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…
And, no surprise, this latest anti-Trump protest has things exactly backwards. The New York Post headlines: “Anti-Trump protesters descend on DC to rally against Musk’s DOGE cuts, new tariffs: ‘Let’s keep them afraid!’” These stories were all over the media. The NY…
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is uniquely adept at losing money. America’s mail carrier lost $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 and has shed more than $100 billion over the past fifteen years. And now, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is suggesting the…
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…
Social Security is as big as government programs get. Naturally, even a glance at it with DOGE’s magnifying glass found plenty that seemed — charitably — not quite right. “According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of…
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,…
The United States is at a crossroads. You may have heard that Social Security is politically impossible to reform. But that belief will be hard to sustain. In a few years, the Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted. When…
In the first volume of his history of World War II, The Gathering Storm, Winston Churchill laid bare the root causes of the war. The blame fell squarely on the Western powers’ failure to recognize the growing threat of war…
What could possibly go wrong with a federal database run by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) that includes the date of birth, complete current address, and a “unique identifying number” from a passport or a driver’s license, as well…
