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SPEED Act No Magic Bullet But A Very Good Start
The U.S. House of Representatives, heavily criticized recently for its failure to get much done this year outside of the passage of the One Bill Beautiful Bill Act in July, gave its do-nothing reputation a hit on Thursday…
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10 Houseplants That Can Improve Your Quality of Life
I used to think houseplants were nothing more than expensive dust collectors. Then I bought a pothos, neglected it shamelessly and watched it grow anyway. That’s when it clicked: Maybe these leafy roommates are doing more for…
New Data Confirm Pundits Wrong On Economy Again, But At Least They’re Consistent
Guess what! Inflation, growth, jobs: Conventional wisdom from America’s economic punditry was across-the-board wrong. Again.At the year’s start the punditry predicted that Trump’s tariffs would cause a surge of inflation and…
These People Are Fools. What Are We Missing?
I mentioned in my last article that the governors of three of the country’s poorest-performing states aspire to be the Democratic nominee for President in 2028. California, Illinois, and Minnesota are all in a death spiral,…
Plan to close J.H. Campbell power plant is misguided – Mackinac Center
With 15 years of life left, there is no urgency to close the J.H. Campbell, coal-fired power plant near Holland. It supplies 10% of Michigan’s electric demand. The plant’s owner, Consumers Energy, invested a billion dollars…
Pushing back against leading medical journal’s screed
John Hinderaker writes for the Powerline blog about one medical publication’s latest journalistic misstep. The Lancet, headquartered in Britain, was once a respected medical journal. Now, it is mostly a left-wing rag. The…
Exploring Trump’s impact on executive power
Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer ponder President Donald Trump’s impact on executive power during the first year of his second term. In the pursuit of this agenda, Trump has unquestionably expanded presidential power in important…
Republicans continue to get sucked into health care battles
Yuval Levin tackles a topic that continues to perplex Republicans. Sometimes in politics, you win not by changing the world but by changing the subject. That’s how the Democrats won this fall’s government shutdown. It didn’t…
Bipartisan bill boosts American defense
Mackenzie Eaglen dissects a rare bipartisan measure on Capitol Hill that will improve American defense. The FY2026 National Defense Authorization Act couples nearly $900 billion in defense spending with a rare dose of…
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