The greatest trick any politician can pull off is to get his self-interest and his principles in perfect alignment. As Thomas More observed in Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons, “if we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly."
Which brings me to Senator Rand Paul, the GOP’s would-be Man for All Seasons. Paul emerged from the smoldering debris of the Republican health-care-reform train wreck as a figure of high libertaria...
Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post has no problem with political movies that distort history: "A too-literal allegiance to the facts can sometimes obscure a larger truth," she writes, bringing a century old socialist meme up-to-date.
Clinton Corruption Update for July 18, 2017 Time to do another Clinton Corruption update, which references such far-flung locales as Haiti, East Timor and Libya, as well as the inevitable mention of Russia: “New Abedin Emails Reveal Additional Instances of Clinton Donors Receiving Special Treatment from Clinton Department of State ." What sort of favors? In July 2009, in reference to the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Clinton Global Initiative head Doug Band told Abedin that she “Nee...
Ann Hornaday of the Washington Post has no problem with political movies that distort history: "A too-literal allegiance to the facts can sometimes obscure a larger truth," she writes, bringing a century old socialist meme up-to-date.
OPINION | As satisfying as it may be to “get after the Donald" or his progeny, the engorged criminal code that would be left would then be handed to the next president.
The Russian lawyer who landed a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during last year’s campaign with the promise of dirt on Hillary Clinton had one big thing in common with the Democratic candidate: Both had opposed Russia sanctions targeting human-rights abusers.
