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December 16, 2024
Protectionism in an Age of Free TradePresident Trump takes a lot of heat – as a Republican – for being comfortable advocating for the use of tariffs. We live in an age of free trade. For almost fifty years now, the prevailing economic theory concerning imported good...
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December 5, 2024
The Hunter Biden Who Could Have BeenSince Sunday night’s announcement of an expansive pardon for Hunter Biden, a generous gift from a wayward father to his wayward son, the press has been full of commentary ranging from serious to comical, from approval to horror. “How d...
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December 2, 2024
Yes, Tariffs Are a Tax. What about It?As the un-American left lays the groundwork for undoing President Trump’s second-term policy goals, one of the areas in which Trump’s enemies expect to have an easy target is trade policy. Since conservatives believe in free markets (l...
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November 29, 2024
Trump's Trade Policy and the Procrastinating ImporterCompanies the world over watched the election results and tried to read the tea leaves on what will happen to trade policy. President Trump ran on increasing tariffs; now that he’s won, companies think they need to prepare for those highe...
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November 15, 2024
DOGE: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Government are Not the Problem -- Bureaucratic Power isMany are dancing an Irish jig – even non-Irishmen whom one would not expect to know such dances – over the prospect of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy heading up a new “Grace Commission 2.0” of sorts, cheerfully nicknamed a Depa...
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November 10, 2024
Tariffs, Inflation, and the Donkey that Cried WolfPresident Trump has been re-elected, and the American left is losing its mind. That was to be expected. It’s one of the ways leftists are losing their minds that might be a bit surprising. They warn that President Trump...
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November 3, 2024
Donald Trump vs. Liz Cheney: An instructive tempest in a teapotPresident Trump used the anti-war rhetoric of the left against Liz Cheney this week, and it so upset leftists that they resorted to their usual strategy of completely misrepresenting what he said, rather than honestly responding to the charge. Let...
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October 28, 2024
Iran, Israel, and the surgical strikeWho do we blame for the terrible destruction of drug addiction? The user, yes. The pusher, certainly. But most of all, the drug cartels -- these massive, secretive, corrupt foreign organizations that manufacture the product and r...
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October 17, 2024
The least worthy eulogist at Ethel Kennedy's funeralThe most shocking news story of the year won’t be identified as such on any major news network. It wasn’t the blockbuster announcement of drug and pedophilia allegations around music mogul Sean “P. Diddy” Combs; you expect ...
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October 8, 2024
Five Half-Truths About the Longshoremen’s StrikeWe have been told many things about the longshoremen’s strike over the past week. Most of the reporting has been in half-truths, at best – possibly because the press doesn’t know any better (the operations of our seaports are an adm...
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September 29, 2024
Natural Disasters and Unnatural ExpectationsHurricanes can be predicted; the devastation they leave behind often cannot. Hurricane Helene left some people on its path alone, while causing devastating flooding for others. As with any massive storm like this, there were some injuries, e...
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September 24, 2024
The ILA’s Expected Port Strike: One Union Against All OthersEven before the expected longshoremen's strike begins, we have learned a great deal about the shortsightedness and incompetence of the modern Democrat party. First, some background is in order: The United States has several dozen cargo...
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September 13, 2024
The Debate at the Kitchen TableABC staged a debate this week. A presidential debate. Ostensibly between former president Donald J. Trump and former senator Kamala Harris, but in actuality between Trump and the partnership of Harris and ABC. There is always...
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September 10, 2024
Standing Up to the Puppeteers in the Red Sea and BeyondThe Houthi rebels have been fighting in Yemen for thirty years, as part of the general power struggles between Shia and Sunni that define so many Islamic countries. While their disruption was primarily confined to their home turf of Yemen un...
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September 3, 2024
Gazan Crimes and Israeli EnablersIn the latest tragic news from Israel, we learned that the Israeli Defense Forces was in the process of a rescue mission, having intelligence that indicated where six of the remaining living hostages were, in a tunnel in Gaza. Hamas murdered all s...
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August 21, 2024
Denial and Delusion: The DNC at the United CenterHow are you supposed to run a party convention? And how are you supposed to behave when you stage one? Can’t look to the Constitution for guidance; the Constitution was silent on political parties, since its writers hoped against ...
