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Relevance: 18% Posted on: March 3, 2012
Venture capitalist Eric X. Li, in an op-ed for The New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model Is Superior,” credits the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with producing the “stability” that “ushered in a generation of growth and prosperity.” No question about the growth: China’s economy has been experiencing double-digit expansion…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: June 22, 2017
Democrats had high hopes. Their come-back after the 2016 defeats seemed near at hand. After all, Trump is proving increasingly erratic and incompetent, and the Republican mis-handling of the ObamaCare repeal appears to be a disaster of ginormous proportions. How could they not start taking seats in Congress back? There…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: August 22, 2019
“You keep using that word,” said Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride. “I do not think it means what you think it means.” He might as well have been talking to David Hogg — not Vizaini — and young Hogg’s March For Our Lives gun control advocacy group. The word?…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: September 3, 2013
Every now and then we see a flurry of news stories about the dangers of prescription drug abuse. We are told that more people misuse doctor-prescribed drugs than abuse illegal “narcotics.” Then the stories disappear for a while . . . only to return again. The problem exists, it’s large,…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: January 13, 2014
“No Justice, No Peace” is an old, vaguely threatening leftwing bumpersticker slogan advocating the amorphous concept of “economic justice.” That basic utterance, whatever it means, has currently been labeled “income equality,” leaping off car bumpers and into the political mainstream as the issue de jour of President Obama and congressional…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: January 20, 2023
The big secret of the federal government’s budget is that there isn’t one. Instead of proposing a rational budget, Congress spends money in huge omnibus bills, which sweep up most of the big items into a bucket which is then poured out into the economy. Since these buckets contain more…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: November 25, 2014
“What too few in Washington appreciate — and what the new Republican Congress must if we hope to succeed — is that the American people’s current distrust of their public institutions is totally justified.” So wrote Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in The Federalist shortly after the big election earlier this…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: October 25, 2019
Even people who get their information only from major network news know that, in their mad rush to promise free health care, Democratic presidential hopefuls would raise taxes for nearly everybody including the “hard-working middle class.” How do they know? Because at least one of the eager promisers won’t give…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: November 8, 2012
President Barack Obama is on Tuesday’s ballot, seeking four more years as president of the United States. Like many Americans, I find that prospect deeply troubling — downright scary. Some say the nation cannot survive another four years of Mr. Obama. Though that belief probably underestimates our resilience as a…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: October 12, 2013
Depressed? Nearly suicidal after struggling for 72 hours straight to follow the federal decree commanding you to purchase an Obamacare policy online? Scared? Unable to sleep, needing desperately to reconcile a nearly $17 trillion (and growing) national debt with the massive increases in the number of your fellow citizens on…