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Is Bernie’s Hour Of Power At Hand?

Can a septuagenarian socialist who just survived a heart attack and would be 80 years old in his first year in office be elected president of the United States? It’s hard to believe but not impossible. As of today, Bernie Sanders looks like one of the better, if not best, bets for the nomination. Polls have him running first or second in the first three contests: Iowa on Monday, and then New Hampshire and Nevada. If Bernie can best main rival Joe Biden in Iowa, he will likely thump Joe in New Hampshire. Biden’s campaign, built around “electability,” could suffer a ...

Stepping Around Human Misery

Attending a meeting near Union Station in Washington, D.C., requires me to park a few blocks away and then walk under a bridge to an office building. People in business attire, like me, step carefully around the homeless men and women who have pitched tents under the bridge. They look filthy and miserable, especially in winter. The persistence of large numbers of homeless Americans is one of the signal policy failures of the past two generations. A 2015 survey found that more than half a million people are homeless on any given night. According to Mentalillnesspolicy.org, about 45 ...

Persuasion 101: The Art Of Insult

Lessons in the much-abused Art of Insult. Deplorables have been on my mind. Of course, they have been in the news a lot lately. Guests on a recent CNN show lampooned the deplorables who support President Trump. In response, Trump lovers lightning-zipped that video round the internet. To show the world how the uppity elites scorn and belittle Trump supporters. Hillary set this particular ball a-rolling with her “basket of deplorables” remark. That was during the campaign. Many on the left (and Never-Trumpers on the right) have been happy to kick it along. Which is how it ended up ...

Is It Too Late To Change To A Different Plan For 2020?

Question: I chose my Health Insurance and Part D plan for 2020, but now I am not sure I made the right choice. Can I change to a different plan? Answer: This may sound very similar to a recent question and it is, but the answer is different. Two annual enrollment periods are happening right now. The first is the General Enrollment Period (GEP). This GEP runs from Jan. 1 to March 31 each year and is an opportunity for those individuals who did not sign up for Medicare when they turned 65 or when they left work, and therefore must sign up now. These individuals can use the GEP to sign ...

The Trump Peace Plan Is Doomed

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat met at Camp David where Barak offered almost all of what Arafat asked for in exchange for making peace with the Jewish state. Arafat rejected the offer. The reason was and remains that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t want to make peace with Israel. Their goal is to eliminate it. Now comes President Trump with his own peace plan, offering statehood, prosperity and peace to the Palestinians. Has anything changed in the last 20 years, indeed, since 1948 when the Arabs rejected ...

Red China’s Infection Of US Classrooms

Dangerous menaces are spreading from mainland China to the United States. Surgical masks and Big Pharma vaccines, however, won’t protect this nation from its infiltration. The problem doesn’t lie with bats. It lies with America’s batty pursuit of globalization at all costs. Chinese Communist Party agents are using our suicidal pathologies — blind worship of “diversity,” naive exaltation of “cultural exchange” programs, and reckless surrender of our education system — against us for economic espionage, intellectual property theft and world dominance. While Beltway ...