The French are not the only nation to have doubts about the wisdom of its government. Brexit at its core is about the Brits doubting that Brussels know best. Even the U.S. has its own version, William McGurn reminds readers in the WSJ. War on Poverty and the Devastation of the Black Family Until recently […]
How Obama Shackled a Healthy Economy
How did the U.S. economy go from an OK condition in January 2017 to an intense, nationwide labor shortage and rising wages less than 18 months later? Daniel Henninger in the WSJ answers his own question – it lies in deciphering the effects of the Trump administration’s abrupt unwinding of the Obama era’s economic regulations. […]
The Energy Chutzpah of the U.S.
In Katowice, Poland, last week and this, there was a gathering of 22,000 bureaucrats and functionaries. (You know, the one French President Macron hastily abandoned to deal with Yellow Vest rioting in Paris.) Their mission? To sound the alarm on the evil of fossil fuels and the need to transition to clean energy. The lead […]
Looting, Vandalizing, Torching Get Political Results?
The real tragedy with the rioting in France is that President Macron could have avoided the wrath of the Yellow Vests. Macron, as promised while campaigning, did cut taxes, reform labor laws, and face down the national railroad unions. What sparked the protests, however, was what hadn’t been promised while Macron was campaigning: the fuel-tax […]
Speaking of Rioting in France
As Paris burned, French President Macron abandoned the United Nations climate change summit hosted in Poland where signees were trying to iron out how they would reach their own emissions-reducing pledges. More than 85% of electricity in Poland, by the way, is generated in coal-fired plants, writes David Harsanyi in The Federalist. The United States, […]
Former President Obama Needs to Buy a Ranch
Donald Trump has been president for 22 months, and the final verdict on his administration is still pending. Victor Davis Hanson suggests it would be wise to wait until Trump’s four-year term is over before weighing in on his legacy or lack of one. Former President Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides […]
For Monsieur Macron – Too Little Too Late?
Last year, when President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, French President Macron, in English, lectured Mr. Trump: “There is no Plan B because there is no Planet B.” Well, the last three weeks of less-than-harmonious demonstrations by the Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) have been so trying for Mr. Macron that he […]
R.I.P. George H. W. Bush
From WGBH public radio on the 41st President: As the nation says good-bye to a former president, many in the Maine town of Kennebunkport are remembering a neighbor. David Mulvar, a waiter at Mabel’s Lobster Claw, where the Bushes often visited, remembers one of those dinners. After Mr. Bush finished his meal, he went over […]
President Trump’s Uncertain Fate
After two years of solid achievements, Donald Trump’s future seems uncertain, in part, as Victor Davis Hanson points out in American Greatness. Even as Trump’s economic policies and foreign affairs bring results, “the more the hatred of him grows, both inside and outside his own party.” Trump’s Signature Long Term Agendas Hang in the Balance […]
Barack Obama: “That Was Me, People”
America’s prosperity revival has room to run, James Freeman writes the WSJ. But Mr. Freeman warns, the prudent man should always look out for the end of a cycle. How to tell? We’ll know it’s really over when the former President stops pretending it’s his economy. From Jack Crowe at National Review: Former President Barack […]
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