Bryan Riley is not a fan of President Donald Trump’s tariffs — and that’s painful for him. “I want him to succeed,” Riley told me. “I work at the National Taxpayers Union.” The NTU is hardly an anti-Trump institution. But…
The image of the day might become an image for the ages, particularly if something historic comes from the moment. It occurred at the Vatican this weekend, with Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky both in Rome for the funeral…
A recurring theme — or trope — around President Donald Trump’s second term is the administration’s putative goal to outsource governmental functions to the private sector. In light of oral arguments in FCC v. Consumers’ Research last month, it’s worth…
There is so much going on in litigation against President Trump’s various policies that it’s tough to keep track of it. One of the basics I learned long ago in law school is that a court has jurisdiction only over…
“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.” William Shakespeare, King Lear Last Friday marked the 250th anniversary of the Shot Heard Round the World. This was the first musket shot of the American Revolution, fired across the old North…
Crazy days! In the spirit of positive thinking the last century’s New Dealers used to say, Happy days are here again! These are nervous days — boom or bust! But I say, with Iris De Ment, “let the mystery be,”…
In the world, you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world. John 16: 33 A thousand Easters ago, the world was in darkness. The Roman power which sustained civilization for a millennium had fallen to corruption,…
The general consensus among informed political analysts is that the Republicans emerged from last November’s election in control of the White House and Congress due to the border crisis and persistent inflation. The Trump administration curtailed the influx of illegal…
