Welcome to The California Post's Pirate Wires column. This week we've got San Francisco's misguided CEO tax, a defense of Stanford's pipeline to wealth, and a takedown of the...
On Dec. 16, 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department celebrated the seventh meeting of a joint economic working group with China. According to Treasury’s press release, both sides “shared views on areas of cooperation,” while the U.S. side “expressed its continued concern” about Beijing’s nonmarket policies and “the support of some Chinese firms” for Russia’s war […]
The recent unexplained drone sightings in New Jersey and previous incidents at an Air Force base in Virginia have pulled back the curtain on America’s vulnerability to swarms of commercial and recreational drones. It’s not a question of if, but rather when, terrorists will exploit that weakness with attacks. The follow-up question is what weapons […]
Big changes are coming for the U.S. intelligence community in 2025. President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration will bring significant reforms to America’s spies. Some are very long overdue. As I recently explained for the Washington Examiner, our broken IC has shamed itself over the past decade. It needs a substantial overhaul, not merely cosmetic changes to […]
What do Democratic excuse-making for crime in America and for Islamist terrorism have in common with the gang rape of lower-class white girls in England? Both feature left-wing politicians enabling evil by sacrificing vulnerable people on the altar of multiculturalism. Last week, Elon Musk performed a public service by massively raising awareness with posts on […]
As federal agencies are spending as much as possible before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, federal employees’ unions are trying to lock in multiyear contracts that will foil the Trump administration’s plans for greater accountability and efficiency across the federal workforce. In early December, the American Federation of Government Employees finalized a […]
Those who distrust the federal judiciary should have more faith, in both senses of the word. Faith-related First Amendment rights have been on a multiyear winning streak in courts across the land, and the first major appeals court decision of 2025 has kept that streak alive. When even three judges first appointed by Democratic presidents […]
