By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – Feburary 14, 2023 The inflation rate for the last 12 months fell to 6.4%, which continues the trend of recent months after it reached a peak of 9.1% in June. But inflation remains stubbornly high and suggests that the Federal Reserve has been right in saying that it has more work to do....

It’s just a matter of how long the U.S. Government can stall before the bill finally comes due. Let’s start with the math. The U.S. national debt now exceeds $31.5 trillion. Source: There’s Going to Be Hell to Pay › American Greatness

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 9, 2023 President Biden boasted during his State of the Union address about cutting the deficit by a record $1.7 trillion. His putative conversion into a born-again deficit cutter is belied by this week’s Congressional Budget Office federal budget report for January, which shows the deficit has doubled in the first four...

By: Mark P. Mills – wsj.com – February 1, 2023 Mr. Kara, a professor of human trafficking and modern slavery at Nottingham University and a senior fellow at Harvard’s School of Public Health, labels himself an activist. His journeys through the Congo’s jungles and mines are surprisingly reminiscent of the country’s 19th-century explorers, as he treks where few others have dared and...

New York Times reporter Stephania Lai has recently published a helpful and revealing story about Congress’s new-found, bipartisan embrace of earmarks. Republicans banned them for a while, but Democrats brought them back. Now both parties are drinking from the public earmark trough.

One of the best things about living in Texas is that we have a somewhat larger-than-average state sales tax but no state income tax.

Now if they can remember the lessons from 2011 and 2013 they should be in a good position to repeat that victory.

What do Republicans want other than to fight?

Several blue-city mayors who seemed to have no problem with the flood of migrants crossing our southern border have recently discovered they come with a cost — and those mayors aren’t happy about it.

Progressives and most Democrats want the $31.4 trillion federal debt ceiling raised without any Republican preconditions. Better yet, in their view, it should be completely eliminated.