Mitch Kokai

Betsy McCaughey writes for Real Clear Politics about the economic challenge for Democrats. Democrats, now the majority in the House of Representatives, are trying to turn that body into the House of Resistance. They vowed to use the State of the Union to voice their claims that the…

Alex Baiocco takes aim in the Washington Examiner at a proposal on Capitol Hill dubbed H.R. 1. It would establish new rules governing what people can say about Congress. (Thanks, Nancy Pelosi!) What if members of Congress told you the only way to preserve democracy in America was…

Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon takes her latest campaign against dubious government spending to the southern U.S. border. The National Institutes of Health is spending roughly $1.5 million on a study of the sleep habits of Mexican Americans living along the U.S. border. The “border health”…

Jonah Goldberg identifies for National Review Online readers a major problem with “social justice.” … [S]ocial justice is nonsense. Now, when I say “nonsense,” I mean nonsensical, as in lacking interior logic and definitional rigor. A few years ago, while working on my book The Tyranny of Clichés,…

Jeremy Carl writes for National Review Online about the attacks launched against President Trump’s nominee to succeed Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. If you were to design a perfect judge for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in a laboratory, that judge would look…

Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that the state treasurer believes N.C. government doesn’t have enough debt capacity to build all road projects promised in a 2018 bond package. Becki Gray’s Daily Journal questions the costs of expanding Medicaid in North Carolina.  …

David Seidemann describes for Martin Center readers one New York university’s disturbing stance on free speech. Public universities morally should and legally must uphold free speech. Unfortunately, the university where I’ve taught for 43 years has a very bad record, and matters are getting worse. The City University of…

Editors at the Wall Street Journal outline steps President Trump could take to boost his prospects in the 2020 campaign. The paradox of Donald Trump’s Presidency after two years is that his main successes are the result of traditional Republican policies. His main trouble has come from the…