Journalism vs the Truth Or is Tucker a useful idiot.? The world will have to wait and see if Tucker Carlson “will slobber all over Putin,” reminds Freddy Gray in The Spectator. The Kremlin Declined to Say Asked if he was in Moscow to interview Putin, Carlson responded: “We’ll see,” before he smiled. Go back […]
Warning: America Has Its Own Jihad Capital
“America Is a Terrorist State” What is it about Dearborn? Concern over southern Michigan’s support for terrorism does not go unnoticed by U.S. counterterrorism authorities, declares Steven Stalinsky in the WSJ. A 2001 Michigan State Police assessment submitted to the Justice Department after 9/11 called Dearborn “a major financial support center” and a “recruiting area and potential […]
Expanding the Welfare State
A Pro-Family Boondoggle In the WSJ, Kimberley Strassel explains how Congress is incapable of anything beyond redistributing other people’s money. 357 representatives passed another $78 billion spending bill. The Debt Spiral Continues Nancy Pelosi-era bipartisan binges the “infrastructure” bill the semiconductor-welfare transfer the $1,400 Covid checks. Looking for some fiscal responsibility? “Reform” or “spending discipline,” […]
Resolution for a Cease Fire
Another Day of “No School” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson cast a tie-breaking vote for calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. As the WSJ reports, “Skeptics wonder when the mayor will support a cease-fire on the West Side.” The Council resolution calls for a “permanent ceasefire to end the ongoing violence in Gaza . . . […]
Who’s Throwing the Country Under the Bus
A Paucity of Political Talent Joe Biden candidacy is starting to look like Donald Trump’s gateway, writes Holman E. Jenkins, Jr. in the WSJ. “To be clear, no one in President Biden’s White House would ever root for Donald J. Trump,” wrote the paper’s White House correspondent Peter Baker. “But as they watched Mr. Trump romp through […]
Democracy – What It Means
Government of the People, by the People, for the People Democracy, the much-abused word, almost has been rendered useless, writes Barton Swaim in the WSJ. Is democracy, wonders Mr. Swaim, still a noble word? Civic classes in the 1980s emphasized how a democracy was distinguishable from a republic. In a strict democracy, every citizen is […]
Harvard, the Boeing 737 of Higher Education
Cambridge, MA, an Open-Air Asylum Dominic Green laments that a great American brand is squandering the public’s trust. Failures of quality control are damaging its market dominance. Like any corporation, Harvard is looking for new management and working to burnish its image. Unlike most corporations, Harvard has no idea what it is doing. Boeing still […]
Global Poverty at Lowest Ever Recorded
Blame the Rich Oxfam – a “global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice.” The world’s five richest men have doubled their wealth since 2020 while “during the same period, almost five billion people globally have become poorer.” In its annual inequity report, Oxfam alerts of “widening and extreme inequality.” “As is often […]
Government at Work
Biden Administration Adds $10 Billion in Red Tape From a study by the American Action Forum (AAF): Despite Monday being a federal holiday, Federal agencies collectively announced $9.4 billion worth of regulatory costs in a four-day span, from 16 January to 19 January. Overall, the Biden Administration has added approximately $454.2 billion in regulations since […]
Trampling the Rights of Property Owners
Beverly Hills at a Standstill You almost pity the rich and famous. James Freeman in the WSJ does. Who else is willing to stand up for what Mr. Freeman describes as the “least sympathetic group of property owners imaginable”? Who is going to stand up for the country’s most aggressive virtue signalers who are now […]
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