Gov. Cuomo’s Right: The Rich Are Leaving High-Tax New York
Investor’s Business Daily We don’t often praise New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but we have to say, we appreciate his recent frankness on taxes. On Monday, he told his state’s…
Wealth Tax Fails The Test Around The World
Investor’s Business Daily There’s little doubt that the political flavor of the day is what the left calls “democratic socialism.” And one of this movement’s more recent ideas, from Sen.…
Liberals didn’t applaud Trump’s celebration of record-low minority unemployment
by Tom Rogan • Washington Examiner Economic growth and broadly shared prosperity matter. They matter because they inform whether people can pursue their dreams or whether they suffer unnecessarily. Thus…
Bizarre State of the Union ‘fact checks’ fall flat, as media accused of nitpicking
By Brian Flood • Fox News Media outlets bent over backwards Tuesday night to fact check President Trump’s State of the Union address — but were accused of reaching with…
President Trump’s Home Run State of the Union Address
Jim Geraghty • National Review For those who gripe that I’m always so negative about Trump . . . last night’s State of the Union address was terrific. A home run.…
The Progressive Race to the Bottom
Victor Davis Hanson • National Review The old Democratic party championed the working classes, wanted secure borders to protect middle-class union wage earners, and focused generous federal entitlement help on…
Here’s The Brief Moral Case Against ‘Democratic Socialism’
By David Weinberger • The Federalist For most people, moral visions trump economic realities, and that is why so-called “democratic socialism” has growing appeal. One’s sense of compassion outweighs the…
Harris’s Call to Eliminate Private Insurance Is ‘Major Slip-Up’ That ‘Will Haunt Her’
Washington Free Beacon Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti said Wednesday that Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D., Calif.) denunciation of private health insurance could haunt her presidential campaign. At…
Eliminator
National Review Kamala Harris has a big idea for your health-care plan: elimination. The early contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination are working feverishly to out-radical each other. Senator…
Conservative Leaders Call on Media to Apologize to the Covington Catholic Kids
By Craig Bannister • CNSNews.com Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell is among a host of conservative leaders calling on media to apologize to the students of Covington Catholic…
For Democrats, The Era Of Big Government Is Back, Big Time
Investor’s Business Daily Leading Democrats are pushing an agenda that would more than double the size of the federal government. This comes as a new Gallup Poll finds that the…
Biden’s Career Is A Testament To The Hard Left Turn Of Liberals
By David Harsanyi • The Federalist It’s apparently never too early for presidential politics. Right now, former vice president Joe Biden tops, or nearly tops, every poll assessing the popularity…
The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates
By Edward Conard • Wall Street Journal Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent her first few weeks on Capitol Hill calling for a 70% top marginal income-tax rate, and suddenly…
Thought crimes, media abuse and those Catholic high school boys from Covington
By John Kass • Chicago Tribune What exactly triggered that hateful leftist social media mob — shamefully egged on by prominent American journalists — to unjustly attack the students at…
McAuliffe: I Don’t Want Dems Making ‘False Promises’ Like Free College
By Cameron Cawthorne • Washington Free Beacon Former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe (Va.) on Monday said he doesn’t want Democrats going out on the campaign trail in 2020 making “false…