Links for 11–16-25
Trump admits that tariffs raise prices
👍 Trump rolls back tariffs on over 200 foods in sharp reversal. From: Brett Rowland/Center Square. Responding to Americans’ frustrations over high grocery prices, President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday exempting more than 200 food products from tariffs.
The Trump administration finally admits that tariffs raise prices. From: Eric Boehm/Reason. If lowering tariffs makes things cheaper, why stop at coffee?
🔎 Trump’s National Guard deployments show enforcement works. From: Washington Examiner Editorial Board. The results have been unequivocally successful: lower crime, safer streets, and a quiet but telling rise in law-abiding behavior.
Deep staters who aided Jack Smith case helped kill Clinton investigation. From: Katelynn Richardson/Daily Caller. DOJ attorneys who played key roles in special counsel Jack Smith’s case against President Trump previously helped shut down an investigation into the Clinton campaign.
👎 Solving government’s failures with more government. From: Victor Joecks/Times Leader. In 1996, former President Bill Clinton declared, “The era of big government is over.” Three decades later, the left has a different message.
Cigarette taxes are costing states billions in lost revenue. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. Punitive levies drive black markets, fuel criminal enterprises, and—perhaps counterintuitively—help people evade the tax man.
🚩 5,000 dead people getting SNAP; 500,000 getting benefits twice. From: Jack Phillips/Epoch Times-Zero Hedge. “They choose not to work because taxpayers are footing the bill,” she added, saying that “very big announcements” will be coming in the next week...
‘Maryland man’ Democrats rushed to defend called human smugglers at least 500 times. From: Jesse Stiller/Daily Caller. Kilmar Abrego Garcia allegedly called a convicted migrant smuggler and another co-conspirator hundreds of times in a single year while running a human smuggling operation.
👍 ICE, Florida officers arrest 230, including 150 sex offenders. From: Bethany Blankley/Center Square. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Florida Department of Law Enforcement officers arrested 230 foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally, many with extensive criminal histories.
What do mainstream Democrats stand for? From: Peggy Noonan/Wall Street Journal. Kamala Harris’s memoir gives you little idea of what she believes. John Fetterman’s is better.
⭐️ Sanctions didn’t destroy Venezuela’s economy—socialism did. From: Emmanuel Rincon/Daily Economy. Venezuela’s five-stage socialist collapse dismantled the rule of law, destroyed investment, and unleashed hyperinflation, long before Washington acted.
Trump admin rolls back Biden-era restrictions on Alaska oil and gas drilling. From: Aldgra Fredly/Epoch Times-Zero Hedge. The Interior Department aims to bolster the nation’s energy supply and reduce U.S. reliance on foreign sources.
👉 Jewish New Yorkers rushing to buy guns for protection after anti-Israel Zohran Mamdani’s victory. From: Doree Lewak/NY Post. They’re preparing for a Mamdani administration lox, stock and barrel.
Trump announces defamation lawsuit against BBC. From: Jonathan Turley. Trump told reporters that “We’ll sue them for anywhere between a billion and $5 billion probably sometime next week.”
🎯 Palisades fire survivors left to die amid chaotic evacuations blast Newsom and Bass. From: Hailey Gomez/Daily Caller. “I think it’s notable that of the parts of government that have actually helped, it’s been the federal government.”
Federal government abuses Constitution through Endangered Species Act. From: Pacific Legal Foundation. “The government can regulate interstate commerce, not species living purely within one state.”