The Founders of the United States of America warned against massive federal debt, but, to our detriment, their political descendants are not paying attention. The Founders speak to us from their graves to condemn and warn of the consequences now that President Trump and Congress have come to an agreement about lifting the meaningless “debt […]

By Ed Rogers Special to The Washington Post On Monday, the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reached the outline of a two-year budget deal. Specifically, according to The Washington Post, the deal “would raise spending limits by $320 billion and suspend the federal debt ceiling until after the 2020 presidential election.” President […]

I am not a member of the “one percent.” Not even close. I grew up in a solid middle-class family, got a job when I was a high school junior working on dangerous log booms at the oceanfront, and paid my way through college. I became a teacher, married, raised a family, attended church, and […]

Missouri Republican senator Josh Hawley used a perfectly good word in its appropriate context, and stands accused of dog-whistle bigotry. At the National Conservatism conference in Washington, D.C., last week, Hawley gave a keynote address that attacked the coastal elite for being out of touch and out of sympathy with the heartland. He called it […]

Last winter, I found myself in a hospital intensive care unit for three days. I was hooked onto all kinds of boxes, bags and bleeping machines. Stuck in the bed, I watched a lot of bad TV. The people who came into my room became my only contact with the human world. At least half […]

WASHINGTON — It’s a done deal. Almost everyone, or so it seems, believes the Federal Reserve will cut short-term interest rates next week when its main decision-making body meets. President Trump favors lower rates. So do many economists, including some fierce Trump critics. Similarly, Fed Chairman Jerome “Jay” Powell says the Fed wants to sustain […]

Iran’s corrupt religious dictators continue to talk, taunt and act as if their periodic attacks on oil tankers and cyclic threats to close the Strait of Hormuz to commercial and naval vessels still have the power to spike global oil prices, depress stock markets and economically throttle the industrialized nations the ayatollahs despise. But geo-strategically, […]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proudly announced this year that his presidential campaign would be the first in history to have a unionized workforce. Well, he just became the first presidential candidate in history to face a labor revolt from his unionized workforce. According to The Washington Post, the Sanders campaign workers union, United […]