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National Columnists

When businessmen enter Beltway

Something strange is happening in Washington. A generation of investors and entrepreneurs who built careers championing private capital and intuitively understood the power of market discipline and limited government have joined the Trump administration, taking charge of hundreds of ...

Call it ‘divine intervention’

The U.S. government produced a net of 178,000 jobs in the month of March. But, Connecticut contributed just 100 of those jobs. Terrible. But in comparison to February when the state lost about 4,000 jobs, one could call it an "improvement" of sorts. To be fair, Maryland and the District of ...

Capitalism makes life better for most

Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, "Capitalism ... is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable ...

China Is not merely a competitor

President Donald Trump's visit to China this week arrives at one of the most dangerous and morally complicated moments in modern geopolitical history. The Chinese Communist Party has mastered the art of projecting stability, strength and inevitability to the world. But beneath the ...

Big government needs to diet

It's the most wonderful time of the year — and I don't mean Christmas. It's the time when Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) releases its annual "Congressional Pig Book Summary," exposing some of the most outrageous, ridiculous and in many cases unconstitutional spending one can ...

Why does AOC think billionaires can’t exist?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't believe in billionaires. On a podcast the other day, she said that it's impossible to make a billion dollars without lying, cheating or stealing. "There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right," AOC declared. "You can't earn a ...