Archive for 2019

BLOOMBERG’S PROMISE OF A NEW ‘WAR ON POVERTY’ ECHOES PAST GOVERNMENT FAILURES. “There has to be a war on poverty,” says Michael Bloomberg. Does he know how the last one turned out?

“In the sixties we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won,” President Reagan liked to say, twenty years after the birth of the Great Society. The latter is topic of economic historian Amity Shlaes’ new book; perhaps Mayor Mike ought to pick up a copy.

DAVE RUBIN EXPLAINS HOW HE CHANGED HIS ‘FACTORY SETTINGS OF THE LEFT:’ A former progressive, Rubin calls himself a “classical liberal” these days, but there was a time when it took a frank interview with the great Larry Elder to rid himself of some lefty baggage. Now, it’s hard to find a more incisive and thoughtful critic of the woke-ness disease: “Woke-ism is whatever it wants to be on any given day,” he explains to The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek.