A Survey With America's Most Elegant Former Political Prisoner Conrad Black
"Lord Black's career as a publisher ended with a multi-count conviction in US federal court in the Northern District of Illinois for a "corporate governance" "crime" that none of his enemies can even explain.
He was imprisoned, and, either because he's Canadian or a member of the House of Lords, was deemed ineligible for minimum-security and incarcerated among a rough crowd in Florida to whom, when I visited him, he seemed to endear himself. (In prison he taught American history classes, as remedial education for the deficiencies of American public schools.) I found it amazing that he was not only surviving but thriving. Beyond his cell, he fought his conviction, up past a somnolent appeal judge, the overrated and arrogant Richard Posner who (as was all too apparent in court) hadn't even read the briefs, and all the way to the Supreme Court,. Two years into his sentence everything was tossed out except one count.
Whereupon the original trial judge, Amy St Eve, notwithstanding what had happened on her watch, sent him back to gaol.
So Conrad Black was the victim of a grotesque miscarriage by America's hideous and corrupt federal justice system - which urgently needs (as we see from, inter alia, the military force dispatched to take down Roger Stone) the kind of top-to-toe overhaul no one apparently is willing to give it.
Meanwhile, back in Canada, Lord Black, if no longer The National Post's proprietor, has been reborn as a columnist in the newspaper he founded."...….
See also "I Stand Before The Court". Like Mr. Libby and Mr. D'Souza, Justice would be a full pardon for Lord Black, Mr. President.
American Might Makes Its Return In Trump Era
"Almost indiscernible in the endless tumult about President Donald Trump is the objective return of American might, right on our doorstep. A casual sampler of the Canadian, and even the American, press, might think that the United States was so far along in its decline that the entire process of government and normal public discourse had broken down in that country, and that the much-discussed process of national decline was accelerating in a climate of virtual chaos.
In fact, the economy of the United States is astoundingly strong: full employment, an expanding workforce, negligible inflation and about 3% economic growth. And it is a broad economic recovery, not based on service industries as in the United Kingdom (where London handles most of Europe’s financial industry, while most of British industry has fled), and not based largely on the fluctuating resources markets as has often been Canada’s experience.
In the eight years of President Obama, the United States lost 219,000 manufacturing jobs; in the two years of Trump, the country has added 477,000 manufacturing jobs. This was not supposed to be possible, and this time, unlike in the great Reagan boom, it cannot be dismissed by the left (and it was false in the eighties) as a profusion of “hamburger flippers, dry cleaners and people delivering pizza,” (all necessary occupations). …
Through it all, the United States, appearing to be disorderly, its establishment and press at war with the occupant of the White House, is demonstrating almost effortlessly how illusory is the idea that any other country or group of countries can challenge its pre-eminence among the world’s nations.
Canadians may not like it; the world may try to pretend otherwise, but however the domestic political tides of America may flow, North Korea is on its best behaviour, the ayatollahs are quaking in their voluminous raiment, and all America’s trade partners, including Canada and China, are accepting what amounts to unilateral renegotiation by the U.S. No other country in the world has any appreciable influence at all more than a few hundred miles from its borders (an area that includes 95% of the population of Canada)."...….
Canadians may not like it; the world may try to pretend otherwise, but however the domestic political tides of America may flow, North Korea is on its best behaviour, the ayatollahs are quaking in their voluminous raiment, and all America’s trade partners, including Canada and China, are accepting what amounts to unilateral renegotiation by the U.S. No other country in the world has any appreciable influence at all more than a few hundred miles from its borders (an area that includes 95% of the population of Canada)."...….
Conservative Treehouse explains the premise:
"President Trump has reversed 30-years of trade and economic policy that was specifically structured to favor multinational corporations and multinational banks within Wall Street.
MAGAnomics puts the focus, the primary economic activity, back into Main Street corporations and smaller U.S. banks and credit unions. Real business growth happens at a street level, business-by-business, job-by-job, company-by-company. The paper economy, the investment class, follows the path of greatest return… that brings investment back to Main Street. Again, that’s our now; that’s what is happening around us. …
One of the reasons the professional political class hate Trump is simply because he applies common sense policy built upon the cornerstone of America-first. Decades of pontificating political economic policy are dispatched; and the American economic engine roars.
Lower tax rates, smart regulation, expanded U.S. investment opportunity, and larger Main Street economic growth is the policy assembly behind MAGAnomics…. and guess what, it’s working."
It sure is. 300,000-plus new jobs in January alone. Wages up. S&P up. Dow up. Inflation down. Markets opened. China tamed. Korea defused. ISIS vanquished. The list goes on.
CTH again on the numbers:
CTH again on the numbers:
- In January, employment in leisure and hospitality rose by 74,000.
- Construction employment rose by 52,000 in January
- Employment in health care increased by 42,000 in January.
- Over the month, employment in transportation and warehousing rose by 27,000.
- In January, retail trade employment edged up by 21,000.
- Mining employment increased by 7,000 in January.
- Employment in professional and business services continued to trend up over the month (+30,000) and has increased by 546,000 in the past 12 months.
- Employment in manufacturing continued to trend up in January (+13,000).
(Source BLS Data)"...….
I shudder when I think of what this president could accomplish if the Uni-Party were working with him for America instead of against us. But then, they wouldn't be the Uni-Party.
Magnificent work, sir. Stunning, really. They said it couldn't be done. Literally, they said it. They were wrong. You were right.
We're with you all the way. You've earned it.
We're with you all the way. You've earned it.
Working on his Slice
SOTU-Update: Again, Greatness
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