Lessons from Georgia By John Stossel
Georgia (the ex-Soviet Republic, not the U.S. state) is now a remarkable success story.
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August 25, 2021
August 24, 2021
End the Real Estate Racket by Stephen Moore
The housing market is hot, hot, hot right now, and home prices continue to soar in many markets to their highest prices ever. Since it doesn't cost a real estate agent ten times as much to sell a million dollar home than a $100,000 home, one would expect that the percentage fees for real estate agents would be falling.
August 24, 2021
The Bitter Fruits of Interventionism By Patrick J. Buchanan
As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban's triumph in Afghanistan.
August 20, 2021
Fiddling While Kabul Falls: A Commentary by Michael Barone
Historians aren't actually sure that Nero caused or neglected a fire that consumed much of ancient Rome. Historians, however much they'd like to, won't be able to deny that President Joe Biden bears full responsibility for America's humiliating retreat from Afghanistan, and our neglect of the tens of thousands who aided us and now face torture and death from the Taliban.
August 20, 2021
Aftermath of an Afghanistan Debacle by Patrick J. Buchanan
In Afghanistan, the mission failure appears complete.
August 19, 2021
Redistricting in America, Part Five: The Interior West/Heartland By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
And a look at the overall political environment.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— For all of the focus on redistricting, the overall political environment matters for House elections too, and President Biden has shown some signs of weakness in recent weeks.
— As we continue our redistricting series, we analyze several small-to-medium-sized states in the Interior West and Heartland.
— One of the overall things to watch in the region is the degree to which Republicans are aggressive in redistricting, even in a state — Iowa — known for a nonpartisan system.
August 18, 2021
Coronavirus Censorship By John Stossel
YouTube just froze Sen. Rand Paul's YouTube channel.
August 17, 2021
Taxpayers Are Getting Ripped Off and Congress Does Nothing by Stephen Moore
Milton Friedman used to quip that, in Washington, if a government program is working, Congress says we need to spend more money on it. And if a government program is failing, Congress concludes we are not spending enough money on it.
August 17, 2021
US Embraces a Diversity China Fears By Patrick J. Buchanan
The first returns from the delayed census of 2020 are in, and they have made for celebratory headlines in the mainstream media.
August 16, 2021
Mask For Thee, But Not For Me by Brian C. Joondeph
If the last year and a half of COVID-19 has taught us anything, it’s that hypocrisy is rife within government, media, entertainment, and the medical establishment. Those who, by virtue of their expertise or position, are considered knowledgeable, or even experts, are unable to follow their own recommendations or mandates.
August 13, 2021
California Liberals Flunking First Test of Government by Michael Barone
Will Gov. Gavin Newsom be the second Democratic California governor to be recalled and removed from office in this (or the last) century? Polls suggest that's one possible result of next month's recall election.
August 13, 2021
Who Lost America's Longest War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States.
August 12, 2021
Redistricting in America, Part Four: The West Coast and Southwest By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
What will commissions (and Democrats) draw out West?
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Independent redistricting commissions are most common out West.
— Democrats currently dominate the House delegations from the West Coast and Southwest, and that is likely to continue.
— However, Republicans may be able to make up a little ground, thanks in part to California losing a seat and Oregon gaining one.
— Democrats can gerrymander Nevada and New Mexico, but it will be difficult for them to squeeze an additional seat out of these small states.
August 11, 2021
Hell No To a Debt Ceiling Increase by Stephen Moore
Sometimes, when you go into a store with expensive merchandise on the shelves, you will see a sign that reads, "You break it, you buy it."
August 10, 2021
Is America Becoming a Failed State? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Suddenly, Sunday, a riveting report came over cable news:
August 6, 2021
The Manhattan Project's 'Martians' Didn't Look Like America by Michael Barone
The Manhattan Project didn't look like America. Undertaken today, it would be criticized for failing to meet diversity and inclusion guidelines.
Today's human resources department professionals would be triggered if they looked at the list of physicists hired to produce what President Franklin Roosevelt was told could be a uranium-based bomb "with a destructiveness vastly greater than anything now known." They would be astounded that the president, in his haste to develop such a weapon, as he put it, "before Hitler got it," authorized the hiring of scientists without any attempt to match the diversity of the American population.
August 6, 2021
A Tonkin Gulf Incident in the Gulf of Oman? By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week ago, the MT Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned tanker managed by a U.K.-based company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer, sailing in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman, was struck by drones.
August 5, 2021
Redistricting in America, Part Three: The Republicans’ Southern Prizes By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
The GOP gerrymandering possibilities in FL, GA, NC, and TX
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Democrats tried but failed to get a seat at the redistricting table in four large Southern states in the 2018 and 2020 cycles: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas.
— The consequences for redistricting are vitally important. It’s easy to imagine Republicans squeezing a half-dozen extra seats out of just these four states in 2022, and that may be just a floor on their potential gains.
— However, Republicans could also overreach, and court battles appear likely in all of these states.
August 4, 2021
Unfair Competition By John Stossel
"Why do I have to compete against a male body?" complains mountain bike racer Leia Schneeberger in my new video.
