Commentary Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is eager for his nation to be the best friend America has always sought in the European Union (EU). The EU’s “Old Guard” powers (Germany and France) have been more competitive “frenemies” of the United States, often taking pleasure in criticizing and embarrassing American leaders and policies. In late…
On the Border of Ukraine: A Conversation With Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
Does Tucker Carlson Have Free Speech Rights?
Commentary In a free society, contracts do a great deal of heavy lifting. You do this and I’ll do that, always to our mutual benefit. When a dispute arises, an arbiter can check the words to see who is in breach. If some party has failed to comply with the terms, he or she pays…
Trump Gets the Beria Treatment
Commentary The Trump indictments—note the plural—are they not like the blind encountering an elephant for the first time? One touches the beast’s trunk and says it’s shaped like a snake. Another touches its tusks and says, no, it’s hard and bone-like. A third, hands on the elephant’s capacious side, says it’s more like a wall…
Phillips Curve Breaks Down Under High Inflation
June 14, 2023
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Commentary International organizations such as International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED) have revised upward their economic forecasts in turn. Were their forecast updates correct, this would mean the global tightening is not strong enough, and probably not enough to bring down inflation to the 2 percent…
Arrests and Releases Without Charges: The Erosion of Due Process
Commentary There seems to be a fashion these days for arresting politicians once they’ve left office. The latest victim of this fashion is Nicola Sturgeon, the former first minister of Scotland, who was recently arrested by the police in Scotland and then released without charge—yet. The former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is presently appealing…
Examples of Counterproductive Government Policies
Commentary Let me acknowledge to my libertarian friends that the title of this article makes a debatable concession in that it implies that some government policies are productive. Other readers of this newspaper may find the common libertarian assertion that “Everything the government touches turns to garbage” too cynical. In this article, I’m not going…
Students Need Work, Not Another Handout
June 14, 2023
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Commentary Handout culture is rampant in society today. People are seen as victims, and government handouts have become the natural response to any form of misfortune—great, small, or imagined. It, therefore, came as no surprise that the response to recently announced increases in indexation to student debt was a call for another government handout. In…
Brittany Higgins’s Rape Allegations Comes Crashing Back Down
Commentary Brittany Higgins has crashed from her pedestal, potentially bringing with her key government ministers. The silencing of proper public debate about the weaponization of this pivotal rape case has ended, revealing widespread community contempt about the way this has all been handled. When we look back at what caused it all to fall apart,…
Higgins’s Saga Comes Crashing Down
Commentary Brittany Higgins has crashed from her pedestal, potentially bringing with her key government ministers. The silencing of proper public debate about the weaponization of this pivotal rape case has ended, revealing widespread community contempt about the way this has all been handled. When we look back at what caused it all to fall apart,…
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Runaway Constitutional Convention
June 13, 2023
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Commentary Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken a lot of flack for his recently proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution. “Our ability to make a more perfect union is literally written into the Constitution,” he explained on June 8. “So today, I’m proposing the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to do just that. The 28th…
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