Rob Horowitz

1 week ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

Continuing to bulldoze his way through the post-Watergate norms and procedures designed to keep the president’s “personal and political interests” from unduly influencing decisions on individual criminal and civil matters, President Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first term on Friday. He did so without offering a better reason than they said and did things he didn’t like.

2 weeks ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

President Trump unveiled his sweeping, disastrous tariffs this past Wednesday with the same dishonest, flim-flammery that he used to bamboozle people into signing up for Trump University: a chart with phony numbers based on trade deficits--not the tariffs that other nations' put on our exports --and a made-up tariff history that would earn him an F in a high school history class.

3 weeks ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people,” famously said HL Mencken. That is apparently the view of President Trump and his national security team as they shamelessly serve up a shifting series of nonsensical and blatantly false claims, attempting to minimize, shift the blame, and explain away the serious security breach, resulting from discussing upcoming military action as well as specific attack plans during a Signal chat on their cell phones.

1 month ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

Driven by rising distrust and fraying social connections, the United States fell to 24th in the world in the happiness of its residents, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report.  Once again, the Nordic nations dominated the top global rankings. Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, and Norway earned 5 of the top 6 happiness scores.

1 month ago | golocalprov.com | Rob Horowitz

The announcement of the full brackets for the men’s and women’s NCAA championship basketball tournaments on Sunday, signaled the beginning of March Madness, which provides enjoyment for even casual sports fans each year. This March, unfortunately, we also have a different and economically destructive kind of madness playing out: President Trump’s tariff madness. Tariffs are not a form of mystical economic magic that will do wonders for the American economy.