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Girls’ Sports Exist for a Reason

We separate boys and girls in sports for good reasons, and males don’t belong in women’s competition or in women’s locker rooms. An alleged...

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The Daily Signal

Jay Rogers

Voters hired Trump to deport detainees. Supreme Court saved his strategy from rogue judges

Voters hired Trump to deport detainees. Supreme Court saved his strategy from rogue judges

Last week, the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume deporting people to countries other than their own. The 6-3 order is temporary, and...

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Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The $1 jury verdict that should terrify Cornell

The $1 jury verdict that should terrify Cornell

A federal jury in Maryland ruled last week that the University of Maryland let harassment of a cleared student continue. An outside hearing officer...

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Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

A New Jersey School Board Thinks Parental Rights Stop at the California Border

A New Jersey School Board Thinks Parental Rights Stop at the California Border

On June 15, Ann Ciccarelli, president of the Board of Education for the School District of the Chathams, New Jersey, read a statement into the record....

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Townhall

Jay Rogers

In Delaware, the state line beats the border

In Delaware, the state line beats the border

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm. On Oct. 1, the Justice Department sued...

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Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Congress is trading on your dime

Congress is the trustee of a government that just crossed $40 trillion in debt in August. It should live under the same rules we do, with no...

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The Hill

Jay Rogers

Ithaca Got the Podium, Huntington Got the Docket

Ithaca Got the Podium, Huntington Got the Docket

Governor Kathy Hochul says the Cornell fraternity allegations are nothing short of horrifying. She has a point. A woman alleges that seven men drugged...

03.10.2026 7

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Senate Democrats just filibustered your power bill to spite Republicans

Senate Democrats just filibustered your power bill to spite Republicans

The House passed the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3 on Sept. 16. Republicans and Democrats agreeing on anything is about as common as a...

02.10.2026 4

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Last call in America: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here

Last call in America: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here

Closing time comes to every bar, and nobody acts surprised when the lights come up. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume...

01.10.2026 5

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Washington’s new budget shortcut is a time bomb — just wait until the Left uses it

Washington’s new budget shortcut is a time bomb — just wait until the Left uses it

Every September, Washington holds a fire sale on your money. Agencies with cash left rush to sign contracts and cut grant checks before Sept. 30,...

30.09.2026 7

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Brookings confirms what basic economics predicted about Biden’s open border

The Biden administration ran an unhedged book for four years. The results were higher rents, suppressed wages at the low end of the distribution,...

30.09.2026 8

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Jim Crow Had a Party Affiliation

Jim Crow Had a Party Affiliation

In "Casablanca," Captain Renault is "shocked, shocked" to find gambling at Rick's, just before collecting his winnings....

29.09.2026 4

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Democrats’ Fake Lynching Panic Is Latest In A Long Line Of Racial Hoaxes

This isn’t the first time Democrats and the media have manufactured a lynching panic where none existed.

29.09.2026 7

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

Show up or shut up: How 351 hours of Trump exposed the media’s Biden cover-up

The White House press office announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump has logged 21,058 minutes at events open to the press since his second...

28.09.2026 3

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Noncitizens Are Voting. Databases Are Flagging Citizens. Both Are True.

To attend the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, delegates appeared in person with valid identification to collect credentials. Certain...

27.09.2026 9

Townhall

Jay Rogers

They Ran Away From Women’s Sports. Not a Single Question Asked.

On Wednesday morning, three witnesses sat at a table in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Kim Jones co-founded the Independent Council on Women’s...

25.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Jack Smith’s election interference wasn’t an accident. It was the strategy

The Department of Justice operates under a foundational principle: prosecutors pursue justice, not political outcomes. That’s the official story, at...

25.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

California's High-Speed Money Laundering, and It's All Perfectly Legal

I have spent two decades as an expert witness testifying about where other people's money goes missing. Pension funds looted by trustees who knew...

24.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Virginia’s parole board applauded a killer. Show us the file

In 1998, Troy Demar stabbed Christine Allen to death in the Fairfax County home they shared. Her daughter was 3 months old. A judge sent him away for...

24.09.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The First Amendment doesn't come with an approval rating

A rule that only bites reporters whose coverage the president dislikes isn't a rule. It is retaliation, and the courts have said so for half a...

23.09.2026 30

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Al Green’s Trump impeachment stunt fails — his own party just admitted it was theater

I ran the 400-meter in high school and college, so I know sprinting the first turn doesn’t win the race. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) never learned that. On...

23.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Ignorance was a choice: How Tim Walz handed scammers $250 million

I spent 30 years as an expert witness answering one question for a judge or jury: did the person managing someone else’s money know, or should have...

22.09.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Deprogrammed: Believe the Democrats Who Got Out

Maya Angelou's old rule still holds: when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Two former Democratic insiders showed us...

21.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

The Supreme Court banned race sorting. Colleges found a 5-digit loophole

Three years after the Supreme Court told American universities to stop sorting applicants by race, the sorting hasn’t stopped. It just got a new...

