WASHINGTON — I’ve often railed at Democrats’ failure to revamp federal immigration law during the two years President Joe Biden enjoyed a Democratic Senate and House. When they had the chance, they squandered it. Now it’s the Republicans’ turn at…
President Donald Trump’s 2026 “skinny budget” is out, and at first glance it gives small-government advocates reason to cheer. It proposes deep cuts to domestic agencies, calls for eliminating redundant programs, and gestures toward reviving federalism by shifting power and…
Even in a world swirling with attention getting headlines of wars and economic troubles, President Trump’s appointment of Dr. Mehmet Oz has made news. Dr. Oz, no ordinary TV star, was appointed as the new administrator for the federal government’s…
In yesterday’s column discussing the escalating Alinskyite war by the American Left against Elon Musk, I referenced an interview the industrialist, tech tycoon, and scourer of America’s broken federal fisc gave with Larry Kudlow at Fox Business on Monday. That…
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want to cut $2 trillion and make the government more efficient. It’s a high priority since the United States is barreling toward a fiscal crisis. Yet despite the mounting evidence of unsustainable spending and deficits,…
Rent-seeking describes profit-seeking through the manipulation of the regulatory or legal apparatus rather than by competing with others in the marketplace. Cronyism is a common form of rent-seeking, as demonstrated by the Solyndra fiasco. When the California-based green energy start-up company…
Vice President Kamala Harris’s proposals to expand Medicare for in-home care and fund community services may sound noble, but they’re little more than Band-aids slapped on a system buckling under inflation, crime, and immigration chaos. While Harris champions these temporary…
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” —Mr. Micawber (fictional character in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) Twenty pounds…
At the DNC riots in November some protesters brought signs claiming, “Health Care is a Human Right.” Senator Sanders and Congresswoman Jayapal proposed the “Medicare for All” (single-payer health care) bill in May of this year with the same slogan….
