July 25, 2018

EU commissioner to White House today: $5.1B Google fine on agenda

Today, July 25, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission – the governing body of the European Union (E.U.) – will be meeting with President Trump in the White House.  One of the items on the agenda will be the h...

August 31, 2017

Did Trump cause the improved GDP growth?

Real GDP rose by 3.0% during the second quarter of 2017, the fastest quarterly rate in over two years, according to data released on Wednesday by the Commerce Department.  Did President Trump cause the accelerating economic growth? ...

October 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton's anti-Jewish actions

What can Jews and Israel expect from a Hillary Clinton administration should she become president?  Since becoming secretary of state, she has taken a number of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel actions, including the following: 1. Called for Incre...

March 8, 2016

Would Trump's Trade Policy Really Cause a Recession?

On Thursday, Governor Mitt Romney gave an anti-Trump speech in which he called upon Republicans to vote for anybody but frontrunner Donald Trump so as to produce a brokered convention.  Romney claimed that Trump's economic plans would cause ...

February 8, 2016

Is Trump a True Conservative?

During Saturday’s Republican presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire, Donald Trump was asked: Mr. Trump, you've heard the argument from many of the candidates on this stage that you're not a true conservative. Tell the voter...

January 25, 2016

U.S.-China trade: National Review is the 'Buffoon,' not Trump

In one of National Review’s hit pieces against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump (“What Trump Doesn’t Understand – It’s a lot about our Trade with China”), correspondent Kevin D. Williamson...

October 4, 2015

The Last Time Europe Committed Suicide by Refugee

The year was 375. The Roman Empire contained about a fourth of the world’s people stretching across Europe from Brittania in the north to Egypt in the south, from Spain in the west to what is now Bulgaria in the east. Meanwhile, ju...

August 25, 2015

How Trump could get the Economy Going

The Dow Industrial Average fell by 358 points on Thursday and 531 points on Friday. Yesterday, after plunging more than a thousand points, it recovered to a “mere” 588 point loss.  Economic growth has been slow, and another recession...

May 30, 2014

The Obamacare Economic Slowdown

On May 29, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that the U.S. economy shrank at a 1.0% rate during the first quarter of 2014. The size of the slowdown caught analysts by surprise. As recently as April 29, the Associated Press was predic...

August 21, 2013

Ten Year Anniversary of the Climate Change Paradigm Shift

Science advances by paradigm shifts. My one-time co-researcher, Nobel Prize winning economist Herb Simon, once explained it to me. The new paradigm begins with a new overall curve. Further research builds upon that curve by mapping the phenomena resp...

January 2, 2013

Gore's Other Big Lie

Former Vice President Al Gore is able to explain things in the simple language used by elementary school teachers, so he tends to be believed even when he is conveying misinformation. For example, his prediction that sea level would rise by up to 20 ...

July 12, 2012

Who's the Real Outsourcer: Romney or Obama?

The Obama campaign has been running a series of campaign ads which call Romney an "outsourcer."  These ads have been helping Obama's poll numbers versus Romney in the Midwest battleground states. However, according to Glenn Kessler in the Washin...

May 9, 2012

Here Comes the Made-in-China Cadillac

It's déjà vu all over again!  GM again caves to Chinese pressure.  In September it was the electric car.  In April it was the Cadillac. The Chinese government made its latest move in December.  That's when The Guardian reported th...

April 29, 2012

Does global warming cause extreme weather?

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory supporters are in the midst of a big propaganda campaign leading to a global "Connect the Dots" day on May 5.  Their goal is to convince the public that recent extreme weather events are due to global wa...

March 24, 2012

Falling Yuan Latest Failure of Obama's Trade Policy

Throughout 2011, at President Obama's urging, the People's Bank of China let the Chinese yuan rise slightly versus the dollar.  It didn't raise the yuan enough to bring U.S. Chinese trade toward balance, but at least China was appearing to move ...

February 11, 2012

The Revealing Moon Debate

On January 25, Speaker Gingrich proposed that the U.S. government build and maintain a colony on the moon.  He was promising the moon in order to get votes in Florida from those who work for NASA and its contractors.   The next day, the Flo...

February 4, 2012

Obama's SOTU: Still No Manufacturing Jobs

In his January 24 State of the Union speech, President Obama argued that American manufacturing is already coming back under his presidency.  But his actual record on manufacturing jobs is dismal. Normally, after a recession, laid-off workers ge...

December 13, 2011

Romney's Theory about Why Companies and Countries Decline

When Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney was growing up, his father was rescuing American Motors Corporation by focusing upon a new type of car, the compact, putting the company's resources into the Rambler.  When his father becam...

June 23, 2011

Inflation climbs to 3.6% in May. Palin was right!

On June 15, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the inflation data for May. If you didn't hear about the new data, you are not alone -- the mainstream media buried the story. Why? Inflation hit 3.6% in May, even though gasoline prices actually fe...

May 12, 2011

How to Switch to CNG while Saving Taxpayer Money

On April 6, a bipartisan group of 180 congressmen introduced the NAT GAS Act of 2011 (HR 1380), an expensive bill designed to move American transportation from imported oil to domestically produced compressed natural gas (CNG). Not only would it give...

December 27, 2010

The Winner of This Year's 'Best Climate Predictor' Award (Clue: It Wasn't Al Gore!)

Given the terrible beginning of winter in the U.S. and Europe this year, we ought to reward those who accurately predicted it and condemn those who got it wrong.  It's time to choose the winner of this year's "Best Climate Predictor" a...

October 4, 2010

WTO helping China Loot Caterpillar

Caterpillar is one excellent company. It is building new factories now in Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina, from which it will export products made by American workers all around the world. Its excellent worldwide parts distribution network gives ...

December 21, 2009

Obama Gives China a Free Pass to Emit CO2

The U.N. Climate Control Conference in Copenhagen ended in failure in that no binding agreement was reached to reduce CO2 emissions. China nixed the agreement by refusing to compromise on the issue of international verification as noted by a British ...

December 18, 2009

Obama Offers $33 Billion per Year in Climate Reparations

As the U.N. Climate Control Conference comes to an end today, many issues remain to be negotiated, including the size of the emissions cuts and the future of the Kyoto treaty. But one issue has already been settled: the size of the reparations that t...

December 8, 2009

Climate Treaty Reparations Would Cost $50-$200 Billion Per Year

Here's a quiz. What's the worst thing on the table at the U.N. Climate Control Conference in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18? If you guessed cap-and-tax, you're wrong. The reparations could be much, much worse. The draft of the treaty encom...