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…
The Danger of the Attacks on the Electoral College
Once upon a time, the Electoral College was not controversial. During the debates over ratifying the Constitution, Anti-Federalist opponents of ratification barely mentioned it. But by the mid-twentieth century, opponents…
Remembering the Lessons of September 11th, 2001
When Ronald Reagan was asked what his plan was for dealing with the communist threat, he responded, “We win, they lose.” Those four words led to an impressive victory for…
The Founders Were Flawed. The Nation Is Imperfect. The Constitution Is Still a ‘Glorious Liberty Document.’
Across the map of the United States, the borders of Tennessee, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona draw a distinct line. It’s the 36º30′ line, a remnant of the boundary between…
Big Tech Censors Strike Again
YouTube on Monday banned three more independent commentators: James Allsup, “The Iconoclast,” and “Way of the World.” Their crime? Outspoken defense of Western Civilization, which apparently now is considered “hate…
Cosmic Injustice
One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview…
Seattle’s Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City’s Own Study Confirms
The Seattle Minimum Wage Study, a study supported and funded in part by the Seattle city government, is out with a new NBER paperevaluating Seattle’s minimum wage increase to $13 an…
Why Kamala Harris Is Fading in the Democratic Primary
A new national CNN poll of the 2020 Democratic primary has some pretty brutal numbers for Kamala Harris. When CNN last polled the presidential race shortly after the first Democratic debate in…
WITH AN ECONOMY THIS STRONG, NO DEMOCRAT CAN DEFEAT TRUMP—BUT THE TRADE WAR WITH CHINA MIGHT | OPINION
President Donald Trump planned on seeking a second term based largely on the strength of the economy. Unemployment is down to a 50-year low. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports…
FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
The Great Depression of the 1930s was by far the greatest economic calamity in U.S. history. In 1931, the year before Franklin Roosevelt was elected president, unemployment in the United…