Charlton Allen

Charlton Allen


  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pronouns

    April 2, 2025

    Sisterhood of the Traveling Pronouns

    Riddle me this: How does someone become the president of a renowned women’s sorority without actually knowing—or caring—what a woman is? It’s like hiring a nudist to run a tailoring shop: the cuts will be too close to the skin...

  • Hijacked Jurisdiction: How District Courts Are Blocking Immigration Enforcement

    March 28, 2025

    Hijacked Jurisdiction: How District Courts Are Blocking Immigration Enforcement

    Immigration law was never meant to run through federal district courts—and that’s no accident. Congress explicitly stripped district courts of jurisdiction over immigration cases because, quite frankly, federal judges have no business mak...

  • Face the Nonsense, Again: Margaret Brennan’s ‘You Should Watch the News’ Moment

    March 26, 2025

    Face the Nonsense, Again: Margaret Brennan’s ‘You Should Watch the News’ Moment

    CBS’s Margaret Brennan had what may be her defining moment—not in a good way—on a recent episode of Face the Nation when Senator Marco Rubio thoroughly outclassed her. The exchange wasn’t only high theater; it was a televised ...

  • Go, Canada! Breaking Up Is Not Hard to Do

    March 25, 2025

    Go, Canada! Breaking Up Is Not Hard to Do

    Canada is finally waking up to a bitterly cold, hard truth: its freeloading days are numbered. The maple syrup cartel isn’t keeping the economy afloat, and the national security situation is downright embarrassing. Justin Trudeau is about to hi...

  • Mahmoud Khalil: The Lawfare Circus Delayed, but the Show Must Go On

    March 23, 2025

    Mahmoud Khalil: The Lawfare Circus Delayed, but the Show Must Go On

    The activist lawyer playbook is well-worn, but we get a case study in legal acrobatics every so often—a perfect example of just how far they’ll go to manipulate the system and shield their radical clients from consequences. Enter Mahmoud ...

  • Shalom, Mahmoud!

    March 21, 2025

    Shalom, Mahmoud!

    America has many traditions—apple pie, baseball, and, thanks to Columbia University, mass-producing trust-fund revolutionaries with a soft spot for Hamas. But as it turns out, supporting terrorist organizations while enjoying a cushy student li...

  • A Doctor, a Terrorist Funeral, and the Media’s Selective Outrage Machine

    March 19, 2025

    A Doctor, a Terrorist Funeral, and the Media’s Selective Outrage Machine

    The media frenzy over Dr. Rasha Alawieh’s deportation is a textbook case of manufactured outrage—a calculated ploy to recast a routine immigration enforcement action as a grand human rights crusade and a constitutional crisis—all in...

  • How Mexico Became China’s Trojan Horse in U.S. Trade

    March 17, 2025

    How Mexico Became China’s Trojan Horse in U.S. Trade

    The second Trump administration has refocused America’s attention on trade, tariffs, and national security—a conversation long overdue. But while pundits and policymakers wrangle over China’s economic warfare and Mexico’s grow...

  • The Slush Fund Nobody Voted For

    March 15, 2025

    The Slush Fund Nobody Voted For

    Washington is an empire of unaccountable money. The real power in this town isn’t in campaign speeches or election-night victories—it’s in the quiet flow of taxpayer dollars into the right hands, far from public view. And while Amer...

  • NATO, Ukraine, and the War Hawks’ Pixie Dust Playbook

    March 14, 2025

    NATO, Ukraine, and the War Hawks’ Pixie Dust Playbook

    The Never-Ending War crowd wants you to believe three things at once: NATO expansion deters aggression—and won’t provoke retaliation. Giving Ukraine de facto NATO security guarantees will protect it—but won’t require A...

  • The USAID Case: Judge Amir Ali’s $2 Billion Defiance Escalates

    March 13, 2025

    The USAID Case: Judge Amir Ali’s $2 Billion Defiance Escalates

    The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to vacate the lower court’s order in the USAID case has sharply divided legal observers—especially conservatives. Some initially dismissed it as a mere procedural hiccup, a fleeting technical matte...

