A staggering 99% of Twitter employees who make political contributions give to Democrats. It’s almost as lopsided at Facebook and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), according to Federal Election Commission records. Relying on these left-leaning tech platforms to be even-handed was always naive. But recent evidence — email correspondence […]
Meet Will Lehman, who is running for president of the United Autoworkers Union (UAW). According to his campaign website, this is how Lehman describes himself and his philosophy: “I am a socialist. Socialism means putting the world’s productive forces under the democratic control of the working class and distributing resources, […]
Although the 2022 midterm elections are less than 50 days away, the mainstream media is already looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election. What’s even more surprising, the media is questioning whether or not President Biden will receive a primary challenge from none other than progressive darling and self-avowed socialist, […]
While speaking at the International Energy Agency’s Global Clean Energy Action Forum, U.S. Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry told the world the truth about the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). According to Kerry, ” I’m not sure how much it has to do with inflation, but that’s okay.” Actually, no, […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) believes capitalism is the root of all evil and socialism is the solution to all problems. Apparently, she is quite ignorant when it comes to modern world history. In her latest broadside against capitalism, the very economic system that has uplifted billions from abject poverty over […]
Sustainable investing has become one of the hottest new trends in the financial industry, corresponding to the increasing clamor for corporations and businesses to espouse more socially responsible principles. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores are the primary mechanism by which these sustainability objectives have been institutionalized within our global […]
Democratic politicians across the U.S. are pushing for guaranteed monthly cash handouts to the poor. No strings attached. No work required. Taxpayers foot the bill. This scheme, which is already being rolled out in Los Angeles, Chicago, Providence, Rhode Island, Denver and numerous other cities, needs to be stopped. It’s […]
VERSAILLES, Pennsylvania — As if to emphasize that this river town of 1,200 has zero in common with the royalty that once ruled at the eponymous location outside Paris, royalty far removed from the concerns and the despair of its people, this Youghiogheny River town is pronounced in its own […]
In recent weeks, President Biden has repeatedly warned that so-called MAGA Republicans pose an imminent threat to the United States. In fact, Biden has gone so far as calling MAGA Republicans “semi-fascists” and even “domestic terrorists.” Apparently, Biden’s rhetoric about MAGA Republicans is not sticking with the American public, who […]
The United States Constitution is the greatest legal framework developed in the history of humankind, carefully designed to enshrine individual liberties and establish impenetrable democratic institutions. Yet, a recent poll conducted by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports indicates that a substantial swathe of American voters–primarily Democrats and young people–believe […]
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores are an insidiously envisioned mechanism by which ideologically aligned influential interests represented by unelected supranational organizations are attempting to “reset” the global financial system to their advantage. This emerging design would circumvent national and individual sovereignty by altering traditional financial methods of assessing risk […]
Wisconsin Lieutenant Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) is a self-described progressive, community organizer, social justice advocate, who supports equity and sustainability. Barnes, running for the U.S. Senate seat against incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), also opposes free-market capitalism, limited government, personal responsibility, and has many bones to pick with the U.S. […]
Shortly after taking over as the new U.K. prime minister, Liz Truss announced plans to fight inflation by capping household energy prices over the next two years. Blimey! Billed as the most free-market prime minister since Margaret Thatcher, Truss’s first major move is a counterproductive scheme that will prolong the […]
What has the government done for you lately? In spite of the many billions of dollars that our government has in its coffers and the outsized influence that it has over our nation and the world, it appears that the majority of us scratch our heads when this question is […]
Since Vladimir Putin shocked the world and invaded Ukraine more than six months ago, Russia and China have been building a relationship that seems to be growing stronger by the day. Not only has China agreed to purchase large amounts of Russian natural gas and oil, which is keeping Putin’s […]
New polling data from Gallup show Americans are not having an easy time through this period of rising prices. According to Gallup, 56% of Americans say now that rising prices are causing severe or moderate hardship. Drilling down, we see that the hardship is not shared equally. Among low-income households, […]
Summer may be officially over, but the battle for Pennsylvania’s Senate seat in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections is definitely heating up. As of now, Democrat John Fetterman is holding a 6.5 point lead according to the Real Clear Politics Average over Republican Dr. Memhet Oz. Most Pennsylvanians are somewhat […]
A recent survey conducted by Real Clear Policy queried over 2,000 students from more than 130 universities and colleges across the United States, intending to illuminate why young Americans are so skeptical of free-market capitalism, and often favor socialist goals. The survey presented two different definitions of capitalism: the traditional […]
Over the past few months, more than a dozen attorneys general from throughout the nation have raised legitimate concerns about BlackRock’s crony capitalist investment scheme known as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics. In fact, on August 4, 19 attorneys general signed a coalition letter stating, “BlackRock appears to use […]
Biden's student loan forgiveness scheme is ultimately a program designed to directly benefit the pocketbooks of affluent, urban, college-educated elites, who now comprise a significant swathe of the Democratic Party’s voting base, at the expense of lower income households, who receive zero tangible benefit.
