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I found the Democrat playbook. Republicans refuse to touch it

I have kept quiet about this for far too long. I have worked in grassroots politics for decades — on local races, statewide races, presidential campaigns, and everything in between. I’ve watched hundreds of millions of dollars pour into elections, consultants come and go and campaigns rise and fall, while armies of conservative volunteers work […]

I found the Democrat playbook. Republicans refuse to touch it

I have kept quiet about this for far too long. I have worked in grassroots politics for decades — on local races, statewide races, presidential campaigns, and everything in between. I’ve watched hundreds of millions of dollars pour into elections, consultants come and go and campaigns rise and fall, while armies of conservative volunteers work […]

Trump wants to kill the roadless rule: Trees aren’t worth more than lives

The U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule today to erase a 25-year-old federal restriction covering nearly 45 million acres of national forest. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says overgrown stands, insect outbreaks, and disease have turned healthy landscapes into tinderboxes. I’ve lived in California since 1990, long enough to watch the same story repeat itself […]

When every Hollywood cause becomes an anti-Israel cause

Free speech means the right to protest, criticize, and organize, including about Israel, including from Hollywood. It does not mean the right to be taken seriously regardless of whether the claims hold up, and it does not exempt celebrity activism from the same criticism that anyone else’s advocacy would face. That distinction keeps disappearing. Increasingly, […]

Disastrous reality

We’ve all become used to computer-generated scenes of disaster — of meteors thudding into the Earth with the force of a thousand nuclear explosions, seas engulfing cities, or people flash frozen mid-stride. There was something cinematic and unreal about the video from the Himalayas this week, showing what can be described as a flood, only […]

I found the Democrat playbook. Republicans refuse to touch it

I have kept quiet about this for far too long. I have worked in grassroots politics for decades — on local races, statewide races, presidential campaigns, and everything in between. I’ve watched hundreds of millions of dollars pour into elections, consultants come and go and campaigns rise and fall, while armies of conservative volunteers work […]

Trump wants to kill the roadless rule: Trees aren’t worth more than lives

The U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule today to erase a 25-year-old federal restriction covering nearly 45 million acres of national forest. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says overgrown stands, insect outbreaks, and disease have turned healthy landscapes into tinderboxes. I’ve lived in California since 1990, long enough to watch the same story repeat itself […]

When every Hollywood cause becomes an anti-Israel cause

Free speech means the right to protest, criticize, and organize, including about Israel, including from Hollywood. It does not mean the right to be taken seriously regardless of whether the claims hold up, and it does not exempt celebrity activism from the same criticism that anyone else’s advocacy would face. That distinction keeps disappearing. Increasingly, […]

Disastrous reality

We’ve all become used to computer-generated scenes of disaster — of meteors thudding into the Earth with the force of a thousand nuclear explosions, seas engulfing cities, or people flash frozen mid-stride. There was something cinematic and unreal about the video from the Himalayas this week, showing what can be described as a flood, only […]

Best college football names of 2026

To be perfectly honest, I don’t know if I am emotionally ready for the 2026 college football season. Despite not attending the school or even being Catholic, I’ve been a Notre Dame Fighting Irish fan my entire life, and I’m still not over the first two games of last season. The Irish started the 2025 […]

Flailing ACS reveals the fatal flaw that endangers NYC kids — in its want ads

At the Administration for Children's Services, life-or-death decisions about kids' safety are being made by folks who are just not very good at assessing...

There’s little brilliant about Netflix’s ‘My Brilliant Career’

Can one spoil a TV series based on a 125-year-old novel? I won’t, but let the record show that I badly want to. Netflix’s My Brilliant Career, a six-part adaptation of the book by Australia’s Miles Franklin, seems so obviously to be doing one thing that its reversal is a gut punch. I watched the […]

Closing the tourist visa loophole

Lying to the government should not be any immigrant‘s method of entry into the United States, which is why the Trump administration’s proposed plan to revoke the tourist and business visas of approximately 200,000 asylum applicants is important and the right thing to do. “We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant […]

I love food trucks – but they still need to follow the rules

You can’t impose costs on one business and then allow a competing business to avoid them in the name of entrepreneurship. This isn’t compassion...

In Mamdani’s world psycho killers are forever wronged — and victims should remain silent and check their privilege

Jose Miranda stopped by a laundromat in The Bronx to wash his clothes one hot August day two years ago, and was hacked to...

Iconic city or ‘slum by the sea’? Santa Monica needs help, stat

Santa Monica needs a turnaround, and stat. Police presence alone won’t fix years of decline caused in part by a permissive, radical and at...

Any new federal cash for LA Olympics must be watched closely

We want LA and California to benefit from investments in Olympic infrastructure — not to line the pockets of politicians.

It’s the socialism, stupid: The DSA may cost Dems their blue wave

A new Echelon Insights poll raises the question: just how inevitable is this menacing Blue Wave?

Climate zealots’ net-zero push dies a quiet death — and not a moment too soon

Spain invested billions in its solar-power grid; Germany claimed to get most of its power from renewables.

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