According to a new analysis from The Wall Street Journal, states in the Southwest added more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs from January 2017 to January 2020. That’s a 30% increase, and triple the rate of the rest of America. Ben Foldy and Austen Hufford report in the WSJ: Executives say the region’s growing population makes […]
Archives for June 2021
Biden Is Just Making America’s Unsustainable Spending Even Worse
At the Cato Institute, scholars Jeffrey Miron and Erin Partin explain that Joe Biden’s massive budget is adding to an already unsustainable course of spending set by America’s so-called “entitlements,” Social Security, and Medicare. They write (abridged): This article appeared on Real Clear Policy on May 25, 2021. Current concern about the U.S. fiscal outlook targets recent COVID-19 stimulus […]
Lost but Not Forgotten at the Battle at Belleau Wood
In an essay on the many who “fought, bled and died” for our country, Chris Stirewalt, a contributing editor to The Dispatch, writes on Memorial Day 2021 a tribute to the dead and a reminder to the living: We don’t know what Fred Stockham thought about the war. Did he have some sympathies for the […]
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Is a Giveaway to Corporate Cronyism
The problems plaguing roads, bridges, subways, and airports are mostly caused by a lack of political will at the local level. No amount of federal money can fix those problems, and will probably only make them worse by insulating the inept local politicians from the problems they have created. Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure plan (which […]
CRINGE: Kamala Harris Embarrasses Herself and the Navy with This Speech
At the Wall Street Journal, Gerard Baker sends up Kamala Harris’s awful speech to the Naval Academy’s 2021 graduates (watch it in all its cringeworthy awkwardness below) writing: Have you heard the one about the Marine with the rolled-up solar panel? It wasn’t exactly Bob Hope and the USO when Kamala Harris attempted humor during […]
AWOL IN AUSTIN: Texas Democrats Run Away from Their Jobs to Protect Voter Fraud
Texas Democrats high-tailed it out of the Texas State House on Sunday in order to avoid providing a quorum for a vote that would strengthen Texas’s voting laws to prevent fraud. The Wall Street Journal reports: As the Texas legislative session drew near its end Sunday, lawmakers appeared set to pass a bill overhauling the […]
What Happened to “Safe, Clean Gas?”
Progressive-led cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and New York are participating in a new wave of anti-fossil fuel activism that will further harm their residents, and may in fact be counterproductive in terms of reducing carbon output. These cities, and others, are trying to ban new natural gas connections utility connections and to even replace […]
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