Yearly Archives: 2026

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 time,…

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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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Abortion’s Multi-Generational Reckoning

Giving Voice to the Aborted Generations the NYT Erased The New York Times Upshot piece dropped on Saturday, with the headline “U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops.” It’s a data-heavy look at shrinking public school enrollment across 30 states, empty classrooms, budget squeezes, and the tough calls on closures. Fair enough on the symptoms. But when it comes to the cause (the obvious cause), the Times does what it always does: it stops at the polite surface and refuses to name the elephant that’s been sitting in the demographic room for fifty-three years. Here’s their lede:…

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The Turquoise Wave Across the Pond

Reform UK's Ascendancy and Britain's Political Realignment In the early hours of 8 May 2026, as council tallies rolled in from the Midlands to the North East, Nigel Farage stood outside Havering Town Hall and declared a “truly historic shift in British politics.” Reform UK had just seized control of its first London borough, swept Essex County Council, and flipped long-held Labour bastions like Newcastle-under-Lyme and Sunderland. Over 1,400 council seats gained. Labour hemorrhaging more than 1,100 seats and control of dozens of authorities. The Conservatives bleeding in their own heartlands. Even in Wales, Labour — dominant for a century —…

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The Art of the Hemisphere, Part V

Tanbreez, Greenland Delivers the Heavy REE Proof Point When I launched The Art of the Hemisphere last December, the core argument was straightforward: 21st-century American statecraft must treat the Western Hemisphere, not as a polite neighborhood watch, but as a strategic operating theater. Geography is leverage. Proximity is power. And in the great-power contest for critical minerals, “hemispheric hustle” beats distant dependencies every time. Four months and four installments later, the thesis is no longer theoretical. It is playing out in southern Greenland, where a U.S.-listed company has just secured operational control of one of the world’s largest and most strategically…

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The Art of Realpolitik Statecraft

How Trump Is Using Sun Tzu and Machiavelli to Crush Iran’s Regime President Trump is executing a calculated strategy of maximum leverage: sustaining the naval blockade on Iranian ports to economically choke the regime, conducting targeted attrition on IRGC leadership and mullahs until compliance is forced, and using tactical public pauses and rhetoric as deliberate deception to extract an ironclad deal on American terms. This is not retreat or “TACO.” It is classic America-First realism: appear flexible while keeping the boot on the regime’s neck, break the enemy’s will through sustained pressure rather than endless war, and deliver verifiable victory that…

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Red State Reckoning

Hoosiers Fire Pence-Endorsed RINOs in Brutal Primary Rejection In December 2025, I ripped into Indiana Senate Republicans for their jaw-dropping act of political malpractice: killing a Trump-backed mid-decade redistricting plan that would have turned a solid 7-2 House edge into a locked-down 9-0 dominance in one of the reddest states in America. Twenty-one GOP senators teamed up with Democrats to block it, cowering behind “norms,” “collegiality,” and the usual fear of media scolds instead of seizing a generational opportunity to secure power. I called it cowardice: a self-inflicted wound that handed Democrats breathing room they never would have granted us. Last…

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The Spirit Airlines Collapse

Democrats Destroy Competition and Call It Progress Spirit Airlines didn’t just fail. It was strangled by the Biden Regency’s regulatory death squad: Lina Khan, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg—with a cheering section of media hacks who sold the kill shot as a “victory for consumers.” Today, the ultra-low-cost carrier that kept Big Four fares honest for working families grounded its yellow planes for good after 34 years. Seventeen thousand jobs gone. Passengers stranded nationwide. Fares on former Spirit routes spiking 14 to 66 percent. This isn’t market failure. This is Democrat policy in the skies: big-government ideologues promising to protect you…

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After Callais

Callais > Redistricting > Messaging: The Chain That Secures the Long Game The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is not some isolated procedural win. It is the root. Aggressive redistricting is the multiplier. Unapologetic messaging (anchored in the economy we delivered through OBBBA and the must-pass wildcard of the SAVE America Act) is the payoff. Get this chain right and we do not merely hold the House in a tough midterm environment. We build the structural dominance that carries the long game: enforcing the filibuster, restoring federalism, and ultimately repealing the 17th Amendment so senators answer to state…

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