By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – January 2, 2023 Joe Biden’s approval ratings on the economy have been dreadful for quite some time now and show no sign of improving. Last month, the Wall Street Journal found that “only 23% of voters say Biden’s policies have helped them personally, while 53% say they have been hurt by the president’s agenda. By contrast, about half of voters...

By: Chris Edwards – nationalreview.com – December 18, 2023 Cutting federal aid to the states would reduce our national debt while improving governance. Federal debt is soaring to dangerous levels. Debt held by the public now tops $26 trillion, or $200,000 for every household in the nation. The debt relative to the size of the economy will soon hit an all-time...

Harvard’s University’s graduate-student union recently approved by a vote of 402 to 210 a resolution denouncing what it called “the murderous Israeli regime” and the “ongoing genocide of the Palestinians.”

Since money-printing went into permanent high gear after the dotcom crash in 2000, the top 1% of households have gained $20 million each in inflation-adjusted net worth. Likewise, the top 0.1% or 131,000 households at the tippy top of the economic ladder have gained $88 million each in inflation-adjusted net worth.

For the last few generations, Western civilization has been under attack. But recently, there were some excellent defenses of it made by Bill Maher (earlier this month) and by Greg Gutfeld in his program on Fox News Channel last Friday. Gutfeld said: “So let’s talk about the death of Western civilization. It’s in trouble, people.…

You must be lonely. The media say loneliness is everywhere in America. A Los Angeles Times columnist says, “There’s a mass loneliness crisis going on.”

In a romantic relationship, one cannot generally influence his partner’s emotions with rational argument. Feelings are unmediated, unruly, and mostly instinctual things. The same may be said for our…

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans “suffer from food insecurity!” News anchors were shocked that there is “food insecurity in the richest country in the world!” ABC hosts turned “insecurity” into “hunger.”

By: John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke – wsj.com – October 22, 2023 Early in the pandemic, the volume of U.S. dollars in circulation soared. For two years starting in March 2020, the M2 money supply—a measure of the cash and checkable deposits in circulation plus savings deposits and other easily convertible assets—grew at an unprecedented annualized rate of 16.5%. That...

By: Bjorn Lomborg – wsj.com – October 6, 2023 Well-off nations seem to have forgotten that while they’re no longer plagued by poverty-related ills such as hunger and illiteracy, most people in the world still are. Increasingly, the Biden administration and leaders of other high-income countries are putting climate policy ahead of these core development issues. When the World Bank...