Friday, August 1, 2025
The president’s mad at Fed chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates fast enough.
But here’s a better idea: Don’t fire the chairman. Fire the Fed.
Why should a handful of unelected economists decide the price of money for 330 million people? That’s not a free market. That’s central planning with a necktie. Let the market set interest rates. Let lenders and borrowers negotiate like grownups. The Fed’s track record - boom, bust, repeat.
It’s time to break the cycle. If you trust the market to price, gas, groceries, and gold, why not credit? It’s time to ask this question seriously.
Why are we still outsourcing our economy to a committee? It’s time to bring interest rates back to the people.
The issue isn’t that Jerome Powell is in charge of the Fed. The issue is that the Fed is in charge of our interest rates.
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Thursday, July 31, 2025
President Trump ran on closing the border and taming inflation. Done.
The borders closed. Period. No new law was needed.
Deportations will require years of efforts—but the consequences of President Biden’s open border are being reduced on a daily basis.
Trump had promised for more than a decade that Iran would not be allowed to have a nuclear weapons program. Trump sent the B-2s and obliterated it.
The President told elites that he’d stand with the forgotten men and women passed over and sneered at by the coastal “bigs.”
The President done that by crushing the cherished projects of the elites —DEI and CRT —programs that ignore merit and our Constitution’s mandate to be color-blind.
And then there’s the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”
The promise of “no tax on tips” is done. Ditto for overtime and Social Security. The tax rates President Trump put in place in 2017 have been made permanent.
Done. Done. Done.
The next 42 months are going to be very interesting.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Millions were transfixed by video of a couple caught cheating at a Coldplay concert. Some are surprised by the widespread fascination — but perhaps we shouldn’t be.
What made the video compelling was how the cheating couple reacted when the kiss cam found them. It wasn’t rational behavior—they’d have stood a greater chance of getting away with it if they hadn’t hidden.
But their behavior was instinctive. And that recalls the observation of the great Christian apologist CS Lewis: there is an innate universal moral sense encoded in humankind. Whether modern elites concede it or not, in our Judeo-Christian culture, people know violating their marriage vows is wrong, and they’re ashamed when they’re caught doing it.
Here’s one more heartening takeaway: Based on the public reaction, despite decades of elite attempts to undermine traditional sexual mores, much of the American public still cherishes marital fidelity.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Bill Maher spoke the words that no one else in the mainstream media will say: Donald Trump was right about tariffs, and he was wrong. Not one other Trump critic has thus far made a public record of their error or even acknowledged that the stock markets never crashed, as they predicted.
Nor have Trump’s critics recognized the value of his “bully diplomacy” with the EU, Japan, and other trading partners. Not only do these agreements balance out trade, they strategically isolate Russia and China by leveraging access to American markets while benefiting Americans.
The media refuses to acknowledge these wins because they validate Trump. Democrats and the media still want to run the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris disqualification campaign to undermine Trump's legitimacy, even after he won the election in November.
Americans know better. Maher’s singular admission reflects well on his credibility. The media’s silence accurately reflects the sorry state of their own.
I’m Ed Morrissey.
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Monday, July 28, 2025
Our political landscape is sharply divided. On one side we have the Clinton-Obama-Biden Democrats, who have wielded the extensive machinery of government as a weapon against opponents and citizens to retain power. On the other, we have Donald Trump, who’s dismantling that same system.
And the contrast couldn’t be more clear.
The Obamagate story we see unfolding is particularly clarifying: Democrats all too willing to weaponize government against a popular political enemy.
It’s fitting, though, what with Democratics and their governance: abusing power through regulations, going after parents at school board meetings through the FBI, rigging probes, laundering tax dollars through things like USAID, locking down Americans in Covid and censoring Americans like you and me on social media.
The choice ought to be crystal clear: Democrats lied to courts and voters, smearing opponents to cling to power.
And then we have Donald Trump who’s put himself at risk in an effort dismantle this abusive system.
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Friday, July 25, 2025
In the end. Columbia University chose to do the right thing. But only after almost every other option got exhausted.
After abdicating authority for months while agitators targeted Jewish students and faculty for intimidation, the Trump administration suspended access to nearly a half-billion dollars in federal funds. Columbia finally threw in the towel this week.
First, they suspended or expelled dozens of students that seized and vandalized the library in May. Then they agreed to pay more than $220 million to settle enforcement actions from the Department of Education, agreed to end its DEI policies on admissions and hiring, and agreed to a federal monitor to oversee the implementation of the agreement.
That’s an expensive capitulation. It gives Donald Trump a key victory in his efforts to reform higher education while sending a loud signal to other higher-ed institutions that refuse to protect Jewish students and faculty.
Is Harvard listening?
And are they learning?
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Thursday, July 24, 2025
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf are out with a new book on last year’s tumultuous presidential campaign. Titled simply “2024,” the volume has within it much that is familiar, as well as many blasts of new details.
The short of it is this: The 2024 election is the stuff of nightmares for Democrats, nightmares that are not going to away anytime soon.
They came away from 2024 asking: Can anyone in the party’s circle of consultants and donors actually run a campaign? The Beltway elites of the left are very long in the tooth and perhaps more angry with each other than they are with President Trump.
Will any Democrat want anyone from either the Biden or the Harris teams to be on their staff come the future 2028 campaign? “2024” should be read by every would-be Democratic nominee. There are a lot of Beltway political “experts” who are anything but.
Forewarned is forearmed.
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