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    Trump’s Report Card Comes Back All Fs

    ByMike Rotch

    Trump has perfected the oldest student move in America: make a giant promise, skip the work, then blame the teacher when the test comes back ugly. That’s not leadership. That’s a hallway argument with a laminated excuse card.

    And here’s the part that keeps the coffee hot at my desk: the louder the excuse racket gets, the less the grade changes. You can shout at the classroom, slap “rigged” on the folder, and call the desk unfair, but the F still sits there like paperwork with teeth. Ordinary people live under the consequences. The rest is just cable-news foam with a flag pin on it.

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    When Small Government Ideas Meet Big Wallets

    ByBrick Tungsten

    Ah, there’s nothing like the sweet aroma of a backyard barbecue to remind a man that small government dreams are like the perfect burger—juicy in theory, but sometimes overshadowed by a mountain of billionaire buns. The GOP once vowed to trim down Uncle Sam’s waistband, but somewhere along the line, it seems the tailor was on a billionaire’s payroll.

    It’s a funny sight indeed, watching from my lawn chair with Betsy as these deep-pocketed folks celebrate the very system they swore to pare back. My small-town aspirations of freedom and less red tape now resemble bite-sized appetizers, gulped down at a banquet where the real feast is a never-ending supply of cash flow. Sometimes, what started as a call to wield the lean shears transformed into a booming business of government expansion.

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