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AI Is a Tool, Marian

Why the Rush for Universal High Income Misses the Real Story of Creative Destruction Elon Musk posted a characteristically bold provocation on X about AI and Universal Income: Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 17, 2026 Hours later, Andrew Yang replied with his own crisp declaration: It’s clear that AI will wind up funding universal income. Let’s make that happen…

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Why the DIGNIDAD Act Must Die

From Lies and Loopholes to Chattel Management In my column, “Lies, Loopholes, and Legalization,” I went through H.R. 4393, Rep. María Elvira Salazar’s so-called DIGNIDAD Act, section by section. I called it what it is: an awful amnesty bill full of lies, slicker and roughly four times larger than the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli scam. It grants protected legal status and work authorization to roughly 11–12 million people who were here illegally before 2021, offers Dreamers a clear path to green cards and citizenship, waters down criminal and gang bars, accelerates chain migration through hardship presumptions, and sells the whole thing with deceptive…

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A Once-in-a-Generation Constitutional Trifecta

Three Supreme Court Cases That Could Restore the Foundations of Self-Government In most Supreme Court terms, we see important cases that refine doctrine or settle discrete disputes. But every so often, perhaps once in a generation, the docket aligns on questions that strike at the structural pillars of how Americans choose their representatives, conduct their elections, and define membership in the polity. The 2025–2026 term appears poised to deliver exactly that kind of moment with three pending cases: Louisiana v. Callais, Watson v. RNC, and Trump v. Barbara. In essence, these cases ask: May race predominate in drawing congressional districts to…

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The Great American Covenant

This Historic Triad + Two SCOTUS Rulings Will Restore America’s Sovereignty Watching this border crisis and election integrity mess unfold over the years, I’ve come to see these three bills working together as something far bigger than legislation. They form the Great American Covenant: a solemn national pact between the American people and their government to restore what citizenship, sovereignty, and self-rule truly mean. Selective entry. Conditional belonging. Verified voting. And now, with two pending Supreme Court cases poised to deliver the knockout blows, this covenant is about to become unbreakable. The Foundation: The SAVE America Act — Securing the Ballot…

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No Endless Horizons in History

Defending the Senate’s Final Brake Folks, picture this: North Dakota Highway 46 stretches arrow-straight across the Red River Valley-121 miles from Oxbow near Fargo to Streeter and beyond. Flat as a tortilla, sky swallowing the road at the horizon. On a clear day, it looks infinite, like you could floor it forever and never hit a curve. No hills, no turns, no consequences-just open prairie and the illusion that every mile forward erases the last one. That's the lie history tells when we pretend changes happen in a vacuum. The road isn't endless. Every "straight shot" decision plants seeds that sprout…

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Shepherding Order

From Empathy to Exploitation: The Cycles of Weakness and Renewal In a past that is now lost forever, There was a time when the land was sacred, And the Ancient Ones were as one with it. A time when only the children of the Great Spirit were here To light their fires in these places with no boundaries. When the forests were as thick as the fur of the winter bear, When a warrior could walk from horizon to horizon on the backs of the buffalo. When the deserts were in bloom, and the streams pure as freshly fallen snow. In…

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The Weak as Props

Alex Pretti, the Wolves, and the Need for Shepherds I. Introduction: The Pretti Incident and Shifting Narratives Last week, the nation was fed a tidy martyr story: Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital in Minneapolis, gunned down by federal agents while “directing traffic” outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue. The image was immediate and potent-an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of Trump’s immigration crackdown, his death proof of rogue federal violence. Protests erupted from Minneapolis to New York and Los Angeles. Far-left networks wasted no time seeding the narrative: Pretti as saintly victim, the…

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Shepherding the Vulnerable

Lessons from Renee Good's Tragic End In the raw aftermath of tragedy, we often reach for simple narratives-heroes and villains, victims and oppressors. But sometimes, the truth demands we look deeper, into the fragile spaces where human weakness meets manipulative forces. Kira Davis's Substack essay, "The Face of Renee Good, and What It Taught Me" (published January 13, 2026), did that for me. It sharpened my focus on Renee Nicole Good not as a martyr or a monster, but as a stark embodiment of the weak-a woman whose life and death expose the dangers of unbreakable ideological filters, the predation of…

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Fidelity to the Permanent Things

The Imperative of Pruning: Lessons from Conservatism's Past for Its Present Reckoning In the shadow of a resurgent conservative movement post-2024, where victories at the ballot box mask deeper fissures, a quiet but fierce battle rages-not against external foes like progressive overreach or cultural Marxism, but within the ranks themselves. This internal reckoning, akin to the purges that forged modern conservatism from the chaotic mid-20th century, demands a return to first principles and the permanent things. As voices like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens amplify rhetoric that veers perilously close to historical toxins, the imperative to prune-methodically, courageously-has never been more…

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Operation Restore Vote

Somali Vote Fraud: The Electoral Twin of Welfare Theft Demanding Mass Deportations Building on the staggering welfare fraud laid bare in "Operation Restore Nope," a darker companion scandal now demands our attention: organized voter fraud emanating almost entirely from Somali networks in Minnesota. This is not a blanket indictment of every Somali individual—many vote honestly—but the pattern is unmistakable and exclusive to this community. The evidence points to a coordinated effort to manipulate ballots in order to shield billion-dollar grift from scrutiny. Their cultural framework and societal norms show little sign of adapting to American civic standards; instead, they appear to…

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