With nearly 1 million illegal immigrants having already self-deported from the U.S. since Donald Trump’s election victory, many affluent Americans are apparently wondering who’ll left be around to mow their lawns. Casie Chalk in The Federalist suggests they start doing the job themselves – and stop looking for cheap labour for innumerable other household chores as well. They’ll not only save money but might, Chalk suggests, find it strengthens their family life to boot.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


