The rumor going around is tidy. Crude is forty dollars a barrel cheaper than it was under the last crowd, and you are still paying four bucks at the pump. Therefore someone is stealing. Check the tape before you pick a villain. What the Numbers Actually Say West Texas Intermediate averaged about $95 in 2022, […]
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One of the most commonly heard complaints today—especially among young people—is that “capitalism doesn’t work anymore.” News flash: Capitalism isn’t supposed to “work” for anyone. Capitalism is not a benevolent uncle who guarantees everyone a house, a new car, two vacations a year, and dining out a couple of times a week. It is not […]
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Jack Fowler: Our friend, your friend, and I’m a great admirer of David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter and author. He wrote a piece the other day in National Review. You were just talking about being uplifted by Hillsdale. Well, David is a little… He’s got a little bit of the Eeyore gene going on, and […]
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This morning the same people who spent four years calling gasoline a morality play discovered a calculator. A university tracker put the Iran war’s extra gasoline and diesel at about $100 billion since February 28. That is roughly $760 to $765 a household. Another running tally lands near $88 billion and $655 a household. An […]
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The laptop was not “just verified.” That is the part everyone keeps getting wrong on purpose. The Bureau matched the serial number to his iCloud ID in November 2019. A federal computer team said the machine had not been manipulated. Agents walked into a Delaware repair shop in December with a grand jury subpoena and […]
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Ottawa is clutching its pearls. Washington just put 50 percent on about $20 billion of Canadian goods. Wine. Cement. Hockey sticks. Furniture. Dairy. The list is long and it does not care whether the shipment qualifies under the trade deal. Canada calls it an outrage. Then it prints a matching list for September 8 and […]
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Sep
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The Treasury secretary did not whisper it. He said it on camera at the finance ministers’ meeting. We know where the Revolutionary Guard’s accounts sit in the British Virgin Islands. We know the trust companies. We know the hundred-million-dollar houses. We are going to freeze them. That is not a think-piece. That is a targeting […]
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For half a century the foreign-born line on the chart only went one direction. Up. Then it broke. The government’s monthly household survey put the foreign-born population at a record 53.3 million in January 2025. That was 15.8 percent of the country, higher than the old peaks in 1890 and 1910. By June it was […]
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Friday at City Hall. Twenty-five years almost to the day. Two executive orders. One makes September 11 a citywide Day of Remembrance and Service. The other updates the city’s emergency plans so the government still functions the next time someone tries to knock the place down. The mayor signs. He hands the ceremonial pen to […]
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Sep
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There is no framed parchment at the Pentagon that says “you hit one of ours, we hit two of yours.” There is a practice. It is uglier and more useful than a slogan. If they shoot, we shoot more. If they tap a base, we take the radar, the boats, and the launchers that made […]