With the announcement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy that he will be retiring from the bench, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced that a vote for the confirmation of Kennedy’s replacement will take place by this fall. In November of last year, President Trump announced a list of 25 potential Supreme Court nominees […]
Archives for June 2018
Landmark Ruling in Forced Union Dues Case at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled against public sector unions in the case of Janus v. AFSCME. The court said that employees cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions. CNBC’s Tucker Higgins reports: The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that non-union workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions. “Compelling […]
Steel Being Made Today in Cleveland and Lorain, Ohio
Steel workers cheer President Trump and foreign steel tariffs. As this astute article by William S. Lind in The American Conservative correctly concludes, political BS and economic ignorance not withstanding, “we industrialized this country under tariff protection and we can re-industrialize under tariff protection.” Read below: Today, as you drive over the new Innerbelt bridge […]
Lawmakers Continue to Kick the Can on Immigration
Jason L. Riley asks in the WSJ: “What is the point of having immigration laws if the government doesn’t enforce them?” … large majorities of Democrats and Republicans continue to view immigrants as a net positive for the country. But the president speaks for more Americans than his critics want to acknowledge when he expresses […]
State Tax Update: Are Yours Going Up?
On this site, I regularly highlight the good and bad of states’ tax structure (read here, here, here, here, and here for starters). I want business owners, investors and retirees to have the best information possible in order to make their decisions about where to operate, live, and retire. Now, The Tax Foundation has released an […]
Lockheed to Build Newest and Most Advanced F-16
Lockheed Martin has received a contract for $1.12 billion to produce 16 new F-16 Block 70 aircraft for The Kingdom of Bahrain. Block 70 is the newest and most advanced F-16, combining numerous capabilities and structural upgrades. The jet has improved radar systems, advanced weapons capabilities, and battlespace awareness. Read the press release below from […]
A Balanced U.S Middle East Approach?
At The National Interest,Payam Mohseni and Ammar Nakhjavani warn American politicians about taking sides in the Shia-Sunni conflict currently boiling in the Middle East. The writers suggest that getting to close to the leaders of the Sunni movement, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, could drive away moderate Shia and even moderate Sunni countries and […]
China’s “Plan 2025”: What Do You Know?
William Lind, writing at The American Conservative, tells readers that without manufacturing to build on, cities can’t become rich, and therefore can’t revitalize. Lind asks why China has a plan for self sufficiency in manufacturing by 2025, but America does not. China is already on its way to “global semiconductor dominance.” Certainly America should pay […]
A Reckoning in the American Academy?
In an interview with Ben Weingarten of The Federalist, Victor Davis Hanson discusses, among other things, the decline of the American academy. Ben Weingarten: As a classicist, you’ve lamented both the corruption of the academy within your own discipline and on the modern campus more broadly — in particular on its repudiation of the Western […]
Read this on How Trump Won and Continues WINNING
Hillary Clinton played the income inequality card. And President Trump won because working Americans were sick and tired of her lies. Because they were lies, and now we have the numbers to prove it. In his analysis, published in April, Cato Institute’s John F. Early, shows that recipients of government handouts multiplied their spendable income […]
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