Bush, Hillary Clinton, Private Property, Regulation, Republicans
George W. Bush did his share to bring about the housing bubble, and Stephen Moore, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, knows it. Moore wrote a book he’d like us to forget: “Bullish on Bush: How the Ownership Society Is Making America Richer” (2004). “Bullish” got one and a half stars on Amazon and it […Read On]
In “The Open-Border Fetish Is Turning Into A Symbol Of Death,” a March 14 COVID column, published first by American Greatness, I had already preempted Axios in assembling the sources that allowed me to deduce that the Trump travel ban was well, quite pitiful. The first U.S. “Proclamation on Suspension of Entry, as Immigrants and […Read On]
America, Asia, China, Communism, Critique, Globalism, Government, Healthcare
“By March 1st, when South Korea had run 100,000 tests for the virus, America—which saw its first case on January 23rd—had run fewer than 500. … a single undiagnosed case can, in principle, give rise to more than 3,000 cases six weeks later.” Like it or not, The Economist is the gold standard of news […Read On]
Business, Donald Trump, libertarianism, Private Property, Taxation
I thought I’d listen to some wise words from David Stockman about the Trump tax plan. Stockman is, after all, a hero of libertarians. Instead, I got an earful of weasel words. I can’t listen to a “libertarian” prattle about “paying for tax cuts.” You’re no libertarian if you talk like this. Taxes are private […Read On]