Commentary Recent press reports show that a veteran Democratic political operative played a large part in restarting the case against Donald Trump that the prior Manhattan District Attorney, the Justice Department, and Alvin Bragg himself previously declined to prosecute. Matthew Colangelo is closely aligned with President Joe Biden and his former boss Barack Obama. Colangelo…
They Hit the Pause Button and the Music Stopped
Commentary In the great search for metaphors to justify the largest-scale violations of human rights in our lifetimes, the disease managers finally hit on the term “pause button.” We were merely pressing it for a while to get our bearings, un-overload hospitals, gather personal protective equipment, flatten the curve, and generally figure out what to…
Another COVID Fail: School Budget Cliffs With Gaping Holes
April 5, 2023
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New York City’s school system went on a spending spree during the pandemic, thanks to the $7.5 billion in federal money it received as part of a $189 billion national relief package aimed at addressing education problems incurred by lockdowns and school closures. Although the funds were nonrecurring, the nation’s largest school district used some of…
The Warnings Unheeded Now Threaten Our Fundamental Freedoms
April 5, 2023
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Commentary The First Amendment is at a critical juncture. Recent congressional hearings on the Twitter Files brought the matter into full public view. Freedom of speech and of the press are hanging by a precarious thread. Do we want a future in which information flows freely, or one in which an information elite controls those…
US Fatalities for 2022
We now have U.S. fatality data for 2022, which should be mostly complete. Fatalities for the year still ran well above pre-pandemic levels but were down from 2020 and 2021. Prior to the pandemic, there were about 2.8 million fatalities each year in the United States. For many years, fatalities have grown consistently at a…
Evaluating Mac Thornberry’s Four Critical Points
Commentary On March 8 BreakingDefense.com published a thoughtful essay by former congressman and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry. Thornberry’s essay had an imposing title: “Four points to understand in order to meet America’s global challenges.” Thornberry named four points he claimed U.S. leaders must recognize if America is to remain “dominant…
Trump’s Trial Needs to Be Televised
Commentary On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg presented his bag-of-tricks indictment charging former President Donald Trump with 34 counts of false entries in business records. Bragg managed to slice and dice two payments to former hookers into what sounds like a big deal—34 felonies. Don’t be fooled. As former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr,…
The Source of Our Freedom Is Our Creator, Not Government
Commentary It is a unique and special time now because Christians, Jews, and Muslims all are engaged in major holidays of religious contemplation and renewal. Christians with Holy Week and Easter, Jews with Passover, and Muslims with Ramadan. We’re talking billions around the world. So, although in our time there has been a retreat in…
DeSantis Wins Over Pennsylvania Grassroots Activists and Leaves No Doubt He’s Running
April 5, 2023
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Commentary CAMP HILL, Pennsylvania—Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) left little doubt during his speech Saturday to Keystone State conservatives gathered for the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference: He is running for the Republican nomination for president. Nothing and no one will get in his way of doing that. “We have a responsibility to preserve what the founders…
Job Openings Fall the Most in 2 Years
April 5, 2023
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Commentary With labor participation rates still far below pre-lockdown norms, and with the rising investment we should be seeing, one might suppose job openings would be growing. Trends are going in the opposite direction. Job openings for March fell the most they have in two years. This data, however, needs to be unpacked a bit…
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