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Trump’s plunder smashes freedom agenda

National Columnists

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has delivered its share of idiocies over the past few years, but its response to the capture of Nicolas Maduro has set a new standard. Calling the military intervention “justified” because Venezuela had allied with “Russia, China, Cuba, and Iran,” the board then declared triumphantly that “Mr. Trump is pursuing the Bush freedom agenda, at least in the Western Hemisphere.” Also living in a dream world is Sen. John Fetterman, who told Fox News, “We all wanted this man gone, and now he is gone. I think we should really appreciate ...

Moral blackmailing of Americans

National Columnists

In Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, a young Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful speech decrying the “ravages of mob law” throughout the land. Lincoln’s opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.” Unfortunately, it seems that every few years, Americans must be reminded anew of Lincoln’s wisdom. This week’s lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement standoff in the Twin Cities is but the latest instance of a yearslong baleful trend. On Wednesday, 37-year-old “queer activist” Renee Nicole ...

Tasks lie ahead in Venezuela

National Columnists

Dictator and narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in a thrilling nighttime raid on his palace in Caracas, Venezuela, in an operation codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve. Most Democrats and left-wing media figures have derided President Donald Trump’s actions as an unconstitutional, unauthorized declaration of war against Venezuela. But the fact is that the Biden administration and the Trump administration have never recognized Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. And the Biden administration even put a $25 million bounty on Maduro’s head for ...

Screen icon shunned for defining femininity on her own terms

National Columnists

Just days after French screen icon Brigitte Bardot passed away peacefully at the age of 91, I found myself wandering around the Molitor pool, the very place where the bikini she made famous first made its splash in 1946. At the time Bardot strutted it in “Manina, the Girl in the Bikini” (1952) at the tender age of 17, it was considered shockingly daring. Though let’s be honest, most men were probably too busy drooling to object. The real controversy, as it often is with women who demonstrate a propensity for refusing to stay in the box that society builds for them, would come ...

There are ways to make billion dollars

National Columnists

For many years, whenever I’ve warned that an increasing portion of the nation’s wealth is falling into the hands of an ever-smaller number of people, the moneyed interests have responded: “But that’s just the free market,” or “the free market has decided they deserve it.” Rubbish. There’s no such thing as a “free market” to begin with. Today’s so-called “free market” is the outcome of political decisions over monopolization, labor organization, private property, finance, trade, taxes, and much more. Who’s behind these political decisions? Increasingly, the ...

Biden-era $50B tax increase must be repealed

National Columnists

The Trump administration took a well-deserved victory lap last week for repealing more than 100 Biden-era rules for every new regulation. This will save U.S. businesses potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary costs. Gone are discriminatory racial preferences, Green New Deal mandates and electric vehicle mandates — to name a few. President Donald Trump has solidly established himself as the “deregulation president.” That’s why it’s an ongoing mystery why the Trump Treasury Department and IRS have refused to repeal one of former President Joe Biden’s most ...