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Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to travel in style. She insists on staying in the “presidential suite” of luxury hotels that she chooses anywhere in the world, including Las Vegas. She usually requires those who pay her six-figure fees for speeches to also provide a private jet for transportation — only a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 or larger will do. And she doesn’t travel alone, relying on an entourage of a couple of “travel aides,” and a couple of advance staffers who check out her speech site in the days leading up to her appearance, much like a White House...

The new year is a fresh beginning in many ways. We set aside past disappointments and start with a clean slate. Some folks have more disappointments to set aside than others. Many Democrats, just to cite an example off the top of my head, require some major work. When a presidential candidate wins only 600 of the approximately 3,100 counties in the country, his party needs some serious reinvention. 2005 will be the year in which various leaders of the self-styled party of the people will undergo such extreme makeovers that they’ll end up looking like Joan Rivers. If they...