Budget

After the House on Friday night voted to advance a massive spending package and avoid a government shutdown, CNN’s hosts and anchors targeted Elon Musk as the instigator of the “chaos,” “panic” and “madness” because he “threw a grenade” and “torpedoed” the backroom deal reached earlier in the week.

On MSNBC's The Weekend, in a discussion of the plan of DOGE leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to downsize government,  Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) says: "For too long, Democrats were about finding some win-win framing. And you know what, sometimes there's a villain. Sometimes there's a bad guy. And you got to punch him in the mouth and fight for your people. We need more of that in…

Before Joe Biden’s incoherent debate performance, the media airwaves were full of praise for Biden’s “enormously consequential” and “extraordinarily successful” presidency.

With government debt out of control, seven years ago liberal talking heads emotionally denounced a Republican plan to repeal-and-replace ObamaCare, proposing a bill that would have saved an estimated $473 billion over ten years.

Was it as bad for you as it was for me? Sending Washington money we earn, but Washington doesn’t, I mean? It’s not just being part of half the nation that pays taxes while the other half doesn’t that bothers me. It’s the waste and unnecessary programs and agencies that have long outlived whatever usefulness they once had (if they were ever necessary). And still President Biden wants to raise…

On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the view that such a wage hike — 25% above the state’s current minimum wage — hurts teenagers who disproportionately benefit from fast-food jobs and for whom this becomes their entry into the job market. Newsom said: “That’s a romanticized…

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”– Polonius to his son Laertes in “Hamlet” It may be too late given the number of Americans who have willingly allowed themselves to become dependent on government more than themselves, but it’s worth trying. Our $34 trillion debt is unsustainable, according to most economists. If we don’t act soon, we will be worse off than we are now. Our economy…

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It marked the end of an experiment that lasted almost a century testing the premise that godless secularization, turning control of people’s lives over to other people to rule them, who decide what others need and how they should live and conduct their lives, is the answer for mankind. In the free world, the collapse of the Soviet Union was cause for…

When some people appear beyond help because of addiction or other circumstances they can’t control, family members have been known to stage an intervention. Congress and President Biden need an intervention as their addiction to spending exceeds anything seen in history. In his State of the Union address last week, the president invoked one of his party’s favorite lines about corporations and…

Amidst the scare of a government shutdown, CNN News Central provided its viewers Tuesday morning with only the dramatic “expressions of heartburn” of Senate Democrats rather than the concerns and explanations from Senate Republicans or from the accused House Republicans. One would think that the opinions of the House Republicans would be considered far more crucial information to…

With migrants now flooding our Southwestern border at a reported 10,000 seeking entry daily, it is essential that we take steps to crystalize a national immigration policy. Republicans insist that the $74 billion in funds that the Biden administration is asking in aid for Ukraine and Israel be part of a larger package that deals with border security and comprehensive immigration policy.…

Among the top priorities for newly selected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-L A ) was his announced intention to form a bipartisan panel to cut massive spending that has led to an unsustainable $33 trillion national debt. The pragmatist in me cheers, but the cynic in me says asking Congress to cut spending is like asking Dracula to cut back on his consumption of blood. Spending helps keep…

Some popular shows on PBS and cable TV are about renovating old houses – taking dilapidated, out-of-fashion and dreary houses and turning them into modern, functioning, and attractive places in which to live. Renovation is precisely what is needed in our country whose national debt, open borders and as we’ve seen in recent weeks our university and public education system are in dire need of…

The Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro condemned the ever-increasing price tag of President Joe Biden’s spending proposals. Shapiro cited a Washington Post article during the Oct. 25 edition of The Ben Shapiro Show to point out that Biden was heaping an additional $50 billion on his $100 billion request for aid to Ukraine, Israel and the U.S. southern border.