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Opinion

Why CBO almost always gets it wrong

National Columnists

These days it seems that a mysterious group called “the CBO” rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it’s not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation ...

Few greater blessings than role in changing lives

National Columnists

The story sounds like a “Mission Impossible” script. Fifty years ago, near the end of the Vietnam war as North Vietnamese troops headed south, the director of the Cam Ranh Christian Orphanage, Pastor Nguyen Xuan Ha — known to everyone as Mr. Ha — decided it was time to escape to ...

LA immigration riots part of revolutionary movement

National Columnists

The riots that kicked off in Los Angeles last weekend aren’t just about illegal immigration — they’re part of a revolutionary movement. “Anti-colonialism” is a term often heard in America’s college classrooms, but off campus virtually no one takes it seriously. It’s just ...

Some new electoral history is being made

National Columnists

You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’s ...

Big, beautiful bromance breaks up

National Columnists

For those who think government should be run like a business, the messy social media spat that played out between President Trump and billionaire CEO Elon Musk suggested that business could be doing a lot better. Ironically, the fight played out on the social media platforms Truth Social, ...

They’re asking wrong questions in Epstein case

National Columnists

Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. Or maybe he did. Who knows. Either way, you’re asking the wrong question. Even Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and longtime Epstein conspiracy evangelist, recently turned FBI deputy director, now sounds tired of addressing whether, in 2019, ...