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A Maryland School Lied to Parents. Twice.

A Maryland School Lied to Parents. Twice.

Somewhere in Anne Arundel County, a teacher hit send on an email, realized the mistake, and tried to recall it. That single keystroke is now the...

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The Supreme Court Left Women's Sports Half Protected

The Supreme Court Left Women's Sports Half Protected

I coached girls' track and field for years. Sprints and hurdles, the same events I ran in high school and college. I watched 15-year-old girls...

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Trump's America has stopped apologizing for existing, and it made all the difference

A country that supplies its allies' energy and demands they fund their own defense is not begging for a seat at the table. It is the table.

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Hollywood Snubs Its Own Audience, Then Wonders Why It's Broke

Hollywood Snubs Its Own Audience, Then Wonders Why It's Broke

Last week, the Television Academy announced its 78th Emmy nominations, and Taylor Sheridan's entire slate got the reception you'd give a...

13.07.2026 6

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The Democratic Socialists Aren't Fringe Anymore

The Democratic Socialists Aren't Fringe Anymore

I spend my days reading growth curves. A pension fund's unfunded liability, a private equity fund's internal rate of return, a hedge...

12.07.2026 4

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Equal Protection Wasn't Supposed to Be Negotiable

Equal Protection Wasn't Supposed to Be Negotiable

I spent over 30 years managing other people's money, and one rule never changes: if you owe a fiduciary duty to a group of people, you treat them...

11.07.2026 4

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Judge the Movement, Not the Mission Statement

Judge the Movement, Not the Mission Statement

On July 4, 2026, the Democratic Socialists of America announced it had surpassed 120,000 members, the largest socialist organization in American...

09.07.2026 5

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Every Benefit Has a Constituency. The Bill Doesn't.

Every Benefit Has a Constituency. The Bill Doesn't.

A client called me last spring to ask how a proposed change to the capital gains rate would hit his portfolio. Fair question. That's my job. Then...

08.07.2026 5

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The FBI is finally following the money on mass protest-funding

The government's focus on this problem validates that the disclosure gap between registered lobbyists and paid protest organizers was never one...

08.07.2026 5

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Obamacare's Fraud Bill Just Came Due

Nancy Pelosi told us in 2010 that we'd have to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Sixteen years later, we're still finding out, and...

04.07.2026 8

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The Militia That Wasn't: What the Founders Really Meant and Why Bruen Got It Right

My brother spent over 20 years in the military before retiring as an 18 Bravo (Weapons Sergeant) in the Army Special Forces. My son graduated from...

03.07.2026 10

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250 Years of American Audacity

Two hundred and fifty years ago this week, a small group of farmers, lawyers, and soldiers told the most powerful empire on earth to pound sand. They...

02.07.2026 7

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Common Sense Finally Wins in Girls' Sports

I coached high school sprints and hurdles in Southern California for years. After puberty hits, the difference between male and female athletes shows...

01.07.2026 8

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The money runs out: Socialism, on the rise in NYC, is being routed elsewhere

Follow the money, and it is clear why socialism is vanishing from Latin America and thriving in America's blue cities at the same time.

01.07.2026 8

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Collateral Damage Was the Plan

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced a formal criminal investigation this week into allegations that the U.S. Drug Enforcement...

29.06.2026 7

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Three Years After SFFA, the Ruling Is Still Making Changes

Three years ago this Sunday, the Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North...

28.06.2026 10

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The Border Is Not American Soil Until You Cross It

My son took an oath to defend this country's borders. He flies Army helicopters. He understands, at a visceral level, that a line on a map means...

26.06.2026 10

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The Perpetual Death of the Balanced Budget Amendment

How can we expect Congress to vote to constrain itself?

26.06.2026 20

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Due Process Doesn't Mean Legal Advice

The D.C. Circuit of Appeals gets the Constitution right on expedited removal The D.C. Circuit of Appeals gets the Constitution right on expedited...

25.06.2026 10

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Your Fourth Amendment rights now depend on your ZIP code

24.06.2026 10

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Autopen pardons aside, the nation deserves answers on the Fauci files

If Gabbard's insinuations are right, then this isn't a political controversy — it's a crime scene.

24.06.2026 10

The Hill

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A Green Card Isn't a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday that border officers can place a lawful permanent resident on immigration parole - effectively suspending their...

23.06.2026 10

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America Needs Fewer Performers and More Adults

Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire and meant it. He didn't hedge, qualify, or wait for a focus group. He built the military,...

