The murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was a heinous crime allegedly done by Luigi Mangione out of rage against the machine. Presumably, his target was someone who profits from our broken healthcare “machine” or system. Public frustration with, anger,…
Lyndon Johnson feared conservatives as “The Great Beast” in American politics. The Great Beast flexed its muscles on Wednesday. The continuing resolution failed because establishment Republicans for once feared upsetting conservative members of their own majority party more than displeasing…
No, this is not about the 1982 horror movie starring Adrienne Barbeau, but those who mean to “drain the swamp” should take heed — danger lurks in an unlikely place, and, left unchecked, the beast could well destroy even the…
When President Joe Biden leaves the White House on Jan. 20, he will be entitled to an annual presidential pension equivalent to a sitting cabinet secretary’s salary: $246,400. That’s already generous but, thanks to a quirk in the law, taxpayers…
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of President-elect Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have announced ambitious goals for cutting unnecessary government regulations, an effort in “retrospective review” that is long-overdue. Our current federal governmental structure is devoted almost…
We all know that there are a large number of conservatives and Republicans who entertain grave doubts about returning Donald Trump to the White House. Apart from their consternation about his volatile, sometimes nasty, personal decorum and the frequent undignified…
The two bitterly opposed presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, have tacitly agreed on how to deal with our most pressing domestic policy problem — ignore it. The federal government last fiscal year spent $1.7 trillion more than it…
WASHINGTON — Overspending has been such a part of the fabric of the nation’s capital that the fiscal watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste has gone through a number of pig mascots. Poppy the potbelly pig attended a CAGW news…
Citing threats to public safety and national security “so elevated all at once,” FBI director Christopher Wray seeks a budget of $11.3 billion, a 6.1 percent increase over fiscal year 2023. While members of Congress think it over, they might run a few…