21.09.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Noncitizen voters have lost on the facts. Now they’re weaponizing the Constitution

A federal judge in Miami will hear oral arguments this week on a legal theory that five people around the country are betting will spring them from...

18.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Mamdani’s green card lawsuit isn’t about compassion. It’s about who pays

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at City Hall on Monday and announced that his city is suing the federal government to preserve immigrants’...

18.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

New York’s union bosses just invented a new way to silence their critics

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a bill on Sept. 9 that tells you everything about how entrenched interests behave when they start losing an argument....

17.09.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

One label, not 50 verdicts: Why Kagan and Kavanaugh agreed to end the Roundup bonanza

Bayer’s Monsanto unit stood before a Missouri judge on Monday and asked him to approve a $7.25 billion settlement of roughly 65,000 lawsuits...

16.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

On the Hill, Democrats are creating a weapon that might backfire on them

The problem was never oversight. It's oversight that only ever points in one partisan direction.

16.09.2026 10

The Hill

Jay Rogers

DOJ Goes After Berkeley Law For Discrimination Against White Applicants

A federal finding says the University of Berkeley's Law School kept discriminating by race two years after the Supreme Court told it to stop.

16.09.2026 10

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

The census is a subsidy for open borders dressed up as demography

Picture a shareholder meeting where the company hands out voting proxies to anyone who wandered in off the street, share certificate or not. That is...

15.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

On Groundless Fears: The Great Data Center Panic

Seneca wrote a whole letter to his friend Lucilius titled “On Groundless Fears.” His point, roughly 2,000 years before cable news existed, was...

14.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Kansas City knew its DEI program was indefensible. It ran it anyway

Kansas City spent 45 years running a contracting program that its own hired consultant said the city couldn’t defend, then took two more months to...

14.09.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Judges Keep Betting Your Life on Career Criminals. Time to Change the Odds.

Chicago Police Officer John Bartholomew walked into a hospital doing his job in April and never walked out. The man accused of killing him, Alphanso...

13.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

A Constitutional Right Shouldn't Need a Passport

Jeffrey Johnson drives a truck for a living. He holds valid concealed carry permits from Florida and Georgia, and he carries a handgun on the road...

12.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

John Fetterman: Last of a Dying Breed

Here's a number that should stop you cold: according to a Quinnipiac University poll of 895 Pennsylvania voters taken July 9 to 13, Sen. John...

11.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Flock Cameras Are The New Patriot Act

Congress responded to 9/11 with a domestic architecture of preventive surveillance that is why an AI-powered camera may be on your street.

11.09.2026 10

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

New York turned off the scoreboard because the charter school was winning

I’ve spent 30 years telling institutional clients the truth about their returns, good quarters and bad ones, because a manager who hides the losses...

10.09.2026 8

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Three signatures. 700,000 silenced citizens. One completely broken system

I’ve spent 30 years testifying about numbers that decide outcomes, and juries always want a number they can trust. The number that just decided...

10.09.2026 7

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Washington Needs a Diet and a Growth Spurt, Not a Miracle Cure

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood in front of business students at SMU's Cox School of Business in Dallas on Tuesday and said something...

09.09.2026 9

Townhall

Jay Rogers

New York City is taxing you to fund Mamdani’s fan club

On a Tuesday morning in March, a curious wave of enthusiasm rolled across social media. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani had just canceled a $9...

09.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

25 years after 9/11, we're still fighting the last war

An institution that stops updating its threat model is getting ready for the next threat to take it by surprise.

09.09.2026 10

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Today it’s antifa. Tomorrow it’s your Bible study

Washington finally started following the money behind political violence. Conservatives cheering the crackdown should make sure it stays aimed at...

08.09.2026 9

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Maryland's Community Trust Act: Great Branding, Terrible Bet

Jefferson Amaya-Ayala was 14. Someone he trusted lured him into a park in Prince George's County last August, and by November investigators had...

06.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Trump’s big Supreme Court ‘win’ is a trap only Congress can fix

Monday’s Supreme Court order handed the Trump administration a win on mail-in voting. Don’t order the champagne yet. The court didn’t say the...

06.09.2026 7

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

When a Maine judge decides whose God wins

Emily Bickford knows the answer to a question no judge should have the power to settle: which parent gets to be right about God. Maine’s Supreme...

05.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

An Offer States Can't Refuse

Vito Corleone built an empire on one rule: take my money and play by my terms. On September 1, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel...

04.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Twelve jurors in Boulder shouldn’t control America’s energy grid

On Oct. 5, the Supreme Court will hear Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. Boulder, Colorado, wants money from Suncor and Exxon...

04.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Guilty of Parenting: Virginia Just Criminalized a Walk to the Pond

Karyann Parkinson let her 5-year-old son, Sam, walk half a mile to collect goose feathers near their neighborhood pond. Last week, a Virginia judge...

04.09.2026 10

The Daily Signal

Jay Rogers

Voting on the ‘honor system’ is madness

Every new client who opens an account at my firm hands over a driver’s license, a passport, or a certified trust document before a single dollar...

04.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers