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P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 2, 2025
The June 25 NY City rank-choice Mayoral Primary victory of Democrat (and socialist) state Assembly member Zohran Mamdani has been receiving…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 29, 2025
Even after Elon Musk’s late May departure from the Department of Government Efficiency (an oxymoron that provides a key insight into one of the major…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 4, 2025
  If your Spring Clean-Up needs something extra to fill the rubbish bin, this news might offer two items to consider. It’s a tale of federal…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 25, 2025
The Trump Administration last Thursday announced a change rectifying an unscrupulous Biden Administration move that locked away vast portions of the…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | March 10, 2025
Even as American business owners and consumers hear Donald Trump stress to FoxNews’ Maria Bartiromo that he’s being clear when he repeats erratic…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 19, 2025
Riding the fumes of normalcy bias, Senator Liz Warren’s (D-MA) 2010 bureaucratic creation, the deceptively titled “Consumer Financial Protection…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 30, 2024
With Donald Trump’s newest allies, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, on one side, and old allies such as Steven Bannon and Laura Loomer on the other,…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 26, 2024
Early each semester in political-economics classes, I try to show students all the forms of pernicious statism, i.e. forced collectivism, and one of…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 17, 2024
For decades, California was synonymous with the open road: free-wheelin’ dune buggy races, beach vans, and low-rider culture, among myriad road-based…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 14, 2024
The political class is at it again. On October 9, as Hurricane Milton approached Florida, Kamala Harris offered a tax-funded “Statement From Vice…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | September 11, 2024
Is it consistent to be consistently inconsistent? In accord with her claim to CNN’S Dana Bash that - despite stark and glaring flips on positions…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 26, 2024
Taxation and money-printing are the fuels that feed the government beast. Money-printing causes the hidden tax of lost buying power for all the…