In The Spectator, Terry Barnes writes about the recent appointment of Australian Governor-General Samantha Mostyn. Westminster constitutional tradition requires a country’s head of state (as opposed to head of government) to be impartial and apolitical. But Mostyn’s appointment, writes Barnes, amounts to partisan infiltration of the constitutional monarchy – which will have serious implications in the next election.
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
