Everything Looks Like a Nail When You Own a Trillion-Dollar Hammer

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Eisenhower didn’t warn America about a foreign army. He warned us about ourselves. A five-star general looked into the future and cautioned that a permanent military, a permanent defense industry, and a permanent government bureaucracy could become so intertwined that only an “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” could keep them in check. Sixty-five years later, we spend roughly a trillion dollars a year on national defense, the Pentagon still can’t earn a clean financial audit, and many Americans know more about celebrity gossip than federal spending. The question isn’t whether Eisenhower was right. The question is whether we’re still the alert and knowledgeable citizens he believed liberty required.

‘STICK IT OUT’: GOP senator says US action against Iran needed to force change

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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., discusses GOP efforts to pass the SAVE America Act before Congress’ August recess and the United States resuming a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on ‘The Bottom Line.’

The Clash Over Immigration, Part 3

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As we approach another election, the immigration debate will intensify. The competing factions will ramp up their influence campaigns hoping to gain our support. These marketing efforts have and will include real stories of hardship, abuse and criminality. The stories are likely true. The difficulty is they engage emotions over critical analysis diverting us from …

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To Save Social Security Retirement, Stop Giving Disability Payments To Healthy People, Transfer Disability Fund To Retirement Fund

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To Save Social Security Retirement, Stop Giving Disability Payments To Healthy People, Transfer Disability Fund To Retirement Fund

One thing I noticed during my 34 years (1986 to 2020) practicing law in Oregon, if you knew how to play the game, non-disabled people could “qualify” for monthly Social Security Disability benefits which, if one timed it right, would guarantee lifelong monthly payments more than the person would receive as a retiree. Share STEP …

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Exxon Lawyer Joins DOJ. The Green Panic Brigade Loses Its Mind.

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America is about to need more electricity than at any time in generations. AI, reshored manufacturing, data centers, and national security don’t run on hashtags—they run on abundant, reliable energy. So when a veteran ExxonMobil attorney joins the Justice Department, the usual professional panic merchants act like civilization is ending. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy. Maybe it’s just common sense. If America wants to outbuild China instead of outsourcing its future, we’d better start hiring people who know how to keep the lights on.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn’t really concerned about legality until it seemed like he would get caught!

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The credentialed media rarely tell us outright lies, but sometimes you have to look pretty closely to find the parts they don’t want for you to know. From this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer:

Getting ‘legal status’ in America is harder than most people think. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE before he could.

A resident of the U.S. for 35 years, the construction worker was fatally shot by ICE agents while still trying to navigate the nation’s arcane immigration system.

by Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist | Monday, July 13, 2026 | 6:01 AM EDT

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Tuesday in Houston. He arrived in the U.S. from Mexico 35 years ago, built a construction business, and became one of five people killed by federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s plan of mass deportation.

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The Clash Over Immigration, Part 2

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History is a continuum, an endless stream where the past informs the present, and the present shapes the future. Consequently, the historical record helps us interpret today’s heated immigration debates and chart a course forward. In Part One of this series, we reviewed two recent immigration flash points – the SAVE Act and the partial …

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Lindsey Graham, a profile in courage

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Senator Lindsey Graham died this weekend from a heart attack, two days after his 71st birthday. He left behind no wife, no children and not much of a fortune—at best $3 million after 33 years in Congress.

But he bequeathed to the American people a fair and impartial Supreme Court that had the boldness to take on the powers of the federal bureaucracy (West Virginia v. EPA) and return to the states powers previous courts and Congress had stolen (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization).

“21st Century ROAD to Housing” Act is a Highway to Socialist Hell

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The Republican part of the bi-partisan housing bill passed (Senate: 85-5, House: 358-32) is typically Republican. Clueless. Short-sighted. Un-principled. Needless spending the Nation into bankruptcy. Un-Constitutional. Foolish beyond contempt. Enabling the Democrat road to Socialism.