Teenage basketball star Enes Kanter was shocked when his teammate criticized President Barack Obama on Facebook.鈥淒ude, what are you doing?鈥� he exclaimed. He feared his teammate would be jailed.Kanter is from Turkey, where, as Kanter explains in my new video, people who criticize the ...
Last Monday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Pete Aguilar of California placed the name of Democrat Hakeem Jeffries of New York in nomination for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.Aguilar made the simple statement, 鈥淭oday, madam clerk, Democrats are united.鈥漈hat was met with applause.Ironic ...
On Wednesday, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives nominating Kevin McCarthy for the speakership yet again, tried to spin the matter by reminding people that 鈥渄emocracy is messy.鈥淒emocracy is messy by design,鈥� said Wisconsin鈥檚 Mike Gallagher. 鈥淎nd that鈥檚 a ...
From all those lists of best books of 2022, here鈥檚 one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It鈥檚 鈥淭he Myth of American Inequality,鈥� and the three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M ...