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Eye on the financial system: Don Repeating Ron’s Success
The Dow “crossed 50,000 for the first time on February 6, 2026 — fittingly on the 115th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth,” cheers Michael Toth at Civitas Outlook. “When Reagan took office, the Dow was basically dead. The index stood at 950.”
But then “investors from around the world began flocking to the U.S. market as American businesses generated enormous profits, aided by tax and regulatory relief ushered in during the Reagan administration.”
Indeed, since Reagan and Margaret Thatcher’s “supply-side revolution,” it’s been clear that “free markets drive economic growth.” President Trump’s delivering too: In his first time period, his “regulatory rollbacks and corporate tax rate reductions delivered broad-based economic progress.” Now the identical “policy successes” are again producing stellar outcomes.
Republican: Newsom’s His Own Worst Enemy
In telling Europeans “Trump won’t be president after Jan. 20, 2029,” Gov. Gavin Newsom forgets that “the effects of his presidency will remain long after he departs the Oval Office,” sniffs Karl Rove at The Wall Street Journal. “The same is true for Mr. Newsom”; he’s “out as governor next Jan. 4” however the grim “effects of his eight years as California’s chief executive will linger as well:”
The Golden State is no longer a “magnet for jobs and commerce.” US News & World Report’s “annual ‘Best States’ ranking puts California at No. 32 on its economy, 42 on fiscal stability, 45 on growth, 46 on employment, and dead last for opportunity.”
Conservative: Literary Lovers of Blacklists
“The author Arundhati Roy is boycotting the Berlinale film festival,” as a result of organizers gained’t slam Israel, marvels Commentary’s Seth Mandel. Yet shouldn’t “free speech” additionally apply to those that’d search to keep away from politics?
Roy and a group of 81 actors and others whine that the Berlinale refuses to “affirm” anti-Israel narratives. Beyond that, they “want an anti-Jewish blacklist. In the name of free speech and anti-fascism. And they want Germany to lead the way.”
Jewish writers are already “iced out” of the publishing area, whereas “anti-Israel polemics get published no matter the content or quality.” The pro-boycott crowd “claims that the world is living a re-run of the 1930s, but the real complaint is that it’s not enough like the 1930s.”
Speech beat: Labour’s Censorship Schemes
An “immigration case playing out in a New York federal court” has “significant implications” for “the ongoing debate over global censorship,” studies Paul D. Thacker at RealClearInvestigations.
The State Department means to deport foreigners “who have allegedly censored Americans” by way of “influential” British nonprofit known as “the Center for Countering Digital Hate,” a Labour Party affiliate that pushes authorities motion to combat “the spread of harmful misinformation.” The CCDH was a “key collaborator” in “weaponizing” the US “national security” equipment “to censor U.S. citizens and pressure U.S. companies into censoring.”
Its “influence extends throughout [Kier] Starmer’s government,” and it has labored to “influence EU censorship laws” and was a prime advocate of the “Online Safety Act,” which Veep JD Vance warns is main the UK down a “very dark path” of online censorship.
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Waste watch: Reduced, Targeted Foreign Aid Pays Off
The bipartisan congressional foreign-aid bundle “underscores that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seek to safeguard America’s influence in fostering a safer, more prosperous world through targeted international engagement,” explains Bjorn Lomborg at The Hill.
It goals to make sure “that the money is well spent, so American generosity achieves the most it can in the world.” That’s why “Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stressed the need to preserve programs that ‘make us safer, stronger, and more prosperous.’”
E.g., it’s sensible to spend on “global health”: “Eradicating smallpox” pays “dividends” at home and overseas. “Just $1.1 billion annually” in malaria prevention and therapy “can prevent 200,000 deaths each year, while enhancing productivity and stability in poor countries.”
Although beneficiant, Americans count on “that their tax dollars are being spent well.”
