Archive for August, 2026
I will mostly limit my commentary here, except to explain that I extracted the following excerpt from an email I received a couple days ago from Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel Action. — — — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stood on the Senate floor and painted a grim picture of the supposed damage the SAVE […]
“The new narrative from the pro-tariff crowd — which rarely differentiates correlation from causation — is that the ongoing manufacturing upswing is a clear Trump trade policy success story.” — Scott Lincicome, “Dispatch Markets” Readers may remember that the pro-tariff policies of the Trump Administration are one of the major differences I have with our […]
Last month, I shared a vignette from Part 1 of the “Rapid Fire” series published in Stand to Reason’s (STR) newsletter. (It was a follow-up to earlier posts in which I shared vignettes from Parts 4 & 5 in the series.) In this post, Greg Koukl clearly addresses another question (from Part 1) often posed […]
“A Michigan flip here almost guarantees the GOP will retain control of the Senate.” — Matt Vespa, Towhhall This past Tuesday, Progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed got roughly 1% of the vote more than centrist Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens, thereby securing the Democrat nomination for Michigan’s Senate seat. He will go on to face Republican Rep. […]
Are you familiar with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya? Bhattacharya was a professor of medicine at Stanford University, where he received both an MD and a PhD in economics. He has held positions at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Standford […]