Delivering on Promises In what he calls “giving credit where credit is due,” James Freeman reports in the WSJ: Speaker Mike Johnson deserves full marks for a Tuesday House vote approving “one big, beautiful” budget framework for Trump’s first-year priorities. Despite media meddling, Democratic resistance and a handful of holdout GOP malcontents, Johnson held the major factions […]
Wandering in the Wilderness
Fighting for Gov’t Waste and Inefficiency Somewhere between the desert and the wilderness is where Kimberley A. Strassel pinpoints Democrats. The Donald Trump thumping has left them without “power, a leader or a message, and their current, near-total irrelevance is one result.” Mr. Trump blazes his way through Washington while Democrats—a day late, and two […]
Eliminating Fraud and Waste Turns Loathsome
Fighting a Moral Cause As Democrats continue their caustic assault on Elon Musk, one must wonder why the mainstream media is so eager to go along. Charles Litpson in Spectator gives a simple answer: Musk is the most prominent member of the new administration aside from the president himself. He is Donald Trump’s point man […]
What’s New, Bureaucrat?
Beware Smaller Government Should you be forgiven for thinking that life on earth, as you have known it, is about to change? James Freeman, in the WSJ, writes about why you should be given a little grace. Statists are pulling out every tool in the rhetorical shed to attack the Department of Government Efficiency campaign against […]
Trump’s Peace Talks with Putin
Stop the Dying Isn’t it rather surprising that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t “extremely grateful” to President Trump for his extraordinary full-court press to end the war in Ukraine? Also surprising to any casual observer is why America’s European allies don’t appreciate that America now has a president who is reasserting strong American leadership on […]
The Trump Policy: Long Overdue
Trump Puts Americans First As headlines announce Ukraine’s anxiety about continuing support from Washington, Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow in Spectator, US discusses Europe and the lessons the continent is learning from MAGA. Europe’s leaders are re-aligning, warning that President Trump, who is advocating for European countries to “spend 5% of GDP on their militaries,” should […]
The Real Secret to Silicon Valley
“Intelligence moves out to the edge of the network.” In the WSJ, Andy Kessler discusses the “New Frontier of individualism,” not an instant replay. It’s been a long time a’coming. No operator? No problem. Dial your own phone. The same holds true for pumping your own gas, planning your own retirement, or trading your own […]
Think Big and Swing for the Fences
A Heaving Federal Infrastructure Although Donald Trump’s with his wrecking-ball ferocity may eliminate some waste, DOGE is almost certain to damage the government’s ability to provide needed services, reports William M. Daley in the WSJ. Liberals and good-government advocates are outraged, but millions of frustrated Americans are open to radical, blunt-force changes after so many […]
Is Putin Being Snookered?
What Joe Biden Could Have Done In The Federalist, John Daniel Davidson explains the consequences of Donald Trump’s executive orders declaring a national emergency at the southern border. As editors at the WSJ point out, with all the ruckus, the Trump administration might be missing a serious opportunity. Lost in the tumult are “particular events,” […]
America’s Political Plundering
Brazen Waste, Fraud, Misuse of Funds Fraud in US government spending? How ridiculous! What fraud? There’s nothing to see here, the US media assures Americans. According to that media, yes, the same media who told Americans to trust them, that President Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack” … “At Oval Office, Musk Makes Broad […]
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