Mainstream Media Ignores Pelosi’s ‘Crumbs’ Comments About Bonuses
By David Rutz • Washington Free Beacon Imagine scores of the nation’s largest employers have announced $1,000 bonuses, wage hikes, and employee investments in direct response to a Democratic tax…
The Pension Crisis and School Choice
By Lewis M. Andrews • National Review Talk to the people of Illinois about America’s looming public-pension crisis, and they’ll tell you it’s not looming — it’s already here. This month,…
The Biggest Recent School Choice Victory Was Increasing The Child Tax Credit
By Joy Pullmann • The Federalist Through Saturday it’s National School Choice Week, an annual nonpolitical effort to increase visibility and positive feelings about the idea of families having the…
The Climate-Change Doomsday Just Got Canceled
Investor Business Daily Environmentalism: A new study published in the prestigious journal Nature finds that all those global warming doomsday scenarios aren’t credible. Not that you would ever know based…
IMF: Tax Reform Projected to Push GDP Growth Higher
By Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump in December, is projected to push GDP growth…
Revisit plans to break up the 9th Circuit
Las Vegas Review-Journal Donald Trump has already left his mark on the federal judiciary through numerous selections for the bench. But he also has the opportunity to agitate for another…
DOJ Backs Students in School Choice Case
By Charles Fain Lehman • The Free Beacon The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of students claiming they were discriminated against after the state of…
The Stakes of the Shutdown Standoff
For various reasons it’s become popular to threaten to shut down the federal government. Whether that goes back to the Reagan years when Democrats would run out the clock on…
Against Restoring Earmarks
By Mattie Duppler • National Review There is now discussion of reviving earmarks: the practice, banned in the House of Representatives since 2010, of inserting funding for lawmakers’ pet projects…
Apple Repatriates Overseas Holdings Thanks to Trump Tax Reform
By Tripp Mickle • Wall Street Journal Apple Inc. AAPL 1.65% said it would pay a one-time tax of $38 billion on its overseas cash holdings and ramp up spending…
Why SpaceX Is The Snake Oil Peddler Of The Twenty-First Century
By Beau Rothschild • The Federalist In the nineteenth century, Americans across the country were mesmerized by “miracle elixirs,” better known as medicine shows, which offered “cure-alls” for everything in…
Trump Is Right To Let States Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid
By John Daniel Davidson • The Federalist The Trump administration announced Thursday it will allow states to impose work requirements on abled-bodied adults to qualify for Medicaid. This marks the…
Federal Investigators Couldn’t Illegally Buy Guns Through Legitimate Websites Despite 72 Attempts
By Stephen Gutowski • The Washington Free Beacon Federal agents posing as criminals were unable to purchase any firearms from legitimate online marketplaces despite dozens of attempts over a two-year…
The Postal Service Needs To Overhaul Its Leadership And Get Its Act Together
With tax reform now in the rear view mirror on President Donald Trump’s list of priorities, it is clear now that he has another mishandled federal issue in his sights…
Get Ready for Economic Liftoff
The supposedly smart people said Donald Trump would destroy the U.S. economy if he were elected president. They were wrong. On Thursday, the Dow broke 25,000 for the first time…