2006—The New York Times reports that Michigan federal district judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who issued a wild ruling the previous week declaring that the National Security Agency’s…
The heat beams down on me. It’s another blistering hot day in Las Vegas, the last place you would expect SpaceXAI to host a hackathon, an event where programmers see what they can build in a few hours. I lift large packs of soda up the stairs — SpaceXAI hasn’t provided volunteer organizers with a […]
Thousands of British Muslims and Muslim immigrants marched through London on Thursday, chanting, “Jews, remember Khaybar. The Army of Muhammad is coming to kill you, too.” Khaybar, of course, was the site of a massacre of a Jewish tribe conducted by the Prophet Muhammad. While British Prime Minister Keir Starmer cracks down on speech critical […]
Every honest member of the news media will admit that almost all reporters prefer Vice President Kamala Harris to President Donald Trump, and further that they loathe Trump and are positively giddy over Harris. This media bias is evident in the dozens of stories basking in the “joy” of the Harris-Walz ticket. Republicans always worry […]
Let’s play a game: Name a major tech company that has come out of Europe in the past 15 years other than Spotify. Nothing comes to mind? That is because the European Union is a tariff cartel that crushes its own member states’ innovative prowess, overregulates any U.S. companies that do manage to penetrate, and […]
The Drug Enforcement Administration received over 40,000 comments on its proposed rule that would reschedule marijuana to Schedule III. Many comments highlighted adverse outcomes for children, suggesting that rescheduling the marijuana plant versus the psychoactive ingredients in the finished product doesn’t make sense. Historically, the DEA has scheduled drugs based on the active ingredients of […]
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) was tapped to run alongside Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential campaign, partly on account of his down-to-earth appearance and general Midwestern disposition. To cover up a far-left political record, Walz dresses as a “folksy man of the people,” a man committed to helping working families. This appearance of a simple choice, a ticket […]
Climate activists who want to be “unburdened by what had been” will eagerly support Vice President Kamala Harris as President Joe Biden’s replacement. But her long-held climate beliefs should concern everyday Americans. Prior to becoming vice president, then-Sen. Harris was an original backer of the Green New Deal. Harris claimed climate change is “an existential threat” to the United States […]
While the Supreme Court is on recess for the summer, Justice Neil Gorsuch released his new book, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, on Aug. 6. On the same day, Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) The Art of Power saw publication as well. The simultaneous release is just a coincidence, but both books […]
You know crime is out of control when someone like Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is willing to contradict himself and other elected Democrats to insert himself into local politics to try and fix the problem. Such is the case in Oakland, California. Newsom has interjected in Alameda County’s affairs on crime because crime in Oakland […]
Thirty-five years after Pete Rose was banned from baseball for betting on games, the question of whether his punishment fits the crime generates as much debate as ever. While HBO’s new documentary Charlie Hustle and the Matter of Pete Rose won’t settle the controversy, it will remind audiences of why Rose’s case inspires so much […]
“Weird” has been the word of the month in politics. If Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has its way, it will be the word of the year. In an election that, even more than most, leans more on vibes and less on substance, it has become an especially useful dodge. With Harris, an untested, unprimaried […]
“Laws,” F.A. Hayek wrote, “must be general, equal, and certain.” An open society rests on public confidence in the impartiality of police and courts. Sometimes, that impartiality gives way under stress. It happened, for example, during the pandemic, when anti-lockdown protesters were repressed while Black Lives Matter protesters were indulged, and when 1,200 public health […]
Paul Nitze, his biographer James Graham Wilson observes, “crafted a new type of career: national security professional.” For half a century, Nitze served in high roles in American government. His career spanned nearly every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, encompassing the entirety of the Cold War. Highly respected, indeed sometimes feared, by […]
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia — They say what makes a neighborhood great is the people. That’s true most of the time. But sometimes it’s not the people. Sometimes, it’s the goats. We moved to Falls Church, Virginia, this summer, and in our first weeks there, our backyard hosted a parade of neighborhood kids and occasionally their […]
On this, the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon resigning the presidency, forgive some reflections of a personal rather than third-party nature. In the past two days and indeed for the past half-century, all sorts of people will put forth all sorts of takes about whether the resignation was a tonic for American politics (“it showed […]