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August 15, 2024
The Decline and Fall of RFK Jr.?For months, election-watchers have wondered: will Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. make it onto enough states’ ballots to have an impact? Will he have the money to run a real campaign? And most importantly, who will he hurt more: Do...
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August 5, 2024
Women’s Issues’ and the 2024 ElectionKamala Harris is doing better in the polls than Joe Biden was. No surprise there. But that’s not just because he’s a dementia patient and she’s not. There’s more to it than that. In the political world, it is of...
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July 23, 2024
The Biden Campaign and the Knives in the SenateOn Sunday, July 21, 2024, the White House issued a written statement in which Joe Biden announced that he was withdrawing from his reelection campaign, while intending to remain in office for the six remaining months of this term. The announcement...
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July 20, 2024
How Can Election Results Really Fight Bigotry?On the Foreign Policy night of the 2024 Republican National Convention, there was a great deal of focus on the eruption of antisemitism and anti-Israeli violence that has surfaced in recent years, most particularly since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks o...
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July 15, 2024
Insurrections and the Leviathan StateFor the past four years, we have been constantly reminded of “the insurrection,” a brief moment on January 6, 2021 when a couple hundred unarmed people -- some of them demonstrators, some of them FBI plants, some of them tourists goi...
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July 10, 2024
Banking Votes and Helping Bean-CountersA recurring theme as we live our lives in modern America is the old saying, “the generals are always fighting the last war.” In elections, the application of the saying is to design a campaign to redress the special types of defeats we...
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June 29, 2024
All of a Sudden, A Crisis Is RevealedThe first official presidential debate of 2024 was held on June 27, and the reactions are fascinating. Joseph Robinette Biden, who has held offices in the Newcastle County Council, the United States Senate, and the White House for the past 54 year...
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June 21, 2024
'No Tax On Tips' Reveals the Chasm Between Left and RightPresident Trump has focused his 2024 campaign on a number of issues that one would expect, but he shook up the game this summer by issuing a new policy proposal: “No Tax On Tips.” While his campaign hasn’t released the usual deta...
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June 11, 2024
Hostages Rescued, and Many Truths Revealed“There was a knock on the door. A voice said, ‘It’s the IDF. We’ve come to take you home.’” This is how former hostage Noa Argamani described her rescue from Hamas on the Sabbath — Saturday, Ju...
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May 25, 2024
Memorial Day Weekend in the CityOn Friday, May 24, as Chicagoans prepared for the Memorial Day weekend, Mayor Brandon Johnson and police superintendent Larry Snelling spoke to reporters, asking them to pass on a message to the public: “Parents, please, know where your chil...
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May 22, 2024
A Helicopter Crashes, and an Opportunity is Missed“My condolences.” “I’m so sorry for your loss.” “My sympathies.” “May he rest in peace.” Raised as we are in Western civilization, we have an instinctive response when we hear of someo...
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May 10, 2024
Hamas Declares That It Will Make No Further Concessions ...Reuters reports that “Hamas says it will not compromise further with Israel to win Gaza ceasefire.” It’s just another headline about the heirs of Yassir Arafat; we know better than to take the statement seriously. ...
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May 6, 2024
Retail Theft Ring Busts Reveal Some Hard TruthsLos Angeles County Sheriff Department detectives proudly announced a complex and successful sting this week. A retail theft ring has been caught red-handed, with millions of dollars’ worth of make-up, perfume, pharmaceuticals, and more...
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May 1, 2024
A War in Gaza, A Resolution at City Hall?On Oct. 7, 2023, numerous bands of terrorists -– reporting to Hamas, controlled and funded by Iran -- poured over the wall separating Gaza from the main body of Israel. In a matter of hours, they slaughtered some 1,200 civilians living in...
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April 24, 2024
At a Sheetz Photo Op, Joe Biden Accidentally Shows His HandPoliticians on campaign sweeps visit lots of places. Ice cream shops, diners, factories, state fairs – the opportunities are endless. You might only shake hands with five or ten people there, but if a photo makes it on the evening...
