“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.“
-Ronald Reagan
“After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism.”
-Milton Friedman
Un-Elected Officials: Whether it’s Elon Musk or one of the hundreds of thousands of other federal employees, in most cases they are working under the President of the United States and/or at his direction.
This isn’t unusual. This isn’t some fascist takeover. It’s how government works!
Biden’s White House was run for MONTHs without Biden’s leadership or decision-making authority… no one in the mainstream media seemed afraid of that?!?
The American people elected Donald Trump with the expressed intent to shake Washington up and get to basics. That’s what he’s doing… from securing our borders to making girls sports safe for girls. Common sense policies that will Make America Great Again!
DODGE is Working: They are finding unbelievable amounts of government waste. From idiotic local programs to overseas giveaways that make no sense.
Closing down USAID makes complete sense. The State Department can always reinstate those programs that make sense, but the agency was clearly out of control and needed a “reset.”
Cabinet Getting Filled: The Democrats continue to play games and stall on approving President Trump’s cabinet. The votes are there; it’s all political showmanship. Too bad.
Ukraine Peace Plan: Easy, Russia – just stop! Remove your troops from Ukraine, stop bombing civilian sites, and Europe returns to peace and prosperity.
This is not hard to accomplish; the Russian people and leadership just need the political will to tell Putin enough is enough.
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This Week: Federal judge blocks President Trump birthright citizenship EO, Americans overwhelmingly support voter ID laws, and Senate introduces bill to protect SCOTUS.
10 Days That Shook The World
In 1917, American journalist Jack Reed, a naive but talented communist ideologue with a blue-blood education, was in Russia to watch and cheer on a revolution. He was there in October when the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky held power—Czar Nicholas II had been overthrown—but refused to pull the nation out of the murderous Great War or otherwise reform.
The government was thus overthrown again, this time by the Bolsheviks who ruled for 70 years thereafter. Reed chronicled the moment in his famous book “Ten Days that Shook the World.” It set forth the narrative of these days for a century. It was a major reason why that generation of literate Americans, lacking access to other information sources, considered Vladimir Lenin to be a hero. Reed, by the way, later died and was buried in the Kremlin.
That book and the events it valorized has now been superseded by another 10 days that have shaken the world. Donald Trump took the oath of office to become U.S. President on Jan. 20, 2025, following a sweeping and decisive victory that the entire establishment fought ferociously.
I’m typing this 10 days later. It is clear to me and many others that nothing will ever be the same, not in the United States and not anywhere in the world that is watching the exciting events unfold. It’s nothing like we’ve ever seen, and far beyond anything we had expected or even been promised.
Whereas Reed’s Ten Days were about the building of the Leviathan state, our own 10 days is about tearing it down and restoring freedom. Already what has been uncovered and stopped is for the ages, to the point that as I write the United States has plugged scandalous spending leakage at a rate of $4 billion per day, thanks to the work of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
At least 20,000 federal workers have taken Trump’s buyout offer as deadline nears
At least 20,000 federal employees have accepted the buyout offer President Donald Trump made to the entire federal workforce before Thursday’s deadline, a White House official said Tuesday.
That represents about 1% of the more than 2 million federal employees, below the White House’s goal for 5% to 10% to accept buyouts.
But the White House official said the number of deferred resignations is “rapidly growing,” and the White House expects the largest spike in sign-ups to come 24 to 48 hours before the deadline.
In a push to drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management last Tuesday offered all federal employees eight months of pay and benefits through September if they resign by Feb 6., this Thursday.
The offer, which came in a mass email to all employees, is part of billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s efforts to gut the federal bureaucracy and reshape the government through the Department of Government Efficiency he leads.
Independent Journalist Highlights Why Dems Are So Quiet About Trump Right Now
The second Trump presidency is barely three weeks old, but it’s moving at a pace that Joe Biden could only dream of. All the executive actions President Trump has issued have been directly targeted toward reversing the damage slow Joe did to the country. We’re reestablishing primacy abroad, evidenced by Canada and Mexico caving to Trump’s tariff threats and Hamas finally agreeing to a hostage deal. At home, they’re working to trim the fat of government, get prices under control—a long-term goal—and reinvigorate the American dream, which Biden killed for millions of people through his incompetence, sluggishness, and overall political ineptitude. The man got toppled by Nancy Pelosi, who isn’t even in the congressional leadership anymore. Still, where are all the protesters?
Independent reporter Michael Shellenberger noted that while there have been a smattering of anti-Trump tantrums here and there, it’s nowhere near the level of intensity in 2017. Even the media’s meltdowns aren’t at Fukushima levels anymore. They’re more like Three-Mile Island in intensity. The Democrats have been completely eviscerated in 2024. Shellenberger noted the party suffered two haymakers, politically and morally, which has left them dead inside. It’s one of the most brutal pieces about the woes facing Democrats, and it highlights the issues they must correct but won’t for obvious reasons.
Cook Political Report unveils 18 toss-up House races for 2026
The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report is rating 10 Democratic-held seats and eight seats held by Republicans as toss-ups ahead of the 2026 election.
The 10 Democratic seats are represented by Reps. Adam Gray (Calif.), Derek Tran (Calif.), Jared Golden (Maine), Gabe Vasquez (N.M.), Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Don Davis (N.C.), Marcy Kaptur (Ohio), Emilia Sykes (Ohio), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.).
The seats the Cook Political Report sees as most vulnerable for Republicans are those represented by Reps. David Schweikert (Ariz.), Juan Ciscomani (Ariz.), Gabe Evans (Colo.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa), Tom Barrett (Mich.), Don Bacon (Neb.), Ryan Mackenzie (Pa.) and Scott Perry (Pa.).
