Saturday, April 24, 2021

History becomes a weapon; partisans pit “cancel culture” against “politically correct”

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  Gordon L. Weil   “That’s all she wrote.” In explaining this familiar American sentence, a British authority wrote that it means, “ it...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

More federal debt without new taxes means big tax hike later

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  Gordon L. Weil How are we going to pay for all this? In March, the monthly gap between federal spending and revenues was the third la...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Biden seeks major spending to build “infrastructure,” but what is it?

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Gordon L. Weil It’s not a new “New Deal.”   It’s not even “big government.” But President Biden is trying to do something big with his i...
Saturday, April 3, 2021

Trump faces increasing legal pressure, even after Senate’s failure to convict him

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Gordon L. Weil If at first you don’t succeed, try again.  If Trump’s critics couldn’t win in Congress, they want the courts to bring him...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Biden seeks big success quickly; three presidential models

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  Gordon L. Weil Joe Biden is a president in a hurry. Conventional wisdom says that President Joe Biden is unusually well versed in Wash...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Democratic dissenter opposes Pelosi, stimulus, gun checks, but leaves his motives unknown

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  Gordon L. Weil President Biden’s coronavirus economic stimulus bill passed Congress on a straight party vote. Almost. All of the Rep...