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Trump loves the farmers into bankruptcy

At a 2018 press conference in New York City, Trump said of American farmers, “I love them, and they voted for me, and they love me. ... And they said, ‘We don’t care if we get hurt, he’s doing the right thing.’” During his 2025 joint address to Congress, Trump said, “Our new trade policy will also be great for the American farmer — I love the farmer.” Hardly any sector has suffered from Trump’s trade wars more than agriculture. Soybeans were hardest hit. Before the first trade war in the first Trump administration, China was the biggest foreign market for ...

When it comes to Halloween candy, she’s on the supply side

I’m told that ours is a market economy — driven by supply and demand, or end-stage capitalism at its finest. But I find that around this time of year, as plastic skeletons hang from suburban rooftops and air-stuffed Jack-O-Lanterns droop in the October wind, things get a bit more banana republic. Or, more of a Banana Laffy Taffy Republic, I guess you could say. For I, the parent, am the reluctant chair of the Federal Candy Reserve, riding out market fluctuations in candy costs and performing quantitative easing to pump treats into the neighborhood market, only to be left with a ...

Christian counseling reaches SUPCO

When the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal in 2015, I wondered what standard they would use should polygamists appeal for similar rights. In accepting a case from Colorado Springs about whether a Christian counselor can advise minors with gender dysphoria and same-sex attractions, the court will again face the question of free exercise of religion vs. the establishment clause. The case involves the parents of a teenager who claims to be a different gender than the one identified at birth. The Christian parents sought help from a counselor who shares their faith. A ...

Growing war against immigration enforcement

Donald Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he’s got it. The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple of months ago. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hate the notion of the National Guard in the streets of the city, but have failed to rally Chicago residents to do the one thing necessary to avoid the deployment — let federal officers do their job. The word should have gone out long ago: ...

Have Democrats become the party that stands behind murder?

Why are so many Democrats fond of wishing death on their opponents? That’s a question raised by two astonishing developments early this month. On Oct. 3, National Review’s Audrey Fahlberg revealed texts Jay Jones had sent, perhaps mistakenly, to Virginia state Del. Carrie Coyner, bemoaning the cordial remarks then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, was delivering after the death of a Democrat. “If those guys die before me,” Jones wrote, “I will go to their funerals to p— on their graves. Send them out awash in something.” Prompted, he goes on. “Three ...

Decency makes its way to ballot in Virginia

In 2017, in a special Senate election in Alabama to replace Jeff Sessions, Alabama’s electorate sent Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate after a series of disturbing allegations about Republican candidate Roy Moore. In 2022, Georgia voters elected every statewide Republican candidate for office except Herschel Walker, after a series of disturbing accounts of his prior behavior circulated. Now, the question is if Virginia has the same moral integrity. In Virginia, statewide elections are in odd-numbered years. The state has not split tickets for statewide offices since 2005. ...