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Will Supreme Court constrain Trump?

It is well to remind ourselves that today is Presidents Day, not Dictators Day. Of all the things the framers of the Constitution worried about, their biggest worry was that a president would become as powerful as a king. Which is why they created Congress and the judiciary — to check and constrain him. Fast-forward to the first Gilded Age of the late 19th century, when inequalities of income and wealth had become so extreme that the so-called “Robber Barons” of the era (think Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg) controlled the economy, and corruption was rampant. (I say ...

Trump clearly prefers billionaires

Will the MAGA base ever figure out they’ve been played? Farm country provided Trump with some of his most fervent support. Farmers are now being tossed aside by Trump policies, none of which he seems interested in dialing back. A trade war would be disastrous. Farm products are a major U.S. export. Last year, the U.S. exported more than $30 billion in farm products to Mexico, $29 billion to Canada and $25 billion to China. When a country slaps big tariffs on products from another country, that country can be expected to hit back with its own punishing tariffs. Trump’s insults ...

Responding to fraud with alacrity

The credit card statement contained an unfamiliar charge. I called the fraud department which canceled the payment and immediately sent me a new card. If only the federal government responded with similar alacrity. Instead, the reaction from the exposure and rooting out of fraud - mostly from Democrats - has been shouting profanities and demonstrating outside federal government buildings. Some who have ignored the Constitution for years while using federal judges to impose things voters would not tolerate are suddenly appealing to “constitutional order,” demanding Congress not do ...

Tom Brady teaching a bad lesson

The Eagles victory was greeted joyously in our family. It’s always a high when you (or your team) come out on top. But in the final minutes of the Super Bowl, as the clock remained stuck on the two-minute warning for what felt like 20 minutes (at least for those of us eager to pop the Champagne), former quarterback-turned-TV-commentator Tom Brady filled the air time with lugubrious thoughts about how awful it is to be the loser. “The reality of a loss in this game,” he opined, “is you don’t ever get over them,” adding that he thinks about his losses more than his ...

Shredding USAID, Trump also shreds US

“The key to success,” George Burns observed, “is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Donald Trump has established himself as far and away the most successful faker in American history, conning half the country plus a bit more in battleground states into believing that he is all about Making America Great. Motivated instead by projecting raw dominance, he’s administering a wrecking ball to the country. Three weeks into his administration, Trump has reduced the federal government to utter chaos. He is gutting the Central Intelligence Agency, increasing our ...

Malleable words in party-line press releases

The entire media-Democrat complex spent years building panic over President Donald Trump being a dire threat to democracy, only to be embarrassed by the electorate who decisively chose the Terrible Threat over Kamala Harris. Now Trump is displaying the highest approval ratings of his political career, and voters are satisfied he’s acting on his campaign promises. Pretty much all his Cabinet picks are getting confirmed. So, what can this Panic Patrol do now? Just as judges and prosecutors were arrayed to stop Trump before he was elected again, a passel of mostly Democrat-appointed ...