A Sorry State

The British government has managed to spend approximately $50 billion on a system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19. So far, the average citizen has been tested five times. Yet mysteriously, the British mortality rate is either above, or very similar to, that of countries that have tested and traced much less often. A parliamentary commission ...


Trump: America for the Americans!

As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples. Though bracing, President Trump’s inaugural address was ...

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait

The Inarticulate Orator

Donald Trump is strikingly unaffected by the ideological indoctrination that has otherwise overwhelmed the thinking of American elites. Why? Trump's lack of verbal fluency. Consider the candidate's attitude toward modern art as an ...

The Correct Degree of Culpability

While in Dublin recently I read an article in the newspaper about the Greek crisis. It was in the Irish Times and was very serious. The author, the well-known economic journalist Martin Wolf, asked a series of questions about the crisis ...

In the Long Run We Are All in Debt

Erstwhile pop singer Aaron Carter and his wizened face recently made the plunge every onetime celebrity makes at least once in his life. The younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on October 23, ...

Who’s Really Downgrading America?

The decision by Standard & Poor’s to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating, for the first time, has triggered a barrage of catcalls against the umpire from the press box and Obamaites. S&P, we are reminded, was ...

Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats

First lady Michelle Obama said, “Let’s Move!” Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally? Faced with stifling debt, bloated pensions and intractable government unions, liberal ...

Who’s Policing Amtrak Joe Biden’s Rail Boondoggles?

At Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station on Tuesday, lifelong government rail promoter Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a $53 billion high-speed train initiative and half-joked: “I’m like the ombudsman for Amtrak.” ...

A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs

The media has headlined good economic news: fourth quarter GDP growth of 5.7 percent (“the recession is over”), Jan retail sales up, productivity up in 4th quarter, the dollar is gaining strength. Is any of it true? What ...

George W. Obama

During last year’s Republican National Convention, South Carolina GOP leaders were regularly calling in to WTMA talk radio in Charleston to provide event coverage. On the day they were supposed to talk to me, I was informed that ...


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