Ukraine is ready to come back to the negotiating table a day after President Donald Trump froze military aid to the country, Trump reported in his joint address to Congress on March 4. Trump read from a March 4 letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that was posted to X aloud to Congress, stating, “Ukraine is ready to […]
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on The View. I can’t watch The View. Although my constitution isn’t all the delicate, the screaming harpies on The View makes me physically sick. And my wife hates to hear me yell at the TV anyway. Frankly, I cannot figure out how they are still on the air. They add nothing to the national […]
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President Donald Trump turned his joint address to Congress into a rally Tuesday night, declaring “America is back,” and connecting the vigorous actions taken in the first six weeks of his administration to the campaign promises made en route to a mandate victory for Republicans in the 2024 election. Trump’s speech came just six weeks after […]
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The Atlanta Federal Reserve on March 3 has again issued its GDP Now projection, finding the U.S. economy could be contracting at an inflation-adjusted, annualized 2.8 percent rate for the first quarter of 2025. That is down further from its Feb. 28 projection of negative 1.5 percent. But this was a long time coming, with red […]
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What is DOGE really doing—and why is it so controversial? The answer lies in an esoteric if straightforward concept that began in the world of budgeting: Zero-basing. As a general rule, most organizations, businesses, agencies, and even households building budgets start by asking themselves a simple question: What did we spend last year? To […]
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To crack down on Pentagon spending, the Defense Department adopted a program in 2015 to track spending on lodging and entertainment. But so few officials used the Visa government travel charge card that nearly 4 million card transactions worth $1.2 billion couldn’t be reviewed in enough detail to check for misuse, abuse, and fraud, the Pentagon’s Office […]
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Our independent judiciary, with the power and duty to protect individual rights and to hold the political branches to their constitutional boundaries, is a foundation of our republic and a hallmark of American exceptionalism. But it is under grave attack from people in powerful positions and their legal sycophants, who are giving currency to notions […]
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I thought it would, perhaps, be useful to take a moment to discuss the big events at the White House where Zelensky met Trump. It is unprecedented that a visiting dignitary would behave the way Zelensky did, or for that matter show up in a tight-fitting sweatshirt and slacks, something Mr. Trump disliked. To begin […]
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The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations for every new one, the target is now 10. Our research shows that cutting regulations will increase gross domestic product, expand investment, and cut inflation without raising taxes. We used RegData 5.0, a text-based database that tracks regulatory intensity in the Federal […]
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Topline: The Department of Education’s employee headcount fell by 13.9% between 2000 and 2024 but its spending increased by 749% during that time, according to a new report from OpenTheBooks.com. Meanwhile, reading and math student proficiency on standardized tests has fallen. Key facts: In 2000, the Department of Education had 4,930 employees and […]