Policy

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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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 from…

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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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The Art of Malacca

The Donroe Doctrine Goes Global Two developments landed on Monday, and the symmetry was no accident. While the U.S. Navy enforced a blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas in the Strait of Hormuz—targeting vessels entering or exiting Iranian-controlled waters after peace talks collapsed—Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood alongside Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin at the Pentagon and announced the elevation of bilateral ties to a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership (MDCP). This new framework establishes a guiding structure for defense modernization, joint training, operational collaboration, interoperability, and enhanced maritime domain awareness, subsurface and autonomous systems, and special forces cooperation—all while…

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The Unifying Confirmation Fight We Need

Nominate Ron DeSantis for Attorney General Theodore Roosevelt captured it best: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” That’s the mindset that matters right now at the Department of Justice. On Thursday, President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. She’s heading to the private sector after months of frustration over the pace of key priorities and, most glaringly, the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Deputy AG Todd Blanche, Trump’s former defense attorney, steps in as acting AG. The move was abrupt but not surprising. The DOJ has a credibility problem that’s been festering for over a…

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The Johns

The Base Revolts Against the Johns Roughly 60% of Republican primary voters in Texas just told Sen. John Cornyn exactly what they think of him: NOT CORNYN. On March 3, with over 2.16 million GOP ballots cast—a record turnout that crushed historical averages—Cornyn scraped together 41.9% (907,325 votes). Ken Paxton pulled 40.7% (881,192 votes), and Rep. Wesley Hunt took 13.5% (292,682 votes). No one hit 50%, so we're headed to a May 26 runoff, the day after Memorial Day. But make no mistake: that near-tie wasn't a fluke. It was a warning shot heard far beyond Texas borders. The base isn't…

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Brute Force Smashmouth Politics

Make Their Shame Visible “I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.” — Jeremiah 13:26 (ESV) Read that again. God isn’t asking politely. He isn’t negotiating. He is declaring judgment on a people who forgot Him, chased after idols, trusted in lies, and lived in spiritual adultery. The image is brutal on purpose: skirts lifted over the face, naked shame exposed for all to see. No covering. No excuses. No quiet retreat into the shadows. That is exactly where we are with Senate Democrats right now. We are in the largest U.S. military…

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Adieu, Ayatollah

The New York Times Has Been Wrong About Iran for More Than a Century The New York Times has spent more than a century getting Iran wrong—sometimes through outright distortion, more often through a stubborn refusal to see the board as it actually is. Pull up a chair, maybe grab a good cigar if that's your thing, and let's walk through the record. It starts in 1979 and lands right here in late February 2026, with the paper once again sounding the alarm over decisive action while ignoring the century-old machinery that made that action inevitable. 1979: “Trusting Khomeini” – The…

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A Primary Means to Focus Minds

Texas Tremors: Primaries Reshaping GOP Procedural Boldness In the shadowed halls of the United States Senate, where procedural intricacies often eclipse substantive debate, the current impasse over the SAVE America Act serves as a stark reminder of institutional inertia. Drawing from the legacy of Senate gridlock under leaders like Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell—an era that diminished hands-on floor expertise among establishment figures and elevated conservatives as the adept tacticians—we find ourselves at a crossroads. The SAVE Act, with its mandates for proof of citizenship in voter registration and photo ID requirements at the polls, passed the House with bipartisan backing…

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Talking the SAVE America Act Into Law

There's a Way Forward But Does Senate GOP Have the Will? Senate Majority Leader John Thune has a point when he calls floor time the coin of the realm. Every hour spent grinding through quorum calls, dilatory amendments, and endless debate is an hour not spent on confirmations, funding bills, or the next must-pass item on the calendar. It's the same scarcity that once let Al Gore extract promises of a clean vote on the 1991 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in exchange for his support. Thune's caution is real: reviving a true talking filibuster on the SAVE…

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