On the Economy: Biden Needs to Go Back and Take Remedial Math
It's a good thing President Joe Biden wasn't strapped to a polygraph while giving his State of the Union speech on Thursday, because his results would have come back about as clean as O.J. Simpson's. That...[more]
The 'No Labels' Joke
How do presidential candidacies start? Most begin with the ambitions of one person – one governor or senator or, in Donald Trump's case, one real estate mogul and reality TV star who thinks...[more]
Biden Betrays Israel for Michigan Votes
By now it’s acknowledged even among increasingly despondent mainstream media that Joe Biden trails Donald Trump in general election polling. Specifically, Biden hasn’t led Trump...[more]
Is Laken Riley's Life Worth Less Than George Floyd's?
George Floyd's death during a police chokehold on May 25, 2020, ignited nationwide protests to reform police procedures. Referring to Floyd's ordeal, former President Donald Trump said, "It doesn't...[more]
Biden SOTU Pandering on Drug Price Controls Would Only Bring Shortages
State of the Union speeches by their nature already lean more toward tawdry partisan spectacle than serious policy proposals or dutiful recitation of the nation’s condition as the Constitution requires. ...[more]
Drug Shortages Reach Record High Following Biden’s Price Controls
Want to find a rare point of intellectual consensus amid our stubborn ideological divisions? Just survey economists across the political spectrum on the merit of government price controls. ...[more]
Stop the 'Emergency Spending' Charade Already
This week, Congress moved closer to passing four separate bills with $95 billion in funding for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific allies and the domestic submarine industrial base. This funding has been debated...[more]
Why Small Businesses Hate Bidenomics
If the economy is so good, why do small business leaders feel so bad? The latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Business could hardly be more depressing. It...[more]
There's No Right to Sleep Outdoors
In a Supreme Court showdown Monday over whether the homeless have a "right" to camp in public, almost no one mentioned the actual victims of that crazy idea. Homeless advocates, including the...[more]
Groupthink Chorus Emerges at Trump Trial
Covering former President Donald Trump's trial on television is a difficult job. There are no cameras in the courtroom, so TV news has to rely on quick messages from staffers watching the trial in an overflow...[more]