  • The Grand Prince of Kyiv?

    March 9, 2025

    The Grand Prince of Kyiv?

    For years, the Biden-Harris administration and the legacy media have insisted that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a valiant defender of democracy. The narrative has been relentless—from the halls of Congress to the editorial pages of newspapers on both...

  • The Supreme Court Just Greenlit a $2 Billion USAID Power Grab

    March 7, 2025

    The Supreme Court Just Greenlit a $2 Billion USAID Power Grab

    In a breathtaking act of judicial self-aggrandizement, a single district court judge seized control of $2 billion in taxpayer funds—money that the Trump administration had lawfully put on hold. Worse, a narrow 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court ...

  • Schrödinger’s Women’s Sports: Simultaneously Existential and Irrelevant, According to Democrats

    March 6, 2025

    Schrödinger’s Women’s Sports: Simultaneously Existential and Irrelevant, According to Democrats

    For years, Democrats have treated women’s sports like Schrödinger’s cat—both critically important and completely irrelevant, depending on the political agenda of the day. Women’s sports are sacred, untouchable, and a c...

  • Hot takes from President Trump’s address to Congress

    March 5, 2025

    Hot takes from President Trump’s address to Congress

    President Trump’s address to Congress was a masterclass in leadership, political theater, and well-timed traps for the Democrats, who—true to form—walked right into them. Here are my hot takes on the speech, the spectacle, and th...

  • No More Globalist Delusions: Ukraine’s War Strategy Has Failed

    March 4, 2025

    No More Globalist Delusions: Ukraine’s War Strategy Has Failed

    The globalist vision for Ukraine is a fantasy. Washington (although this has changed with President Trump’s inauguration on the policy level), Brussels, and London pretend Kyiv can restore its pre-2014 borders, put Putin on trial, and impose la...

  • Georgetown’s Hamas Family Values

    March 1, 2025

    Georgetown’s Hamas Family Values

    Georgetown University has a problem that goes beyond mere ideological bias and straight into the realm of moral rot. It’s bad enough that the school rolls out the red carpet for convicted terrorists, as we’ve seen with Ribhi Karajah. But ...

  • Land of the Artful Dodgers

    February 28, 2025

    Land of the Artful Dodgers

    California—the state that gave us Hollywood and Poverty Row, tech billionaires and tent cities, and a budget surplus that vanished faster than a Tesla in Ludicrous Mode—recently revealed a record deficit. It’s a place where the weat...

  • Georgetown’s <em>Cura Palestina</em>: Caring for the Whole Palestine

    February 27, 2025

    Georgetown’s Cura Palestina: Caring for the Whole Palestine

    Georgetown University Law Center abandoned the pretense of being a serious institution long ago—and keeps finding new ways to remind us. This is, after all, the same school that claims as an alum the brilliant legal mind hermetically sealed in ...

  • Can Trump Make Europe Relevant Again?

    February 26, 2025

    Can Trump Make Europe Relevant Again?

    Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 essay, “The End of History?” posited that liberal democracy had triumphed as the ultimate form of government, marking an endpoint in humanity’s ideological evolution. While Fukuyama’s thesis captu...

  • No, President Zelenskyy and the EU, you don’t dictate American foreign policy

    February 26, 2025

    No, President Zelenskyy and the EU, you don’t dictate American foreign policy

    American foreign policy is determined in Washington, D.C.—not Kyiv, not Brussels, and certainly not in the corridors of the European Union. President Zelenskyy and the EU elite seem to have forgotten this lesson. The Constitution vests forei...

  • Hail, Columbia! We Who Are About to Divest Thee Say: Pound Salt

    February 23, 2025

    Hail, Columbia! We Who Are About to Divest Thee Say: Pound Salt

    Columbia University—the alma mater of Patrick Buchanan, of all people—has done it again. Not in quantum physics, literature, or even an innovation as groundbreaking as TikTok dance analysis. No, this time, they’ve outdone themselves...

