SACRAMENTO — In my American Spectator column last week, I complained about the Republican Party’s descent into protectionism and its move away from free-market policies — in the name of becoming a populist, working-class party. I urged Republicans to emulate Ronald…
The American summer of strikes is slowly growing to include the fall. On Wednesday morning, 75,000 nurses, medical technicians, and other health care workers employed by Kaiser Permanente went to picket lines instead of to work in hospitals and at…
By averting a government shutdown, Democrats and more moderate Republicans ensured bigger government, further indebtedness, a greater percentage of the federal budget allocated toward paying interest, and inflation worse than otherwise. Given that the government never really shuts down —…
I’ve been saying, at The Spectacle podcast and elsewhere, that I refuse to make any assumptions about the 2024 presidential cycle. And let me offer the further caveat that Republican voters and conservative activists, not to mention current and prospective…
As election season approaches, Democrats are touting the economic results of Biden administration policies aimed at improving the lives of working Americans and creating a more equitable economy. But ordinary Americans aren’t feeling the so-called success of “Bidenomics.” Superficially, the…
Ronald Wilson Reagan asked the best question a candidate ever posed to voters. “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” the Republican standard bearer urged them to ponder as he closed the Oct. 28, 1980, debate between the…
Bidenomics is still not working. According to a new report, 61 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Inflation has caused the cost of living to skyrocket. Prices of houses, cars, gas, grocery items, and school school supplies are…
Remember how, mere months ago, the debt-ceiling deal struck between Democrats and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown was touted as “an historic first step toward shifting government back toward common sense and conservatism”? The hope was that the spending…
The annual summer retreat of the CCP leadership in Beidaihe has concluded, and it ended without fanfare. It can be reasonably inferred that no major resolutions were reached during the retreat. Those who expected the CCP to introduce significant measures…
President Biden often brags how “Bidenomics” is succeeding. Every word he says about the American economy is a lie. We are surrounded by evidence that Bidenomics is a failure. Inflation — having reached 9.7 percent continues to be high and…