Policy

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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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. The driver,…

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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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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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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…

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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…

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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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