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Thanks To Massive Deficits, U.S. Will Pay $13.8 Trillion In Interest Over The Next Decade

By 2035, CBO believes net interest payments on the deficit will 'account for about one-sixth of all federal spending.'

14.02.2025 2

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Politico Pro’s Exorbitant Price Tag Shows It’s Not A Subscription, It’s Swamp Patronage

Politico's patronage extends beyond government itself, to the K Street swamp creatures that rely on government for special favors.

13.02.2025 3

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Philadelphia Eagles End Kansas City’s Quest For ‘Three-Peat’ In Spectacular Fashion

After a shaky 2-2 start, the Eagles peaked at the right moment, bringing another Lombardi Trophy to Philadelphia.

10.02.2025 3

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All The New Orleans Gems Trump Will Miss Out On During His Quick Super Bowl Visit

Viewing New Orleans only through the spectrum of debauchery does a disservice to one of the most unique blends of culture in the world.

07.02.2025 10

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Worlds And Records Collide In Super Bowl LIX

To emerge as Super Bowl champs, Saquon Barkley and the Eagles will have to overcome a familiar face on the opposing sideline: Andy Reid.

07.02.2025 4

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Media Circus Descends On New Orleans For Super Bowl Opening Night

The 10,000-20,000 who filled much of the lower bowl of the Louisiana Superdome on Monday witnessed what has become a made-for-TV spectacle.

05.02.2025 6

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‘Hollywood Squares’ Remake Shows Inanity Of Our Celebrity Class

With its vapid and superficial approach, the show reveals celebrities as trite, even boring.

28.01.2025 20

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Budget Office Report Shows Biden Could Have Inhibited The Border Crisis But Inflamed It Instead

Once Democrats realized the electoral implications of the border invasion, even their half-hearted half-measures helped to reverse the prior trends.

22.01.2025 80

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Leftists’ Proposal For 32-Hour Congressional Workweek Broadcasts Their Entitlement Mentality

The now-withdrawn proposal reinforces November’s election results and why Democrats face significant problems with working-class voters.

21.01.2025 4

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Biden’s Unpopularity Is Fueled By Bad Policies, Not Bad Messaging

Biden is just the latest Democrat to insult voters by claiming they just didn’t understand all the wonderful things government did for them.

15.01.2025 20

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‘New York Sack Exchange’ Examines The Vagaries Of Football And Friendship 

For football fans, 'The New York Sack Exchange' provides a look back at one of the most dominating defenses in the game’s history.

14.01.2025 5

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GOP’s Border Security Bill Should Include Citizenship Verification For Health Care Handouts

A border security measure should include a logical complement: enhanced citizenship verification procedures for federal health care programs.

09.01.2025 10

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Congressional Budget Office Admits Obamacare ‘Zombie Enrollees’ Waste Billions Of Taxpayer Dollars

Ending the subsidies for Obamacare’s 'zombie enrollees' would be an excellent place to start cutting government waste and requires three simple...

12.12.2024 30

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Instead Of Counting On The Fed To Fix Mortgage Rates, Washington Should Stop Spending

Lawmakers can help to lower long-term interest rates by getting the country’s fiscal house in order and lowering our structural deficit.

11.12.2024 4

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No, Fighting Wasteful Scams Isn’t ‘Cutting’ Medicare

Trump, Musk, and Ramaswamy shouldn’t be afraid to cut out federal government waste, even in programs like Medicare.

09.12.2024 3

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Reining In Federal Spending Must Start With The Executive Branch

If the incoming Trump administration is serious about controlling federal spending — and it should be — there’s an easy place to start: Within the...

06.12.2024 4

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Al Michaels’ Quirks Define Amazon’s NFL Broadcasts

Among sports fans, certain voices carry with them an air of authority. From Vin Scully to Howard Cosell to Keith Jackson, just hearing these...

