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The IRS finally read a 30-year-old law it forgot existed

The IRS finally read a 30-year-old law it forgot existed

In my financial services career, I have learned one rule that never bends: You pay claims to the beneficiaries named in the document, not to whoever...

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Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Free Speech Is Not the Problem. Our Guest List Is.

Free Speech Is Not the Problem. Our Guest List Is.

A federal judge in San Jose spent 90 pages this week explaining what the Founders covered in 10 words: "Congress shall make no law... abridging...

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Townhall

Jay Rogers

Florida man voted for 20 years under a stolen name. Still think SAVE America Act is paranoia?

Florida man voted for 20 years under a stolen name. Still think SAVE America Act is paranoia?

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo Grajales spent more than two decades in Duval County, Florida, under a stolen identity, and on Aug. 12 a federal judge finally...

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Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The DC Circuit Just Gave Undercover Journalism a Lifeline, Not a Blank Check

The DC Circuit Just Gave Undercover Journalism a Lifeline, Not a Blank Check

On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit threw out a 10-year-old lawsuit against James O'Keefe and Project Veritas,...

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Townhall

Jay Rogers

The Collection Plate and the Ballot Box

How do you know a charity is legit? Follow the money. A new report does just that, and the findings are disturbing.

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American Thinker

Jay Rogers

When 87 Percent Isn't Enough

When 87 Percent Isn't Enough

On Wednesday, a judge in Annapolis handed Maryland Democrats a rare loss in a year when they usually get whatever they draw up. Democrats already hold...

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Townhall

Jay Rogers

Trump wants to kill the roadless rule: Trees aren’t worth more than lives

Trump wants to kill the roadless rule: Trees aren’t worth more than lives

The U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule today to erase a 25-year-old federal restriction covering nearly 45 million acres of national forest....

28.08.2026 3

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Women Have Never Been More Ideologically Isolated, and It's Costing Two Generations

Women Have Never Been More Ideologically Isolated, and It's Costing Two Generations

Last week outside a Massachusetts courthouse, roughly 400 people, most of them women dressed in pink, rallied in support of a mother on trial for...

27.08.2026 7

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Hooking children isn’t free speech. Meta is running a casino in your child’s pocket

Hooking children isn’t free speech. Meta is running a casino in your child’s pocket

Opening statements began this week in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California, and the accusation on the table is blunt. A lawyer for four state...

27.08.2026 3

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The Fourth Circuit just took away grandpa’s voting perk

The Fourth Circuit just took away grandpa’s voting perk

South Carolina lets anyone 65 or older mail in a ballot for any reason at all. Everyone younger needed an excuse: a disability, a job that keeps you...

26.08.2026 6

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Keep grown-ups' pronoun fights out of grade school classrooms

In the 1990 movie "Kindergarten Cop," it is a five-year-old boy, not Arnold Schwarzenegger, who blurts out the actual biology lesson: "Boys have a...

26.08.2026 6

The Hill

Jay Rogers

The voter fraud ‘myth’ just pleaded guilty

The voter fraud ‘myth’ just pleaded guilty

I’ve spent years as a court-designated expert witness, and courtrooms teach you fast: Nobody wins on a hunch. You win on paper, records, timestamps,...

26.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Unions Strike Out Again on School Choice

Unions Strike Out Again on School Choice

Arizona teachers' unions just learned what every coach already knows: if you can’t put points on the board, the season ends early. Last week,...

24.08.2026 8

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Morens Pleaded Guilty. Fauci Already Cashed His Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card.

Morens Pleaded Guilty. Fauci Already Cashed His Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card.

David Morens spent nearly two decades as Anthony Fauci's most trusted adviser at NIAID. Last Tuesday, in a federal courtroom in Greenbelt,...

22.08.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

The View Can’t Be Both A Neutral Newscast And A Leftist Propaganda Foghorn

Free speech protects ABC's right to run an all-left-wing panel every weekday morning. It does not entitle ABC to call that panel a news program when...

20.08.2026 10

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

ICE Keeps Arresting Predators. Sanctuary Cities Keep Calling It Fearmongering.

The Department of Homeland Security put out another "worst of the worst" release over the weekend of August 17. ICE agents picked up illegal...

19.08.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Pennsylvania catches fraud — Minnesota makes excuses

Con artists are con artists everywhere. What is different is your state's response.

19.08.2026 5

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Trump’s Use Of National Defense Resources To Protect The Border Is Legal And Brilliant

Securing 60 feet of federal dirt with the same trespassing law that protects Fort Bliss is not martial law.

19.08.2026 10

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

The Adults Are Finally Back in the Room

This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did something Washington rarely manages: it drew a line and held it. The agency finalized a...

18.08.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Trump tries birthright citizenship again — and this time, he read the fine print

I’ve spent a career drafting language that has to mean exactly one thing under stress: contracts, offering memoranda, expert reports, the kind of...

18.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Comedy with a warning label: New Mexico wants the Babylon Bee to spoil its own jokes

I’ve spent 30 years drafting disclosure language for private placement memoranda. A disclosure has one job: warn the reader before he relies on...

17.08.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The Supreme Court Sanctioned Immigration Birthplace Fraud, But Not Marriage Fraud

A marriage fraud ring shows where immigration enforcement still has teeth, now the courts have taken birthright citizenship off the table.

17.08.2026 10

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

The Biden cover-up: Inside ‘Operation Round River,’ the secret FBI machine that buried 14 leads

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had 14 confidential sources feeding it dirt on former President Joe Biden’s family. Instead of running the leads...

17.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The Wolves Finally Got Caught

I have spent over three decades in wealth management and testifying as an expert witness on fiduciary duty, which boils down to one idea: when you are...

16.08.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Trump's Cyber Privateers: A Founding-Era Idea Whose Time Has Come

My oldest son is a West Point graduate training to fly Black Hawks. My youngest brother spent his career as a Green Beret Weapons Sergeant. Between...

15.08.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Washington’s dirtiest perk isn’t money — it’s the lifetime security clearance

Frank Kendall ran the Air Force under former President Joe Biden. Last week, the Pentagon yanked his security clearance, accusing him of telling a...

14.08.2026 7

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The DEI Industry Finally Found Its Icarus

Jason Arday's resignation is not a personal tragedy. It is an indictment of an industry, in academia and in publishing, that stopped checking IDs...

13.08.2026 4

Townhall

Jay Rogers

26,000 truckers can’t read English road signs. Why are they driving 80,000-pound missiles?

On Aug. 7, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a rule that never should have needed writing down: If you cannot read an English highway...

13.08.2026 6

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Taxpayers are funding ‘whites need not apply’ charity grants. The IRS must stop it

A Portland, Oregon, nonprofit organization called the Avenue Foundation gives $1,000 grants, marketing consulting, and coaching sessions to small...

12.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Congress must fix our temporary protected status problem

Mullin closed the statutory-review door on temporary protected status, but that was only the beginning.

12.08.2026 9

The Hill

Jay Rogers

The Patriot Games Are Building America’s Next Generation of Leaders

I ran hurdles for a state championship team in high school, then again in college, and four years of 110-meter races teach you one thing: a clock does...

11.08.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Why buying a sandwich can turn a law-abiding gun owner into a felon

I’ve spent 30 years advising clients on risk they can quantify: interest rate risk, market risk, counterparty risk. None of that prepared me for the...

11.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Democratic mayor secretly seized land to block housing. A federal judge just nuked his power trip

A federal judge in Rhode Island handed property owners a rare and useful win last week, and the reasoning behind it deserves more attention than the...

10.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Bring Back the Bar: What UC's Retreat From the SAT Teaches America

On July 10, the committee that actually runs University of California admissions did something worth a double-take. It didn't reinstate the SAT....

09.08.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

The PLO Bankrolled October 7's Butchers. Bill Them for It.

I spend my career tracing where judgment-debtor money sits and whether a court order actually gets collected. So, when Justice Sonia Sotomayor refused...

07.08.2026 8

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Trump is holding disaster aid hostage. He knows he’s on thin ice

Twenty-four state attorneys general and two governors filed suit against FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security last month, and the complaint...

07.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Dead men don’t need groceries: The fraud Democrats are suing to protect

Twenty-one state attorneys general just sued the federal government over food stamps. Not to feed more hungry American citizens. To keep benefits...

07.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Congress zeroed out the gun tax. A judge just noticed nobody zeroed out the felony

Congress spent 90 years regulating suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns through a tax. Not a ban. A tax: pay $200, submit...

06.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

A gun sat in a living room. The feds called it ‘interstate commerce’

Curtis Squire kept a handgun in his New Orleans home. Police found it while executing a search warrant tied to a shooting he wasn’t charged with. He...

06.08.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Obamacare approved 96% of fake applications. Why is Congress extending its subsidies?

I have spent more than a decade as a designated expert witness on fiduciary duty, testifying in federal and state courts about what happens when the...

05.08.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Wiping your own phone is now a federal crime — if you do it at the airport

Customs and Border Protection personnel searched more than 55,000 phones, laptops, and tablets at the border last year, a number that has climbed...

05.08.2026 6

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The diploma divide is reshaping American politics

A degree does not, on its own, confer common sense or merit.

05.08.2026 9

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Woke in 2021, anti-woke in 2026: Pension trustees are making the same mistake twice

A public pension trustee who strikes the diversity and climate language from an investment policy statement this summer is not doing housekeeping. He...

04.08.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Massachusetts is building a government hiring pipeline just for Muslims

While the Trump administration spends 2026 tearing down federal diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, the Massachusetts legislature is building a...

03.08.2026 7

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The Supreme Court could soon let pipeline giants steal land on the cheap

The Fifth Amendment promises “just compensation” when the government takes your land. On June 29, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a...

29.07.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Congress can't seem to figure out that sports gambling is just sports gambling

Every parent should worry that Washington seemingly cannot tell the difference between trading and obvious sports gambling.

29.07.2026 7

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Biden's Last-Minute Amnesty Was Built to Outlast Him

I have spent three decades pricing risk for a living. Before I sign off on any credit strategy, I ask one question: what happens when the other side...

28.07.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Catch and Release, Wisconsin Style

Corey Durell Ruiz died on a public street in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 22 with a fixed-blade knife in his hand and roughly 40 prior convictions on...

27.07.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Uncle Sam Gave Him a Work Permit, Then Arrested Him for Working

Two federal agencies looked at the same Jamaican flight attendant and reached opposite conclusions. Both were right. That is the story here, and...

26.07.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

The Carroll Case Still Deserves a Second Look

The Supreme Court just teed up something it hasn't done since 2018: a second look at a case it already declined to hear. The justices distributed...

25.07.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers