Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailMy latest in the Washington Examiner . . . In politics, you fight over what matters. The more something matters, the bigger the fight. Since President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, the Supreme Court has mattered — today more than ever. For the first 150 years of …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailOn Kavanaugh and What Republicans should do before the Midterms 1. Why Kavanaugh not Gorsuch? Gorsuch replaced the conservative Scalia. When the conservative Judge Clarence Thomas was proposed to replace the liberal Thurgood Marshall, there was an awful, divisive fight in 1991. Prior to that, in 1987, …
Facebook Twitter Google+ Email PV’s Exclusive Newsmaker Interview: Konstantinos Roditis Question No. 1. Why are you running for Controller? Konstantinos Roditis: I’m running for Controller because the Controller is supposed to be the Chief Taxpayer Watchdog for the state. Unfortunately, the Controller has refused to audit projects like the High-Speed …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailThe epic Kavanaugh hearing is in the books. The Judiciary Committee may never be the same. Here is my assessment of the meeting: A. The Facts: The only person to add material facts was Kavanaugh. Ford did not fill in the holes in her story. Kavanaugh’s discussion …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailLong ago, our forerunners relied on a council of elders to decide matters of the group. Over the millennia, as we passed from groups to nations and laws began to replace customs as the glue of social order, those elders became judges. Nevertheless, the elders of long …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailThe higher the stakes, the greater the division. That is a law of history. America was never so divided than over our Revolution and the Civil War. Short of war, we were never so divided as over the adoption of the Constitution, which fundamentally changed the balance …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailThe Wall Street Journal and NBC News poll of “registered” voters finds Trump’s approval rating holding “remarkably stable” in the days following the conviction of former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and the plea deal involving his onetime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Why is that happening? and what does …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailThe Never Tax Cut -ters are at it again. First, they said the tax cuts wouldn’t work. Now that they have produced 4% growth, they are saying the growth won’t last long. Well, in November of last year, I said the tax reform would produce 4%+ growth …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailSocialism has been tried, to varying degrees, throughout the centuries and around the globe. From Hammurabi fixing wages in 1750 B.C., to Diocletian in Rome in AD 301 and to China multiple times before that to name a few. It has failed every time because it runs …
Facebook Twitter Google+ EmailThe economic growth rate for the second quarter of 2018 was 4.1%. That means growth for the year is above 3% – almost double the growth rate under President Obama. Of course, Obama used every possible spending ploy to boost the economy known to man for 8 …
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