Monthly Archives: May 2026

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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Crime and Illegal Immigration Will Be Major Midterm Issues

Crime and Illegal Immigration Will Dominate the Midterms Stephen Federico stood before Congress and unleashed raw fury. The father of 22-year-old Logan Federico screamed at Democrats about the system that failed his daughter. A career criminal with 39 arrests and 25 felonies dragged Logan from her bed, forced her to her knees, and executed her in cold blood. That monster walked free because politicians, prosecutors, and judges chose leniency over public safety time and time again. Federico’s testimony remains one of the most powerful and heartbreaking moments of the past year. One grieving father’s uncontrolled rage cuts through every carefully worded…

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Why Ken Paxton Crushed Cornyn

Washington Turned John Cornyn Into an Establishment Figure Ben Domenech, who once worked for John Cornyn, cut straight through the spin on Laura Ingraham’s show just prior to polls closing in the Texas GOP Senate runoff: “Washington sucks it all out of you. He’s more establishment now. I wish he was still more conservative.” That one line is the perfect epitaph for Cornyn’s long political career in the upper chamber. On Tuesday, Ken Paxton didn’t just beat him — he destroyed him. Paxton cruised to a decisive 64-36 victory in the runoff after Cornyn had barely edged him out in the…

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Value is King

Why AI’s Job Apocalypse Talk Is Fading as IPOs Approach Sam Altman and Dario Amodei spent much of the past year warning that AI would gut white-collar employment. Now, as their companies pursue potential trillion-dollar IPOs, both are publicly walking back those dramatic predictions. A Fortune article captures this shift, framing it as humble, evidence-based updating. From where I sit, it looks more like classic narrative smoothing driven by financial incentives. AI is a neutral tool—like a gun, an axe, or a shovel in the old Shane analogy. It becomes good or bad based on the character and incentives of those…

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Because They Lived

Lives of Courage: Memorial Day Stories of Brotherhood and Legacy This Memorial Day, we pause not only in solemn remembrance, but in profound gratitude. We are not gathered at gravesides, before memorial walls, or in quiet moments of reflection merely because brave Americans died in service to our nation. We are here—deeply moved, forever changed—because they lived. In a world that often rushes toward the next distraction, Memorial Day calls us back to what truly matters. It is a sacred invitation to honor the full lives of those who answered the call with courage, served with integrity, and gave everything so…

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No More Half-Measures

Why America Must Seize Kharg Island The United States finds itself at a rare moment of strategic clarity in the Persian Gulf. A naval blockade, now several weeks old, has effectively bottled up Iran’s oil exports. Kharg Island — the critical terminal through which nearly ninety percent of the regime’s crude once flowed — sits increasingly full, its storage tanks approaching capacity. Analysts debate the precise timeline, but the “oil mystery” is no mystery at all: the Islamic Republic is running out of room, and time is working against it. This is not a moment for hesitation. It is a moment…

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Democrats Still for They/Them

The Party That Can’t Define Woman Just Killed a Women’s Museum The Democrat Party’s 192-page “Build to Win. Build to Last” report was supposed to be their great awakening — a post-2024 election autopsy that finally admitted identity politics and cultural overreach had cost them dearly with working-class voters, women, and normal Americans everywhere. It read like a sober diagnosis: stop obsessing over abstract issues, reconnect on kitchen-table realities, and quit alienating people with radical cultural signaling. Yet here we are, barely five months before the 2026 midterms, and that autopsy has once again proven itself nothing more than a MacGuffin…

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