Tag Archives: politicians

Will your future be built by entrepreneurs or by politicians?

ObamaCare! The War on Drugs! A War on Poverty! Prohibition!The idea that government will bring social progress isn’t new. Europe’s monarchs believed in big government long before there was a Soviet Union or a welfare state. Eighteenth-century philosopher Voltaire praised…

Time to pull your kids out of public school?

My high school colors were green and white. At graduation the boys wore green robes and the girls wore white. No one considered the girls inferior because of the color of their robes. Today, we live in different times. My…

Fox News Poll: Huckabee seen as more ethical than most, Clinton less

Hillary Clinton wins! Except this is one race she’d rather lose. The former secretary of state and current presidential aspirant tops the list as being “less ethical” than other politicians. GOP candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is on…

Britain 2015: What Americans can learn from UK election

LONDON — They called it “Question Time,” borrowing the term from the prime minister’s weekly appearance in the House of Commons, but this was surprisingly and refreshingly different. On Thursday, the three main candidates for prime minister — David Cameron,…

Why Robert Menendez was indicted for bribery — and it’s not partisan politics

The Justice Department has a solid case against Robert Menendez, despite the conspiracy theories that the indictment amounts to political payback. The pundits who say that don’t know what they’re talking about. I used to cover the Justice Department, and…

A Democrat’s Advice for Both Parties

This weekend’s health care debate in the House of Representatives underscored the deep divisions between Democrats and Republicans on the issue. There were legitimate fundamental and philosophical differences on both sides that were expressed, for the most part, in a…