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America is a beautiful – and decidedly pluralistic – country. Our education system contains 12,546 locally controlled school districts. Charter schools have gained hundreds of thousands of students in recent years. Private school enrollments are up, and the classical school movement has exploded.   Whether one favors traditional public schools or not, those of us… Continue reading Civics Needs Pluralism | RealClearEducation

As Elon Musk and his tech team urge their fellow Americans to become “domestic auditors” to help rein in federal spending, people have been encouraged to use the Treasury Department’s usaspending.gov website to identify and track government finance. Your go-to source? Guess again, say experts. usaspending.gov But usaspending.gov is wrong on the biggest picture, RealClearInvestigations found.  The total… Continue reading DOGE’s Key Revelation: A Federal Budget Made Into a Maze Impervious to Reform

Above, the “Non-Violence” knotted gun on display at the U.N. and elsewhere. It could also serve as an apt symbol of the Pentagon’s impenetrably twisted bookkeeping.  By Bob Ivry and Jeremy Portnoy, RealClearInvestigationsMarch 3, 2025 To crack down on Pentagon spending, the Defense Department adopted a program in 2015 to track spending on lodging and… Continue reading Why Can’t the Pentagon’s Army of Budget Bean Counters Shoot Straight?

“In the US, voters just loosed a genuine bull into the china shop of the ruling class.” BACKBONE: Maverick Essays in Middle America: Why American Populism Should be Welcomed, Not Feared is a collection of short essays about America’s spine, and everything that entails. Like a backbone, this collection of short essays runs through our… Continue reading The Power of American Originals

The smoke from fire-ravaged Los Angeles has cleared, but a thick pall clouds the funding for fire recovery efforts. While insurance companies, landowners and taxpayers will surely foot most of the bill, it is likely that money solicited by Mayor Karen Bass through a campaign finance loophole will play a role. This wildfire is in… Continue reading California’s Other Dodgers: Pols Exploiting a Golden Gateway to Murky ‘Behested Payments’

Shown, the Silent Sam statue at the University of North Carolina, before and after the Confederate symbol was toppled in 2018 (below left and above). Things have changed: Alumni foes of campus radicals are getting organized, raising money, and fighting back. By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigstionsFebruary 19, 2025 In the plummy world of alumni relations, where… Continue reading The Rebel Campus Boosters Rising Up Against Wokeness on Campus

By Paul D. Thacker, RealClearInvestigationsFebruary 19, 2025 President Trump often trumpets American exceptionalism, but an executive order scheduled to take effect this week seeks to uproot a longstanding policy not found in much of the developed world: granting citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil. Under his order, the babies would,… Continue reading Why the Argument for Birthright Citizenship Is Not the Slam Dunk Many Say It Is

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Washington, D.C., his meeting with President Donald Trump holds the potential to reshape global geopolitics. This is not just another diplomatic visit—it is a historic moment to secure India’s rightful place as a global power. For decades, India has aspired to greater leadership in world affairs. That moment… Continue reading U.S.-India Must Become Closer With Trump and Modi

Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”  Jeffrey Veltri: Accused of retaliation. LinkedIn But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant… Continue reading A Weaponized FBI: It’s Real, Whistleblowers Testify, Boasting Scars to Prove It