Monthly Archives: May 2026

The Clear Path to Ending OPT

End OPT Now: A Post-Loper Bright, Textualist Opportunity for the President In recent weeks, the immigration conversation has sharpened around a long-overdue reform: Rep. Glenn Grothman’s OPT Fair Tax Act, which aims to close a payroll tax loophole that gives employers a financial incentive to hire foreign students on Optional Practical Training (OPT) over American graduates. Ken Cuccinelli rightly called it “so long overdue,” while noting the deeper issue—OPT itself lacks a solid congressional foundation and displaces American workers by the tens of thousands. As someone who has been writing extensively about AI’s transformative impact on the economy, I see this…

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The Autopsy That Refuses to Die

How the Democrats’ 2024 Post-Mortem Became Their Own MacGuffin The Democrat Party — or at least someone inside it — unloaded a 192-page beast titled “Build to Win. Build to Last.” Marketed as a serious post-2024 election autopsy and a forward-looking 10-year strategic blueprint, the document was supposed to mark a turning point. A sober reckoning. A Ron Brown-style call to rebuild from the ground up and reconnect with the voters who had drifted away. Instead, it has become something far more compelling and far more lethal: a MacGuffin. You know the term — that Hitchcock plot device everyone obsesses over,…

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The Mental Health Crisis of AI Transition

AI Is Training Your Replacement—Start Training Yourself to Leave At Meta this week, thousands of employees sat at their desks, fingers flying across keyboards, mouse clicking through workflows, while invisible software recorded every movement. The Model Capability Initiative—Meta’s aptly named tracking program—logged keystrokes, cursor paths, clicks, and occasional screen snapshots. All of it fed into training AI agents meant to replicate those very tasks. Meanwhile, an internal directory refreshed with the quiet dread of knowing that on May 20, roughly 8,000 colleagues—10% of the workforce—would receive the layoff email. Some cried in the shower before work. Mental health leave became an…

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The Withdrawal Phase Has Begun

Time to Change the Incentives The 30-year Treasury yield just punched above 5.1 percent — levels we haven’t seen since the desperate days right before the 2008 financial crisis. The 10-year is ripping higher in real time. Mortgage rates are barreling toward 7 percent again. And the bond vigilantes aren’t whispering anymore; they’re shouting. This isn’t random market noise. It’s the market reasserting reality after years of Washington treating tomorrow’s income like an unlimited credit card. As Governor Ron DeSantis pointed out in a recent post, we’ve only gotten away with these massive deficits so far because the U.S. dollar remains…

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AI Doublespeak Is Collapsing

Graduates See What the Elites Won’t Admit In April, I wrote that AI is a tool, Marian — channeling Alan Ladd’s Shane to remind everyone that technology itself is morally neutral. A gun, an axe, a shovel: it becomes good or bad based on the character and incentives of the person wielding it. That piece pushed back against fatalistic UBI talk and the notion that AI would simply “wipe out” work rather than transform it through markets, adaptation, and human ingenuity. This follow-up is necessary because the people holding the tool are currently engaged in a glaring contradiction that cannot last.…

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The Immigration Impact of Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II

How a Silent Supreme Court Ruling Is Already Reshaping America’s Trucking Industry Folks, let’s cut the polite nonsense. Last week, the Supreme Court dropped a unanimous 9-0 decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC that, on its face, looks like a dry statutory preemption case about freight brokers and negligent hiring. Justice Barrett’s opinion never once utters the words “immigration,” “illegal alien,” or “CDL fraud.” Yet within 72 hours, truck-stop videos from Ohio to Texas were showing brokers suddenly blocking carriers with “foreign drivers,” load boards lighting up with refusals, and the spot market shifting in real time. This is…

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The Trillion Dollar COVID Heist

Inside the Largest Public Fraud in American History Folks, let’s cut the polite nonsense. We didn’t just have a “pandemic response.” We had a multi-trillion-dollar feeding frenzy where fraudsters, insiders, and big-government ideologues looted your money with both hands while the Biden administration looked the other way — or worse, actively protected the grift. From fake PPP loans to ghost daycares, sham hospices, and even codenamed cover-ups for Planned Parenthood bailouts, the scale is staggering. Official estimates put the damage at $300–400 billion conservatively. Push the analytics and it hits $1 trillion — that’s real money ripped straight from working Americans’…

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From Euphoria to Withdrawal

The Urgent Case for Letting Creative Destruction Run Its Course As of this morning, the 30-year Treasury yield has punched through 5.117 percent, the highest print since the final desperate leg higher before the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The 10-year note is ripping higher in real time, mortgage rates are barreling toward 7 percent, and forced liquidations are cascading across gold, silver, Bitcoin, and equities. Trillions in notional value have vanished in minutes. Margin calls are flying. The bond vigilantes aren’t panicking; they are simply refusing to lend America’s future income at yesterday’s fantasy prices anymore. This is not a “crisis.”…

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Old Billy Was Right

Democrats Judicial Threats and the Erosion of Institutional Guardrails The more I think about it, Old Billy was right. Let’s kill all the lawyers, kill ’em tonight. So sang the Eagles in their 1994 hit “Get Over It,” cleverly nodding to Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2 and the infamous line from Jack Cade’s rebellion. Don Henley and Glenn Frey weren’t calling for literal violence — they were mocking entitlement, victimhood, and the instinct to tear down the rules (and the rule-makers) when life doesn’t deliver the desired outcome. More than three decades later, that same impulse is playing out in real…

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The Virginia Redistricting Debacle

How Democrats’ Amateur-Hour Power Grab Crashed and Burned Before the SCOVA Folks, let’s cut the polite nonsense and talk straight about the biggest self-inflicted wound in a purple-state map fight in recent memory. Virginia Democrats thought they had a layup: ram through a low-turnout April special-election referendum, slap a shiny “voter-approved reform” label on it, and hand themselves a 10-1 congressional slaughter map that would’ve vaporized four Republican seats in one clean stroke. No more nail-biters in the NoVA exurbs or Hampton Roads. Just safe suburban packing, rural cracking, and a permanent Democratic delegation while the rest of the country was…

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