Author: J.D. Foster

“It’s been than two years, and we are entering the third, displaced and bren like this. Isn’t there any solution for us?” asked Raghda Obeid, a […]

Many lessons appear from the longest government shutdown on record, some obvious, some subtle. The most obvious is that the party with the strongest hand always wins […]

“Don’t get stuck on stupid,” advised Army Lt. General Russel Honore, brought in following Hurricane Katrina’s 2005 Louisiana landfall. America has been stuck on stupid in the […]

Republicans were roundly thrashed in the 2025 midterms while Democrats found slivers of hope and energy. Attention now turns to 2026. In America, campaigning, like the NBA […]

Think Berlin Gedachtniskirche (with an umlaut); in English, the “Memory Church,” a ruin of a once beautiful church in downtown Berlin, now a memorial to the horrors, […]

Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly said on Sunday the shutdown could end this week if only “Republicans come to the negotiating table on health care subsidies.” In […]

You knew it had to happen, but former Vice President Kamala Harris came out with her bo. Why, only God and her financial advisor can say. If […]

One phrase heard repeatedly in recent years is that monetary policy will be “data-dependent.” In his Jackson Hole remarks, Chair Powell seems to have avoided the phrase […]

The House acted with remarkable alacrity in passing President Trump’s $9.4 billion rescissions package. If he keeps this up, they may have to change Mike Johnson’s title […]

Monthly economic data rarely provides confident clarity, and this week’s was no exception. But the story is a good one nonetheless…the economy is doing just fine. The […]

President Trump is once again unhappy with Federal Reserve Board Chair Jay Powell following Powell’s remarks at an economic event in Chicago and following the move by […]

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is nothing if not an optimist. As Senate Republican Campaign Committee lead, Scott hopes to score two seats net in the coming […]