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and your husband make King Midas look incom-
want to get into questions involving her finances
course her campaign events are
Although New Yorkers tend
to do good and ended up doing well. It’s also a
If Hillary Clinton were not only cynical but
Letters To The Editor
And no, there was nothing in
a
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Hillary Clinton
and the burden
of authenticity
Wes Beall
PRESS ROOM
THOMAS
SOWELL
Nancy Harris
BOOKKEEPING
Hughes Ellis
SPORTS EDITOR
In 1988, a flight atten-
dant was killed and more
Joy Slaymaker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Ryleigh Salmon
SOCIETY EDITOR
We all make mistakes and some of us learn
from them. What is even better is to learn from
other people’s mistakes, where they pay for those
mistakes while we learn free of charge.
Many Americans who say that we should
learn from other people, especially Europeans,
mean that we should imitate what they did. That
may make those who talk this way feel superior
to other Americans. But let us never forget that
the most disastrous ideologies of the 20th cen-
tury — Communism, Fascism and Nazism — all
originated in Europe. So did both World Wars.
More recently, Europe has been belatedly
discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to
1936, was a forerunner of the same mindset
under later theories in civil rights law.
What such fancy words boil down to is very
little evidence is required to shift the burden
FINALLY A KARDASHIAN
WOMAN I CAN SUPPORT.
GENE
LYONS
She’s a very smart cookie, Hill-
ary Rodham Clinton. And she
always does her homework. No,
she’s not a mesmerizing speaker
like Bill, and not the most out-
wardly charismatic politician in
the race (whoever that may be).
GOP focus groups say her biggest
weakness is their perception of
her “entitlement” and seeming
remoteness.
So off she goes on another
However, contrary to
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members of the Clinton family.
Wait — did I say “if’?
Steve Chapman blogs daily at <newsblogs.chicagotri-
bune.com/steve_chapman>. The Chicago Tribune colum-
nist is distributed by Creators Syndicate Inc.
© 2015, Creators Syndicate Inc.
Let parents practice
fear- free parenting
1\ /T a^e controversy over “free-range parenting’
|%/l is a worthy debate about keeping kids safe. No
XV A. matter how you characterize the parenting style in
which children are allowed to play and walk alone in their
neighborhoods, criminalizing it is the wrong response.
It happened one Sunday last month in Silver Spring,
Md., when police picked up a brother and sister, 6 and to
years old, who were walking home from a park about a mile
from their house. It was the second time in four months
that police had intervened in the parenting decisions of
Danielle and Alexander Meitiv.
Back in December, having been alerted by a citizen
concerned that the kids were unsupervised, police picked
them up, drove them home and notified Child Protective
Services. CPS started a file. When it happened last month,
police took the children to CPS.
The Meitivs got a letter in February from CPS saying
they had been found responsible for “unsubstantiated
neglect,” meaning there was insufficient or contradictory
information that prevented investigators from drawing a
conclusion.
The Meitivs aren’t the only parents who’ve been in trou-
ble for not supervising every moment of their children’s
lives. A mother, 38, in Austin, Texas, was investigated for
neglect after her children, 8 and 6, walked the dog one day
last August. A month before that, a 46-year-old mother in
South Carolina was arrested and jailed for 17 days after
leaving her 9-year-old daughter unsupervised in a park
while she went to work.
Some states regulate how old a child must be before
staying home alone. In Illinois, that age is 14. Missouri
has no legal age limit. Dr. Bob Wilmott, chief of pediatrics
at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center, says chil-
dren should know basic safety rules, have quick access to
an adult if needed and know to call 911 in an emergency.
Similar common-sense strategies should be applied to kids
being outside alone.
Parents should make these decisions, not the police or
child services authorities.
even though an element of calculation in Hill-
43 of the challengers were outspent.
In 2012, casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson spent
And that could turn out to be
her secret weapon.
Arkansas Times columnist Gene
tion, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website Lyons can be reached by email at eugene-
lyons2@yahoo.com.
© 2015, United Feature Syndicate Inc.
Double standard on unaccountable money
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STEVE
CHAPMAN
One of the
funniest con-
versations I’ve
heard took
place among
a small group
of Arkansas
women who’d
done their
best to clue the
newlywed Hill-
ary Rodham in
on a basic fact of Southern life
she’d been reluctant to accept in
the 1970s: cute counts. It’s not
necessary to be a beauty queen,
but a woman who doesn’t look as
attractive as she can is often sus-
pected of being too “authentic”
for her own good.
The lady lumberjack look then
Hilo to Honolulu.
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even if it takes a constitutional amendment.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Today In History
Today is Tuesday, April ty signed in San Francisco
28, the 118th day of 2015. the year before took effect.
There are 247 days left in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
the year. resigned as Supreme Allied
Today’s Highlight commander in Europe; he
in History: On April 28, was succeeded by Gen. Mat-
1945, Italian dictator Benito thew B. Ridgway.
