"The ends justify the means" is what Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) meant when in The Prince , he wrote : let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it. Machiavelli was a master of pure power, how to get and hold it, justifying deception, treachery, crime. After all, “the ends justify the means.”  Don’t Democrats, in their pursuit of power, increasingly resemble an organized crime outfit? Let’s review the evidence.   Act I: Dirty Tricks   The “any means” Democratic Party grew out of the 1988 Bush-Dukakis campaign for president, when Lee Atwater on behalf of George H.W. Bush launched political TV ads associating Dukakis with black murderer Willie Horton, who committed assault and rape while furloughed under a program Dukakis oversaw as Massachusetts governor. Democrats were livid ...

Melting Pot: Carnival at Obama’s Punahou School   "We come here for two things. We come because we know this is the promised land, we want to share those fruits. And we want to have a better economy. We want to be able to go from rags to riches which is what this American exceptionality promises.” — Hispanic Congresswoman Maria Salazar (R-Florida)   Victor Davis Hanson , a resident of Fresno, California (50% Hispanic), writes that Latinos are now “often solidly middle-class, often married to non-Hispanics, no longer Spanish-speaking, and have never been south of the border.” He adds that they follow trends: established by 19th and 20th century Italian immigrants. They also arrived poor and Catholic, and in need of state support, but were similarly innately entrepreneurial, family-centered, and traditional. Today, Italian ancestry—whether one is a Cuomo or a Giuliani—is no longer an indication of political affinity. Kristin Tate , in the Hill , has numbers . She says Hispanic ...