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When the Alarm Bell Had to Be Un-Rung

The Week the Climate Narrative Lost One of Its Loudest Megaphones Something remarkable happened in the first week of December 2025, and most of the press that helped create it is pretending it didn’t. On Monday, December 1, the Wall Street Journal published a front-page autopsy titled “Europe’s Green Energy Rush Slashed Emissions-and Crippled the Economy.” It was a cold, data-driven indictment: Europe had indeed cut emissions faster than any other region, but in the process it had delivered the highest electricity prices in the developed world, shuttered chemical plants, triggered a moratorium on new data centers, and watched households ration…

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The Art of the Hemisphere

How Trump Just Turned a Narco-Pardon into the Biggest Real-Estate Deal Since Manhattan In 1987 Donald Trump bragged that the best deals are the ones where you risk almost nothing but can win everything. Thirty-eight years later, with one signature freeing a convicted cocaine-trafficking ex-president, he just proved he still closes exactly that way; only now the asset isn’t a casino, a hotel, or a Manhattan skyscraper. It’s an entire continent’s balance of power. On November 28, 2025-Thanksgiving weekend, when half of Washington was still carving turkey-Trump quietly issued a full and unconditional pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), the former…

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Make America Affordable Again

Trump’s Urgent War on the Cost-of-Living Donald Trump did not wait for the 2026 midterms to feel the heat. The off-year elections, the 43-day Democrat government shutdown, and the looming Obamacare subsidy cliff all delivered the same message: Americans still can’t afford life. The President responded with an avalanche of initiatives under one banner: Make America Affordable Again. The Urgency Is Real-and Self-Inflicted by Democrats For 43 days this fall, Democrats shut down the government rather than pass clean funding without permanently extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies they themselves had deliberately set to expire on December 31, 2025. It was the…

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A Golden Opportunity

The Subsidy Cliff: Democrats' Gift to Republican Reformers I. The Shutdown Collapse: Democrats' Humiliating Fold What began as a bold filibuster to extract ironclad ACA subsidy extensions devolved into a spectacle of Democrat incompetence. For 43 days, they blocked clean funding bills, inflicting $15 billion in economic pain-delayed wages for 800,000 workers, 6% flight reductions at 40 airports, and cuts to Head Start for 10,000 children and VA services for 900,000 veterans. Polls briefly favored them, with 45-52% blaming Republicans, but as the toll mounted, public fatigue set in. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's "hold the line" crumbled when eight Democrats…

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The ACA Subsidy Cliff

A Democrat Failure from Start to Finish The federal government has been shuttered for over six weeks. Twenty-four million Americans are opening letters that read like ransom notes: “Your $10/month health plan will cost $750 in 2026-unless Congress acts.” Democrats are howling “Republican sabotage!” Republicans are shrugging: “You wrote the expiration date.” Only one side is right. This crisis has a single author: the Democrat Party. They designed the 2025 cliff, chose climate spending over a long-term fix, used COVID as a bailout for a failing Affordable Care Act, "Obamacare", and never once asked Republicans to the table. The evidence is…

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The Perils of Overreach, Part III

The Perils of Overreach: From Warning to Wreckage In my columns earlier last week-"The Perils of Overreach" on November 6 and its sequel, "The Perils of Overreach, Part II," the following day-I issued a stark warning to Democrats amid the then-37th and 38th days of what was already shaping up to be a disastrous government shutdown. Drawing on Harold Macmillan's timeless quip-"Events, dear boy, events"-I cautioned that their stubborn demands for $1.5 trillion in permanent Obamacare subsidy extensions, fueled by favorable early polls and a premature "blue wave" in off-year elections, risked unraveling under the weight of unforeseen chaos. Thanksgiving travel…

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The Perils of Overreach, Part II

Election Wins Are No License for Shutdown Stubbornness In my previous column, "A Warning to Democrats on the Government Shutdown and ACA Subsidies," I cautioned the Democrat Party against the seductive trap of overreach during the ongoing government shutdown-now entering its 38th day. Drawing on historical precedents like the 1995-1996 and 2013 shutdowns, I argued that leveraging public blame against Republicans to demand permanent extensions of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies risks transforming a tactical advantage into a strategic disaster. The ACA's enhanced premium tax credits, set to expire at year's end due to Democrats' own sunset clauses in the 2022…

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The Perils of Overreach

A Warning to Democrats on the Government Shutdown and ACA Subsidies In the annals of political wisdom, few quotes capture the precarious nature of governance as succinctly as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's reputed response to a question about what posed the greatest challenge to statesmen: "Events, dear boy, events." This adage underscores how unforeseen incidents can derail even the most calculated strategies, turning public opinion on a dime and exposing leaders to unforeseen vulnerabilities. As the United States grapples with the longest government shutdown in history-now entering its 37th day on November 6, 2025-Democrats find themselves in a position of…

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Republicans Can Win the Housing Battleground

Republicans Must Seize the Housing Crisis to Secure America's Future As we enter the second Trump era in November 2025, with Republicans holding the reins of power in Washington, the time for bold action on America's housing affordability crisis has never been more urgent. The data is damning: The median age of first-time homebuyers has hit a record 40, up from 38 last year, while first-time buyers now comprise just 21% of the market-the lowest since tracking began in 1981. Overall buyer age stands at 59, with repeat buyers at 62, and fewer than a quarter of buyers have children under…

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The Triumph of Trump’s Moral Compass

Outthinking and Outworking Western Leaders in the Gaza Peace Deal In the marble halls of Washington, where partisan trench warfare has become the national pastime, the federal government is shuttered once again-not over border walls or bloated bureaucracies this time, but over Subsidya ticking time bomb that Democrats themselves planted 15 years ago. As of October 14, 2025, the shutdown that began on October 1 has furloughed thousands of federal workers, halted critical services, and cast a pall over an economy already teetering from inflation's aftershocks. At the heart of this manufactured crisis? The impending expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act…

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