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You’ve heard the saying, “If you don’t like the heat, then get out of the kitchen.” Well, that only works if you’re not called to be in the kitchen.

By:  Habi Zhang – wsj.com – November 21, 2021 As a Chinese doctoral student raising a young son in the U.S., I am mystified by how American elementary schools coddle students. In China, schools are run like boot camps. What do the therapeutic comforts America showers on its youth portend for a growing competition with China? I recently registered my…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 21, 2021 The Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal dominated the weekend news, but the more significant story for the long run was House passage Friday of the multi-trillion-dollar tax, climate and entitlement spending bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi marched her majority off a cliff in 2010 with votes on ObamaCare, and now she has done…

“An ominous double whammy for the Democrats with midterms less than a year out. The Senate and the House will be up for grabs and voters want the GOP to win the jump ball.”

For as long as most of us have been alive, there have been declarations that America’s best days are behind us and that we are in a slow, steady decline. Source: America at the Intersection of Woke and Incompetent › American Greatness

Another leg in the political race to the bottom.

By: Phil Gramm and Mike Solon – wsj.com – November 18, 2021 Long before the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported inflation had hit a 30-year high, Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) raised concerns about how President Biden’s Build Back Better bill would affect the economy, the national debt, entitlements and especially inflation. To assess the bill’s potential consequences, he demanded, among…

When Joe Biden claimed that his “Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars,” the Washington Post gave him Two Pinocchios.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 15, 2021 Americans like to be first—in Olympic gold medals, for example—but maybe not in this category: If the $4 trillion House spending bill passes, the U.S. will have the highest combined federal and state personal income tax rate in the developed world. The Tax Foundation recently compared the combined tax rates…

Joe Biden, members of his administration, and congressional Democrats lied to you. Source: Build Back Better Bill: The CBO Confirms Joe Biden Lied | National Review

By: Hugh Hewitt – washingtonpost.com – November 14, 2021 National Review remains conservatism’s “must read” magazine. It has worked its way back from its “Against Trump” editorial of Jan. 22, 2016 — and the special issue devoted to the same — to its new special issue “End Roe.” The magazine has done so while calmly adopting the appropriate point-of-view about the former president:…