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The White House had to walk back President Trump’s off-hand comment that in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s debt would have to be cancelled. This triggered a major decline of the island government’s general obligation bonds on Wall Street. But former White House speechwriter Ken Masugi explains how Puerto […]

“After more than nine months in office, President Donald Trump finally has an Iran policy,” veteran journalist Eli Lake reports. The centerpiece: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard will be declared a terrorist organization. This “could create problems for foreign companies seeking to invest in Iran,” Lake continues. But “there is still no formal plan on how to […]

Administration foreign policy a disaster China China has a secret military plan to invade Taiwan by 2020. To prevent this, the U.S. should be providing Taiwan the most advanced defensive weapons in its arsenal and accepting Taiwan’s need to develop a nuclear retaliatory capability for deterrence purposes. Neither essential containment policy has yet been adopted […]

Democrats’ call for immediate gun control rejected Republicans have rejected Democrats’ call for immediate gun control in the wake of the Las Vegas mass murder — and rightly so. Legislation passed on impulse after a major news event is almost invariably ill-conceived. Although concealed gun carry, for example, would not have helped in the case […]

WSJ faults FEMA’s P.R. planning, wants full Jones Act repeal Today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal faults FEMA’s Puerto Rican planning and wants full repeal of the Jones Act. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, the Journal‘s distinguished Latin American columnist, writes that Ahead of the Category 4 storm that hit with 155 mile-an-hour winds on Sept. […]