Questions Linger in the House IT Scandal
There’s stench rising from the House side of the Capitol this week, and no, it’s not just the usual smell of D.C. in the oppressive […]
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The Left Can’t Come to Grips with Loss of Power
Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) urged protestors to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations, or department […]
Zero Tolerance Is Dead at the Border
President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at the border is effectively dead unless Congress intervenes. Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security confirmed last week […]
Trump’s Hawaiian Volcano: The Scott-Free Dread of Korematsu
Does the Supreme Court care whether America is free or slave? That was the question 160 years ago, and it remains the question today. The […]
NeverTrump is Now NeverSCOTUS
As Democrats have (another) collective meltdown over this week’s Supreme Court rulings and the impending retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, President Trump’s supporters are venting […]
Progressives Are All Talk on Immigration
There are lots of short-term solutions to address the wave of immigrants who have swarmed the border in an effort to enter the United States […]
The Paul Ryan Express: Punching His Ticket to K Street
Months after announcing his plans to retire from Congress, why is Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) still Speaker of the House? It’s hard to imagine anyone less […]
Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass
A month from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged. We […]
George Will Willfully Wills Defeat
George F. Will is no William F. Buckley, Jr. Buckley could drop a $5-word or an historical reference in one of his columns and readers […]
Congressional Republicans Punt on Sovereignty
The furor over illegal immigration policies peaked this week as the House of Representatives began consideration of its immigration bills, and the White House initiated […]
Trumping the Rule of Law
The outrage over the “crisis at the border” raises a question about the principles of NeverTrump conservatives. They whine about President Trump undermining or attacking […]
Fake News Finally Scores on Trump
The media earlier this week reported breathlessly that President Trump was separating children from their parents at the border and placing them in cages. Trump […]
Trump’s Immigration Policies Aren’t Like Japanese Internment
I rarely feel sympathy for Members of Congress, least of all Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings, but his tearful plea about separating children from their illegal […]
Delusion About Detentions: On Family Separation at the Border
Upstanding journalists, their fellow right-minded pundits, and progressive elected official friends are outraged! align=”right” Part one of two. According to them, the Trump Administration’s approach […]
Space Nationalism Now!
Donald Trump has yet again followed through on one of his promises: he is reinvigorating America’s space policy. The White House has finally taken seriously […]
A Comedy of Corruption? Or a Bureaucratic Horror Show?
If the stakes were not so high, the 568-page report issued last week by the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General (“A Review of […]
How Libertarians Could Hand Control of Congress to Democrats
With control of the U.S. Congress to be decided in less than five months, many factors could affect the outcome. Will voters in California flip […]
Two Pathways on Immigration
In a win for the rule of law, the amnesty push in the House of Representatives—for the moment, at least—has been stopped in its tracks. […]
Tying Hillary’s Emails to the Russian ‘Collusion’ Probe
The 568-page report released Thursday by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz may help explain why the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the […]
A Nation of Laws, Not Regulations—Or Regulators
For several months, the American people have been inundated with a total media freakout about the Trump Administration’s consistent violation of sacrosanct “processes.” Whether it […]