Category: Intel

When President Biden’s supporters attacked him for describing the man who allegedly murdered Georgia co-ed Laken Reilly as an “illegal,” they shined a light on one of the most contested words in American politics. Laken Riley: High-profile victim. Wikipedia The progressive push to describe border crossers as undocumented or unauthorized can also serve to downplay… Continue reading The Many Ways a Porous Border Means Crime Without Boundaries

The Left is running a full-scale effort to reshape consumers’ lives using every tool at their disposal, be that through regulations, product bans, or ideological lawsuits.  A key part of this campaign is public nuisance lawsuits that seek to impose billions of dollars in liability on disfavored industries for “causing” amorphous, nationwide (or worldwide) problems… Continue reading The Modern Public Nuisance Movement Is a Growing Threat

On March 23rd in 1775, Patrick Henry rose at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, to urge his countrymen to arm themselves for the Revolutionary War. Four weeks before the battle of Lexington and Concord, Henry saw the future: “The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of… Continue reading Give Me an Engaged Electorate

Above, President Cyril Ramaphosa next to a statue of Nelson Mandela in Cape Town in 2020. His new genocide case against Israel in international court looks to some like South Africa’s latest example of honoring the human rights icon’s legacy in the breach. By Toby Dershowitz and Max Friedman, RealClearInvestigationsMarch 18, 2024 Shortly before South… Continue reading Friends in Low Places? Behind South Africa’s New Genocide Case Against Israel

In “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” investigative journalist Peter Schweizer continues his groundbreaking scrutiny of what he portrays as the wide and deliberately subversive influence of China on American politics and society. His reporting — ranging from the deadly fentanyl trade to America’s social justice movement to… Continue reading The Silence of U.S. Senate Hopeful Adam Schiff on China: ‘Blood Money’ Book Excerpt

The reality of a Trump-Biden rematch has provoked a torrent of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the mainstream media. One article after another had declared the 2020 redux as the matchup Americans “don’t want” and are “least excited about,” with one pollster describing it as a “cruel joke.” All of this consternation highlights one… Continue reading We Shouldn’t Be This Invested In a Presidential Election

Abigail Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up opens with an epigraph quoting Lana Del Rey’s song “Born to Die.” Lana’s lyrics (sometimes love is not enough / and the road gets tough / I don’t know why) are perhaps apt as an anthem for people around my age. Despite being… Continue reading There’s a Therapist Under Ocean Blvd

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – Ben Franklin As of May of 2020, more than 40 million Americans had filed for unemployment. The 40 million represented one quarter of the U.S. workforce. There’s a tendency even now for people to say that… Continue reading TikTok Paranoia, Brought To You By the Architects of the Corona-Lockdowns

The President may be proud of “Bidenomics,” with its massive, seismic transformation in the size and scope of government, but to voters, it is raw pain. Like a runaway train that has smashed into a small town’s railyard, everywhere you look, no part of the life we knew remains as it was before. Our life… Continue reading Bidenomics Versus the American Family

The future of the controversial classical education movement will be showcased later this month when Columbia University senior lecturer Roosevelt Montás is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at a national symposium hosted by Great Hearts, the biggest classical charter network. Roosevelt Montás: Signaling classical education’s effort to diversify.  Columbia U. Princeton University Press The… Continue reading When Classical Learning Meets Public Education, the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic