In defense of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

April 24, 2025

In defense of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

In recent weeks, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been the target of many criticisms and attacks about his competence. His opponents will have you believe they are condemning him because of errors he made since he’s been in office. However, those are meant to distract from the primary reason behind Hegseth’s criticisms: jealousy and […]

Trump must retaliate against EU’s tech extortion racket

The European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, issued vast fines against two U.S. tech giants on Wednesday. Apple has been told it must pay a $568 million fine, and Meta that it must pay a $227 million fine. The EU claims these penalties are about protecting consumer rights. That is a lie. These fines […]

Karen Bass wants to weaken LAPD to fix a self-inflicted budget crisis

Los Angeles is such a poorly run city that Mayor Karen Bass has to weaken the city’s police department even further for budgetary purposes. Bass announced that her proposed budget would include around 1,650 layoffs and the elimination of another roughly 1,000 unfilled jobs as the city tries to make up a deficit of around […]

‘Warfare’ is a zoomed-in view of combat stripped to its essentials

When I settled into my plush theater seat to view Warfare on its opening weekend, I had done no research about the film. I anticipated the standard Global War on Terrorism fare: good guys and bad ones in an epic struggle watered down for the palates of Americans desperate for a denouement, and maybe a […]

The State Department needs reform, but killing its Africa bureau only benefits China

The Trump administration reportedly is preparing to halve the State Department’s budget and, in one of the most far-reaching reorganizations in the department’s history, both close nearly every U.S. Embassy in Africa and eliminate the State Department’s nearly 70-year-old Bureau of African Affairs. In its place, the State Department would empower a special envoy who […]

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Destructive California policies switch from Left to Right

The idea of purging the homeless, through initiatives such as drug decriminalization, is no longer in fashion. That doesn’t stop the ideological pendulum from brushing against it on the other side. This arc is evident in California, where public policy is a mess of incompetence and overcorrection. That is expected in so blue and overgoverned […]

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