I have dealt with USAID for nearly four decades now, and my overall impression has been akin to Longfellow’s description of the little girl with a curl: There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the…
During his bid to reclaim the White House, President Trump pledged to pare down the federal government and said Elon Musk would play a role in that effort. The Democrats evidently expected this project to go the way of the…
Donald Trump said to have stopped the sending of $50 million earmarked for condoms for Gaza, i.e. condoms for Hamas terrorists. The joke seems funny until you find out that Hamas has been using kites, balloons, and condoms to launch…
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size,” said Ronald Reagan. “Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!” Donald Trump and Elon Musk today…
In 2007 New York City-based professor and economist William Easterly published his intentionally provocative book, White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. In it, he argued that after…
The Left is sounding alarms over President Trump and Elon Musk’s recent actions to defund the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) despite recent findings of misappropriated funds. (READ MORE: Are the Protests in Slovakia Due to NGO and USAID…
A flurry of executive orders and the specter of a reorganization of USAID have focused attention on a sphere of policy in need of reform. In addition to the often-cited issue of wasted tax dollars, serious matters such as terror…
