Category: Intel

I was in Florida last week, the day Tim Kaine attacked Pete Hegseth during his confirmation hearings. Kaine is the type of guy who doesn’t know what a “first down” is. Hegseth is a bad ass, highly decorated Army officer who served in combat roles in Iraq and Afghanistan. My phone was blowing-up all day… Continue reading Who Is More Noble: Tim Kaine or Pete Hegseth?

Above, President Trump brandishes a sword to cut a cake on Inauguration Day. But cutting government is no piece of cake — and he has what some might call a terrible swift habit of sacking federal inspectors general (IGs) who could help him. By Bob Ivry, RealClearInvestigationsJanuary 23, 2025 COVID-19 emergency relief money, which began… Continue reading Can a Sabre-Wielding Trump Show Mercy to His Fiscal Watchdogs This Time?

Martin Luther King, Jr. said the goal of the civil rights movement should be to turn an enemy into a friend. It can be done, he said, because people aren’t simply good or evil. “There is something within human nature that can respond to goodness,” King said. “So that a Jesus of Nazareth or a… Continue reading Did Martin Luther King, Jr. Convert His Enemies?

Following his re-inauguration, Donald Trump will face the central moral question posed by Lord of the Rings. Generations after his death, J.R.R. Tolkien’s quandary will again confront a great leader. Over his 2024 campaign, President Trump promised to rollback Joe Biden’s so-called “equity” agenda of universal racial preferences. He also promised to rollback a century of… Continue reading Donald Trump Faces Boromir’s Test

Writing about antitrust law recently, the excellent Holman Jenkins observed that “At best it’s a criminal waste of talent. At worst, it’s deeply worrisome that any law school graduate aspires to participate in an intellectually corrupt shakedown machine that exists primarily to keep itself employed.” Would it that more would apply Jenkins’s antitrust analysis to… Continue reading Our National Security Calls for Trump to Impede the TikTok Ban

The energy policy of the incoming Trump administration seems as concise as it is clear: Slash domestic energy costs under the mantra, popularized in 2008 by GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, of “Drill, baby, drill!” While a RealClearInvestigations canvass of energy experts suggests many of them foresee long-term benefits in that approach, it’s less clear to… Continue reading It’s ‘Drill, Baby, Drill,’ Yet Time to ‘Chill, Baby, Chill’ on Lower Prices

North Carolina’s legislature recently passed a Congressional Term Limits resolution in bipartisan fashion. The Tar Heel state is the third one in 2024 (joining Louisiana and Tennessee) to make the historic leap.  Voter momentum favors limiting the amount of time those elected to Congress can serve. Which is a crucial step toward better times ahead.… Continue reading North Carolina Voters Confirm Growing National Momentum for Term Limits

The Biden administration is formally considering commuting the sentence of the convicted felon who stole and leaked incoming President Trump’s tax records along with those of thousands of other taxpayers, in the biggest tax data heist in U.S. history. Littlejohn (top photo) leaked Trump’s and Elon Musk’s taxes … Pool Getty Images North America … and those… Continue reading Clemency Request ‘Pending’ for Leaker of Trump’s and Others’ Taxes

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” This aphorism appears in Meditations, a collection of philosophical musings written by Marcus Aurelius, a 2nd century Roman emperor. Aurelius is considered one of the less tyrannical, even just rulers of the Roman Empire — and he is portrayed as such by the… Continue reading Who Should We Emulate? | RealClearBooks

Upon the hills in LA where dreams are sown every day,The fiery winds have fiercely blown.Torn so many from their home.A golden land, now wreathed in flame,Which government is to blame.Where whispers cry and scream Help us we’re all aflame. Homes and lives collapse to embered dust,Steel and stone once grand betray their trust.Families with… Continue reading LA Inferno | RealClearBooks