Author: Marc Zarlengo
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Zarlengo: Politicians strike while crisis is hot with presidential primary bill
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“Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” as former Barack Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel once quipped. This is especially true when no crisis actually exists and entrenched politicians see the opportunity to solidify a permanent political and consultant class, while masquerading as a pro-democracy populist movement. So is the case with the…
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Zarlengo: Relax, conservatives, Pope Francis didn’t call for progressive fix to climate change
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Conservatives can breathe easy. Pope Francis’ recently released encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, was expected by many to be a progressive environmentalist manifesto where Francis would reveal himself to be a true man of the left, injecting a new progressive force into the halls of the Vatican. Unfortunately for leftist progressives, who routinely cherry-pick…