Government debt as a share of the U.S. economy is falling. This must mean the Biden administration and Congress are practicing fiscal responsibility, right? No, it doesn't. The main driver behind the reduction is inflation ...
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Theybies Grow Up to Be Cowqueers Here is the full definition of “gender” from Merriam-Webster, the edition that came out about 16 years ago. Not only is biological “sex” found in the ...
Here’s a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don’t comport with yours. I’m looking at you, New York ...
"I wouldn"t like to go to prison," said Gimlet. "The idea is a very unpleasant one." I had to agree with him. "The conditions are bleak and dispiriting, and the notion of being locked in is ...
Let’s take it from the top: DEI was destroying Western values and the culture of meritocracy. The bigots of woke culture subverted our institutions yet claimed to occupy the moral high ground. A nation’s historic ...
As Christmas approaches, many of us face the prospect of spending time captive in the company of embarrassing relatives—a fate that even affects the highest in the land. Down the years, America’s presidents have had ...
Under the general topic of malevolence, wickedness, and evil, a vocabulary exists for self-imposed harm, for example, self-mutilation or self-abuse. But such words always denote individuals"not ...
Budgets are about priorities. In the Biden administration's new budget, its apparent priorities are marred by problems. Here's the cheat-sheet version: Rather than containing explosive growth in spending, it would use a ...
The Week’s Most Neighboring, Taboring, and Day-of-Laboring Headlines HANG LOOSE, BRO “Oh Calcutta?” More like “Oh, He’s Un-Cutta.” Residents of L.A.’s Mid-Wilshire district are being terrorized by a naked ...
As someone who wasted a few years of his life teaching in undistinguished academic institutions, I could never figure out why Hollywood would bother making movies about college professors and why anyone would want to spend ...
Style is the most abused word in the English language. It is usually attributed to fashionable people by those not in the know. Style, however, is an elusive quality, and few fashionable people and almost no celebrities ...
You Couldn’t Handle a Revolution Jim Goad has done a brutally brilliant job of dissecting the Left’s attempt to make us common folk fall into line. I take great pleasure in the knowledge that despite being years ...
It is a commonplace that the West is in decline, and that nothing can now save its bacon. It is addicted to consuming more than it produces, a situation that can continue only for so long. As Hemingway said, you go bankrupt ...
Whether due to the dramatic failure of last year’s attempt at comprehensive reform or to the essential similarity of the two candidates’ positions, the issue of illegal immigration has so far kept a fairly low ...
I suppose it’s a kind of solace during these snowy times that Norway, the country with the world’s highest per capita income, has not missed a single working day through inclement weather, and as I write there are ...
When Christopher Buckley, the novelist, writer, and son of the founding editor of National Review, first penned his endorsement of Barack Obama in Tina Brown's new web venture, The Daily Beast, he, no doubt, thought that ...
Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “it requires more genius to spend than to acquire”"making money being a question of diligence and cunning, wasting it a matter of taste. When the great philosopher wrote these ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which usually concerns itself with "consumer protection" issues, is now taking an interest in the journalism industry. The financially strapped New York Times reports: "The ...
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, especially today in the Maghreb and Middle East. For the ouster of Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has sent shock waves from Rabat to Riyadh. Autocrats, emirs and kings have ...
I have it on the authority of New York Times guest editorialist Norm Eisen that Trump's 34 felony convictions concern "profoundly serious" crimes. But one point I'm still not clear on is how Trump was supposed to describe ...
When alleged killer Nidal Malik Hasan went on a murderous rampage at Fort Hood Texas last week, the Muslim Army psychiatrist reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar,” which means “god is great” as he shot ...
If you would understand why America has lost the dynamism she had in the 1950s and 1960s, consider the new Paycheck Fairness Act passed by the House 256 to 162. The need for such a law, writes Valerie Jarrett, the ranking ...
This is one of the greatest federal government scandals of all time. Many hundreds of thousands of federal employees have been getting a full-time paycheck from Uncle Sam (meaning from all of us) without showing up for work ...
GOP mega-donors are appalled that Gov. Ron DeSantis prohibited kindergarten teachers from sharing anal sex cartoons with their students. Must be some kind of fundamentalist nut. But a candidate who wants to entirely ban a ...
