One has to wonder why former VP Joe Biden, likely the Democratic frontrunner for 2020, hasn’t explained or has not been asked to explain how son Hunter got a seat on the board of Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company. For seven-figures. Keep in mind, writes Bill Thomas in American Greatness, Biden was the previous […]
Poverty Rate for Blacks and Hispanics Lowest on Record
Although last Friday’s employment report showed fewer new jobs and slowing wage gains, there is still good news. The big picture is that the longest hiring expansion in 80 years is lifting lower-income workers in particular, reports James Freeman in the WSJ. As accumulating evidence shows, the jobless rate remains steady at 3.5% (labor participation […]
Trump’s Erasing Soleimani Good News for Western Hemisphere
The killing by drone of General Soleimani is not only a blow to Iran’s theocratic efforts to assert its power across the Middle East, explains Mary Anastasia O’Grady in the WSJ. President Trump also did Latin America a big favor with the death of “a hero of hemispheric criminality.” Soleimani’s Friends America’s Enemies The dead […]
The Parody of Impeachment: Urgency Gone Missing?
It seems like long ago, but only three short weeks have passed since House Democrats assured Americans that a rush to vote was necessary before Christmas. President Trump, they claimed, posed a clear and present danger. At the time of the House Impeachment shenanigans, House Democrats argued that former national security adviser John Bolton need […]
President Trump’s Peace through Strength
In his response to the Iranian missile attacks, President Trump on Wednesday used strong but conciliatory remarks: “Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned,” Trump also announced unspecified “additional punishing economic sanctions” while the U.S. considers other responses to Iran’s attacking U.S. bases in Iraq. Trump’s goal, […]
Obama’s Nuclear Deal Empowered Soleimani
Joe Biden, on Tuesday, delivered remarks on President Trump’s strike against General Qassem Soleimani. The former VP “wrapped himself tightly” in Barack Obama’s Iran policy, reports the WSJ. (Biden) went on to offer a potted history of the Middle East B.T.—before Trump—when Iran was peaceable, its nuclear ambitions vanquished, and “there was a united front […]
Trump Says “Yes We Can” to Tehran
Give Praise to Fracking? In 2013, when President Obama sent forces to help Iraqi Kurds repel Islamic State, disapproving commentators talked oil “front and center” as the motivating force. As Holman Jenkins in the WSJ reports, “A writer at the New Republic assured readers that oil lies near the center of American motives for intervention.” […]
Has Trump Averted a Benghazi and a Jimmy Carter Debacle?
“This will not be a Benghazi,” vowed President Trump to reporters on New Year’s Eve. “This will never, ever be a Benghazi.” A Little History On 4 November 1979, Iranian extremists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran: 66 hostages seized 52 hostages held for 444 days A Military Fiasco When Carter informed a sleepy nation […]
Proven Wrong: Krugman, Summers, Rattner
Unethical experts abound in every discipline, but no more so perhaps than in the media and DC think tanks, warns Victor Davis Hanson in National Review. A supposedly clueless Donald Trump had the lemmings racing toward the abyss in an attempt to trash his economic plans as gravely absurd. Mr. Trump was bound to destroy […]
Winner of “Adult of the Year” – Attorney General William Barr
In what she calls a new award category, Kimberley Strassel at the WSJ would bestow her prize on “a person’s willingness to speak truth to power—whether to the press, the boss, or to partisan operators.” When President Trump nominated William Barr as AG in December 2018, the press, who demeaned all Trump nominees, was stymied […]
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