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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. In…

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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…

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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 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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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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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 COVID Fracture

The Pandemic Policies That Tore America Apart In 2020 and 2021, our suburban streets emptied. Playgrounds sat silent. School parking lots became ghost towns while kids stared at screens. Neighbors glared at each other over masks in grocery stores. Families split at dinner tables over vaccines. Old friendships ended with the question “Are you vaxxed?” What began as a response to a virus became one of the most divisive events in modern American history. It turned neighbors, families, and communities against each other far more than the virus itself. The root causes were panic-driven centralization of power and the suppression of…

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Long March Consequences

The Manifesto That Wasn’t Original: Elite Rhetoric Meets Its Own Predictable Output There’s nothing in Cole Allen’s manifesto that hasn’t been said and repeated by elected Democrats and mainstream media figures for years. On Saturday night, a Caltech-educated teacher and game developer walked into the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, handgun, and knives. He checked in the day before. He had a manifesto ready. Minutes before the attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he sent it to family. In it, he called President Trump a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” declared attendees complicit simply for being there, and justified lethal action…

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Divided Among Ourselves

How Mass Immigration Fractures Native American Solidarity and Why a Complete Pause Can Restore It I live in Plano, Texas. The changes I described yesterday (the mosques, the layered languages in the parks, the shifting rhythms of daily suburban life) are not abstract. They have done something deeper and more insidious than simply altering the face of my hometown. They have fractured us, the native-born Americans who built these neighborhoods, these schools, these parks. Neighbors who once shared the same unspoken assumptions about backyard barbecues, English-default conversations, and a common Texas cadence now eye one another warily across the street. Parents…

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