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District of Corruption

Why the CBO Almost Always Gets It Wrong

These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation predict what will happen with spending, tax revenues and deficits from new bills and congressional budgets. They have made headlines with their absurd warning that the Trump tax bill to extend the 2017 tax cuts and other reforms like eliminating taxes on tips would add trillions to the debt over 10 years."It's ...

Why Democrats Hate DOGE and Love Waste

If you haven't watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and ...

Donald Trump

Trump’s Magnificent Beginning

As my assiduous readers know, I've been down on Donald Trump for abandoning the central promises of his 2016 campaign -- a campaign so spectacular that I wrote an homage to it, ...

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Don’t Nuke the Senate Filibuster!

Why is it that the politicians keep referring to America as a "democracy"? How many times have we heard that former President Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy"? Well, yes, ...

The Worst Enemy

People in Washington love to debate threats. Which country or organization is the greatest danger to the United States? Is it Russia, with its massive nuclear arsenal and ...

Is Washington Distorting the Numbers?

We all know that math scores have been scandalously trending downward for many years, but the folks in the government should at least be able to count. We're finding more and ...

Hey Kamala, Where Are Your Spending Cuts?

In 1982 the federal budget deficit rose above $100 billion for the first time (those were the good old days!), and then-President Ronald Reagan agreed to an infamous budget deal ...

The Case for Draining the Swamp Is Stronger Than Ever

The latest official employment report finds once again that the federal government and state-local hiring spree is still in full gear. Over the past year, health care and ...

Trump’s Conviction, Washington, and the Appeal of a High-Throughput Guillotine

Everybody and his dog is writing about the Trump conviction, so I guess I’ll add my few grains to the sand pile. Otherwise I’d kill something, preferably a New York judge. Or ...

Enrique Roberto

How Many Divisions Does SCOTUS Have?

Inscribed on a frieze adorning the facade of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan is an excerpt of a letter written by George Washington to Attorney ...

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‘Drain the Swamp’

Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp!" The "swamp" is the permanent Washington bureaucracy working to perpetuate itself. In 2020, then-President ...

Biggest Corporate Welfare Scam of All Time

President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to "pay your fair share" of taxes. It turns out he's right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying ...

Remedial Math

It's a good thing President Joe Biden wasn't strapped to a polygraph while giving his State of the Union speech on Thursday, because his results would have come back about as ...

Biden’s War Against the Internet

It's a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies that were only the playthings of the super-rich a generation ago are now ...

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