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In New York, the inmates are in charge

Convicted cop killers should never walk free. But New York’s soft-on-crime parole board is poised to release its 44th cop killer since 2017. For this injustice, you can blame mayoral wannabee Andrew Cuomo and his criminal-coddling successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul. Also to blame is a network of George Soros-funded pro-crime advocacy groups — call it the decarceration-industrial complex — pressuring Albany lawmakers. The executive director of one of these groups, Release Aging People from Prison, is himself out on parole after being convicted of attempted murder of an NYPD ...

Trump’s tariff’s are freezing the economy

Klarna, StubHub and Medline have put on hold their initial public offerings. Jaguar Land Rover has paused all car shipments to the United States. Nintendo has delayed taking preorders for its new game console, the Switch 2, to assess the effect of tariffs on prices. President Donald Trump is freezing the U.S. economy, intentionally or not, and the damage worsens with every day he stays his course. His 10 percent across-the-board tariffs went into effect Saturday, and the next round of higher levies for individual countries is set to snap into place Wednesday. Without congressional ...

Economic crash started on Jan. 6

On Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump sent his thugs to the U.S. Capitol where they proceeded to smash up “the people’s house.” Trump refused to admit that he had lost the 2020 election. He called the assorted vandals “patriots” and surrounded himself with men and women of low character. That should have been enough to disqualify him for another term as president or frankly any other elective office. Never mind his bloodthirsty vows of vengeance on his perceived enemies or smearing of our war dead or other evidence of a very twisted mind. Monied interests were willing to overlook ...

Today’s boogeyman is Elon Musk

As a child I frequently visited relatives in southern Indiana. A great uncle tried to keep me from exploring his cellar (as they were called then) by telling me the boogeyman was down there and would “get you” if I descended the stairs. It worked. Boogeymen are nothing new. They have existed in the form of politicians going back to the founding of the country. See how Thomas Jefferson and John Adams described each other. One politician says if his opponent is elected, or his party gains a majority, the country will be destroyed. The other says the same about the other person and ...

Tariffs are reason to cut taxes, red tape

If there’s one thing supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump’s tariffs should agree on, it’s the need to unchain prosperity at home while international trade is in flux. That means renewing the president’s first-term tax cuts, for a start, but it also calls for sweeping regulatory reform — a DOGE-like approach to slice the red tape entangling business at home. Trump is attempting little less than a revolution in the global economy by reasserting American economic independence no matter the risks or pain. He sees trade deficits as inherently bad — and ...

Supreme Court case: Is Catholic Charities ‘secular’?

Does the pope keep a detailed time card? That’s a joke, but it’s also a legal argument relevant to a case at the Supreme Court on Monday. Under Wisconsin law, the Diocese of Superior is exempt from paying taxes into the state’s unemployment system. Yet the state says this opt out doesn’t cover the diocese’s Catholic Charities nonprofit and its sub-entities. “Their activities are secular in nature,” the Wisconsin Supreme Court, newly controlled by a 4-3 liberal majority, held last year. They “neither attempt to imbue program participants with the Catholic faith nor supply ...