Editorials

‘Great Green Fleet’ indefensible policy

The “Great Green Fleet” has set sail, charting a course to irrelevancy. The fleet – the U.S. Navy’s…

Editorials

Has the predicted ‘conservative crackup’ finally arrived?

I’ve been hearing about the impending “conservative crackup” for nearly 25 years. The term was coined by R.…

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Michael Bloomberg and New York pols

Michael Bloomberg’s epiphany about the 2016 presidential proceedings is that what is missing is a second bossy, big-government…

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Sanders misreads the Scandinavian model

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ model for his utopian vision for America is in Scandinavia. The only problem is those…

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Prosecutions must depends on mens rea

Criminal justice reform tends to focus on sentences and recidivism. Those are important, but reform should also focus…

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‘Downton Abbey’ and conservatism

Conservatism has found its new champion – new, that is, for the 1920s. In a recent episode of…

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Does Trump count as a conservative?

Words have meanings. With the Iowa caucuses just days away, the battle between Donald Trump and Sen. Ted…

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Connecticut rides the ‘Laffer Curve’

Tax policy takes no prisoners – Connecticut is learning this the hard way, as companies, including giant GE,…

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The Second Amendment wasn’t written just for hunters

Blake Bailey’s letter of Jan. 17 suggests that the Second Amendment applies to “militias, needed for wars fought…

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Iran prisoner swap is just a distraction

Give President Obama credit. His Iran nuclear deal may be disastrous but the packaging was brilliant. The near-simultaneous…