George H.W. Bush Averts Government Shutdown From the Grave: Reason Roundup
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"Operation Faithful Patriot" is nothing more than a very expensive, politically motivated P.R. campaign.
The president is angry that Congress funded other wasteful projects instead of his.
"We wish it got the pitch forks out and it doesn't."
The ad also shows Ron DeSantis reading to his son from The Art of the Deal and teaching his daughter to say "make America great again."
Congress will have 11 legislative days to avoid a shutdown.
"You may learn about eminent domain, but until you are in the crosshairs of the government, you don't understand how it really works."
Jason Emert really wants people to know he supports Donald Trump.
We'd be outraged by the unnecessary pursuit if Americans had been killed.
"If people are offended by his shirt-that's their right to be offended," said the student's attorney, state Rep. Mike McLane. "But it's also his right to have his opinion."
The wall might turn out "big" and "beautiful." But how much will it cost, and what will it do?
The president wants his border wall funding.
The president is touting a study that underestimates the wall's cost by a wide margin.
More Mexicans are leaving than coming to America.
It is a reactionary and obsolete plan.
A new study of border takings under the 2006 Secure Fence Act finds that many owners get inadequate compensation, and that the condemnation process is flawed in other ways.
The North American Butterfly Association says Border Patrol agents have harassed employees and damaged property at the National Butterfly Center.
Congress should tell him to take a hike.
No, because Trump doesn't care about private property rights.
The idea is sadly gaining steam.
The president is doing everything he can do to alienate libertarians who believe in shrinking the size, scope, and spending of government.
Plenty of GOP members would rather put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore than underwrite this addled project.
His enforcement action has nothing to do with the drop in border apprehensions.
The Republican Party hates immigrants more than it hates big government.
And they don't care about limited government either.
But he plans to design it "with transparency" so you'll see the huge bags of drugs being tossed over the wall before they smack you in the head.
Smugglers will always find ways through, under, over, and around whatever barriers the government erects.
This will encourage even more attempts to seize people's money and property.
The deal floated by the president reveals his governing priorities.
But when it comes to Mexico, the United States isn't being very neighborly.
The legal, practical, economic, and moral case against Trump's border barrier.
If you send money to friends and relatives abroad, the GOP wants more of it to go to Washington.
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