Feb. 21, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump responds to outrage over the Florida school massacre by ordering up a ban on bump stocks. Fred Lucas reports. Did The New York Times exaggerate the number of "mass shootings" in recent years? Emily Larsen looks. Congress must make hard decisions on spending and bureaucracy, Romina Boccia and John York argue. Lawmakers eye a crackdown on those gaming the system for Russia and other foreign powers, Kevin Mooney writes. Plus: Whitney Jones and Doug Badger on increasing access to health care, Walter Williams on your robotic competition, and Jarrett Stepman on a silly ranking of presidents.
Asked which presidents should be placed next on Mount Rushmore, five so-called politics experts listed Lincoln, Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, whose visages are all already carved into the rock.
The Trump administration moves to offer affordable health care to millions of Americans with a proposed rule expanding the availability of certain short-term plans to one year.
The president signs a directive ordering the attorney general to develop regulations banning "bump stocks" and other devices that turn semi-automatic firearms into automatic weapons.
Congress needs to get serious with the new budget resolution to significantly reduce entitlement spending—the key driver of deficits and debt.
Congress appears ready to crack down on individuals and groups who work on behalf of Russia and other foreign nations but don’t fully disclose those ties.
For the average American, eliminating redundant agencies and combining duplicative programs are bound to seem both commonsensical and long overdue.
No universally accepted definition exists for "mass shooting," but the one used by The New York Times is extremely broad.
If technology is destroying jobs faster than it’s creating them, it is the first time in human history that it's done so.
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