Category: Defund The Federal Beast

One of the most astonishing signs of the moral collapse of the West is its embrace of the fantasy that a person can change his or her sex.  It is one thing for this delusion to affect children through what is often called “social contagion,” a phenomenon brilliantly described by Abigail Shrier in her book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (Regnery: 2021).

Who would have ever thought that creating and funding a massive government-owned media conglomerate to “create a more informed public” would be a good idea? Well, that was President Lyndon B. Johnson. He created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1967 as part of his Great Society. After that, the monster grew.

In August 2022, Joe Biden proposed to give the IRS $80 billion over the next decade to hire 87,000 new IRS agents. When the IRS issued a job posting seeking agents to hire, it sought those who would “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force if necessary,” conservatives exploded with justifiable outrage.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has had consequences that continue reverberating throughout America, including reports that taxpayer money has been spent to censor taxpayers themselves.

There is an abundance of unnecessary and shameful federal programs and agencies which the Republicans now controlling the House of Representatives should stop funding.

President Reagan said it 42 years ago in his first inaugural speech:  “[G]overnment is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”  And while it is easy to blame big spending Democrats for the runaway federal budget and the nation’s staggering national deficit, that’s not really fair.