As the Washington Times notes, by passing the tax reform bill today both houses of Congress have achieved a trifecta: “In one bill, Republicans said they were checking off three major parts of their agenda: The massive tax overhaul is coupled with a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate and authority to drill for oil in a […]

“Who leads the West, Trump or Merkel?” This is the question posed by Russell Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. The essay is online at the Hoover web site, and we highly recommend it to our readers. For this reason, we will not […]

President Trump’s just-announced National Security Strategy — summarized later below — interlocks with a subtle shift noticeable in his administration’s trade policy from bilateralism to plurilateralism. Although recent polls and special elections have been favorable to the anti-Trump Democrats, they have no positive program to run on in 2018 except “impeach Trump.” The investigation they hoped would […]

  The Progressive press is denouncing the Trump administration’s (1) elimination of global warming from a list of national security threats and (2)  it’s recruiting a Red Team to debate the claims of climate alarmists. “A red team…is an independent group that challenges an organization to improve its effectiveness by assuming an adversarial role or point of […]

A new study by the Rand Corp. warns that the US could “lose the next war they are called upon to fight, despite the United States outspending China on military forces by a ratio of 2.7 to 1 and Russia by 6 to 1.” The US is losing ground on technology superiority, according to Gordon England, […]