Bipartisan health care fix misses mark
America’s health care system is still a mess. The Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, has sparked continued increases in premiums and deductibles while failing to bend the…
FACE IT: THE ECONOMY UNDER TRUMP IS GREAT | OPINION
If no one ever said, “If people are talking about you, it means you’re important,” someone probably should have. It’s always been true in America, a place where hype is…
This must not stand! (continued)
In my last column of this topic, I urged the President to sue the House of Representatives for malfeasance on the basis of two unconstitutional actions with regard to the…
FOR RIGHT REASONS AND WRONG, REPUBLICAN SENATORS SHOULD STICK WITH TRUMP | OPINION
Last Thursday, after considerable delay, the United States Senate began to organize itself for the trial of the President of the United States. Things might have moved faster—28 days elapsed…
Three issues the Dems own: Wealth Gap, Health Care, and Climate Change
On most of the issues highlighting the 2020 campaign, the Republicans have a great story, especially the economy, law enforcement, foreign policy (including trade), national security, energy, and job creation.…
Hollywood & The Trial Lawyers Navigate Dark Waters Together In Hopes Of A Big Future Payday
As comedian Ricky Gervais said so pointedly at the most recent Golden Globes, Hollywood is full of people with no experience in the real world who think they should tell…
State of the Union: A Shakespearean drama
The 2020 State of the Union address had all the elements of a Shakespearean drama. The setting was filled with tension and made for television. The primary picture showed the…
The Era of Limbaugh
Florida governor Ron DeSantis spoke to Rush Limbaugh last fall at a gala dinner for the National Review Institute. The radio host was there to receive the William F. Buckley…
USPS Neglects Its Priorities and Starts Off 2020 with Another Massive Loss
Frontiers of Freedom expressed great alarm this week over the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) latest financial results which showed $748 million in losses during the first quarter of FY 2020. George Landrith,…
Them the People
Iain Murray grew up reading and writing by candlelight, not because he lived in premodern times but because he lived under democratic socialism. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and other…
The Campaign to Sever the Democratic Alliance With AIPAC
A Democrat-backed effort to boycott the nation’s leading pro-Israel group is gaining steam, worrying center-left advocates of the Jewish state who have been struggling in recent months to ensure their…
Democrats’ Big Labor Agenda
Writing about legislation often feels pointless under divided government, because no partisan bill is going to become law anyway. So it is with the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act,…
President Trump Offers A Sharp Rebuke Of Socialism At Precisely The Right Time
Over half a century ago, President John F. Kennedy stated one of his more famous lines in discussing American economics, one that continues to be echoed by pro-growth economists today.…
Making Sense of the Iowa Debacle
Great, giant gobs of cash and a year’s worth of hard work by activists, campaigns, and candidates were flushed down the toilet last night. Technocrat reformers, in trying to “fix”…
The Democratic Establishment Still Fears An Open Socialist Winning The Nomination
On Sunday evening, NBC News reported that former Secretary of State John Kerry, while stumping for former Vice President Joe Biden in Iowa, was overheard in a Des Moines hotel describing the…