Liberty
Parsing McConnell’s Trump Endorsement
Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online analyzes the retiring Senate Republican leader’s latest statement about former President Donald Trump. There is a lot going on right now in the lives…
Elaine Chao
18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
Transportation
Abolishing Buttigieg’s Department: Who Would Notice?
Editors at the Washington Examiner offer an idea for cutting government waste. It involves the current job held by former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. Here’s a question for you:…
Liberty
Trump versus McConnell goes public
Zachary Evans of National Review Online highlights a fight between the 45th president and the U.S. Senate’s Republican leader. Former President Trump criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.)…
Transportation
Rural areas and Trump’s DOT plan
Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner focuses on the potential impact for rural areas of the Trump administration’s transportation plan. After years of “discrimination” by Washington bureaucrats, rural communities are…
Liberty
Seek the better path. Politicizing everything is soul-crushing.
The real "Resistance" Movement this country needs is one that resists the dedicated effort by a few to cram our political differences into everything,
Liberty
Trump’s tone
Matthew Continetti of the Washington Free Beacon assesses President-elect Donald Trump’s approach to the job he’ll take officially in one week. The tone of Donald Trump’s presidency has been set…
Elections & Public Integrity
Trump beating the Bushes
John Fund‘s latest column at National Review Online highlights the antagonism between President-elect Donald Trump and the family of the last two Republican presidents. Much of Trump’s weakness with upscale,…
Liberty
Obama and transparency
Elaine Chao, in my view by far the best of Bush’s cabinet officials, established a reporting requirement for labor unions requiring the disclosure of conflicts of interest. President Obama, who…
Liberty
Nero fiddled, UAW brass golfed
Michelle Malkin writes here about the UAW and its high-cost golf outings for union brass. First, this should remind us that unions are essentially untaxed businesses where the management lives…
Liberty
How unions spend their income
Carefully crafted public image: labor unions are alliances of downtrodden workers, solely concerned with bettering their pay and working conditions. Reality: unions are politically-protected non-profit businesses that spend a great…
Liberty
More on the frugality of the Democrats
Here is an excellent op-ed piece in the New York Sun on the Democrats’ desire to cut the budget of the office in the Labor Department that keeps tabs on…
Liberty
creeping authoritarianism
Today?s Wall Street Journal has a letter that argues strenuously on behalf of the ?Employee Free Choice Act.? Here?s the letter: Weak Labor Law Makes Unions Hard to Organize Elaine…