Scott McConnell in the American Conservative writes, “France has since (the 1967 war) been little obsessed with Israel. Not hostile, not overly friendly. It is, now, and for the foreseeable future, obsessed with its relationship with Muslims, seemingly having been taken completely off guard by the fact that the decedents of the immigrants France took […]
Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty
Former Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox pleaded guilty Tuesday for taking bribes, wire fraud and filing a false tax return. He accepted $52,500 in bribes to help a bar and restaurant get a liquor license and illegally diverted $108,000 in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses.
IRS Illegally Taxing Millions
“Does anybody really want to live in a world where the IRS has the power to impose taxes all on its own?” asks the Cato Institute’s Michael F. Cannon. That is exactly what King v. Burwell is about. The plaintiffs in this case are not challenging Obamacare; instead, they want to uphold the act and […]
“Don’t Attack Saddam”
In a 2002 WSJ op-ed, titled “Don’t Attack Saddam,” Brent Scowcroft advised, “the Iraqi dictator had nothing to with the 9/11 hijackers, his aims were at odds with the terrorists’, he would never hand over weapons of mass destruction to outside groups, an occupation of Iraq would be bloody and costly for America, and such […]
NASDAQ Missed the Boat
NASDAQ crossed 5,000 for the first time in 15 years. That’s a long-time to wait, especially if you’re not getting paid. Back in 2000, when it peaked, NASDAQ yielded one-tenth of the S&P 500 or 0.12%. Imagine investing for 15-years and getting paid. I’ll use a 4% yield as an example, which was hard to […]
Lincoln: Malice Toward None, Charity for All
From President Lincoln’s second inaugural address, delivered 150 years ago on March 4, 1865: One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the […]
Grateful Dead: “Fare Thee Well”
The Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well”: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead” comes to Chicago’s Soldier field this Summer. From the WSJ: The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will be joined at the “Fare Thee Well” concerts by Phish’s Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti, and Bruce Hornsby. Online tickets to […]
War on Women Gibberish
“The truth is not nearly as politically useful as scare statistics,” writes Thomas Sowell in NRO. “The ‘gender gap’ is not nearly as big as the honesty gap.” Hillary paid the women on her Senate staff 72% of what she paid the men. And at the White House, there is a pay gap between men […]
Only 14 States Set up Exchanges
Read here the Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro writing on King v. Burwell: King focuses on the subsidies that help people pay insurance premiums, one ACA pillar the administration has toppled. Because Congress couldn’t constitutionally command states to establish exchanges, it authorized these credits for people who buy insurance “through an exchange established by the State.” […]
Obamacare’s Broken One Size Fits All
“The stakes couldn’t be higher,” writes Nebraska’s Senator Ben Sasse in the WSJ. “Either we will continue the march toward a harmful European-style system, or we’ll adopt real patient-centered solutions.” King v. Burwell—to be argued March 4 before the Supreme Court—challenges the legality of 75% of Obamacare. Should the Court strike down the subsidies as […]