Made in China.
For 30 years, presidents and political leaders of both parties have led us around the fence on the subject of China.
Hard experience.
We choose to accept the risk of disease entering the country via illegal immigration. We don’t have to.
What’s the mortality rate of economic collapse?
Having imagined the mortality attendant to a runaway coronavirus pandemic, have our policy leaders taken the time to also imagine the mortality attendant to a shutdown of the American economy?
Everything comes at a price.
Appropriate policy occupies some indeterminable spot on a continuum between taking no special action whatsoever on one extreme and completely stopping all industry, commerce and interpersonal transactions on the other.
On China Trump has been right early and often.
We suddenly are aware of the fact that untold numbers of things – things that are absolutely essential to the health of our economy as well as to our very bodies – are manufactured in a totalitarian country that will stick it to us the first time it suits their convenience.
On the subject of coronavirus.
It has been a rough week but here’s the good news. We’ll get through this. And we’ll be smarter and we’ll be stronger for having done so.
So Dems, what’s your coronavirus plan?
Is it impolite to ask Dems who are criticizing Trump’s response to the coronavirus what they have in mind that might be better?
Trump, Sanders and the ruling class.
In a single generation, the ruling class and the elite media have each managed to squander their inheritances.
Hey Dems, is this really the best you got?
Six candidates and yet not a scrap of Clintonesque or Obamaesque political skill in a contest in which nothing less will do.
Dems and the middle class.
Promises of government palliatives don’t resonate with middle class voters who are, on their own, doing better than they have in years.
And these people want to run the country?
The entirety of the fiasco Monday night in Iowa is an allegory on the Democratic Party’s impulse toward top-down command and control for the benefit of party insiders.
Civil discourse.
For as much as civility is a nominal good thing, of what use is it if it’s not reciprocal?
I doubt it ever will get fixed thanks to soft, touchy feely parents, (usually just one) and the government (AKA…
P.T. Barnum, the great American entertainment entrepreneur once said, "Once people stop buying tickets, they don't stop". This saying can…
One thing keeps coming to mind... When taxes become so high that people can not afford to live there and…
Democratic political thought has revolved around peddling free stuff for so long that they don't have any other tricks left.…
I have no idea when the spark of intelligence will fire, but I am not holding my breath!