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Sir! Yes, sir!

I told you last time about how I feared Army basic training after watching the portrayal of Marine recruit training in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. When I learned my new friend, retired Marine Chief Warrant Officer 4 Dan Ritter, had served as a Marine drill instructor, or DI, I knew he’d have a […]

Working for liberty

Randy Barnett’s absorbing new memoir begins, like any good story, in medias res: with his trailblazing oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark Gonzales v. Raich case, on behalf of individual freedom — a fitting vignette for a book bearing the title A Life for Liberty. A constitutional law professor at Georgetown […]

The ‘garbage’ campaign: Why mistakes and distractions could tilt the outcome

Trump has survived two impeachments, the Jan. 6 riot, four criminal indictments, one conviction and two assassination attempts

Early in-person voting ending Friday in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and 5 other states

Nine states end their early in-person voting programs on Friday, including four major swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina.

Biden-Harris administration failed to recoup $200B in fraudulent COVID loans, House committee says

The Republican majority staff of the House Committee on Small Business issued a report detailing accusations of widespread mismanagement of the COVID loan system.

Republicans call on Mayorkas to reinstate COVID-era border policy amid tuberculosis ‘surge’

Sen. Mike Lee led some of his GOP colleagues in calling on Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to reinstate Title 42 due to tuberculosis concerns.

Harris-Trump showdown: Vice President keeps her distance from Biden in final stretch

As President Biden returns to the campaign trail this weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to keep her distance from her boss as she faces off against Donald Trump.

Judge orders Arizona to release list of voters whose citizenship hasn’t been verified

Arizona's secretary of state office must release a list of tens of thousands of voters who were mistakenly classified as having access to the full ballot because of a coding glitch, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.

Harris leans in on abortion messaging in final days of campaign

Vice President Kamala Harris, in a closing message on the campaign trail out in Nevada, leaned in on making abortion completely legal in all 50 states.

Against the rise, literally, of political porn

A Democratic campaign theme and even an advertisement in its closing stretch is a sign, for some of us past the age of 50, that the zeitgeist has completely left us behind. Not that the zeitgeist’s disdain for our apparently old-fashioned sensibilities wasn’t already obvious. We regularly see open, public vulgarity from presidential candidates of […]

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