Let’s say you were a Republican member of Congress with a sincere desire to craft a federal budget that would achieve balance by the end of the decade. That’s a noble goal! Balancing the budget wouldn’t pay down the $31 trillion national debt, of course, but it would at least stop adding to it. There’s […]
Budgets are about priorities. In President Joe Biden administration’s new budget, its apparent priorities are marred by problems. Here’s the cheat sheet version: Rather than containing explosive growth in spending, it would use a bunch of new taxes to wage class warfare. While this budget is dead on arrival in Congress, it’s worth reviewing some […]
During the first two years of the Biden administration, Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.) often ended up having to be the responsible adult in the room. Democrats had full control of Congress for the first time in over a decade, and many of them intended to behave like children left alone in a candy store—each pile […]
Foreign adversaries seeking to harm America are impressed with what we’ve accomplished on our own. Parody of “Learn the Fly” by Foo Fighters written and performed by Remy; video produced by Meredith Bragg, Austin Bragg, and John Carter. LYRICS: Run and tell all of the Asians It’s gone be all right From what I’m seeing […]
For The New York Times‘ Paul Krugman, the real crisis facing America’s entitlement programs is that the media isn’t working hard enough to ignore their impending collapse. “I’ve seen numerous declarations from mainstream media that of course Medicare and Social Security can’t be sustained in their present form,” Krugman wrote in a Times op-ed this week. […]