Political Commentary & Opinion

Politicians say they pass laws to “protect Americans from big business.” People like hearing that. Many don’t like big business. Unfortunately, most people don’t realize that those laws often help big business while hurting consumers. “Big business and big government are not enemies like a lot of people think they are,” says American Enterprise Institute…

When President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law three days before Christmas in 2017, he implemented one of the most comprehensive tax reform packages of recent years.  The new law included significant tax rate reductions, simplifications, and other reforms in the individual tax code. In 2019, Heritage Foundation analysts scored…

The people of Cuba stood up on Sunday and took to the streets to demand liberty and an end to 62 years of communist oppression. Thousands took part in unprecedented protests in at least a dozen cities throughout the island. The term “historical” is so overused it has become a cliché, but it applies perfectly…

Faith, family, and freedom. The late Sen. William L. Armstrong cherished these values throughout his life as a successful businessman, political leader, and university president. Today, Armstrong’s son Wil is honoring his father’s legacy with the William L. Armstrong Award, which recognizes an individual who has made a difference in America’s culture through business, politics,…

Imagine, 75 years ago, some British officer lining up a group of young Indian children against a wall in Bombay, handing some bullets to Mahatma Gandhi, and ordering him to load soldiers’ rifles so that they could execute the youngsters. Would you expect Gandhi to go along with that? Why would an officer even give…

What’s wrong with good old-fashioned “God and country” patriotism and referencing the Good Book? Apparently, it’s so offensive some won’t stand for it. Exhibit A is the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s criticism of Hobby Lobby for something it has done since 1995, which is run a full-page ad in newspapers on Independence Day. Sunday’s ad was titled…

Democratic Govs. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Gavin Newsom of California, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan shatter everything they touch. Ron DeSantis, conversely, seems to get everything right. The Florida Republican has emerged as America’s governor.  “We’re standing with our folks. We’re going to do the right thing. We leaned into it, and we stood strong,”…

If you don’t like the explosion of violent crime, you’re a racist. That’s the message sent by a top aide to the San Francisco district attorney to a self-described “Democrat” who had said on Twitter that the jump in crime had made people afraid for their lives and dubious about the city’s future. The Democrat…

El Salvador passed a new law last month that makes bitcoin national legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar. This means Salvadorans can pay their taxes in bitcoin and use it for any debt or purchase.   While this is the first time a country has made a cryptocurrency legal tender, El Salvador continues a long tradition of governments recognizing that currencies freely chosen by the people are often better than the government’s product.   Political leaders should return to that tradition by embracing innovations in currency, payments,…

When the Supreme Court announced July 2 that it had declined to take up florist Barronelle Stutzman’s case, it left her on the losing side of an eight-year court battle.  In 2013, one of Stutzman’s longtime customers asked her to design floral arrangements for his same-sex wedding. She told him that because of her religious…

Schools should be places where students enjoy free speech to express and hear different ideas in pursuit of truth. But in Virginia’s Loudoun County and other school districts across the country, school boards are shutting down debate before it even happens by requiring affirmation of an individual’s self-asserted gender identity. “I support differing opinions and…

There was nothing relaxing about a trip to Los Angeles’ upscale Wi Spa on July 3. The ordinarily calm atmosphere was interrupted by a bitter protest over the shop’s transgender policy, which allowed a man to expose himself in the women’s locker room—to the shock and disgust of female clients. In a video that exploded…

Bulgaria on July 8 and 9 will host the fourth business forum of the Three Seas Initiative, commonly referred to internationally as “the 3SI.” This forum will feature five panels, on energy, innovation, transport, and digitalization, and a special session focusing on the Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund. From Washington’s foreign policy perspective, the 3SI—launched…

A “very vicious political provocation.” That’s what China’s Ministry of National Defense called a June visit by three U.S. senators to Taiwan. The purpose of the visit was to show bipartisan American support for the island nation by announcing a generous donation of nearly a million vaccine doses. Sounds vicious, right? On June 6, those…