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America Can’t Fix the Middle East

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Walter Russell Mead says the Middle East’s “economic and social conflicts,” destabilize the region. Despite America’s power, says Mead, the U.S. can’t resolve the region’s problems. He writes (abridged): Iraq isn’t the only country in the region that is trapped in a cycle of dysfunctional governance and blocked development. The forces that produced the Arab […]

751 “No-Go” Zones in France

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Originally posted February 24, 2015.  In a recent Washington Post interview, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo was asked, “You said you were going to sue Fox News over its allegations that there are “no-go” zones in France—areas where only Muslims can go. Aren’t there places in Paris where people are afraid to go?” Mayor Hidalgo responded, […]

Your Cash Swept into Your Broker’s Bank Account!

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At The Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig explains the treatment customers are receiving at Schwab. He writes (abridged): The term “brokerage” is becoming a misnomer. Firms like Schwab are more like banks than brokers. In the first half of 2019, Schwab clients moved $58 billion into money-market funds and other higher-yielding choices. But most don’t bother. Even […]

The Problem in America

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UPDATE: I originally posted this on May 29, 2019, but it deserves a second look if you haven’t seen it already. Pay close attention to my friend Johnny Burtka, executive director of The American Conservative, who has a plan for an America that puts its citizens first. America has a problem. As my wife Debbie […]

Warren/Ocasio-Cortez: The Hook up to Insanity

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Welfare for illegal immigrants? Nationwide rent control? Benefits for convicts? These are just some of the ideas Elizabeth Warren has endorsed as part of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s plan known as a “Just Society.” Such proposals destroy the value of property ownership (plan 1 of Marx’s 10 Planks, not coincidentally), and the value of citizenship. Monica Showalter […]

Can the French Political Right ever Be United?

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The French political right is fractured. Typically conservative voters are spread among the traditional right-wing party of Les Republicains, Emmanuel Macron’s centrist La République En Marche!, and the more nationalist National Rally (Rassemblement National), among other smaller parties. At The American Conservative, Scott McConnell explains how Marion Maréchal and her associates may be able to […]

Will the French Be Replaced on Their Own Soil?

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At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher tells the story of Eric Zemmour, who has spoken out about the immigrant situation in France. Zemmour urges the French not to believe the lies they have been hearing for fifty years about immigration. He told a crowd at a recent political conference known as the Convention Of The […]

Liz Warren: Fascist/Socialist/Progressive/Anti-Capitalist

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At LewRockwell.com, Michael S. Rozeff explains the “fascist/socialist/progressive/anti-capitalist hearts and souls,” of people like Elizabeth Warren and AOC, whose policies he says “are all anti-people.” He writes (abridged): Elizabeth Warren wrote “It’s going to take big, structural change to tackle poverty and inequality in the U.S., and @AOC’s ‘A Just Society’ is just the type of […]

America’s Colleges Have Become Progressive Liberal Rat Holes

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Ziva Dahl of The American Spectator writes (abridged): An Ohio bakery was just awarded $44 million from Oberlin College as compensation for being defamed as racist by college administrators. Considerable focus has been placed on the role of progressive college professors in setting the intellectual norms on campus. The ever-growing ranks of left-leaning administrators are […]