America’s CEOs are in the dumps. According to a new Conference Board survey, CEO sentiment has plunged to 34, down from 42 in the second quarter and 57 in the first three months of the year. Early in Joe Biden’s presidency, when businesses were still celebrating the exit of the unpredictable Donald Trump, COVID-19 seemed to be waning […]
The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was a reckless political stunt meant to show the left that Attorney General Merrick Garland will keep the heat on former President Donald Trump. It was unprecedented, seemingly unnecessary, and infuriating to the millions who saw the heavily armed agents’ 10-hour search vividly spotlighting our uneven application of justice. The […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is rushing to push through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. I don’t blame him. The more scrutiny the mini-Build Back Better proposal gets, the worse it looks. Let’s start with the obvious: despite its Ministry of Disinformation title, the legislation will not reduce inflation. Analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model concludes […]
Love him or hate him, there is no denying that Donald Trump has extraordinary political instincts. For a billionaire real estate developer to win the Oval Office on a campaign of helping out working-class Americans, and to single-handedly realign our two great political parties in the process, was nothing short of astonishing. Which is why, despite his […]
Republicans beat Democrats ten to nothing in their annual Congressional baseball game. That’s the extent of their winning streak of late. Elsewhere, they’ve been batting close to zero. Not only were Republicans snookered by Senate Democrats into supporting the $280 billion “Chips” bill, an unnecessary handout to a wildly profitable industry. They also got blindsided […]
Now we know. The economy did in fact contract for two quarters in a row, falling a modest 0.9 percent in the second three months of the year after a 1.6 percent drop in the first quarter. That does not mean, claims the White House, in a ludicrous effort to spin the bad news, that […]
Vengeful Democrats investigating the January 6 riots may help elect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis president in 2024. Good for them; the nation is grateful. In spending weeks and months conducting their one-sided hearings into the riots at the Capitol, Democrats have undermined the standing of former President Donald J. Trump. There is no question that the […]
It took the New York Times two years to discover that President Biden is 79 years old. Now that they have caught up, they are not entirely convinced that Uncle Joe is capable of tackling the toughest job on the planet. He’s a little slow, they admit sotto voce, a little behind the curve. They are especially concerned […]
Will Joe Biden be the Democrat candidate in 2024? No. Absolutely not. Democrats may be wrong about nearly everything, but they are not given to political suicide. The chattering class has engaged in an absurd back-and-forth about the prospects of a Biden 2024 run, even as the feeble president scores epically bad approval ratings […]
While President Biden and his Democrat colleagues push to spend hundreds of billions of dollars (more) for windmills and electric vehicle charging stations, Americans are going hungry. Remember Mr. Biden shouting — literally — about food lines under President Trump? Here’s his outcry: “My God, this is the United States of America. The idea that people […]