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Government by Extortion

The White House’s “rule or ruin” strategy — wall or shutdown! — is anti-democratic.

Kicking the can down the road appears to be a bipartisan sport in Washington.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Relocating federal agencies to the heartland would create jobs, revitalize cities, and put government more in touch with the people.

We need a plan to save the planet while creating great jobs. Actually, there is one.

In the past, I made lists of what I wanted to do differently. Sometimes it helped. But this year, I’m cataloguing everything that’s going right.

Maybe you’ll get four of them.

America’s most popular public service literally delivers for its people. Anti-government zealots want to sell it off.

There’s no moral difference between suppressing the vote through the law and literally stealing ballots. Both may have happened in North Carolina.

Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.