In a “late shift” in messaging for the midterm elections, Jacqui Heinrich of Fox News reported Monday, the Democrats are moving from “all-in” on abortion to “counterpunching the GOP on the economy.” Say wha-a-a-a? The Democrats are going to emphasize…
Debate now rages about whether the Federal Reserve should continue to raise interest rates to tame inflation or slow down these hikes and see what happens. This is not the first debate we’ve had recently about inflation and Fed actions….
Barack Obama’s economy in 2011 stunk. Mitt Romney should have had an easier time running against his rather lazy opponent with little good news to his name. But Romney was a bad candidate for the times. Members of the working…
The consumer price index (CPI) rose 8.2 percent year-over-year in September. Fuel oil jumped 58 percent, new vehicles climbed 9 percent, and electricity spiked 16 percent. The guts of the Bureau of Labor Statistics report show why this round of…
I used to respect the Washington Post in a way that I couldn’t — and still can’t — respect the New York Times, arguably the most overrated newspaper in history. True, the Post has supported some of the dumbest presidents in…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren described herself on CNN Sunday as “very worried” that the economy may fall into “recession.” She did not also share her fears of a Simon & Garfunkel breakup or predict the Johnstown Flood. The U.S. gross domestic…
“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.” – John Adams The Biden administration has mastered sophistry, the use of ostensibly logical but erroneous arguments that are intended to…
Community organizer and left-wing social activist Saul Alinsky wrote, in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals, that “he who controls the language controls the masses.” Alinsky, whose work profoundly influenced at least one notable fellow Chicagoan, Barack Obama, was in…
Thursday morning, the Commerce Department admitted what most Americans already knew — the nation is in the midst of a recession. The economy has contracted for the second consecutive quarter this year. During the first quarter, gross domestic product (GDP)…
