EDUKAYSHUN: President Trump, who once said he loves the uneducated, yesterday signed an order to dismantle the federal Department of Education which has long been a target of conservatives.   The order with the Orwellian title “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, …

WAG THE FINGER: In an almost unheard of rebuke of a sitting president by a Chief Justice, John Roberts reprimanded Donald Trump for saying that a federal judge who ruled against the administration in a deportation case should be impeached.    “Impeachment …

STONEWALLING: Justice Department lawyers yesterday stonewalled a judge asking questions about the deportation of suspected Salvadoran gang members over the weekend in defiance of his order to stop and turn around any planes that were in the air. DOJ lawyer Abhishek Kambli …

FATAL WINDS: As many as 40 people were killed in tornados and wind storms over the weekend that swept from Arizona and Michigan to Georgia and the Carolinas.   As the system moved east at least seven states from Florida to Western …

WICKED: President Trump delivered a rare political speech at the Justice Department yesterday railing on about the prosecutions against him, the Ukraine war, and  even the price of eggs.   In an hourlong speech, Trump denounced by name the lawyers and former prosecutors …

THE FIRING LINE: A federal judge yesterday ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of workers on probationary status who had been fired in the gutting of government departments by President Trump and Elon Musk. Judge William  Alsup in the Northern District …

POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT: The head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced that the EPA is backing away from environmental protection to become an engine for economic growth. Lee Zeldin wrote in The Wall Street Journal that, “We are driving a dagger through …

ELECTRIC SHOCK: President Trump pulled another reverse yesterday, saying he was going to double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50 percent because Canada placed a tariff on electricity sold into the US … then backed off later in the …

THE TRUMP ECONOMY: Stocks took a steep and dramatic dive yesterday just one day after President Donald Trump refused to say whether his import tariffs and budget cutting policies will cause a recession.   The S&P 500 dropped 2.7 percent, the biggest fall …

ECON 101: President Trump in an interview on Fox News yesterday declined to rule out the possibility of steering the economy into recession as his tariffs and economic policies take hold.   Asked if he was expecting a recession Trump responded that …