29.11.2024 10

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Why Trump Shouldn’t Use Recess Appointments To Force Through Cabinet Nominees

Since Donald Trump’s reelection victory, some conservatives have discussed the possibility of using recess appointments, temporary appointments...

27.11.2024 3

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Conservatives Would Be Smart To Push Ballot Measures In Blue States

Following this month’s elections, most observers have focused on the political comeback that saw Donald Trump win re-election and Republicans...

20.11.2024 1

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Nixon Can Teach Trump About The Pitfalls Of Revenge Politics

As I have noted at The Federalist, history can provide useful and illuminating analogies for the present, and the results of the 2024 presidential...

15.11.2024 6

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In Trying To Generate Playoff Drama, NASCAR ‘Rigged’ Its Championship

Did you hear about the great national event last week that was rigged? No, I don’t mean the presidential election. I mean the NASCAR championship....

14.11.2024 40

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Why Senators Would Rather Stick To The Status Quo Than Move On From The McConnell Era

Lawmakers return to Washington this week, contemplating a changed landscape following last week’s election results. In the Senate, victorious...

13.11.2024 2

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Trump’s Economic Policies Are Far Superior To Harris’ But Could Still Be Better

For months, Donald Trump’s opponents — first Joe Biden and now Kamala Harris — have claimed his policies in a potential second term would raise...

04.11.2024 2

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New York Mag’s Whitewashing Of The Olivia Nuzzi Scandal Is As Corrupt As You’d Expect

The corporate media’s corruption is so predictable. Several weeks ago, when the controversy first emerged over New York Magazine correspondent...

30.10.2024 2

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Sixty Years Later, Reagan’s ‘A Time For Choosing’ Speech Casts Enduring Vision Of Conservatism And Freedom

Three score years ago this Sunday, one of the seminal moments in modern American politics occurred in the service of a presidential campaign that...

28.10.2024 30

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Trump Can’t Derail Social Security, But Harris’ Filibuster Plans Can

In her campaign’s “New Way Forward” policy document, Kamala Harris claimed she “will not let [Donald] Trump and his allies take away the Social...

25.10.2024 2

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Can The 25th Amendment Withstand A Weaponized Justice System?

A new documentary on the vice presidency gives a fresh perspective on the complications of American governance.

22.10.2024 2

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Washington Reined In 2024 Spending By ‘Only’ Burning Through $1.9 Trillion More Than It Brought In

The cliché holds that a picture is worth a thousand words. But a recent chart from the Congressional Budget Office is worth nearly 2,000,000,000,000...

21.10.2024 40

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CW Upgrades ‘Scrabble’ And ‘Trivial Pursuit’ From Board Games To Game Shows

If the past several years have taught entertainment observers anything, it’s that Hollywood loves reusing existing franchises. From myriad “Fast...

16.10.2024 30

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Reports: Democrats’ Idea Of Progress Is Shoveling Billions Of Dollars To Illegals And Insurance Companies

Members of Congress may have decamped Washington to campaign for reelection, but in nondescript buildings near Capitol Hill, federal budget gnomes...

10.10.2024 80

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1870s French Artists Who Bucked The Establishment Left A Lasting ‘Impression’

'Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment' compares and contrasts two exhibitions held in the French capital a century and a half ago.

09.10.2024 6

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CBS’s New Legal Drama Isn’t Your Grandfather’s ‘Matlock’

In an episode of “The Simpsons” that first aired in the fall of 1994, Grandpa Simpson exclaimed that his favorite television show was “Matlock!!”...

08.10.2024 3

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Biden’s Spendy Election Year Insurance Bailout Will Save Seniors Just $1.63 Per Month

How can a health insurance plan offer increased benefits from one year to the next while simultaneously lowering premiums? Simple: Taxpayers pay...

01.10.2024 90

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If Harris Can ‘Eliminate The Filibuster For Roe,’ She Can Nuke It For Fracking Bans And Gun Control Too

What does abortion have to do with the future of fracking in the United States? Much more than one might expect. Kamala Harris’ announcement that...

