It was hardly necessary to consult the Delphic Oracle to learn that the Department of Government Efficiency was destined to be extremely unpopular with federal bureaucrats. Nor was it difficult to predict that their collective response would be clueless and…
Some people are so miserable that only a star on the Walk of Fame would cheer them up. And then there is the rest of us, we who get excited about any silly little thing made for us lovingly, for…
Elon Musk and DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — are all the rage. As this is written, here are a few sample headlines: The Washington Times: “Trump order calls for agencies to run regulations past DOGE.” Newsmax: “IRS…
As Elon Musk targets fathomless waste in the federal government, protests ring out that the DOGE boss is not elected. As Victor Davis Hanson points out, neither was Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan or other powerful players in government. Elon Musk…
Auric Goldfinger. For James Bond fans, Goldfinger’s obsessed-with-gold villain in the Bond movie that bore his name way back in 1964 was, to say the least, memorable. Life magazine memorably ran an immutable image from the film of a “Bond girl” (as…
Test your Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) knowledge with this multiple-choice quiz. One answer is correct. The quiz is based on reports of what Elon Musk and his merry band of tech nerds have uncovered. 1. In 2023, the National…
Finding himself standing astride history and holding a big, beautiful mandate from the voters, President Donald Trump has made his triumphant return to The Swamp to clean things up once and for all. Though Trump repeatedly disavowed Project 2025 throughout…
By attacking the Department of Education and the United States Agency for International Development, President Trump and special government employee Elon Musk are simply hitting fungos at spring training — like a crack baseball team, anxiously awaiting the first pitch…
WASHINGTON — “My uncle started USAID in 1961, for humanitarian purposes, to put our country on the side of the poor,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pronounced Thursday at the White House as he was sworn in as Health Secretary. “It…
