By any traditional economic metric, President Obama’s tenure in the White House was mostly a failure, Victor Davis Hanson outlines in American Greatness. The economy under Obama, in a new first, never hit annualized growth of 3 percent. Obamacare, Obama’s signature domestic policy caused chaos. Millions lost their coverage and doctors, and paid far more […]
The Sad Death of New York’s Village Voice
In The American Conservative, Telly Davidson eulogizes the Village Voice, the famed New York alt-weekly paper headquartered on Maiden Lane. Davidson blames the counter culture paper’s downfall on its becoming “an insular clique rather than a sanctuary for brilliant misfits and rebels.” He writes (abridged): When I first heard about the death of the Village Voice on August […]
President Obama Critiques Identity Politics
Originally posted on July 26, 2018. It’s hard not to notice that Democrats are sounding like foreign-policy hawks when it comes to Russia and like states’ rights activists when it comes to shielding illegal aliens from deportation. So it’s interesting to consider, do Democrats really believe voters want U.S. international borders erased rather than fixed? […]
“1968 Remains a Landmark Year in the Public Mind”
Gilbert T. Seawall takes TAC readers back to the days following Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination in Memphis and the Berkeley California turmoil. Dividing U.S. politics and culture into old and new, 1968 remains a landmark year in the public mind. Amid failure in Vietnam, the much-detested President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek […]
Erdogan Drives Investors Out of Turkey by Playing Central Banker
Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spooked investors in Turkey by trying to dictate policy to the country’s central bank. With the currency plummeting, his meddling in the central bank process is only making things worse. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board writes: Turkey’s lira fell as much as 5% on Wednesday, and it’s lost […]
Facebook: “A Giant Blood-Engorged Tick Hanging off Your Frontal Lobe”
“Designed to be addictive, Facebook feels like a giant blood-engorged tick hanging off your frontal lobe,” writes Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone. You may recall, Taibbi coined Goldman Sachs as a “[G]reat vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” In his piece on Facebook, where the median salary is $240,430, Taibbi makes a case […]
Progressive Zuckerberg/Facebook Ban Conservative Alex Jones
Conservative pundit Alex Jones is a man of controversy, to be kind. Truthfully, I have never paid much attention to Alex Jones. Once that’s said, Zuckerberg/Facebook’s regular scrutiny as to how outside parties access and use the personal data of Facebook users is of national concern. Facebook’s censoring individual American citizens, like the unpleasant Mr. […]
Avoid “Own the Libs” Style Online Behavior
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, kicked off a conservative conference of high school students on Monday by urging attendees to avoid inflammatory language in favor of demonstrating real leadership, reports The Hill. At the High School Leadership Summit at George Washington University, Ms. Haley asked, “Raise your hand if you’ve ever posted anything […]
“If Trump Wins We Will All Hang”
Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, writes that Americans, who have remained on the sidelines, may soon need to respond to what he calls “clearly delineated attempts to stage a coup d’état against the legitimately elected Trump government,” with force. For now he says Americans must remain “armed but steady.” […]
America’s Best State for Business
I’m always on the lookout for information to pass along to you about where in America you can go to maximize your opportunity and standard of living. I write to the small business owners and savers of America who are trying to find a place where their money will be treated best by their government. […]
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