27.09.2024 20

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Corrupt ‘Reporters’ Like Olivia Nuzzi Are Destroying Democracy

Over this past weekend, the front page of New York Magazine’s website advertised: “Yes, the system is rigged.” They should know — their...

24.09.2024 40

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House Report Shows California’s Covid Fraud Was So Much Worse Than You Think

How bad was the scale of fraud — and the governmental incompetence that permitted it — during Covid? Unfortunately, prosecutors and federal...

20.09.2024 40

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Census Data Shows Americans Haven’t Gotten A Pay Raise Since Trump Was President

One of the seminal moments of presidential debates came in a 1980 tussle between the Republican challenger and the Democrat incumbent. Challenging...

19.09.2024 3

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Is It Really ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Without Pat Sajak?

“Wheel of Fortune” began its 42nd season in syndication last week, with only the second host in the syndicated show’s history. Ryan Seacrest,...

16.09.2024 3

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Newsom Will Oppose Giving Home Down Payments To Illegals Only As Long As Kamala Needs Votes

The governor of the nation’s largest state recently reminded us there’s an election coming (as if anyone could forget). In a matter of a few hours,...

13.09.2024 10

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Kamala Harris Can’t Stop Talking About GOP Policies Because Hers Are Indefensible

Kamala Harris’ vapid interview with CNN’s Dana Bash revealed much about the presidential candidate (not to mention the sycophantic media). Perhaps...

10.09.2024 20

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Bad Ratings And Bidenflation Turned ‘Big Money’ Game Shows Into ‘Who Wants To Be A $100,000-aire?’

A quarter-century ago, a new show revolutionized the television landscape in the United States. “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?,” which debuted for...

09.09.2024 3

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3 Reasons Obamacare Spending Has Exploded Under Democrats

Lest anyone think the gusher of federal spending ended with the Covid pandemic, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...

05.09.2024 10

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In Yet Another Middle Finger To Taxpayers, McConnell Nets Kentucky $500 Million In Earmarks

Over much of his time as Senate Republican leader, grassroots citizens have realized that Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., often stands as the...

27.08.2024 30

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The Money-Printing That Made Millennials Wealthy Can Bankrupt Them Too

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal cited new survey data to document a dramatic turnaround in the financial outlook of the millennial...

26.08.2024 4

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Kamala Harris Wants To Memory-Hole Her Border Record Because It’s Disqualifying

Recently, Kamala Harris made a speech in Arizona in which she tried to talk tough on border security. The speech was intended to respond to the...

21.08.2024 40

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How Kamala’s Economic Plans Would Send ‘Bidenflation’ Into Overdrive

Anyone who thinks Ronald Reagan remains irrelevant four decades after his last election victory hasn’t read Kamala Harris’ economic proposals....

21.08.2024 5

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Sneaky Court Ruling Could Lock States Into Health Welfare For Able-Bodied Adults

It has largely skipped the national press’s attention — perhaps because of the presidential debate that evening — but a June 27 court ruling could...

20.08.2024 10

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If Republicans Want To Extend Trump’s Tax Cuts, They Should Cut Spending To Do It

Whither supply-side economics? Given debates since 2016 about the meaning of conservatism, those on the right might wish to assess whether and to...

19.08.2024 10

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Medicare Agency Just Gave Kamala Harris An In-Kind Contribution With Your Tax Dollars

Earlier this month, Kamala Harris’ campaign announced it raised more than $200 million in the first week of her candidacy, following Joe Biden’s...

12.08.2024 50

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AGs Sue To Stop Biden-Harris Rule Giving ‘Free’ Health Care To Illegal Aliens

Nearly 18 months ago, I noted in these pages the “likelihood of a legal challenge” to a Biden administration proposal to make eligible for...

12.08.2024 60

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