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Celebrity Selena Gomez recently posted, and then quickly deleted, a video of herself sobbing uncontrollably over the treatment of illegal immigrants being expelled by the Trump administration.

Gomez was, of course, mercilessly mocked by conservatives across social media. And there's really nothing wrong with sympathizing with those trying to ...Read more

Republicans have never met a government program outside the Defense Department that they wanted to save. Democrats, outside the Defense Department, have never met a government program they wanted to close. With Donald Trump's election, the discrete niceties of Washington, D.C., have been pushed aside in favor of a Republican effort to shutter ...Read more

A "special government employee," wealthy beyond the dreams of Croesus, chose as his first target the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth. On Sunday evening, Elon Musk and his peach-fuzz goons locked employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development out of their email accounts, shut down the agency website, announced that nearly ...Read more

The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a left-wing hive of activists badly disguised as journalists. They run the very biased "fact checker" PolitiFact, and one of their executives, Kelly McBride, moonlights as the baldly boosterish "public editor" making excuses for National Public Radio.

Tom Jones -- not the hip-swaying Welsh pop singer -...Read more

After a flurry of activity -- the president's tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the policy changes obtained by Secretary of State Marco Rubio's trips to Panama and El Salvador, the release of arrested Americans in Venezuela -- it seemed clear that the focus of Donald Trump's foreign ...Read more

Democrats have finally found someone they hate more than Donald Trump.

Elon Musk, who is currently running roughshod over the federal bureaucracy with a sleep-deprived team of brilliant young tech geeks, is the public enemy of the hour.

After a devastating election loss and three weeks into a whirlwind Trump administration, what most ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- As a Mexican American journalist who had to struggle and work extra hard for the last 35 years to succeed in an industry that was built for others, I can't swallow white whine. It's way too bitter. Maybe that's because it is made from sour grapes.

Of course, that particular blend does have a fanbase. It is the official beverage ...Read more

The taxing power in the federal government resides in the Congress. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts" of the federal government. Indeed, in order to emphasize the location of this power in the Congress, the Constitution also requires that all ...Read more

President Donald Trump burst out of the gates into his second term with the speed of a Kentucky Derby winner. Executive orders turning the status quo upside have flown in gusts from the Oval Office ever since Mr. Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20.

Nothing like this has been witnessed since former President Franklin Roosevelt's first 100 days in...Read more

The fate of President Donald Trump's ambitious economic policy plans will be determined by the people he appoints to critical positions. With a debt of over $36 trillion (heading toward $59 trillion in 2035 by some estimates), inflation not resolved, an entitlement crisis looming and the need to extend the president's 2017 tax cuts, we'd ...Read more

It's impossible to overstate the impact that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are having on American government -- and the public's knowledge about what's really being done with our money.

Nowhere is that more evident than the erupting scandal involving the United States Agency for International Development, ...Read more

The Department of Government Efficiency has started making moves. The D.C. media are furious about his attempts to cut government agencies. But I take Elon Musk's side. More efficient government has been promised often. It's never happened. Instead, government just grew. Sen. Rand Paul showcases stupid government "investments" like the $118,000 ...Read more

This week, a massive firefight broke out between Democrats and Team Trump over the White House takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The USAID managed approximately $40 billion in fiscal year 2023; its original mandate, established under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, was to spread American influence across the globe ...Read more

If I say that Elon Musk is the smartest, boldest, most creative entrepreneur in the world, I don't think I will get pushback.

President Donald Trump's move to bring him to Washington and put him at the top of a new Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, to do the seemingly impossible -- to streamline a vastly outsized government spending ...Read more

The Great 21st-Century Creative Strategic Thinker (Donald Trump, aka, The Great Disruptor) wants to make rubbled Gaza the Riviera of The Middle East.

That's a fair translation of what President Donald Trump said in a Feb. 4 news conference he held with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu at the other podium.

Fantasy?

If you understand the threat ...Read more

Federal investigators have recovered the black boxes from the passenger jet that crashed into the Potomac River last week. These boxes -- actually orange in color to improve the likelihood they can be found in wreckage -- will help get to the truth behind the worst U.S. aviation disaster since 2001.

But federal officials are hiding the truth ...Read more

The National Center for Education Statistics last week released the results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests taken last year by students in the fourth and eighth grades.

They showed that Catholic schools have continued their winning streak over public schools.

In reading, Catholic-school fourth graders earned an ...Read more

Brian Stelter is back in his CNN comfort zone, penning those punchy sentences about "Trump's history of bullying media companies." It's as if he cannot conceive of the opposing view, as in "the legacy media's history of bullying Donald Trump." They've played rough -- seeking to destroy his political career, bankrupt his businesses and even put ...Read more