👏 California voter ID initiative launched, much support cited. From: Kenneth Schrupp/The Center Square. A new poll finds support for the policy among 68% of likely California voters.
Congress and DOGE can find spending cuts at the Department of Defense. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. The U.S. can defend itself at a lot less expense.
😮 Entitlement fraud is now a stated aim of the Democrat Party. From: Scott McKay/American Spectator. Democrats have said the quiet part out loud.
Shredding documents and burning bags: USAID employees receive surprising directive. From: Mariane Angela/Daily Caller. “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.”
🔎 Empire as the price of bureaucracy. From: David Brady Jr/Mises Institute. Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.
Trump buries Bidenflation. From: Monica Showalter/American Thinker. Inflation has slowed down to nearly nothing under Trump.
👉 Contra Krugman (redux). From: Joseph Solis-Mullen/Libertarian Institute. In a recent conversation with the Libertarian Institute’s Keith Knight, we broke down a 2012 article by everyone’s least favorite economist, the former New York Times pundit Paul Krugman.
John Stossel: Tax the past? From: Creators. Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy.
🇨🇦 Canadian clubbed: Ontario blowhard walks back electricity threat after Trump vows retaliation. From: Chris Donaldson/American Wire. Ontario Premier Doug Ford folded like a cheap suit after threatening to cut off electrical power to Americans.
Covid taught Americans to stop trusting a government that puts them last. Elle Purnell/The Federalist. The reaction to Covid showed Americans the system wasn’t going to save them. They were going to have to do it themselves.
⭐️ Trump DOJ takes an axe to Biden-era civil lawfare. From: Mia Cathell/Townhall. DOJ has dismissed a slew of lawsuits filed under former President Joe Biden, including legal challenges to state-level abortion bans, merit-based hiring of first responders, and COVID-19 inquiries.
Trump should eliminate Education Department. From: Nicole Russell/USA Today. Giving states and local school boards more flexibility in setting education policy will improve choices for parents.
🎯 Trump keeps promise, cuts funding to Maine universities over smug mayor’s refusal to comply with transgender sports policy. From: Vivek Saxena/BPR Politics. Federal funding to Maine’s public colleges has been temporarily paused.
Where are they now? From: Robert McGreevy/Daily Caller. The Left’s darling cable stars fade into obscurity during Trump 2.0.
💊 RFK Jr. exposes a truth that could bankrupt the antidepressant industry. From: The Vigilant Fox. 40% of American teenagers now struggle with anxiety or depression, but Big Pharma is hiding the real reason why.
Who was really running the country while Autopen Joe Biden snoozed and drooled? From: NY Post Editorial Board. What did the president even know about what he was signing?
🥊 Trump and California are set to duke it out over environmental policy again. From: Jeff Luse/Reason. During Trump's first term, California filed numerous lawsuits seeking to halt deregulation.