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The CDC, RFK, and the Science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the CDC director, and the usual suspects are up in arms. But the CDC — like other bureaucracies — is apparently in need of a major shake-up.
Yes, President Trump Has the Authority to Fire Lisa Cook
If the Fed is not part of the executive branch such that the president is able to wield plenary removal power, then where exactly is it?
Fed Firing Foments Fear
President Donald Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, sparking another significant political controversy that largely overlooks the broader issue of constitutional authority.
Who Will Protect the Kids?
Lots of parents abuse kids, even when they are on Child Protective Services' radar.
President Autopen's Legally Questionable Pardons
Newly released emails reveal that Joe Biden's Justice Department raised serious legal concerns and questions over a number of the former president's last-minute commutations.
Feeding the Leviathan
Time and time again, when the government gets involved, the leviathan grows, and both the Middle Class and small businesses get the shaft.
Shifty Schiff Directed Leaks of Classified Info to Hurt Trump
Whatever it takes to nail Donald Trump, Democrats will do it. That includes former Rep. Adam Schiff directing staffers to leak classified information about the Russia collusion hoax.
Another Deep State Holdout Needs to Go
Unless she changes her behavior, Rochelle Garza, the chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, should be thrown out of office.
Trump Says It's Time for a New Census
"People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS," the president said of his instructions to the Commerce Department. Cue the hysterics.
What About Those 'Trump Accounts'?
One of the latest ideas from DC is to start a baby's life with a chunk of invested cash. Babies are a boon for many reasons, but is the Trump Account one of them?
Trump's Risky BLS Firing
The Bureau of Labor Statistics hasn't exactly been reliable under Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, but firing her might not work out as well as the president intends.
Canada Fixed Its Air Traffic Control Decades Ago. Why Can't America?
Because the FAA is an arm of the government, its operations, including air traffic control, are inevitably politicized.
Biden's HHS Was Complicit in Child Trafficking
The previous administration's reliance on NGOs greatly contributed to the abuse and neglect of unaccompanied illegal alien minors — a scandal about which Democrats have little to say.
A Congressional Investment Firewall
Senator Josh Hawley's bill to regulate how or if members of Congress trade stocks may not be perfect, but it's eminently reasonable to block advantages the rest of us don't have.
Trump to Senate: DO YOUR JOB
Because they don't have anything better to do, sleepy Republicans and obstructionist Democrats have been keeping Donald Trump from getting some 160 of his executive branch nominees confirmed.
Budding Dispute Over Newsom's Fire Recovery Management
California's Democrat governor, like his state, may not have enough water to prevent his presidential aspirations from going up in the smoke of corruption and incompetence.
Klain Speaks of Biden's Decline Without Saying Much
After a steady stream of Joe Biden's handlers invoked the Fifth Amendment, his former chief of staff decided to speak to congressional Republicans during a closed-door hearing.
Obama Knew the Russiagate Intelligence Was Manufactured
It is utterly implausible that Obama did not know that potentially exculpatory evidence regarding Clinton's role in spreading the Russia collusion hoax was omitted. It is certainly worth asking him.
How Obama Turned 'Unverifiable' Report Into Russiagate Dynamite
"The ICA did not cite any [classified] report where Putin directly indicated helping Trump win was the objective."
The End of Immortality in Washington
Last week the seemingly impossible happened. Congress terminated at least a half-dozen major programs, many of which fiscal hawks have been trying to terminate for nearly half a century.