Last week, this column focused on the eye-opening recent revelations from Missouri and Louisiana’s lawsuit, still ongoing, that exposes the depth and breadth of the collusion between the Biden regime and the oligarchs of Big Tech. Those lightly redacted documents, made public via a Twitter thread from Missouri Attorney General […]
Wall Street is known for characters like the real Jordan Belmont and fictional Gordon Gekko personifying greed. Yet today’s great Wall Street controversy involves putting societal values above profit. Environmental, Social and Governance investing, or ESG, raises significant issues regarding misuse of investors’ money. Some have long invested “responsibly.” A […]
While it seems like the 2024 presidential election is a world away, in reality, it will be here before you know it. Soon after the 2022 mid-term elections are finished, you can bet your bottom dollar that candidates on both sides of the political aisle will begin testing the waters […]
Today’s political parties lack ideas. The Republicans define themselves as opponents of Democrats. Yet many of the GOP economic policy positions resemble, with minor variations, those of Democrats. Meanwhile, the Democrats repeat the same simplistic refrain: “solve” every problem with more money and stricter regulations. How dreary and unproductive. To […]
Without a doubt, China has become the greatest adversarial threat to the United States’ global dominance. While China’s resurgence may surprise those in the West, it comes as no surprise to the rest of Asia. China’s rich history dates back to the Shang Dynasty over 3,000 years ago, making it […]
School is starting, but don’t count on getting answers about what your child is being taught. School administrators commonly lie or give parents the runaround. That explains the fireworks over Jeremy Boland, a Greenwich, Connecticut, elementary school assistant principal, bragging about how the school pushes kids to think in a […]
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores, and China’s latest totalitarian instrument, the Social Credit System (SCS), share significant commonality. Each system engenders the same erosion of individual liberty via the propagation of a singular “morality” unilaterally determined by an authoritarian overseer. That the governance structures surrounding […]
The left has always hated cars — or at least the idea that there should be a car in every driveway. Now, it is stepping up its assault. In 2035, every car purchased in California, with its nearly 40 million people, will have to be an electric vehicle. Why? The […]
“A Bailout for Woke Higher Ed” reads the headline on the stringent analysis by the Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley of the Biden student loan forgiveness program. It’s a program that’s economically regressive, “even worse than you thought,” with big bailouts for the most affluent, as economist Tyler Cowen points […]
On Thursday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is also the Show Me State’s candidate for U.S. Senate this November, unveiled some very interesting documents that his office, along with the office of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, have received since the two states jointly filed a potentially pathbreaking lawsuit […]
The other day, President Joe Biden accused voters of the opposition party of turning to “semi-fascism.” This is probably the first time in American history a president has openly attacked the opposing party’s constituents in this way. Then again, Biden, who once alleged that the chaste Mitt Romney was harboring […]
If you had any doubts that those in power have dropped the pretense of fighting for the working class, you can dispense with them after the Biden administration’s latest concessions to the laptop class. From student loan forgiveness to subsidies for people who drive pricey electric cars and profitable semiconductor […]
Ever since a horde of Democrat Socialists became the darlings of the news media in recent years, the specter of anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head. This is no accident. Many of these Democratic Party politicians, especially Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), have embraced the […]
Big government socialism is on the march in Los Angeles County, where 1,000 residents will receive $1,000 per month over the next three years in the largest universal basic income (UBI) pilot program in the nation’s history. The program, known as “Breathe,” is described by its architects as a “pilot […]
