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In his “State of the State” speech to the California legislature in 2001, then-Governor Gray Davis demanded that lawmakers there make “withholding of electricity” a criminal offense. At the time, California was in the throes of an electricity crisis, made so by its own policies, but Davis, along with Paul Krugman and others chose to blame

I receive near-daily emails from The Nation , the hard-left publication that never acknowledged a communist atrocity nor has recognized any socialist failure. From what I can tell, the editors are downright giddy, as they see socialism in the USA on the rise, with the bookends of the elderly Bernie Sanders on one side and the camera-friendly

As our commuter train stopped at the Riga suburb of Tornakalns, we saw a small railroad boxcar standing by itself on the side. To the passenger from the train, it was a small memorial; to a Latvian nearly 80 years ago, it was at worst a death sentence and at best, transportation to exile in a Siberian labor camp. Our train was taking us from an

Ours is a politicized age from the college campus to the corporate boardroom, a situation in which things that once were personal now are utterly political. The hard left now controls not only higher education, but also much of scientific research upon which the future of humanity as we know it depends. What began in 1969 as the establishment of a

A New York City federal jury has spoken, and its message is ominous: federal prosecutors are empowered to criminalize actions for which there is no statutory prohibition. To put it another way, the government has pulled criminal charges out of thin air – and journalists are cheering. The news media outlets are framing this as a “college basketball

Ever since winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in “Economic Science” in 2001, Joseph Stiglitz has been a one-man advocacy band for growth of the state. After 9/11, for example, he called for the formation of a federal agency to provide security for airline passengers, which he claimed would send a “signal” for quality. ( Stiglitz won his prize for

American journalists seem mired in fantasy worlds, at least where it comes to economic analysis, and perhaps we see no greater show of ignorance than in the discussion of the presence of businesses in the poorest areas of inner cities. Time and again, pundits make the specious claim that people in cities are poor because of the presence of small

American politics seems to revolve around claims of sexual assault, be it the recent fight over the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (and whether or not he did everything but run a sex trafficking ring at a pizza shop), the past escapades of President Donald Trump, or the sexual exploits of Bill Clinton who also was accused of brutally

I wish I could say that  the recent events in Baltimore are shocking , but in the larger scheme of things, I only can wonder why it took this long for violent unrest to hit that city in the wake of police brutality. Baltimore has long been known for having a brutal and unaccountable police force and in the past four years  has paid out nearly $6

During his presidency,  Barack Obama on many occasions has claimed that the market economy  is based upon what he (and other leftists) call “trickle-down economics.” A few years ago, Obama declared: Now, just as there was in Teddy Roosevelt’s time, there’s been a certain crowd in Washington for the last few decades who respond to this economic