Toward the end of the legislation raising the debt ceiling, listed provisions detail congressional support for various permits and the like for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. This seems like a worthy project. It does not look like the concession that…
Don’t be confused by the latest numbers. Smart forecasters still predict a deep recession. Brian S. Wesbury and Robert Stein at First Trust Portfolios have been reliable guides over recent decades. They expressed some hope for a correction over the last…
Seemingly out of nowhere, “reforming” Social Security has become a point of emphasis for some Washington Republicans. It began to bubble up with Sen. Rick Scott’s policy manifesto and now may take center stage in the fight over the debt…
Progressives hate tax cuts. How can they stop wanting to take a bigger bite out of everyone’s paycheck when they see bigger and more intrusive government as the solution to every real and imagined problem? They will always want … MORE!!!…
Benjamin Franklin was a man of great wisdom, but he was mistaken when he opined that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Equally inevitable is the biennial Democratic attempt to frighten elderly voters by claiming the Republicans are plotting…
Arizona. The GOP Senate prospects in the Grand Canyon State looked so tantalizing two years ago. In 2020, Mark Kelly, a former astronaut who may be known as much for being the husband of Gabrielle Giffords, a former congresswoman who…
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that September’s inflation rate remained at an unacceptably high 8.2 percent, it sealed the fate of the Democrats. Despite risible claims by President Joe Biden that his policies are helping, the…
Over the past two years, the battle of ideas in public policy has widened in scope, intensified in fury, and escalated in consequence in our daily lives. The fight rages at all levels of government and all corners of society….
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just offered a bipartisan tutorial in pathetic leadership. They demonstrated precisely how not to behave while holding positions of influence and authority. Manchin made a complete fool of himself over the…
