Don repeating Rons success, Newsoms his own worst enemy and other commentary

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 term, his “regulatory rollbacks and corporate tax rate reductions delivered broad-based economic progress.” Now the same “policy successes” are again producing stellar results.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” but 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.”“The author Arundhati Roy is boycotting the Berlinale film festival,” because organizers won’t slam Israel, marvels Commentary’s Seth Mandel.

Yet shouldn’t “free speech” also apply to those who’d seek to avoid 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 Ge...