If you were to believe reporting from The New York Times—which is an increasingly unwise idea—the Trump administration is diverting the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from poor and minority communities that face “disproportionately high levels of pollution.” But if you scratch the surface even a bit, you find that what’s really being […]
Postscript and Clarification: I originally wrote the following post in an ironic tone. Reviewing reader comments, I realize that I should have made this clearer. To clarify: I believe that Byron, Travis, Roosevelt, and Ambrose Bierce were all suffering from 19th century romantic nationalism. As Byron himself ultimately understood, his misadventure in Greece was comically absurd. […]
Back when conservatives championed ideas rather than outsourced their thinking to their leader, they touted a simple saying: “Ideas have consequences.” Conservatives also understood that while people should always be free to make their own choices based on those ideas, they should be responsible for the consequences of their decisions. By all means, follow the advice […]
I get into too many conversations with family and friends regarding the Ukraine war. Too many because they are so tiresome. Often my interlocutors base their opinions solely on facts learned from only CNN, BBC, etc. I ask, do you believe Zelensky that Ukraine has 1/10th the casualties of Russia when Russia has extreme advantages […]
A brief excerpt from Wednesday’s 11,000-word Indiana Supreme Court decision in Turner v. State, written by Justice Derek Molter: This is a case about a good guy with a gun shooting a bad guy with a gun when the only choices were to shoot or be shot. Antonio Turner was one of three students studying […]
Trump and Zelensky have agreed on a cease fire, a pause in the conflict. How does this benefit Russia? It doesn’t. The Ukrainian military is collapsing on all fronts. 86% of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk has been retaken, and the remaining Ukrainian forces are surrounded. What remains of the Ukrainian military is retreating from the few kilometers […]
The case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and green card holder who was detained by immigration officials after participating in anti-Israel demonstrations on campus, has now become big national news. Those defending the government’s efforts to deport Khalil argue that the authorities have the legal right to deport a noncitizen whose activism […]
Cartoon depicting congressional debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. (NA) Media reports indicate the Trump Administration may be about to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a tool to facilitate deportation: The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge […]
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Thanks, Bruce McLane. Shifting the goal posts.. they are NOT done. pic.twitter.com/E9eVEYTuG8 — Boone Cutler (@boonecutler) March 10, 2025 The pos Read More Article from LewRockwell