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This Week's Cover Topic

A Democratic blind spot on culture
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 12:58am
At Issue this week...    Democrats How much do Democrats really want to defeat Donald Trump? It’s worth asking in the wake of the latest Democratic failure to notch an electoral victory for the resistance, this time in the Georgia special election. There’s no doubt that Democrats want to watch TV programs that excoriate the president. They want to give money to candidates opposing him. They want to fantasize about frog-marching him straight from his...

This Week's Focus Topic

The outlook after the special election
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:00am
This Weeks Conservative Focus … Political Outlook The victory of Republican Karen Handel in the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday has discouraged Democrats and encouraged Republicans. Democrat Jon Ossoff won 48.1 percent in the special election’s first round April 18, and Democrats had high hopes that they could take this House seat from the Republicans. But even with $30 million spent — in what became the most...

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But reality isn’t fair
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:11am
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS: June 28, 2017 In 2014, I debated Seattle City Council member and avowed socialist Kshama Sawant. Sawant was one of the chief proponents of a city ordinance that would create a $15 minimum wage. Eventually, the city adopted a...
Supreme victory by Trump at high court
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:09am
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT: June 27, 2017 “Very grateful for the 9-0 decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. We must keep America SAFE!” Trump tweeted in celebration of the biggest victory by a president in the Supreme Court in a generation...
School Inc.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:07am
EDUCATION: June 28, 2017 Every year, almost every industry improves. We get more choices — usually better choices, for less money. “But of all the products we make and the services we provide, there’s one that stands out as an...
Were Confederate generals traitors?
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:06am
CONFEDERACY: June 28, 2017 My “Rewriting American History” column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail. Some argued there should not be statues honoring traitors such as Robert...
The brutal battle against medical kidnappers
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:05am
MEDICAL KIDNAPPING: June 28, 2017 On the day Boston Children’s Hospital celebrated being named “the number one pediatric hospital in the nation” by U.S. News & World Report, I was interviewing Dana Gottesfeld in nearby...
The cost of Medicaid
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:03am
MEDICAID: June 28, 2017 The number of Americans enrolled in Medicaid has increased from 29 million in 1990 to 73 million today — an increase of 252 percent over a period when the nation’s population increased 30 percent. Total spending...
Medicaid at the ‘tipping point’
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:02am
MEDICAID: June 28, 2017 Former President Barack Obama is joining the demagogic slugfest against the GOP’s latest bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. He claims the bill would “ruin Medicaid.” Not so fast, Obama. Your health care...
The outlook after the special election
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 1:00am
This Weeks Conservative Focus … Political Outlook The victory of Republican Karen Handel in the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District on Tuesday has discouraged Democrats and encouraged Republicans. Democrat Jon...
The passing of the Nancy Pelosi era
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 12:59am
This Weeks Conservative Focus … Political Outlook In the first round of the special election for the House seat in Georgia’s Sixth District, 30-year-old Jon Ossoff swept 48 percent. He more than doubled the vote of his closest GOP...
A Democratic blind spot on culture
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 12:58am
At Issue this week...    Democrats How much do Democrats really want to defeat Donald Trump? It’s worth asking in the wake of the latest Democratic failure to notch an electoral victory for the resistance, this time in the...
Barbarism isn’t what it used to be
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 10:57pm
WELFARE STATE: June 26, 2017 The Brezhnev Doctrine said that the Soviet empire could only expand and never give back its gains. A domestic version of the doctrine has long applied to the welfare state — and never so brazenly as in the debate...
Young voters for old socialists
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 7:26am
SOCIALISM: June 27, 2017 The thing about old socialist politicians, like Bernie Sanders, 75 and Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn, 68, is that they have youth on their side. Across the pond, the youth vote allowed the British Bernie Sanders to do a lot...
The banana republic of Illinois
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 7:25am
GOVERNMENT DEBT: June 27, 2017 The media has hyperobsessed over the Kansas tax hike this year and sold it as a repudiation of supply-side economics. But the real story in the states has been the catastrophic effects of tax-and-spend fiscal policy in...
Are Illinois and Puerto Rico our future?
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 7:24am
GOVERNMENT DEBT: June 23, 2017 If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget together by Friday, the Land of Lincoln will be the first state in the Union to see its debt plunge into junk-bond status. Illinois has $14....
Unhealthy acts
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 7:18am
GOVERNMENT SPENDING: June 27, 2017 Is there anyone who can point to the “Affordable Care Act” (aka Obamacare) and credibly claim it is accomplishing the goals set for it seven years ago? Insurers are pulling out of the exchanges,...
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