The New NAFTA Trade Deal Lets Big Tech Squelch Conservative Speech
By Jeremy Carl • The Federalist Less than two weeks ago, President Trump signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement intended to be the successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which…
Media’s Trump Obsession Has Crossed Over To The Clinical
The mainstream liberal press may have had a “slobbering love affair” with President Obama (as CBS News veteran Bernard Goldberg once aptly put it). But they’re absolutely obsessed with President…
Poll: People Care More About High Health Costs Than About Pre-Existing Conditions
By Christopher Jacobs • The Federalist Now they tell us! A Gallup poll, conducted last month to coincide with the midterm elections and released on Tuesday, demonstrated what I had…
When Popular Militancy Meets Despotic Evil
In that strange ancient land called Hungary, the past has never died. It just has retreated from time to time into hibernation. The reason for this state of affairs has…
No, The Deficit Isn’t ‘Soaring,’ And Yes, Tax Revenues Are At Record Highs
Investor’s Business Daily In the first two months of the new fiscal year, tax revenues are up. But so is the deficit. Why? Because spending continues to outpace revenues. So…
Charging Trump Over Hush Money Payouts Implicates Congress In The Same Behavior
By Elad Hakim • The Federalist If they charge President Trump for paying women to not publish scandalous claims, would prosecutors then be compelled to pursue members of Congress who…
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‘Let Them Come to Venezuela’ and See the Wreck of Socialism For Themselves
“There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin!” That was June 1963 in West Berlin where President John F. Kennedy…
Is There Anything Environmentalists Won’t Blame On Climate Change?
Investor’s Business Daily CNN this week published a huge story saying the source of the migrant caravan wasn’t so much corrupt Central American governments, violence or lousy economic policies. It…
University Policy Allows Expulsion for ‘Mean’ Facial Expressions
by Katherine Timpf • National Review Nobody likes a mean person, and it’s better to be nice. But there is nothing nice about restricting students’ speech. The University of Montana…
On China Trade, Trump Should Copy Reagan: ‘Trust But Verify’
Investor’s Business Daily A week and half after President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met to smooth over trade disputes, China announced it will buy more foreign goods ,…
Bernie Sanders Spends Thousands More on Private Jet Travel
by Brent Scher • Washington Free Beacon The reelection campaign for Bernie Sanders spent more than $400,000 to travel on private jets during the midterm elections, Federal Election Commission filings…
Michael Cohen Pled Guilty to Something That Is Not a Crime
by Bradley A. Smith • National Review Donald Trump’s wayward counsel, Michael Cohen, was sentenced today as part of a plea bargain with the government. As part of that settlement,…
The Risks of Medicare for All
by Doug Badger • National Review Critics of American health care often ask why ours is the only highly developed country without a taxpayer-funded universal health-care system. It is a…
House Democrats Change Rules to Make It Easier to Raise Taxes
by Haris Alic • Washington Free Beacon Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has yet to take the speaker’s gavel of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Democrats are already laboring…
New Administration Report Takes USPS ‘Business Model’ to Task
In Treasury Secretary Mnunchin’s report released today, the U.S. Postal Service’s future as a sustainable organization was appropriately and undeniably called into question. The Trump Administration has worked diligently this…