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President Donald Trump is determined to tame the bloated bureaucracy beast. To that end, he has appointed, in spectacular fashion, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head up a new “Department of Government Efficiency” (“DOGE”). In their…

The Assad family’s decades-long reign in Syria came to an abrupt end when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning lightning-strike rout across the country. What do you think? “If he doesn’t learn to stand up for himself,…

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol faced parliamentary moves to impeach him after sending heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets with his sudden declaration of martial law, harkening back to the country’s past dictatorships. What do…

President Trump just nominated Gail Slater, an economic policy adviser to Sen. and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, to serve as the assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. This was a brilliant move and…

If the incoming Trump administration is serious about controlling federal spending — and it should be — there’s an easy place to start: Within the Executive Branch itself. For years going on decades, presidents of both parties have used…

According to the White House, “hours after taking the oath of office,” President Joe Biden embarked on an ambitious “day one,” “whole of government” agenda to “advance racial equity.” What followed was a shock-and-awe program of racial…

Contrary to what corporate media want you to believe, President Donald Trump’s decision to name Kashyap “Kash” Patel as his choice to replace current FBI Director Christopher Wray is a good one — perhaps one of the best he could have made.…

Last month, Brittany Patterson, a mother of four, was arrested. Her crime? For a short period of time, she did not know where her 10-year-old son was, and he walked less than a mile from home. According to local police, “anything could have…

I recently built a coffee table. This was my first foray into woodworking, so the table is far from perfect — with slight asymmetries and an uneven finish. A level would tell me it misses the mark of an IKEA table’s engineered flatness. But…

If you bow your head before a Thanksgiving meal this year, thank a farmer. Like the air we breathe, agriculture is so intertwined with our lives that we forget to be grateful to the people working in this life-giving industry. Nothing…