Economy
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Will Trump become the new Hoover or Roosevelt?
Pre-virus, the U.S. economy was ‘perceived’ as strong, but how strong? According to a Brookings Institution report, "53 million people…
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The Squad’s attempt to socialize banking system via coronavirus stimulus
The Squad, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), is pushing for an idea that will socialize our banking system. Card carrying…
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What happens after the coronavirus ‘peaks’? Scientists aren’t sure
The Department of Health and Human Services is planning for a pandemic that could include 'multiple waves' over the course…
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Provide child care for nurses and doctors fighting coronavirus
Closing the schools keeps some kids with a stay-at-home parent or close relative away from other people, and thus reduces…
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Coronavirus turmoil puts Obama-era witch-hunt in the spotlight
As the coronavirus continues to rage across the U.S., it has underscored the need more than ever to end partisan…
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Is the coronavirus Trump’s 9/11 and ’08 financial crisis combined?
The law of probabilities suggested it was only a matter of time before a cataclysmic event tested his administration and…
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Guess why Ocasio-Cortez thinks people are avoiding Chinese restaurants
Liberals are no less concerned about contracting the virus than conservatives: If anything they are more so. If one of…
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Biden endorses California’s job-killing AB 5 law, which slashed freelance work
'This piece of legislation has left thousands of state residents, including numerous single mothers and individuals with disabilities, without a…
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Sanders is wrong: Fidel Castro did not give Cuba literacy or better healthcare
Thirty years later and counting: a Kool-Aid drinker still repeats Castro's propaganda.
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How about that? Chinese study finds coronavirus did not begin in Wuhan seafood market
In case you haven't checked your investment portfolio this morning, you should. The Dow is down 779 points, or 2.7%,…
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Drugmaker Novartis imposes illegal quotas on law firms
A company can’t legally require its law firms to meet racial and sexual quotas. But the giant multinational drugmaker Novartis…
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The mouse roars: Obama wants credit for Trump’s economy
One laughable footnote deserves special mention. That is Obama's snide reaction in 2016 to Trump's promise to restore manufacturing jobs…
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Price controls would inflame the surprise-medical-bill crisis
Surprise medical bills (SMBs) occur when charges arise as a result of an insured patient receiving care from an out-of-network…
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Racial preferences in Virginia energy law are unconstitutional
The Virginia legislature does not appear to have any justification for including these racial preferences in its energy law. It's…
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Caterpillars for your nutritional needs
Less filling, tastes great, and stuffed with protein.
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Democrats’ latest campaign strategy: Go after Trump on the economy
How are they going to go about accomplishing this Herculean task in the face of a new Gallup poll that…
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Moderate Democrats becoming extinct
The Washington Post recently noted that there aren’t any centrists running in the Democratic Primary for President. All of the…
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VIDEO: Ocasio-Cortez’s favorite economist? ‘Milton Keynes’
One has to wonder whether she was confusing John Maynard Keynes with Milton Friedman.
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New York City censors fashion industry
Assailing one of the last, if unlikeliest, outposts of First Amendment freedom.
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Virginia legislature passes Virginia Values Act, transforming state anti-discrimination law
Another flaw of the Virginia Values Act is that it provides for unlimited punitive damages, ‘without limitation otherwise imposed by…
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Trade war with China drives up farm bankruptcies
Trade wars kills jobs. CNN reports: US farm bankruptcies were up 20% in 2019, despite the billions of dollars in…
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Legislators discard element of sexual harassment definition, broadening liability
Gutting the essential meaning of an open-ended litigation risk.
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Trump refuses to invite Democrats to USMCA deal signing, hands out souvenir pens
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal, to borrow a term from former Vice President Joe Biden, is a “big…
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Costly law moves through legislature
The VVA also directly imposes costs on the state of Virginia by greatly expanding the administrative grievance process for discrimination…
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Virginia minimum wage hike passes key Senate Committee
Virginia Senate advances job-killing minimum wage proposal.
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House subcommittee approves $15 minimum wage
On January 28, a subcommittee in Virginia’s House of Delegates apparently voted 5-to-3 to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15,…
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‘Ban the Box’ laws backfire
As usual: the unintended consequences are negative, and intended consequences don't materialize.
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On MLK Day, Ocasio-Cortez channels Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ routine, gets ovation
It wasn't true when Barack Obama said it, and it's not true now. But Democratic wunderkind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got a…
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Virginia may adopt strange sexual harassment law
If your boss looks at you funny, can you sue, even if his dirty look didn't make your work environment…
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The paradox of libertarians who vote against free markets
The Libertarian intellectual may pay lip service to the virtue of the free market, but he has no passion for…
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New employment legislation would harm state’s economy
A law that would "devalue" Virginia, one suit at a time.
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