Many conservative groups continue to scold American voters for supporting Donald Trump because Mr. Trump is “an existential threat to conservatism.” As Tucker Carlson noted last January in Politico, voters are being scolded for supporting Trump because it would be bad for conservatism. And who is doing the scolding? Those think-tanks pushing for open borders […]
Give Clintons Money/Get Special Favors
Who is Rajiv K. Fernando, you might ask. Mr. Fernando, explains Kimberely A. Strassel in the WSJ, is a “one-time Chicago securities trader who in July of 2011 somehow found himself sitting on the International Security Advisory Board, with the ability to access the nation’s most sensitive intelligence.” Mr. Fernando had no background that would […]
The Sclerotic Welfare State
Having voted to Leave the EU—with its high taxes, heavy regulation and protectionism—will Britain, asks Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute, use its new freedom to ditch the sclerotic welfare state? Britain … has a new opportunity to look at spending and the overall size of government. It is worth noting that government spending as […]
Hillary Resorting to Her Naturally Unpleasant Side
Can Hillary Clinton match Donald Trump’s mastery of the arts of personal slander and invective, asks Victor Davis Hanson in NRO: Hillary is starting to resort to her naturally unpleasant side, both in form and in content. She should learn from Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz. When Trump unloaded on them in turn, […]
“Damn the People”
There is a petition on the British government’s website that demands a second referendum on Brexit. In just two days, 3.3 million British citizens have signed on, which will require Parliament to have a second debate on Leave or Remain this summer. This is ludicrous, John Fund explains in NRO: It demands that the government […]
The Poo-Bahs’ Campaign of Fear
The economic stagnation in Europe today is not entirely the fault of the EU bureaucracy, writes Francis Menton in Manhattan Contrarian. Each member state is responsible for its own overspending and overregulation. The EU bureaucracy, however, has been growing unchecked to the determent of future growth, dynamism and human freedom. What businesses and industries are […]
12 Years in Darkness and Hell
Dr. Óscar Elías Biscet, regarded by many as Cuba’s foremost democracy activist, is a symbol of the general resistance to the Castro dictatorship. For this, Dr. Biscet was imprisoned essentially for 12 years for “dangerousness,” a common charge that means the individual in question will not submit meekly to dictatorial rule, writes Jay Nordlinger in […]
Two Air Force Ones Fly to Paris for the Price of…? Holy Cow!
Originally posted December 3, 2015. So 40,000 people—each one on the taxpayer dime—are meeting in Paris to (a) save the planet, and (b) to suppress any dissent to the orthodoxy of climate change. “And yet all of them somehow fly to Paris on planes burning massive amounts of fossil fuel, not noticing any contradiction between […]
Meet the Smiling Face of Germany’s Far Right
Germany’s far right wing populist political party is the AfD—Alterative für Deutschland, which was founded in 2012. The AfD’s unlikely leader is Frauke Petry, a research chemist and entrepreneur who only entered politics in 2013. At 41, she is the mother of four. Ms. Petry deflects criticism of the AfD—that its very existence raises questions […]
Money for Nothing
From the WSJ’s Notable & Quotable: Sportscaster Vin Scully comments on socialism while Herman Perez is up to bat: Perez, 25 years old, originally drafted by the Tigers. Lives in Venezuela. Boy, can you imagine, you’re a young kid playing in the United States, you’re from Venezuela, and every time you look at the news […]
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