential race into an episode of the Jerry Springer Show. Read More
Hand it to Democrats and progressives: they are relentless pushing big government as the all-purpose cure-all.
One example is healthcare. To progressives, the fact that Obamacare is an un-repealable nationalization of the healthcare industry and huge swaths of the US economy isn’t enough. Regardless of how well it actually performs, the real goal is (and always has been) nationalized healthcare. Read More
The GOP establishment is now in a full-on panic over Donald Trump, enough so that Lindsey Graham and now Jeb! Bush among many other have endorsed Ted Cruz. It’s an orgy of “strange bedfellows” among the #NeverTrump movement. Read More
Garry Kasparov wrote a Facebook post last week chiding Sanders supporters for “lecturing [him], a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means.” Read More
This is a fascinating article about what is still a coronation of Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side of things.
The DNC is successfully doing to Bernie Sanders’ campaign exactly what the GOP is desperately trying to do to Donald Trump’s. Simply put: they’re killing it. Read More
Right now, my Facebook feed is percolating with the usual mashup of dog pictures, career moves, funny cat videos, “fabulous weekend” this, “new kitchen” that, etc. It as though no one on Facebook has leaking gutters, bad weekends, bratty, underachieving kids, or other encounters with reality. Read More
Again last night Bernie Sanders danced around the details of his economic plans, even as he was confronted with Hillary Clinton’s television ad ridiculing the fact that most questions that Sanders is asked seems to circle the drain the same way and end up with Sanders attacking “Wall Street.” Read More
Now that the socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is breaking through Hillary Clinton’s so-called “firewalls” and – part of me can’t believe this – may be headed toward a nomination, mainstream America ought to confront a grim reality: Socialism is back. Read More
James Carville, a strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, was right that American voters that year cared more about the economy than any other issue and reminded campaign staffers of this ad nauseum. It worked, a pliant media fell in love with Bubba, and the rest is history. Read More
Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been, or possibly hasn’t been, flirting with a presidential run for a for the last three election cycles. Read More
One of the more confounding (and depressing) aspects of the 2016 presidential campaign has been the strength and resilience of the self-avowed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders. Right now, Sanders is in a statistical dead-heat with Hillary Clinton in Iowa and has a 14-point advantage in New Hampshire, according to aggregated polling data at RealCearPolitics. Read More
