Trump Admin Says Israel Has Accepted Plan for Palestinian State
Israeli leaders have agreed to a framework for a Palestinian state that would see the new country more than double in size with its capital located in Eastern Jerusalem, according…
Iran’s Cat And Mouse Game: A Final Outcome in the Making
Historically, efforts to prevent dead set regimes from acquiring nuclear weapons have been marked mostly by embarrassing diplomatic fiascos. The chronology of every state-sponsored nuclear program began with developing the…
Wages Soar Fastest among Those with the Least
It’s an article of liberal faith: Thanks to President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the prosecco is popping on Wall Street, while the unsold Pepsi gathers…
The Philadelphia City Council Moves Further Left; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
It is arguable that foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia is already so messed up that it can’t be made much worse, but some new City Councilmen are going to…
Good economic news this holiday season
How good is the U.S. economy? So good that even CNN, the monomanically anti-Trump television network, was forced to admit it last week. “As 2019 comes to a close, the US…
No protests as Democrats whitewash their presidential debate
It’s official. Black Lives really don’t Matter. At least not inside the Democratic Party. For a party so thoroughly obsessed with race, it is amazing just how white they are.…
How Trump Won 2019
President Trump ends 2019 in a better position than when he started. The year began with the swearing in of Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. The Mueller probe…
Present at the Demolition
Economists at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund must feel pretty lucky these days. They work for just about the only institutions set up in the aftermath of World…
BORIS JOHNSON’S WIN IS A WELCOME REMINDER THAT VOTES STILL MATTER
Despite polls going in that showed the race was tight, Boris Johnson and the Tories won a smashing victory in Thursday’s U.K. election. The biggest win for the right since…
That Sense That Democrats Don’t See Trump as a Unique Problem
Over at The Bulwark, Tim Miller more or less pleads for Democrats to start acting like they mean it when they claim President Trump is a unique danger to American values.…
Medicare For All: Progressive Campaign Killer
Pundits have a ready explanation when one of their favorites loses or ends a campaign: The voters just didn’t get to know the candidate the way media do. He or…
Navy Needs Leaders to Keep Eye to the Future
December 7 is a solemn day for the U.S. Navy and in our nation’s history. This year marked the 78th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, when our nation entered…
Exhausted by their hearings, the House now takes a 10-day vacation
Amid apparently lagging interest in the whole impeachment drama on Capitol Hill, the Democrats leave Washington for the Thanksgiving recess with a serious question to ponder. They have to decide…
FROM BREXIT TO TRUMP, THE PEOPLE DESERVE TO GET WHAT THEY VOTED FOR
It is a puzzlement whether the cottage industry of international election observers populating the American commentariat really understand what is at stake in the upcoming British parliamentary election. It should…
CONSERVATIVE LAWMAKERS RECEIVE REMINDER THAT PRICE FIXING IS A “BAD IDEA”
Raising concern “about the direction the health care policy debate is moving” – particularly among conservative lawmakers – the National Center for Public Policy Research has joined with more than…