By: Scott Patterson and Ken Thomas – wsj.com – January 18, 2025 DOGE and Republican allies in Congress want to help the incoming president cut 10 rules for every new one. Trump’s fellow Republicans say lighter regulation will unleash the economy. Some businesses and consumer groups are planning to push back in court, however, echoing legal disputes over executive actions...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – January 12, 2025 Gavin Newsom promised to ‘Trump-proof’ the Golden State. If only he’d fireproofed it instead. Start with its environmental obsessions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones...

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ADF attorneys represent South Carolina health official in case before high court he U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case that could decide whether pro-life states like South Carolina can direct Medicaid funds—funds intended to help low-income individuals obtain necessary medical assistance—away from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

By: Roger Kimball – thespectator.com – December 19, 2024 It operates by subverting legislative responsibility for the sake of pork, on the one hand, and partisan interdiction, on the other. In the 1870s, Gustave Flaubert assembled Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues, a humorous collection of “received ideas” and clichés then current in French society. A new version needs to be produced...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – December 18, 2024 The end-of-year CR is ugly as usual, but please leave town quickly. In lieu of passing a real budget, the House and Senate have agreed on another continuing resolution, or CR, that will extend through March 14 in the new year. The only virtue here is that the government won’t...

By: Jeb Hensarling – wsj.com – December 17, 2024 How to avert disaster? First, do no harm. Then take a serious look at costly tax expenditures. Republicans’ election celebrations will have to give way next year to dealing with what Washington calls the “fiscal cliff.” Key provisions of the historic 2017 Trump-Pence Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will expire then...

Since the most popular reaction to the cold-blooded murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been to hail the shooter as a hero, I gather that Americans really hate health insurance companies.

Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – November 29, 2024 They kick in 40.4% of income taxes, nearly double their income share. These figures are from the Tax Foundation’s analysis of the IRS data, which is worth a read. But allow us to highlight a few points, starting with why this matters for the political debate. The GOP’s 2017 law...