Analysis

Beyond Debate

Moral Clarity, Historical Truth, and the Longest Hatred Sam Harris’s essay “Why It’s Futile to Debate Israel’s Enemies” lands with unusual force. I live less than two miles from major mosques and witness daily the rapid demographic, linguistic, and cultural transformations reshaping neighborhoods, parks, schools, and playgrounds. As a father, a conservative commentator, and someone who has spent decades in security and risk analysis, I recognize the patterns Harris exposes. Consequently, the ancient hatred many believed the Holocaust had consigned to history books now walks openly in streets, on campuses, and even in statements from elected officials. Harris, the prominent atheist…

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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, the…

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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 problem…

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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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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 Americans…

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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 March…

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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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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 to reject…

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