Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 1/10/2025 9:16:15 AM Los Angeles is burning and the East Coast and Midwest have been walloped by cold and snow. Naturally, the global warming alarmists screech and honk about human reliance of fossil fuels. It a gross and irresponsible assumption.
It never takes long for the foolish to break out and Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t disappoint on Wednesday when he tweeted: “80,000 people told to evacuate. Blazes 0% contained. Eight months since the area has seen rain. The scale of damage and loss is unimaginable. Climate change is real, not ‘a hoax.’ Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is.”
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 1/9/2025 9:25:21 AM Costco’s board of directors has been winning plenty of praise lately for defending its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” program against a shareholder proposal put forth by a conservative group. It deserves none of it.
The proposal, widely – and wrongly – described as a plan to dismantle Costco’s DEI program, says simply this:
Resolved: Shareholders request that the Board conduct an evaluation and publish a report, omitting proprietary and privileged information, on the risks of the Company maintaining its current DEI (including ‘People & Communities’) roles, policies and goals.
The pundit class described the board’s rejection
Issues & Insights, by Terry Jones Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 1/8/2025 9:52:48 AM Among President Trump’s promises during the 2024 campaign was to “medically discharge” transgender men and women from the U.S. military. But would Americans support such a move? A plurality of voters say no, revealing a deep political split over the issue, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
While no specific proposal has yet actually been put forward, the national online I&I/TIPP Poll asked this question: “News reports suggest President-elect Trump is considering an executive order to discharge all transgender service members and ban future enlistments, potentially affecting 15,000 active personnel. Do you support or oppose this plan?”
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 1/7/2025 9:06:22 AM On Joe Biden’s first day in office, he signed a raft of executive orders, one of which we said was “almost entirely overlooked but could easily end up having the biggest impact.”
Turns out we were right.
The executive order – “Modernizing Regulatory Review” – would, we predicted, “unleash the regulatory state with a ferocity never before seen in this country.”
With this one executive order, Biden shows that he’s intent on giving regulators carte blanche to impose massive new rules on businesses and households, on virtually anything and everything they do, regardless of costs. There’s little else Biden has done so
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 1/3/2025 8:58:53 AM As President Joe Biden counts down the days he has left in office, he’s busy trying to burnish his legacy. What he should be doing is apologizing for unleashing waste and fraud of epic proportions.
Politico, to its credit, this week reported on where the $1.6 trillion that Biden approved in spending ($1.1 trillion) and tax breaks ($500 billion-plus) for “clean energy” and infrastructure investments went.
The good news is that most of it hasn’t been spent. The bad news is that the rest appears to have vanished without a trace.
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 1/2/2025 8:51:35 AM The New Year had barely begun when one and possibly two terrorist attacks were unleashed that claimed the lives of more than a dozen innocent people.
In New Orleans, 15 people have so far died after a driver rammed a truck through a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street Wednesday morning. The driver had an ISIS flag in the rented pickup and likely didn’t act alone.
[snip] Is this the beginning of a wave of terror attacks inside the U.S.?
There’s reason to worry.
For almost four years, the Biden administration has been asleep at the wheel when it comes to terror threats.
Issues & Insights, by Terry Jones Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 12/23/2024 5:31:31 AM Soon-to-be President Donald Trump has talked about getting rid of the U.S. income tax and replacing it with a system of tariffs. He has come under heavy criticism from Democrats and many economists. But average Americans appear to like the idea, with a plurality favoring Trump’s idea, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
The December online I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,441 adults across the country the following question: “President Trump has talked about replacing the income tax with tariffs (taxes on selected imports). Would you support or oppose such a move?” The poll has a margin error of +/-2.6 percentage points.
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 12/21/2024 6:20:11 AM Five years too late, the Wall Street Journal finally reports – when it no longer matters – what journalists knew all along but covered up: Joe Biden was not mentally fit to be president.
The mainstream media’s disservice to the public ranks right up there with Walter Duranty’s New York Times reporting, in which he fed Soviet Union propaganda to the U.S. as news and helped cover up the hellscape that was Stalin’s Russia. (The New York Times never returned the Pulitzer Prize that Duranty won for his lies.)
Except in this case, it wasn’t one reporter halfway around the world in
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 12/20/2024 7:01:05 AM What do a $15 million settlement with ABC News, a Washington, D.C., waitress getting fired, and the Los Angeles Times planning to include a bias meter in its news stories have in common?
They are all welcome signs that the nation is embracing normalcy once again – something that Joe Biden was allegedly going to restore after Donald Trump’s supposedly chaotic years.
Trump’s first term was chaotic, but not because of what he did so much as the four-year hysteria unleashed by his opponents.
Biden, on the other hand, brought true chaos. A tainted election, foreign wars, open borders, runaway inflation,
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 12/18/2024 7:27:05 AM Since the election, not-soon-enough-to-be-former President Joe Biden has provided a steady stream of reminders as to why the nation will be glad to be rid of him. His unique mixture of incompetence, cluelessness, disdain, arrogance, and sleaziness has been on full display.
Consider what Biden managed in a few short weeks.
The unprecedented, sweeping pardon of his son Hunter made a mockery of not only his solemn pledge that he’d trust the justice system but managed to infuriate every Democratic leader and media fanboy who’d sung his praises for that pledge.
Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 12/17/2024 8:18:09 AM Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s bizarre and frankly childish behavior during testimony before Congress wasn’t the U.S. Postal Service’s worst moment last week. That came two days later.
DeJoy, appearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, was told by Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia that he is “responsible for the fall of the Postal Service and the lack of accountability.” DeJoy retorted that “this Congress is responsible for it falling apart” and insisted he was “trying to fix” the post office.
He then told McCormick that “you’re talking to yourself” and covered his ears with his hands
Issues & Insights, by Bob Maistros Original Article Posted by RockyTCB — 12/16/2024 8:28:27 AM Stipulated in Part I of this analysis: government efficiency efforts have a DOGE-y record at best. Thousands of recommendations over the years largely dissed despite prodigious effort. And contributions to actual reduction of the size of and increase in the productivity of government proving to be a) paltry and b) overtaken by events (e.g., more spending and bureaucracy).
So, should business rock stars Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy just surrender before they start?
Well, maybe not so fast.