I was just down the hall when Hunter Biden made his surprise appearance on Capitol Hill this Wednesday. President Joe Biden’s profligate son made headlines when, unannounced, he stopped by the House Oversight Committee as they debated whether to hold…
As the festive season approaches, with its twinkling lights and merry carols, the item topping my Christmas wish list is fiscal responsibility from Congress and the administration. If this sounds like an economist conflating policy with goodwill, remember this: In…
With U.S. government revenues rising, 2023 might have been a good year for Congress to get America’s post-COVID-19 finances on track, but the budget deficit is still growing. You can thank overspending for this. It’s also the reason we’ve had…
The District of Columbia has always been valued as a beautiful city, both by its residents and its millions of international visitors. The district is world-famous for its museums, cemeteries, cherry blossoms, galleries, architecture, hotels, churches, statues, harbors, Rock Creek…
The secular Left (and some on the center-right) thought it had won the culture war some time ago. And it is mostly correct. But every now and then, an apostate slips by and occupies a position of governmental power. Mike…
You’ve undoubtedly noticed how up-in-arms everyone becomes when the government is on the verge of shutting down. I’ve also noticed that the people who most loudly express their horror at the notion of a partial government closure seem totally comfortable…
In early January, as then-future and now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was in the midst of the political fight of his life, this column excoriated him as an “empty suit and a quintessential Swamp creature … whose main lodestar…
President Andrew Jackson’s enemies hated him. In fact, on March 28, 1834 — with just over two years left in his second and final term (Jackson’s successor and vice president, Martin Van Buren, would be sworn in on March 4,…
The meaning of “hubris” has evolved over the centuries. Today, it has come to mean too much pride and even an insolent sense of self-confidence. One of the definitions of the word “ύβρις” in ancient Greece was disregard for the…
Barely two weeks ago, it didn’t look like House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had enough votes to pass a bill to increase the limit on the U.S. national debt. On April 19, when the California Republican released the Limit, Save, Grow…