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Blue state governor’s ‘gross mismanagement’ cost taxpayers $1.6B for illegal immigrant healthcare: audit

An audit requested by GOP lawmakers shows Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s administration grossly underestimated the $1.6 billion price tag for state health programs for illegal immigrants.

DODE cuts target weather forecasters in latest firing wave

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status were fired Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said.

Who’s in charge?: Rereading Elizabeth Anderson’s ‘Private Government’

Imagine a government where citizens face limited autonomy, strict hierarchies, and personal monitoring by a superior, where a routine is mandated for those on the lower rungs of the social order to follow. In this system, supervisors operate with unchecked power, often issuing arbitrary orders that may change without notice or opportunity for appeal. Subordinates, […]

Point shaving is back

Do you miss the basketball point-shaving scandals of the 20th century? Well, they are making a comeback, courtesy of the widespread accessibility and normalized gambling culture brought on by mobile gambling apps. The Fresno State Bulldogs basketball team has had a historically bad season, with its longest losing streak, most losses (23 and counting), and […]

No one elected the White House Correspondents’ Association

President Donald Trump owes his political success to many things, his personal skills as an entertainer and a negotiator high among them. But no factor explains the rise of Trump better than the capture of America’s elite institutions by far-left ideology and a resulting decline in public trust. Whether it is in higher education, organized […]

Retiring from self-improvement

“You look great,” someone said to me last week. “Have you lost weight?” Which is always nice to hear, but it got me thinking. In the first place, I haven’t lost a pound, I assure you. I eat just as much bread as I always have, which is to say all the bread I can […]

Yearning for another miracle

It has now been 45 years since the United States men’s hockey team delivered the iconic Miracle on Ice, defeating the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. That game, played on Feb. 22, 1980, has gone down in history as one of the most famous moments in sports. […]

Democratic lawmaker demands Musk, OPM stop sending mass emails to staffers: ‘Chaotic’

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Cali., on Wednesday demanded that Elon Musk and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell stop sending mass emails to staffers.

Free trade is an IQ test

Protectionism is a vibe, not an argument. Its exponents hold a series of positions that are more esthetic than empirical. They don’t like cheap goods. They don’t like the corporate suits whom they imagine to be the beneficiaries of globalization. They do like horny-handed sons of toil in coal mines and steel mills — or, […]

For love of country

People join the United States military for many different reasons. They may want technical training, a paycheck, college money, or even simple travel and adventure. Others, like my new friend, former Navy Reserve Lt. Mary Kallen, join the military due to nothing more than a deep love of country and a desire to help America. […]

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