Slash The Fat: 16 Agencies To Terminate
Under our three savings bucket scheme, “Slashing the Fat” from the Federal payroll and bureaucracy would account for just $400 billion or 20% of DOGE’s $2 trillion per year savings target.
The Historic First Days
The Donald’s Day One thunder was superb but his blunder in ignoring the big issues—taming the Warfare State, reining in Federal spending and debt, and throttling the madcap money printers at the Fed—needs to be corrected soon.
America’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine Must Be Stopped
Lists of outrageous anecdotal items provide color about the waste that is rampant in the Federal government. But they have nothing to do with the fact-based analysis and philosophical U-turns that will be required to complete the DOGE mission successfully.
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What Should We Be Reading?
Some of our fellows, writers, and scholars have made some recommendations for insightful books that can help frame up some of the complexities of our time. They don’t explain everything but they can surely help us toward greater understanding.
Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet
The current raging California fires are largely a function of misguided government policies. Officials have essentially curtailed the supply of water available to firefighters, even as they have increased the supply of combustible kindling and vegetation which feeds these wildfires.
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H-1B Visas: A Lesson from Canada
“Temporary” programs in Canada and America rarely benefit their existing populaces. Here’s hoping the incoming Trump administration takes heed of Canada’s abject failure to rein in its permanent “temporary” population and reins in the policies that impoverish the native citizenry.
Every Bureaucrat Destroys 138 Jobs
An Auburn University study says every single regulator destroys fully 158 private sector jobs every year you keep him on the job. With nearly 300,000 federal regulators, the shock is that we still have any jobs at all.
The “Let It Rip” Canard: Reflections on Jay Bhattacharya
It’s been a very long journey lasting nearly five years, but here we are, the man who led the opposition to the worst-imaginable public health policies now in a position to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.
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Europe Sleepwalks into Irrelevance as the U.S. Ascends
The EU and European nations should work on establishing a relationship with the new leadership in the White House and on Capitol Hill so as to be able to influence the outcome of the greatest geopolitical upheaval of our time.
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How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the future of Constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. The Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to Musk and Ramaswamy.
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Fiat Everything: When Decree Replaced Reality
We live in a world where every human need—money, food, health, education, and even information—is controlled and manipulated by artificial systems. This matrix of artifice began with central bankers creating fiat currency: declaring something’s value and creating dependency.
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Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster
Notwithstanding its shortcomings, a revenue tariff is a start in the right direction. Trump’s bold stance in favor of taxing consumption rather than income and requiring all households to bear the cost of government is superior to the status quo.
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