Can newly installed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy deliver on the promises and deals that he floated on his tortured journey to claiming the gavel? Team GOP’s handshake spending plan includes two goals — to cap discretionary spending in fiscal year…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially stepped away from leadership last week after two decades directing the political agenda of House Democrats. There’s no denying the historic nature of the California lawmaker’s tenure, whose leadership began in 2002 when she became…
The consumer price index (CPI) rose 8.2 percent year-over-year in September. Fuel oil jumped 58 percent, new vehicles climbed 9 percent, and electricity spiked 16 percent. The guts of the Bureau of Labor Statistics report show why this round of…
President Joe Biden is annoyed. On Saturday, during a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus, he complained: “I’m so sick of Republicans saying we’re the ‘big spenders.’ Give me a break. Give me a break.” He all but said in…
Spectacularly awful. Brazenly corrupt. Dangerously destructive. Unconscionably unfair. Unconstitutional. Immoral. Grotesque. These are some of my considered reactions to President Joe Biden’s imperial decision to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars (so far) of college debt owed to Uncle Sam…
Joe Biden identifies as the president of Zimbabwe when the mood strikes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported this week that prices rose year-to-year by 6.2 percent. It isn’t exactly Robert Mugabe. But ain’t Paul Volcker, either. The last…
Joe Biden started out with a bang. In the first 100 days of his presidency, he and his administration climbed aboard the progressive bandwagon and embarked on a wild ride, pushing three multi-trillion-dollar spending bills. Then, on the Friday before…
I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country. But what is apparent with each passing week is that the virus has been the springboard for the Left’s agenda to transform…
