Opinion

OPINION: Debt deal – disaster or disappointment?

Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy came to a deal to slightly lower federal spending.You may read that projected federal government spending will decrease by $2.1 trillion over the next ten years.It won’t – and it is not even close.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (June 1, 2023)

FOR THE RECORD“I agree with every single critique of the shortcomings of the debt limit deal. In a rational world, we wouldn’t just be fighting over discretionary spending, we’d be restructuring entitlements. We don’t live in that world.

OPINION: America’s biggest threat was not January 6

What was the biggest threat to America in the last seven years?If you have swallowed the party line of the Democrats, it was the storming of the Capitol by dangerous Trump “insurrectionists” on Jan. 6, 2021.

NOTABLE QUOTABLES (May 25, 2023)

FOR THE RECORD“The truth is that the Treasury has more than ample revenue coming in each month to avoid defaulting on the debt, and Mr. Biden doesn’t need to distort the meaning of the 14th Amendment to do it.