Tom Schatz

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President — Citizens Against Government Waste

Thomas Schatz joined Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and its lobbying affiliate, the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), as director of government affairs in 1986 and he has been president of both organizations since 1992. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, CAGW works to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government and has more than one million members and supporters nationwide. Mr. Schatz is a nationally-recognized spokesperson on government waste. He has been interviewed on hundreds of radio talk shows and his editorials on fiscal policy have appeared in publications nationwide. He has testified numerous times on government waste issues before committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, as well as before state and local legislative and regulatory bodies.

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October 28, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Marx and Moody

Marxist ideas are surfacing all over the world. We need to educate, especially the younger generation, about the toxic ideas developed by Karl Marx and spread through nearly every institution.

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October 27, 2026

Kerby Anderson

AI Fears

Roger Kimball begins his column in The Spectator about artificial intelligence with this admission. “It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative.” As you might imagine, the...

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October 26, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Rubio in Athens

Earlier this month Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an important speech in Athens with the acropolis in the background. The Wall Street Journal editors described it as the speech of the year....

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