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Here to ‘help,’ but lacking results

Politicians promise they'll "help" us. President Donald Trump says he'll "create the jobs and future you deserve." President Joe Biden liked to say, "Help is on the way." I prefer President Ronald Reagan's: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" An economy runs best when government gets out of the way and lets free market competition work. Economist Donald Boudreaux gets that, and it's why "The Triumph of Economic Freedom" is the title of his new book. Boudreaux explains in my new video: "The more we move ...

It’s a Stanley Cup Final for the ages

High-scoring, history-making, lead-blowing hockey is on full display in the Stanley Cup Final between the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes. But is it among the greatest finals ever played? "Everyone that texts me is saying it's the best hockey they've ever watched," Hurricanes ...

Lesser standards bring candidates like Graham Planter

How can Graham Planter, who might win the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine in next Tuesday's primary election ever be seriously considered for such a job, given the amount of personal baggage he carries? The answer is we have so lowered our standards and think so little of our politicians that, as the saying used to go, anyone can grow up to be president, or senator. Planter has been accused of so many things that just one would have been enough to derail his candidacy in another era when character mattered. Today, power is all that appears to matter and the way in which ...

Pope Leo courting the global left

No pope can afford to be completely apolitical, but Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, is proving to be more political than most -- and he's siding with the left. It's a grave mistake that can only hurt the Catholic Church on both sides of the Atlantic. Leo has been in Spain the last few days, where immigration is today the dividing line between left and right. Vox, the Spanish populist party, is surging in popularity, and recently the older conservative People's Party has signed on to Vox's idea of giving Spanish citizens priority for receiving government services and benefits ...