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April 14, 2024
Israel’s Defenses Repel Iranian Attacks, Vindicating Reagan's TheoryThose of us of a certain age will remember a time, some 40 years ago now, when President Ronald Reagan advocated the Strategic Defense Initiative, Project High Frontier, and various other related programs, all built around the basic concept that we s...
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March 23, 2024
Want to Rent a Lemon? How About 100,000 of Them?Hertz just fired its CEO for one single, awful business decision. He is taking the fall for Hertz’s decision — on his watch — to buy 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla, all for the American fleet. To say the decision w...
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March 14, 2024
The Temporary Pier and the Question of WhySince Oct. 7, 2023, external humanitarian aid has primarily had to enter the Gaza Strip via the land crossing at Rafah, which is run by Egypt. Gen. Abdel Fatteh El-Sisi, the ruler of Egypt for the past decade, is as committed as Is...
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March 4, 2024
A Beautiful Dress and an Ugly CrowdFrom distant Pakistan, an NBC news story surfaces that serves to remind us of everything we need to know about our current crisis. A week ago, a female police officer in Lahore, Pakistan, patrolling a shopping district in the busy muslim city, saw...
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February 5, 2024
A Tale of Two CanalsThe American economy can’t catch a break. In addition to the massive price inflation of food, cars, housing, energy, and so many other elements, international companies are now suffering from a near-doubling of ocean transportation c...
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January 25, 2024
Why Does Manufacturing at Home Really Matter?In an election year, candidates from both sides will generally declare that we need more domestic manufacturing, and they promise to make it happen. Different sides will propose different ways to accomplish it. Republicans will call for lower tax ...
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January 7, 2024
Lloyd Austin at the ICU: A Symptom of a More Serious MaladyThere isn’t much left in this regime to shock the consumer of news. We have grown accustomed to the daily cavalcade of assaults on American freedoms in the Federal Register; both the autocrat-in-chief and his press secretary have mainstreame...
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January 1, 2024
The True Cost of Trading with the EnemyThey say the generals are always fighting the last war, and sometimes there’s truth to that. But in 2024, our ability to mount a wartime footing against our most likely enemy is most severely hampered, not by the readiness of our armed force...
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December 24, 2023
Pardons for Pot Users Leave Dangers in Their WakeOn Friday, December 22, the Oval Office issued a full federal pardon to all Americans who have ever used marijuana. The media coverage pretends to be thorough by talking about this blanket pardon’s obvious limits: it pardons people for only ...
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December 5, 2023
Charity, Due Diligence, and HamasAt this time of year, we look for charities to support. Before we pick them, we look into how those charities spend the money they receive. Which is the worthiest cause; which charities carefully spend their income on the purposes we want them to? As...
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November 28, 2023
Gifts Under the Tree, for Johnny, Suzie, and Chairman XiI don’t often take advantage of Black Friday deals, but I needed a set of tires, so I steeled myself for battle, and entered the hunt. The one thing most shops don’t advertise online is the country of origin (I wonder why), so I handle...
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November 23, 2023
What the ‘Hostage Release’ Ceasefire ProvesFor the first time since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, a temporary ceasefire has been announced, and the details confirm everything we knew or suspected about the contradictory cultures of the Israelis and the so-called “Palestinian...
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November 10, 2023
Chicago: A City in FreefallWater Tower Place, an eight-story, 758,000 sq. ft. high-end shopping mall in downtown Chicago, is in the news. Once one of the biggest and most exciting malls in the Midwest, it quietly leaked that the owners are interested in renting out th...
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November 2, 2023
The DNC Con Job to ComeWe watch the news clips, on our televisions or computer screens, and cringe, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stumble over their words, even uttering gibberish when prepared remarks are on the printed page in front of them. It has been clear...
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October 25, 2023
Terrorism’s Local Supporters Take Over Downtown ChicagoGetting around downtown Chicago is a challenge at the best of times. Weekdays feature a constant flow of carefully and swiftly moving traffic; weekends all the more so. But it is a city of 2.5 million people, in a tri-state metro area of 9 m...
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October 18, 2023
When Gaza has Money, Hamas has RocketsWhether you grew up watching reality law enforcement programs or fictional mafia movies, there’s one thing everyone knows: When a known hit man murders a stranger, the odds are at least ten to one that he was paid to do it. Find the person who ...
