Skip to content

Tag: 2016 campaign

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary’s Foreign Policy Is A ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Subject For the Media

It is amazing that a former Secretary of State is running for President, with the world in flames due to the blunders of the Administration she used to be part of, at a moment when American voters have elevated foreign policy to one of their top concerns… and yet she has scarcely a word to say on the subject, and the media seems disinclined to ask her about it.

AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

Hillary Clinton Big On Social Media, Especially With People Who Don’t Exist

Like all efforts to measure true popularity and influence using Internet hits, it’s interesting and relevant, because we live in the social media era, but such popularity is also fickle and easily faked. It seems like most politicians have tumbled to the idea of building up “Astroturf” political support, so they can brag about impressive numbers of Twitter followers and Facebook friends.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Reminder To Media: Helping Hillary Is Not Your Job

Here’s the thing, reporters: it’s your job to remind Americans that Hillary’s under a thick cloud of scandal, and may end up under indictment, for running the off-the-books email server she was plugged into with that BlackBerry. It’s your job to remind American voters, over and over again, that Clinton jeopardized national security and deliberately violated transparency laws by doing this.

Hillary -in-washington

Hillary Clinton: Champion Of the Privileged Political Class

America needs bigger people, which means smaller government; more honesty, which means less political rhetoric; more property, which requires less collectivism; and more liberty, which demands less compulsion, not better-hidden compulsion. A greater burden of law and bigger political initiatives means more of us will be redefined as criminals and losers, and we can’t afford that.

Rick Perry

Rick Perry Slams Obama and Congress on ‘Failing’ Foreign Policy

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, currently preparing for a second presidential campaign, had a hard-hitting op-ed in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Friday, with a sharp critique of America’s current foreign policy aimed not just at President Barack Obama, but at Congressional leaders from both parties.

DSC_0113

Ted Cruz vs. Media’s Dark Art Of Highly Selective Fact-Checking

The exact number of agents working for the IRS is not relevant to either the joke Cruz was making, or the serious and legitimate point underlying it: the same government that pronounces itself utterly helpless to keep track of immigration scofflaws, or secure the border, is very aggressive about keeping tabs on law-abiding taxpayers.

AP/Charles Dharapak

Ted Cruz Welcomes Rand Paul To The 2016 Race

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) welcomes Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) into the race for the Republican nomination. “I am glad to welcome my friend Rand Paul into the 2016 GOP primary,” Cruz, the first in the 2016 presidential cycle to announce his bid for the White House, said in a statement.

Reid's involvement highlights the seriousness of the problem he may have dealing with a member in his ranks who’s expected to be indicted within weeks.

Retiring Harry Reid: ‘I Hope’ Jeb Bush Loses

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid has some decent things to say about the likely 2016 GOP presidential contenders. He appears to be personally fond of Sens. Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham, but says he wants former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to lose more than any of them.

AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool

Giuliani vs. Obama: Love, Respect and Patriotism

Sometimes a newspaper misses the news. Rudy Giuliani’s “Obama doesn’t love America” comments aren’t especially controversial; Scott Walker’s aides thinking such comments could be made “off the record” is the real controversy.

AP Photo/David Goldman

2016: Romney’s Possible Run Generates Little Excitement Beyond Donor Class

The editors of the Wall Street Journal greeted the possibility of a third Mitt Romney bid for the Presidency in 2016 with a piece entitled “Romney Recycled.” They’re not big fans of this sort of recycling, and for good reasons. Romney may argue that he’s learned his lesson and improved his pitch, but it’s difficult to revise the strong impressions created during his presidential campaigns.