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Christopher JacobsThe Federalist |
Last week, the Biden administration released a series of new rules that, among other things, will require employers to provide leave (albeit unpaid)...
Economists sounded surprised recently when inflation remained above expectations for the third straight month, likely keeping interest rates elevated...
As they have in previous years, President Biden made a theatrical show of releasing the income tax returns of him and his wife Jill on Tax Day. And as...
After the economy created a higher-than-expected number of jobs in March, analysts continued asking a persistent question: Why do Americans remain so...
Just before Easter, the Biden administration announced it had finalized a proposal it claimed would “protect consumers from being scammed into...
Social media have been in the news of late, with several cases at the Supreme Court examining questions of censorship and the role of government in...
Given the frequency with which I spend time attacking the lack of fiscal discipline among lawmakers in Washington, a recent viral video provided a...
There they go again. Following a series of comments by Donald Trump during a recent CNBC interview, Joe Biden has brought out the “Mediscare”...
In a bid to win reelection, the Biden administration keeps trying to sell the country on all the supposed benefits of Obamacare. Before continuing...
“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us…” Even many secular Americans can identify this passage from the “Our...
“Don’t tell me your values. Show me your budget and I will tell you what you value,” Joe Biden frequently proclaims. Biden’s 2025 budget...
The recent announcement that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel will join NBC News as a contributor has brought much...
Nearly two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leftists are saying the quiet parts out loud about abortion. And believe it or not,...
When the Mississippi House of Representatives recently passed legislation implementing Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, Speaker Jason White...
If the left wants to talk about Obamacare and how the law helps individuals with preexisting conditions, they might want to learn about Alexander...
The retirement of Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, who recently announced his decision to step away from football after 13 seasons in...
A recent Wall Street Journal story highlighting a new antitrust investigation against the nation’s largest health insurer represents a variation on...
Another week, another story involving potentially billions of taxpayer dollars being wasted in Washington. A few days ago, The New York Times profiled...
You can say this about Washington: Members of Congress are nothing if not predictable when it comes to their addiction to more government spending....
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A government program is rife with fraud. After years’ worth of stories about scams during Washington’s...
NASCAR kicks off its 2024 season this weekend with its first points-paying race, which also happens to be its biggest. The 66th running of the Daytona...
If you think our current fiscal situation, with $2 trillion deficits, looks bleak, the recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) outlook for the years...
Spare some crocodile tears for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She finally discovered one of the basic principles of economics — in an election year and at a...
During his time in the Obama administration, then-Vice President Biden once infamously proclaimed that we had to “spend money to keep from going...
Sometimes, dry government reports can hide revealing facts deep inside them. Such is the case with the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) annual...
If health coverage is “free,” and will cover individuals’ pre-existing conditions after they develop them, is it really “insurance”? Those...
In the debt ceiling agreement last spring, House Republicans passed legislation making modest changes to work requirements for certain government...
Residents in the Golden State are learning a basic yet painful lesson in economics: If you tax something, you get less of it. That’s the upshot of...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Both parties in Washington are negotiating to create a giveaway that will blow a bigger hole in our $34...
The outline of the spending agreement House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., cut with Democratic leaders sounds bad on its face. But the underlying...
Almost three score years after his political handlers promised a “New Nixon,” some on the right have sought to bring the record of the 37th...
Less than 18 months after Democrats rammed through a series of price controls on what Medicare pays for prescription drugs — the better to pay for...
With “friends” like Mike Johnson, do conservatives really need enemies? That question, harsh as it sounds, should echo in the minds of individuals...
The press and marketing wizards will frequently try to hype a sporting event as “more than a game.” The College Football Playoff National...
When the Georgia Legislature convenes on Monday, some may push to have the state follow North Carolina in implementing Obamacare’s expansion of...
Year-end recaps provide Beltway pundits with plenty of opportunity to throw a leftist gloss on events of the past 12 months. Sure enough, a New York...
Athletes in general, and football players in particular, often seem two-dimensional creatures. With the exception of the biggest stars, few know their...
For all the trillions of dollars spent during Covid lockdowns, what did taxpayers receive, other than massive amounts of fraud? A new analysis...
Believe it or not, Americans just might have received some good news on the inflation and prescription drug pricing front. But despite what the left...
When superstar artists’ work manages to penetrate the popular zeitgeist, it can have the unfortunate side effect of pigeonholing their work. The...
It’s baa-ack. A piece of legislation I pilloried just a few months ago, in the waning days of the speakership of Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is...
With the federal government nearly $34 trillion in debt, in no small part because of the spending spree of the last few years, you would think...
It’s an outcome that might make even George Wallace blush. To improve outcomes among minority students, some school districts have resorted to...
For the past several days, Democrats have acted in a state of self-righteous indignation excessive even by their standards. Following Donald Trump’s...
To this conservative, a recent New York Times column that encouraged the Federal Reserve to take actions focused on bringing down mortgage rates...
Last week, as Formula One teams arrived in Las Vegas for that city’s first grand prix in 41 years, I questioned in these pages whether the series’...
Frank Borman, who died last Tuesday at the age of 95, had a long and storied career. He graduated from West Point and served a dozen years in the Air...
It all sounds so appealing: exotic Formula One cars sprinting down Las Vegas Boulevard — the city’s famous “Strip” — at nearly 200 mph, in a...
When Illinois lawmakers brag about having a “welcoming state,” they might want to talk to parents like Susie Redfern. In 2019, the Chicago Tribune...
With the federal government approaching $34 trillion in debt, talk has (finally) turned to the question of how to stop the bleeding. A recent op-ed in...