At The American Conservative, Michael Warren Davis encourages Americans to “learn a trade,” noting that a plumber can easily make $100,000 a year. He notes the labor deficit in the trades, but also the negative stigma attached to manual labor. He writes (abridged): Corporations need to stop mandating that applicants have useless degrees in subjects […]
Joe Biden Proposes Medicaid Access for All
At The Federalist, Chrissy Clark calls Joe Biden’s universal healthcare plan “vague.” She notes Biden’s tendency to flip flop, and suggests that what Biden says today may not be true in the future. Biden and other Democrats are calling for universal healthcare, and even the abolition of private healthcare altogether. Clark writes (abridged): “I think […]
A 2018 Prelude to the 2019 U.S. Asylum Situation: Part 2
Originally posted on June 19, 2018. If the West is going to have a future, Pat Buchanan explains, President Trump is riding the great wave of sentiment that will protect it. The progressive left is setting up a Western suicide, writes Pat at The American Conservative, but a backlash is well underway. Tired of the […]
Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Being Bused into Portland, Maine
Debbie and I were having breakfast at a hotel in Portland, Maine’s waterfront district recently. Discussion in the dining room focused on a morning Portland Press Herald headline: “Record number of African migrants arriving on U.S.-Mexico border.” The PPH told readers, “Many were bused to Portland, about as far as one can get from the […]
A 2018 Prelude to the 2019 U.S. Asylum Situation
Originally posted on July 24, 2018. Today, Gilbert Sewall explains to readers of The American Conservative the current situation in Italy, and across the Mediterranean. Over the last four years, 600,000 Africans have immigrated illegally to Italy. The country doesn’t know what to do with these migrants. Sewall suggests that Europeans, especially those in Berlin […]
Steve Bannon Teams up With Boris Johnson
Originally posted on August 14, 2018. In the Associated Press, Danica Kirka reports that former advisor to President Trump, Steve Bannon, stood up for former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in a recent interview. She writes: Republican strategist Steve Bannon weighed into British politics Sunday in a wide-ranging interview in which he defended former Foreign Secretary […]
Will Boris Johnson Be the Big Winner in England?
Writing for The Cato Institute, Ryan Bourne suggests that the only thing that can stop Boris Johnson from ascending to post of Prime Minister is Johnson himself. With the support of over a third of the Tory party’s MPs, Johnson is the heavy favorite for the seat. Bourne writes (abridged): Boris Johnson will become Conservative […]
Department of Justice and FTC to Go After Tech Giants
At The American Conservative, Peter Van Buren decries the censorship by the big media companies. Van Buren explains “deplatforming” and how such corporate censorship may be illegal under monopoly conditions. He writes (abridged): Donald Trump is preparing to unleash the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as antitrust warriors against the tech giants. And good on him. […]
Can Trump Save America from Mega-Monopolies?
Originally posted January 28, 2019. In The American Conservative, Jonathan Tepper makes the case that America’s industries have become highly concentrated and monopolistic. He goes on to point out President Trump’s campaign promises to fight such extraordinarily powerful industries, and explains how the Republican Party before the 1980s was a powerful check on monopoly power […]
Trump Administration Seeks Trade Fairness, Not Withdrawal from World Markets
Originally posted October 23, 2018. In a winding piece in The New York Times, while hammering away at President Trump and the right-wing of politics in general, Quinn Slobodian manages to arrive at one salient point, that Donald Trump and his administration are not actually interested in 1930s style self-sufficiency, but instead are aiming to […]
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