Tariffs are bad. They are just “taxes” by a different name. Higher taxes and tariffs retard economic production and growth. The higher the tax, or tariff, the lower amount of product is sold. Would the […]
The progressive left accomplished something I thought might never happen again — they have united all of the factions within the Republican Party a month before an important election, without doing anything to unite their […]
Why does our political discourse get so nasty from time to time? Human emotions get hyper-inflamed over hot-button issues. In the 19th century, it was slavery. In the mid-20th century, it was communism and then […]
Until 1925, the federal government used to wrap official federal documents in red tape. It made things look “official,” borrowing from regal Spanish and British traditions of long ago. President Calvin Coolidge and his budget […]
I’m thankful that increasing attention is being paid to the dire state of higher education in our country. Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has just published “The Diversity Delusion.” Its subtitle […]
I run the Institute for the Public Trust. “The sole mission of the Institute for the Public Trust is to find, recruit and train the next Thomas Jeffersons, James Madisons, Benjamin Franklins and Alexander Hamiltons […]
“I did not, and of course I looked for it, looked for it hard.” That was Bob Woodward, promoting his book on the Trump White House, “Fear,” replying to talk radio host and columnist Hugh […]
Anita Hill, perennially painted as the “Rosa Parks of sexual harassment” by the national press, is back on the scene as the media push the unproven teenage-groping accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. The New York Times […]
Where would we be today? We would still be languishing in the throes of the economic malaise we endured for eight long years under President Barack Obama. The same policies that never produced more than […]
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