Back in 2010, I coined a term to describe a specific kind of political threat: the Insidersaurus. From its very inception in my 2010 U.S. Senate campaign ad, the term was engineered to target the corrosive reality of insider politics: the insulated class of career politicians, consultants, and political elites who operate in a vacuum […]
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne hides a rock hammer inside a hollowed-out Bible. In Everett, Washington, school officials decided the Bible itself was the contraband. On Oct. 13, the Everett Public Schools board approved a settlement with LifeWise Academy, a privately funded, off-campus Bible program. The district agreed to pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees, […]
We have made coexistence sound far more complicated than it needs to be. We organize panels about it, argue over who qualifies to speak about it, and ask people to defend their decision to reach across a religious or cultural divide. Meanwhile, a Muslim baker learned to make babka from a Jewish woman and sent […]
2013—More evidence that liberal Ninth Circuit judges regard their court as the real Supreme Court: Never mind that federal law provides that habeas relief...
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's $1.7 million grocery store security plan draws fierce criticism from those demanding the city arrest and prosecute criminals.
McKenna West's surrogacy custody fight over a baby with hypoplastic left heart syndrome hit the Supreme Court after she fled to Texas to avoid an abortion.
Senate Democrats aren't keen on giving President Donald Trump a win with elections nearing, and Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., fears that political calculus may stifle his anti-fraud push.
