National Review: ‘The Perjury Farce’

“The case against Kavanaugh is constantly changing, but one thing has stayed the same: Democrats will make any argument, no matter how implausible or over-the-top, to try to sink him,” the National Review editorial board writes.

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“National wage growth is at the highest it’s been in nearly 17 months — and, according to a new study released by Glassdoor, it’s not expected to slow down anytime soon,” Megan Henney reports for Fox Business. “Wages grew 2.6 percent year-over-year from 2017 to $52,664, making it the fastest wage growth seen since April 2017.”Glassdoor economist Daniel Zhao added in a statement that “we expect wages to continue to rise as demand remains for workers throughout a number of industries.”

The New York Post editorial board writes that President Trump came through on another big promise by securing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. “It’s hard to argue with the result,” the editors write. “Trump has once again delivered on a campaign promise that his rivals called a fantasy. A politician who does what he says he’ll do: Imagine that.”

“The Trump administration’s new three-way trade deal to replace NAFTA got a thumbs-up from American farmers,” S.A. Miller writes in The Washington Times. “Americans for Farmers & Families spokesman Casey Guernsey, a seventh-generation farmer, said the three-way deal showed Mr. Trump remembered his promise ‘to stand up for rural America.’”

In the Washington Examiner, Justin Haskins reminds readers that “just one day after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, famed New York Times writer Paul Krugman wrote, ‘It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover? A first-pass answer is never … So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.’” Haskins adds that “nearly two years later, Krugman couldn’t possibly look more foolish.”