Opinion

On Wednesday night, SpaceX’s Starship rocket erupted into flames shortly after takeoff, marking another high-profile failure in Elon Musk’s “fail fast” development tactics. But to Musk, failure isn’t a bug but a feature. His core philosophy in rockets and government reform? Break things, learn fast, iterate. The beleaguered rollout of the Department of Government Efficiency […]

TRUMP’S DECISION. There are reports that President Donald Trump has reviewed U.S. military plans to attack Iran. But the president says he has not yet made the crucial decision to actually order an attack, which apparently involves dropping bunker-busting bombs on Iran’s deep-underground Fordow nuclear facility. Trump appeared to rule out quick action when he released a […]

Make America Great Again celebrity Charlie Kirk, attempting to balance support for the administration and appeal to online isolationists, maintains that the “regime change war machine in D.C.” is pushing President Donald Trump into “an all-out blitz on Iran.” If the president acts, shadowy agents of the military-industrial complex will surely be blamed. But the […]

The future of New York City looks bleak. Its top three choices in the Democratic primary for mayor are all walking disasters. With less than a week to go, the highest polling candidates among Democrats are former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, and City Comptroller Brad Lander. A recent poll has Cuomo leading Mamdani in a simulation of the city’s […]

Today is June 19, or Juneteenth, as it has come to be known in the United States. It marks the anniversary of Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issuing General Order No. 3 after arriving in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, over two months after the Civil War ended. The order announced the enforcement of the […]

In the spring of 2025, I traveled to Michigan Technological University to speak to a Young Americans for Freedom chapter on freedom, responsibility, and entitlement. After the speech, the Q&A shifted to the subject of Oct. 7 and its aftermath, with several older members of the audience, at least one of whom was a member of the faculty, […]

It’s official: Democrats are in the party that stands for legal child sex changes. At least, that’s the unmistakable takeaway from the Democratic response to the massive Supreme Court decision upholding red states’ ability to restrict or ban medical gender transition treatments for minors. One by one, major Democratic lawmakers came out with statements condemning […]

I am a Texan, born and raised. I love my state, even with its various challenges and imperfections. Texas has many significant historical tags: the battle of the Alamo, Roe v. Wade, and, of course, Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and declared that all enslaved people in Texas […]

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) is no political hero. He is not a martyr. Democrats today are little more than soap opera performers. Padilla is a great example of this. Despite left-wing adulation to the contrary, the senator from California demonstrated over the last week that he is nothing more than a court jester portraying the […]

It has now been more than a month since Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, called for his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to disband more than 40 years after it started its fight. “The terrorist group laying down its arms is a victory for civilization,” deputy State Department spokesman […]

The Trump administration almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last week on immigration. Just as self-deportation is gaining steam, the White House briefly gave in to corporate pressure and announced that whole sections of the economy would be exempt from immigration enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cancelled that order Monday, but the incident […]