Reaction to the college admissions scandal has been quick, righteous and predictable. It has also been wrongheaded. Accusations that dozens of parents in some cases paid hundreds of thousands of dollars or over $1 million to get their kids into prestigious colleges by falsifying their SAT or ACT scores, or by misrepresenting […]
Elizabeth Warren has gone off the rails. Frantic to stand out in a crowded field of Democrats running for president, the Massachusetts senator has grabbed ahold of one outlandish policy after another, leaving most commonsense Americans far behind. Her most recent idea? Breaking up America’s successful tech companies, which have created untold […]
New York has become a veritable “roach motel” — easy to get in but nearly impossible to get out. That’s bad news for the thousands trying to flee the ever-more expensive and high-taxed state. The latest New Yorker to flee is none other than the mother of the left’s progressive darling, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Bianca […]
Hillary Clinton says the United States is in crisis. Where is Politifact’s Truth-o-Meter when you need it? Here are the facts: According to Gallup, 29 percent of Americans are satisfied with the direction of the country. That doesn’t sound great, but it’s a whole lot better than the low of 7 percent reached at the nadir of […]
The 2020 election will be the most important of our lifetime. You hear that from politicians every two years; this time it’s true. The American way of life is going to be on the ballot in 2020. Our free enterprise system, our individual liberties and the universal opportunity offered by this great […]
Is Bernie Sanders hiding something? You have to wonder. The democratic socialist senator from Vermont, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, claims he is happy to show voters his tax returns … but, pressed on the subject, continues to stall. Asked in a CNN town hall whether he, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would […]
By the time this piece is published, the 2019 Oscars will have come and gone. There will be the usual lamentations about Hollywood self-indulgence and hypocrisy, the annual complaints about the movies that went unrewarded in favor of films like last year’s “Moonlight” which nobody saw, the absolute astonishment that the sum total […]
Sorry, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), that Green New Deal of yours isn’t really very new after all. It’s actually an “Old Green Deal,” a rehash of the environmental platform called Energiewende, or “energy transition,” adopted in Germany in 2010. And, in Germany, the Old Green Deal has been something of a flop. Similarities abound […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has done our country a great service. By helping to drive Amazon out of New York, the young progressive congresswoman has reminded us, and her colleagues, that political grandstanding can have real world consequences. She has also brought home that businesses large and small, and not the government, create jobs […]
Why is the World Bank, which exists to “end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity,” loaning billions of dollars every year to China, the second-largest economy on the globe and a country which currently boasts foreign exchange reserves of nearly $3 trillion dollars? That is but one of the mysteries that David Malpass, whom President Trump […]