Elon Musk’s Suggestion Box

I'm getting a little impatient waiting for Elon Musk to get to the two behemoths of government waste, fraud and abuse, so I'm dropping these in the suggestion box: Please hurry up and zero-out the CIA and TSA. I attribute the continued existence of these pestilences to Hollywood movies, the imaginary place where CIA agents are competent, and the fact that no one in a position to decide the TSA's fate flies commercial. The president and members of Congress should all be required to fly out of JFK at least once. To give the devil his due, the CIA is finally on the cusp of determining whether ...

No DOGE-ing the Bullet for USAID

Last December saw the twentieth anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that killed 230,000 across Southeast Asia. Seeing the emotive scenes of carnage, devastation, and death ...

If it Please the Court, Who the Hell Asked You?

Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes ...

DOGE to the Rescue?

The Department of Government Efficiency has started making moves. The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies. But I take Elon Musk's side. More ...

The Biden, Schumer, Romney Foreign Aid Budget Buster

President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a handful of left-leaning Republicans (led by Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, of course) have just agreed to a near $100 ...

A Sorry State

The British government has managed to spend approximately $50 billion on a system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19. So far, the average citizen has been tested five ...

The One Certain Victor in the Pandemic War

"War is the health of the state," wrote the progressive Randolph Bourne during the First World War, after which he succumbed to the Spanish flu. America's war on the coronavirus ...

Today France, Tomorrow the USA?

As that rail and subway strike continued to paralyze travel in Paris and across France into the third week, President Emmanuel Macron made a Christmas appeal to his dissatisfied ...

Trump: America for the Americans!

As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples. Though ...

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait

The Inarticulate Orator

Donald Trump is strikingly unaffected by the ideological indoctrination that has otherwise overwhelmed the thinking of American elites. Why? Trump's lack of verbal ...

The Correct Degree of Culpability

While in Dublin recently I read an article in the newspaper about the Greek crisis. It was in the Irish Times and was very serious. The author, the well-known economic journalist ...

In the Long Run We Are All in Debt

Erstwhile pop singer Aaron Carter and his wizened face recently made the plunge every onetime celebrity makes at least once in his life. The younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick ...

Who’s Really Downgrading America?

The decision by Standard & Poor’s to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating, for the first time, has triggered a barrage of catcalls against the umpire from ...

Fleebaggers: The New Cut-and-Run Democrats

First lady Michelle Obama said, “Let’s Move!” Who knew Democratic politicians in Wisconsin and Indiana would take her literally? Faced with stifling debt, ...


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