American industry has been getting a lot of hands-on direction from Democrats and Republicans for quite some time now. Every few years, someone looks at the underwhelming results of this economic maneuvering and insists that real “industrial policy” has never been tried. The truth is that ...

Last week, a 28-point “peace plan” for the Russia-Ukraine war surfaced. It was apparently fleshed out in Miami over cocktails by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Witkoff’s Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev. Many critics ...

“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” – James Madison (1751-1836) America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause ...

The Democrats’ lurch to the extreme left is accelerating at warp speed – and Connecticut is the latest victim. The state legislature’s Democratic supermajority last week rammed through a bill, HB 8002, that’s a thinly disguised socialist wishlist. Cynically couched as a remedy for ...

Several of you responded to my “Sunday thought” by saying that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that corporations are people – entitled to the same First ...

I wonder what those 15th-century monks who slaved away copying the Holy Scriptures by hand thought when they saw the first Bible produced on Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. They had believed themselves to be irreplaceable in spreading the gospel. Now there was a cheaper, faster, more ...