Seven of our provinces have top tax rates above 50 per cent; this is state larceny. Other than in an extreme national emergency, the state has no right to more than half of anyone’s income. by Conrad Black Canada’s tax policy is in shambles and its fiscal condition is deteriorating. In the ...Read More...

The key is for the president to be comparatively cautious. by Conrad Black The current standing of the Democrats in the midterm election polls is a levitation. Their record when they had the administration was poor. Their official leader, former president Obama, bombed with his long-winded, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It is impossible for the Democrats to plumb more profound depths than those they have in accusing President Trump of causing hurricanes while being responsible for thousands of hurricane-related deaths in Puerto Rico, even as they impugn a Supreme Court nominee at five minutes ...Read More...

The outcome of the midterms may depend on how quickly the administration can counter-attack on the legal front. by Conrad Black The almost unnoticed fact in the latest Democratic assault on the Trump administration is that it is based entirely on charges of confusion, the circus, incoherence, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black It is difficult to imagine what possessed the prime minister to open up the trade discussions with the U.S. with allegations that American right-to-work laws are an unfair trade practice and that gender equality, native rights, and wide-ranging ecological questions would all have ...Read More...

He ran for office against both parties and the status quo and carries the fight into the midterms. by Conrad Black The unusually eventful summer has reinforced the stark division between the supporters and enemies of the administration. And in this case, there is no point engaging in the traditional ...Read More...

by Conrad Black De mortuis nil nisi bonum. No one could fail to be moved by the sight at his funeral Saturday of Senator McCain‘s centenarian mother and his loyal wife accompanied by his sons in uniform and other family members. No one has any standing to take issue with the secretary of defense, ...Read More...

by Conrad Black The response to the Helsinki meeting has been so extreme on all sides that questions about the maturity, stability, and intelligence of the entire American political community are incited and require some act of faith to deal with positively. Earlier U.S. presidents created shock ...Read More...

by Conrad Black When the cant and emotionalism subside, the Helsinki summit will go down in history as a turning point in this American president’s struggle to disembowel the bipartisan regime of complacency and lassitude he successfully ran against. It may also be a modest inflection point in ...Read More...

Fraught political landscapes have created considerable uncertainty as to who may be leading some of Canada's NATO allies come September by Conrad Black It is high summer and vacation time, including for me, as this will be my last column here until Labour Day. It is hard not to wonder what ...Read More...

Many of the president’s EU counterparts are in deep water politically. by Conrad Black On the heels of my misguided intuition, expressed on another site last week, that Judge Coney was the president’s most likely selection for the Supreme Court vacancy, the president should be (but won’t be), ...Read More...

by Conrad Black Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren It appears to have been the Supreme Court of the United States, the most unremitting and inscrutable center of government, that has been a deus ex machina in clarifying issues for the American voters in the run-up to the midterm elections. ...Read More...

Every sane person is opposed to the pollution of the environment but there is no justification for the self-punitive nonsense of the Paris climate accord by Conrad Black It is 30 years this past week that Dr. James Hansen, then well into the first of more than three decades as head of the ...Read More...

The evil is compounded by the preoccupation of the the political class with the news story du jour, from the southern border. by Conrad Black Few episodes illustrate more completely the absurdity American political discourse has reached than the more robust aspects of the controversy over ...Read More...

Despite his liberties with the truth, Trump has amassed the most faithful record of modern U.S. presidents in doing what he promised to do by Conrad Black I was just reminded of Canada’s odd view of the United States by returning, for I think the third or fourth time, to Steve Paikin’s The ...Read More...