1) 3% Growth - That Didn’t Take Long

Compare that headline with this one from the left’s favorite dingbat economist, Paul Krugman, who was fired by The New York Times and is now reduced to writing for the rag Rolling Stone:

“It was obvious that Donald Trump and Co. would pursue some bad economic policies, but few expected them to create a full-blown crisis in a matter of months. It was obvious that Trump’s allies would degrade governance, but not that they would rapidly bring the whole apparatus of government to the point of collapse.”

Keep writing, Paul. We need you.

2) At Last, Trump EPA Repeals Climate Craziness

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has proposed repealing the 2009 greenhouse gas  "Endangerment Finding" that carbon dioxide endangers human health and welfare.  If successful, it unravels the legal predicate for the agency's efforts to abolish gasoline-powered cars and outlaw fossil fuel energy plants.

Zeldin, explaining how the finding was based on obsolete data and misrepresented evidence on the impact of carbon-dioxide emissions, called the repeal the "most significant deregulatory action in U.S. history. There are people, who in the name of climate change, are willing to bankrupt the country."

The Supreme Court opened the door to the Obama ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, a radical 5 to 4 Supreme Court ruling in 2007 holding that required EPA to make a scientific determination as to whether greenhouse gases meet the definition of "pollutant" under the Clean Air Act of 1970.  This is something the law was never designed or intended to do.   The Bush administration kicked the can with an extended public comment period, and then left the fateful determination to the Obama administration to make.

The economic upside of yesterday's announcement will (according to a compelling analysis published here as Appendix B) be greater than $1 trillion in present value, with annual GDP benefits of this deregulation of about $150 billion to $440 billion per year.

We've seen in the last 15 years that carbon emissions in the U.S. have declined by some 20%, largely through innovation and shifts from coal to fracked natural gas. At the same time, China has gone into overdrive with its emissions, building an average of two large coal-fired plants a week. Kudos to Lee Zeldin for sending the "endangerment finding" to the scrapheap of history.

3) How Big Government Endangers Species

Here's a classic example of utter government incompetence.  

According to the Interior Department's own statistics, the federal government has only recovered 3% of listed endangered species in 50 years and after billions of dollars spent.  The government’s complete inability to stop forest fires, for example, is doing incalculable damage to species protection.

Meanwhile, our friends at LandCAN, a private property and environmentally-friendly association that advocates wise habitat management, notes:

"An untold story today is the greatest success of the environmental movement that private

landowners, ranchers, farmers, forest owners across the nation are largely better land managers than federal government agencies which have calcified, and have more administrative plaque than any elderly heart patient.”

They also show that 80% of wetlands and endangered species habitat is on PRIVATE LAND.

We say no Senate recess until all Trump appointees are confirmed. We’re pleased to see that Senate Majority Leader John Thune is paying attention:

5) Trump's Top Ten Executive Orders

In the first half-year of the Trump 2.0 presidency, Donald Trump has signed scores of Executive Orders - many of them during his first hours back in office.  

We thought this would be a good time to review the EOs and rank them in impact.

It was tough to narrow down, but here is our list of the greatest hits:  

Let us know if we've left out anything disagree with our ratings.

1. Pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord scam - again.

2. Expanded school choice with federal education dollars.

3. Zero-based budgeting for new regulations, requiring that every new rule or reg must have benefits that exceed costs.

4. Expand production of American oil, gas, and coal production.

5. Expand mining on federal lands to reduce dependence on foreign sources and raise revenues for the government.

6. Withdraws the U.S. from the corrupt World Health Organization.

7. Ending discriminatory racial preferences in hiring and requiring merit-based selection.

8. Removing government obstacles to American dominance of AI.

9. Unleashing American dominance in drone technology.

10. Safeguarding the integrity of American elections by requiring voter ID verification.

You can read all the EOs on the White House site.

And give us your ideas for executive orders that haven't been issued yet, but should be!

6) Our Modern Health Care System

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