Russia is in bad shape, writes Victor Davis Hanson in NRO. Innovative American technology to frack gas and oil has crashed world energy prices. The big loser in this is Russia, which has lost nearly half of its oil revenue, and Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently will do anything to see it stopped (Russia) is […]
Good News/Bad News for the GOP
In a survey on Governor Approval Ratings taken by the Republican Governors Association, the 10 most popular governors in the country are from the GOP. That’s the good news. The bad news for Republicans, however, is that seven of the ten least popular governors are from the GOP. But that’s what happens, as Jim Geraghty […]
Now He Tells Her
“If you want to be president, you have to know why the heck you are running,” said former president Bill Clinton. Mr. Clinton was discussing his time in office and what it takes to become president at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. I think you have to begin with the end in mind. Yeah, […]
NYC and the Tragedy of Tenure
Wonder why tens of thousands of parents in NYC have placed their children on waiting lists for charter schools? Charter schools are free to hire and fire teachers on individual teacher merits, not by union diktat. The United Federation of Teachers, which wholly owns Mayor Bill de Blasio, protects teachers who are in the Absent Teacher […]
The Vacuity of the G-20
With another G-20 come and gone, what in the world has changed? Here’s what the summit did not accomplish: No change in trade policy. No change in environmental policies. Will any of the leaders who signed the communiqué spend a moment thinking about how to implement it back home, asks Walter Russell Mead in the […]
The G20 Climate Thing—a Total Farce
Want to know what some of the major countries in the world are up to as part of the Paris Agreement? Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian has done the legwork for you. But, as Mr. Menton explains, just Google the letters “INDC” (Intended Nationally Determined Contribution) and the name of a country to see […]
Does the West Have the Will to Survive?
Commenting on President Trump’s speech in Poland, Peggy Noonan suggests that if the president spoke at home like he did in Poland, more Americans would welcome him. “If he gives serious, thoughtful, prepared remarks only when traveling, he should travel more.” President Donald Trump, 6 July 2017, Warsaw: Our defense is not just a commitment […]
Happy Post Independence Day, America
In a U.S. presidential election, there is never a perfect candidate. Our nose-holding options last November were candidates A or B, both deeply flawed. Regardless of what you think of our 45th president, however, Francis Menton has a patriotic thought: Thank God We Finally Got Rid of Obama. After eight years of President Obama and […]
Lots More Coal
The New York Times is worried. China, it maintains, is in the process of seizing “climate leadership” from the United States and, along the way, reaping the economic and diplomatic rewards that come from dominating the world markets for wind and solar energy. More worrisome, with the U.S. pulling out of the Paris climate agreement […]
Command and Control Advertising is Dead
Andrew Essex, a former advertising executive, has written a book called The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come. Essex believes that advertising as we know it has “somewhere between five minutes and five years” before its end. He believes advertisers will have to spend their time and money creating something […]
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