Virtue and the Social Fabric
The Declaration of Independence served a dual function at the momentous occasion of its adoption, July 4, 1776. The first was that it was the issuance of a statement of…
A Useful, If Inconvenient, Question for the Democrats
Ezra Klein thinks it’s “ridiculous” to ask Democratic presidential candidates whether they want to abolish private health insurance. It’s supposedly ridiculous because the correct answer isn’t yes or no, but “it depends.”…
Sanders compares climate change push to Pearl Harbor response as he unveils emergency resolution
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Tuesday compared the push to combat climate change to the response to the attack on Pearl Harbor as he unveiled legislation that would declare a “climate emergency”…
Washington Post Runs Puff Piece On Rally For Convicted ISIS Terrorists
The most amusing part of the Washington Post‘s profile of Representative Ilhan Omar this past weekend was unquestionably the part where they caught her blatantly ripping off classical literature and passing it off…
Why China Trade Talks May Hinge On North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un
Last week Wall Street focused on what the Trump-Xi summit would mean for the China trade war, the global economy and the Dow Jones. But the high-stakes meeting turned out…
The Folly of Reentering the Iran Nuclear Deal
On Monday, the regime in Iran announced that it’s intentionally violating the 2015 nuclear deal. Since then, no Democratic presidential candidates have reversed their pledges to reenter the accord if elected. In…
Decades ago, the UN promised climate disaster; so why hasn’t it arrived?
I’m not quite old enough to remember the “global cooling” scare of the 1970s and the media’s drumbeat of the coming ice age that would end mankind. But I have been…
Left Amps Up Justifications For Violence Against Their Political Opponents
Over the weekend, the Washington Post published an opinion article written by Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. Wilkinson famously kicked out White House Press Secretary Sarah…
How Hope Hicks’s Testimony Again Destroyed The Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative
Following the Thursday release of the transcript from Hope Hicks’s testimony before the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee, the media quickly concentrated on the questions Trump’s former communications director refused to…
American Nationalism: It’s Real…and It’s Spectacular
On Tuesday night my CNN colleague Chris Cuomo correctly asserted that I, and people like me, embrace terms such as “nationalist” and “America First” — phrases that are, in his view, “stained.”…
The Four High-Tax States Of The Apocalypse
After the Trump tax cut went into effect one year ago, we predicted that the Trump tax reform would supercharge the national economy but could cause big financial problems for…
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The Democrats Are the Socialist Party Again
The unfinished business of the Democratic party is socialism. Don’t take my word for it — consult Bernie Sanders. Senator Sanders gave a madcap speech in which he ridiculed past conservative…
Newspaper Editor Accidentally Reveals Bias to GOP Congressman
Republican congressman Guy Reschenthaler says he was inadvertently given a window into the “blatant bias” in the newsroom at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette through an email sent to his staff by one of…
Rare-Earths Mining Shows Exactly How China Cheats The United States Through ‘Free Trade’
The United States and China have traded since the early days of our republic, but only recently has the scale of that trade become a political issue. More than any…