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...SPAN On the first morning of the Democratic National Convention, all the cable-news outfits were yakking about what Hillary Clinton might say--except one. On C-SPAN? Empty chairs on a silent stage. It was waiting for someone to show up and actually say something. This was the only channel on which a citizen could watch all the convention speeches. Plus, it airs Prime Minister's Questions, my all-time-favorite sitcom. (No offense, Larry David...
Nowhere does Niall Ferguson inform readers that under the Clinton Administration, the Internal Revenue Service began giving out Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to assist illegal aliens in paying taxes, which also enabled them to take out home loans. Previously, a valid U.S. Social Security number was required to purchase a home, thereby excluding illegal immigrants from qualifying for such loans. Every media feature on the bursting of the housing bubble describes decimated neighborhoods in Florida, Arizona and California--all areas with large populations of illegal aliens--but no one tells us about the government's change in regulations that...
Riley: Two other examples: with Richard Nixon, I mean, it's impossible to think about Watergate without thinking about Nixon's temperament, his sort of dark sense of enemies everywhere. And Bill Clinton--[his] failure was a deeply personal failure with Monica Lewinsky, and it's a failure of discipline. I mean, this is a man who knew that ... for years there were people out to get him, and he, even in that environment, didn't have the personal discipline necessary to avoid creating a problem that ... for all of history will...
Gage: We're getting a little mixed up with character and temperament. They're really hard to distinguish, but I think there is a way in which what Clinton seemed to lack was ... a personal filter or the ability to filter his own desires...
...Riley: [Clinton] knew this was a wrong thing to do. All right, that's a character failure. But there is also a temperamental failure, which is a lack of discipline and a lack of what for a better term would be an inability to learn from past experience, an inability to adapt to a hostile environment. I mean, this is somebody who's extremely, extremely bright and yet in this particular instance could not see that all of the previous failures or all of the previous difficulties that he had had with this issue would come crashing down around...