Two Wings, One Bird: How We Traded a Republic for a Revenue Machine

We like to pretend we live in a fierce two-party system. Red vs. blue. Left vs. right. Cable news gladiators screaming like it’s the Super Bowl of righteousness. But step back far enough and the illusion fades. What you actually see is one bird with two wings—and that bird doesn’t care about your values, your vote, or your virtue. It worships one thing: money.

“The 51st Star We Never Voted On: How Israel Became America’s Problem Child”

Let’s dispense with the polite fiction. The United States has 50 states on paper and one premium subscription state overseas that gets all the benefits with none of the awkward obligations like paying federal taxes or pretending to listen to Washington. Welcome to Israel, America’s unofficial 51st state — the only one close enough to lecture Congress but far enough away that we pretend it’s “just an ally.”

Promises, Pivots, and Surveillance: How Trump Went From FISA Foe to FISA Friend

Campaign Trump told voters the surveillance state was dangerous and abused. Governing Trump is preserving the surveillance state with adjustments. Campaign Trump framed FISA as existential corruption. Governing Trump treats it as infrastructure in need of maintenance.

I Have a Few ICE Reform Ideas

According to a recent CBS News survey, a bipartisan majority of Americans would prefer that ICE use less harsh tactics in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Being ever responsive to the wishes of Americans – so long as Americans wish the Democrats to remain in power – Senator Chuck “The Grillmaster” Schumer is thinking about a repeat of “shutdown theater.”

The left are apoplectic that Democrats ended the filibuster

  The leadership of Hamas kept the futile, and worse than futile, war they started going for two long years, when they had clearly lost in the first few months. They played their only point of leverage, the hostages, for two years, until only twenty were left alive, and multiple thousands of the ‘Palestinians’ they …

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