Thomas Sowell, an economist and a conservative, was born in 1930—into poverty in South Carolina. After moving to Harlem with his mother at the age of 9, Mr. Sowell went to Stuyvesant—“a selective high school for smart kids,” according to Mr. Sowell in an interview published in the WSJ and conducted by Tunku Varadarajan, a […]
Archives for March 2017
John McCain Finally Loses it Over Rand Paul’s Principled Stand
When Sen. John McCain called for a unanimous vote in favor of allowing Montenegro into the NATO military alliance, Sen. Rand Paul stood up and opposed the measure. Did he kill Montenegrin NATO membership? No, but now the Senate will actually have to debate the idea of extending military guarantees to such unstable micro-states as […]
Old Fashioned Politics at Work—Ugly, Messy, Painful
What we are witnessing in Washington over the repealing and replacing of ObamaCare is not what the media would have you believe—a doomed project marked by “division, disunity, discord, conflict.” Oh yes, it is a mess, writes Kimberley A. Strassel in the WSJ. As the talking heads on cable stations present a “nonstop loop of […]
Is Trump’s Bold New Plan Step One in Better Government?
My friend Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute writes that President Trump has given his budget director Mick Mulvaney a strong mandate for reducing the size of government. Government has grown too fast for too many years, and a substantial reorganization is necessary if America wants to maintain sustainability. Chris writes: This is a promising […]
This Future Concept for Urban Mobility is Sure to Blow your Mind
A new concept, intended to demonstrate a future vision of urban mobility, was revealed by Italdesign and Airbus at the 87th Geneva International Motor Show. It’s called Pop.UP, the first modular, fully electric, zero emission vehicle system designed to help eliminate traffic congestion in future megacities. Airbus tells us that passengers will be able to […]
Will America Dare to Duplicate the U.K.’s Corporate Tax Success?
There has been bipartisan agreement for some time now that America must lower its corporate tax rates in order to remain competitive in world markets. Despite that, there hasn’t been the political willpower to get anything done about it. Here, Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, highlights work done by his colleague Chris […]
Why ObamaCare Is Not Utopia
The Republican plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare had barely been released before the proposal was “savaged from both left and right, by most of the media, by various interest groups, including doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies, and by virtually anyone else with an opinion,” writes Michael D. Tanner. To Mr. Tanner, a Cato Institute […]
This is the Best Way to Get Your Family on the Slopes: Part II
One of the most popular passes in the business today is Vail’s Epic Pass. Vail announced last month the purchase, for $50 million, of Stowe Mt. in Vermont, one of my all-time favorites in the East. As Josh Dean writes in Men’s Journal, here’s why it’s important: As the CEO of Vail Resorts, the aggressive […]
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Will The Netherlands be the Next Nationalist Domino to Fall?
The battle for parliament in The Netherlands is underway right now, and the question is, will Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party shock the world with another win for an immigration-skeptic, pro-West, nationalist party win? Only the Dutch voters can decide. Even if Wilders’ party does win the election, The Wall Street Journal’s Valentina Pop says it […]
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