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 […]
“A Plumber Can Easily Make $100,000 a Year.”
At The American Conservative, Michael Warren Davis encourages Americans to “learn a trade,” noting that a plumber can easily make $100,000 a year. He notes the labor deficit in the trades, but also the negative stigma attached to manual labor. He writes (abridged): Corporations need to stop mandating that applicants have useless degrees in subjects […]
If Connecticut’s Goal Is to Drive Away Business, It’s Working
The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board explains the Connecticut strategy succinctly when it writes “Thus we have Connecticut’s business model: Raise costs for everyone and then leverage taxpayers to provide discounts for a politically favored few.” By raising taxes on all corporations and individuals, Connecticut makes owning a small business very difficult. If a major […]
Joe Biden Proposes Medicaid Access for All
At The Federalist, Chrissy Clark calls Joe Biden’s universal healthcare plan “vague.” She notes Biden’s tendency to flip flop, and suggests that what Biden says today may not be true in the future. Biden and other Democrats are calling for universal healthcare, and even the abolition of private healthcare altogether. Clark writes (abridged): “I think […]
Venezuela’s Gold Heist
Venezuela’s gold has been stolen. Not in the traditional sense, such as a cat burglar sneaking into the vault and pocketing a bar or two. No, instead Venezuela’s socialist government has stolen the country’s national treasure to fund its illegitimate rule. Using Russian jets, and African middle men, Venezuela’s socialist rulers have sold 7.4 tons […]
Even Hillary Clinton Didn’t Like this California Healthcare Idea
At The Federalist, Christopher Jacobs outlines California’s new push to cover illegal aliens with Medicaid. Even Hillary Clinton, back when she was pushing “HillaryCare,” knew that paying for illegal immigrants’ healthcare was a bad idea. Jacobs writes: Health Coverage for Individuals Unlawfully Present This move has drawn the most attention, as the budget bill expands […]
A 2018 Prelude to the 2019 U.S. Asylum Situation: Part 2
Originally posted on June 19, 2018. If the West is going to have a future, Pat Buchanan explains, President Trump is riding the great wave of sentiment that will protect it. The progressive left is setting up a Western suicide, writes Pat at The American Conservative, but a backlash is well underway. Tired of the […]
Is Donald Trump Destined for an Historic 2020 Win?
Conrad Black certainly thinks so. Mr. Black, among Canada’s most prominent financiers, was one of the world’s leading newspaper publishers. Mr. Black has written biographies on FDR, Richard Nixon and Donald J. Trump (A President Like No Other). As a member of the British House of Lords, he is also known as Lord Black of […]
Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Being Bused into Portland, Maine
Debbie and I were having breakfast at a hotel in Portland, Maine’s waterfront district recently. Discussion in the dining room focused on a morning Portland Press Herald headline: “Record number of African migrants arriving on U.S.-Mexico border.” The PPH told readers, “Many were bused to Portland, about as far as one can get from 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 […]
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