Mussolini and his mistress, In 1965, President Lyn-
Clara Petacci, were executed don B. Johnson ordered U.S.
by Italian partisans as they Marines to the Dominican
attempted to flee the coun- Republic to protect Ameri-
try. can citizens and interests in
On this date: In 1758, the face of a civil war.
the fifth president of the In 1974, a federal jury
United States, James Mon- in New York acquitted for-
roe, was born in Westmore- mer Attorney General John
land County, Virginia. Mitchell and former Com-
In 1789, there was a muti- merce Secretary Maurice H.
ny on the HMS Bounty as Stans of charges in connec-
rebelling crew members of tion with a secret $200,000
the British ship set the cap- contribution to President
tain, William Bligh, and 18 Richard Nixon’s re-election
others adrift in a launch in campaign from financier
the South Pacific. (Bligh and Robert Vesco.
most of the men with him
reached Timor in 47 days.)
In 1817, the United States than 60 persons injured
and Britain signed the Rush- when part of the roof of an
Bagot Treaty, which limited Aloha Airlines Boeing 737
the number of naval vessels tore off during a flight from
allowed in the Great Lakes.
In 1925, the Interna-
tional Exposition of Modern Pulitzer
Industrial and Decorative author Harper Lee is 89.
Arts, which gave rise to the Former Secretary of State
term “Art Deco,” began a James A. Baker III is 85.
six-month run in Paris. Former “Tonight Show”
In 1940, Glenn Miller host Jay Leno is 65. Actress
and his Orchestra recorded Nancy Lee Grahn (TV: “Gen-
“Pennsylvania 6-5000” for eral Hospital”) is 59. Actor
RCA Victor. Chris Young is 44. Actress
In 1952, war with Japan Penelope Cruz is 41.
officially ended as a trea- — Associated Press
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Les Linebarger
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it has about the same chance
as Miranda Lambert has of fashionable on Ivy League cam-
becoming prime minister of puses confused Arkansas voters,
Turkey. as did Hillary’s decision to keep
Because a campaign her maiden name after marriage,
finance amendment is not (As the husband of a Southern
going to happen, Clinton can girl often patronized to her face in
safely appease those Demo- a New England college town back
crats who favor it without fear then, I can testify cultural incom-
of incurring responsibility for prehension can run both ways.)
its consequences. The point is that Hillary Rod-
But they and others should ham Clinton listened. As she
take this as additional proof later explained, she hadn’t really
Comparing anti-trust law and lawlessness
of proof to the accused, in
defiance of centuries-old legal listening tour. “A sweet, docile
traditions the accuser has the granny in a Scooby van,” Dowd
burden of proof in criminal sneers.
cases and the plaintiffs have reporters who marvel at Hillary’s
the burden in civil cases. “willingness to put on the hair
Otherwise, any fact or the- shirt of humility to regain power,”
ory that sounds plausible to she actually appears to enjoy the
legal authorities is enough to fool things.
force the accused to prove a Partly, it’s a woman thing,
negative or lose the case. See, Hillary and my wife worked
Such violations of stan- together back when the gover-
dards used in most other nor’s wife served on the board
cases are usually inflicted on those who have of Arkansas Children’s Hospi-
import millions of people from cultures that already been demonized and whose guilt has tai. Diane always mentioned two
despise Western values, and which often pro- been assumed and punishment is fervently things: how hard she worked on
mote hatred toward Western people. desired, such as big business, employers accused children’s health issues, and how
Maybe that is a mistake that we can think of discrimination or men accused of rape. she never pulled rank.
about when Congress finally decides to do some- Google is accused of running its Internet But what really endeared her
thing about our open borders and our immigra- search programs in such a way that they are to my wife was Hillary’s empa-
tion laws that we refuse to enforce. more accessible to the public than other search thy during a prolonged medi-
European anti-trust regulators are giving us programs available through Google. Since peo- cal crisis involving our son. At
another free lesson in confused thinking by filing pie can search through other sources besides times, Diane was under terrible
anti-trust charges against Google, on grounds Google, it is not at all clear why Google cannot emotional strain. Hillary never
that its searching facilities give preferential run its own operation for its own benefit, while failed to show concern. Was the
treatment to Google’s own searching services others run their operations for their own benefit, new treatment helping? Had we
over other competing searching services. The whole point of competition in the market thought about seeking another
The European Union’s commissioner for com- is to create economic efficiency which, by its very opinion?
petition explained the basis for the complaint nature, means eliminating the less efficient pro-
against Google: “We have a focus on a certain ducers. Confusion about the difference between it for her. I wasn’t a political jour-
conduct, a certain behavior which, if our doubts maintaining competition and maintaining com- nalist then. It wasn’t about me. It
are going to be proven, we would like to change petitors has long plagued anti-trust law on both was about two mothers.
because we believe that it hampers competition.” sides of the Atlantic. In an article unfortunate-
Some of us think laws should be clear-cut In Europe, there still seems to be a notion that ly headlined “Manufacturing
Bill and Hillary Clinton are to money what
the Gulf of Mexico is to the Mississippi River:
the inevitable destination of a large and never-
ending flow, which is sometimes polluted.
