In yet more violence done to the Federal Constitution by an unelected federal judge almost certainly exceeding her authority, in Talbot v. United States, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Ana Reyes — the most important judges in the history of the universe, apparently — has decided to put an injunction on President Donald […]
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Every fiber of my economic being cries out against tariffs. If they are so good, why doesn’t each state in the US have one against the products of all of the other 49? That is, Ohio could “protect” its industries against the incursions from Arizona. This is obviously silly. One of the important reasons America […]
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One of the largest human smuggling operations in U.S. history has been dismantled by federal and local law enforcement officers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol and Inglewood Police investigators in California launched an investigation that led to the arrests of four Guatemalan human smuggling ringleaders who were all living illegally in the U.S. […]
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Another two weeks, another column about Donald Trump. I would feel guilty for being repetitive, but really what else is there to write about these days? President Trump has not just set the agenda, he has turned the entire world into his oyster. The only question to be answered is, who is Trump beating this […]
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As President Trump works with the Republican-controlled Congress to pass his big, beautiful tax bill, it is exposing some ugly truths about the policy conviction of certain GOP members. Extending the lower tax brackets of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was already a challenge due to the razor-thin GOP margin in […]
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Southwest land border encounters dropped to 11,709 in the February, the first full month of President Donald Trump’s tenure in office, according to data gathered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the lowest ever on record in data dating all the way back to 2000. Compared to one year ago, in Feb. 2024 it was 189,913, down […]
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Forty-five years ago Ronald Reagan promised to abolish the Department of Education. Now, more than a generation later, Donald Trump has finally started to deliver with an executive order that serves as the most dramatic mile-marker in his long march through the federal bureaucracy. “It sounds strange, doesn’t it? Department of Education. We’re […]
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Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in “greenhouse gas reduction” money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention. The $7 billion Solar for All program – part of the $27 billion […]
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Inflation remains the top issue for voters as President Donald Trump enters his third month in office, according to the latest data in a Fox News poll showing 27 percent saying inflation and prices are definitely still the top issue, a consistent result that was also seen in the 2024 election. That cuts across party lines, with […]
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At his recent address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, President Donald Trump noted that upon taking office he had “imposed an immediate freeze… on all foreign aid” via a January 20 executive order. Under the Jan. 20 Trump executive order, departments and agencies were to stop all “new obligations and disbursements”: “All […]