By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 19, 2025 Judge Chutkan says Democratic plaintiffs need evidence of harm. Fourteen Democratic state Attorneys General asked Judge Chutkan to enjoin Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from undertaking sundry actions. These include ordering changes in disbursement of public funds, making personnel decisions, accessing sensitive agency data, and directing that regulations be...

By: Audrey Fahlberg – nationalreview.com – February 18, 2025 Trump is ‘shutting down the government already. And so, we shouldn’t enable a further shutdown of services,’ Eric Swalwell said. As congressional Democrats search for a unifying message with which to resist President Trump, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) argues there is “common ground” among her colleagues around the “necessity to refuse...

A president is accountable through the election process. It is the independent federal agencies that are the true threat to democracy.

A federal judge in Washington on Friday handed Elon Musk’s government efficiency team a win by declining a request to temporarily block it from accessing sensitive data from at least three federal agencies.

Following the extraordinary joint press conference by President Trump and Elon Musk from the Oval Office, the press went on the offensive against Musk’s claims of transparency and finding billions of dollars in fraudulent or erroneous payments by the US Treasury.

The problem with banning the penny in isolation is that it would increase demand for nickels, which cost 13.78 cents to produce. Source: Abolish the Nickel, Too | National Review

Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.

Once again, the party shows it has learned nothing from November 5.

By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – February 10, 2025 Whose idea was it to have Chuck Schumer lead a protest outside the Treasury? You couldn’t invent a scene that better explains our current politics than the one last week outside the Treasury in Washington. Some genius in the Democratic Party evidently thought it a good idea to put some of...

Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Donald Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with higher prices to protect weak domestic industries that, shielded...