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Tag: Congress
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Why Are Senate Democrats Making Air Travel Worse?
Ending this partial shutdown doesn’t have to wait on passing any new laws: Schumer can end it today.
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Too Many Conservatives Embrace the Warren Court
The enthusiastic embrace by some conservatives of Roberts’ decision in the tariff case shows just how far conservatism has moved away from the fight against judicial supremacy.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Exit Is a Warning to Republicans
No matter how unruly the closely divided House might be, it’s time the president tried governing with his party in Congress.
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Trump’s Tariffs on Trial
Only the president can act toward the world with a singular vision when it comes to global contests.
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The Charade of Federal Budgetary Showdowns
The drama playing out in Washington stems from the unwillingness to confront the hard choices posed by our ever-growing mountain of debt.
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What Will It Take to Squash the Pending Insurrection?
There is no reason to believe that yet another Republican victory at the ballot box will be enough to put a stop to the insurrectionist behavior of the global left.
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Five Stories That Show the Left’s Control of the ‘Truth’ Is Slipping
The days of the left controlling the “narrative” and spinning events to suit it are very plainly slipping away as five events from recent days demonstrate.
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The Law Allows Trump to Expand Federal Law Enforcement to Other Cities
Blue jurisdictions that do not shape up should expect to be visited by feds who have the law on their side.
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It’s Time to Federalize Washington, D.C.
After 52 years of a failed home rule experiment, it’s time to return the responsibility for governing our nation’s capital to Congress as the Constitution intended.
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MAGA Is Getting the Ukraine Aid It Voted For
Trump has always been more hawkish than his base on aid for Ukraine.
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
In his new book, Senator Eric Schmitt shows that with determination and intelligent legal arguments, the right can mount an effective legal offense against the left.
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Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Non-citizens From Census
Eliminating the influence of non-citizens in our elections means not counting them in the census.
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Put the Nails in the USAID Coffin
If Congress doesn’t codify Trump’s cuts and changes, the agency and the progressives who have been running it will just bide their time to reemerge in another Democratic administration.
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Libertarian Grandstanders Target Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
President Trump never promised to eliminate the $36 trillion national debt that took us decades to accumulate. So what gives?
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Yes, President Trump’s Tariffs Are Legal
Congress long ago delegated to the executive branch much of its power to regulate foreign trade, and it is a good thing it did.
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Futurism, AI, and the Destructive Power of Speed
With an indifference to all things that came before, AI Futurists seek to level and sever all connections with the past.
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The Trump Tariff Agenda and the Separation of Powers
The state of play with the Trump tariff agenda remains unpredictable even as the administration appears to have the upper hand in the courts.
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Trump May Have to Save the Constitution from the Courts
A showdown between the White House and courts over “impoundment” will determine the fate of the republic.
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The Democratic Fork in the Road and the Woke Repudiation Imperative
Will Democrats get the memo, or will they continue down the path of woke irrelevancy?
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U.S. Attorney Sassoon’s Dubious ‘Principled Resignation’
Former federal prosecutor Danielle Sassoon’s stated reasons for resigning rather than dropping charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams are legally suspect.
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Make a Resolution to Fix Social Security
Calling attention to the fiscal realities that apply throughout the federal government has never been more essential.
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Combating the Hidden Beltway Swamp Culture
Changing the composition of the personnel will never be enough to secure liberty. Changes to the swamp’s culture are needed.
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A Harris Presidency Will Give Sanctuary to Gang Members, Victimize Law-Abiding People
If Kamala wins, so do the gangs.
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‘Smurfing’ Is Corrupting American Elections
A widespread illegal campaign finance practice called “smurfing” steals the identities of small-dollar donors and uses them to mask repeat campaign contributions by the wealthy.
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Family Feud: The Biden Crime Family Edition
Now that Biden is out of the 2024 presidential race, is Congress just going to pretend this is a game show and ignore the impeachment investigation they voted to advance?
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Mucking Out the Beltway’s Augean Stables
As Hercules cleaned the stables of King Augeas so, too, must we divert all our ingenuity and strength to removing the accumulated filth of the D.C. swamp.
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Time for the 25th Amendment
The impaired president and his wife should not be able to hold onto power, endangering the national interest. Americans adopted the 25th Amendment for a crisis like this one.
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Who Wants to Be House Speaker?
Weakening House committees had the paradoxical effect of concentrating power in leadership and making the speaker more important in setting the majority’s policy direction—which only turned the speaker into the focus of every member’s discontent and created stronger opposition to him within the party.
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Republican Ignorance and Incuriosity Encourage Corporate-Government Collusion Against Liberty
Too many Republicans still believe that running interference for big business is the same thing as preserving and defending liberty. They completely miss the ways that corporations have become the hand inside the sock puppet of big government.
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Democrats’ Open Border Trickery: Gaming the Census
The raw political interest of Democrats is at work in gaming the census numbers to increase the headcount in America’s leftist cities to maintain the political power.
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Joe Biden Is Too Dangerous to Mock
If the right keeps laughing at Joe Biden, it risks sleepwalking into another devastating defeat for itself and the country.
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The Swamp Boils at the Thought of Trump Leaving NATO
Now that Trump is the likely frontrunner in the next presidential election, Washington is forced to envision the possibility that he intends to curtail America’s commitments overseas.
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Elite Colleges Defend Anti-Semitism
Colleges profess openness, tolerance, and a commitment to diversity. But when it comes to ideological diversity, they sing a different tune.
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The Left Conspires to Keep Election Fraud Quiet. Wonder Why?
Emails released by the House Judiciary Committee should outrage Americans. The federal government devised a scheme to covertly stamp out public debate over election fraud.
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Gaetz’s Rebellion Against McCarthy Is a Rational Response to the Fiscal Emergency
The historic rebellion of Congressman Matt Gaetz and other Republican fiscal hawks against their own House leadership was a necessary move in the face of a financial crisis in the making.
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Latest Symptoms of a Disintegrating Nation
America is disintegrating alarmingly fast in a manner not seen since the final years before the War Between the States.