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R.I.P. Ted Turner

Ted Turner has died, at 87. Much like our current president, Turner was one of those classic American characters, a tycoon who was larger than life...

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A Conversation with Justice Gorsuch

We’re on a journey, and that’s exactly how I think of our declaration, right? I mean, those three big ideas in the declaration that all of us are...

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A Unanimous Supreme Court First Amendment Victory for Crisis Pregnancy Centers — but Not Only a Win for Pro-Lifers

The Supreme Court this morning decided First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, a case at the hot-button intersection of abortion, free...

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Time is on Trump’s side versus Iran, but not forever

President Trump says, “I don’t want to rush it. I want to take my time,” while Pete Hegseth said, “we have all the time in the world, and...

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The Powell Investigation Was Everything Wrong with Trump’s Second Term

The Justice Department has dropped its investigation into Fed chairman Jerome Powell, just in time for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as his...

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Help Us Defend America’s Greatness

One of the great lines in Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles is early in the film when the superhero Mr. Incredible complains: “No matter how many...

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Heckuva Job, Kari Lake

Reading through Jim Geraghty's characteristically thorough compendium of the personal baggage of Ruben Gallego, I am reminded once again of how...

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Why give Democrats more tax money to burn? They’ll just waste it again or let their friends steal it

Dems’ ideas laid to ‘waste’

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Are Foreigners and Outsiders Stealing Our Housing?

Are foreigners and other outsiders stealing our housing? That seems to be yet another growing area of agreement between the populist right and the...

16.04.2026 7

National Review

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Tariffs Will Be Refunded — but Not to Consumers

Having collected tariffs illegally for over a year, the Trump administration now has to pay them back: The U.S. government is set to launch an online...

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National Review

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A Telling Apology from Justice Sotomayor

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has apologized publicly to her colleague Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a statement released by the Court: “At a recent...

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Debating Busting the Filibuster

I'm freshly back from vacation; before I left, I went on Henry Olsen's Conservative Crossroads podcast to debate the Senate filibuster with...

13.04.2026 7

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Democrats’ Incentives to Turn on Eric Swalwell

You may be wondering why Democrats and their pundit class have turned so swiftly on Eric Swalwell. The California representative, a longtime fixture...

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Just in time for midterms, the left reminds voters why they dislike Democrats

The midterm elections ought to be the best of times for Democrats. But they’ve learned nothing from 2024.

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Nation-Probation Wars Are Worse Than Nation-Building

The cease-fire in Iran, which seems likely to be the end of the war for all practical purposes, fails my simple test for victory: There is not a...

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National Review

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No Big Surprises at the Birthright Citizenship Argument

I rounded up the arguments here and here this morning on the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, that was argued this morning. It was...

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Birthright Citizenship: The Statutory Problem

My column looks at the constitutional birthright citizenship issue facing the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara. But even if the Trump administration...

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Not All Missions with Ground Troops Are the Same

There's increasing buzz out of the Trump administration about possible deployments of ground troops in or around Iran. Several different missions...

30.03.2026 9

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Unearned Snobbery

Rich and the rest of The Editors podcast crew had a good, well-deserved kick at Jimmy Kimmel for mocking Markwayne Mullin on the grounds that Mullin...

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Can Taiwan Defend Itself as a Nation Without a National Identity?

Timothy Nerozzi has an excellent and compelling look in the Washington Examiner at how Western-style progressivism has suffused Taiwan (or at least,...

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Is NATO a Partnership or Just a Series of Deals?

My latest Daily Mail column looks at the fraying of NATO in the heat of the Iran War, as both Trump and the leading Europeans talk out of both sides...

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Sexual predators can get off the hook if they are progressive enough — just look at Cesar Chavez

The bigger they are, the longer it takes them to fall.

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Myths of Unconditional Surrender

Andy notes the ridiculousness of Tucker Carlson's claim that "unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and...

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The Judicial Filibuster’s End Is No Case for Altering the Legislative Filibuster

As I argued on Thursday, the case for Republicans enacting the SAVE Act (or SAVE America Act) without 60 votes in the Senate ignores the substantial...

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Grand Strategy in Iran and Venezuela

Does the Trump administration have a grand strategy at work in Iran and Venezuela? Maybe. It's hard to say what this administration is thinking,...

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The Dog That Isn’t Barking in Iran

There’s something of a contradiction in what we are seeing in Iran right now. On the one hand, this looks like an offensive aimed at eliminating the...

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My Three Quick Takes on Striking Iran

First, this is awesome. It's the United States of America in all of its righteous glory against a terroristic tyranny that has been attacking us...

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1830, a Turning Point

Sometimes, big turning points in our history announce themselves loudly and clearly. But not all do. The period around 1830 marked a hard turn in...

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Yes, Fraud Can and Does Invalidate Elections

My latest column is on the SAVE Act fight. I remain skeptical that the bill is worth passing, much less that it is so valuable as to justify changing...

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There’s No Pivot to the Economy

The State of the Union address last night was long on spectacle, and long, period. Political history will little note nor long remember what Donald...

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Learning Resources Tariff Case: the Kavanaugh Dissent

This is the fifth installment of my series on today's big tariff decision -- see here, here, here, and here for the first four. The main dissent...

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Learning Resources Tariff Case: The Thomas Dissent

This is the fourth installment of my series on today's big tariff decision; see here, here, and here for the first three. I'll deal briefly...

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Learning Resources Tariff Case: The Majority Opinion on the ‘What’ Question

This is the third installment of my series on today's big tariff decision -- see here and here for the first two. Much of the result was...

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Learning Resources Tariff Case: The Majority Opinion on the ‘How’ Questions

I'll be walking through today's big tariff decision in a series of posts, starting with this one on the bottom-line result and the breakdown...

20.02.2026 10

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Trump’s Tariffs Lose 6–3

Donald Trump’s assertion of presidential power to set tariffs was rejected this morning by a 6–3 Supreme Court. Frankly, Trump was lucky to get...

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The Funniest Thing That Could Possibly Happen

Based upon the current polling average at RealClearPolitics, if the California gubernatorial primary were to be held today, the result would be the...

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On the Reverend Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson has died, at 84. In his youth an earnest crusader for black civil rights who was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he died,...

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Trump Crypto Corruption and the Failure of Lawfare

Petty corruption was a recurring theme of the first Trump presidency. Donald Trump's vast business empire presented inherent, unfixable conflicts...

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A Theory of the Epstein Files as #MeToo Two

In 2017, the #MeToo movement erupted into full public view, with the Harvey Weinstein scandal as the driving wedge for the defenestration of a large...

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A Line We Shouldn’t Cross

From Donald Trump on Truth Social this morning: Highly Respected Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, is a truly strong and powerful Leader, with...

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Justice Jackson’s Tariff Tea Leaves

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The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate Is Love

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What Popular Music Gave Up Doing

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Trump Should Drop His Lawsuit Against the IRS

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The Cost of Half Measures in Iran and Venezuela

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New Jersey and Seattle Take Further Steps Toward Open State Insurrection

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Read a History Book, Tim Walz

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The Trouble with Writing About Chaos Government

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The Fundamental Problem with Hawaii’s Black Codes Argument

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A Supreme Court Defeat for Tort Reform Shouldn’t Be the Last Word

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