President of the United States, No Longer Leader of the Free World
President Donald Trump made it official yesterday with the ample support of his Vice President, JD Vance. He and the
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Commentary
Trump, Musk, and Authoritarian Lies
In a recent Substack piece, Nobel Prize-winning economist and former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discusses the “explosion of
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Where did all the religious leaders go in times of deportation?
As the Trump administration does its best to ignore vulnerable children, terrorize immigrants with dark skin, and cut thousands of government workers from their livelihoods, a question lingers in the air.
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Budget Lunacy
Increases in our national debt should be reserved for economic or national security emergencies, neither one of which we are experiencing at the moment.
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Eliminating mandatory psychiatric coverage: toughening up America and saving millions of people billions of dollars
If Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are serious and fearless – and one thinks that they manifestly are — about the dual goals of saving the American people money and increasing their independence and control of their lives, they should start by terminating the mandatory health insurance that Americans pay for mental health.
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A Student Loan Story, and a Solution?
But lawmakers don’t seem to care about debt after all. They certainly don’t seem to care about people. The country has nearly $36 trillion in debt that it will never pay off. The nation is like him! The U.S. will have to pray for a settlement.
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Salvation Is Forever
One of the most controversial subjects within Christianity is “Once saved, always saved.” This column’s title, “Salvation is Forever,” shows
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Congress: Good Men and Women Doing Nothing
Does President Trump care that he’s breaking the law? Of course not. The Supreme Court has ruled that a President is immune from prosecution as long as he breaks the law in the ordinary course of his Presidency. What a crock.
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Where is our Congress now that we need one?
President Trump is, as of this writing, on the verge of giving private citizen Elon Musk access to everyone’s IRS file, yours included. He says he’s doing this for reasons related to improving the efficiency of the IRS, but has stopped well short of telling what, precisely, those reasons might be.
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Trump’s ‘Highway Robbery’ Plan
Laying people off is just the means or result of carefully identifying and correcting inefficiencies. And he’s cutting back because we can’t keep funding the government by borrowing and paying interest on so, so many trillions of dollars of debt.
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