John F. Di Leo

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…

President Trump takes a lot of heat – as a Republican – for being comfortable advocating for the use of tariffs.We live in an age of free trade. For almost fifty years now, the prevailing economic theory concerning imported goods has…

Since Sunday night’s announcement of an expansive pardon for Hunter Biden, a generous gift from a wayward father to his wayward son, the press has been full of commentary ranging from serious to comical, from approval to horror.“How dare he…

As the un-American left lays the groundwork for undoing President Trump’s second-term policy goals, one of the areas in which Trump’s enemies expect to have an easy target is trade policy.Since conservatives believe in free markets…