Opinion

The 'hate Trump' economists got 2025 all wrong

Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on both counts. Read More.

Huge bright spot in a tense 2026: America's 250th birthday

It’s time to consult the crystal snow globe and try to peer ahead what may be on the horizon for the new year. Without question 2025 was tumultuous, but the year ahead holds cautious promise to finally solve some political crises mixed with some epic events on tap. Read More.

Trump, 'shock capitalism' making Argentina great again

President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have a special relationship. Each is engaged in a crusade to make his respective country's economy great again. Read More.

Corruption scandal in Ukraine's leadership amid grinding conflict

Ukraine is about to enter the fourth Winter of the Russian war. The fleeting hopes for an American-brokered ceasefire and an end to the hostilities in the grinding conflict seemed to have disappeared as the days grow shorter, the nights grow colder, and the shadows grow longer. Read More.

Bill Gates admits he was wrong about climate change

You've probably heard by now the blockbuster news that Microsoft founder Bill Gates, one of the richest people to ever walk the planet, has had a change of heart on climate change. Read More.

Pro-growth catastrophic health insurance for all

The government shutdown has focused debate on the vast sum ($136 billion in 2025, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office) that the federal government spends to annually subsidize continually skyrocketing Obamacare health insurance premiums. Read More.

'Foxes guarding the henhouse': The UN Human Rights Council

In a ritual of near farcical folly, the UN General Assembly has elected fourteen new members to join the Geneva-based Human Rights Council. Read More.

Memo to GOP, Dems: End the Obama health insurance scam

No one likes insurance companies — trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog's clenched teeth — and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance lobby. Read More.

UN 80th: Stern rebuke by Trump, praise for 'potential'

President Donald Trump lambasted the United Nations on opening day for its failure to stop global crises in the midst of major regional wars, humanitarian disasters, looming security threats, never mind costly bureaucratic waste. But like a stern professor, yet as the leader of the most prominent and founding UN member state, he then added that the world organization isn’t living up to its potential, and scathingly challenged, “What’s the purpose of the United Nations?” Read More.

Coming soon: Revolt against property tax tyranny

Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future rate increases. Read More.

Proposal: What to do about America's 50 million illegal aliens

It is a fact that as many as 50 million illegal aliens live in America. That equates to over one in six residents of the USA. Read More.

What should happen to elites found guilty of treason?

The FBI needs to confiscate the passports of Obama and Hillary immediately. Read More.

Think about what 2025 would be like without Trump

This Epstein controversy has been obscuring the fact that this has been the greatest start to any presidency in history. And a remarkable past two weeks. And even a remarkable past 24 hours. Trump is hitting home runs. Read More.

'Hidden gems' in President Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'

Everyone knows that the "Big, Beautiful" tax bill signed into law on the Fourth of July lowers tax burdens for families and businesses. It also averts a $4 trillion tax increase starting next year. That's enough reason to heartily celebrate. Read More.

The mullahs asked for it; Trump restores U.S. credibility

The die has been cast. American stealth B-2 bombers swooped down on Iran’s nuclear weapons enrichment targets and dealt a presumably knock-out blow to the Islamic Republic’s longtime dream of possessing a nuclear weapon. Read More.