In "Great Society: A New History," Amity Shlaes writes that the social and economic issues of the 1960s and '70s and the solutions advanced to resolve them -- always led by government -- came close to bringing us to our knees financially.
In three short years, President Trump has given us the best economy we've had in 50 years, effortlessly proving his four compass points of deregulation, tax cuts, secure borders and pro-American trade deals.
Fortunately, successful domestic policies of Mr. Trump and conservatives in Congress have helped rebuild America in ways that assist foreign policy with Iran.
The lunatic left, which increasingly dominates the Democratic Party, predictably took Iran's side against their own country.
When witnesses testify in a courtroom and offer varying, contradictory or even unlawful explanations of the events under scrutiny, juries tend not to believe them. The same is now happening with the Trump administration's defense of its killing Iranian Qassem Soleimani.
Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world's largest importer of oil and natural gas.
Iraq's interim prime minister has asked the United States for a plan to withdraw its remaining forces from that country in retaliation to the Soleimani killing. The reaction from the United States has been measured. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's response has been that any U.S. delegation will discuss the right size for U.S. forces in Iraq.
While the nation has been distracted by the actions of Democrats in Washington as they continue to try to remove a duly-elected president from his office, that same political party continues to put its stamp of chaos on the city and state of New York.
Actor Robert De Niro, in case you didn't know, is also a constitutional scholar.
Energy companies have long been in the crosshairs of headline-hunting politicians looking to collect scalps in the name of climate change. But the scope of allegations and meandering arguments presented by New York's attorney general highly publicized lawsuit, the People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp., is the first of its kind litigation.
He was once a military photographer in Syria. For two years, he took pictures of the emaciated and mangled corpses left behind by Bashar al Assad's interrogators. Then he fled to Europe with 55,000 digital images on flash drives hidden in his shoes.
Iran's terror mullahs now know that when that battle involves state-directed -- not simply state-sponsored -- terrorists like Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani against U.S. forces fighting terror plots, there will be a result.
Medicare for All epitomizes Democrats' plethora of promises, despite a paucity of performance. Medicare in its current form is broken and broke. Putting more people and government into it goes beyond dubious to oblivious. Yet, it remains the cornerstone in Democrats' effort to promise themselves to the presidency.
Does Iran appear to be standing down? Perhaps. It feels more like neither the United States nor Iran has the stomach for a prolonged, open conflict with each other. Iran knows that it can't stand toe-to-toe with the United States, especially with its weak economy, internal dissent and environmental issues.
Javier Cercas is ever present in his non-fiction novel as both an autobiographer focused on Manuel Mena and his family, and as a third-person historian, investigating archives and interviewing people.
I see that the mainstream media is promoting the candidacies of Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden at the expense of the 13 other admitted Democratic candidates and the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Democrats who feel in their heart of hearts that they should be president.
General Motors Co. and Fiat Chrysler have a plan to survive a Democratic president. According to news reports, the auto giants have spent millions of dollars buying carbon offset credits from electric carmaker Tesla.
In the years between the Greatest Generation and now, the values that made America great -- the individual call to duty, honor, faith, family, country -- have been, in the minds and hands of millennials, tossed to the wayside. That's according to a Pew survey that found youth don't see America as the greatest country in the world.
The councilman wants to take a flyswatter to the term council "chairman" in the D.C. Code. The same goes for "manhole," "fireman" and any other gender-revealing nouns, pronouns and adjectives.
Free college sounds great! Who doesn't like free stuff?
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