I have been following the work of Robert VerBruggen as he examines new research into the effects of gun control on violence. In my first installment, I showed you VerBruggen’s dismantling of the “gun violence index.” In the second installment, I highlighted VerBruggen’s examination of a research paper comparing laws in cities across America. Today, I’ll show […]
Buchanan: Trump Presidency Under Seige
It appears the media wants to stoke the fire of disunity, but voters didn’t elect Trump to back down from a fight. Pat Buchanan lays out how the Trump presidency will be besieged by the media. Among the reasons the hysteria over the Trump election has not abated is that the media continue to stoke it, […]
The Future of the Democrat Party
Where does the Democrat Party go from here? The Trump wave of support for a smaller government “of the people, by the people, for the people” that got him elected won’t disappear in four-years. The rise of Progressives—who are doubling-down on the big government policies which got them kicked out of not only Washington, D.C. […]
Reince Priebus, Part II, America’s Irrational Takers
As President Obama walks through the ruins in Greece on his European farewell tour, President-elect Donald Trump is figuring out how to clean up the mess he’s been left with. It’s a fitting narrative, because what has been happening in Greece could certainly happen here. Back in 2012 during the riots in Greece, Reince Priebus […]
Trump and the Supreme Court
Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, on Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominations:
Trump’s Chief of Staff Pick: Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus was in Newport four years ago for the Romney campaign. I liked everything he had to say. Here’s what I wrote to you then about his speech that evening. “Reince said you get a name like his when a German and a Greek get married. But not to worry—his kids have normal names. […]
The Low-Hanging Fruit for Trump
The low-hanging fruit for President-elect Donald Trump is spending cuts. My friend Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato Institute, gives his advice here: So let me suggest some wasteful spending that the new administration should tackle, and the annual savings from terminating each: K-12 school subsidies, which generate bureaucracy and stifle innovation […]
Trump’s Victory and His First 100 Days
Wow, what a difference 24-hours can make. On Tuesday I looked up the average retirement age of Supreme Court Justices and was real uneasy about the potential retirement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Second Amendment with a possible appointment of Justice Merrick Garland. On Wednesday? Please retire Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the late Antonin […]
Trump Stands Up for the Forgotten Man
The forgotten American middle class spoke up, loud and clear, in Tuesday’s vote for an end to a policy world that focuses solely on elites and entitlements. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger outlines the backlash these folks had to 2,900 days of a half-alive economy. Let us be clear about the economic status […]
Peggy Noonan: America Is So in Play
Originally August 31, 2015. Becky and I had the pleasure of meeting Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan last Fall at the Cato 200 in Middleburg, VA. Peggy’s column last week is a must read. It was one of her best: “America Is So In Play.” Donald Trump has hit a nerve. The system is […]
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