What’s Wrong with Higher Wages, Lower Costs, and a Country at Peace? “We’re Not Going Back” is one of Kamala Harris’s campaign slogans. Perhaps she might want to table that idea. Just maybe, suggests Roger Kimball in American Greatness, voters would like to go back to the Trump era when “the cost of living was […]
Government In the Driver’s Seat
Consumers in the Backseat As a Harris/Walz administration destroys new jobs, taxpayers will be asked to pay for the damage, predicts Roger Kimball in American Greatness. The Environmental Protection Agency’s new emissions rules, as reported by the WSJ, will effectively “require companies to produce one to two electric trucks for every gas-powered truck as […]
Kamala Harris’s Threat to Liberty: Attacking the 1st Amendment
Don’t Say You Haven’t Been Warned Here’s one for the books. Try to imagine this: a federal government so large and so contemptuous of constitutional liberty that Elizabeth Warren is the voice of restraint and the bulwark protecting individual rights? An Assault on the 1st Amendment Well, it happened recently, verifies the WSJ: Robert F. […]
Trampling Taxpayers: American Rescue Plan
Unethical Expenditures Here’s a short list of some items $1.9 trillion for the Covid-19 Rescue Plan will get you: Illinois: Danville Aquatic Center: Looking for a family-friendly escape from the heat this summer? Then check out the new aquatic center in Danville, Ill. Danville’s splashy venture is courtesy of a cool $13 million injection from […]
Through the Looking Glass
Reversing Logic After murdering and raping, then taking hostages, Hamas must be perplexed at the moral ineptitude of its enemies. In the WSJ, the editors decry the terrorists’ murder of six Israeli hostages, including one dual-citizen American. How is it that Israel is suddenly under pressure to make concessions—to Hamas? On Monday, Israel said it […]
OMG, What Did We Just Do?
Impulse Buying Voting for a president cannot be compared to impulse buying. The culture of easy, mindless adoption comes with a harsh reality check. Voters need to be reminded of consequences. Kamal Harris just completed her first sit-down “watershed” interview. This time Harris did escape a “deer in the headlights” moment, but validated that […]
Kamala Harris: Her Vision Is Not Clear
Price Gouging, Monopoly Pricing, Collusion vs Price Fixing Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign: “so short on details,” “so short on policy proposals,” warns Joshua Hendrickson, an associate professor of economics at the University of Mississippi. Her overall vision is not even clear, Hendrickson reminds readers in NRO. ” When she does take a position, she […]
Dangerously Useless in Deterring Global Adversaries
Kamala’s “Joy” Embraces Failure It’s certainly not reassuring, cautions the WSJ. Perhaps Kamala Harris would be better closing the window she has cracked open on her world views. Not many Americans will want to sneak a peek at this: From Kamala Harris: “As I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to […]
Kill Incentives to Work, Save, Invest
Kamala’s “Joy,” Ideologically Incompetent Donald Trump’s Tax Policies worked as planned, lauds James Freeman in the WSJ. That Vice-President Harris now is willfully ignoring Trump’s recent history and proposes higher tax rates on a struggling economy should be a warning to workers nationwide. No one is going to enjoy “joy” in a depressed economy. Kamala’s […]
At Least Trump Won’t Be President
Voters Are Collateral Damage The US is accustomed to economic growth almost every year. Looking at a chart on GDP growth over the last century, the impression, explains Francis Menton, is of near-continuous and extremely robust growth, based on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (Commerce Department). ( here is a chart from USA […]
