t’s starting to happen.” That’s what Brad Parscale said around 8 p.m. to the family and inner circle on the 14th floor of Trump Tower on November 8, 2016, as we were watching election returns trickle in from North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Parscale’s words came back to me with the news this week […]
he CCP virus pandemic has added urgency to a long-overdue reassessment of the assumptions underlying the post-World War II “international rules-based order.” To be clear, “international rules-based order” is a euphemism for globalism, and globalism has taken a beating these past few months. We’ve seen how the true cost of doing business with China is […]
resident Trump repeatedly has called on companies to move their factories out of Communist China. He imposed tariffs after determining the Chinese government was illegally subsidizing the production of those goods. Companies responded by asking the president to lift the tariffs, parroting the Chinese Communist party line. Then the coronavirus came along and exposed the […]
resident Trump says he expects China will pay a “substantial” amount of money for damages caused by the coronavirus pandemic. You can’t help but suspect the Chinese Communist Party deliberately withheld crucial information and hoarded protective supplies needed to prepare for the virus in order to wreak maximum damage both mortal and material on the […]
t 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced a bipartisan joint resolution to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis in Yemen pursuant to the War Powers Resolution. Their bill laid the groundwork for the first-ever successful vote […]
he debate about “reopening the economy” is a phony debate. It’s phony because “the economy” isn’t shut down. Far from it. Walmart is still open. Dollar General is open. Amazon is open. Alibaba is open. It just so happens that the big-box mass merchandisers and online retailers responsible for flooding our country with crap from […]
s we contemplate a possible end to the ongoing pandemic shutdown, several questions lie ahead for us. First—and foremost on everyone’s minds—is when will the lockdown end? And when it ends, what will be left of our economy? One thing is certain now: The national lockdown is crushing small businesses. Each of these businesses is […]
his writer and others who for decades railed against outsourcing industries to the People’s Republic of China were long dismissed as crackpots and Luddites. Now many of those who were doing the dismissing have been forced to admit the true cost of cheap goods is very high. The Chinese Communist Party virus has exposed many […]
Don’t matter where you are Everybody’s gonna need a ventilator — “Ventilator Blues” Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor he Wuhan coronavirus has laid bare America’s dependence on Communist China for critical medical supplies, from pharmaceuticals, facemasks and hospital gowns, to medical ventilators. Besides suffering from the Wuhan virus, America has a bad case of […]
he virus that originated in Wuhan, China poses a double threat to America. The first is to our health as the virus spreads through the U.S. population. The second is to our economy as more businesses, schools, and events shut down to slow the spread of the contagion. We must not underestimate the economic threat […]
s America faces possible shortages of antibiotics, face masks, iPhones and various other items now produced in China, it’s time to consider how we got here. Although it looks like the blame lies with thousands of businesses in different industries, in this case, we’d do well to round up the usual suspects, a smaller number […]