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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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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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Democrats Shutdown Principle

Democrats: Principally Wrong on Policy, Politics, and Process Congress has 24 hours until federal agencies shutter, veterans' checks stall, national parks close, and 2.1 million essential workers go unpaid. House Republicans passed a bipartisan seven-week CR, extending FY2024 funding to allow time for full appropriations. Senate Majority Leader John Thune pleads for Democrat votes to clear the 60-vote filibuster hurdle. Yet Chuck Schumer’s caucus demands costly riders-Obamacare subsidy extensions, Medicaid tweaks-despite a booming economy. This isn’t miscalculation; it’s a betrayal of principle. My columns, The Failure of the Cave and The Democrats’ Shutdown Folly, exposed Democrats’ cycle of hype, collapse, and…

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The Democrats’ Shutdown Folly

A Base-Baiting Blunder in a Booming Economy In my column, "The Democrats’ Shutdown Gamble: Fundraising Fodder or Political Folly?" (September 20, 2025), I warned that Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, were teetering on the brink of political self-destruction by obstructing a clean continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government past October 1. With the fiscal cliff now hours away, their gamble has morphed from a calculated fundraising play into a full-blown fiasco-especially as they cling to a laundry list of spending demands that lack majority support among Americans and cater solely to their progressive base. Meanwhile, the latest economic tailwinds…

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The Failure of the Cave

The Democrats' Shutdown Gamble: Fundraising Fodder or Political Folly? As the clock ticks toward October 1, Congress teeters on the brink of another government shutdown-a spectacle that's become as predictable as fall foliage. The Republican House has passed a straightforward continuing resolution (CR) to keep the lights on through November, but Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have slapped it down, demanding a laundry list of policy riders. It's déjà vu all over again, echoing the partisan trench warfare that defined the Trump era. But this time, with Republicans holding the reins post-2024, Democrats' high-wire act risks more than just federal…

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Soros Your Kingdom Must Come Down

The Full Force of the Federal Government Must Crush Soros' Extremist Empire In the shadow of America's streets and beyond its borders, a web of extremism spins unchecked, fueled by billions from one man's "philanthropy." The Capital Research Center's bombshell report-Exclusive: Soros' Open Society Gave Terrorist and Pro-Terror Groups Over $80 Million-lays bare how George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF), now steered by his son Alexander, have pumped over $80 million since 2016 into groups tied to domestic terrorism, foreign terror networks, and outright violence. This isn't charity; it's complicity in chaos. It's time to unleash the full J. Edgar: a…

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Unleashing the Full J. Edgar

Why the FBI and DOJ Must Crush Antifa's Revolutionary Web America's founding ideals-liberty, order, and the rule of law-face a persistent threat: organized subversion masked as righteous resistance. Antifa, the self-styled "anti-fascist" movement, is no band of idealistic protesters battling neo-Nazis. A sharp 2017 exposé in The Federalist revealed it as a direct heir to communist paramilitaries, driven to dismantle capitalism, liberal democracy, and America's core strengths. By September 2025, Antifa's reach has burrowed deeper into institutions, funding pipelines, and culture. From campus chaos to calculated strikes on free speech-like the September 10 assassination of Christian and conservative activist Charlie Kirk…

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Bad Data Means Bad Decisions

The Urgent Need for Reliable Economic Data: Reforming the BLS and Federal Reserve In September 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) dropped a bombshell: a preliminary benchmark revision slashing nonfarm payroll growth by 911,000 jobs for the 12 months ending March 2025-the largest such adjustment on record. This follows a prior year’s revision of 818,000 fewer jobs, with cumulative overstatements over recent years exceeding 2 million according to conservative estimates. These revisions, reported across outlets like CNBC, RedState, HotAir, The Blaze, PowerLineBlog, and Breitbart, expose a critical flaw in the U.S. economic data ecosystem: policymakers and businesses cannot rely on…

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