Barack, Mitt, and the Russian Bear
With Russian troops in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, here’s a look back at how Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sized up Russia and Vladimir Putin during the 2012 presidential campaign.First, here’s an...
View ArticlePaycheck Poppycock
Here’s a headline last week: “Senate Republicans vote to block Paycheck Fairness Act.”The quick and incorrect interpretation of that headline, if casual readers don’t have the time or interest to dig...
View ArticleRunning Out of Operating Room
A surgeon declared war against health care’s central planners recently in the Wall Street Journal.“So when do we say damn the mandates and requirements from bureaucrats who are not in the healing...
View ArticleObama’s Part-Time Nation
Vice President Joe Biden recently declared that America's jobs picture is outstanding — historically exceptional, on the plus side.“Businesses are hiring at historic rates,” Biden stated, “with 52...
View ArticleThere He Goes Over the Top Again
“If you look at what’s happened over the last four or five years, the folks who don’t have a right to complain are the folks at the top,” President Obama stated in a recent interview with the...
View ArticleQuick Fixes and Lasting Grief
By the dawn’s early light, as they say, there’s the too frequent news in the morning about those who didn’t make it through the perilous night.Drug overdose deaths, for example, in Allegheny County (a...
View ArticleCEOs Critique Obama
Bernie Marcus co-founded Home Depot in 1978, a bad economic time of rising unemployment, accelerating inflation and Jimmy Carter’s downhearted feelings of malaise.Home Depot prospered, but in an...
View ArticleObama’s Spin Can’t Keep Up With America’s Economic Reality
At a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee, President Obama turned the limelight on himself, approvingly and inaccurately.“By almost every measure,” he declared, “the American economy and the American workers...
View ArticleWhat Obama Didn’t Say About the Economy
In his speech the day before the federal government reported U.S. job growth was 248,000 in September, President Obama painted a picture that made the current state of the American economy look like...
View ArticlePot Brownies and Putin’s Trolls
Not once in my life have I ever said to anyone, “You wanna smoke a bowl?”Still, I get ads via emails on my computer about water bongs, vaporizers, smoking pipes and scales.With edibles, I get emails...
View ArticleBoots in the Face
What’s the perfect way for a government to indict itself, to show the public they’re being governed by a tyrannical regime that’s establishing the nightmarish society depicted in George Orwell’s 1984,...
View ArticleThe Name’s the Same — Aptronyms
Richie Richman is a name that perfectly describes the well-heeled financial position of Mr. Richman. It’s like the name match of Tom Crapper, the man who many credit with inventing the toilet. In...
View ArticleFerguson in Black and White
The debate about the shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson got heated on NBC’s Meet the Press on November 23 in an exchange between former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and...
View ArticleNaughty and Nice
Inserting a bit of progressive politics into the holidays, the New Yorker magazine ended 2014 with an issue that included “Climate-Change Christmas Carols.”Here’s an example (more depressing, I...
View ArticleThe Hazards of Blind Obedience
“It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment,” wrote Christopher Hitchens, years before ISIS released a video showing a...
View ArticleJustice for All Minorities?
The New York Times reported in a May 3 front-page article that “residents say arsonists singled out Asian-American owned businesses during the rioting” in Baltimore’s Sandtown. That's the neighborhood...
View ArticleConfiscatory Sanders
Just when you think it can’t get any more anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-growth, anti-capitalist and just plain economically nonsensical among presidential candidates than Hillary Clinton’s ’s “Don’t...
View ArticleSo Much for This Year’s Labor Day
“Of course, nothing helps families make ends meet like higher wages,” President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2015.But rather than those higher wages being produced in...
View ArticlePapalnomics — Not So Infallible
Here’s a quick question I received via email from a reader who said I was too negative in one of my columns about President Obama’s economic record: “Does the economics of Pope Francis better match the...
View ArticlePrice and Demand: Cars and Labor
A basic principle from Economics-101 is that the downward sloping demand curve — the graph showing an inverse relationship between the price of something and the amount that people are willing and able...
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