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Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year, Aside from the Washington hysterias
National Review ^ | 01/03/2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/03/2019 7:46:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Aside from the Washington hysterias, 2018 was a most successful year for Americans.

The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock-market gyrations, the melodramas of the Robert Mueller investigation, and the musical-chair tenures of officials in the Trump administration.

A quarter of the government is still shut down. Talk of impeachment by the newly Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is in the air. Seemingly every day there are sensational breakthroughs, scandals, and bombshells that race through social media and the Internet — only to be forgotten by the next day.

In truth, aside from the Washington hysterias, 2018 was a most successful year for Americans.

In December, the United States reached a staggering level of oil production, pumping some 11.6 million barrels per day. For the first time since 1973, America is now the world’s largest oil producer

Since Trump took office, the U.S. has increased its oil production by nearly 3 million barrels per day, largely as the result of fewer regulations, more federal leasing, and the continuing brilliance of American frackers and horizontal drillers. It appears that there is still far more oil beneath U.S. soil than has ever been taken out. American production could even soar higher in the months ahead.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018; 2018review; economy; vdh; victordavishanson; washington

1 posted on 01/03/2019 7:46:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“We can’t just drill our way out of this” B. Hussein O.


3 posted on 01/03/2019 7:54:34 AM PST by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam)
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To: SeekAndFind
Hanson needs to eject from Nat Review.

He and the blonde are the only ones worth salvaging.

4 posted on 01/03/2019 7:54:38 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: SeekAndFind
Aside from the Washington hysterias, 2018 was a most successful year for Americans.
I guess the stock market mini-crash doesn't count?
5 posted on 01/03/2019 7:55:22 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: AAABEST

RE: He and the blonde are the only ones worth salvaging.

Who’s the blonde?


6 posted on 01/03/2019 7:57:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind
American economy grew by 4.2 percent in the second quarter of 2018, and by 3.4 percent in the third quarter.

Q3 is when I changed employers for a 17% salary raise. The Trump Recovery certainly lifted my boat. :)

7 posted on 01/03/2019 8:02:58 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: SeekAndFind; AAABEST

“Who’s the blonde?”

Katherine Timpf appears to be their blondest: https://www.nationalreview.com/authors/

No love for Michelle Malkin?


8 posted on 01/03/2019 8:10:11 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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No love for Michelle Malkin?

No... I LOVE her. She's still with NR?

The blonde:


9 posted on 01/03/2019 8:16:39 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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