Originally posted August 30, 2018. Robert W. Merry explains at The American Conservative that Donald Trump’s political emergence interrupted “the coalition of the ascendant,” which had intended to “overwhelm the declining white majority and usher in a new era of globalism, open borders, identity politics, free trade, cultural individualism, foreign policy interventionism, and gun control.” […]
Wouldn’t Bureaucrats Work Better Amongst the People They Regulate?
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced this week in D.C. that the Economic Research Service, which provides research and statistical analysis for lawmakers, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (allocates federal research funding) would be moving most of their personnel and operations by the end of September. “A gaggle of civil servants” protested the […]
Trump Unhinges the Left?
Like it or not, the lines are drawn, writes Victor Davis Hanson in “When Normality Became Abnormal:” “Trump so unhinged the Left that it finally tore off its occasional veneer of moderation, and showed us what progressives had in store for America.” 2020’s Socialism on One Side Medicare for All Wealth taxes Top income tax […]
Under Trump, the U.S. Up 6 Points for Economic Freedom
Originally posted on January 30, 2019. The Heritage Foundation just released the 2019 Index for Economic Freedom. And there is good news, reports Bright editors: Tax Cuts, Jobs Acts, Strong Deregulatory Agenda Under President Trump, the U.S. rose six spots over the past year, from the 18th most free economy in the world, to the 12th. […]
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 […]
Trump’s Speech for the Ages
Yesterday on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, President Trump delivered a speech, which Bright editor Ellie Bufkin called “evocative of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 speech to recognize the 40 years since the ‘boys of Pointe-du-Hoc’ scaled the Normandy cliffs to silence German guns.” We are gathered here on freedom’s altar, on these shores, on these bluffs, on this day […]
Hollywood & Co.: in Good Company with Obama Era FBI, CIA, Justice
Or …. the Dangers of Listening to the “Famous” “There is a veritable industry of celebrities calling for President Donald Trumps demise,” Victor Davis Hanson reminds readers. As he points out, it is getting not just old and boring. It is getting dangerous to listen to the likes of the “famous.” Some examples follow: Anthony […]
President Trump’s Warm Welcome in England
On President Trump’s first state visit to the United Kingdom he was warmly welcomed at Buckingham Palace, by both the royal family and well wishers outside. Rob Crilly reports at The Washington Examiner: Queen Elizabeth II greeted President Trump with a warm smile and a booming double gun salute at Buckingham Palace on Monday, as he […]
Resisting a Democratically Elected President
Recently, on “CBS This Morning” Jim Crawford, chief legal correspondent for CBS News, sat with Attorney General William Barr for an exclusive hour-long interview in Anchorage, Alaska. Crawford discussed with AG Barr a number of issues from obstruction to Barr’s review of the Russia investigation. Barr told Crawford he believes Robert Mueller could have reached a […]
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