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He’s with her? Mike Bloomberg could team up with Hillary Clinton to try to take down President Trump in November — by making her his running mate. Bloomberg’s internal polling has found the combo “would be a formidable force,” campaign sources told the Drudge ReportSaturday. Clinton, who lost her 2016 White House bid to Trump despite winning the popular vote, said last week that she would “probably” not accept an offer to run as another Democrat’s veep. “I never say never because I believe in serving my country,” she told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. “But it’s never going to happen.” But the...

This morning I was at a Chicago Economic Club breakfast. The two panelists were Mayor Bloomberg from NYC, and Obama’s former chief of staff, Bill Daley. It was moderated by Andrea Mitchell. That’s about as middle of the road as we get in Chicago! The panel was supposed to be about immigration. Some excellent points were made. Personally, I favor a very liberal immigration policy in the United States. We need high quality immigrants. They fill jobs, create businesses and add to the vibrancy of the US. What we don’t need are poor quality illegal immigrants. It seems to me...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg loves us. He wants us to be healthy. So he’s taken it upon himself to pass laws to stop people from eating too much salt, trans fats, and big sugary drinks. He believes these new laws will make a difference. Of course, they might, but so will passing a law that requires everybody to eat only 1800 calories per day. When Mayor Bloomberg gets a hold of the new exercise study, there’s no telling what new laws will be passed. According to the medical journal The Lancelot, “a third of the world’s adults are physically...

Mayor Bloomberg is a wretched human being. He’s an ultra-rich limousine liberal who wants to impose his views on ordinary people. I’ve previously written about his statist efforts to ban bake sales, and I’ve noted with mixed feelings his proposal to tell food stamp recipients what they’re allowed to buy.Now he wants to criminalize large sodas. Holman Jenkins writes about this silly idea in the Wall Street Journal. Mike Bloomberg’s move to regulate the size of sodas sold in his city illustrates why it’s a good thing he is a mayor of New York and not the czar of all...

When Michael Bloomberg was in the final stretch of the 2001 mayor's race, the billionaire Republican's TV ads warned that his Democratic foe, if elected, would wreck the City Hall of then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. But once in office, Bloomberg reversed course on dozens of Giuliani policies and practices, even as he sought to avoid directly antagonizing the ex-mayor. "At the beginning everything is couched in terms of what your predecessor would do,” Bloomberg said in an interview. "And with time, nobody asks. They understand that you have your own style.” "Look -- I think when you look back, Rudy Giuliani...