Eric Swalwell’s world is about to crumble—and he has only himself (and a few too many highballs) to blame. If you’re a sitting US Congressman on the Homeland Security Committee, here’s a pro tip: Don’t get hammered at a Swamp hotspot, run your mouth about government secrets, and ask…
News
Housing: The Foundations of the Middle Class Are Crumbling
Home ownership has been the foundation of middle-class stability and security for so long that it defines middle-class status as much as income. From the end of World War II in 1945 on, the deal was simple: buy a house and you’ll build equity that’s even better than a savings…
The (Uni)Party is Over
The Trump administration, pushed by the Department of Government Efficiency and deployed by the Office of Personnel Management, has sent another email to all federal employees with a normal request to present five tasks accomplished in the last week. It’s an easy task. It takes 5 minutes. In the service…
America as Republic, Not as Empire – Europe’s ‘Sound and Fury’ After Jaw-Dropping Pivots in U.S. Policy
Trump does not buy into the primary lie intended as the glue which holds this entire EU geo-political structure together. The bits are falling into a distinct pattern – a pre-prepared pattern. Defense Secretary Hegseth at the Munich Security Conference gave us four ‘noes’: No to Ukraine in NATO;…
Secession: Why Redrawing U.S. State Borders Makes Politicians So Mad
Over the past five years, 33 counties in Illinois have voted to secede from the state, presumably to either form a new state or join another state. In most of these counties, the voters were given the option to vote yes or no on a ballot question that looked …
RFK Jr. Pauses Multi-Million Dollar Contract to Develop New Covid Vaccine
Clinical trials for a new Covid-19 vaccine were halted after a multi-million contract authorized by the Biden administration to develop the inoculation was paused by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy implemented a 90-day stop-work order on Feb. 21 regarding the HHS contract with…
The Arctic Gambit
Fortress North America: Why the destinies of Canada and the U.S. will be forged in the Arctic. “Fortunately we have such a home, a spacious and unsullied home preserved for us by history — the Russian Northeast Let us give up trying to restore order overseas, keep our grabbing…
Gutting the USAID-Industrial Complex
“The strategy is to delay, postpone, obfuscate, derail.” That was the U.S. Agency for International Development’s approach to protect its autonomy from the president. It had nothing to do with resisting Donald Trump and DOGE—this line was written three decades ago to resist reforms by Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s…
The D.C. Mid-Air Crash: DEI Everywhere
Much has been written about the mid-air collision of an airliner and an Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac off Reagan Washington National Airport. This is among the most congested airspaces in America, yet the Army has, for decades, routed helicopter traffic through it. Because of the subordination of…
The Escapists
An iron law of the universe is the opposite law of liberalism, which states that whatever the left is saying, assume the opposite and you will get close to the truth. It is not a perfect rule in that the opposite is obvious or correct. It is just a good…