June 11, 2016   Hillary Clinton was in big trouble. The Inspector General stated she skirted the law by using her private server for classified information.  Polls showed Trump was beating her by anywhere from two to five points. The number of new jobs created in our supposedly-improving economy was an abysmal 38,000. Sanders had pulled into a statistical dead heat in California. But the big blow was an article in The Wall Street Journal by Douglas E. Schoen raising the possibility that Clinton would be denied the nomination in favor of a stronger candidate. Who is Douglas E. Schoen?   A hard-core Sanderista? No. Mr. Schoen is the consummate Democratic insider.  Not only does he have degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he has a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University.  An award-winning pollster, his New York City-based consulting firm has been advising national Democrats for over thirty years – Bill Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Evan Bayh and President Obama.  His international clients included former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and three Israeli Prime Ministers. So why would Mr. … [Read more...]

  May 30, 2016   Republicans are flabbergasted at the popularity of Bernie Sanders and his main cause, socialism. After all, socialism and its authoritarian twin, communism, uniformly produce disaster.  The population of North Korea and South Korea are genetically identical; yet communist North Korea is a totalitarian cesspool of mass murder, gulags and starvation. Meanwhile, capitalist South Korea is booming. The list goes on. Russia, China, Viet-Nam and Cambodia while under communist regimes produced no economic growth, but mastered the arts of mass murder and famine. The hero of the American left, Hugo Chavez and his toady understudy Nicolás Maduro have turned once prosperous Venezuela into a basket case.  When the communist Daniel Ortega took over Nicaragua, 20 percent of the country fled to neighboring Costa Rica. Cubans risk life and limb to escape the hell hole created by the toast of the faculty lounge, Fidel Castro.  Even moderate socialist regimes such as Italy and Spain, have huge problems with unemployment.  Adolph Hitler was a socialist. Republicans like to blame the liberal media, biased college professors and public labor unions, but the … [Read more...]

    April 6, 2016   Connecticut Republicans have been frustrated because in the past, by the time our primary rolls around, our nominee has already been chosen. Not this year. On April 26, our opinion will matter. We should firmly get behind the one man who has the best chance of defeating the Democrats and whose rational and humane polices can reunite our splintering country. That man is John Kasich. Donald Trump has done the country a service by pointing out that our borders should be secure, our trade agreements should protect the middle class and that our intervention in the mid-East was poorly conceived. But his volatile personality, knack for outraging large segments of the population and visceral instinct to insult everyone who disagrees with him is simply not suited for someone who will have his finger on the nuclear trigger. The main job of our president is to prevent nuclear missiles from becoming airborne. Everything else is irrelevant. Ted Cruz is a solid conservative but some of his positions will simply not fly in the general election. He proposes to institute a flat tax of 10% for those making over $34,000 a year while adding a 17% … [Read more...]