Policy

Republicans Got Played

The Housing Bill That Gave Democrats Everything They Wanted Follow-on to “The DSA’s Housing Trojan Horse” and “¡Afuera!” I warned you. The ROAD to Housing Act was never a serious supply-side fix. It was a cash cow for sanctuary cities, fraudsters, nonprofits, and the Democrat Socialist machine bent on turning American housing into a government-controlled enterprise. Now it’s law. And Democrats are celebrating like they just won the lottery. Senator Elizabeth Warren and her allies are flooding their feeds, crowing about this “groundbreaking” victory. They call it the biggest housing bill in decades — claiming it will build more units, lower…

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Cowtown Cops vs. the Constitution

If the FWPD Gets the First Amendment Wrong, They Can’t Be Trusted on the Fourth Fort Worth, Texas—Cowtown. The city that still carries the scent of stockyards and the stubborn spirit of independence. Yet this June, at Trinity Pride Fest, officers of the Fort Worth Police Department turned that proud legacy into a black mark. Multiple officers, including a supervisor, warned Christian street preachers that “offensive speech” could earn them tickets and that stepping onto public sidewalks risked arrest for trespassing. One preacher pressed: Could saying “homosexuality is a sin” or addressing a biological male as “sir” get him cited? Officers…

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Reclaiming America’s Story

Inside the Smithsonian’s Assault on American History Americans have every right to expect their flagship national history museum to tell the story of the United States with honesty, balance, and pride. The National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution was founded for precisely that purpose: to commemorate our heritage of freedom, highlight the basic elements of American life, and instill a deepened faith in the country’s destiny. Yet a comprehensive White House report released this month tells a different tale. Titled Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,…

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¡Afuera!

Why Trump Must Veto the ROAD to Housing Act In my last column I warned that the Democratic Socialists of America have a coherent, long-term strategy for American housing: aggressive rent controls paired with tenant “protections” and subsidized “social housing” models designed to gradually displace private property owners and decommodify shelter. That Trojan horse has now breached the gates. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani just delivered on a signature campaign promise—a rent freeze on roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments. And Congress has handed him, and every other DSA-aligned operator across the country, the federal fuel to make the strategy…

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The DSA’s Housing Trojan Horse

How a “Bipartisan” Bill Rewards Sanctuary Cities and Illegals President Ronald Reagan vetoed the Big Dig—the massive Boston highway project sold to Congress as a modest infrastructure fix. Lawmakers overrode him anyway. What followed was a textbook Washington story: initial cost estimates ballooned from a few billion into more than $14.6 billion (plus interest), with years of delays, leaks, design failures, graft, and federal taxpayers left holding the bag. Reagan was right then. History is about to rhyme. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act now sitting on the President’s desk follows the same script. Marketed as a commonsense answer to…

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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…

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Codify Caribe II

The Virginia Bus Crash Should Never Have Happened: Congress Must Attach Real Reform to the THUD Bill Five Americans are dead because the system that is supposed to keep unqualified drivers off our highways failed completely. On Friday, a charter bus slammed into slowed traffic on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia. The crash killed a family of four — Dmitri Doncev, his wife Ecaterina, their 13-year-old daughter Emily, and 7-year-old son Mark — along with another 25-year-old woman. Dozens more suffered serious injuries. This was not an unavoidable accident. It was the direct result of a chain of inexcusable failures.…

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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…

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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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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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