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This is one of Dan Henninger’s best editorials. He explains why and how the Democrats completely subverted the process and did so because they couldn’t get the legislation they want except through activist court decisions.
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Now that Israel has signed peace and diplomatic agreements with several important Sunni Arab states, what are the Palestinians to do to finally achieve their own state. Dani Pletka, a scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, has studied mid-east issues for years and describes a useful path forward for the Palestinians if they decide to become a peaceful, functioning state. I hope they do.
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The article explains how we got where we are with nominations of Supreme Court justices. Most importantly are the actions of the Supreme Court itself in becoming a super legislative body starting with the Roe vs Wade decision. This raised the stakes for picking judges who often gave Progressives laws they couldn’t get passed through legislators. Ted Kennedy raised the stakes with the nomination of Robert Bork and the subsequent power grabbing steps of eliminating the filibuster on appellate judges by Harry Reid. Now the Democrats are threatening to pack the court and add two Democrat states to the union.
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I wrote this opinion essay for the WSJ in 2011 to describe what I thought were inconsistencies within what President Obama called a jobs bill. Its intent was to stimulate the economy after the initial $1 trillion stimulus package failed to do so. He recognized that the recovery was not going well but his recommended solution was both wasteful and counter productive.
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I wrote this article about 3 years into Obama’s first term when I got tired of the press narrative and Obama’s boasting about what a great job he did in dealing with the financial crisis. This article shows he actually did a fairly rotten job.
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I wrote this at the beginning of Obama’s first term in office. We were at the beginning of the financial crisis and I had little faith in what Congress would do to deal with the economic crisis. In this essay, I defined what I thought Congress needed to do. As I re-read this essay now, I think my suggestions are still valid. I guess the behavior of our elected officials has not improved in the last 12 years.
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I’ve written a lot about our tax system and this essay deals with one aspect of our tax code – corporate tax rates. The left thinks corporations “do not pay their fair share”. Of course, their fair share is never defined. I argue that the best corporate tax rate would be zero; that would have a huge, beneficial effect on our economy. It would only be bad for politicians.
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During one of the perennial discussions about whether globalization was good or bad, I decided to enter the discussion and did so with this essay. I think my points are valid today, particularly both parties are becoming more populist in their thinking about trade.
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This is one of the biggest scandals by a law enforcement officer in our history. It was, in my mind, part of a deep state plot to take down the president through illegal means and was treasonous.
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This is a very detailed analysis of the pandemic’s effect on state and local government revenues. Its a detailed report, and meant only for policy wonks. The full report is in PDF form and you can click on it below the abstract.