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Elon Musk promises that his new Department of Government Efficiency can reveal how to cut federal spending by $2 trillion per year. Musk and his DOGE...
After the media complained nonstop for months about Donald Trump offering a dark message on the presidential campaign trail, a New York...
Facebook notified me on Sunday morning that eight years ago, I posted a link to my Washington Times article warning of Dictatorial Democracy...
The Democratic Party is championing Kamala Harris as a born-again champion of freedom. Earlier this year, Democrats shifted their rhetorical
The Democratic Party is championing Kamala Harris as a born-again champion of freedom. Earlier this year, Democrats shifted their rhetorical focus...
Presidential season is a time for Americans to restore their faith in democracy. How can folks not be filled with
Presidential season is a time for Americans to restore their faith in democracy. How can folks not be filled with gratitude for being permitted a...
For more than 70 years, America has been on the verge of honest government. In election after election, politicians have promised to finally take this...
Harris wants sweeping new federal powers to achieve “equity” — but in her Opportunity Economy, every American would be further subjugated to...
“You could drop Hillary into any trouble spot, come back in a month and… she will have made it better,” former president Bill Clinton...
“You could drop Hillary into any trouble spot, come back in a month and… she will have made it better,” former president Bill Clinton...
Hillary wants the federal government to criminally prosecute Americans who share “propaganda” — but “disinformation” is often just the lag...
In a presidential race in which both major party candidates are kowtowing to law enforcement, don’t expect any candor about the perils that...
By Diogo Costa As democracies grapple with misinformation, Brazil’s hardline approach is seen by some as a potential model. The country has taken...
To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their...
By Maxwell Tabarrok Flying cars are used as a synecdoche for all of the 20th-century sci-fi dreams that never came true. But they shouldn’t be...
In a democracy, people automatically become liable for whatever the government inflicts upon them. Many of the most deadly errors of contemporary...
The coverup of Hunter’s tax crimes probably changed the result of the 2020 presidential election and perhaps tampered with 2022 congressional...
In the glorious age of the Kamala Ascendency, the TSA is no longer restraining its contempt for American travelers. After squeezing millions of butts...
As the presidential race enters the final stretch, politicians are recycling the usual scams to make people believe this election
As the presidential race enters the final stretch, politicians are recycling the usual scams to make people believe this election will be different....
August 8 was the fiftieth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Unfortunately, that anniversary spurred little reflections or...
Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning that anything that arrestees say can be used against them in a court
The governor's history of turning a blind eye to the plunder of politically favored racketeers suggests he’ll bow to Democrats’ special interests...
By James Bovard Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is not missing any chance to condemn Republicans for threatening to censor libraries...
Harris’ entire career is being miraculously expunged — or at least purified — in a craven evidence-rigging stampede.
The White House is telling Americans to put faith in an agency whose acronym is now widely presumed to stand for “Following Biden’s...
Since the start of the Covid pandemic, many Americans have been appalled at the tidal wave of dictatorial decrees that futilely sought to vanquish a...
While Biden piously invoked the “rule of law” after the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity, he consistently behaves as if his good...
On the eve of the first presidential debate of 2024, the Supreme Court preemptively gave President Biden and his minions an implicit license to meddle...
This nation would be blessed to experience political recovery via one jury verdict – and, in November, the election result it may affect.
The DOJ told a federal judge that accurate, authentic audiotapes of President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur should not be...
Republican congressional investigators are exposing brazen COVID cover-ups by the National Institutes for Health and top aides to Anthony Fauci.
The Biden White House is proclaiming a new prerogative for presidents: They may suppress any evidence of their unfitness for office.
On Wednesday, the latest Consumer Price Index report showed that inflation slowed slightly in April but prices continued to rise nearly 4% for the...
Much of Westchester County was locked down Thursday thanks to President Biden and his vast entourage descending on Irvington for a fundraiser...
The Biden administration believes it should be a federal crime to refuse to hire ex-convicts.
Democrats fear the inflation rate could soon be higher than President Biden’s approval rating.
Promising reforms is the easiest way to perpetuate abuses in Washington.
Congress’ public approval recently fell to a record-low 12%, but the real problem, according to The Washington Post, is members of the House of...
Will a federal entitlement to censor be the most shocking legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Joe Biden is wrecking the housing market by ditching things such as proper title insurance.
Special Counsel Robert Hur was in the hot seat for four hours Tuesday as President Biden’s congressional allies sought to destroy him for doubting...
President Biden is expected to vigorously denounce “corporate greed” in Thursday’s State of the Union address.
“Is the best of the free life behind us now?” Merle Haggard asked in a haunting 1982 country music hit song.
President Biden announced Tuesday he will personally cancel $1.2 billion in federal student debt for 153,000 borrowers.
After Thursday’s special-counsel report tagged the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” Joe Biden needs all the help he can get.
President Biden is not guilty because he is hopelessly clueless about his own life and career.
Ted Cruz is pushing an amendment to compel it to treat members of Congress like royalty and protect them from riffraff at airports.
It’s one of Washington’s most hypocritical rituals, where politicians gather to silently pray that the Lord will destroy all their enemies — or...