Opinion
Is US Being Sucked Into Syria’s War?
Has President Trump thought through where we are going with this deepening commitment in Syria, where we have only 2,000 troops and no...
Trump’s Budget Won’t be Balanced, Just Restrained
Under President Trump's proposed budget, the governemnt admits it can't end deficit spending, but will merely attempt to make those deficits smaller by...
Read moreE-Verify Threatens Us All
One potential use of E-Verify is to limit the job prospects of anyone whose lifestyle displeases the government. This could include those accused...
Read moreTrump — Middle American Radical
President Trump is the leader of America's conservative party. Yet not even his allies would describe him as a conservative in the tradition of...
Read moreMaking the Federal Government Lean Again
We are not in a full-scale war. We are not in a recession or fighting a high unemployment rate. But the federal government...
Read moreRepublican Hypocrisy on Abortion
Republicans like to play the pro-life card. It makes their base think they are worthy of votes and financial support. But there is...
Read moreNunes Duels the Deep State
That memo worked up in the Intel Committee of Chairman Devin Nunes may not have sunk the Mueller investigation, but from the sound...
Read moreWhat the FBI/FISA Memo Really Tells Us About Our Government
The memo demonstrates that there is a “deep state” that does not want things like elections to threaten its existence. ...
Read moreA Never-Trump Press in Near Panic
Trump-haters in the press may be terrified that the memo may credibly demonstrate that the "Deplorables" were right. ...
Read moreNational Debt Missing From Trump’s SOTU
I dutifully watched Donald Trump deliver his State of the Union speech on January 30. What he said was welcomed by supporters, but...
Read moreImmigration Lies and Hypocrisy
We should not fall prey to people who criticize our efforts to combat illegal immigration and who pompously say, "We're a nation of...
Read moreToo Many Wars. Too Many Enemies.
Like the Romans, we have become an empire, committed to fight for scores of nations, with troops on every continent, and forces in...
Read moreThe Last Fed Chairman?
The economy may seem to have recovered, but the recovery is not built on a firm foundation. Instead it rests on Fed-created bubbles...
Read moreIn a Trump Hunt, Beware the Perjury Trap
If the president's legal team lets Trump sit for hours answering Mueller's agents, they should be disbarred for malpractice. For what Mueller is...
Read moreSpaceX and Uncle Sam Shrug Off Billion-Dollar Blame Game
Did you know that the government doesn't insure the cargo it sends into space? That means that when a satellite carrying government cargo...
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