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…
The Super Bowl of Corporate Welfare
By John Stossel • Reason Today is the Super Bowl. I look forward to playing poker and watching. It’s easy to do both because in a three-hour-plus NFL game there…
Treating The Hungarian Schizophrenia
The long overdue actions taken by the European Parliament on September 12, 2018, and by the United States Senate through Resolution 30 of January 25, 2019, authored by Senators Feinstein,…
Trump policy would sink energy markets
By George Landrith • Houston Chronicle The Trump administration is working to slow down the implementation of a major international environmental regulation that’s set to take effect in 2020. The…
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…
School Vouchers Aren’t Welfare for the Rich
By Christian Barnard • Reason “Do School Vouchers Only Benefit the Wealthy?” asks an article this month in Governing. Like too many headlines, the implication is that school choice is…
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…