* Among other things, the Democrat Cuomo has said that his program for teacher evaluation is “the single best thing that I can do as governor that’s going to matter long-term to break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies—and that’s what this is, it’s a public monopoly.” See Valerie Straus, “Cuomo Calls Public School System a ‘Monopoly’ He Wants to Bust,” Washington Post, October 29, 2014.
* “The coming of post-industrial society” is a phrase that was coined, incidentally, by Daniel Bell, a professor at Harvard.
* In truth, the “first tech president” was surely Herbert Hoover, a Stanford graduate who was one of the world’s most prominent engineers before becoming president. As secretary of commerce in the 1920s, Hoover took an interest not only in radio but in the brand-new technology of television. The venture capitalist who regards Obama so highly is John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, September 22, 2015.
* Maintaining her façade of goodness and moral principle has also brought Hillary Clinton occasional distress. One such instance, according to her biographer Carl Bernstein, was the matter of the misplaced billing records from her lawyer days, which became such a sought-after object during the Whitewater investigation of the mid-1990s. Hillary didn’t want the billing records made public, Bernstein suggests, because they were—to repeat the words of the unnamed Clinton administration lawyer whom Bernstein quotes—“professionally embarrassing” to her. They showed what an ordinary life she led. “Her law practice, for example,” Bernstein’s source continues. “The billing records are embarrassing, maybe for what they show about how she spent her time, which was not in any kind of high-minded or incredibly intellectual pursuit of the law, which is sort of her reputation, but [these were] small-potatoes deals.” (Bernstein, A Woman in Charge, p. 454, brackets in original.)
* In her memoir of the period, Hard Choices, she first brushes off the NSA’s spying by relating how President Obama “welcomed a public debate” on the subject, which she suggests could never happen in Russia or China. A few paragraphs later, she implies that her 2010 Internet Freedom push had been mainly about privacy, which it obviously was not.
* For what it’s worth, two of the most feminist countries in history, at least formally, were our archenemies, the Soviet Union and communist Cuba.
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