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Thursday, May 2, 2019
Once a Protectionist, Always a Protectionist
The United States has been plagued with uncertainty ever since President Donald Trump started his trade disputes with many of our trading partners.
OK, Let’s Talk About Charlottesville
So Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign talking about Charlottesville.
Steve Moore’s Law
Steve Moore, one of the oracles of free market economics, is President Donald Trump’s choice for the Federal Reserve Board, and the long knives are out for him. Yet I am told by conservatives everywhere not to worry. He is a shoo-in.
Clinton Projection Syndrome
Hillary Clinton recently editorialized about the second volume of special counsel Robert Mueller’s massive report.
Senators Raleigh Around Life
One vote. In North Carolina, it wasn’t just the difference between winning and losing. It was the difference between looking at a baby and seeing a *life*. And while Governor Roy Cooper (D) seems incapable of that, thank goodness not everyone in his party thinks likewise.
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
A Lie, a Myth and a Question
Socialists like Bernie Sanders tell us that “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.” That’s a lie.
Can Joe Biden Apologize His Way to the Presidency?
Former vice president and new 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden has a problem. His problem is simple: He has a record. That record is long and checkered.
The Left’s Hate Campaign Against Stephen Moore
These are tough times if you are a big-government, economic liberal. Since President Trump has taken office, unemployment rates have remained below 4%, hiring among African-Americans are at their highest levels in decades, our energy and manufacturing sectors are booming, and employers are scrambling to fill millions of job vacancies by offering competitive salaries.
Will NRA Become a Casualty of the Culture War?
The National Rifle Association has big troubles. It’s wildly in debt.
A Museum Fuels Hatred of America in a Foreign Land
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a masterpiece of American architecture, a swirl of curved configurations crafted out of sheets of titanium by Frank Gehry. But step inside the stunning structure, and the celebration of America is over.
Biden Launches Presidential Campaign With Lies
We can all agree with Joe Biden that “we are in a battle for the soul of this nation.”
10,000 Pinocchios From the Washington Post
The liberal subscribers of the Washington Post adored the latest grand ruling from the paper’s “Fact Checker,” Glenn Kessler.
No Deal?
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with President Trump yesterday to discuss an infrastructure deal. Infrastructure, if done right, is a good deal all around. And I don’t mean Obama’s not-so-shovel ready stimulus projects.
The Bidens: They’re Still Not Like Us
Now that Creepy Joe Biden thinks he has put to rest all the cringy questions about his grabby hands, he has reverted to one of his old-time shticks: middle-class Joe.
Amid Good News, Can Democrats Talk Down the Economy?
“The recession talk in late 2018 got way, way out of hand,” New York Times economic reporter Neil Irwin tweeted a few days ago. Indeed it did.
Warren Rule: Minimum Wage Earner Should Be Able to Afford Spouse, Child and Mortgage
Sen. Elizabeth Warren told a story at the She the People Presidential Forum last week, illustrating the tough life she lived before growing up to become a Harvard Law professor and then a senator.
Wise Welcome
Holy Scripture is very clear that believers are to practice warm hospitality. Whether welcoming a guest into our home or our nation, we are commanded by God to be generous and kind, freely sharing our blessings with others.
Mixing Business With Pressure
Inside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, workers are already ripping up the ancient teal carpet. By summer, the outside columns will be covered in scaffolding — part of an expensive renovation project meant to give the 100-year-old headquarters a new look. But as far as most conservatives are concerned, the Chamber’s real transformation was already well underway: a radical makeover that’s gone beyond what the building looks like — to what it stands for.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Why Most Jews Aren’t Bothered by the Times’ Anti-Semitic Cartoon
Last week, The New York Times published a cartoon so anti-Semitic that Bret Stephens wrote in his Times column that it was “an image that, in another age, might have been published in the pages of Der Stürmer.”
Biden Is Correct: We Are in a Battle for the Soul of America
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in his video declaring his candidacy for the Democrat nomination for president, actually identified a very real problem. In his breathy, half-whispering plea for support, he noted that the soul of America is up for grabs.