I CANCELED MY SUBSCRIPTION YEARS AGO:

GAO SAYS IMPROPER PAYMENTS ZOOMED IN 2025: Wait a minute, didn’t Trump and DOGE expose this long-running scam last year? Looks like no easy fix is going to get rid of this problem.

THIS IS, IN FACT, THE CENTRAL ISSUE OF OUR AGE: Managerial Bureaucracy’s Threat to Democracy and Humanity.

One gets the sense that the honest view of our exasperated political elites is as captured in a Bloomberg News headline from last year which read: “2024 is a year of elections, and that’s a threat to democracy.”

In country after country, governments are moving to desparately tighten their grip over the people they rule, sharply curtailing freedom of speech and access to information, and using alleged threats to security and stability to justify granting themselves emergency powers, weaponizing the law, criminalizing dissent, and suppressing any meaningful political opposition.

They must be taught not to do that.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:

Exit questions:

Related:

BRANDING: Trump backs idea of changing ICE’s name to ‘NICE.’

President Trump on Sunday endorsed the idea of changing the name of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which would give the agency the acronym NICE.

The idea was promoted by conservative influencer Alyssa Marie last month.

“I want Trump to change ICE to NICE (National Immigration and Customs Enforcement) so the media has to say NICE agents all day everyday,” Marie wrote in a March post on social platform X.

Late Sunday evening, the president publicly endorsed the switch.

“GREAT IDEA!!! DO IT,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Democrats are usually so much better at this stuff. It’s, uh, nice to see Republicans playing the game.

IT’S (D)IFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT:

CORN, POPPED: Grassley Demands FBI, DOJ Records On Clinton Foundation Probe. “The letter, accompanied by a 2016 FBI electronic communication, an FBI Little Rock PowerPoint presentation, and a March 2020 investigative update memorandum, outlines years of alleged pay-to-play schemes connecting the Clinton Foundation to favorable U.S. government actions for major donors across multiple countries.”

LET THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND:

UPDATE: From the comments: “Nothing says ‘believe the science’ better than destroying evidence.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

PENCIL IT IN: Iran Has DAYS Until This Crisis Hits. “The Islamic Republic is ‘scrambling’ to find places to put the oil that President Donald Trump’s blockade stops the regime from selling before suffering ‘irreversible’ damage to the country’s oil production.”

REMEMBER THIS GUY?

Politico: The Benghazi Patsy: “Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws. You won’t find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn’t be in jail today if he hadn’t produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad. . . . Very few people have been willing to stick up for Nakoula (with “Instapundit” Glenn Reynolds a prominent and dogged exception).”

THE RECORD SO FAR:

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.