By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 21, 2018 Let’s be honest. If you own guns or you’re a gun-rights supporter, and if you’re concerned about government restrictions on your Second Amendment rights, the future looks bright. The elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court may well represent the death knell for draconian forms of gun control — including...

By: Katie Thomas and Sheila Kaplan – nytimes.com – August 11, 2018 Representative Christopher Collins once said that the success of an obscure Australian company’s drug would be carved on his tombstone. Instead, its failure has upended his congressional career. The three-term congressman’s infectious enthusiasm for Innate Immunotherapeutics, the tiny biotech firm, led to his indictment on Wednesday, when he...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 31, 2018 The Mercatus Center at George Mason University just released a study by the Center’s Charles Blahous estimating the cost of a government-run, single-payer health care system similar to Senator Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act (M4A). Under single-payer, Americans drop their private insurance coverage, pay higher taxes and the government pays...

By: Ramesh Ponnuru & Michael R. Strain – nationalreview.com – July 26, 2018 Our economy is strong, as nearly every new release of economic data indicates. Industrial production is up. The unemployment rate is as low as it has been in two decades. Employment rates are growing and the disability rolls are shrinking. Measures of business confidence are bullish. Stocks...

By: CBS News Staff – cbsnews.com – July 31, 2018 Millennials, estimated to make up more than a third of the American workforce, are re-inventing the traditional concept of employment. They are also leaving their lucrative jobs in order to travel. “This really is a symptom of the job market today. People are voluntarily leaving their jobs at the highest rate...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – July 29, 2018 I suspect we’re in for a massive economic disruption soon, probably moving very quickly from a downturn in real estate to the financial sector. It’s sometimes destabilizing to consider that it is your personality that determines your thoughts. I suspect that one reason I’m a conservative is that I’m just...

By: Streiff – redstate.com – July 26, 2018 Yesterday, VICE News confirmed what a lot of people had suspected for some time. That is that the social media application, Twitter, was shadowbanning Republicans and conservatives in order to limit their ability to build a media platform. If you don’t know, shadowbanning originated as a way of controlling disruptive persons in...

By: Fred Imbert & Gina Francolla – cnbc.com – July 26, 2018 Facebook on Thursday posted the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report. The social media giant’s market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock price plummeted by 19 percent. At Wednesday’s...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – July 26, 2018 President Donald Trump declared victory for American farmers Thursday after brokering a ceasefire in a trade dispute with the European Union, but it is unclear how soon it will bring relief to those hurt by tit-for-tat tariffs. The White House painted the agreement as a vindication of the US president’s bare-knuckle tactics,...

By: Megan Cassella – Politico.com – July 20, 2018 President Donald Trump’s trade wars could become a major political drag for Republicans, with job losses and price increases piling up just as voters head to the polls in November. Trump jolted markets once again early Friday when he said he’s prepared to impose penalties on some $500 billion in Chinese...