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Can’t make government efficient

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old. Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged and fired from the company he founded and built by the professional management he helped recruit. Eleven years later, after that management brought the firm to the edge of bankruptcy, Jobs ...

Reality has a vote, in politics as in entertainment

Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second administration. After the president gleefully announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2, stock market prices fell sharply, and the bond market ...

N.Y.’s budget: highway robbery

New Yorkers are getting robbed blind. Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state’s two legislative leaders announced a budget deal Monday night on how much to tax New Yorkers and how much the state government will spend in the coming fiscal year, which starts June 1. From the smattering of ...

Philosophy only a leftist could love

In an interview with Time magazine, President Trump explained how he approaches tariffs and trade negotiations. I use the word “explained” with some trepidation because explanations imply a certain delineation of reasoning, facts and logic along with opinion and perspective. If you ask me ...

Trump to America: Get busy begatting

“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth.” (Genesis 1:28) President Trump is going God one better. God told Adam and Eve to start having children. The president is considering adding an incentive - paying couples $5,000 to begat. The fertility rate in the U.S. has been declining for ...

Trumps second term might have been sunk by tariffs

Presidential second terms are rarely successful, and on the evidence of his first 100 days Donald Trump ’s won’t be different. The President needs a major reset if he wants to rescue his final years from the economic and foreign-policy shocks he has unleashed. There’s no denying his ...