It turns out that Richard Nixon was a hippie.
Here’s Tricky Dick’s wisdom on taxation, always worth dusting off this time of year:
“We shall never make taxation popular, but we can make taxation fair.”
See — he’s talking about “fairness” — and we all now know that’s code for social justice straight out of Saul Alinsky. And it was especially socialistic for him to invoke the concept back in a time when the top tax rate was 70%. Read More…
When candidates talk to high-level donors, they tell the truth.
And so despite his campaign’s strenuous downplaying, Mitt Romney’s open-mike “gaffe” revealing some details of his tax plan at a closed-door fundraiser in Palm Beach is real news.
Forget for the moment Romney’s announcement to the well-heeled crowd that he would likely let HUD die on the vine. And given that this was a crowd likely lousy with second homes, his talk about ending the mortgage deduction for second homes could perhaps qualify as political courage. Read More…
It’s all but official: Willard Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. But who is this Mormon from Massachusetts who might be president?
By some accounts, he is emerging from the primary slugfest as the most damaged Republican candidate in recorded history.
But others point to his Teflon tenaciousness, his striking success in business and his remorseless discipline on the campaign trail. No one but a fool would count this candidate out – especially given a still-rocky economy and America’s essentially centre-Right political sensibilities.
So let’s look at the man in full, both the good and the bad. And as an added bonus, I’ll throw in some free political advice: the best case that Mitt can make to the American people. Read More…
In the summer of 1989, Jeri Sundvall-Williams was raped by 10 members of the Crips gang. She was then locked in a room, let out only from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night to turn tricks. She was required to return with $300, or around “15 dates a night,” she estimates.
Today she is running for the Portland City Council in a campaign that proves that life can go on when the nightmare ends. The primary is May 15th.
A native of Oregon’s Klamath tribe, Jeri was born in Eugene and got married at age 19. After bearing four children and moving to Rhode Island, her husband turned abusive and she returned to Portland and moved in with a woman she thought was a friend. Read More…
There he was—Poppy Bush—giving Mitt Romney the Lone Star Yankee benediction in his office, resplendent in purple socks and a white turtleneck, while Barbara gazed on. The establishment has spoken: Romney is to be the GOP nominee. Now only the rank and file have to fall in line.
The Bush family’s belated backing of Team Romney is really no surprise. Mitt Romney is the perfect fit for the Bush political model—an Ivy League–educated businessman from a good Republican family carrying Rockefeller Republican DNA into the leadership of a more conservative party. Personal virtues like marital fidelity are presumed—the Bushes and the Romneys have, after all, known each other for a long time. There is sympathy for the dance Romney is doing in the primary—the patrician’s uneasy truce with the rough-and-tumble world of politics is reconciled by advice from the Lee Atwater school, circa 1988: sometimes you have to campaign dirty to govern clean. Read More…