“Though their majority is dangerously thin, in some ways, Republicans are starting out in a stronger position than they were in 2018. Trump’s latest victory was broad; he clawed back ground in suburbs that had lurched to the left since 2016 and made massive inroads in urban areas,” Cook Political Report’s Erin Covey and Matthew Klein wrote.
“Almost all of the most competitive House districts moved to the right between 2020 and 2024 (Washington’s 3rd District was the lone exception),” they added.
International Aid Isn’t Just a Recipe for Grift and Waste; It Also Destroys the Economies of Poor Nations
It’s impossible to overstate the impact that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are having on American government—and the public’s knowledge about what’s really being done with our money.
Nowhere is that more evident than the erupting scandal involving the United States Agency for International Development, which Musk and DOGE have exposed as little more than a front for funneling billions of American taxpayer dollars to absurd projects favored by Democrats and other leftists. The revelations of USAID’s profligacy and lack of accountability are coming so fast and furious, it’s hard to keep up with them, but conservative and alternative media are publishing the information as fast as it comes out.
For example, earlier this week, Townhall’s Mia Cathell published a brief list of some of the most ridiculous USAID-funded projects, including millions of dollars given to support LGBTQ+ organizations in Serbia, Africa and the Caribbean; a transgender opera in Colombia; a program to help disabled Tajikistani become climate change activists; and shipping condoms and other contraceptives to Africa and the Middle East. President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt took Democrats to task at a press conference for their feigned “outrage” at the administration’s cancellation of the “long list of crap” USAID was funding, including a $20 million Sesame Street-type show in Iraq and millions for “sex changes in Guatemala.”
The USAID disclosures have also revealed the incestuous relationships between nongovernmental organizations receiving monies from the U.S. government and then funding each other, as well as the practice of American politicians and other prominent people being highly compensated for founding or sitting on the boards of those NGOs.
‘Just evil’: Top Republican details Russia’s ‘horrific’ mass abductions of Ukrainian children
US Should Stop Being One Of Only Two First-World Countries That Allows Anchor Babies
America is an outlier among developed nations in offering unrestricted birthright citizenship. Not a single European country does.
By any reasonable measure, unrestricted birthright citizenship, the practice of giving citizenship to almost anyone born in America, is an irrational policy. It abdicates the composition of the nation’s citizenry to chance, instead of bringing it within our control. It communicates a deep unseriousness about our sovereignty and national security to the rest of the world. Without it, we can continue to open our country to foreign talent and victims of genocide or state violence. Together, the president and Congress can choose to narrow or widen the pipeline of legal immigrants.
In 2025, America is an outlier among developed nations in offering unrestricted birthright citizenship. Corporate media outlets will remind you that we aren’t alone, that around 30 other countries do the same. But what they usually don’t report is that those countries are the likes of Grenada, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados. Not a single European country follows our lead. Nor do Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and the list goes on. Only one country in the world with a per-capita GDP anywhere near the United States’ matches our policy — Canada. And Canada historically hasn’t had much to worry about on the illegal immigration front, because their only land border is shared with us.
Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education
Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, and by many measures, even wider.
Last week, the latest Nation’s Report Card came out, giving us a clear assessment of where student achievement stands. The report, published by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), tells us that in reading and math, most students were even further behind than they were in 2022. Which was worse than where they were in 2019. Which was worse than 2013.
How bad is it? Seven in 10 American fourth graders are not proficient readers, meaning they struggle with reading grade-level literature and comprehending informational texts. Forty percent graded out at “below basic,” meaning they struggle with basic comprehension. In math, the picture is similar: six in 10 fourth graders are behind in math.
The gap between the highest and lowest performers has grown by 10 percent since 2019. Don’t be fooled into believing this is a Covid-19 by-product. The lowest performing eighth-grade readers are significantly worse off than their peers were in 1992, the first year the NAEP was administered. In fact, their scores this year are the lowest in recorded history:
How Education Choice Helped Me
During National School Choice Week (or any week, for that matter), it’s easy to get bogged down in debates over various education policies. We often forget that there are real kids whose lives are incontrovertibly altered by the decisions we make.
I was one of those kids.
My parents homeschooled me from when I was three till I was 13. I didn’t have much of a choice in the matter then, but looking back, I wouldn’t argue for a second that I didn’t benefit from my parents’ freedom to choose how to teach me.
At the ripe old age of 13, my parents placed me in the unique position of deciding whether to remain homeschooled through high school or to attend a public school. After much thought, I chose to remain homeschooled. And that decision has made all the difference in my life.
Because I was homeschooled, I had incredible leeway to choose classes I enjoyed and take them at a pace that fit me. When I was 13, I started taking a few online college classes to supplement my normal coursework. By the time I hit high school, I was taking between six and eight college classes a year, partly out of interest and partly to satisfy general education requirements.
At age 16, after two years in high school, I decided the online high-school classes I was taking were no longer challenging enough.
CBS Released the Unedited Kamala Harris Interview. It’s Beyond Brutal.
CBS has finally released their complete, unedited interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. It was a word salad bonanza. She sat down with 60 Minutes in the waning days of her campaign, where it was becoming clear that the now-former vice president lacked the presidential timber to win. The garrulous journey she took us on during these interviews was astounding in exposing her vapidity toward the most fundamental issues. These trainwreck interviews confirmed the reports of her ignoring staff and their briefing memos. She can’t go off the cuff.
The network was caught editing the interview, which led to Donald Trump filing a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against CBS, which is seriously considering settling with the president. Even with the heavy editing, Kamala still came off as aloof.
Here’s the full interview:
