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It’s Time to End Washington D.C. Home Rule

End the Experiment: Repeal DC Home Rule Now In the heart of our nation's capital, where democracy's gears grind daily, a brutal reality unfolded last August. Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a young staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was savagely attacked by a mob of up to 10 assailants in the dead of night on Logan Circle. They beat him unconscious, stomped his head into the pavement, and attempted to steal his car-part of a violent spree that left other victims with broken ribs that same night. Only two teenage perpetrators were apprehended; the rest vanished into the urban…

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Schrödinger’s Subsidy

How Democrats Built Their Own Political Trap on Obamacare 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 (ACA)…

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The Triumph of Trump’s Moral Compass

Outthinking and Outworking Western Leaders in the Gaza Peace Deal President Trump leading the wo The Middle East stands at a historic juncture, with the release of all 20 living hostages held by Hamas marking a decisive victory in the Gaza conflict. This achievement, cemented by the implementation of Phase One of President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza Peace Plan, stands as a testament to his unparalleled leadership and moral clarity. Unlike the Western leaders at Monday’s Peace in the Middle East summit in Sharm El Sheikh, who offered muted applause and pushed for excessive Israeli concessions, Trump, alongside his formidable team-Marco…

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Trump’s Troop Pay Directive

Trump’s Troop Pay Directive: Executive Authority, Legal Maneuvering, and the Politics of Shutdown Survival In the midst of a federal government shutdown that began on October 1, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a directive to War Secretary Pete Hegseth, instructing him to redirect available funds to ensure that the October 15 paychecks for approximately 1.3 million active-duty troops are issued on time. This move, amounting to a roughly $4 billion infusion, draws from multi-year Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) funds to cover Military Personnel (MILPERS) accounts, bypassing the freeze on new spending imposed by the lack of a fiscal year…

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Saturday Shutdown Showdown

Quick Takes: Trump’s Troop Pay, RIF Gambit, and Democrats’ Healthcare Overreach The federal government’s 11th day without funding (October 11, 2025) has turned Washington into a battleground of fiscal brinkmanship, with President Trump and Senate Democrats wielding competing strategies to exploit the shutdown. Trump’s bold move to secure military pay, the OMB’s aggressive workforce cuts, and Democrats’ push for costly healthcare expansions reveal a deeper struggle over priorities, power, and the public purse. Each maneuver, cloaked in urgency, risks legal overreach and fiscal recklessness, leaving taxpayers and federal workers caught in the crossfire. Trump’s Troop Pay Directive: A Legal Lifeline or…

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Democrats Own Jay Jones

Democrats Refuse to Police Their Own, So They Own the Fallout Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals Cut Both Ways The Democrat Party’s refusal to hold its own accountable for violent rhetoric, as seen in Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones’s 2022 texts fantasizing about assassinating Republicans and their children, mirrors a deeper assassination culture problem on the left. Documented by the Rutgers University Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), this trend normalizes political violence, yet Democrats dodge responsibility, inviting the backlash Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals prescribes. By not policing their own, they own the electoral and moral consequences. The Rules "Power is…

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Reviving the Raven

The Democrat Party Needs a Sam Houston to Reject Insurrectionist Rhetoric and Economic Hypocrisy In today’s polarized America, the Democrat Party’s resistance to federal immigration law enforcement, cloaked in claims of "state sovereignty" and justified by assertions that illegal alien labor prevents economic collapse, echoes the antebellum South’s economically driven defiance of federal authority. This rhetoric, as David Strom notes today in a Hot Air column, risks “open rebellion” by reviving Confederate-era states’ rights arguments. The party’s stance mirrors the South’s defense of slavery as economically vital, a path Sam Houston rejected in his 1854 Senate speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act…

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Democrats’ Shameless Pivot

From Illegal Alien Medicaid to a Costly Obamacare Boondoggle It’s Day Six of the government shutdown and the Democrats’ latest health care debacle is unfolding like a bad soap opera. After getting thoroughly thrashed in the court of public opinion over their botched attempt to funnel Medicaid funds to illegal aliens, these political hacks have scurried to a new, even more outrageous scheme: ramming through a permanent extension of pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies. Buried deep within their sham continuing resolution (S. 2882, hastily introduced by Sen. Patty Murray on September 18, 2025), this move takes a temporary COVID-19 lifeline-originally crafted by Democrats-and…

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The Democrat Rage Culture

The Blood on Democrat Hands In ancient Rome, the phrase Carthago delenda est-“Carthage must be destroyed”-was a rallying cry that turned a civilization into a target, fueling wars that ended in annihilation. In my earlier column, Democrats Delenda Est, I argued that the modern Democrat Party is fostering a culture where political opponents are not just rivals but existential threats and demands the electoral dismantling of the party’s radicalism to restore classical liberalism. The assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, and the grotesque assassination fantasies of Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones provide chilling evidence of this rhetoric…

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Lying in Their Own Bed

Democrats Shut Down the Government Over Obamacare Subsidies They Created The Democrats' Own Creation As the clock ticked past midnight on October 1, 2025, marking the beginning of a government shutdown, the political theater in Washington, D.C., has reached a fever pitch. At the center of this drama are the Obamacare subsidies, a policy tool Democrats championed and expanded during their time in power. Yet, here we are in October 2025, with Democrats holding the government hostage over these very subsidies, which they set to expire at the end of the year. This situation is not just a case of political…

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