Remedial Math

It's a good thing President Joe Biden wasn't strapped to a polygraph while giving his State of the Union speech on Thursday, because his results would have come back about as clean as O.J. Simpson's. That was especially true when he recited a lot of tall tales -- and some whoppers -- while touting his administration's alleged successes. Here is a list my top five half-truths and in some cases outright fabrications: 1. "My administration cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion." This isn't just a little bit false, it's an extraordinary and audacious misstatement of fact. The baseline deficit over ...

The Food Insecurity Lie

President Joe Biden says 24 million Americans "suffer from food insecurity!" News anchors were shocked that there is "food insecurity in the richest country in the world!" ABC ...

America’s Top National Security Threat Is Our Runaway Debt

After spending $6 trillion on social welfare and a Green New Deal spending spree and running our national debt up to $33 trillion, President Joe Biden is asking to whip out the ...

California Crushes Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's Peter Brothers Trucking delivers goods all across America. Owner Brian Wanner says Pennsylvania bureaucrats now are driving him out of his home state. "We have no ...

Shut It Down!

This week Republicans and Democrats got together to avert a government shutdown. Too bad. There's so much that ought to be shut down. Useless Cabinet departments, for example, ...

Faded Prestige

The worst enemy of the West is itself, and the same goes for our democracy. We are so arrogantly certain of our survival and superiority, we in the Western democracies, that we ...

Soda Tax

Want a soda? You'll pay more for one in Philadelphia, because five years ago, local politicians decided to tax it. They're "protecting" people, they said. The tax would "reduce ...

How to Be a New York Times Reporter

You probably think the job of a reporter is to report news. How old-fashioned, cis-gendered, white supremacist of you! That's not it at all, certainly not at the august New York ...

Republicans Must Be the Party of Small Business

A recent Wall Street Journal lead story reported that "Republicans and big business broke up." The amount of corporate donations to Republicans was cut sharply in the last ...

Surprise: Debt Conversation Brings More Pointless ‘Tax-the-Rich’ Talk

Whenever we have a national conversation about government debt, Democrats invariably respond that spending is not the reason the debt is now nearly equal to our national GDP. The ...

Danger — Government Digital Currency

President Joe Biden and the media are excited about something new: a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC. It's a currency like Bitcoin, except controlled by the federal ...

What You Need to Know About the Debt-Ceiling Debate

If you read news coverage about the brewing battle over raising the debt ceiling, you might think it's a fight between demons and angels. On one side, you have Republicans who are ...

Office of the Federal Trade Commission

Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy

Every schoolkid knows -- or used to know -- that the United States has three branches of government. At least that's what the textbooks say. But really, we have four branches of ...

Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building

The Fed Has More Than a ‘Credibility’ Problem

I have heard some people say that the Federal Reserve has a credibility problem. The agency missed the biggest inflation spike since the 1980s, was slow to start rolling back ...


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