President Trump and his sons said Friday they are appealing a court decision that blocked the deal he reached with his own administration settling his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
President Donald Trump said Friday that his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is "dead" while also continuing to defend it, further complicating his administration's negotiations with two Republican senators who are blocking his attorney general nominee in protest.
A perennial front-runner in the race for most despised federal agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has reemerged as a top target during the first 100 days of the second Trump Administration. There have been hirings, firings, two acting directors, several resignations, and more than a couple of questionable anti-gun legal positions. […]
What happened this weekend to make Laura Loomer, the MAGA hyper-loyalist with an inside line to Donald Trump himself, criticize the president, a man she “would take a bullet for?” ABC News reported that the Trump administration was poised to accept a “super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet” from Qatar, described as “what may be […]
Progressives love screwing over the little guy: Just look at state Attorney General Tish James’ latest “pro-consumer” move, the so-called “FAIR Business Practices Act.”
“Democracy is at stake!” “Democracy is on the line!” Oh, you’ve heard this all before from Democrats and their friends in the media: The only thing stopping democracy from dying in darkness are members of the Democratic Party here to protect it. Nobody is above the law, they say. Elections have consequences, they insist. Authoritarianism […]
One of the things that drew me to endorse early a young, first-time U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, JD Vance, was a sense of shared understanding and passion for the typical struggling family. Vance, now vice president, told his moving family story in his 2016 bestselling book (also a popular Ron Howard Netflix film) Hillbilly Elegy. To read […]
Manna, Scripture tells us, came down from heaven through the hand of God. Pizza, in turn, came to us from Naples, through New York City. Now, God has given us a pope from Chicago who has spent much of his life in Rome. And so the long-burning conflict between different pizza styles threatens to become […]
In a world of odd “spiritual” beliefs, Dr. Casey Means is no outsider. In fact, she is an effective channel for them. Means and her brother, Calley, are Stanford-educated medical professionals whose work focuses on functional medicine — the sort of root-cause and wellness interests that drive the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. The siblings […]
Many Republican members of Congress have been leery of cuts to Medicaid, afraid of being tarred by Democratic attack ads. The recently released House Energy and Commerce Committee draft proposals should help them rest more easily because they avoid the classic Republican mistake: appearing to care more about saving money than saving lives. Democrats have […]
Beneath the surface of Medicaid’s state-federal partnership lies a tangled web of financial sleight-of-hand that quietly drains federal coffers, shifts enormous costs from states to the federal government, and raises premiums on working people. To explain the issue, last month, Paragon Health Institute released a report titled “Addressing Medicaid Money Laundering.” The term “Medicaid money laundering” was coined by the Wall Street Journal in […]
In baseball, three strikes and you’re out. Jerome Powell has already bungled two major challenges as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Based on last week’s Fed meeting, he’s going to strike out again. Powell’s first mistake was rushing Congress into appropriating trillions for unnecessary post-COVID-19 “recovery” spending. That sent inflation soaring to 9.2%, the highest […]
One of my favorite places in my hometown of Washington, D.C. is the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. Every year, the AFI hosts wonderful film festivals featuring movies from Ireland, Africa, Iran, and other countries. They have festivals that feature certain directors of themes, such as the upcoming D.C. Labor Film Festival. So why not have an […]
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a welcome pause in the Trump administration’s trade wars Sunday. A preliminary agreement with China will reduce U.S. tariffs on most Chinese imports from 145% to 30%, with a reciprocal reduction on U.S. exports to China from 125% to 10%. The reprieve is set to last only 90 days, however, […]