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September 15, 2023
Driverless Cars and, Oddly Enough, California's Legislature in Harmony with its VotersTwo big questions (and lots of little ones) are on my mind today. The first big one is, how often is a bill practically unanimous in a state legislature? There’s a bill in California that seeks to ban driverless trucks over 10,000 l...
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September 9, 2023
Actor Danny Masterson and the statute of limitationsActor Danny Masterson (primarily known as Hyde on "That 70s Show") has been convicted of rape. Specifically, he was convicted of raping adult women in his home, women who were in their 20s at the time. And he has now been sentenced...
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August 28, 2023
The flip side of 'I, Pencil'Back in the days of old-fashioned vinyl records — particularly the 45 RPM single records — we thought of an A-side, the main song the producers hoped would be a hit, and a B-side, hopefully another good song, but probably secondary in pop...
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August 17, 2023
Those EV Shortcomings Aren’t Shortcomings at AllWherever we drive nowadays, we see electric vehicles (EVs) amid the normal internal combustion cars and hybrids. Maybe one in ten, maybe one in twenty, maybe one in a hundred. It all depends on where we live and where we go....
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August 9, 2023
Modern Energy and Your Turbine FootprintCan you spare a few thousand square feet of land for a windmill? Well, maybe not you, but surely a farmer can, right? Or a rancher? Or a developer. What’s a few thousand square feet to a land baron? Some p...
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August 1, 2023
Yellow Freight and an economy on the marginYellow Freight, a massive, almost century-old LTL carrier, has gone out of business, and the "spin" of the business world will likely rival the spin of the political world in covering this news. First, some background. LTL ref...
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July 17, 2023
Defense Policy and the Social Issues: Who Started This Fight?The late Rush Limbaugh had a way of summarizing the issues in a concise, pithy way. On matters regarding the armed services, he would always remind his audience that “the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.” ...
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July 10, 2023
A Chicago Sex Scandal in Migrant Temporary Housing – This Wasn’t on the Caravan Brochure…No matter how many crimes occur in Chicago every day – carjackings, muggings, drug deals, political corruption – these rarely make the news, other than in reports of crime statistics. We hear numbers; we rarely learn the victim...
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July 3, 2023
NASCAR and the Chicago traffic jam of 2023Chicago tried something new this year. For the first time ever, on the weekend before Independence Day, the city of Chicago hosted a NASCAR street race — yes, in downtown Chicago, one of the best known business, shopping, and entertainment d...
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May 29, 2023
The Nanny State Stains a DeckWhen candidates run for public office — local, state, or federal — they campaign on some careful blend of their résumés, their personalities, and their political issues. Thus it has always been, and thus it will always be...
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April 27, 2023
How Ayn Rand Predicted Dylan MulvaneyMost of her fans – and probably her detractors as well – know Ayn Rand primarily through her four great novels. She also wrote essays, philosophy books, screenplays, and Broadway dramas… but we remember her for her novels. ...
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December 29, 2022
The Big Question about UkraineAs 2022 comes to an end, consumers of the news have one question on their minds as daily requests for more military aid arrive from Ukraine. How much has the American government given to Ukraine already? No, this isn't going to be a column ...
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December 8, 2022
What Does the Constitution Mean to Me?We see these questions all the time: What does happiness mean to me? What does love mean to me? What does success mean to me? Some are helpful questions — for society, for one’s faith, for one’s career. And some are just on...
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December 4, 2022
Railroad Workers Get Railroaded AgainThe United States have a lot of railroads — big national lines and short regional lines, freight railways that share their track with commuter lines, lines designed with high clearance for container stacktrains. And while there are s...
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November 26, 2022
No-Spot Dice and Modern ElectionsEverything I need to know about the 2022 elections, I learned from Guys and Dolls. My parents met at a Young Republican Halloween party in Chicago in the late 1950s. They were precinct captains and election judges, first in Chicago, then in Evanst...
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November 20, 2022
Which Came First? The Chicken or the Laboratory?The Food and Drug Administration has happily approved Upside Foods’s sale of lab-grown meat for human consumption, simultaneously announcing their openness to other companies with similar approaches to meat production. Researchers have ...
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October 29, 2022
Have Democrats Lost Interest in the Working Man?We grew up being told that the Democrats were the party of the working man. Right or wrong, generations were raised with that belief. The white collar and gray collar might be either Republican or Democrat – there were...
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October 26, 2022
Misplaced Compassion Puts Lives in JeopardyA common charge in western republics has been the claim that conservatives insist on thinking rationally and have no compassion, while liberals make all their decisions on feelings, and refuse to use their heads. In the oft-misattributed aph...
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September 16, 2022
Audits, Recounts, and the Secret BallotThe Big Lie. Just saying these words brings to mind a number of potential meanings, but in today’s America, the most common — and conflicting — uses of the term are the following: The Left asserts that the very idea that fraud...
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September 7, 2022
How China Is Handling COVID NowadaysWhat do you do when there's an earthquake? Well, the safety rules all depend on where you are. If you're in a car, stop the car and stay inside. If you're outside, find an open spot, far from power lines. If yo...
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August 28, 2022
In the Student Loan Game, Everything is RelativeThe news of the week concerns a number: $10,000. It’s a well-chosen number, easy to remember. A solid amount of money, not too much, not too little. A number that any American can understand. We may fairly say that the poorest among us ca...
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August 20, 2022
Italian Beef and the American WayI don’t often read food reviews, but when the article concerns one of your favorites, you just can’t resist, right? Well, as a Chicagoan, when I saw an internet article come up on my screen, by a newcomer to Chicago reviewing the best ...
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August 15, 2022
President Trump is Our ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’Over a century ago, scientist John Scott Haldane, recognizing the danger of carbon monoxide in coal mines, introduced the use of pet canaries as an early warning system for miners. The concept caught on quickly, and for three quarters of a cent...
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August 4, 2022
A Desperate Regime’s Hollow Claims at the Gas PumpThe Whitewash House is claiming credit for “gas prices going down 44 days in a row.” Amazingly, the Biden-Harris regime is trying to get away with claiming that it deserves political points for fuel pump price drops this midsummer, in ...
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July 26, 2022
The Final Months of a Bad EmployeeIf you work in the business world long enough, you will notice that an employee reveals the most about his own personal work ethic, not when he starts out, not when he’s angling for a bonus or promotion, but at the end, when he gets a new job a...
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July 6, 2022
Much More than Murder in Highland ParkAt 10:14 a.m. on July 4, 2022, a young man named Robert Crimo III allegedly aimed his rifle into the crowd at his hometown’s Independence Day parade and opened fire. Within moments, the Chicago suburban town of Highland Park was a scene...
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June 17, 2022
The Democrat Party Finds a Scapegoat at the SeaportIn a lesson for the ages about political grandstanding, Rep. John Garamendi said, "Nine multinational ocean shipping companies formed three consortiums to raise prices on American businesses and consumers by over 1,000% on goods coming from Asia...
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June 11, 2022
Biden Whips Up the Longshoremen as Strike Fears RiseJoe Biden went to the port of Los Angeles on Friday, June 10, to make a speech about the economy. Nothing odd there. The stock market is down 15% so far this year, inflation is skyrocketing, and energy prices are so high that the unempl...
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May 27, 2022
Yet Another Lockdown, and a Fantasy is RevealedOn the weekend of May 20, mainland China, recognized by the business community as “a low-cost country,” announced yet another citywide COVID lockdown. This time, it’s the northeastern coastal city of Tianjin, with a population of 14...
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April 4, 2022
Media villainizing an education hero who shows college tuition doesn't have to rise at 3 times the rate of inflationIf you were asked to name the most disturbing thing about colleges these days, you would likely have some serious trouble narrowing it down. The woke culture, the sky-high tuition, the selling of tech secrets to Mainland China, the anti-Semi...
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March 30, 2022
America's Truck Driver ShortageThere is a trucker shortage... and it's worse every year. This is not news; this national driver shortage is no shock to businessmen or policymakers. Our driver shortage contributes to empty store shelves,...
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March 14, 2022
Destruction in Ukraine and the Conflict to ComeFor two weeks now, the world has watched the Russian war machine move into Ukraine. We have witnessed the shelling of cities and towns; we have seen crowds of women and children fleeing the country to escape. We have watched hospitals, business di...
