It has festive treats, Christmas carols, decorations and costumes – as well as death-defying stunts, a wise-cracking and foul-mouthed hero, an inimitable villain, an ending that…you have to watch for yourself – and a cottage industry of argumentation over whether it is in fact a Christmas movie. John Phelan in American Experiment writes that Die Hard is that, plus a lot more besides – with a core character and message that inspires conservatives to stand tall.
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.
