Brian Darling

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The new Series 2006 $20 currency notes are seen at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington.

America’s crushing national debt threat to freedom

Brian Darling · March 9, 2025 8:00 am

New York City’s history is a testament to free market capitalism

Brian Darling · February 22, 2025 6:00 am

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025.

Beltway Confidential

Congress must terminate the Inflation Reduction Act

Brian Darling · January 30, 2025 2:26 pm

Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

Trump should fight the opioid crisis with non-opioid alternatives

Brian Darling · January 15, 2025 11:55 am

$FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. Wyoming, New Mexico and other states will lose more than $400 million in mineral payments over the next decade under a budget deal nearing final approval in the Senate. A provision in the budget deal preserves a 2 percent fee charged by the government on royalties from energy companies that purchase oil and gas leases on federal land. The fee effectively set a 51-49 split, favoring the federal government, on energy royalties. The government last year paid $2.1 billion to 35 states under the program, with the largest payments going to five Western states: Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and California. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)$ Beltway Confidential

US needs to establish mineral independence

Brian Darling · September 2, 2023 6:00 am

FTC Commissioner Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Lina Khan’s FTC is waging a war against the free market

Brian Darling · August 2, 2023 10:45 am

Three radical ideas to fix a broken Congress

Brian Darling · March 19, 2022 7:55 am

Conservative House Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., leaves after speaking to reporters at the Capitol where he blocked a unanimous consent vote on a long-awaited $19 billion disaster aid bill in the chamber on Tuesday, May 28, 2019.

Congress needs more Thomas Massies

Brian Darling · February 2, 2022 5:07 am

In promoting the ‘nuclear option,’ Schumer is flat-out lying about what Robert Byrd said

Brian Darling · January 6, 2022 5:00 am

Animals don't have a voice nor representation in Congress, yet they have some friends in Reps. Dave Brat and Dina Titus, to make sure that tax money is not squandered on tests with limited utility and maximum pain to defenseless animals. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)

Taxpayer money being wasted on shocking animal experimentation

Brian Darling · January 31, 2018 5:01 am

A Washington Post analyzed documents released by Edward Snowden and reported on July 5, 2014 that, "Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FISA reform is needed, and conservatives should lead the way

Brian Darling · July 17, 2017 4:01 am