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March 4, 2022
The hidden agenda behind Joe Biden's 'black female' Supreme Court pledgeAs soon as Associate Justice Stephen Breyer announced his intent to retire, the Biden-Harris regime reported their plan to fill his seat with a black female replacement. Why announce the sex and skin color of the nominee, weeks in advance of namin...
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February 22, 2022
Sanctions Don’t Threaten Only the EnemyThe world is reminded every day that the United States will do everything appropriate -- short of firing a single shot, that is -- to scare Vladimir Putin out of invading Ukraine (which, at this writing, may have already begun). While the B...
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February 17, 2022
The Canadian truckers' choice: The easy way or the hard wayJustin Trudeau, current prime minister of Canada, and heir of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, is angry. There are truckers — lots of them — clogging the streets of Ottawa, honking their horns, and revving their engin...
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February 10, 2022
Letter from Facebook JailI’m writing from jail… but that’s okay. I’ve been in jail before. In 2021, I served two stints in Facebook’s Cell Block H, once for posting about the likely origin of Covid-19 in Wuhan and the fact that masks a...
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February 5, 2022
The Problem with MandatesThere is a short, pithy line that a lot of us find ourselves saying these days… one which merits reconsideration because it is only occasionally accurate. “Mandates are not laws.” It’s only four words long; therefore, i...
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January 22, 2022
Pharmaceutical dos and don'ts in the age of COVIDI have a few medical questions...not for experts, just for regular folks like you and me. Should you take antibiotics if you don't have a bacterial infection? Should you take phenobarbital if you don't have a seizure disorder such as ...
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January 13, 2022
Biden's COVID Testing FailDepending on how it’s prepared, asparagus provides -- at a minimum -- iron, vitamins C, and B-6, potassium, fiber, and a trace of magnesium and calcium as well. But asparagus can be tricky to prepare, and it can be expensive. So, what is a heal...
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January 9, 2022
What actually happened on January 6, 2021?For a year now, there has been a constant drumbeat in the press about January 6, 2020. It went into overdrive this past week. Congress created an investigative commission about it. Hundreds were imprisoned for it. ...
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January 1, 2022
Crime and Consequences, a Holiday TaleWhat does crime cost? Big question, I know. But as we have just finished up one of the worst years for crime in American history, in terms of unexpected and painful growth of various types of crime, it is worth considering the human cost of this e...
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December 21, 2021
Joe Manchin, Giant-Killer?In the great Woody Allen comedy, Love and Death, Allen plays a Russian nebbish who is celebrated for his heroism when, after hiding in a cannon during a battle, he gets fired into the Napoleonic command tent, taking down four enemy generals...
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December 11, 2021
3 Reasons for China to Laugh at New US SanctionsThe U.S. House has taken a stand for human rights by passing a bill directing the White House to implement more severe sanctions against the government of Mainland China, which has for seventy years called itself the "People's Republic of Ch...
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December 2, 2021
Willie Horton and the Democratic Party's Greatest FearAt seventy years old, Willie Horton is serving multiple lifetime sentences in a Maryland prison. His case was once famous enough that we can be reasonably certain that this recidivist monster will never again be released to commit another ...
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November 22, 2021
The worst kind of domestic terrorismJoe Biden thinks a normal Midwest family is a group of domestic terrorists if they peacefully guard their family business against rioters, arsonists, and looters. Merrick Garland says concerned parents are domestic terrorists if they attend public...
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November 19, 2021
Shoplifting Saule Omarova and the War on RetailThe Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that four to five million Americans work in retail, with an average salary of about $27,000 per year. As careers go, retail isn't one of the most lucrative, and while there are many reasons for ...
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November 16, 2021
Doubling Down on Victim BlamingThe murder trial of young Kyle Rittenhouse, the only noteworthy prosecution to come out of the 2020 Kenosha riots, has become a surrogate for a war that the American Left has long tried to keep under the radar: the war against the concept of sel...
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June 6, 2021
What Do Advocates of a Two-State Solution Actually Advocate?There are approximately 13.5 million people in the current geographical nation of Israel – about 9 million Israeli nationals and 4.5 million others known as “Palestinians” (primarily ethnic Egyptians and other Arabs who moved into t...
