If Columbia University thought it could agree to Trump administration demands and then quietly tell its own insiders that it had no intention of following through on any of them, they are probably going to be mistaken. The end of this may not be some handshake deal in which Columbia promises to be better and...
With all that’s been going on in the world as far as trade wars, tariffs, and China, China, China, there hasn’t been much in the news about Panama. That doesn’t mean nothing’s been happening, though. In fact, Panama is turning into one more giant burr under Xi’s Mongolian camel blanket and Trump has to be...
The United States has been tracking serious cyberattacks on US infrastructure for years. Those attacks are hardly minor–the intrusions threaten all our computer-linked infrastructure, which in the great Venn Diagram of life means basically all our electrical generation, water distribution, pipelines, power plants, communications, and even medical systems. Computers and software make life more efficient...
Among the most frequently asked questions over the last few weeks concern the abuse of injunction power by federal judges in district courts. The top question: How can one judge in a defined district issue orders that bind the executive branch across the country? That’s closely followed by: Is this happening to Trump more than...
China’s kind of in a pissy mood about the trap Trump sprung on them and spent a little time mocking his motivations for doing so the other day. The CCP put out a nifty little AI piece illustrating what their vision of the industries China now dominates would look like if returned to the United...
By now there are a ton of reasons why the left hates Elon Musk. His role in DOGE and defunding the illicit and evil NGOs and threatening the sinecures of leftists like Stacey Abrams tops the list, but Musk turned into their Emmanuel Goldstein long before Elon hooked up with Trump. Jonathan Turley, whose current...
A year ago Congress passed a law giving TikTok’s Chinese owner a deadline to divest itself from the company or face it being shut down in the US. After a court battle which TikTok lost, that deadline for a sale was set to be Joe Biden’s last day in office. But Biden decided to drop...
I am convinced that Donald Trump always intended to pause his tariff increases on most countries at some point in his strategy to remake the international system of trade. However, I do think that the timing of that pause was somewhat driven by what was happening in the markets, just not the stock market. It...
Have you grown tired of the winning yet? Especially after the past week? Yesterday, the media narrative on the House was “Republicans in disarray!” Today, Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump corralled their caucus to pass a renegotiated budget plan that will allow Trump’s tax cuts and spending reductions to pass through reconciliation: The House...
This is a bold move. Then again, if a terrorist organization was ever going to try such a gambit in a Western country? Other than maybe Germany, the United Kingdom would be my choice for ‘best chance of a successful conclusion to the effort’ as the sympathies and priorities of officials and the judiciary in...
The FBI certainly has come a long way from surrounding pro-life activists with a dozen armed agents in dawn raids over a sidewalk dispute, eh? All it took for a renewed focus on real law enforcement was a new president … and a new crop of psychotic morons rage-posting on social media. Last night, Bill...
Hours before Trump announced his pause on tariffs, he posted a clear signal to everybody that it was a great time to buy stocks. ( @realDonaldTrump – Truth Social Post )( Donald J. Trump – Apr 09, 2025, 9:37 AM ET ) THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT pic.twitter.com/QLMJkjARw1 — Donald J. Trump ????????...
Time to play The Dog That Didn’t Bark. In this version of the media game, we try to find that strangely silent and altogether unmentioned dog, who had been barking plenty until yesterday. The Wall Street Journal did a deep dive last night into Donald Trump’s decision to pause ‘reciprocal’ tariffs against 75 trading partners...
A long time ago, in a political galaxy far, far away, I was a Policy Fellow at Minnesota’s conservative think tank American Experiment, so I have some special pride and affection for the work that Bill Glahn, a current policy fellow, has been doing uncovering the largest COVID-era scandal in the country. He just dropped...
Last week the remnants of the Department of Education sent letters to state leaders across the country requiring them to certify within 10 days that they were compliant with the Trump administration’s view of DEI in schools. As a condition for receiving federal money, the Trump administration is ordering K-12 schools to certify that they...