America did not become the world’s energy superpower by bending the knee to socialist, climate alarmist ideology. It became an economic powerhouse because free markets rewarded innovation, hard work, and results. This is a lesson radical environmentalists never learned. As a former banker, licensed financial advisor, and now an oil and gas regulator for the […]
Infrastructure bills like the “BUILD America 250 Act” typically build two things. One is physical: roads, bridges, ports, rail corridors, freight networks. The other is legal infrastructure that determines how safely, quickly, and affordably people and goods can move. For the latter, the act relies on the old political playbook — new layers of regulation […]
President Donald Trump’s war on Iran should serve as a wake-up call: The United States of America is strategically lost in the emerging multipolar, neo-mercantilist world and urgently needs to address the widening gap between its expansive legacy strategic commitments and its potentially diminishing relative power. Strategic streamlining and rebalancing to align vital U.S. national […]
This week, the Senate Agriculture Committee is set to debate and mark up the long-overdue Farm Bill — legislation typically associated with crop insurance, nutrition programs, and support for rural communities. But the 2026 Farm Bill also offers Congress a rare opportunity to secure other popular U.S. Department of Agriculture reforms: defunding mad science labs […]
Rent is too high. Groceries cost too much. Sitting behind George Washington’s desk at City Hall this month, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said all of that out loud. He wasn’t wrong about any of it. He was wrong about what to do next. That’s the argument voters will have to settle this November. Not […]
Last month, a strange voter registration application arrived at the home of a longtime Georgia voter. It was addressed to his dog. He quickly forwarded the application to my office at the state capitol with a simple handwritten message: “You do realize Sheba is my dead dog, right?” In the days that followed, complaints poured […]
By Monday night, Western North Carolina Republicans will have done in a few hours what a primary normally accomplishes over several months: choose a nominee, test the party’s coalition, and determine how Republicans will present themselves to general-election voters. That compressed process creates an obvious temptation to reward the contender who is best organized inside […]
President Donald Trump‘s strategy toward Iran raises questions about his grip on reality. Each claim of impending peace, followed by further military engagement, has led to allegations that the president may be a madman. Like President Richard Nixon before him, however, it is possible that far from being insane, Trump is simply embracing the madman […]
The Trump administration’s Board of Peace road map promises Hamas disarmament in exchange for phased Israeli withdrawals. Yet, predictable disputes over sequencing already signal collapse. While the Oct. 7, 2023, butchers demand immediate Israeli retreat, Jerusalem rightly conditions any pullback on verified demilitarization. This arrangement is not statecraft; it is an exercise in self-delusion that […]
For more than 60 years, Head Start has represented one of America’s most important promises: that every child deserves a strong start in life. Over the past several months, I have visited Head Start centers across the country. In classrooms from rural communities to major cities, I have experienced the same inspiring environment again and […]
The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America has made it clear that socialism endures, even after a century of catastrophic failure. There has never been a successful socialist country, but American socialists have won many of their biggest victories yet this year, most recently in Michigan. Their platform involves much public (state) ownership of […]
