Category: Fox 51 Primetime

Animal spirits unleashed.

Freed from the prospect of more regulation and more economic micromanagement, businesses have resumed hiring and investing and planning for a bright future.

Our 17th amendment problem.

A senator today is really nothing more than a congressman who hangs around longer, gets paid more and is proportionally less accountable to any single voter.

More creatures from the swamp.

More creatures from the swamp.

That Rod Rosenstein put Robert Mueller in charge of investigating Donald Trump’s involvement with Russia would be laughable were it not so deadly serious.

le affaire Weinstein: More liberal hypocrisy.

Pretty much the entire galaxy of female stars in Hollywood have long characterized Republicans as brutish, war-on-women-committing misogynist pigs while long tolerating and even worshiping a liberal mega-misogynist pig right in their own midst.

Determined Trump vs. spineless Republicans.

Now that Republicans led by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have failed three times to repeal Obamacare, the biggest mistake they could make is to assume that President Trump will just drop the subject.

Riveting.

To the people of America’s heartland who put Donald Trump in office, his speech to the UN General Assembly was a ray of clear, bright, beautiful sunshine – perhaps his best speech so far.

Not up to the job.

Toughness is not an adjective that one would use to describe either of Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell. Yet with respect to leadership in the Congress, toughness has never been more urgently called for.

Trump the executive.

We are now coming to understand that President Trump sees himself first and foremost as the executive head of government.

Hillary Clinton’s sensibilities.

If you voted for Donald Trump and are now experiencing even the teensiest bit of buyer’s remorse, take a moment to consider who you would have gotten instead.

Breathtaking hypocrisy.

How is President Trump’s perceived failure to condemn white nationalists by name different from President Obama’s blatant and clearly intentional refusal to condemn Black Lives Matter by name?

The intolerableness of Donald Trump.

Imagine if you are an elite, coastal liberal living in a country whose president is Donald Trump. Imagine what you must be thinking – and more apt in the case of liberals – what you must be feeling.

Epic fail.

In the real world, if you fumble on the order of magnitude that McConnell just did, you lose your job.

A lesson from Seattle.

A recently released study from the University of Washington published by the National Bureau of Economic Research goes to great academic lengths to detail what just about any small business owner can explain to you in simple English.