Democrat Bloodlust Has Energized Republicans
Over and over again I have heard from people outside of politics and the media, but all over the political spectrum, about their extreme distaste […]
First Amendment
Fahrenheit 111000011
The digital world, like the modern world generally, is ephemeral. Entire universes appear and disappear in the space of days or weeks. In the mid-2000s, […]
How Social Media Collusion Censors Speech
Whether it is Twitter’s “shadowban,” Facebook’s news-sifting algorithm, or YouTube’s concern for user “safety,” social media gatekeeping is now deployed shamelessly in the service of […]
Millennials Are Breaking Free from the Thought Police
Millennials have already changed our country. This generation was raised in groups starting in daycare. They are linked constantly via social media. They never experienced […]
Clarity About Clearances
Last week, a dozen former directors and deputy directors of CIA in Democratic administrations (Robert Gates made the list bipartisan) chastised President Trump for removing […]
The Spanish Inquisition: Back by Popular Demand
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition,” said Monty Python, the great British comedy troupe that the BBC now dismisses as unwanted “Oxbridge white blokes.” In his […]
Forget 1984, It’s 2018
In the last week, Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton, former State Department employee and author Peter Van Buren, and Dan McAdams, the executive director of […]
Free Speech: The Right to Be a Moron
For many, the most arduous aspect of supporting free speech is the principled requirement to defend disagreeable speech; moreover, the degree of difficulty in defending […]
The Coordinated Purge of Right-Wing Sites Has Begun
It’s no secret that the major social media sites and tech giants, almost entirely controlled by the Left, are silencing right-wing voices in the wake […]
The Children’s Hour: American Journalism Today
Having thrown in its lot with #TheResistance, the media now faces its inevitable, if not actually imminent demise. Jobs in the newspaper industry continue to […]
A Tentative Trade War Win
Ever since President Trump launched a so-called trade war back in January, the expert political class has been in a tizzy. Economists warned that U.S.-imposed […]
Do Fake News and Corruption Change How We Think?
The release this week of the redacted Carter Page FISA warrant has generated metric tons of fake news and confirmed just how corrupt our institutions […]
The Left’s Real Problem: It Can’t Buy SCOTUS
As signs point to an easy confirmation for President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, #TheResistance has entered full “chicken with its head […]
Nunes Targets the Real Collusion: The Media and DOJ
Congress is finally closing in on the biggest perpetrator of the Trump-Russia election collusion hoax: the American news media. After taking an eight-year break from […]
Free Speech Showdown in Dixon, California
July is the first “Straight Pride American Month” (SPAM) by proclamation of Ted Hickman, vice mayor of Dixon, California, a town of some 18,000 a […]
Unaccountable Big Media Personified
As Americans were finalizing their holiday plans on July 3, the New York Times quietly announced that Ali Watkins, the reporter caught up in a […]
The Heck with Civility—This Is War
At least since the appearance of my book, Rules for Radical Conservatives—originally written under the name and in the voice of my radical leftist character […]
The Left Is Slipping into Terminal Irrelevance
Well, last week was quite a week. For one side, a week of winning. For the other, a week of wailing. It will be no […]
Overruling Roe Doesn’t Require Religious Reasoning
With the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, President Trump will be selecting a second justice for the U.S. Supreme Court. As attorney and law professor Jessica […]
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 […]