The Insurrection in Chicago by Stephen Moore
Almost exactly a year ago, race riots paralyzed more than a dozen of America's great cities, from New York to Seattle. The smoke hasn't gone away.
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June 15, 2021
June 8, 2021
Sorry, Joe: Fixing Roads and Bridges Doesn't Cost $2 Trillion By Stephen Moore
The Biden White House is furiously trying to cajole congressional Republicans into signing off on his $2 trillion "infrastructure bill." So far, they've held firm in saying not just no but "hell, no" to new taxes and spending to pay for all this.
June 1, 2021
Suddenly, 'The Population Bomb' Is a Population Bust by Stephen Moore
Paul Ehrlich wrote one of the most famous and bestselling books of the 20th century. It was called "The Population Bomb." It was 300 pages of doom and gloom. The planet was being destroyed because human beings were reproducing like Norwegian field mice. It was a Darwinian nightmare leading the species inexorably back to a Neanderthal subsistence level existence.
May 25, 2021
Biden's 'Gas Tax' Is a Pain at the Pump by Stephen Moore
One of my early memories, and not a happy one, is sitting in gas lines in the 1970s. My parents would rustle me out of bed early on frigid February mornings, and we'd pack into the Ford and speed over to the gas station.
May 18, 2021
Democrats Follow the 'Science' and Reject Common Sense by Stephen Moore
Every time I hear Democrats sermonize about following "the science," I feel as though I'm listening to members of the Flat Earth Society. Science is what the left wants to believe to be true. It has become a way to shut off debate, not advance it. Remember: These were the fools who told us to shut down our schools for a year.
May 11, 2021
98% of the Way There: Trump's Super V-Shaped Recovery by Stephen Moore
The U.S. economy peaked in late 2019 at $21 trillion. We are now remarkably 98% back to where we were before the terrible COVID-19 pandemic slammed these shores 14 months ago. This rebound is one of the outstanding U.S. achievements in history. Since June of last year, the economy has rocketed by 34% in quarter 3 of 2020, 4.2% in quarter 4 of 2020 and now 6.4% in the first three months of 2021. So far in this current quarter, growth is more than 10%.
May 4, 2021
Why Did Biden Census Bureau Add 2.5 Million More Residents to Blue-State Population Count? by Stephen Moore
There is something very fishy about the new 2020 Census Bureau data determining which states picked up seats and which states lost seats.
April 27, 2021
Unions Sell Out Their Own Workers for the Biden Energy Plan By Stephen Moore
Another pro-President Joe Biden union just told it's rank-and-file members: Sorry, guys, you are all fired.
April 20, 2021
GOP Trustbusters Are Embracing Progressives' Agenda By Stephen Moore
It's not too often that Republicans embrace the agenda of leftist Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But it's happening.
April 13, 2021
Biden's Green Energy Plan Declares War on American Energy, A Commentary by Stephen Moore
Am I the only one who finds it head-scratching that President Joe Biden, who wants to spend $2 trillion of taxpayer money on "infrastructure," is the same president whose first act in the White House was to kill a multibillion-dollar oil and gas pipeline that would create some 15,000 jobs? The Keystone pipeline that he canceled was vital to our energy infrastructure and wasn't going to cost taxpayers a penny.
April 6, 2021
States Fight Back Against Biden War on the West by Stephen Moore
President Ronald Reagan used to refer to our country as "these United States," not "the United States."
March 30, 2021
Are Democrats Dangerous to Your Health? by Stephen Moore
Rep. Jack Kemp used to say that minority voters "don't care what you know until they know that you care." Democrats have cleaned up with Black and Hispanic voters (although a little less so with each passing election) by professing how much they care.
March 23, 2021
The Fall of Chile Is a Warning to America by Stephen Moore
Back in the 1970s, the nation of Chile embarked on one of the boldest sets of free market economic reforms in history. The government called in the Chicago Boys, as they were called, led by Milton Friedman and other University of Chicago free market economists.
March 16, 2021
Don't Force Workers to Join a Union by Stephen Moore
In 1978, when I was 17 years old, I worked as an usher at concerts and sporting events earning $2.25 an hour, the minimum wage. I had to surrender about 15 cents of this meager hourly wage to a union I was forced to join. I could never understand what a union was doing to help me since the company had the legal requirement to pay me $2.25. I was infuriated over the principle of this confiscation by labor bosses I had never met.
March 9, 2021
Red States Should Revolt Against the 'Blue-State Bailout' by Stephen Moore
Congressional Democrats are a runaway train with a drunk-on-power conductor in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. No matter how much evidence pours in that the economy doesn't need $1.9 trillion more in debt spending, the Pelosi locomotive keeps crashing down the track toward the financial cliff. Generations will have to pay for the joyride.
March 3, 2021
Climate Change Alarmism Takes Another Big Hit By Stephen Moore
Throughout the midsection of the United States in February, record frigid temperatures were inconvenient for those politicians who call global warming an "existential threat."
February 23, 2021
The Blue States Are Now the Beggar States by Stephen Moore
Last week, I visited South Florida for four days, and what a shock: Everything was open. The beaches, the hotels, the restaurants (with some sensible safety and social distancing restrictions). The classrooms are full.
February 16, 2021
Why Aren't School Districts Giving Taxpayers Their Money Back? By Stephen Moore
In Naperville, Illinois, the school board announced it would distribute $10 million back to taxpayers this year. Yes, a tax refund.
February 9, 2021
The Worst Budget in American History By Stephen Moore
Is there even one half-sane Democrat that will stand up and denounce the fiscal atrocity of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion spending bill? Is there not one single patriotic Democrat in the entire country who will speak out? The silence is deafening.
February 2, 2021
Biden Wants to Kill 80% of America's Energy by Stephen Moore
When giving speeches and talking to audiences, I've often been struck by how few Americans, even those who are highly educated, have any idea where the energy they use in their home or business comes from. I've asked college students where the electric power is generated, and they shrug and then point to the electric socket in the wall. The electric currents just come magically through that plug.
