After years and years of hanging around the news business, there鈥檚 one trick I admit I鈥檝e never learned: I don鈥檛 quite know how to fashion a conspiracy out of thin air.I can say with confidence that I鈥檝e witnessed the shoddiest of the conspiracy merchants these past few months.I鈥檓 ...
鈥淚 want to look the president in the eye,鈥� House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the other day, 鈥渁nd [have him] tell me there鈥檚 not one dollar of wasteful spending in government.鈥淲ho believes that? The American public doesn鈥檛 believe that.鈥漁f course, McCarthy, the Republican leader, ...
We鈥檝e heard time and again over the years that there鈥檚 no such thing as a free lunch, which roughly means that there鈥檚 no reward without effort.That鈥檚 fair enough. But, in reality, there should be a free lunch 鈥� at least for students in our public schools.And there was in the two ...
Following the midterm elections, there was a brief period of optimism in the air. Voters rejected election deniers and extremist candidates in critical states. Observers held out hope that the center could hold and again become the norm in American politics.The new year quickly dashed any ...
WASHINGTON - It would be easier to be sanguine about the government鈥檚 coming dispersal of $52 billion in subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing and research if Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo did not celebrate it so lavishly. Her language suggests that what should be a narrow national ...
