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Last week the president dispatched his daughter, who is a professional fashion designer, to the G-20 summit and the DMZ.  This morning tanks and fighter jets are rolling into Washington as the president turns our nation’s annual Fourth of July celebration into a show of military strength cum campaign rally.  A leader sending his hilariously unqualified […]

​The “Laffer Curve” is the intellectual basis of supply-side economics. It posits that tax cuts pay for themselves through faster economic growth. It is also demonstrably bogus.  The Laffer Curve is the economic equivalent of phrenology or alchemy. It’s a perpetual motion machine with a cold fusion backup battery. It’s been debunked by anyone who […]

Elizabethwarren.com ​According to NPR — and a lot of other places, I should add — “having policy proposals” is just one of many “brands” for a presidential candidate as opposed to an essential and basic requirement:  It’s kind of nuts to think that having ideas aimed at addressing the pressing issues of the day is […]

Source: Pelosi.house.gov A profile of Nancy Pelosi in the New York Times appeared over the weekend which outlines her “coldblooded plan” for leading the Democratic Party, defeating Trump and forging a new path forward. The plan is cynical and cowardly. I likewise suspect it will ultimately lead to failure, either at the polls in 2020 […]

I haven’t lived in West Virginia for a long time, but if you ask me today I still say that’s where I’m from. It’s the place that, more than anywhere else, made me who I am and helped me figure out what I cared about. West Virginia has long been the poster child for states […]