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America Argues About the Constitution It Doesn't Know

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...

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

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...

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The Amendment That Corrected the Founders

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...

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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.

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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.

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

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 3

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The amendment that built the administrative state

02.06.2026 7

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Pills, Ads, and the American Patient

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 4

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They Broke the Law, Censored the Truth, and Pardoned Themselves. We Must Never Forget.

They Broke the Law, Censored the Truth, and Pardoned Themselves. We Must Never Forget.

On January 20, 2025, hours before handing over power, President Biden issued preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and every...

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Term Limits Now: Fire Career Politicians, Hire Citizen-Legislators

The men who wrote the Constitution never imagined Congress as a permanent address.

30.05.2026 6

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Mission Laundering: What the OpenAI Verdict Didn't Resolve

Mission Laundering: What the OpenAI Verdict Didn't Resolve

The jury decision closes the courthouse door. The IRS is still open. A nine-person jury in Oakland ruled last week that Elon Musk waited too long to...

29.05.2026 5

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Lord of the Flies: Fear, Power, and the Fragility of Civilization

Over Memorial Day weekend, I watched the new Lord of the Flies on Netflix and found myself thinking back to high school, when I first read William...

28.05.2026 3

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The blueprint is done: Now build America's sovereign wealth fund

Build the fund. Invest it wisely and hand the next generation something worth inheriting.

27.05.2026 4

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Your Grocery Bill Has a New Boss

Last week, in the East Room of the White House, Kevin Warsh took the oath of office and became the 11th chairman of the Federal Reserve in the modern...

26.05.2026 6

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The Doomsday Scenario Quietly Died. Nobody Covered It.

I was sitting in a theater in 2006 watching An Inconvenient Truth, wondering whether Al Gore had turned a legitimate environmental concern into a...

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Equal Protection Means What It Says

The Fourteenth Amendment says what it means. "No state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."...

22.05.2026 7

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Congress Was Never Supposed to Run Forever

The Twenty-Second Amendment fixed the presidency. Congress stayed broken. Ratified in 1951, two years after Franklin Roosevelt's death, the...

21.05.2026 10

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No-show Congress: Weekend at Bernie’s moves to Capitol Hill

21.05.2026 7

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The Right They Keep Trying to Qualify

The Second Amendment is the most litigated right in the Constitution right now. That's not because the doctrine is unclear. It's because...

20.05.2026 8

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Public pension boards are sacrificing pensioners for politics

There is an accountability gap at the center of public pension governance that is structural, not merely partisan.

20.05.2026 5

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When 'Mostly Peaceful' Crosses Into Conspiracy: The DOJ Finally Reads the Riot Act

Thirty-plus years in courtrooms as a designated expert witness and a lifetime coaching young men on rugby and football fields teaches you something...

19.05.2026 9

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Nullification With a Press Release

The Trump administration has now logged more than twelve consecutive months of zero interior releases at the border, removed upward of 675,000...

18.05.2026 7

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Bay Area Report on ICE Raids Is Peak Elite Cope

The Bay Area Council just released its March 2026 “economic impact” study warning that stepped-up ICE enforcement under President Trump will...

17.05.2026 10

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The Cooks Will Finally Eat Their Own Cooking

Senate's Pay-Withholding Vote Is a Small but Real Step Toward Accountability Senate's Pay-Withholding Vote Is a Small but Real Step Toward...

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America Just Told the UN to Pound Sand on Replacement Migration

The State Department’s May 11 rejection of the U.N.’s International Migration Review Forum declaration isn’t symbolic. It’s a statement of...

14.05.2026 8

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IRS Handouts to Noncitizens: Your Tax Dollars Funding the Wrong Team

April 15 used to feel like a predictable transaction. These days, with the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration confirming that the IRS...

13.05.2026 10

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Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore: The rise of citizen journalism

"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Peter Finch delivered that line repeatedly as Howard Beale in the 1976 film "Network."...

13.05.2026 9

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Retirement Options for the Middle Class

After three decades sitting across conference tables from founders who built real companies from scratch, I hear the same worry time and again — the...

12.05.2026 10

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The Future That Almost Never Was

SpaceX filed its confidential S-1 with the SEC on April 1, 2026, targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation and a $75 billion raise in what analysts project...

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The Paper Tiger of the 14th Amendment: Reclaiming the American Birthright

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on April 1 in Barbara v. Trump, the case challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting automatic...

09.05.2026 10

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Sacrifice for the Cause

On April 25, 2026, a 31-year-old Caltech-trained engineer from Torrance, California, checked into the Washington Hilton the day before the White House...

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Unions are acting as a toll booth on the road to unaccountable single-party power

The pattern is familiar to anyone who has lived in California since the 1990s.

06.05.2026 10

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Time to Pull the Plug on the 501(c) Grift

I have spent thirty years in the rooms where American capital actually lives — structuring financial transactions, advising single-family offices,...

04.05.2026 10

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Washington's Debt Party Is About to Crash Your Budget

Picture yourself at the kitchen table on a Saturday morning, coffee getting cold, sorting through the mail. Among the usual suspects—credit card...

03.05.2026 10

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Counties, Not Capitals: The NPVIC Threat and the Case for a Real Electoral Reset

The Supreme Court’s ruling this week in Louisiana v. Callais changed the calculation. The 6-3 decision, written by Justice Alito, gutted Section 2...

02.05.2026 10

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You Are on Your Own in America's Progressive Cities

A Portland jury handed down a ruling last week that should jolt every American who still believes local law enforcement will shield them from...

01.05.2026 10

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Careers Over Cradles: Biology Does Not Negotiate With Your Promotion Timeline

After thirty years in private capital markets and family office consulting, I know a compounding problem when I see one. The CDC's 2025...

30.04.2026 10

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Citizens Last: How the Democrat Party Stopped Pretending

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) did not mean to hand conservatives a gift. During a 2024 MSNBC appearance, he told host Chris Hayes that Democratic...

29.04.2026 10

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The Ivy League’s Self-Inflicted Breakdown

New reports suggest that maybe the patient is starting to recognize that he has a disease.

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Clarence Thomas Sounds the Alarm: Progressivism’s Direct Assault on the Declaration of Independence

Last week, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas walked into Hogg Memorial Auditorium at the University of Texas at Austin and said out loud what most...

28.04.2026 8

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Dead Men Don’t Vote: Federal Oversight Is the Only Way to Clean Up America’s Voter Rolls

I cast my first ballot in 1986, standing in line at a Stamford, Connecticut polling place on a raw November morning, feeling like I had just joined...

27.04.2026 10

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The SPLC: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

On Tuesday, April 21, the Department of Justice unsealed an 11-count federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. Prosecutors allege...

26.04.2026 10

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Special Rights: The Quiet Assault on Equal Justice

A referee who applies the rules differently depending on who is wearing what jersey is not being fair; they are being corrupt. I spent enough time...

25.04.2026 10

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Blue States Are Bleeding Population and Congressional Seats — The Fiscal Reckoning Is Here

The Census Bureau numbers released in January 2026 do not lie. California, New York, and Illinois are on track to shed a combined six or more House...

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Trump Cuts FDA Red Tape on Ibogaine: Veterans Finally Get a Real Shot at Healing

President Trump signed an executive order on Saturday that could change the trajectory of thousands of lives. Standing in the Oval Office alongside...

23.04.2026 10

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Rolling Terror: Rogue States’ Bogus CDLs Are Killing Americans

Last August 12, on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce, Harjinder Singh attempted an illegal U-turn through an “Official Use Only” median cut....

22.04.2026 10

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Trump's swift control of the border proves his predecessors were lying

Open borders was never an act of compassion. It was a wealth-transfer from taxpayers to the cartels — worst actors on the planet.

22.04.2026 10

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Trump's Masterstroke in China's Backyard: The Philippines AI Trade Zone

The April 16, 2026 announcement of a 4,000-acre Economic Security Zone inside the Philippines' Luzon Economic Corridor passed largely without...

21.04.2026 10

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Congress Cleaned House — Under Duress

On April 13, 2026, two members of Congress announced their resignations within hours of each other — not out of conscience, but because expulsion...

20.04.2026 10

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Grievance Culture Is Destroying American Resilience

In an era of unprecedented prosperity, America finds itself fracturing under the weight of a force it largely manufactured: grievance culture. Defined...

19.04.2026 10

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