During the 1992 Presidential Debate, independent candidate Ross Perot famously warned that “there will be a giant sucking sound going south” due to the cheaper Mexican labor and lower regulatory demands on businesses. That sound is being heard again, but this time it is coming from California, which is virtually…
Leadership is not the art of responding to every provocation. It is the discipline of knowing which provocations to ignore—and when ignoring them strengthens, rather than weakens, the path to victory. Putin’s restrained response to the latest U.S. escalation—the seizure of a Russian-flagged tanker in international waters—has…
A few nights ago, I had dinner with a local Dallas restaurateur named Javier Gutierrez, the owner of Javier’s, which has been a legendary local institution since I was a boy. Javier has long struck me as embodying the virtues described in Baldassare Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, published…
Donald Trump has finally done it. Earned the respect of The New York Times and other powerful organs of our state controlled media. CNN unquestioningly parrots the line that “the U.S. runs Venezuela.” So, let’s get this straight- we abducted the leader of another sovereign nation, bombed them, but it wasn’t…
The Con Inc. commentariat celebrates the good news of Jonathan Butcher’s latest book, The Polarization Myth: America’s Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex. Innumerable blurbs from respectable conservatives adorn the book jacket with endorsements of Butcher’s view that America’s cultural and social polarization is merely…
“. . .the Minnesota protests look less like a local eruption and more like the latest deployment of an international revolutionary machine.” —Insurrection Barbie on “X” Chrump, Chrump Chrump. . . . He’s come to occupy the Left’s minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the…
For decades, drug development has been one of the slowest, most expensive, and most failure-prone processes in modern science. Artificial intelligence, however, could break this bottleneck. An experimental drug designed largely by AI has now entered final phase trials in record time and is on track to become…
Seen through the eyes of a naive observer, “Democracy” in Europe is alive and kicking. Regular elections at the local, regional and national levels are being held, there are dozens of political parties and there is a “left” and a “right.” There are debates in national and…
In this column, I will address based on the information available to date the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE federal agent. The liberal-left whore media has attempted to present the narrative that Renee Nicole Good, the mother of a young child, was gratuitously murdered…
International Man: In practically every country, the allowable limit for cash withdrawals and transactions continues to be lowered. Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the real value of these ridiculous limits. Why are governments so intent on phasing out cash? What is really behind this coordinated effort?…
