Monthly Archives: October 2025

Saturday Shutdown Showdown

Quick Takes: Trump’s Troop Pay, RIF Gambit, and Democrats’ Healthcare Overreach The federal government’s 11th day without funding (October 11, 2025) has turned Washington into a battleground of fiscal brinkmanship, with President Trump and Senate Democrats wielding competing strategies to exploit the shutdown. Trump’s bold move to secure military pay, the OMB’s aggressive workforce cuts, and Democrats’ push for costly healthcare expansions reveal a deeper struggle over priorities, power, and the public purse. Each maneuver, cloaked in urgency, risks legal overreach and fiscal recklessness, leaving taxpayers and federal workers caught in the crossfire. Trump’s Troop Pay Directive: A Legal Lifeline or…

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Democrats Own Jay Jones

Democrats Refuse to Police Their Own, So They Own the Fallout Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Cut Both Ways The Democrat Party’s refusal to hold its own accountable for violent rhetoric, as seen in Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones’s 2022 texts fantasizing about assassinating Republicans and their children, mirrors a deeper assassination culture problem on the left. Documented by the Rutgers University Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), this trend normalizes political violence, yet Democrats dodge responsibility, inviting the backlash Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals prescribes. By not policing their own, they own the electoral and moral consequences. The Rules "Power is…

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Reviving the Raven

The Democrat Party Needs a Sam Houston to Reject Insurrectionist Rhetoric and Economic Hypocrisy In today’s polarized America, the Democrat Party’s resistance to federal immigration law enforcement, cloaked in claims of "state sovereignty" and justified by assertions that illegal alien labor prevents economic collapse, echoes the antebellum South’s economically driven defiance of federal authority. This rhetoric, as David Strom notes today in a Hot Air column, risks “open rebellion” by reviving Confederate-era states’ rights arguments. The party’s stance mirrors the South’s defense of slavery as economically vital, a path Sam Houston rejected in his 1854 Senate speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act…

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Democrats’ Shameless Pivot

From Illegal Alien Medicaid to a Costly Obamacare Boondoggle It’s Day Six of the government shutdown and the Democrats’ latest health care debacle is unfolding like a bad soap opera. After getting thoroughly thrashed in the court of public opinion over their botched attempt to funnel Medicaid funds to illegal aliens, these political hacks have scurried to a new, even more outrageous scheme: ramming through a permanent extension of pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies. Buried deep within their sham continuing resolution (S. 2882, hastily introduced by Sen. Patty Murray on September 18, 2025), this move takes a temporary COVID-19 lifeline-originally crafted by Democrats-and…

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The Democrat Rage Culture

The Blood on Democrat Hands In ancient Rome, the phrase Carthago delenda est-“Carthage must be destroyed”-was a rallying cry that turned a civilization into a target, fueling wars that ended in annihilation. In my earlier column, Democrats Delenda Est, I argued that the modern Democrat Party is fostering a culture where political opponents are not just rivals but existential threats and demands the electoral dismantling of the party’s radicalism to restore classical liberalism. The assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, and the grotesque assassination fantasies of Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones provide chilling evidence of this rhetoric…

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Lying in Their Own Bed

Democrats Shut Down the Government Over Obamacare Subsidies They Created The Democrats' Own Creation As the clock ticked past midnight on October 1, 2025, marking the beginning of a government shutdown, the political theater in Washington, D.C., has reached a fever pitch. At the center of this drama are the Obamacare subsidies, a policy tool Democrats championed and expanded during their time in power. Yet, here we are in October 2025, with Democrats holding the government hostage over these very subsidies, which they set to expire at the end of the year. This situation is not just a case of political…

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A Better Option Than Rebate Checks

A Case for Capital Gains Tax Relief Over Tariff Rebate Checks: Igniting Sustained Economic Growth In the wake of President Donald Trump’s bold tariff agenda, generating over $214.9 billion in 2025 alone, the United States stands at a pivotal economic crossroads. Two competing proposals have emerged to harness this tariff windfall: Trump’s $1,000-$2,000 rebate checks for American households, funded by tariff revenues, and a capital gains tax cut, as advocated in my columns "Friday Forecasting" and "It's Time to Cut the Capital Gains Tax", featuring tiered rates for U.S. stocks and a flat rate for foreign gains, as outlined in the…

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Paul Ryan Was Right

Obamacare's True Costs Exposed In my July 20, 2025, column, "Joe Wilson Was Right," I argued that Rep. Joe Wilson’s infamous 2009 outburst-"You lie!"-during President Obama’s address to Congress captured a prophetic truth about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare. While Obama’s claim that the ACA wouldn’t cover undocumented immigrants held true in the law’s text, the reality of fungible federal funds enabled states to extend billions in coverage to non-citizens, a dynamic unmasked by the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). But Wilson’s raw cry was not alone in its foresight. Rep. Paul Ryan, then a rising star…

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Democrat Shutdown Perfidy

A Shutdown Born of Perfidy and Powerlessness Democrat Perfidy on Health Care Funding for Illegal Aliens As the clock struck midnight on October 1, 2025, the United States government ground to a halt, not due to necessity, but due to the perfidious obstinacy of Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer. This shutdown, a spectacle of political self-sabotage, centers on a grotesque insistence on funding health care for illegal aliens-a policy choice that epitomizes Democrat hypocrisy and a complete lack of leverage in the face of a resurgent Republican majority. Meanwhile, federal spending has ballooned 54% since 2019 without delivering commensurate value,…

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