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Three options in 2016: Establishment, socialist or prosperity

I had the honor of giving some remarks this past weekend at Donald Trump's really in Norcross, Georgia. As most of you know there are six candidates to whom I'm favorable in this election cycle: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz. So my appearance there did not constitute an endorsement specifically of Trump.
- Monday, October 12, 2015

The media's predictable (and so far laughably inept) attempt to tear down Ben Carson

This has a familiar feel to me, as you might imagine. Ben Carson is a black conservative who is not part of the political establishment, and is running quite strong in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. That has the media in a snit for all kinds of reasons. They don’t like black conservatives (OK, any conservatives, but especially blacks who dared to venture off the liberal plantation). They don’t like people who aren’t part of the political class daring to operate on their turf.
- Monday, October 12, 2015

Don't be a soundbite supporter

As this presidential race continues to unfold, some of us learn more and more about the candidates' ideas for solving problems and their leadership potential. In the process, some people flip-flop their opinions of the candidates based upon the latest take-down soundbites served up by some media sources.
- Monday, October 5, 2015

Obama's lousy new normal: Job growth disappoints yet again

One of the biggest wastes of time imaginable is to read news stories about what's expected in upcoming economic reports. Late last week, we were regaled with stories about how economists were expecting news of robust job growth, and how this would be followed by serious consideration on the part of the Federal Reserve Board to finally raise interest rates--which have been kept artificially low for years in the hope of spurring job growth.
- Monday, October 5, 2015

Good news, Ben Carson fans, your candidate is a fundraising juggernaut

If you're a supporter of Dr. Ben Carson's presidential bid, you had some good news this week. After a summer when it sometimes looked like his campaign was spending money faster than it could generate donations, the good doctor's fortunes have turned around. Not only did Carson have a stellar quarter, but he's also breaking records and demolishing the pace set by the 2012 GOP field.
- Saturday, October 3, 2015

Trump's tax plan: Lower rates and a simpler structure, but is it enough?

I've been perusing Donald Trump's proposed changes to the federal tax code, and if you measure the proposal strictly by comparing it with the status quo, it's no contest. Trump's plan wins by several lengths of the galaxy. Of course, that's a pretty low bar. I've been saying since my own campaign four years ago that what we need to do is not reform the tax code but throw it out and start over. Trump's proposal doesn't do that. It's still a progressive code with rates that gradually rise as your income rises. But it does achieve a lot of the simplification that would free people up to stop obsessing over tax strategies and just focus on running their businesses and/or their lives.
- Tuesday, September 29, 2015

The five types of attacks ruling this presidential season

We expect attacks and opportunistic criticism between presidential candidates whether they are of opposing parties or running in a primary battle within the same party. That is especially true this year, when Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment about Republicans not attacking each other was thrown out the window right from the start of the early primary season.
- Monday, September 28, 2015



The pain of ObamaCare gets worse

While the media are focused on the pope's historic visit to the USA, gotcha mania with Republican presidential candidates and he said/she said politics, the pain of ObamaCare on real people gets worse.
- Wednesday, September 23, 2015

It's not too late to save the saveable

I know a lot of people are frustrated and disgusted with the direction and lack of leadership of our nation. A lot of people are also fed up with the gridlock and bitter partisanship in Congress, and many think that simply changing party leadership or which party controls Congress will make everything better.
- Monday, September 21, 2015

Dear Media: It's not Trump's job to 'correct' everything his supporters say

It never takes long in a campaign cycle for stories like this to start showing up in the media. So-and-so says such-and-such that may be inaccurate, and a candidate who was present when the thing was said does not correct him! This phenomenon is especially predictable whenever someone levels a criticism of President Obama that the media has decided is verboten, especially when it involves the notion that he is a Christian (Obama says he is) or that he is a Muslim (Obama says he is not).
- Monday, September 21, 2015

VIDEO: A preview of Wednesday night's debate on CNN

I thought I'd share with you this morning a preview I did on the radio show of tomorrow night's debate on CNN. It's only a minute-and-a-half so I won't give away the whole thing by writing exactly what I said. I will say this, though: Given the number of candidates and the time available, you know that no one is going to have time to dig deep into the substance of issues.
- Tuesday, September 15, 2015

A preview of the second Republican debate

Following the first Republican presidential debate on August 6, 2015, I published my presidential Pick Six with a brief perception perspective on each of them. Here's how I saw it then:
- Monday, September 14, 2015

New Obama executive order forces taxpayers to pay people not to work

We often criticize Barack Obama for never having run a business and not knowing anything about it. But maybe we’re missing something. Obama apparently believes he knows how to run every business in America that wants to be a federal contractor, because he is very fond of telling them how they have to run their companies as a condition for getting federal contracts
- Monday, September 14, 2015



An interview with Becky Gerritson of 'Let's Put US Back in USA'

I often talk about apathy as the biggest problem facing this country right now, because those who could be part of the solution but don't get involved are by definition part of the problem. I'm glad to say, though, that there are a lot of Americans who are rising up to make a difference, and one group of Americans like this is "Let's Put US Back in USA."
- Friday, September 4, 2015


The Cadillac Tax is a heap of junk

I rarely agree with labor unions, and I look pretty skeptically at the arguments of health insurance companies too. They’re both pretty shameless about pursuing their own self-interests regardless of how it affects anyone else. But sometimes they’re right, and they’re right in the current push to see the ObamaCare Cadillac Tax repealed.
- Sunday, August 30, 2015

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