Blue state fraud continues — and as tax season approaches, Americans may wonder just how much of their money funds outright corruption.

In California, a firm that was paid more than one hundred million dollars to build housing for the homeless failed to deliver. Instead, its CEO embezzled more than two million dollars, spent on a luxury lifestyle and contributions to Democratic politicians, including Gavin Newsom.

Oregon paid over two million dollars in Medicaid funds to what was billed as an addiction recovery provider. It was actually a drug den, linked to Tren de Aragua. Its operators were tied to a sixty million dollar fraud ring that laundered money by sending it to Rwanda.

Not long ago, the Biden administration demanded law abiding Americans account for six hundred dollar Venmo transactions. That’s some nerve, while this kind of lawlessness flourishes.

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Many of you may have seen it: A jury in New York awarded a young woman $2 million over a transgender procedure as a minor.

It’s the first time a so-called detransitioner has won a case before a jury. She was 16 years old … and she had a double mastectomy, having been pressured by medical authorities.

The New York Times ran a big story headline: “Woman Wins a Lawsuit Over Gender Surgery as a Minor”

And then, one day later, here’s another headline: “Doctor’s group endorses restrictions on gender related surgery for minors.” That would be the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Then, just a day after that: a statement came from the American Medical Association saying that the best standard of care for minors is to delay these treatments.

You know the pro LGBTQ movement is trying to say there’s nothing big here, but this is a wave.

We’re seeing social ridiculousness now being called to account.

May it continue.

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In the aftermath of the big layoffs at The Washington Post, there has been an explosion of commentary—again—about the decline of newspapers.

But if our concern is about journalism and not simply protecting old newspapers, there’s little to worry about.

Readers will always read. News junkies will always find and especially read news. Reading is simply faster than broadcast, so news delivered by text is always going to have a market.

“Journalism is a craft, not a profession,” the late Michael Kelly would routinely state when he was a weekly guest on my radio program. And the craft survives and thrives in the United States unlike anywhere else in the world because of our First Amendment. The never-ending “creative destruction” of capitalism—thanks for the phrase goes to Joseph Schumpeter—is the constant companion of every business, including journalism.

Text-only platforms remain abundant. News delivery platforms are plentiful. And there are zero gatekeepers.

In America, at least, the Golden Age of Journalism has begun.

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