It's the most wonderful time of the year - and I don't mean Christmas. It's the time when Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) releases its annual "Congressional Pig Book Summary," exposing some of the most outrageous, ridiculous and in many cases unconstitutional spending one can ...
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire (1694-1778)(END ITAL) Last week, when the Pentagon resumed its attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the media barely ...
The U.S. national debt just crossed a once-unthinkable threshold on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II: It now exceeds 100% of America's gross domestic product. As of March 31, our publicly held debt was $31.27 trillion, while America's GDP in 2025 was $31.22 ...
One of the games in scandal politics is about "optics" — when a public official does something that just looks bad. Barack Obama fans pretend that his only scandal was wearing a tan suit to a press conference in the summer of 2014. The latest example is Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ...
The biggest Gerrymander of all Editor: There is a saying, “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” The trees around you are so tall, you can’t tell you’re standing in a large forest. America’s political parties are currently in a political gold rush to gerrymander (change congressional district electoral boundaries) in as many of the 50 states as possible. Those state efforts are the trees that occupy our attention. However, because of these trees around us we are unable to see the larger forest, the biggest gerrymander of all. That, folks, is Homeland Security’s ...
It must be the highlight for any Roman Catholic to meet the head of his church. So it must have been last week for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a practicing Catholic. Rubio was on more than a spiritual journey. His mission was to persuade Pope Leo XIV of the rightness, even the ...
