Politics

Sorry, Fannie Mae: We Won’t Get Fooled Again

Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out? Apparently the politicians in Washington are suffering amnesia -- even though it was the worst crash since the Great Depression. What else has been conveniently forgotten inside the swamp is that the institution that lost the most money and required the biggest tax bailout wasn't any of the major banks that teetered on the verge of bankruptcy but Fannie Mae -- the government-guaranteed enterprise that insures ...

Supreme Court, Washington D.C.

Who’s Defying Court Orders Again?

In case you've missed the 1 million New York Times headlines announcing a "constitutional crisis," here are a few typically calm, laid-back notices from that ...

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 ...

Suez, Egypt

Hey, At Least We Bombed Somebody

For a totally different angle on the encrypted app story, I thought that instead of discussing how plans for bombing the Houthis were leaked, I'd discuss the bombing of the ...

Nuuk, Greenland

Danish Diplomacy

One of the more curious aspects of the second Trump administration is how, without warning to voters, the White House has suddenly become more pugnacious than James K. Polk at ...

Biden: The Autopen Years

Of all of President Trump's zany ideas -- making boring, self-righteous Canada the 51st state, we take Gaza, Perkins Coie lawyers banned from federal buildings -- his claim that ...

Hawthorne, California

The Good, the Bad, the Undocumented

President Donald Trump is deporting immigrants -- 11,000 last month. Some people are unhappy about that. Last week a judge ordered a stop to Trump's removal of Venezuelan ...

The FDA Can Save Lives by Keeping Copycat Drugs Off the Market

For decades, the United States has led the world in pharmaceutical innovation -- developing drugs that combat cancer, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes and other killer diseases. One ...

Home, Homeland on Deranged

I’m gonna start this week’s column with a very disturbing piece of video. In 1985 two dumbasses in Reno, 20-year-old James Vance and 18-year-old Ray Belknap, got drunk and ...

Pope Francis in Jerusalem with Jordan's Prince Ghazi

Love Thy Neighbor, Not Thy Invader

As I write these words, the Pope lies gravely ill in hospital, even less capable of breathing than George Floyd once was, and probably every bit as doped up. Perhaps Pope Francis ...

Eliot House, Cambridge, Mass.

Soak the Rich, Tax University Endowments

Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here's a solution that should make everyone happy. House Ways and Means ...

Biden Didn’t Pardon. He Erased the Law

A snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend -- sorry, an unusually snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend -- suggested that Trump is using his pardon ...

Of Course Elon’s a Nazi

Friday, November 1st, 2024. I’m at home going through my nightly routine (trying but failing to muster the courage to pull the trigger) when I suddenly start to get dozens of ...

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 ...

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