Our Founders supported four departments to run our fledgling country, explains Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College. These four departments were necessary to the federal government “in a way that the functions of other departments are not.” Secretary of State “to handle the relations of the American people with other countries.” Secretary of War […]
Restricting Departments So People Can Live Free
Was Abstention at the UN Really Based on Obama’s Hatred of Israel?
Former CIA bin Laden chief Michael Scheuer explains that U.S foreign policy ought to consist much more in abstaining than doing. The U.S. abstention on the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israel’s building of settlements in the West Bank was absolutely the right action, but it was taken for wrong, sophomoric, and really rather dastardly […]
Do Democrats Really Want another Cold War?
Pat Buchanan, writing at The American Conservative, explains how America can go about avoiding a new Cold War. In the Cold War between Communism and capitalism, the single-party dictatorship and the free society, we prevailed. But in the new struggle we are in, the ethnonational state seems ascendant over the multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, multilingual “universal […]
Can This One Man Reform Washington? It’s Not Who You Think
In the weeks just after the election of Donald Trump, the President-elect met with many of America’s brightest minds, but one stood out above the others. Former BB&T CEO, and former Cato Institute president and CEO, John Allison met with Donald Trump and his future Treasury Secretary pick Steve Mnuchin, on November 28. Despite Trump’s […]
3 Things the World Learned For the First Time in 2016
It was an unpredictable year in politics and markets. The world saw some things it had never witnessed before. Here’s a list of three of the most powerful events of 2016. Americans are done with the “establishment.” This was the greatest lesson of 2016, and it showed through in both parties. You could see the […]
Why Did Obama Give the UN a New Way to Punish Israel?
What is the damage done to Israel by the U.S. abstaining from voting on passage of a Security Council resolutions that condemns Israel over its settlements? Charles Krauthammer argues, “(F)or 35 years, every administration, including a reelection-seeking Obama himself in 2011, has protected Israel with the U.S. veto because such a Security Council resolution gives […]
Dateline Israel: The Two State Solution is Almost Surely Dead
Are Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem illegal? Pat Buchanan explains how the United States now finds itself in a tough position. “President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support of Israel,” gushed Bibi Netanyahu, after he berated John Kerry in a fashion that would once have […]
Should Trump Get All the Credit for Soaring Consumer Confidence?
I have regularly explained, in my monthly investment strategy reports that the U.S. economy has been on the last legs of an economic recovery for many months. The single reason that the historically weak recovery lasted as long as it did was a robbing of Peter to pay Paul, a distorted interest rate structure created by […]
The First Kickass Princess and Instant Icon
Over four decades, Dick and I have watched many, if not all, Star Wars episodes with our five grandchildren. But the heady experience of watching George Lucas’s first episode of the series (later retitled) — Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope — when Matt was seven and Becky five will be long remembered. […]
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