Is Hillary 'Mentally 'illary'?
By Jeannie DeAngelis
Quite frankly, Hillary Clinton appears to be losing it. She is letting her hair down, literally and otherwise. Based on her behavior lately, the former first lady/current secretary of state is either trying to rehabilitate her stoic reputation, ecstatic that Bill's off supporting African farmers, or throwing caution to the wind and loosening up a bit.
Over the years, Hillary has said and done some pretty crazy things. Who can forget when Hillary, born in 1947, concocted the story that her late mother Dorothy named her after Mount Everest mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, who became famous five years after the little Rodham was born? Cont. Reading
Let the Left Eat Their Own Dog Food
By Jay Hendon
All too frequently I hear people complain about capitalism and greed, with the two words uttered in close proximity, as if one invariably evokes the other. And I fear that such complaining is becoming a habit. Recently it seems I'm hearing it as often as I did back in the early '80s, when I was guilty of incessantly repeating such thoughtless blather myself.
Back then, I was a Marxist wannabe, having been easily seduced by the righteous emotions evoked when loathing something as morally equivocal as capitalist greed. But I was also taken in by the very real and hormonally based seduction of both mind and body by an attractive, real-life communist woman. She sugarcoated her poisonous ideology with the notion that her brand of communism was the lowercase c variety -- the pure, and allegedly less vile strain of the disease, as distinct from the communism practiced by the nasty Stalinists. Cont. Reading
Back then, I was a Marxist wannabe, having been easily seduced by the righteous emotions evoked when loathing something as morally equivocal as capitalist greed. But I was also taken in by the very real and hormonally based seduction of both mind and body by an attractive, real-life communist woman. She sugarcoated her poisonous ideology with the notion that her brand of communism was the lowercase c variety -- the pure, and allegedly less vile strain of the disease, as distinct from the communism practiced by the nasty Stalinists. Cont. Reading
Long-Term Budgeting by a Short-Term Congress
By Jon N. Hall
The only budgets a Congress has control over are those that fall within its two-year term. Nevertheless, a Congress may pretend that it can set its spending priorities in stone so that a future Congress must do what it "dictates." The 112th Congress, the current one, tried to do this in the Budget Control Act of 2011, which triggers sequesters (automatic spending cuts) over the next several years. Such dictates amount to congressional malpractice, as no Congress can dictate to another Congress. Cont. Reading
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