One of the great ironies of any movement hoping to build a utopia is that as it gains success it begins to self-destruct. Coalitions that are carefully built up around common causes begin to fray, and the contempt each has for the ultimate vision of the other generates friction at first and ultimately spawns conflict...
California Democrats continue spending money like drunken sailors on shore leave. Yesterday, Gov. Newsom signed a bill to cover a massive shortfall caused by the expansion of the state’s Medicaid service (known as Medi-Cal) to illegal immigrants. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday that plugs an unexpected budget gap to fund Medi-Cal through late...
Has the last call come at the federal trough for public broadcasters? It depends on whether Congress acts to take the first steps outlined by DOGE, even though it may amount to baby steps at the moment. At issue are funds already appropriated by Congress for various agencies and purposes. The US DOGE Service has...
I am not one who gets all hot and bothered about the space tourism industry. I don’t have the kind of money that would make a trip above the Kármán Line affordable, and if I were in the mood to admit it, I would be nervous about sitting atop a controlled explosion to get there....
There’s a 60-foot wide strip of land that runs through three states along the length of the United States border known as the ‘Roosevelt Reservation.’ The federal and tribal lands that form the 632-mile long strip account for about a third of the 2000-mile long US-Mexico border. All the rest is Texas. Teddy Roosevelt, pragmatic...
Bet heavily on nothing, except a brief publicity tour for Senator Chris Van Hollen. The Maryland Democrat demanded a meeting with Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele during his state visit with Donald Trump, and got snubbed. Not that it would have mattered much; Bukele scoffed at the idea of sending Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Abrego Garcia back...
Well, these are words I never expected to hear on live TV, although it is nice to get a confirmation of the fact that CNN, at least as an organization, does not hate America. It must just be a lot of their reporters who do. Individually. Not as an organized group. Dana Bash has the...
As John wrote yesterday evening, Harvard declared that it would not “surrender its independence” after the Trump administration demanded significant changes in policies relating to the anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns on its campus. Hours later, they received good news … … the White House thinks Harvard should be independent as well: Harvard University said Monday it...
With a name like “rare earths” you would think that the metals in this category would be, you know, rare. They aren’t, though. They are actually pretty abundant and are even more so, given that we don’t use them in great quantity compared to other metals like copper, iron, or tin. What they are is...
Back in the summer of 2017 a shocking murder took place in Stockton, California. A woman named Angi Terlouw was stabbed 21 times and her body was found stuffed in a trash bin. The next day, police arrested her boyfriend, Daniel Winkler. According to the Stockton Police Department, officers received a report about 9:45 a.m....
This is a cheerful one for your evening nightcap. Even though it is about a helicopter crash, all’s well that ends well, which hasn’t happened a lot lately. Most importantly, it didn’t happen in the United States, which is one less thing our Transportation Secretary has to worry about. Now for the story as the...
A 40-year-old man who identifies as a “queer scientist” has been charged with two separate acts of arson in New Mexico. One targeted a Tesla outlet and the other the GOP headquarters in Albuquerque. [Jamison] Wagner is a registered Democrat and supporter of a variety of left-wing causes, according to his social media postings. According...
I’m going to gloss over all the criticism of Trump’s tariffs from the left because, well, so few of the critiques are made in good faith. There are liberal free traders out there. Establishment economists who have consistent theories of how the economy works and actually believe what they say–yes, such people DO exist, even...
“This is an agenda I don’t understand,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tells Sandra Smith this morning. It’s that lack of understanding that is itself difficult to understand. The source of this radical push to obliterate sexual identity has a clear pedigree and a clear purpose. And the reluctance of even the more pugilistic Republicans...
Harvard has been under increasing pressure from the Trump administration this month. Back on April 3rd, the administration sent a letter making it clear that Harvard’s federal funding was contingent on the university’s willingness to make changes including the elimination of DEI policies. The Trump administration demanded on Thursday that Harvard eliminate diversity, equity, and...
