Democrats and the corporate media have often accused former President Donald Trump of using a propaganda strategy called the “Big Lie” to convince Americans that the 2020 election was stolen. They remind us that Adolf Hitler coined the term in…
If you follow policy debates long enough, arguments you never thought you’d hear can become key components of the two parties’ policy platforms. That’s certainly the case when it comes to some Republicans and their new “never touch Social Security…
Dealing with high inflation and an increasingly shaky economy, Americans are forced to make tougher spending choices. With public debt at an all-time high, government should do the same. This feat isn’t that hard now that the Congressional Budget Office…
Benjamin Franklin was a man of great wisdom, but he was mistaken when he opined that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Equally inevitable is the biennial Democratic attempt to frighten elderly voters by claiming the Republicans are plotting…
Congress’ annual August recess is a good time to think about the big picture. Most Americans want government reformed for the better. We notice its many breakdowns, dysfunctions, and failures to deliver on promises. Yet politicians of both parties usually…
The good news is the federal mail delivery monopoly — the Postal Service — only lost half as much last year as it did the prior year. According to Reuters the USPS posted a net loss of $9.2 billion for…
Last month, trustees for Social Security and Medicare let forth the grim news. Medicare Part A will be insolvent by 2026, and Social Security will follow in 2034. In years past, Washington would have considered the report a call to…
After New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned from his office Tuesday over a sexual harassment scandal, mainstream media cheered on his replacement: Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul. Lauded as the first woman to serve as the Empire State’s governor, the 62-year-old…
It’s proving to be one of the greatest scandals in the century-long history of the FDA — at a time when the agency needs all the credibility it can muster. When I first wrote in The American Spectator that the…
