Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park; he has this little passage: “A hundred years ago, we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines.” A hundred years. He’s right. We didn’t have those things, and I mention this because here we are in a so-called recession or on the verge of a so-called recession. We have the most […]
Hillary Clinton brushed aside any notion of bowing out yesterday during a fund-raiser in Albuquerque. ‘I’m going to campaign hard in all the remaining states,’ she said. She flew in and flew out of New Mexico for the fundraiser. ‘I want to tell you the campaign’s going well.’ She said anybody who believes that she […]
Candidates and pundits keep talking about “bringing the country together.” Yes: According to an AP story, this has left Americans wondering “if divisiveness will again prevail or if — just maybe — a window is open for a more civil, constructive era” in politics. Well, for you “wondering” Americans, I have the answer for you: […]
Rarely do state judicial elections generate national publicity, but that’s what happened in Wisconsin. The county judge, Michael Gableman, garnered 51 percent of the vote to defeat Justice Louis Butler. First time an incumbent was tossed off the court in 41 years, folks! A New York University lawyer, James Sample, calls the race one of […]
In the Wall Street Journal there was an editorial, “Solving the Hillary Problem,” and there’s a quote in this editorial that says: “Democrats should let Mrs. Clinton be Senate majority leader.” Isn’t it amazing? They are so eager to get her out of there; they will let her be the Senate majority leader! That’s something […]