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  • The Democrats’ path out of the wilderness

    Perhaps CNN’s Jake Tapper will reveal all in his forthcoming book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, It’s Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” But that seems unlikely given how complicit he and his legacy media colleagues were in dismissing the president’s obvious decline. If they had their way, Biden would be embarking now on his second term.
  • The week ahead in economic data
    This week’s economic calendar is packed with key reports and influential Fed speeches – and all eyes will be on the Fed’s decision at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
  • Trump and the economy: Opportunities and risks
    Those regular Americans elected President Trump because they remember the success they enjoyed in his first term, and they rightly believe in his ability to lift America out of Biden’s created quagmire. Now, the country needs all of Washington, from the White House to DOGE to Congress, to embrace this economic mission with the highest possible urgency. 
  • A little rain
    I wonder if this is what it's like to work inside a magic bubble. The rain pours down outside and beats on the glazed roof. It falls in wind-driven sheets. 
  • Green bean cans and eternity
    Where does a person go after death? We need to understand one thing from the beginning. 
  • Securing American agriculture
    Last week, I introduced the Securing American Agriculture Act with Democrat Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. Our bipartisan, bicameral bill will bolster and protect our food and agricultural supply chains. It will also reduce our reliance on foreign adversaries. 
  • Some DOGE and other wishes
    It is difficult to find an exact number of federal workers fired by DOGE thus far. What with judges overturning executive branch decisions (how is that even possible?) and general confusion in the reporting, one can make the case for perhaps 200,000.  
  • DOGE: Since when is saving taxpayers’ money a bad thing?
    The system is broken. DOGE is one part of the answer. The time for partisan politics, TikTok videos, and “paddle” protests is over. Democrats should lead, follow, or get out of the way.
  • A new beltway mystery: Follow the Biden EPA money
    When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the president's envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? The task was complicated by the fact most of the money – $20 billion – would go to just eight nonprofits that, like the Environmental Protection Agency itself, had never handled such gargantuan grants.
  • Jay Bhattacharya’s confirmation hearing: A masterclass in why the NIH needs reform
    If America is serious about reversing the chronic disease epidemic and restoring public trust in science, confirming Jay Bhattacharya as NIH director is not just the right move — it’s essential.
  • Forget the negative income tax, how about a negative tariff?
    With negative tariffs, Americans would be even more inundated with the world’s plenty, and the reward would be freedom to do what they do best. In academic terms, imagine never having to take a math class again, or imagine always having to take math classes. The latter is the tariff equivalent.
  • The AI integration crisis: A special operator’s view from the tactical edge
    Our adversary’s vessels, equipped with edge-processed AI systems, could analyze and react to pattern changes in seconds. Meanwhile, our “advanced” AI capabilities required reaching back to a server farm thousands of miles away. By the time we completed our manual cross-referencing of five different intelligence feeds, the target had vanished into the cluttered maritime environment.
  • The COVID-era smearing – and resurrection – of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
    Many of Dr. Bhattacharya’s scientific concerns about the efficacy of lockdowns and mask mandates have been corroborated. Fauci, meanwhile, accepted a pardon from President Biden, protecting him from COVID-related offenses dating back to 2014, the year he started funding research at a Wuhan, China, lab that U.S. intelligence agencies now believe probably started the pandemic.
  • On the Moraine, Part IV
    We stayed in the tenant house on McNary Road for several weekends, waiting for the renter in the “bigger house” to move out. I have no idea what those arrangements were, I was a little kid. They must have been satisfactory, for I never heard my parents discussing them.
  • A sermon on Luke 9:28-36: The Transfiguration of Jesus
    Have you ever walked a prayer labyrinth or even know what it is? It is a one-way path in a circle that leads to a center spot where you open your heart to listen to God. It is a prayer where you empty your mind of all daily cares so God can talk with you. 
  • Grim lessons from Phase One of the Israel-Hamas deal
    On Oct. 7, 2023, the jihadists killed some 1,200 persons, mostly civilians, among them more than 30 Americans, and kidnapped 251 persons, mostly civilians, among them as many as 12 Americans.
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