TEN IDEAS TO MAKE AMERICA’S ECONOMY GREAT AGAIN IN 2025

Here’s my wish list for the incoming Trump administration to make America healthy and prosperous and great again in 2025.

1. Slash Job-Killing Regulations

The regulatory state is a $2 trillion tax on the American economy. We all want worker safety, a clean environment and consumer protections, but in too many cases the costs of regulations far outweigh the societal benefits. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to slash 10 rules for every new rule. Just do it, Mr. President.

2. Make the Trump Tax Cuts Permanent

As JFK, Ronald Reagan and others have proven throughout history, lower tax rates lead to (more…)

PUTTING JOE BIDEN’S LEGACY IN THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY

‘Twas the night before Christmas and…you know the drill. Since it is Christmas tomorrow and we are only three weeks away from booting Joe Biden and the Democrats out of power.

It’s time to get the professional cleaners to come out and remove the stench of what they’ve done over the last four years. The budget and the country need a deep, deep cleaning to remove what it is they’ve done, then we need to resolve to never allow it to happen again.

Joe Biden’s legacy is disgraceful. May his last memory be one of realizing the American people rejected (more…)

TRUMP BLOWS UP “RIDICULOUS” FEDERAL SPENDING DEAL AS SHUTDOWN LOOMS

Yesterday (12/17), House Republican leaders were struggling to cobble together support within their party for a bipartisan stopgap federal spending bill on when, last night at 9:28pm, President-elect Donald Trump weighed in hard against it and imploded the deal.

In a joint statement on X (full text below) with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Mr. Trump trashed the 1,500-plus-page legislation that would fund the government until March 14.

The two men called on Republican leaders to reject it and renegotiate a “clean” measure with Democrats that would eliminate a trove of spending and policy extras

Mr. Trump and Mr. (more…)

A TSUNAMI OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT’S THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

How’s that for a mixed metaphor?  You do know that when a gigantic fracture of a massive glacier calves off creating an iceberg, the wave it creates splashing into the ocean is so huge it can seem like a tsunami overwhelming any small craft nearby, right? Okay, here we go.

An important feature of Trump’s second term will be his actions on the first day. Trump will sign a flurry of executive orders (EOs) on the day he is sworn in (January 20, 2025) and the following day. The exact number is not known but it will easily be 50 (more…)

THE PHENOMENON OF TRUMP REBORN

President-elect Donald Trump’s most striking characteristics today are clarity, confidence, and calm. This is extraordinary in a man renowned for chaos, confusion, and the thin-skinned hurling of demeaning insults.

But it is a truth that needs to be acknowledged and accounted for to understand what we are witnessing as Trump prepares to resume the presidency.

His press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 16 revealed a man almost preternaturally at ease with himself, his mission, his domestic support, and his acceptance abroad. His tone was measured, even somewhat humble, despite some bragging.

When he dismissed questions, as he justifiably did (more…)

ELON MUSK BELIEVES BRITAIN IS IN VERY DEEP TROUBLE

[Nigel Farage is the founder-leader of Britain’s Reform UK Party, which he represents as an MP (Member of Parliament) in the House of Commons.  Britain will soon no longer be a two-party Uniparty between Conservative and Labor.  The former did such an awful job under a succession of ridiculous Prime Ministers after jettisoning Boris Johnson, the Brits promptly jumped from the Tory frying pan into the catastrophically Woke Marxist fire of Labor.  Not long ago it would be laughably delusional among Brits that Reform would supplant (more…)

IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO DISMANTLE THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

No normal parent wants a school with teachers like this for their children.

President Trump proposes to dismantle the federal Department of Education and return education policy to the states. That will certainly be a good move, as the federal DOE has been a key promoter of the woke component of the education establishment, but this action will not of itself restore vitality to the institution of public education in our nation.

Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, writes: “Dismantling the Department of Education won’t make any measurable difference in educational outcomes… If you want real (more…)