Why Candidates Matter Most
Next year you will enter the Twilight Zone where the governors of Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maryland are Republicans and the governors of North Carolina, Kentucky, and Louisiana are Democrats. It…
How A Russian’s Grocery Store Trip In 1989 Exposed The Lie Of Socialism
The fall of the Soviet Union is sometimes remembered as Nov. 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall symbolically collapsed. While the physical barrier endured for some two more years,…
Trump should scrap the flavored vaping ban
ANALYSIS/OPINION: There are those who say vaping is a public health menace, that it’s designed to appeal to young people as a gateway to tobacco with no redeeming social values…
The Berlin Wall Is Gone, but Its Lessons Remain
The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years until in 1989 a wave of citizen protest forced the East German Communist government to open its gates. We’ve now gone longer without…
First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years
For the third time in a row since Common Core was fully phased in nationwide, U.S. student test scores on the nation’s broadest and most respected test have dropped, a reversal of…
Study: Free College Plans Leave Vast Majority Worse Off
The “free” college plans touted by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and other Democratic presidential hopefuls will require radical tax hikes and leave 86 percent of American households worse off,…
Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans
If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed,…
We Are All Ukrainians
Ironies pile up. Both participants in the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky are outsiders whose fame catapulted them to high office. Foreign policy experts…
Obamacare for illegal immigrants may cost taxpayers $23 billion a year, study shows
Taxpayers could have to shell out nearly $23 billion a year to provide Obamacare coverage to illegal immigrants, according to a new analysis being released Thursday that puts a high…
Best Way To Lower Seniors’ Drug Costs? Reverse Obama Rule-Changes
One of the problems in health care today is that it turns Oscar Wilde’s quip on its head: In the United States, everyone knows the value of health care, but nobody knows…
The Best Economic News No One Wants to Talk About
Stop me if this sounds familiar: For most American workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. Inequality has skyrocketed. The richest workers are making all the money. Earnings for low-income workers…
Let Seniors Use Health Security Accounts to Buy Better Care
Atop the list of what America’s senior adults want are the preservation of their independence and a secure retirement. Admirably they don’t want to end up being a burden anyone,…
Tax Backed by 2020 Dems Would Hurt Retirement Accounts, Report Finds
A financial transaction tax, though popular with 2020 Democrats, would raise little revenue and substantially shrink the U.S. economy, a recently released report concludes. A transaction tax takes a percentage…
New Poll: 64 Percent Of Democrats Now Support Socialism
A new study shows Democrats running to embrace socialism in the Trump era as radical progressives dominate the 2020 Democratic primary field. The study, conducted by the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, shows a…
The Sixth Circuit Pounds Another Nail in the Coffin of the University Speech Code
There was a time, in the recent past, when universities were in the grip of a kind of speech-code fever. Even as recently ten years ago, after a wave of…