Prior to 2009, all presidents had grown the economy at some point during their tenure by 3 percent. The wonder, exclaims Victor Davis Hanson, is that President Obama was the first modern president to figure out how not to do that. It took the efforts of a 24/7 redistributionist agenda of tax increases, federalizing health […]
Trump’s First Year: Success Below the Tweets
If you can peel back the top layer, and get below the tweets and non-stop negative media coverage, you will find a mostly successful first year of President Trump’s administration. His signature legislation, a massive corporate tax cut, is already making its mark on the way American corporations are doing business. Employees are getting raises, […]
Edwards: States Should Handle Their Own Infrastructure
According to my friend Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute, 98% of American streets and highways are owned by states and local municipalities. Plans for rebuilding America’s infrastructure from the federal level seem misguided when faced with that fact. How on earth can it be more efficient to use an increased federal gasoline tax to […]
The Dangers of Presidential Powers
One of the problems with a two party system is the discontent of the losing party. Worse yet is that each majority party attempts to empower its own executive whenever possible. Bad blood in Congress, and increased executive power can lead to revenge seeking by the White House down the road. My friend Gene Healy […]
Obama vs Trump: The Great Experiment
With each incoming administration, the deck chairs change, but usually the ship sails on course. New administrations have been unlikely to completely overturn their predecessors’ policies–until now. “We’ve gone from hard left, under Obama, to hard right, under Trump,” Victor Davis Hanson reminds readers of NRO. Whatever Donald J. Trump’s political past and vociferous present, […]
Will the Trump Presidency Go Poof?
President Donald Trump’s governance this year–especially the last three weeks–has been more conservative than that of George W. Bush or even Ronald Reagan, notes Ben Shapiro in NRO. Echoing Mr. Shapiro in the WSJ, William McGurn writes that Trump, despite being elected on a wave of populism, has not pandered to public appetites at the […]
Is Mueller Going After the Truth, or Trump?
After more than a year of investigating possible Trump/Russia collusion, Robert Mueller and his team have nothing to show for themselves. How long will this investigation take, and is Mueller really searching for the truth, or is he searching for a way to bury Trump? Pat Buchanan writes at Buchanan.org (abridged): The original question the […]
Russiagate Nothing Like Watergate Says Buchanan
Pat Buchanan, an adviser to president Richard Nixon at the time of his impeachment, writes in The American Conservative that the Russiagate scandal is nothing like the Watergate scandal that took down his former boss. Buchanan writes (abridged): On Aug. 9, 1974, Richard Nixon bowed to the inevitability of impeachment and conviction by a Democratic […]
The Real Collusion Story
Robert Mueller’s “ridiculously inflated” 17-lawyer team investigating the Trump campaign/Russia collusion story is brimming with Democratic donors and activists. More worrisome, notes Andrew McCarthy, is the integrity of the investigation. According to Mr. McCarthy, the real collusion, perhaps, is the way the Obama administration put the law enforcement and intelligence arms of the administration in […]
Breaking News: The “Creeps” at the FBI
How does the FBI create an entrapment scheme? It’s easy, explains Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. The FBI asks you to detail a conversation you had, which the FBI happens to have recorded. You then are charged with “lying to the FBI” should your memory fail you and your version differs from the FBI […]
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