The Trump administration has made rooting out fraud in Medicare and Medicaid a central pillar of its policy agenda, an effort best embodied by J.D. Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Their success against fraudulent billing suggests they’re making headway. Dr. Oz is right. But the rule polices only one end of the pipe. It governs what a plan pays out. It says nothing about how the money got into the plan in the first place.

Is Fetterman the last commonsense Democrat, the final holdout against a party that traded working class instincts for ideological purity tests? Probably not the last. But he may be the last one with a big enough platform and a thick enough skin to say so out loud in public, on camera, at his own party's expense. That distinction matters more than his critics want to admit. Fetterman is no conservative hero, and I'm not claiming he is. He still votes for his party most of the time.

Government-controlled systems always promise lower costs and better outcomes. What they often deliver is more bureaucracy, fewer choices and less accountability. The people making the decisions are no longer patients and doctors. They are regulators, administrators and politically connected interests who never have to live with the consequences of their mistakes. The proposal also raises legitimate questions about Cuban's own interests. His very own Cost Plus Drugs company stands to benefit.

Today, on the first anniversary of Charlie’s death, I find myself thinking about how I knew him on a personal level — as a young man who believed deeply that his faith required him to act. Charlie understood something that Christians and Jews have understood for generations: faith is not simply something we hold in our hearts. It is something we live. It means standing up against hatred. It means defending human dignity when it is under attack.

The labor market was in far better shape in August than experts had forecasted. Not only did the headline on the monthly jobs report show 162,000 jobs were added and the unemployment rate remained low, but a deep dive into the report shows a much stronger economy than the headline alone would suggest. With hundreds of thousands of people back to work, the labor force participation rate and employment-to-population ratio both rose to their highest levels since May.

Kids are easy to indoctrinate; easy to convince of stupid things, that lies are truth. If you have kids, you know how this works. I’d never realized how easily you could joke and have everything you say be taken seriously by your kid because they don’t really understand the concept of joking yet. Once they get it, they can still be convinced of just about anything by anyone in a position of authority or someone they’re told to respect. Most adults don’t abuse that position, but liberals do.

President Donald Trump insisted we should rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. It's easy to find these whole geographic kerfuffles unnecessary. But the media hated the first one so much that the Associated Press found itself restricted from the White House press pool for refusing to accept the new Gulf terminology. What they hate is anything Trump does to add a patriotic pro-America tinge to something that they associate more with his ego than with patriotism. They see red — as in a red MAGA cap.

It was a really funny and informative moment on CNN, and like most funny and informative moments on CNN, it did not involve anyone who calls themselves a “journalist” and works for CNN. It involved a failed sports “journalist”, a libertarian podcaster, and it demonstrated just how ill-suited for any kind of challenge to their talking points these leftists really are.“It's one thing to not think capitalism is working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy,” said podcaster Kmele Foster.

“I want to be President of all Americans,” said Joe Biden. Barack Obama said something similar about there not being red Americans or blue Americans, only Americans. It’s garbage because in pursuit of that job, and in the execution of it, they do not speak to half the country at all. They want to control you, not talk with you. At his press conferences, Obama would work off a printed list of pre-screened reporters in something with all the choreography of a Broadway show. Under Joe Biden, things got worse. He had the list of reporters with the screened questions.

The leftists embrace a belief that they can provide an equality of blessings; they call it equity. It is an unachievable goal, but it seeks to capitalize on ignorance and one of the seven deadly sins, envy. What Marx created, especially being an atheist, was an ideology that leveraged a basic human sinful emotion, envy — sadness or resentment over the traits, luck, or possessions of others — in order to foment class warfare and eventual societal revolution. It is a philosophy of failure.

Thomas, in short, has won the long game. But how?  Thirty-five years ago, mainstream legal training and judicial practice suggested the proper way to interpret a legal document is to probe for nebulous concepts such as legislative history and legislative intent. It's now hard to believe, but the commonsense notion that one should begin the interpretive exercise with a document's text and plain meaning was pretty much unheard of. 

Hasan Piker, two weeks ago, delivered this message: ​​​​"Democrats, listen to me, I know we don't always see eye to eye on a lot of stuff, but you have to literally, at some point — I know you don't want to do this — defend me. Not because you love what I have to say, not because I'm part of this coalition, even though I am, whether you like it or not ... I'm not this dangerous, toxic radical force."

If Pete Buttigieg is the key to winning more Black votes for Democrats in South Carolina, then Black voters should be very clear about what they really want. The former secretary of transportation is campaigning in South Carolina under the assumption that his influence can help Democrats shore up Black votes in the general election. But it also begs the question of what exactly do Democrat leaders think today's African American voters want?

Arizona teachers' unions just learned what every coach already knows: if you can’t put points on the board, the season ends early. Last week, the state Supreme Court ruled that their petition drive to gut the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program failed to gather enough valid signatures. The Protect Education Act, complete with its income caps and extra bureaucracy, will not appear on the November ballot.

Over the years, I had the privilege of leading several grassroots organizations including Chair of the Coryell County Republican Party as well as President of the Economic Development Board through some of the fastest growth Central Texas has ever seen. Core to the promise of conservatism is fair treatment of American citizens and businesses under the law. Right now, that promise is being broken by an obscure, decades-old provision buried in the federal tax code called Section 5010.

Asked recently on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he supports Medicare for All, Jeffries replied it is "not legislation that I am currently cosponsoring or that I support." In 2022, while seeking reelection, Jeffries wrote, "I have cosponsored the Medicare for All Act every Congress that I've been a Representative. So, what happened? Did Jeffries take a closer look at the health systems of Canada and Britain, which the Left insists America should emulate?

An August 17 ABC News report speaks volumes about the Senate race in Texas. It's headline, “Some Democrats trying to reclaim the issue of faith from the Republican Party,” raises a number of questions about what happens at the intersection of religion and politics. The first question is obvious: when and why did Democrats abandon faith in the first place? But a deeper question, one that is increasingly prominent in the Texas Senate campaign, is whether Democrats are trying to reclaim faith or redefine it. 

I have spent over three decades in wealth management and testifying as an expert witness on fiduciary duty, which boils down to one idea: when you are entrusted with someone else's well-being, you do not get to profit from betraying it. Doctors call their version of that rule “First, do no harm.” On August 13, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report suggesting a lot of doctors and hospitals forgot they ever took that oath.

It's worth poking around the entrails of the returns for the agonizingly close and, given the pre-primary polls, surprising results of recent Democrat primaries in the key swing Midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin, with a side look at Minnesota. In both Michigan's senatorial and Wisconsin's gubernatorial primaries, the results were so close that it's useful to express them in the usually supererogatory tenths of a percentage.

From the East Coast to the West Coast, "tax the rich" is the battle cry of radical-left Democrats. They claim that by attacking the rich, including celebs like Swift, they're saving democracy. Don't be fooled. Their new forms of taxation — including wealth taxes, mansion taxes and pied-a-terre taxes — are fueled by jealousy and hatred for our free-market system, working people and everything American. You're their next target. You may not consider yourself "rich," but these new forms of taxation will eventually hit you if you live in a blue state.