21.06.2026 10

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Your Castle, Their Plans: 21 Years After Kelo, the Government Still Holds the Key

Three months ago, the Supreme Court had another chance to fix one of the worst decisions it's issued this century. On March 24, 2025, the...

21.06.2026 10

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The Government Can't Make You Say It

The First Amendment has two sides. Most people know the first one: the government can't silence you. Fewer know the second: it can't make...

20.06.2026 10

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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Has a Law Degree

In October 2024, the Biden Department of Justice forced the Maryland State Police to pay $2.75 million in back pay to Black and female applicants who...

19.06.2026 10

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The right to be left alone

18.06.2026 8

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The Verdict Was Just. The Fallout Is a Hate Crime.

The ink wasn’t dry on Karmelo Anthony’s 35-year murder sentence when a man in Jacksonville, Florida, climbed off his bicycle, walked up to an...

17.06.2026 10

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Your financial records have no Fourth Amendment protections

The warrant requirement is still in the Constitution, and Congress still has the authority to restore it.

17.06.2026 6

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The birthright citizenship clause nobody reads carefully

17.06.2026 10

Washington Examiner

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The Wall That Wasn't: The Establishment Clause From Everson to Kennedy

A football coach prays quietly at midfield after a game and gets fired for it. Not for disrupting anything. Not for pressuring students. For praying....

16.06.2026 10

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America Still Loves the Flag. It Just Doesn't Trust the People Running the Place.

Americans aren't exhausted by the idea of America. They're exhausted by the people who keep promising to improve it and then making life...

15.06.2026 10

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The Right to Remain Silent Says Everything

On June 10, 2026, Regina Wallace-Jones, CEO of ActBlue, sat before the House Administration Committee under subpoena. She invoked her Fifth Amendment...

14.06.2026 10

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A Tent, a Knife, and the Usual Suspects

Austin Metcalf bled out in his twin brother Hunter’s arms on the infield of Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2, 2025. He was 17. He’d...

13.06.2026 9

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When inclusion becomes illegal

13.06.2026 10

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The Algorithm Knows Where, Not Why

America's crime conversation has a data problem — not a shortage of data, but an overconfidence in what data can actually tell us. Homicides...

12.06.2026 10

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The year that broke the constitution

12.06.2026 8

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Blue-State Blues: Why Pro Sports Teams Are Fleeing High-Tax, High-Crime Cities

The Chicago Bears' board of directors voted last week to advance their stadium project in Hammond, Indiana. After 105 years in Chicago, one of...

11.06.2026 10

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What the founders actually meant by originalism

10.06.2026 10

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Congress's powers are supposed to be few and defined

The structural damage from the Commerce Clause era has not been repaired.

10.06.2026 10

The Hill

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Fight Night at 1600: The Outrage Industry Meets the Octagon

UFC Freedom 250 lands on the South Lawn of the White House this Sunday. A 92-foot steel structure called 'The Claw' frames the octagon. Up...

09.06.2026 10

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You Can’t Fake Real

Honesty Is Currency. America Has Been Running a Deficit for Years. Honesty Is Currency. America Has Been Running a Deficit for Years. I’ll say this...

08.06.2026 10

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America Argues About the Constitution It Doesn't Know

In 2023, a California school board became a national story when a conservative majority twice rejected state-approved curriculum over a lesson...

07.06.2026 10

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America’s $521 Billion Fraud Problem Is Finally Meeting Its Match

I have spent thirty years in rooms where real money changes hands — structuring private credit deals, managing family office portfolios, and...

06.06.2026 10

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The Amendment That Corrected the Founders

The anti-suffrage movement made many arguments. Women lacked the capacity for reasoned political judgment. Voting would corrupt feminine virtue. The...

05.06.2026 10

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Jim Crow and the Cost of Crying Wolf

Every time Democrats want to shut down a policy debate, they reach for the same emergency brake.

05.06.2026 30

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The Senate we killed in 1913

The 17th Amendment didn't start the federal expansion of the past century, but it cleared the institutional space that made it possible.

03.06.2026 10

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Biden's Privacy Panic: 50 Years on the Taxpayer Payroll, Now Suddenly Shy About the Receipts

Somewhere between the garage stacked with classified documents and the latest courtroom filing, Joe Biden decided the American people no longer...

02.06.2026 10

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The amendment that built the administrative state

02.06.2026 10

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Pills, Ads, and the American Patient

Only two countries on earth allow drug companies to advertise prescription medications directly to the public: the United States and New Zealand. New...

31.05.2026 10

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