Opinion

OPINION: Education should focus on stopping drug use before it starts

Efforts to prevent drug use and encourage kids to live free from drugs have come under increased attack.Rather than building on science and common sense, some have begun advocating for an unproven approach to prevention that aims to not prevent drug use at all – instead it educates children on how...

OPINION: The tyranny of the ‘Phillips Curve’

Repeat after me, class: Growth does NOT cause inflation.Write it on the blackboard 100 times. For decades, the economics profession has been trying to tell us all just the opposite.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (December 21, 2023)

SWAMPTHINK“You’re reading the wrong polls.”  – Joe Biden when asked, “Why are you losing to Trump in the polls?”

OPINION: Has the party of Reagan become the party of quitters?

Monica Crowley summed up the sad state of the Republican Party perfectly last week in a single tweet.Following the House’s 311-114 vote to expel the lying GOP weirdo and future criminal defendant George Santos, she wrote:“Republicans bounced George Santos.“Kevin McCarthy is leaving this month.“Bill...

OPINION: Why does Washington want to destroy America’s ‘Magnificent 7’?

Nothing exemplifies America’s tech industry dominance in the global economy more than the meteoric rise of what is now being called the “Magnificent Seven” stocks – Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla.These companies single-handedly account for nearly all the gains in the stock...