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Is loyalty to country matter of choice?

National Columnists

The Winter Olympics had its thrills and spills — and a deep philosophical divide represented by two American, or American-born, athletes. Jack Hughes, the gold medal-winning American hockey player for the U.S. team, gave voice to a patriotic reflex in his heartfelt expressions of love of his country. Eileen Gu, the gold medal-winning American-born free-style skier competing for China, exemplified a cosmopolitan ideal that floats above mere nationhood. This difference — between the hockey player draped in his own country's flag and the exceptionally talented part-time model ...

Government subsidies killed EV industry

National Columnists

Here's a depressing but all too predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: "Detroit's EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion." Yikes. That's a lot of money for the American auto industry to lose. Once again, we have confirmation of an iron law of economics: If you want to kill an industry, subsidize it. The best recent example of this rule is the green energy industry (solar and wind power), which has been heavily boosted with taxpayer dollars for almost 50 years now and is still an inconsequential form of overall energy supply. Dozens of promising firms like ...

One party wants different country

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Jack Hughes delivered the gold medal to the U.S. ice hockey team in the winter Olympics, scoring the winning goal in overtime play. In a postgame interview, Hughes exclaimed: "This is all about our country now. I love the USA. I love my teammates. It's unbelievable. The USA hockey brotherhood is so strong ... I am so proud to be an American today." Moving indeed. But the question is, how much did Hughes' effusive patriotic sentiments, his exhortation of love of country, resonate across our nation? We don't hear much these days about unbridled expressions of national ...

Qatar's cash comes a-calling

National Columnists

Former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank used to mock those pretending not to be influenced by cash funneled into their pockets. "I can't be bought," Frank put it, "but I sure as hell can be rented." These days, it's Performative Primary Politics 101 for Democrats, catering to a left-tilting base that swallows every accusation against Israel hook, line and sinker to denounce the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and to pledge hand over heart that they will have nothing more to do with it. No different than umpteen other groups of Americans lobbying government in support ...

Democrats on road to choosing nominee

National Columnists

Gavin Newsom won't be the Democrats' 2028 presidential nominee unless he wins a significant share of the African American vote. So how's he courting it? Promoting his new memoir to a largely black audience in Atlanta, the California governor decided to forge a connection by boasting about his poor SAT scores and difficulty reading. "I'm like you," he said. "You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy" and "you've never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech." Newsom suffers from dyslexia, but he obviously wasn't assuming he was addressing a room full of voters with ...

Judicial tyranny is threat to rule of law

National Columnists

Just because someone is wearing a black robe doesn't mean they're upholding the rule of law. Consider some recent judicial rulings. Last November, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem published a notice ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Leave aside the merits of that decision. The law is clear that this decision belongs to the Trump administration. Congress created TPS in 1990. It applies to citizens of other countries living in the United States. It offers recipients temporary legal protection after their home country has been affected by a ...