Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

They Discovered Energy Bills When the Wrong President Was in Charge

This morning the same people who spent four years calling gasoline a morality play discovered [...]

They Knew It Was His. They Told You It Was Moscow.

The laptop was not “just verified.” That is the part everyone keeps getting wrong on [...]

They Built the Wall First. Then They Called Ours a Crisis.

Ottawa is clutching its pearls. Washington just put 50 percent on about $20 billion of [...]

The Islands Where the Paper Lives

The Treasury secretary did not whisper it. He said it on camera at the finance [...]

They Stopped Coming. Then They Started Leaving.

For half a century the foreign-born line on the chart only went one direction. Up. [...]

He Signed Never Forget. Then He Gave the Pen to the Other Team.

Friday at City Hall. Twenty-five years almost to the day. Two executive orders. One makes [...]

They Keep Testing the Rule. He Keeps Raising the Multiple.

There is no framed parchment at the Pentagon that says “you hit one of ours, [...]

They Printed the Brochure. He Read It Out Loud.

The socialist platform is not a rumor and it is not a vibe. It is [...]

They Wrote the Indictment Themselves

The White House dropped a ten-count list this week. Not a vibe. Not a speech. [...]

Four Hundred Grand Was the Cover Charge

If you heard Elon Musk put $400,000 into the midterms and filed it under “nice [...]