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Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk teach us about the Founding Fathers, DOGE

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Thanks to this op-ed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, people get a brief lesson in constitutional government initially designed by Madison, Jefferson and Hamilton. The opening paragraph of their op-ed says "Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections." Our federal government hasn't functioned that way for decades. For too long, we've handed decision-making authority over to agency chiefs and bureaucrats. Mr. Ramaswamy and Mr.
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Is Joe Biden trying to get U.S. into war?

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Each day, it looks like Joe Biden is overcoming his fear of escalation in Ukraine's war with Russia. Each day closer he gets to the end of his political career, the more it looks like he's trying to get the incoming administration tangled up in a war in Ukraine. After reading this article , I'm starting to think he's trying to get President-Elect Trump tied up in Ukraine. What a total dirtbag he is. He withheld weapons at the start of Ukraine's war with Russia that would've helped Ukraine push Russia out of Ukraine. Now, though, he's made policy changes that've escalated the Ukraine-Russia War to the point of starting WWIII. Fox News is reporting "President Biden approved sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine late Tuesday, a reversal of policy and yet another escalation in the conflict with Russia ahead of President-elect Trump's inauguration." Had Biden been interested in helping Ukraine drive Russia out of Ukraine, that would've be
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Donald Trump's Tuesday Cabinet picks

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President-Elect Donald Trump continues filling out his Cabinet , this time nominating Howard Lutnick, currently the "head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald," as his Commerce Secretary. Also on Tuesday, CBS reported that "Trump is expected to pick Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive, to head the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the transition told CBS News Tuesday. McMahon led the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term, stepping down in 2019 to help with his 2020 reelection campaign." Finally, President-Elect Trump nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. NBC is quoting President-Elect Trump as saying "He is an eminent Physician, Heart Surgeon, Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades." Dr. Oz is quoted as saying "I look forward to serving my country to Make America Healthy Again under the
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Happy Blogiversary to me, Twentieth Anniversary edition

 Twenty years ago this morning, I wrote my first post. It was about then-AG John Ashcroft. Shortly thereafter, I started writing about the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. It isn't surprising that Putin tried installing a puppet president. This puppet president then would have Putin's bidding. It's amazing that Ukraine is still making news 20 years later. This time, though, Joe Biden is pushing Ukraine into the news by giving permission to President Zelenskiy to use long range missiles well inside Russia. Had Biden acted with haste back in 2022, this war likely would've been over before 2023 finished. If there's anything that I've learned through blogging, it's that leadership matters. Because I haven't been afraid to speak truth to power, I've gotten hacked out of existence twice. The first time, I was able to recover from. The other time, I wasn't so lucky. That's how this blog got created. If there's anything that I want people to learn f
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Bob Casey, thief in broad daylight edition

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Bob Casey's late father likely wouldn't be proud of his son's actions this last week. This past week, Bob Casey has tried stealing an election he's lost decisively. According to Salena Zito's reporting, "The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sided with the campaign of Republican businessman Dave McCormick in ordering an immediate end to the deliberately unlawful vote-counting efforts of local officials counting votes in McCormick’s hotly contested U.S. Senate race. Openly flouting a clear, earlier ruling of the state high court, officials in four counties had been tabulating ballots that lacked signatures or dates required by law." This is disgusting but it isn't surprising. These are Democrats, after all. Playing by the rules isn't a Democrat's strength. Ignoring laws is a Democrat's strength. Throw in Marc Elias as Casey's election lawyer and you've got a situation that's perfect for shenanigans. Did Elias instruct his client t
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What was the secret to Donald Trump's 2024 success?

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In 2016, Donald Trump won, primarily because he dominated rural areas and because of a phenomenon known as hidden Trump voters. Most of these "hidden Trump voters" hid in rural areas all across the U.S. In 2020, when Trump lost to Joe Biden, Joe Biden used his 'Scranton Joe' personality to win over some of these voters. This year, Biden had a record to defend and some dementia that couldn't be hidden. The Biden campaign tried baiting Trump into saying no to 2 debates by proposing 2 debates, the first on CNN, the final one on ABC. Instead of saying no, Trump agreed to both within an hour. Biden was stuck. On June 27, Biden and Trump met for the first debate. By the time it finished, Biden's political career was all but officially over. 2024 was an entirely different situation. First, Biden, then Harris, had a record to defend. Defending open borders, the affordability crisis and the administration's record on migrant crime put the administration on the defe
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Democrats badly misread Republicans, economic data

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It's amazing how bad Democrats misread a room. For instance, take this Politico article as proof of the Democrats' inability to make sense of their landslide defeat. In the article, it says "The economy Donald Trump said was broken? All it took was him winning, and consumer sentiment among Republicans soared. Elections? Suddenly Republicans are on board with the reality that they’re secure. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he saw no evidence of fraud in the 2024 campaign. And the media landscape? Viewership of Fox News has surged since Trump’s win despite his harsh criticism of the network in the run up to Nov. 5." It isn't that Republicans think everything is fixed. It's that we're confident that the solution is right around the corner. Most importantly, we think that we're getting rid of the problem in the near future. Drill, Baby, Drill has replaced high gas prices that've started dropping the past 2 weeks. UPDATE: I just spoke with an industry
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