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By: Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux – wsj.com – January 17, 2023 The evidence shows they benefited a politically connected few, while U.S. consumers and producers paid the bill. But protectionism shrinks rather than expands production. It does so most directly by obstructing U.S.-based producers’ access to inputs. As Dartmouth’s Douglas Irwin has shown, more than half of American imports…

Typical progressive issues have liabilities these days, but abortion is proving to be a winning campaign focus for Joe Biden and his party.

The answer stems from the confusing fact that there isn’t one contest, but two: a primary on February 6 and a caucus on February 8.

If you say “men give birth,” we all know your position on Hamas.

By: Thomas S. Kidd – wsj.com – January 11, 2024 The adulteration of a theological term into a secular political and demographic label. But who exactly are these evangelicals? It’s difficult to know. Some self-identified evangelical voters don’t even attend church. Many in the media seem to define “evangelicals” as white Republicans who consider themselves religious. Such a definition, in…

By: Henry Olsen – nationalreview.com – January 4, 2024 Conservatives have noticed approvingly that deep-blue states such as California and New York have been losing residents to deep-red ones such as Texas and Florida since the pandemic. Many note that this points to the comparative advantage low-tax places have in attracting businesses and families. Few have noted, however, the possibly…

I don’t typically go where I’m not wanted, but I do tend to go where I’m needed. So I was intrigued by the invitation to attend a globalist sleepaway camp in the beautiful Swiss Alps—some pop-up utopia called Davos. At first, it sounded as dreadful as a road trip with the New York Times editorial board. The infamous hypocritical self-avowed…

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – January 15, 2024 The Defense Department reports that U.S. forces on Sunday shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired by Iranian proxies at our destroyer, the U.S.S. Laboon, in the Red Sea. Last week, as Noah Rothman and NR’s editors have detailed, the Biden administration took meaningful — albeit belated and insufficient —…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 12, 2024 President Biden’s patience, and his own fear of escalation, ran out Thursday night as U.S. and British forces hit more than 60 targets across 16 locations with more than 100 precision-guided munitions. The Houthis have been using these weapons depots, radars and launch sites to “endanger freedom of navigation in…

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – January 15, 2024 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, chronicled various neurotic disorders, including “projection” and other psychological defense mechanisms. Projection occurs when someone “projects” their own feelings, motives, behaviors and thoughts onto others. It’s a way of coping with one’s own insecurities and to blame one’s problems on others. Another Freudian concept is…

We went to court Thursday to defend Pastor Chris Avell of Dad’s Place. He’s facing criminal charges for opening his 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to serve the homeless.