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Everybody Knows a Platner

The Man Everyone Warns You About There’s a certain type of man many women — and men — have encountered in life. Charming at first. Articulate. Full of big ideas and intensity. Then the mask slips. What starts as passion turns volatile, demeaning, controlling, and sometimes worse. Unfaithful. Heavy drinking. Threats. Emotional whiplash that leaves people walking on eggshells. Graham Platner is that guy. And everybody knows a Platner. The New York Times recently published a detailed piece on Platner’s past relationships that should end any lingering illusions about his fitness for higher office. Multiple women described unsettling, toxic, and volatile…

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Appropriate Forum

Restoring Balance Between Adult Freedom and Childhood Innocence I am the son of a gay father. I loved him deeply, and I carry the ache of a moment when, at thirteen, my blunt and clumsy words wounded him in a way that time never fully healed. For years I regretted not bridging that gap while he was still here. As a father myself now, I find those old regrets mixing with new fears—not that my children will reject someone for who they are, but that they will be denied the protected childhood my parents tried to give me. This is not…

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History Rhymes

Why Democrats Are in Deep Trouble Five months out from the 2026 midterms, Andrew Cuomo delivered a blunt assessment that should send alarm bells ringing through the Democrat Party. He observed that he has never seen a time when his party had no agenda, no message, no coherent vision. This diagnosis is particularly devastating because it directly echoes one of the most instructive midterm cautionary tales in recent American political history: the 1998 Republican collapse under Newt Gingrich. 💥NEW: Stephen A. Smith & Andrew Cuomo *GO OFF* on Dem Party💥SMITH: “They don’t wanna listen!”CUOMO: “The hope is the other side —…

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Henry Nowak’s Death Must Not Be in Vain

Britain’s Final Stand Henry Nowak lies dead at eighteen years old, stabbed five times by a killer who carried a protected religious blade. As he bled out on a Southampton street, Henry gasped the same words that once shook the world: “I can’t breathe.” British police officers did not rush to save him. They handcuffed him instead, believing the false racism claim of his attacker. This is not a random tragedy. It is the predictable result of a nation that has lost its way. Britain stands at a precipice. The long march of unassimilated migration has transformed its cities, strained its…

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Decline Is a Choice

Inside America’s Homeless Industrial Complex I’ve been watching this crisis up close for years, and the longer it drags on, the clearer it becomes: decline is a choice. America doesn’t have a homelessness problem because we lack money, compassion, or housing. We have one because we’ve built a self-perpetuating system that profits from failure, normalizes disorder, imports clients, and refuses to acknowledge what actually works. Call it the Homeless Industrial Complex. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s public choice economics in action — billions in annual spending, thousands of careers, powerful ideological commitments, and entrenched institutions all aligned around managing a…

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Girls Deserve Better

Dismantling the Defense of Spot-Taking in High School Sports One year ago, I published "The Unfairness of Spot-Taking", arguing that protected categories like women’s sports exist because of immutable sex differences. Allowing males to enter those categories doesn’t expand inclusion — it enables straightforward theft of spots, medals, opportunities, and dignity from the very group the category was designed to protect. The events of the past year, capped by the 2026 CIF State Championships, have proven the thesis beyond any reasonable doubt. And few pieces illustrate the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the denialist side better than the Orange County Register’s…

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The Skin Suits

Why Inauthenticity and Chaos Will Doom Talarico and Platner Democrats have a serious candidate selection problem heading into the 2026 midterms. In two states with some of the strongest, most distinct political cultures in America, they have advanced nominees who are profoundly mismatched with the very electorates they need to persuade. One is culturally inauthentic. The other is personally and temperamentally chaotic. These are not minor liabilities to be messaged away or spun. They are the defining characteristics of their candidacies — and they are likely fatal in Texas and Maine. James Talarico is not authentic. Graham Platner is not steady.…

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Codify Caribe II

The Virginia Bus Crash Should Never Have Happened: Congress Must Attach Real Reform to the THUD Bill Five Americans are dead because the system that is supposed to keep unqualified drivers off our highways failed completely. On Friday, a charter bus slammed into slowed traffic on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia. The crash killed a family of four — Dmitri Doncev, his wife Ecaterina, their 13-year-old daughter Emily, and 7-year-old son Mark — along with another 25-year-old woman. Dozens more suffered serious injuries. This was not an unavoidable accident. It was the direct result of a chain of inexcusable failures.…

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Going on Offense Wins the Midterms

How Republicans Can Seize the Midterms by Attacking the Failed Hart-Celler Legacy In 1965, Congress inserted the camel’s nose under the tent. Lawmakers sold the Hart-Celler Act as a modest, humane tweak — ending national origins quotas while promising no major shift in America’s overall immigration numbers or cultural character. Sixty years later, the tent is overflowing. We now live with a record foreign-born population, sustained wage pressure on American workers, stalled assimilation in many communities, overburdened schools and housing, and growing public safety concerns. As I have documented in prior columns, this post-1965 system has systematically depressed wages for native-born…

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Kickbacks Over Kids

How Medicaid Scams Are Denying Autism Services to American Kids While American parents fight for basic services for their autistic children, millions of taxpayer dollars vanish into kickback schemes and phantom billing operations. This is not abstract policy failure. This is betrayal. Just months ago, Minnesota mother Kayla Jeffery reached her breaking point. As the mother of a child with Level 3 Autism, she watched her son struggle to access care while the state poured hundreds of millions into a system riddled with fraud. They were traced back to one of the “Autism” centers!!!! I am sorry for my language, but…

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