U.S. have carbon emissions dropped? Thank fracking
The U.S. Department of Energy published data last week with some amazing revelations – so amazing that most Americans will find them hard to believe. As a nation, the United...
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Many on left seem more enamored of socialist regimes than of U.S.
The idea of American exceptionalism has been embedded in our collective DNA for generations. It is the faith-based belief that, as Ronald Reagan put it, America is a “shining city...
The free-trade paradox
No issue is more entwined in paradox than that of free trade versus protectionism. Here’s the first. Polling suggests that voters recognize the benefits of free trade more now than...
Will Hillary ignite a bull market?
The latest twist in a supremely weird election season is the consensus emerging on Wall Street that Hillary Clinton would be better for financial markets than would Donald Trump. The...
There must be a better way to pay for health care
Late last year, while playing tennis, I reached up to serve and felt a painful pop in my shoulder. The inflammation got worse over the next few months. Now, anytime...
GOP elites have only themselves to blame for Trump
A top Republican consultant whined last week that “Donald Trump is hijacking the Republican Party.” Really? This is a common and almost comical complaint these days from the establishment wing...
Give union workers a chance to keep more of their money
If Donald Trump’s gravity-defying ascendancy in the Republican presidential nomination contest has validated anything, it is that, for middle America, jobs and economic security are still the dominant issues. Republicans...
The strange appeal of socialism
When I was a smart-aleck college student, I had a sign on my dorm-room door that read: “Reality is for those who can’t handle drugs.” Maybe the 2016 version should...
Raising taxes a badge of honor among Democrats
Barack Obama’s last budget is nothing if not is a grandiose visionary document. No one – least of all, Congress – paid much attention to it, because no one cares...
GOP’s platoon of accomplished governors falls flat with voters
The Iowa caucuses may have only muddied the waters in the race for the White House, but they did almost definitively decide one thing: The next president will not be...