Category Archives: Commentary

Why Can’t the Pentagon’s Army of Budget Bean Counters Shoot Straight?

To crack down on Pentagon spending, the Defense Department adopted a program in 2015 to [...]

The Assault on the Independent Judiciary

Our independent judiciary, with the power and duty to protect individual rights and to hold [...]

The Shoot Out at the White House

I thought it would, perhaps, be useful to take a moment to discuss the big [...]

The One Way to Improve the Economy Without Raising Inflation or Debt

The Trump administration is doubling down on deregulation: Where the previous Trump administration removed five regulations [...]

Waste of the Day: Education Spending Up, Grades Down Since 2000

Topline: The Department of Education’s employee headcount fell by 13.9% between 2000 and 2024 but [...]

DOGE’s Key Revelation: A Federal Budget Made Into a Maze Impervious to Reform

As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” [...]

Trump Warns Zelensky ‘You’re Gambling With World War III’ As Europe Escalates And Demands ‘Boots On The Ground’ In Ukraine

“What kind of diplomacy, J.D., [are you] speaking about?” That was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky [...]

Lawmakers Look to Work With Musk to Codify Into Law DOGE’s Efforts to Rein in Bureaucracy

Legislation in the U.S. House and Senate to rein in the federal bureaucracy and allow [...]

Ghost employees?

Do we have ghost employees in the federal government? Elon thinks so.  And, frankly, so [...]

Zelensky’s big boo-boo.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky screwed up big time in his meeting with President Trump and [...]