Who’s picking the winners and losers?
WASHINGTON — Republicans say they favor free markets. They're not like those pinko-commie Democrats, who prefer “picking winners and losers.” Oh, come off it already. Republicans love picking winners and...
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Don’t tread on this voter’s T-shirt
Andrew Cilek might be — this is just a hunch — unaware that 2018 is Brooks Brothers' bicentennial. Judging by what he wore when he went out to vote in...
Why won’t pro-lifers act against America’s deadly gun culture?
Let us hear no more lectures from Clarence Thomas on the sanctity of human life. The Supreme Court justice, with timing that could be charitably described as clumsy, issued his...
How Putin made fools of American voters
Special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians over their alleged efforts to elect Donald Trump set off a presidential paroxysm of self-exoneration. "The results of the election were not...
Don’t blame ‘Washington’ for inaction on guns and immigration. Blame the Republican Party.
Dysfunctional Washington refuses to work out its differences to solve problems that matter to Americans. So say pundits and policy activists, perhaps hoping that diffuse criticism, rather than finger-pointing, will...
Donald Trump won’t stop trying to keep America white
The efforts by President Donald Trump to keep America white are getting increasingly dark. Make no mistake: What's happening on Capitol Hill this week, at Trump's behest, is nothing other...
Will the Olympics go bust?
WASHINGTON — Whatever the virtues of the Olympics, economics is not one of them. As we enjoy this year's Winter Games in South Korea, we ought to ponder the possibility...
Reality is catching up with Trump, everywhere
President Donald Trump, in his State of the Union address last week, boasted to the nation about stock market gains: "The stock market has smashed one record after another, gaining...
Democrats’ behavior at the State of the Union was embarrassing
It gives me no pleasure to say this, but the Democrats' behavior at the State of the Union was embarrassing. I take a back seat to nobody in decrying President...
When protectionism is rampant, no bad deed goes unrewarded
WASHINGTON — Like Horatius at the bridge, or the boy who stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled, or the Dutch boy who saved the city...