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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Republican Tax Code vs. Traditional Family
“This plan is for middle-class families in this country who deserve a break,” Speaker Paul Ryan said last week as the House leadership released its “tax reform” plan.
An ICE Agent’s Quest for Justice
Victor Avila is a survivor. Soft-spoken but iron-willed, he dedicated his life to law enforcement and to his country. Yet, the feds are now fighting tooth and nail to bury the full truth about the 2011 ambush by Los Zetas drug cartel thugs in Mexico that left him gravely wounded and his partner, special agent Jaime Zapata, dead.
Ignorance Versus Stupidity
One of the most challenging and important jobs for an economics professor is to teach students how little we know and can possibly know.
A Life for Liberty and Decency
History has its macros and micros. There are the major events and players, and there are also the lesser-known particulars and players who were equally essential to the final outcome.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Tax Plan Provides Needed Reform and Increased Economic Activity
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have a tax plan up for consideration. Tax relief is badly needed, as is a budgetary overhaul that addresses and works to reduce the annual deficits and the insane national debt.
In Texas, Two Very American Heroes
Before the Texas church shooter encountered any police officers, he was run off a highway and dead. He had been shot and chased by two private citizens who took it upon themselves to respond to a heinous crime when no one with a badge was anywhere to be found.
‘We Know the Ending, and It’s Good’
It was supposed to be a day of prayer for the world’s persecuted church. No one in a sleepy Texas town could have ever dreamed the persecuted would be them.
Don’t Let the Left Silence You
As you know, Devin Patrick Kelley murdered 26 people and wounded 24 others Sunday during a shooting rampage at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
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If you’re tired of the dysfunction in Washington — the backbiting, the questioning of motives, the failure to agree on much of anything, the one-upmanship, the allegations about a “stolen” presidential election, Russian “collusion,” the posturing and boorish behavior, how about focusing on something that is working and benefits a growing number of people?
Why the Left Has Been So Wrong About the Trump Boom
Time magazine’s cover story for the week of Nov. 6 is a classic. It blares: “The Wrecking Crew: How Trump’s Cabinet Is Dismantling Government As We Know It.”
Monday, November 6, 2017
Birthday of a Bloodbath
This October-November 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia — the bloody communist state that would produce a political-ideological killing spree unlike any the world has ever seen.
Trump Is Wrong on Terror and the Green-Card Lottery
When a firearm is used in a terrible killing or terrorism, the reaction on the left is invariably an emotional attack on America’s gun culture. With visceral predictability, liberals cry out for lawmakers to ban more weapons, block more buyers, or otherwise “make it stop.”
The Vindication of Donald Trump
For the past year, the Democrats have been busy demonizing President Trump, accusing him of committing treason by colluding with the Russians to win the election.
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Chernow’s ‘Grant’ Offers Measured Judgment of Past
Evidence of national discernment, although never abundant, can now be found high on the New York Times combined print and e-book best seller list. There sits Ron Chernow’s biography of Ulysses Simpson Grant, which no reader will wish were shorter than its 1,074 pages.
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Religion, Law and Women
Dianne Feinstein co-authored a 2001 book, “Nine and Counting,” written with the eight other female senators at the time. It belongs in the pantheon of literary advice to women from women in politics, including a 2009 book addressed to America’s daughters by then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Trumponomics Is Working
The media continue to be in denial, and the Left gets furious if you even hint at this, but Trumponomics is working. The fact is “what happened” (ironically, the title of Hillary’s book) after the election of Donald Trump is that American businesses and job creators breathed a huge sigh of relief.
GOP Tries to Stop IRS After Years of a Tax
There’s a reason Washington hasn’t had major tax reform in 30 years — it’s not easy! At more than four million words, the tax code is a nightmare of complexities.
Delaware Could Let Students Decide Race, Gender Without Parental Consent
White boys could soon self-identify as black girls in Delaware.
Underneath the Bridge: Abandoned Babies in Communist China
The New York Times recently ran an article on how the lives of Chinese women were made “much better” under communism. It was a shocking article, prompting a number of rebuttals. The article made me think back to my time in China and what I witnessed there.
Money Laundering, Clinton Style
It should constitute old news, but because the media colluded to ignore it in real time, it is only now coming out that Hillary Clinton, while serving as our Secretary of State, accepted a $135 million bribe to turn over a fifth of America’s uranium deposits to Russia.