Hugo Gurdon

1 week ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump scored a big win on April 10 when the House voted for the Senate’s budget framework 216 to 214. Big? It was ’uge, as the president sometimes puts it. Here’s why. It means the 2017 tax cuts are likely to be renewed, not expire at the end of the year, thus avoiding a $4.5 trillion tax hike. This means more economic growth, more thriving businesses, more plentiful jobs, and more voters seeing conservative governance working for the good of the nation.

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

There is a point in football games when a team staring defeat in the face gets desperate and starts trying trick plays and throwing Hail Mary passes. It has no option but to resort to long bombs and onside kicks because they might snatch a surprise win, and nothing else has managed to do so thus far. But the very outlandish boldness of such moves bespeaks alarm rather than confidence.

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

There is a glaring omission in all the words spoken and written about tariffs since President Donald Trump announced his horrific new trade policies on April 2. The scale of the probable horror is clear. Protectionism looks likely in the future to stanch American growth if it is not already doing so, kill American jobs, and erode American wealth. Stock prices melted down on Wall Street in reaction, gouging everyone’s retirement savings. For once, Capitol Hill Democrats were not exaggerating.

3 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Two high-profile news executives at the end of March demonstrated the extraordinary inability of their caste to see things other than through a distorted left-wing lens. Both executives intended to defend their organizations but did so with arguments, and even more with attitudes, that underscored rather than erased the legacy media’s dishonesty, blindness, or bias about which conservatives complain and with which the public is heartily sick.

4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Hugo Gurdon

Trying to stay fit in 1980s London in my 20s, I would sometimes go running — plodding, more like — in Hyde Park, which was near my apartment. One chilly morning, as I puffed along, I saw another runner. He was circling the Round Pond, a park feature that is what its name suggests. Within a nanosecond of noticing him, without really watching him, it was obvious he was an athlete. There was something uncanny in the way he glided friction-free over the ground.