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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Dear Jane Fonda: Minimum Wages Destroy Jobs
Dear Ms. Fonda: Before you travel to Detroit this weekend to campaign for a $12 minimum wage, I suggest you read this letter.
Chaos and the Commentariat
Already, the wits of the Left have employed references to oral sex and even incest in joking about our president. I cannot recall any other president suffering such public ribaldry — even President Abraham Lincoln, and he had among his critics that forerunner of the modern American entertainment industry, John Wilkes Booth.
Mothering Never Ends
It’s said that the most powerful word in any language is “mother.” I believe that’s true, not just for the effect we have on our children when they are small, but because mothering never ends.
Can Trump Successfully Remodel the Republican Party?
The Republican Party establishment is caught in an existential paradox.
Awards Have Lost Their Meaning
Awards once meant something. There was a time not that long ago when they were given in recognition of important accomplishments. Today, we tend to value celebrity over steady achievement. Fame is paramount. It matters little how one attains it. The Kardashians are just one of many examples.
Is the U.S. on the Path to French-Style Economic Sclerosis?
There is a lot of debate over President Donald Trump’s record after his first 100-plus days in office. Defenders of the president point to his successful efforts on deregulation, the successful appointment to the Supreme Court of Neil Gorsuch and his steadfast desire to implement substantial tax reform.
‘Animal House’ Governance
Southey, a pacifist, wrote his anti-war poem long after the 1704 battle for which the Duke of Marlborough was awarded Blenheim Palace, where his great-great-great-great-great-great grandson Winston Churchill would be born.
Trump Takes Charge
Tuesday’s dramatic White House announcement that President Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey caught Washington by surprise, and perhaps no one more so than Mr. Comey himself.
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Trump’s Immigration Order Balances Security with American Values
In the 2014 film “Edge of Tomorrow,” Major William Cage, played by Tom Cruise, finds himself stuck in a repeating time loop on the battlefield. To overcome a hostile force, he must learn from his mistakes in order to avoid them and stay alive the next time he is in the same situation. The White House might feel it has had a similar experience for the past month and a half regarding its policy on refugee admissions and its 90-day suspension of entries from six terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and Africa.
Catholic School Faces LGBT Backlash for Canceling Gender Show for Five-Year-Olds
LGBT Canadians are furious after a Catholic school district canceled performances of a play about gender identity meant for children as young as five years old.
Better Choices in Higher Education
Does anyone out there think higher education doesn’t cost enough? Or that there are plenty of ideological points of view for students to choose from?
Collins a Maine Character in Health Care
No one’s ever accused the Senate of efficiency — and the Obamacare repeal is no exception.
Racism Is Only Racism if It Comes From Groups the Left Hates
This week, an odd tweet appeared in my mentions from verified Twitter users — users prominent enough to be granted a blue check mark by Twitter itself. This one came courtesy of a rapper named Talib Kweli Greene.
What Do Leftists Celebrate?
May Day celebrations were held all across the fruited plain, with leftist radicals and unionists worshipping the ideals of communism. Communism is an ideology calling for government control over our lives.
Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America?
Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert: Al Sharpton’s cop-bashing circus is back in full swing.
A RyanCare Fix for Medicaid
With the passage of a new health care bill in the House, the corridors of Congress are teeming with lobbyists fighting reform in order to protect the money they get off the government gravy train of current law.
Improved Health Bill
The House repealed Obamacare! OK, they didn’t really — but they passed a bill that repeals some bad parts of it, like the individual mandate tax, medicine cabinet tax, flexible spending account tax and health savings account withdrawal tax. Good.
Bigger Than Flynn
Predictably, every big media outlet had the same breathless reporting after Monday’s congressional hearing with former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Repeal Bill Doesn’t Repeal Statutory Basis of Abortifacient Mandate
The Obamacare repeal bill the Republican-controlled House passed last week — the American Health Care Act — does not repeal the section in the Obamacare law that created the statutory authority for the Executive Branch to issue a regulation requiring most health insurance plans to cover contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs and devices.