How Congress plays favorites
The bipartisan congressional war against its current favorite bogeyman – Big Tech – has told us a lot about the politicians waging it. While some are simply out of their…
Build Back Better is a recipe for making everything worse
The Tax Foundation has run the numbers on the proposed Build Back Better spending plan and found it won’t necessarily do any of those things. In fact, it may harm…
The government child care “disaster”
One of the original planks in the president’s Titanic-sized Build Back Better proposal was to get government directly, and deeply, involved in providing child care. On the surface, it seemed…
The ‘biggest organized fraud heist’ that plundered COVID relief
While portions of official Washington rub their foreheads trying to understand how hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives were wasted in Afghanistan, there’s a reminder…
Worse than the fall of Saigon
The popular pushback against comparisons of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul with that of Saigon in 1975 is that they are entirely different, and can’t be compared in any way,…
The American Rescue Plan is Sending Millions to County Governments That Don’t Exist
Analysts are still sifting through the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to find out where all of the money is going. One rather amazing finding: hundreds of millions of dollars…
Call Goes out to Impeach Cuomo Over Nursing Home Deaths Coverup
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing increasing, bipartisan criticism for his administration’s handling of the reporting of nursing home deaths related to the coronavirus. The latest wrinkle: a Democratic…
CDC’s School Reopening Plan is More of the Same
The bottom-up pressure to fully reopen the nation’s public schools was supposed to get a boost from new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). What emerged from the…
Critics say Congress Shouldn’t Give States More Aid, but Must Give Them More Flexibility
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Congressional negotiations over a fresh round of coronavirus relief includes a competing version of aid to state and local governments. Critics say the…
Post Office Leaders Warn the Mail May Be Delayed
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. In addition to trucks that burst into flames, and a balance sheet that’s bleeding red ink, the U.S. Postal Service has another bit…