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May 2, 2020
Playing the Coronavirus Lottery in 2020With great fanfare, your state announced a lottery. Oh, they said, this is going to be great. For just a dollar, you will have a chance at huge prizes. Million-dollar prizes. Multi-million-dollar prizes, even....
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April 16, 2020
Just Chips, No SalsaThe technocrats are talking about giving people a chip - once they've been vaccinated for the CCP virus, or otherwise proven their immunity and state of non-contagion - so that anyone with the right scanner can easily see that interacting with th...
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July 29, 2012
Raul Castro and the Mending of FencesRaul Castro, dictator of Cuba and brother of dictator emeritus Fidel Castro, is in the news. He took advantage of a Cuban national holiday on July 26, 2012 (a national holiday in a communist country -- now that sounds like fun, doesn't it...
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February 18, 2012
Obama Perverts Ex-Im Bank into Competitor for Domestic BanksActing without any legal authority, President Obama has overridden the federal charter of the Export-Import Bank, and turned it into a competitor for domestic loan business, in utter defiance of the law. Hardly anyone has noticed or seems to ca...
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January 8, 2012
The Democratic Party's War on TransportationWe think of the world of transportation -- especially trucking and automobile manufacturing -- as being one of the most fundamental of Democratic Party constituencies. Detroit has long been a party stronghold, with the UAW and Teamsters a...
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December 29, 2011
The Democratic Party's War on the PoorIt was a proud day in Medellín, Colombia. Mayor Alonso Salazar smiled as he announced the city's latest accomplishment, and a sycophantic press reported his happy message verbatim. The 12,000 desperately poor people of Medellín's Comuna 13, a s...
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December 23, 2011
The Democratic Party's War against PromotionsThe December 2011 battle in Washington, D.C. -- a battle over continuing a Social Security tax-cut for another year, or even another two months -- demonstrates the differences between the parties in stark detail, both in terms of campaign methods and...
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August 22, 2011
Roman Sandals in Hospital HallsRoman life in the 5th century B.C. was pretty good, relatively speaking. Roman society had freed itself from the tyranny of Etruscan kings; the people had representation in the Council of the Plebs, and the nation was at peace. And a merc...
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August 8, 2011
Lessons from a Milwaukee MobOn August 4, 2011, the opening night of the Wisconsin State Fair, the worst race riot in Wisconsin history occurred. As darkness fell over the amusement park area known as the Midway before closing time, hundreds of young blacks swarmed out int...
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February 22, 2011
Unionized Public Servants Meet Their EnemyPublic servants who think themselves wronged by their government have been demonstrating for days in Madison, Wisconsin. Their march for fair treatment in the budget battles and contract negotiations to follow is intended to evoke sympathy, but...
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January 27, 2011
Obama's Dangerous Export InitiativePresident Barack H. Obama has announced his administration's commitment to advancing American exports -- to double America's exports by 2014. Now, there's a daring position to take: advocating a goal easily supported by the entire country, rega...
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August 29, 2010
Destroying Jobs at 2.5 Gallons per MinuteThe consequences of pernicious regulationsGrowing up a century ago in sunny Calabria, on the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea, my grandfather would never have dreamed that the common shrimp and calamari he had to eat every day would ever be considered a l...
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August 10, 2010
Lessons from a Turkish WeddingIn the world news, we read of a moment of horror at a wedding in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey. During the celebration of his own wedding, as is all too common in the Middle East, Tevfik Altun, the groom, fired his AK-47 into the air, immediately...
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May 18, 2010
Cannibalizing CapitalMitt Romney's boyhood home, which sold for $645,000 as recently as 2002, is in the news: It's slated for demolition this summer. This fine old house, situated in a once-vibrant upper-middle-class neighborhood of Detroit, is one of 10,000 homes ...
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October 18, 2009
Silver Coins for the Silver HairedThe republic is suffering. The president is proposing a lot of measures, most lately, a $250 check to seniors distraught over the lack of an inflation payment increase due to a lack of inflation. Twenty-one centuries ago, the republic was suffe...