By: Stephen Moore – townhall.com – April 03, 2018 Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade? Last week, Trump apparently delivered two underappreciated victories as a result of his threat of stiff tariffs and renegotiated trade deals. First, Seoul has agreed to reduce long-standing non-tariff trade barriers that have reduced American exports to Korea. Though the details...

By: Jonah Goldberg – nationalreview.com – March 28, 2018 It’s not true that Trump was tricked or betrayed into signing the omnibus. President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending deal on Friday, averting another government shutdown. Written largely in secret and passed without any time to read its 2,232 pages, the bill violated pretty much everything the GOP had...

By: Center for Security Policy – centerforsecuritypolicy.org – March 13, 2018 With President Trump’s recent agreement to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Pyongyang’s reported willingness to discuss denuclearization, the Center for Security Policy is proud to issue a new book that provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of the North Korean threat and how the Obama...

By: Rachel Alexander – stream.org – March 13, 2018 The French do it every year. Liberals love France. Have you ever met a liberal who didn’t love wine, smelly soft cheese, existentialist philosophy? Who didn’t feel weepy about the French Revolution? Who didn’t love singing La Marseillaise? So why aren’t liberals cheering when Donald Trump wants to do what the...

By: Morgan Chalfant – thehill.com – March 18, 2018 Trump administration officials on Thursday accused the Russian government of staging a multi-year cyberattack campaign against the energy grid and other elements of critical infrastructure in the United States. The alert from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI coincided with the administration’s decision to unveil new sanctions on Russia...

By: Peter Baker, Gardiner Harris & Mark Landler – nytimes.com – March 13, 2018 President Trump on Tuesday ousted his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, extending a shake-up of his administration, 14 months into his tumultuous presidency, and potentially transforming the nation’s economic and foreign policy. Mr. Trump announced he would replace Mr. Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A....

By: Ray Locker and David Jackson – usatoday.com – March 13, 2018 After months of disputes with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Trump removed him Tuesday and nominated CIA Director Mike Pompeo to head the State Department. Trump told reporters he made the decision himself, citing disagreements with Tillerson that included North Korea diplomacy, steel and aluminum tariffs, and...

Steel and aluminum may win in the short term, but steel-and-aluminum users and consumers lose. By: Larry Kudlow, Arthur B. Laffer & Stephen Moore – nationalreview.com – March 3, 2018 Steel and aluminum may win in the short term, but steel-and-aluminum users and consumers lose. One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas are what...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 6, 2018 As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. It was one of his biggest applause lines, so it’s remarkable that he is pushing a proposal that is the very essence of the swamp. “Draining the swamp” can mean different things to different people, but one...

By: Pat Buchanan – townhall.com – March 06, 2018 From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Coolidge, the Republican Party erected the most awesome manufacturing machine the world had ever seen. And, as the party of high tariffs through those seven decades, the GOP was rewarded by becoming America’s Party. Thirteen Republican presidents...