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Elections have consequences

Republicans have never met a government program outside the Defense Department that they wanted to save. Democrats, outside the Defense Department, have never met a government program they wanted to close. With Donald Trump’s election, the discrete niceties of Washington, D.C., have been ...

Lara Trump on Fox upsets liberals

The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a left-wing hive of activists badly disguised as journalists. They run the very biased “fact checker” PolitiFact, and one of their executives, Kelly McBride, moonlights as the baldly boosterish “public editor” making excuses for National Public ...

Moving fast and breaking things

Move fast and break things. That’s the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and it seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his second term. That makes a certain sense. In a largely successful society, ...

Musk should take on social security

If I say that Elon Musk is the smartest, boldest, most creative entrepreneur in the world, I don’t think I will get pushback. President Donald Trump’s move to bring him to Washington and put him at the top of a new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to do the seemingly impossible ...

Government concealing risks

Federal investigators have recovered the black boxes from the passenger jet that crashed into the Potomac River last week. These boxes — actually orange in color to improve the likelihood they can be found in wreckage — will help get to the truth behind the worst U.S. aviation disaster ...

The markets won’t lie about tariffs

Thank God for the stock market. The market is one of the only things Donald Trump can be expected to listen to — likely more than polls and certainly more than his advisers — even when he doesn’t want to hear what it’s saying. During his first term, Trump routinely took credit for ...