2. Lowell Ponte: Why
Obama’s Iran Deal Got Trumped
3. Jeff Ferry: Free-Trade Economists
Begin to See the Light on Trade and Globalization
4. James Hirsen: Disney-Owned
ABC’s Disdain for Conservatives
5. Sally Pipes: In
Progressive America, All Roads Lead to Single-Payer
6. Ryan T. Anderson,
PhD: 5
Reasons Transgender Policies are Harmful
The Historic Opening of
the American Embassy in Jerusalem
By Rick Richman
In
1995, the United States Congress, on a bipartisan basis, passed the "Jerusalem Embassy Act,"
based on explicit findings written into the law. The opening of the American
embassy in Jerusalem is a historic day for Israel, for the American-Israeli
alliance, and for those who recognize that peace in the region requires -- as
both Republicans and Democrats legislated two-and-a-half decades ago --
recognition of an undivided city, in which the rights of every ethnic and
religious group should be protected, as they have been for the last 50 years by
the State of Israel, after the city was reunited by Israel. [more...]
Why
Obama’s Iran Deal Got Trumped
By
Lowell Ponte
President Donald Trump’s decision to terminate President
Barack Obama’s Iran deal, said Mr. Obama – a self-described globalist “citizen
of the world” – “is a serious mistake.” Two former directors of Obama’s
National Security Council committed an even larger ethical breach. Steven Simon
and Jonathan Stevenson in a New York
Times Op-Ed called on European nations to withdraw their diplomats from
Washington, expel U.S. diplomats from their capitals, and respond to any U.S.
sanctions for continuing to trade with Iran by imposing sanctions of their own
against the United States. [more...]
Free-Trade Economists
Begin to See the Light on Trade and Globalization
By
Jeff
Ferry
For
decades, economists have taught David Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage as
if it is an absolute law. But the tide is turning, as some highly
respected economists are now moving away from the doctrinaire position that all
free trade is always good everywhere, and they begin to acknowledge that free
trade and large trade deficits have inflicted substantial harm on the U.S.
economy. From the mid-1970s on, growing trade has also meant the growing loss
of good-paying jobs to competitor nations. Around the year 2000, the process
accelerated. Globalization entered a new phase, which Harvard economist Dani
Rodrik has labeled “hyperglobalization.” Three significant effects launched
hyperglobalization... [more...]
Disney-Owned
ABC’s Disdain for Conservatives
By
James
Hirsen
In May of 2016, ABC executives made an inexplicable
decision, one that from a business standpoint seemed totally incoherent. The
Disney-owned network mysteriously cancelled its second-highest rated sitcom,
which made no sense since the comedy had already received two prime time Emmy
nominations and was on a solid upward trajectory. “Last Man Standing,” starring
Tim Allen, was in its sixth successful season at the time of its cancellation,
with an average of more than 8 million viewers for the 2016-17 season. One
rational explanation for ABC’s exercise in poor judgment back in 2016 may be
that the company has an inherent disdain, as many in Hollywood do, for the
show’s conservative-leaning content. [more...]
In
Progressive America, All Roads Lead to Single-Payer
By Sally Pipes, President & CEO of the
Pacific Research Institute
Senators Chris Murphy [D-Conn] and Jeff Merkley [D-Ore]
recently introduced the "Choose Medicare Act," which would give every
American the option to buy into Medicare. Their colleagues have already rolled
out three other bills that would provide for a more limited Medicare buy-in, a
Medicaid buy-in, and a full-fledged, government-run, single-payer system. All
of these bills would lead to the same inevitable outcome -- a federal takeover
of the nation's healthcare system. Each of the government-sponsored buy-in
plans could operate at a loss indefinitely. Private insurers don't have that
luxury; they'd ultimately go out of business. This, of course, is the progressives'
goal. [more...]
5 Reasons Transgender
Policies are Harmful
Who
knew that removing the federal government from debates over school bathroom
policies would be considered an assault on LGBT rights? That’s the argument
activists made when the Department of Education announced that it would be
enforcing Title IX the way the federal government always had - up until the
second term of the Obama administration. That’s when the Obama Department of
Education announced that the word “sex” now meant “gender identity” - and
ordered schools to open up their bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, and dorms
accordingly. In my book, When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender
Moment, I write about the controversies surrounding these
transgender policies. [more...]
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