Does the federal government’s “inexorable bloat” make it a clear and present danger to the American people?” That is a question for public safety as well as a question for politics in America, writes Dan Henninger in the WSJ. The number of catastrophic events attributable in no small part to federal-agency failure in recent years […]
Everybody Knew, Nobody Did Anything
“This kid exhibited every single known red flag, from killing animals to having a cache of weapons to disruptive behavior to saying he wanted to be a school shooter. If this isn’t a person who should have gotten someone’s attention, I don’t know who is. This was a multi-system failure, “ stressed Howard Finkelstein the […]
Speaking of Immigration…
Would it surprise you that half of illegal households in America rely on some sort of government assistance? But there is some bright news. Because of widely mechanized advances in farming, agriculture now accounts for about 10-20 percent of illegal alien labor. Crops such as nuts, olives, raisins and delicate Napa Valley wine grates, once considered […]
Donald Trump Needs a Populist Plan
Donald Trump’s deregulation, tax cuts, and energy expansion will likely increase federal revenue. That’s the good news. But in what Victor Davis Hanson calls the same old matrix (George W. Bush doubled the national debt and Barack Obama doubled it again) Donald Trump’s “various budget concessions and his own proposed increases in defense spending and infrastructure would likely bleed the […]
“Thank God My Granddaddy Got on that Boat”
With his customary cheekiness, Muhammad Ali responded to the reporter inquiring about his thoughts on Africa after his Rumble in the Jungle boxing match. It was 1974. Ali had just returned to the U.S. from Zaire, where he had beaten the previously undefeated world heavyweight-champ George Foreman. It was not for nothing that Ali thanked […]
The IRS—Trampling on the Rights of Citizens
The abuses by the IRS targeting political opposition during the Obama era are about to come to an end. The WSJ reports: President Donald Trump will nominate Charles Rettig, a California tax lawyer, to run the Internal Revenue Service, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Rettig will […]
Steele Dossier, FISA Warrants: a Big Deal or No Big Deal?
Today’s hysteria about the Trump administration was “already deeply seeded in the federal government throughout the 2016 campaign and the 2016–17 transition.” As Victor Davis Hanson explains in NRO, there seems to have been a number of powerful Obama officials who thought they had the moral right to nullify Trump. Many questions remain, “but Democrats, […]
Christopher Steele and the FBI’s Due Diligence?
Having trouble navigating through the non-stop spin on the 2016 government surveillance abuses? The House Intelligence Committee’s memo reportedly is to be released today. Just in time is the WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel’s non-partisan guide on what to look for and what to ignore. She writes: Rationale. Did the FBI have cause to open a full-blown […]
Federal Employees and the Rigged Game
In his SOTU speech, President Trump, advocating civil service reform, would like Congress to “empower every cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.” According to Inez Feltscher Stepman, a senior contributor to The Federalist, it can take up […]
A Change in D.C.’s Tone?
Optimistic was the general tone of President Trump’s State of the Union speech, writes Gerald Baker in the WSJ’s The 10-Point. Optimism was a constant of the evening and part of a different Trump that the president wanted voters to see, writes the Journal’s Gerald F. Seib. His speech differed starkly from his darker tone taken […]
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