My father was a liberal Democrat. He worshipped FDR and didn’t care much for the GOP. His parents were staunch Republicans, and the political discussions I remember from the 1950s were always entertaining – if not a bit confusing – to this eight-year-old. Importantly, while my dad was a liberal, […]
Sustainable investing has become the hottest trend in the global financial community, corresponding to the chorus of calls for businesses to be more “socially responsible.” Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores are the primary method by which a variety of actors—including international organizations, global political and economic elites, and Wall […]
Monday is Labor Day. Will you celebrate unions? The media does. “Unions are cool again,” reports CBS News. They suggest unionization is booming. “Reporters” practically cheered when a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, became the first Starbucks to unionize. “A big symbolic win for labor,” The New York Times called […]
This week, President Joe Biden — in search of a new label to pin on his political opponents after the failure of his “ultra-MAGA” branding, which prompted peals of laughter rather than shudders of horror — landed on a new slur with which to tar those who don’t support his […]
No sooner had President Joe Biden announced his plan for student loan debt forgiveness — $10,000 for non-Pell grant recipients and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients — the president of the NAACP was complaining that it should be more than twice as much. At least $50,000. Brookings Institution scholar Andre […]
Socialists are never satisfied. No matter what, they always demand more government “solutions,” programs, intervention, spending, and wealth redistribution. Case in point: Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) response to President Biden’s decision to “cancel” $10,000 of outstanding college loan debt per borrower. Whereas one would assume that Bernie would be pleased […]
During his seven-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio was an abject failure. His socialist policies turned NYC from a thriving metropolis into a dirty, unsafe, bankrupt dystopia. His pandemic response was absolutely abysmal, as he forced NYC businesses and public schools to be shut down […]
President Joe Biden’s new plan to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 annually is at once a dereliction of constitutional duty, a crass political gambit in the lead-up to a contested midterm election and a morally perverse value judgment that lavishes The […]
On August 25, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) unanimously approved the Advanced Clean Cars II rule, which “requires all new passenger vehicles sold in California to be zero emissions by 2035.” The new rule also “amends the Low-emission Vehicle Regulations to include increasingly stringent standards for gasoline cars and […]
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores are the latest instrument by which a diverse group of influential global elites and international organizations are attempting to fundamentally restructure the global financial system and alter traditional methods of assessing financial risk. This attempted shift from “shareholder capitalism” to “stakeholder capitalism” hinges upon […]
On Friday, The New York Times published its latest op-ed calling for the end of the Constitution of the United States. The authors, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, teach law at Harvard and Yale respectively. They argue that the Left’s progress has been stymied by constitutionalism itself. “The idea of […]
The great Rush Limbaugh used to say that “the modern environmentalists worship the created, not the creator.” I was reminded of that after listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once President Joe Biden signed the fiscally unconscionable $750 billion tax-and-spend Inflation Reduction Act, which gives another $369 billion to the […]
Congress’ annual August recess is a good time to think about the big picture. Most Americans want government reformed for the better. We notice its many breakdowns, dysfunctions and failures to deliver on promises. Yet politicians of both parties usually only talk about more new programs, more spending and more […]
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” That’s what it says right there in the Constitution. And yet, without any legislation, President Joe Biden now promises to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loans per borrower ($20,000 for Pell Grant borrowers), […]