John F. Di Leo

There are press reports announcing a “deal” with China, effective May 14.Untrue. It’s really not a deal at all. This is more like a negotiated ceasefire in a long war, while the serious peace talks get underway. Both sides agreed…

“Harvard is fighting back.”There was a time when more colleges had ROTC units, producing soldiers, sailors, and pilots every year, patriotically rallying to the cause in wartime, fighting for their country. It’s been a long time since that…

I was raised to respect the Austrian School of economics. From the hardliners at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and Reason to the more moderate libertarians like Milton Friedman and President Reagan, the conservatives of my…

Two plus two cannot equal both four and five. In mathematics, there are questions that have only one answer. Period.But in economics, in philosophy, and in politics, there are indeed questions that can have apparently…

Some 75,000 federal employees have accepted the Trump administration’s voluntary buyout offer and the Trump administration is ramping up the firings of various groups of federal workers as well, from ineffective inspectors general to…

On February 1, 2025, President Trump announced new tariffs -- you might call them “stackable tariffs,” since they are in addition to the existing mix of duties and other tariffs -- on goods of Canadian, Mexican, and Chinese origin.The Left,…

At this writing, the offense of the hour (it will soon change, but for this hour, anyway) is that the new Trump-Vance administration has stripped several former high-level bureaucrats of very expensive Secret Service protection.Former…

On his last full day in office before President Trump’s second inaugural, the pretender Joseph Biden demonstrated how unqualified he had always been for the office, with one simple statement.Asked to comment on the first three Israeli…

In January 2025, wildfires devastated Los Angeles County.While not every detail is yet known – and some details will likely never be known – these fires have destroyed entire communities, burned thousands of houses, schools, churches and…

There are news stories that make the front page, there are news stories that make the business page, and there are news stories that aren’t covered at all.Then there are the stories that are only news to an interest group so severely…