Originally posted on July 11, 2019. Paul Gottfried examines the idea of “liberalism” in The American Conservative, writing (abridged): In a recent column, TAC co-founder Pat Buchanan quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin to the effect that the liberal principle may be falling into disrepute: “Why is liberalism failing? Several causes said Putin. Among them, its failure to deal […]
Trump Supporters Pack the House for Rally in NH
Originally posted September 3, 2019.
The Fed – “Independent” and “Non Political” – Joins The Resistance
Former Fed Vice Chair William Dudley, perhaps the next Fed Grandee, has stripped the veil, the WSJ reports. Most of us have read about or seen on TV former chairs of the Federal Reserve defending the central bank’s independence and foreswearing all political intentions. “But then,” as the WSJ asks, “what are we to make […]
Richard C. Young’s First 2020 Presidential Poll
Originally posted March 25, 2019. I asked a small, targeted focus group last week a single question: What percent of voters are hard-line supporters of Bernie policies or of Trump policies? Note: I wrote “policies.” I was not referring to Bernie or Trump personally. Poll results: A Runaway Win for Trump Policies by a 2-to-1 […]
America’s Colleges Have Become Progressive Liberal Rat Holes
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 […]
Will Democrats Demand Busing of Whites from Suburbs to the Inner City?
Originally posted on July 9, 2019. At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan highlights progressive liberal demands for slavery reparations and free migrant health care. He also questions the electoral possibilities of a platform that includes busing whites to predominantly black schools for integration. Pat kicks off: Since the Democratic debates in June, the tide seems […]
Sweden – Not a Socialist Paradise, but a Model of Ruthless Capitalism
When Cynthia Nixon was running for governor of New York last year, she was asked in an interview her views on being a socialist. The flustered Ms. Nixon hesitating replied, “I am more in … I am more in line with the Nordic model myself.” But as Adam O’Neal notes in the WSJ, faced with […]
The Three Best Retirement Decisions I Ever Made
In April of 2004, I explained to readers three decisions about retirement that I was very happy to pass on. I wrote: Long ago, I made three decisions that I am happy to pass on to you regarding retirement: (1) Don’t. (2) Live in a warm weather state. (3) Live in a warm weather state […]
Trump Must Slam the Door on Sub-Saharan Migration
Last year Stephen Smith, an American-born longtime Africa correspondent for the Paris dailies Le Monde and Libération, now a professor of African and African-American studies at Duke, published (in French) La ruée vers l’Europe, a short, sober, open-minded book about the coming mass migration out of Africa. The most important book written until then on the […]
“Grounds to Impeach Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg?”
Originally posted on October 2, 2018. Writing at The American Spectator, Dov Fischer suggests that there may come to be reason to impeach Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as her increasingly erratic and volatile political statements suggest she is becoming more activist than jurist. He writes: It is very possible that President Trump will have at […]
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