Capturing Maduro proves it: Trump’s foreign policy is isolation-ish

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January 12, 2026

Capturing Maduro proves it: Trump’s foreign policy is isolation-ish

Critics call it regime change. The White House calls it securing America’s backyard. When U.S. forces captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro this past weekend, the operation defied easy categorization. It was neither the attempted nation-building that destabilized Iraq and Afghanistan, nor a retreat from the world stage. It was something else: the most dramatic demonstration […]

AirPods are the horse blinders of modern life

Walk through the streets of Washington, D.C., and you will notice a curious uniform: white AirPods or black noise-cancelling over-the-ear headphones. These accessories announce, before a word is ever spoken, do not approach. We are living in the most connected era in human history, yet a recent study by the Chamber of Commerce ranked Washington, […]

The woke mob just canceled a star musician in Tennessee

There is a legitimate debate as to whether taxpayers should fund cultural institutions, such as the arts and music. For now, the broad consensus is yes. But there’s an implicit agreement: these institutions exist to serve the public and not a radical political agenda. That framework has been under assault around the country for years. In Tennessee in 2020, the woke […]

Grok, can you stop putting women in bikinis?

Men could use artificial intelligence to help cure cancer. Instead, they turn everything into pornography. This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, of course, but thanks to some men on the internet, no woman is safe from the perverted digital hands of AI. Many feminists and libertarians argue that pornography is acceptable or even empowering when all […]

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