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- Article · Dec 19, 2025Incentivized Entitlement Fraud
Minnesota’s massive and growing welfare fraud scandal demonstrates the reality that the entitlement state has gotten too big and unaccountable. As the national debt topped $38 trillion thanks … contending, “We continue to miss the most basic internal controls and the most basic checks and balances when we are enrolling providers.” Robbins surmised, “And I’m assuming
- Article · Dec 18, 2025The President Vigorously Defends His First Year
Donald Trump has had a pretty successful 11 months on many fronts, but reality doesn’t quite match his hyperbole. Can he convince voters? President Donald Trump gave a loud … tariff bonus for military personnel. His “warrior dividend” should be popular, and “the checks are already on the way.” As for the border, Trump has effectively closed it. Zero illegals
- Article · Dec 15, 2025Attitude of Gratitude
church helped the poor, creating a sense of community. Now, it’s a government check with no human element involved; no compassion, no sign of caring, just money taken from … early years. Others had more, that’s always going to be a reality. But we never thought someone else should give us what we wanted. We were grateful for what
- Article · Dec 12, 2025Democrats Fear a King — But Their Policies Create One
would permanently erode constitutional checks and give their party power no president has ever possessed. Trump’s actions show why the “king” label never matched reality. When he issued … Constitution’s institutional foundations, and many of its core proposals would eliminate the very checks that prevent any political movement from consolidating national power. Court packing is the clearest example
- Article · Dec 11, 2025Thursday Executive News Summary
large sum to obtain residency in the U.S., is now a reality. For $1 million and a $15,000 DHS processing fee, a foreigner can obtain EB-1 residency … website assures applicants that they will still be subject to an “in-depth background check.” Trump wants to encourage foreign investment in the U.S. and to make America a destination
- Opinion · Dec 9, 2025Majority of Justices Seem Prepared to Hold That the President Can Control the Executive Branch
experts” supposedly oblivious to politics, but who can, in reality, exercise their own agendas without vital political checks. It is a very anti-democratic concept that we should have administrative
- Article · Dec 8, 2025Monday Short Cuts
Frey Leftist Lob “The president of the United States is a killer.” —Maxine Waters Reality Check “Those who appear ‘troubled’ by videos of military strikes on designated terrorists have clearly … right direction. Still so much to do.” —Vice President JD Vance Fact-Check: True “What the Washington Post said last week was a complete lie. They owe an apology
- Article · Dec 4, 2025Thursday Short Cuts
been a racist, a bigot, xenophobic, and Islamophobic.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Fact-Check: True “The WaPo narrative on Hegseth was blown up faster than a narco boat.” —Jack … woman who died defending our nation’s capital.” — Gary Bauer Editorial Exegesis “The unpleasant reality is that we imported an element of Somalia’s culture of criminality
- Article · Nov 25, 2025The Age of Selective Legality
written in daylight, debated openly, passed by elected representatives, signed by presidents, and ultimately checked by the courts. These laws were meant to be binding on everyone, regardless of mood … media framed it as persecution of an elderly man defending himself, and while the reality is more legally nuanced, the underlying context is impossible to ignore. The mugger he shot
- Article · Nov 19, 2025Wednesday Short Cuts
families of 9/11 in America, but you know we have to focus on reality. Reality based on CIA documents ... that Osama bin Laden used Saudi people in that event … most insane things I’ve ever heard a politician say. ... Last time I checked, I was pretty sure New York is an American city under U.S. law.” —Greg Price
- Opinion · Nov 19, 2025Michelle Obama, Like Fancy Fingernails on a Chalkboard
grouse that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were oodles more qualified than Trump “the reality TV host.” They say that even after Trump had been president for four years … country carried this false impression that she was an “angry, bitter black woman.” Fact check: She often sounds angry and bitter, and like she’s making a face
- Article · Nov 18, 2025IEA’s Fossilized Thinking Goes to the Refinery
Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas, is that the IEA was forced to face a reality check in the form of countries backpedaling from their green initiatives: [The IEA] was premature … Energy Secretary Chris Wright to restore the agency’s original mission of providing accurate, reality-based data about the world’s energy picture. It has moved in that direction with
- Article · Nov 18, 2025Tuesday Short Cuts
much the government has tried to conceal their path to radicalization.” —Christopher Rufo Reality Check “Members of the House and Senate are not going to voluntarily relinquish their powers
- Article · Nov 12, 2025Affordability Can Change Everything
tariffs are a tax on American consumers, Trump has been pushing $2,000 rebate checks for every American (“not including high income people!”). He boasts that the U.S. is bringing … much revenue from tariffs that the American people should reap the benefits. In reality, such rebate checks could end up being inflationary, just like the direct transfer payments made under
- Opinion · Nov 4, 2025The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Surrenders to Tyranny
stage for examining and exposing the apparent abuses of power and subsequent political reality that result in the destruction of the historical foundations of government in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts … powerful Governor — elected directly by the people and equipped with a veto that could check unwise legislation. It created a Senate designed to check the abuses of the more democratic
- Article · Oct 28, 2025Tuesday Short Cuts
that this is wrong.” —Sen. John Fetterman refusing to support incendiary leftist rhetoric Reality Check “1 in 5 New Yorkers can’t speak the English language. 40 percent weren
- Article · Oct 24, 2025Big Education Wins More Loan ‘Forgiveness’
credit check, without a discussion of the enormous responsibility they’re taking on, or without an honest conversation about how they’re going to pay it back. In reality, these
- Article · Oct 23, 2025Reader Comments
composing were once required, and at 80 years old, I still write out checks and have been complemented many times for my penmanship. Our Founding documents are written beautifully … have to stop worrying about whether President Trump is a king and focus on reality. In my opinion, they will not, because the mob is historically illiterate. Education in this
- Article · Oct 14, 2025Dem ‘Fact-Checkers’ Fail on ObamaCare Lie
wrong. The Republican claim is not amenable to a true-or-false “fact check” because it rests on a defensible opinion of who counts as an illegal immigrant … find them: at the state level, where their fiscs are getting mugged by reality. As National Review reports , “Over the past few months, Democratic governors in California, Minnesota, and Illinois
- Article · Oct 14, 2025Illegal Immigrants Are on Medicaid — Taxpayers Deserve the Truth
like billions in new state spending, which would qualify for more federal funds. In reality, it was a shell game designed to funnel Washington dollars into benefits for illegal immigrants … Beautiful Bill Act was written to stop exactly this. It tightened eligibility checks, banned the recycling of provider taxes, and forced states to meet stricter reporting standards. The goal