This past weekend, the 2015 Folk Festival took place once again in Newport, RI. July 25 also marks the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s plugging in his guitar at Freebody Park in Newport and blasting out “Maggie’s Farm” before introducing “Like a Rolling Stone.” To many in the audience—folk purist and political activists—it was an […]
Looking for a Great New Year’s Champagne?
If you know even a little about Champagne, you most likely would name Chardonnay and Pinot Noir as the leading blending grapes of Champagne. But there is another grape–a workhorse, so to speak–that is often overlooked. Pinot Meunier is a genetic mutant of Pinot Noir and accounts for about one-third of the plantings in the […]
Why Doesn’t Governor Cuomo Fix the Empire State’s Tax Code?
Worried that the federal tax reform will negatively affect the state of New York, Andrew Cuomo told CNN that the new law may be “unconstitutional.” “We’re going to propose a restructuring of our tax code. I’m not even sure what they [Republicans] did is legally constitutional and that’s something we’re looking at now. You can […]
Will the Trump Presidency Go Poof?
President Donald Trump’s governance this year–especially the last three weeks–has been more conservative than that of George W. Bush or even Ronald Reagan, notes Ben Shapiro in NRO. Echoing Mr. Shapiro in the WSJ, William McGurn writes that Trump, despite being elected on a wave of populism, has not pandered to public appetites at the […]
President Obama Steamrolls Chicagoans with his “Gift to the Community”
Once again, former President Obama is taking executive order to another level. Chicago’s favored son is rankling many of its citizens over plans for his presidential library. Which, according to Philip H. Devoe, in NRO, is not being called a library, but rather a center. It seems Obama is once again taking executive power for […]
Merry Christmas in February for Employees’ Paychecks
Will the New York Times or Larry Summers be able to handle the truth that reduced taxes will be showing up in paychecks soon? In the WSJ’s Best of the Web, James Freeman outlines what he calls the February Surprise. In some ways it already has, as business enthusiasm for the Trump agenda of reduced […]
What Presidents Obama and Trump Have in Common
Do the past two months of electoral losses for the GOP have a familiar ring to them? Indeed, writes Rich Lowry in NRO. Newly elected president Barack Obama’s party lost off-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and suffered a stunning upset in a Senate race it had no business losing, in Massachusetts. Trump’s […]
A Windfall for the Wealthy?
The narrative is everywhere–“How GOP Tax Plans Would Reward Rich Families,” “A Tax-Cut Bill to Make Scrooge McDuck Proud.” The only problem is that the narrative is false, explains Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute. The GOP’s tax proposals would give the largest relative cuts to the middle class, increase subsidies to low-income households, and […]
The Real Collusion Story
Robert Mueller’s “ridiculously inflated” 17-lawyer team investigating the Trump campaign/Russia collusion story is brimming with Democratic donors and activists. More worrisome, notes Andrew McCarthy, is the integrity of the investigation. According to Mr. McCarthy, the real collusion, perhaps, is the way the Obama administration put the law enforcement and intelligence arms of the administration in […]
Does Character Trump Representation?
At stake today is the U.S. Senate seat in Alabama between two candidates of opposite ideologies. Also at stake is the broader question for Alabama voters who must decide: How will we govern ourselves? By a system driven by innuendos and accusations, or by due process? In American Greatness, Chris Buskirk covers the “salicious claims” […]
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