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It doesn’t matter if you’re a whole psycho mess of millionaire entitlement. If you tick a few race and gender boxes, social justice warriors will rally to your cause.

Drew Carey's 11-year-old son has gotten himself into trouble.

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to Wisconsin's voter identification law, after having blocked the state from requiring photo IDs in November's general election.

Speaker of the House John Boehner dismissed a move this week by a Republican member to oust him from his post as “no big deal.” But rumbles on the Right have clearly moved the Speaker off his game—his golf game.

‘Waste, abuse, and fraud.” These are the words politicians say when you ask them what it is they would cut to balance the budget. If they’re really wonky, they might add “duplication.” I have put the question to dozens of politicians over the years, and have rarely received anything like an honest answer. That’s because the honest answer is unpopular: We have to cut Social Security and Medicare spending modestly and military spending significantly, and we’ll probably have to raise some taxes, too, or at least forgo the tax cuts that politicians of both parties habitually promise. “Waste, abuse, and fraud,” W.A.F. I call it WAFfling. We are not going to waffle the deficit away. But we might waffle away a third of it. The federal budget deficit in 2015 was $439 billion; that’s down about two-thirds from where it was in 2010. For all those radio ranters and cable-news mouthholes asking what electing Republicans ever has accomplished, there’s your answer. (Oh, and the fact that Michigan is a right-to-work state, that the First and Second Amendments survive, and, come to think of it, a bit more.) Change happens slowly (if only there were an Anglo-American political philosophy dedicated to gradualism!), but it happens, and that’s how it happens. There are no permanent victories in politics, however, and the deficit is expected to creep up this year, and then to rise steeply in the future if the major entitlements are left unreformed and allowed to become supercharged drivers of deficit spending. RELATED: Medicaid Doesn’t Alleviate Poverty — So Why Do We Keep Spending More On It? Which brings us to the criminal — and I do not use the word figuratively — administration of Medicaid by the Obama administration. In September, the Department of Health and Human Services sent out a warning that improper payments under Medicaid have become so common that they will account this year for almost 12 percent of total Medicaid spending — just shy of $140 billion. (Total improper payments across federal programs will come to about $139 billion this year, according to estimates that have proved too generous in the past, and almost all of that is Medicaid-driven.) That rate has doubled in only a few years, driven mostly by the so-called Affordable Care Act’s liberalization of Medicaid-eligibility rules. 12 percent in improper payments isn’t an error rate — it’s a malfeasance rate. I used to work the late shift at a Burger King across the street from a cowboy bar, which ensured a festive atmosphere after last call, and when the manager settled up the books at 4 a.m., he did not expect us to be accurate down to the last penny. There might be a 1 percent or 2 percent variation from mistakes in counting out change or the like. I once got called into the manager’s office because my till was short some suspiciously round number, like $20, and they were on the verge of either going through my pockets or firing me when someone discovered where the mistake had been made. Twenty bucks is an error. $140 billion is — pardon my English-major math — about 7 billion times worse an error. And 12 percent in improper payments isn’t an error rate — it’s a malfeasance rate. But Burger King has standards. The Obama administration does not. #share#Some perspective: We’re spending more than seven times as much on improper, illegal federal payments as we do on NASA. We’re spending nearly 20 times as much on improper, illegal federal payments as we do on the National Science Foundation. We could build 13 Ford-class aircraft carriers every year for what we are spending on improper and illegal payments driven by Obamacare. We’re spending twice as much on improper and illegal payments as it would cost to pay all the tuition costs of every American college student. (Not that having Uncle Stupid do that is a good idea.) If improper and illegal federal payments were an economy of their own, that economy would be bigger than Hungary’s and and more than twice the size of Guatemala’s. That’s a big waffle. Question: Who is getting fired over this? Who is going to jail? What, if anything is being done. Answer: “ . . . ” No, that’s okay, I’ll wait. “ . . . ” Really? Really. The Obama administration is not lifting a pinky to do anything about this, even though analysts such as John Hood have — for years — been arguing that it is necessary and possible to reform this mess. As the Wall Street Journal has reported, we don’t even verify that doctors billing Medicaid for services rendered are actually doctors. In many cases, we do not do much to verify that their patients actually, you know, exist. We’ve paid untold billions of dollars to “clinics” that turn out to be little more — or nothing more — than post-office boxes and prepaid cell phones. And as bad as that 12 percent rate is, some policy scholars believe that it is in fact probably worse. #related#As I have argued at some length, the real problem with the welfare state is not the poor people receiving checks — it’s everybody in the middle, the vast array of government employees, their union allies, contractors, and third parties who earn six-, seven-, eight-, or nine-figure paydays taking their cuts of money we think we’re spending on the poor. This is an enormous criminal conspiracy against the American people and the public fisc. And what’s the Obama administration been doing? Hiring behavioral-science experts to get more people hooked on government programs. Kurt Vonnegut couldn’t have thought this up. Waste, abuse, and fraud? In Washington, that’s not a set of problems — it’s a career path.  — Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent.

Some left-wingers in America are learning to love firearms following the election of Donald Trump and a few are even becoming survivalists.

Ian Smith, a former Department of Homeland Security analyst who recently quit his job amid questions over his ties to white nationalists, attended multiple immigration policy meetings at the White House convened by President Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller, said government officials familiar with his work.

America is funding Palestinian terror, and every dime of taxpayer money going to the PA should be seized and given to the victims of terror.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's newly minted presidential campaign is the media equivalent of a juicy rib-eye that robbers use to distract a guard dog during a heist. He'll get a ton of media attention, and ...

On Thursday night, Concordia's Student Government Association reversed their November 30 decision to fund an appearance by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, voting to resc

Americans are once again forced to face the threat of ISIS-inspired terrorism, and now it's up to Donald Trump and the Republican leadership to make damn sure everyone knows how Hillary Clinton caused this mess.

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One man is keeping our resolution from being voted on in Nevada. Here's what we need you to do.

Senator Harry Reid, the tough tactician who has led Senate Democrats since 2005, said he had been contemplating retiring from the Senate for months.

#TheResistance is losing. So expect them to get even more unhinged throughout #ResistanceSummer.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday touted what he said was President Trump's kept promise to clamp down on violent crime, after the FBI released p

New York’s governor is violating the First Amendment by pressuring banks and insurers to shun "gun promotion organizations."

Agents dragged Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma out of their homes in the middle of the night, claiming they violated terms of house arrest

Virginia Congressman says the left today has no answer for the question of what is good and what is bad.

"It should raise some serious questions."

A global survey tracks peoples' willingness to live alongside neighbors of a different race.

Federal tax reform has caused lawmakers in New Jersey to rethink the system. Some say this year is the time for drastic change.

In new guidelines issued on the official Planned Parenthood website, the

Why do Fox News's real journalists put up with it?

Professor Andrew Pessin is now on leave from Connecticut College