The Rules

AI Doublespeak Is Collapsing

Graduates See What the Elites Won’t Admit In April, I wrote that AI is a tool, Marian — channeling Alan Ladd’s Shane to remind everyone that technology itself is morally neutral. A gun, an axe, a shovel: it becomes good or bad based on the character and incentives of the person wielding it. That piece pushed back against fatalistic UBI talk and the notion that AI would simply “wipe out” work rather than transform it through markets, adaptation, and human ingenuity. This follow-up is necessary because the people holding the tool are currently engaged in a glaring contradiction that cannot last.…

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From Euphoria to Withdrawal

The Urgent Case for Letting Creative Destruction Run Its Course As of this morning, the 30-year Treasury yield has punched through 5.117 percent, the highest print since the final desperate leg higher before the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The 10-year note is ripping higher in real time, mortgage rates are barreling toward 7 percent, and forced liquidations are cascading across gold, silver, Bitcoin, and equities. Trillions in notional value have vanished in minutes. Margin calls are flying. The bond vigilantes aren’t panicking; they are simply refusing to lend America’s future income at yesterday’s fantasy prices anymore. This is not a “crisis.”…

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Red State Reckoning

Hoosiers Fire Pence-Endorsed RINOs in Brutal Primary Rejection In December 2025, I ripped into Indiana Senate Republicans for their jaw-dropping act of political malpractice: killing a Trump-backed mid-decade redistricting plan that would have turned a solid 7-2 House edge into a locked-down 9-0 dominance in one of the reddest states in America. Twenty-one GOP senators teamed up with Democrats to block it, cowering behind “norms,” “collegiality,” and the usual fear of media scolds instead of seizing a generational opportunity to secure power. I called it cowardice—a self-inflicted wound that handed Democrats breathing room they never would have granted us. Last night,…

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Long March Consequences

The Manifesto That Wasn’t Original: Elite Rhetoric Meets Its Own Predictable Output There’s nothing in Cole Allen’s manifesto that hasn’t been said and repeated by elected Democrats and mainstream media figures for years. On Saturday night, a Caltech-educated teacher and game developer walked into the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, handgun, and knives. He checked in the day before. He had a manifesto ready. Minutes before the attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he sent it to family. In it, he called President Trump a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” declared attendees complicit simply for being there, and justified lethal action…

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The Machiavellian Nonprofit

Funding the Hate It Professes to Fight — And Why Marc Andreessen Is Asking the Right Question A federal indictment has exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly doing the unthinkable: using donor money to secretly sustain the very extremist groups it built a fortune warning the public about. Over $3 million routed through sham entities between 2014 and 2023. One paid asset, identified only as F-37, received more than $270,000 while embedded in the online leadership chat planning the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. He attended at the SPLC’s direction, made racist postings under its supervision, and…

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Beyond the “Independent Commissions” Soundbite

How Democrats’ Redistricting Bill Codifies Race-Conscious Gerrymandering If you've been following the endless cable chatter or social media loops about congressional redistricting, you've almost certainly heard the polished Democratic soundbite: "Republicans voted against independent commissions to end partisan gerrymandering." It's clean, it's simple, and it requires no further explanation. It paints opponents as defenders of rigged maps and self-interested power-grabs. For many well-meaning citizens who want fair elections, that line lands like common sense. Who could possibly be against "independent" commissions and an end to gerrymandering? But as a constitutional scholar who's studied every redistricting battle for over two decades, through…

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Redistricting Power Politics

On Deadly Ground: Why Virginia Democrats Just Rewrote the Map Sun Tzu said: “When on surrounded ground, plot. When on deadly ground, fight.” We are on politically deadly ground in America. The old norms of “fair” redistricting and waiting for the decennial census have been trashed. Both parties understand the new reality: whoever controls the legislature, the governorship, and (when needed) the constitutional amendment process gets to draw the lines that determine who holds power in Congress. Virginia Democrats just demonstrated they grasp this better than many Republicans. The Birth of the Gerrymander The term “gerrymander” was born in 1812 in…

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The Impeachment Hoaxers Lied

Declassified Records Reveal Coordinated Ukraine Impeachment Hoax Seven months after the July 2025 “Lied” series exposed how the Obama administration, elements of the Intelligence Community, and legacy media deliberately manufactured the Russiagate hoax to undermine Donald Trump’s legitimate 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, the same damning pattern has now been laid bare in the 2019 Ukraine impeachment episode. DNI Tulsi Gabbard and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford released two long-classified HPSCI transcripts from September 19 and October 4, 2019, along with more than 350 pages of supporting documents detailing closed-door briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael…

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Thune’s Midnight Folly

How Senate Leadership Played the House and the Base for Suckers — And Why the Speaker's Backbone Points the Way Forward In the wee hours of March 27, 2026 — around 2:30 to 3 a.m. — the U.S. Senate passed a unanimous consent request to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. Only about five senators were physically present on the floor: Republicans John Thune, Eric Schmitt, and Bernie Moreno (presiding), plus Democrats Brian Schatz and Andy Kim. The deal cleared funding for TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, CISA, and other non-enforcement functions while explicitly carving out full funding for…

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Texas Enforces the Covenant

Texas Enforces Sovereignty on Licenses While Washington debates the full rollout of The Great American Covenant—the solemn national pact built on the Assimilation Act, SCAM Act, and SAVE America Act—Texas isn't waiting. We're already putting the principles into practice at the state level. “Entry by merit. Citizenship by character and probation. Voting by verified Americans only.” That vision isn't just federal legislation anymore; it's Lone Star policy right now. The recent Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) crackdown on professional licenses and the 2025 gutting of in-state tuition for illegal aliens show exactly how the Covenant works on the ground:…

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