Why lame-duck Democrats should join Republicans to safeguard free speech

December 02, 2024

Why lame-duck Democrats should join Republicans to safeguard free speech

President-elect Donald Trump’s surprising popular vote victory reflected many things, including nostalgia for low inflation and peace in the Middle East, distrust of establishment elites, and the kingmaker role of one antiestablishment titan, X master Elon Musk. Yet pundits have ignored empirical evidence that the free speech voters Musk tried to mobilize may have made […]

Sanctuary is a corrupt bargain

The word “corrupt” stresses a loss of moral integrity or probity causing betrayal of principle or sworn obligations. Sanctuary for illegal immigrants, protecting them from arrest by immigration authorities, is corrupt in concept, corrupt in effect, and illegal. Take California as a good example of a bad practice found nationwide. It is the largest and […]

As usual, Joe Biden uses his political power to absolve Hunter of responsibility for his crimes

President Joe Biden has spent his half-century of political power to liberate his son from the consequences of his infractions, so why would the final full month of the president’s lame duck tenure prove any different? After months of promising he would “abide by the jury’s decision” to eventually convict Hunter Biden of various tax […]

Make babies great again

There’s something unique about the still-forming Trump 2.0 administration: its fecundity. The average number of children per family in the United States is under two children, but in the new administration, the average is far higher. President-elect Donald Trump himself has five children, and his vice president is a young father of three, who has […]

Trump can fix Medicaid

Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, the entitlement that provides health coverage to roughly 1 in 5 people. Requiring beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or attend school as a condition of receiving coverage and block-granting federal Medicaid funds to the states are under consideration. But with complete control of Congress and the White House, Republicans […]

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At 94, Clint Eastwood strikes again: ‘Juror #2’ delivers a gripping moral dilemma

“Is the truth always justice?” inquires a taciturn Nicholas Hoult in Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Juror #2. This prescient question lies at the heart of Eastwood’s new work, a courtroom drama and character study that is his best in over a decade, pondering a deep moral dilemma of Dostoyevskian proportions. Hoult plays Justin Kemp, a recovering […]

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