Rand Paul and Donald Trump were winners. Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, and John Kasich all lost ground to Paul and Trump. In short, had Mr. Trump not been on stage, how many fewer Americans would have watched the debate? And how many would have remained awake until the […]
Archives for December 2015
Rand Paul: Best Debate Yet
Sen. Rand Paul had his best night yet at last night’s CNN debate.
No Hope for the Middle Class
Western democracies have not figured out how to maintain jobs and earnings for workers with low skill or modest education, writes William A. Galston in the WSJ. In Europe, there is double-digit unemployment, and, in the U.S., the large number of low-wage jobs does not come with the promise of upward mobility. Beneath the dry statistics […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 1 Day
J.J. Abrams, director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, was asked what grabbed him when he saw Star Wars for the first time when he was 11 years old: “The experience of it was so profound, and so moving, and so funny, and so sweet, that for me, as a kid, it blew my mind…and […]
Thousands Dead, Tens of Thousands Wounded
Pat Buchanan writes, “It was the elites of both parties who failed to secure our borders and brokered the trade deals that have de-industrialized America and eviscerated our middle class. It was the elites of both parties who got us into these idiotic wars that have blown up the Middle East, cost us trillions of dollars, […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2 Days
Highlights from last night’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens world premiere from The New York Times. A veritable army of security guards, publicists and event staffers. Quadruple the typical number of invited guests. A lavish after-party, replete with Stormtroopers and a roaming Chewbacca, stretching for four city blocks. Even by the razzmatazz standards of the […]
Hillary Clinton and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Originally posted November 2, 2015. Writing in NRO, John Fund explains that, despite the moving pictures of families with young children trudging across Europe, an estimated 70% of migrants arriving are young men traveling alone. One has to ask, is Europe’s migration crisis a problem of border management, with migrants eventually returning to home countries, […]
The Big Short Movie
You may have heard Michael Lewis’ book The Big Short, about the real estate crash in 2008, is now a movie. Apparently you can skip it. “Longtime Will Ferrell collaborator, former ‘SNL’ head writer and director Adam McKay, whose work usually isn’t even on the smart end of the comedy spectrum, co-wrote and directed ‘The […]
Hot Air and Paris’ Huge Carbon Footprint
Despite the grandiose claims coming out of Paris, the political elites who want more control over the private economy in the U.S. and around the world are the last people on earth to save the planet, writes the WSJ. … nothing coming out of a gaggle of governments and the United Nations will save it. […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 3 Days
“Do or do not. There is no try.”~ Yoda Best Yoda Quotes – The StarWars.com 10 on Disney Video
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