The latest example comes in the form of
donations of $2.35 million to the Clinton Foun-
dation by the chairman of a Canadian uranium
company that needed, and got, U.S. government
approval to be taken over by a Russian firm that
enjoys the favor of Vladimir Putin.
Maybe you can guess who was secretary of
state at the time the State Department reviewed
the deal. Oh, and those contributions were not
publicly disclosed, reports the New York Times, that when a conflict arises between the power understood how strongly people
“despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck of government and the liberties of individuals, in Arkansas felt about the name
with the Obama White House to publicly identify the former will always take priority with Clinton, thing. So she took the name
all donors.” The amendment sponsored by Senate Demo- “Clinton” to stop sending a mes-
Maybe it will all turn out to be innocent, but crats would give public officials broad latitude to sage she’d never intended. About
when you conceal something you had promised police what is said and written about candidates the same time, it became fairly
to reveal, you invite suspicion. And when you and their policies. obvious that she’d started taking
' - - - stipulates that the federal government and clothing, makeup and hairstyl-
petent at accumulating wealth, you raise the the states “may regulate and set reasonable ing tips from women friends, and
question of whether you have any scruples. limits on the raising and spending of money by quit looking like an outsider, too.
In her recent political travel, Hillary didn’t candidates and others to influence elections.” How it works is pretty simple:
want to get into questions involving her finances It presumes that wealthy individuals and cor- You accept Arkansas, Arkansas
or her husband’s, raised in a forthcoming book porations can get their way by spending on elec- accepts you. I’m pretty sure this
by Peter Schweizer. “Well, we’re back into the tions. But in 2010, noted Cato Institute scholar is broadly true of Iowa and New
political season and therefore we will be sub- John Samples, 52 Republican challengers beat Hampshire voters, too. So is there
jected to all kinds of distractions and attacks and Democratic House incumbents
I’m ready for that,” she said dismissively. 43 of the challengers were outspent. ary’s latest listening tour?
But there are types of money she is willing to In 2012, casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson spent Look, she’s a professional poli-
talk about. On a visit to Iowa, she said, “We need $20 million on Newt Gingrich and $30 million tician running for president. Of
to fix our dysfunctional political system and get on Mitt Romney, both losers. He spent $42 mil-
unaccountable money out of it once and for all, lion to support candidates in nine other races, managed. How could they not be?
eight of whom failed. Environmentalist billion- Just as she ran for the U.S. Senate
The declaration might help to inoculate her aire Tom Steyer laid out $74 million in Senate from New York back in 1999.
against investigations of how she and Bill set out and governors’ races and lost more than he won.
Money doesn’t buy votes. What it buys is the to be more flattered than offend-
gesture of solidarity with the more liberal mem- means to communicate ideas to voters. If those ed when famous carpetbaggers
bers of the Democratic Party. ideas, or the candidates advocating them, aren’t descend upon them, she held
As an indication of the policies that might compelling, the money is wasted. small forums all across the state
come to pass in a Clinton administration, though, If Hillary Clinton were not only cynical but — impressing most observers
it should not be taken seriously. Almost any time greedy as well, she might actually resent bil- with her industriousness and
a politician proposes a constitutional amend- lionaires who squander their fortunes on losing knowledge of local issues,
ment, she is telegraphing that nothing will be campaigns instead of on, say, speaking fees for
done about the problem it addresses.
In the first place, constitutional amendments
are extremely difficult to pass.
This one faces virtually unanimous opposition
among Republicans, who happen to control both
houses of Congress and 31 state legislatures. So
sides of the Atlantic. In an
In Europe, there still seems to be a notion that ly headlined
statements of what you can and cannot do. big companies with many customers should help Authenticity,” Slate’s John Dick-
Indicting people under laws that can lead to their smaller competitors survive — especially if erson gets it right. For all her
fines in the billions of dollars over what “we the big companies are American and the smaller privilege and celebrity, Hillary
believe” or what international bureaucrats have companies are European. In other words, Google “has something going for her that
"doubts” about is not really law. It is an exercise should be run in such a way that competing other politicians do not when it
of arbitrary power, based on whatever subjec- search programs are as prominently featured as comes to these kinds of events
tive notions are in vogue among government Google’s own search program. ... she has thought about family
bureaucrats. Whatever the case that could be made for issues her entire life.”
The history of American anti-trust law shows this argument, as a matter of manners, noblesse Dickerson marveled that in
too many similar vague and confused notions oblige or whatever, people in charge of anti-trust Iowa, “Clinton actually appeared
masquerading as law. The idea the accused must law are not in charge of manners or noblesse to be listening.”
prove their innocence, under the “rebuttable oblige. Law is too serious to be subordinated to
presumptions” of the Robinson-Patman Act of fashionable notions or political expediency.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institu-
is www.tsowell.com.
© 2015, Creators Syndicate Inc.
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