Links for 2–22-25
counter-revolution is return to normalcy
🎯 Victor Davis Hanson: Trump's counter-revolution and the return to normalcy. From: Tim Hains/Real Clear Politics. They call it the "MAGA Revolution." It is not a revolution, it is a counter-revolution. There's a big difference.
Congress has only itself to blame for DOGE. From: Casey Burgat/Liberal Patriot. DOGE has uncovered billions of taxpayer dollars funneled into programs that Congress either never noticed, never cared to investigate, or deliberately ignored.
👉 Rand Paul wants DOGE to build a $500 billion rescission package for Congress to approve. From: Eric Boehm/Reason. “The only way you get less waste is to give them less money to spend," says the libertarian-adjacent senator from Kentucky.
Paying down the debt will help Americans vastly more than DOGE ‘dividends’ From: NY Post Editorial Board. Here’s a flashy, bad idea from President Trump: Give every American a cut of the cash DOGE is clawing back from bloated government budgets.
👍 IRS to lay off 6,000 employees. From: Roberto Wakerell-Cruz/post Millennial. The IRS workforce had expanded under the Biden administration, reaching around 100,000 employees.
The only “constitutional crisis” is that Democrats lost. From: William A Jacobson/Legal Insurrection. Now they’re trying to govern from the courtroom.
🎯 Why they raged at JD Vance. From: Patrick West/Spiked. His was a rare voice of dissent that couldn’t be silenced or dismissed.
Trump should cut off Europe’s defense welfare queens. From: Doug Bandow/The American Conservative. “Americans have subsidized the continent’s defense for eight decades.
⭐️ Trump policy emboldens developing world to reject climate agenda. From: Vijay Jayaraj/Real Clear Politics. Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, expanding American oil and gas exports, terminating the Green New Deal and eliminating the prospect of carbon tariffs offers a lifeline to developing nations grappling with chronic energy poverty.
Bipartisan coalition finally tells Europe, and the FBI, to shove it. From: Matt Taibbi/Racket News. For the first time in nine years, America may fight back.
🚄 USDOT investigating California’s $135 billion high-speed rail project. From: Cole Lauterbach/Straight Arrow News. In 2008, the California High-Speed Rail Authority estimated the initiative would cost $33 billion and begin service by 2020.
NPR is National Public Relations for the war on Trump. From: Tim Graham/Creators. At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations badly disguised as news.
⛽️ California’s plan to hike gas price up to $1.15 a gallon on hold. From: Kenneth Schrupp/The Center Square. The new standards would have created an estimated $105 billion in electric vehicle charging credits.
US designates Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorists," signaling financial warfare looms. From: Zero Hedge. "Foreign terrorist organization designations of Tren de Aragua, Mara Salvatrucha, Cartel de Sinaloa..."
🇨🇦 Canada’s ailing national healthcare is not a model for America. From: Nikolai G. Wenzel/FEE. The deterioration of Canada’s healthcare has not gone unnoticed by its citizens.
Schools in at least 46 states embrace DEI, face losing federal funding. From: Casey Harper/The Center Square. California has at least 390 districts using DEI.
⛹🏻♀️ NCAA's new trans-participation policy is 'as clear as mud,' Riley Gaines says. From: Ryan Gaydos/Fox News. Gaines and others have pointed out potential loopholes in NCAA's policy.