Remind me again why any reasonable person expects the federal government to obey the law. The Trump administration this week gravely imperiled the nation’s water supply by curtailing federal regulations over dry land. Or at least that’s the story the media is hustling. A Washington Post headline epitomized the fretting: “Trump proposal would limit protections for U.S. waterways” by narrowing the definition of wetlands. The Post did not mention that mere puddles or land that is dry 350 days a year have been categorized as “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. Perhaps the...

The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced that it is canceling that annual survey because "the data is rife with inaccuracies slanted to create a narrative that is not representative of what is actually happening in the countryside.” That annual survey was “costly, politicized, and [does] nothing more than fear monger," USDA said. Those were some of the most honest...