Profligate politicians have never met a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project they didn’t like — except when it comes to President Trump’s border wall…Boston’s Big Dig black hole burned through $25 billion and was plagued by deadly engineering incompetence, endless cost overruns, leaks, lawsuits and debt. California’s high-speed rail boondoggle is a $100 billion bullet train to nowhere.
Publication: NY Post
James Woods Would Be the Perfect Oscar Host
Jon Levine: Reversing moribund ratings for the Oscars calls for more than just tinkering along the edges. How can the creative class convince millions of Americans who have tuned out to give them a second chance? To answer that, I have two words. James Woods.
Building a Wall Will Prevent Further Tragedies
Had there been a wall and true border security, there is a reasonable chance the parents of the two dead Guatemalan children would not have attempted the hazardous trek.
The Revolts in Paris Are a Victory for Those the French Elites Forget
French President Emmanuel Macron’s humiliating retreat this week on his signature fuel-tax hikes should be a warning to all anti-climate-change warriors.
The Media Got It All Wrong on the New US Climate Report
The well-reported idea that warming will shrink the economy by 10 percent disregards huge economic growth, assumes twice the damages of the worst-case temperatures the report itself expects and even then only finds such high costs stemming almost exclusively from easily preventable heat deaths.
Trump’s Critics Were Dead Wrong About the Caravan
Rich Lowry: It was conventional wisdom in the press that the caravan was a concoction of Trump’s fevered imagination. It would soon dissipate and, even if not, take months to reach the US.
Acosta Violated One of the Oldest Rules of Journalism
The conduct of a handful of so-called reporters during President Trump’s news conference was disgraceful beyond measure. This is not journalism, this is narcissism. Naturally, the boorish Jim Acosta of CNN was the instigator. As is his habit, Acosta doesn’t ask questions — he makes accusations and argues.
Divisive Dems May Be Own Undoing with Kinder, Gentler Trump
With so many top Democrats vowing to use their new powers to torture the president with subpoenas and investigations, and then impeach him, the man who describes himself as a great counterpuncher will find it difficult not to take the bait. But it may be the only way he can get anything done in the next two years and then win his own re-election in 2020.
Don’t Join This Year’s Women’s March Unless You’re Good with Anti-Semitism
What’s the point of a march run by leaders who effectively condone comments like Farrakhan’s?
The Left Wastes No Times Blaming Trump for Bomb Scares
The same media that tsk-tsks anyone who dares jump to any conclusions about perpetrators of other terrorist attacks knew exactly who was behind this.
Michael Avenatti Made His Liberal Fans Look Like Fools
After months of promising to deliver a coup de grace to the president that never materialized, Avenatti then inserted himself into the Brett Kavanaugh hearings … in a spectacularly ill-considered way that ultimately redounded to Kavanaugh’s benefit.
Why Hillary Can Never Admit the Truth About Bill
Hillary and Bill are about to embark on nationwide speaking tour. Their prominence will serve as a reminder that when push came to shove and they had to decide between protecting one of their own in high office and their feminist principles, it wasn’t even a close call.
Where’s the Outrage Over Hillary’s Call for a Civil War?
She’s stoking trouble to gain a foothold in the 2020 race — and damn the consequences.
Another Casualty of the Kavanaugh Fight: The Media’s “What Women Think” Scam
You’d think the election of 2016 would have taught us that women aren’t some monolithic block, all thinking and voting the same way. But the Kavanaugh hearings have once again exposed the left’s expectation that women all have the same opinions on a given event.
Democrats’ Kavanaugh Assassination Is Reuniting the Right
Whatever the outcome of the immediate contest, it’s increasingly clear that Democrats and the media establishment made an enormous miscalculation by waging total war against Kavanaugh and his family.
It’s NAFTA 2.0 as Trump Delivers on Another Big Promise
Officially, it’s the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, but it’ll go down as NAFTA 2.0 — President Donald J. Trump’s NAFTA 2.0, and a vindication of an approach his critics claimed would lead to disaster.
The Left Wants a Supreme Court That’s Even Less Democratic
The Supreme Court is an undemocratic institution whose power should be carefully circumscribed. The right has long been of this view, and the left is suddenly and opportunistically partway there.
Is Hillary Secretly Planning to Run in 2020?
The messages convey a sense of urgency, and are coming with increasing frequency…Some end by asking for money, some urge participation in protests. All read as if they are sent from the official headquarters of the resistance. Hillary Clinton is up to something.
Democrats’ Court-Packing Talk Is Just Crazy
The left-liberal grief is warranted. Three years ago they believed they owned the future. And in their aggressive efforts to enshrine their ownership, they helped provoke a backlash that is leading them into a land of their own nightmares — to which they might be contributing with their cockamamie self-defeating schemes.