from Soda Head, Economic Fascism by Thomas DiLorenzo When people hear the word “fascism” they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy
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from Tony Snow at Jewish World Review, Queen Tut: Later, after solving the tonsorial riddle, she stepped forward as Hillary the Conquering Liberal. In 1994, she set out to redesign the American health-care system and convened a panel that drafted
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from Kevin Williamson at National Review, Fifteen Elephants and a Clown: The Trumpkins insist that this isn’t about Trump but about the perfidious Republican establishment, which is insufficiently committed to the conservative project. Fair enough. But what of Trump’s commitment?
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While the GOP participates in the circular firing squad they call a primary, they are missing the incredible opportunities thrown at them by the real opposition. Hillary who has not driven a car since 1996 thinks we should worry about
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from David Daley in Salon, Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!” excerpt: I’m speaking here as an atheist. I don’t believe there is a God, but
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from Kevin Williamson at National Review, The Minimum Wage Con: The worst kind of welfare state is the welfare state that is ashamed of itself and therefore feels obliged to pretend to be something it isn’t. Instead of forthrightly taxing
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from Bernie Sanders’s Dark Age Economics by Kevin Williamson in The National Review excerpts: Dollars are just a method of keeping count, and mandating higher wages for work that has not changed at all is, in the long run, like measuring yourself
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Glenn Harland Reynolds wrtites Politicos put past before progress in The USA Today: excerpts: Cynical or not, these statements accurately describe why economic progress is so much harder today than it once was. But why is it so much harder? And
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From Rand Simberg at PJ Media, How Republics Die: But the Founders foresaw this sort of thing. That is why they put a provision into the founding document to deal with it. The proper way to address the issue, in terms
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“In other words, to claim that society requires corporations to maximize profits is like saying that society encourages hockey players to commit common assault. There is an element of truth to it, insofar as society does encourage hockey players to
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from Phil Gramm in The Wall Street Journal, Dodd-Frank’s Nasty Double Whammy: Over the years the Federal Trade Commission and the courts defined what constituted “unfair and deceptive” financial practices. Dodd-Frank added the word “abusive” without defining it. The result:
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Perhaps it is a twenty four hour news cycle that makes political campaigns look more like a rerun of the Kardashians, particularly those episodes where we though Bruce was still OK with being a dude. Our infatuation with celebrities may
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From Jonah Goldberg in National Review, When We Say ‘Conservative,’ We Mean . . . Gratitude captures so much of what conservatism is about because it highlights the philosophical difference between (American) conservatism and its foes on the left (and some
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from The Trump Lesson that Bush and Clinton Should Heed by Jonah Goldberg in Townhall Donald Trump, meanwhile, isn’t even a politician. He’s a low-rent carnival barker who made it big on the high-rent circuit. An honest political consultant would
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from Forbes Five Years Of Dodd-Frank: ‘Too Big To Fail’ Still Unresolved by Norbert Michel excerpt: The notion that these transactions took place in some shadowy, hidden room of finance, where regulators had no clue what was going on, is
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from The Wall Street Journal, Greece and the Flight From Reality by Bret Stephens excerpt: But maybe rules isn’t quite the right word. The larger issue is reality—and Greece’s flight from it. Greece’s debt-to-GDP ratio is 177%, which sounds like
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In 1941 Senator Harry Truman made a comment in The New York Times, “if we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them
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from Uber Crashes the Democratic Party by William McGurn in The Wall Street Journal (gated): Marco Rubio, who last year sided with Uber over regulators in Miami, accused Mrs. Clinton of trying to “regulate 21st-century industries with 20th-century ideas.” Jeb Bush pointedly traveled
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from Jeb Hensarling at The Wall Street Journal, After Five Years, Dodd-Frank Is a Failure: Dodd-Frank was based on the premise that the financial crisis was the result of deregulation. Yet George Mason University’s Mercatus Center reports that regulatory restrictions on financial
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from the editors of the Wall Street Journal Trump and His Apologists: Excerpts: But America has rarely lacked for demagogues willing to exploit public discontents.William Jennings Bryan won three Democratic presidential nominations running against eastern elites. In 1948 Henry Wallace ran as a
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