Commentary
In my February 18, 2023 blog piece, “Meet Michael Morell, A Deep Stater with a Mission,” I wrote: “Chances are good that you’ve never heard of Michael J. Morell, so allow me to introduce you, because you’ll soon be seeing him mentioned frequently in the news, and you need to know why.”… read more
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“The auto companies might deserve sympathy if their executives hadn’t become political supplicants. In addition to lobbying for subsidies, they intervened to defend the administration’s recent emission standards against a legal challenge by GOP state attorney’s general.
“They sold themselves out to the government for subsidies, and now they are pleading for more subsidies to meet its mandates.”… read more
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As a political news wonk, I look forward to each State of the Union address in search of a memorable line or two that Americans can hang their hat on.
The day and morning before the address, news anchors repeatedly ask their guests what they think the president will say, and what he should say. … read more
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Sure, you’ve heard that phrase before. So have I.
While researching its origins, I found this appropriate meaning for its usage:
“If you describe someone as whistling in the wind, you mean they are trying unsuccessfully to change something which cannot be changed.”
It’s appropriate because it applies to the effort to have us believe that wind power is capable of supplying us with a reasonable generation of electricity cheaper than fossil fuels.… read more
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By now, regular readers of Kramerontheright are familiar with my selection of a “Fool of the Month,” not just on April 1, but on the first day of every month.
When I saw the Washington Examiner headline – “It’s Official: Trump’s tax cuts paid for themselves” – I was reminded of the Democrats who got hysterical over the cuts, and I thought ‘who better to recognize as my February 1, “Fool(s) of the Month” in memory of their hysterics in 2017?’… read more
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Here are a few topics I selected from my stack of stuff.
A Davos Follow Up
If you read my January 24, 2023 commentary on the humor from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, you will appreciate Gerard Baker’s thoughts from his Wall Street Journal column.
While noting that trying to forecast the state of the world by gauging the mood of its participants is about as valuable an exercise as flipping a coin, Baker referenced a 50-year analysis by Financial Times in which the publication found that the consensus of the elites who gather there each year is as likely to be wrong as right.… read more
Commentary
Just as I respond to opposing opinions, I like to occasionally call your attention to other writers who agree with me.
Checking my archives in each of the first three months of this year, I devoted space to the subject of responsibility and accountability, usually in disgust of leaders, military and civilian, who failed to accept either.… read more
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For years, activists on the left have attempted to scare us with climate change tales that predicted the end of the world as we know it. It was so serious that we were told that we needed to sacrifice our energy independence by supplanting fossil fuels with renewable energy sources like wind and solar.… read more
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I do considerable research of the media, in print and online, in an effort to produce a blog that gives you my commentary on what’s making news, and in the process, I often run across things I think you may have missed. Here’s what I found.
Hillary’s Role in the Russia Smear
I almost didn’t read a Wall Street Journal op-ed about Hillary Clinton and the Russia hoax by Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein, because both are Democrats, and I assumed it would consist of leftist talking points. … read more
Commentary
“There’s a lot going on right now, but the idea we’re gonna be able to, you know, click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near term, nor is with regard to food.” – President Biden, June 1, 2022
That’s odd, on January 20, 2021, his first day in office, he was able to “click a switch” that effectively ended our energy independence.… read more