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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 pushed aside in favor of a Republican effort to shutter portions of the executive branch. “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America,” reads the very first sentence of Article II of the Constitution. “A” is singular. There is a President of the United ...

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 Radio. Tom Jones — not the hip-swaying Welsh pop singer — is their resident Brian Stelter, penning a daily media newsletter. Check out this headline: “Fox News goes all in on MAGA by adding a Trump to the payroll.” “The network continues to peddle itself as a legitimate news ...

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, unrocked by revolution, institutions come to be in need of repair, revamping and reconstitution. Just as tools rust, barnacles adhere and roofs leak, institutions and professions, government agencies and private industries need to be reformed or even abolished. The high-tech firms that now ...

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 — to streamline a vastly outsized government spending behemoth — injects hope that yes, maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel. Musk, the world’s richest man, is not beholden to anyone, and so there is little danger of him getting bogged down and imprisoned in the Washington culture ...

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 since 2001. But federal officials are hiding the truth about where the next air disaster is likely to occur. This government coverup should outrage the traveling public. Less than two months ago, the Senate held a hearing on “aging” air traffic control systems. The hearing, explained Sen. Tammy ...

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 every new market high, noting at one point that “the reason our stock market is so successful is because of me.” When the market did well under President Biden, Trump claimed that it was because of the expectation that he would win the next election. It’s all nonsense, but he believes it, ...