Report filed by our trade correspondent, L.C. January could see a major stock market correction depending on how the Trump administration handles a slew of protectionist trade measures with deadlines scheduled for this month. Most of the measures are aimed at the Chinese and could trigger Chinese retaliations. The year 2017 ended with a flurry […]

Dec. 31, 2017. It’s the fourth day of spontaneous demonstrations against the Iranian regime for runaway inflation, unemployment, and the waste of the nation’s oil earnings on foreign adventures. Here is an interactive map of events in Iran by locality. Hover over an icon for a news flash appropriate to that location. The Progressive US press […]

Why is it that the US has no anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system ready now, to thwart not only North Korean and Iranian missiles but also Russian and Chinese? The short answer is the Democratic Party and its penchant for arms-control treaties and wishful thinking. Marc Thiessen provides a capsule history of the Democrats’ betrayal. This 12-minute […]

Are there sensible policies that could be put in place so that the past year’s wildfire crisis in the Northwest, West, and Southwest doesn’t repeat itself in the near future? We think so, and the solutions we propose for discussion have bearing on what the relationship of government assistance should be to other types of natural […]

Deregulation is Trump’s great contribution to the US economy beside the just-passed tax bill. But his administration’s trade policy threatens both the economy and US security strategy. The lead editorial of the Dec. 12, 2017 Wall Street Journal notes that “Amid the debate over tweets and tax reform, perhaps the most significant change brought by […]