4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (319+ words) Growing up, I received a wealth of working-class values from my parents, including this nugget about egalitarianism: "Nobody is better than you," they said, "and you're no better than anybody else." Unless, of course, you're Elon Musk, Peter Thiel or…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1252+ words) UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania — Scott Dunn did not get a call from Washington. Instead, he received calls from his constituents. The chairman of the Fayette County Board of Commissioners had watched the March announcement like everyone else: a $17 billion natural gas generation…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (454+ words) I will never understand why President Donald Trump, brought back to office partly in response to a sharp rise in prices during the Joe Biden interlude, would pursue the expensive tariff policy we've been subjected to since the beginning of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (548+ words) On Aug. 5, I wrote a column entitled "Scott Bessent's Money Ammo." When I wrote that column, the secretary of Treasury had already fired several powerful economic rounds aimed at Iran's Islamic terrorist regime. But the tough guys in the Islamic…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (721+ words) Despite a lot of talk about fiscal responsibility, lawmakers in Washington are continuing to run up the tab on America's already maxed-out credit card. The U.S. annual deficit — the difference between the revenue that the federal government collects and what it…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (794+ words) The U.S. national debt crossed another grim milestone this month, surpassing $40 trillion for the first time ever. That's more than double the amount owed in 2017, and worse still, on the current trajectory, that fiscal hole is expected grow to $64 trillion within…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (332+ words) Thank God, no, we aren't going bust as a nation, despite our gargantuan $40 trillion national debt. The rapid pileup of debt under Republicans and Democrats alike is certainly a disgrace and worrisome. When I came to Washington in the mid-1980s, our…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (500+ words) Their alarm is warranted. The socialist program would be a catastrophe. So, here's an awkward question: Why is a Republican administration quietly doing the public ownership of businesses part on its own? Last week, the Commerce Department announced that letters…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (407+ words) This goal was pure virtue-signaling, and it never made any practical sense. Roughly 70% of American energy comes from fossil fuels, and only about 10% comes from "green energy." Studies showed that the initiative would have decimated the U.S. economy: millions of American…...