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…
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…
Americans have criticized FEMA and other federal agencies for their out-of-touch response to Hurricane Helene. (READ MORE: The Democrats Weaponize FEMA Relief) In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss federal agencies and how…
For a glimpse of the cynicism that animates the Democratic Party, a good place to start would be a comment made by former Obama advisor David Axelrod concerning the effect Hurricane Helene would have on voter turnout in North Carolina….
During Thursday night’s debate between Presidents Biden and Trump many questions related to the state of the economy and economic policy were broached. Conspicuously absent from the debate, however, were any questions or even a mention of the largest economic…
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…
If it feels like you’ve seen a lot of advertisements lately soliciting victims of Camp Lejeune’s tainted water, it’s because you have. In 2022, a provision was added to the “Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act” (PACT Act). It created…
There’s a sarcastic if not morbid joke within the ranks of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation about the meaning of its acronym, FDIC, as it pertains to the numerous “lifers” who have been employed at the FDIC for decades: “Found…
