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A few weeks ago I had to go back to DC yet again for the Right Online conference and it involved flying in and out of Reagan, as well as Newark. As usual, I stood in the long lines – even with my previous screening check mark on my boarding passes – and went through all the rituals of unloading some of my things and passing through a detector. When I arrived at the hotel I opened my bag to find the usual TSA greeting card indicating that they had searched my checked baggage, no matter how much of...

When Avant-Garde Rocker Frank Zappa invented his risible, daffy villain character for the fasical concept album Joe’s Garage, he named this entity The Central Scrutinizer. It never occurred to Mr. Zappa that this imaginary villain would be female, avowedly liberal, and seek the Presidency after a stint in the Senate from The Great State of New York. Yet, however, this dystopia becomes a very real possibility as Hillary dons the pastels, offers up the “free health care” to the middle class, and runs to be everyone’s mommy. When moderate liberal Blogger Mickey Kaus described one of Hillary’s more “nuanced” stands...