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Relocate 10 Cabinet Departments Out of D.C.

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There are nearly 3,500 trades or firms with dedicated lobbying operations in Washington, D.C., reports Roger Kimball in American Greatness. And that number does not include union headquarters in D.C. (T)hey’re all there, hands out, telephones working overtime to get a little bigger slice of the government pie, made with 100 percent locally sourced materials, namely […]

So Where Are We with Ukraine?

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Where is America in its relations with Ukraine? If you were listening to the impeachment hearings this week, you would have thought from the Democrats on the committee and the bureaucrats at the witness table that Ukraine was a NATO ally America is sworn to protect. That has never been the case, as Pat Buchanan […]

Score! Bobby Orr!! Defending Coach Cherry

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Bobby Orr, the greatest Bruin, EVER, hit the Boston airwaves this week defending his one-time coach Don Cherry. Cherry, a staple of Hockey Night in Canada was fired for his comments on what he viewed as a decline in respect by Canadians for not wearing poppies on Remembrance Day in honor of vets and those […]

Do Democrats Actually Care About Ukraine, or Only Attacking Trump?

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At his personal blog, Karl Rove discusses Democrats’ flip-flop positions on helping Ukraine and suggests they only care about the country now because they can use it to attack President Trump. Rove writes (abridged): As the impeachment hearings kick off, Democrats put on a jarring display of rhetorical whiplash, saying one thing this time but […]

America’s Glaring Problem: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador

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At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains the root cause of America’s illegal immigration problem today, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. He writes: USA Today reports: “Through August of the current fiscal year, the Border Patrol apprehended 457,871 migrants arriving as ‘family units’ … a 406% increase compared to the 90,554 family unit apprehensions during the […]

Liz Warren’s 158% Tax Rate

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Remember, your key takeaway here is that millionaires will become the new billionaires if Warren has her way. Here’s how her tax rates reach 158%. Richard Rubin reports in the WSJ: Potential tax rates over 100% could result from the combination of tax increases the Massachusetts senator proposes for the very top tier of investors. […]

The Final Nail in the Coffin for Mutual Funds

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The mutual fund industry has been facing headwinds for years. First, the industry became too big. So dominant were the biggest funds, they couldn’t invest without moving the market themselves. The next problem for mutual funds was the advent of the ETF. ETFs hollowed out the high-fee actively managed equity fund industry. I wrote about […]

Is Michael Bloomberg the Dem’s Savior?

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Conrad Black certainly doesn’t think so. Mr. Black warns Michael Bloomberg (abridged) to not imagine the country, despite the Donald Trump sniggering from the Upper East Side and the Hamptons, is waiting for him. Talk about out of touch with most Americans. The best aspect of Michael Bloomberg’s potential presidential run is that if he […]

The Sad Tale of St. Gavin of Sacramento

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In a scathing piece in The American Thinker, Doris O’Brien excoriates California Governor Gavin Newsom for his choice to ignore sound forest management suggestions because they were offered by President Trump, who according to Newsom, is a climate-change nonbeliever. O’Brien criticizes Newsom’s tendency to completely shut down or even attack anyone who disagrees with him. […]