They claim they’re just countering GOP gerrymandering across the country, but that prompts the question: Why did they start trying to do this before...
Overnight on Tuesday, Russia delivered one of its most devastating aerial assaults on Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. More than 600 drones and 73 missiles struck civilian infrastructure across multiple cities, killing at least 22 people. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure sustained heavy damage across eight Kyiv districts, with […]
At the end of this month, Tulsi Gabbard steps down as the director of national intelligence, following a bumpy 16-month tenure as our nation’s top spy. Gabbard was an unconventional fit, as a Democrat opposed to most foreign wars. In President Donald Trump’s second term, with its multiple military operations around the globe, she became […]
THE DEMOCRATIC MESS IN MAINE. Can Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, survive his sexting scandal? The first thing to know is how little we know about it. We know from a Wall Street Journal account that Platner’s wife, Amy Gertner, who married Platner in November 2023 and who in the spring of 2025 discovered […]
For the first time in over a decade, the FIFA World Cup is coming to a country that respects basic human rights. But, because that country is the United States, the “LGBT community” has to get its victimhood points in while it still can. Pride House International is bringing its “Pride Houses” to San Francisco for the […]
The U.S. military and Iranian forces continue to launch attacks on one another. So, why does the ceasefire broadly still hold? The answer is actually quite simple. The ceasefire is holding because President Donald Trump and Iran individually believe that they, more than the other, can maximize their interests by matching tit-for-tat violence with diplomatic […]
The founders built a structural limit on federal taxing power, a restriction the Progressive Era removed. The government that followed was not a coincidence. The 16th Amendment, ratified Feb. 3, 1913, gave Congress the power to tax income “from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states.” Those 23 words eliminated the constitutional constraint […]
Spokesmen at the National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System are forever asking people to donate money to support themselves and their programs. “Viewers just like you” do so, we are told, and we are exhorted to follow in their footsteps. What are we who love our country to say about such goings on? […]
The First Amendment doesn’t protect what most people think it protects. The Founding Fathers wrote it to defend a specific thing: political speech directed at government. Not offensive art. Not commercial advertising. Not the content moderation disputes on a social media platform. Two centuries of doctrinal expansion have broadened the amendment’s formal coverage considerably and, […]
