By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 21, 2018 President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on steel and aluminum by 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively, and he appears to be itching to raise or impose even more tariffs. Since the disastrous passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, in which Congress imposed high tariffs on goods across the...

By: Cecilia Kang – nytimes.com – MARCH 20, 2018 The headquarters of Cambridge Analytica in central London on Tuesday. The company, which worked on President Trump’s campaign, has faced a backlash after reports that it had obtained information on 50 million Facebook users. Jack Taylor/Getty Images Federal regulators and state prosecutors are opening investigations into Facebook. Politicians in the United...

By: John G. Malcolm & Amy Swearer – dailysignal.com – March 16, 2018 In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent future school shootings. As emotions morph from grief to anger to resolve, it is...

By: George Will – nationalreview.com – March 18, 2018 The Supreme Court must strike down a California law that compels pro-life crisis-pregnancy centers’ speech in violation of the First Amendment. Governments routinely behave badly, but sometimes their mean-spiritedness comes to the Supreme Court’s attention. On Tuesday, it will hear oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of measures that California’s government has...

By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – March 14, 2018 On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, Lesley Stahl asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos about the “institutional racism” in school discipline. It was like neither of them had ever heard of Nikolas Cruz. The Parkland, Florida, school shooter is our most recent case study of what happens when liberals start babbling about...

By: Stacey Lennox – themaven.net – March 14, 2018 A federal appeals court ruled that the majority of Texas law banning sanctuary cities can be implemented for now. Today a federal appeals judge ruled most of the Texas law outlawing sanctuary cities within the state can be implemented while the legal challenge continues in a lower court. Governor Abbott decided...

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: Matt Vespa – townhall.com – March 08, 2018 Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown had some very strong words for the Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions over the latter’s lawsuit against the state’s sanctuary state law. The law went into effect this year, which the DOJ says interferes with the enforcement of federal immigration laws. He said that...