Columbus Day Message from NIAF Vice Chair National @AnitaBMcBride!
As we celebrate Columbus Day 2025, NIAF’s 50th anniversary, and we look ahead to America’s 250th birthday, we honor the courage and resilience of Christopher Columbus and the enduring bond between Italy and the United States.
From our ancestors’ pursuit of the American Dream to today’s countless achievements, the Italian American spirit continues to shape our nation with the values of faith, family, hard work, and love of country.
Buona Festa di Colombo! Happy Columbus Day!
No gimp suit for me Cliff. If I were president, I would have started with a 90-day period for negotiations and then brought the hammer down.
By doing it President Trump’s way, the entire world and their citizens got to experience the visceral impact of what massive tariffs would do to their businesses, their stock and bond markets, and their economies.
From @realDonaldTrump’s approach, we were able to learn who are the preferred trade partners and who are the problems, based on who showed up early and what they offered, and who chose to retaliate.
Every country is now incredibly motivated to make a deal with us as quickly as possible to avoid the draconian consequences they will experience with no deal.
China has been isolated as a bad actor and every American company is immediately moving their supply chains out of China back to the U.S. or to trading partners of the U.S. who are likely to make favorable tariff deals with the U.S.
Time is not China’s friend. As more time goes by, more companies find other and better alternative suppliers outside of China. So China is incentivized to come to the table soon and to be reasonable in their negotiations.
The countries that showed up first and offered zero tariffs will now be rewarded with more business, motivating them to complete their deals with us promptly.
All of the above was accomplished with only a few days of market turbulence.
I am not concerned with whether this was @realDonaldTrump’s plan from the beginning. I instead focus on the outcome.
Looking at the facts objectively, the only word that comes to my mind is ‘brilliant.’
Cory Booker’s filibuster is another instance of the Left’s reduction to civil rights reenactment. He is fighting against the ghost of Strom Thurmond and framing his performance as “breaking the record” rather than advancing an immediate cause. It’s theater, not politics.
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.
There are few ideas more potent than the notion that all your problems are caused by other people and their unfairness to you. That was the royal road to unbridled power for Hitler, Lenin, and Mao—which is to say, millions of human beings paid with their lives for believing it.
Everyone from Republicans to liberal economists warned Democrats’ $1.9 trillion ‘COVID bill’ could risk inflation.
We just got the sharpest monthly inflation report in over a decade.
Ask a working American family about gas prices, food prices, lumber prices, housing prices.
Any guesses of what these cities have in common?
In addition to having some elected officials that don't do their jobs, the leadership in all of these cities turned the keys over to the "Defund the Police" mob.
As our Jewish brothers and sisters are attacked in the streets, the silence from many on the Left is deafening. While we may have disagreements on the challenges in the Middle East, we can all agree that it is not a license to attack or harass Jewish Americans.
Jussie Smollett’s ridiculous hate crime hoax generated substantially more outrage from the left/the media than the roving bands of pro-Palestinian protestors currently beating up Jews in major American cities has.