Operation Choke Point is done, but the threat it posed still remains
"Operation Choke Point
" was an Obama-era program that targeted businesses operated as part of criminal enterprises.
Progressive parasites
Writing at National Review, Jim Geraghty makes note of three institutions of long standing and reputation that have crashed and burned at the hands of progressives and their politics. Included on the list -- ESPN.
The great government waste machine
The federal government makes billions of dollars in payments each year to individuals, businesses and organizations. But as we all know, not all of those payments are legitimate. Fraud, waste, and old-fashioned incompetence mean that huge sums are paid out in error. How much? According to the Manhattan Institute, enough to put a nice dent in the yearly deficit:
Judge orders IRS to reveal names, reasons in tea party court case
Remember the IRS scandal that broke into the open during the Obama years?
Cutting waste at the EPA
Among environmentalists, the Trump administration's efforts to bring accountability and fiscal prudence to the Environmental Protection Agency are grave sins.
Hate and the progressives
As the nation continues its discussion of hate and violence it is interesting to note this New York Times piece -- from a member of the paper's editorial board -- that takes on the vileness of some on the left, and their embrace of those who are nothing more than domestic terrorists: