In his runaway best-seller The Plot Against the President, Lee Smith tells how Washington’s permanent bureaucracy, Deep State actors and news media accomplices targeted Donald Trump. The Trump-hating mob was willing to go after virtually any person who had the temerity to back Trump but, in Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, might just have met its match.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.


