These are challenging days for our country and its people.
Americans are worried about jobs. They’re worried about our economy. And they’re worried about our debt. The debt-limit crisis, thrust upon our citizens this summer, has intensi…[...]
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
Many of us never thought that the Republicans would hold tough long enough to get President Obama and the Democrats to agree to a budget deal that does not include raising income-tax rates. But they did — and Speaker of the House John Boehner [...]
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
President Obama’s got problems for 2012. Sure, he just hauled in a record $86 million in cash. But the fundraising success masks a very big issue: Obama has lost the youth vote — he just isn’t trendy any more. Which is good news for…
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
Dozens of countries have “Independence Days.” November 25th, for example: Independence Day in Suriname. In that instance as in most others, the designation signifies nothing more than transfer of de jure sovereignty and de facto operation…
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
A major boom in domestic oil and gas production is under way, brought about by breakthrough refinements of a 1940s technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
Hydraulic fracturing involves pumping water, sand, and som…
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
2 comments
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty turned out a blockbuster economic-growth plan this past week, including deep cuts in taxes, spending, and regulations. It’s really the first Reaganesque supply-side growth plan from any of the GOP presiden…
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
Pres. Barack Obama is given to cute vehicular metaphors about the state of the economy. We were “in a ditch,” then got out and hit a “bump in the road.” This is studiously folksy. It also vastly understates the nature of our s…
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
Over the next 50 years, I will double everyone’s life expectancy. And not only will most of you live to be 160, but 120 will be the new 30, and 150 will be the new 55. The last ten years of your life will resemble old age today, and I will have…
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
The world is a better place because Adolf Hitler did not preserve his conquest of the European continent, and because the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere of Hideki Tojo and his militarists imploded at Midway, Guadalcanal, and Okinawa. Italy an…
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments
In a visit to National Review’s offices, Tim Pawlenty displayed his famous “Minnesota nice” — except when it came to Fox News pundit Dick Morris; his Republican predecessor as governor, Arne Carlson; and, of course, President …
Categories: National Review, Syndicated Postings
No comments