  • Margaret Brennan’s Face-Plant on Free Speech: Welcome to <em>Face the Nonsense</em>

    February 20, 2025

    Margaret Brennan’s Face-Plant on Free Speech: Welcome to Face the Nonsense

    There was a time—before modern journalism became a contest in elite conformity—when invoking Nazi Germany carried a certain weight. There was an unspoken rule: unless you were discussing genocide, actual brownshirts, or totalitarianism in...

  • Supersizing the Curriculum: The University of Alabama’s Big, Fat Philosophy Class

    February 19, 2025

    Supersizing the Curriculum: The University of Alabama’s Big, Fat Philosophy Class

    Move over, Socrates. Step aside, Descartes. The University of Alabama has ushered in a new era of philosophical enlightenment that doesn’t merely ponder the meaning of life but demands we finally confront the great, unspoken tyranny of our t...

  • Not Your Grandfather’s Foreign Aid

    February 18, 2025

    Not Your Grandfather’s Foreign Aid

    The Democrats and legacy media want Americans to believe that the debate over the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is about lifesaving humanitarian aid—food, medical supplies, and disaster relief. They don’t w...

  • The USAID–Internews Media Cartel:

    February 15, 2025

    The USAID–Internews Media Cartel:

    If an obscure nonprofit received hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars, trained thousands of journalists, influenced media outlets worldwide, and quietly scrubbed its leadership and key records from the internet—wouldn’t you want ...

  • USAID’s Samantha Power: From journalist to global power broker—without accountability

    February 14, 2025

    USAID’s Samantha Power: From journalist to global power broker—without accountability

    Samantha Power’s tenure as head of USAID was just the latest chapter in a meteoric rise that defies traditional foreign policy credentials. A former journalist with no formal diplomatic or military background, she ascended rapidly—firs...

  • Boiler Up? No, kids—LAWYER UP

    February 13, 2025

    Boiler Up? No, kids—LAWYER UP

    Some young radicals think life is one endless undergraduate seminar, where federal laws and the laws of physics are just oppressive constructs waiting to be deconstructed by a sufficiently outraged sophomore. That type was on full display last wee...

  • Liz Cheney’s never-ending farewell tour: now featuring JD Vance

    February 12, 2025

    Liz Cheney’s never-ending farewell tour: now featuring JD Vance

    If there’s one thing more tedious than a Liz Cheney op-ed, it’s the sound of Liz Cheney announcing—again—that she’s taking her toys and going home. Except she never quite goes home, does she? Instead, she takes her grim,...

  • Liz Cheney’s never-ending farewell tour: now featuring Elon Musk

    February 11, 2025

    Liz Cheney’s never-ending farewell tour: now featuring Elon Musk

    Just when you think Liz Cheney has finally run out of ways to humiliate herself, she finds a new one. This time, she’s taking a potshot at Elon Musk because her new job is apparently screaming at anyone not on the Manhattan cocktail circuit. ...

  • When Tyrants Hijack Human Rights

    February 7, 2025

    When Tyrants Hijack Human Rights

    One can’t help but see the grim irony in a United Nations event on human rights being held in Hangzhou, a major Chinese city known for its technological hubs, co-hosted by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Perhaps the invitations were...

  • Follow the money: USAID’s $53 million problem

    February 7, 2025

    Follow the money: USAID’s $53 million problem

    John Jay once declared, “Those who own the country ought to govern it.” The citizens of the Republic are its rightful stewards. Yet unelected bureaucrats, operating in the shadows, funneled taxpayer money into high-risk gain-of-functio...

  • USAID: Your tax dollars at work…for Hezbollah?

    February 7, 2025

    USAID: Your tax dollars at work…for Hezbollah?

    The Biden administration’s reckless foreign aid policies have once again come under scrutiny—this time for approving a $50 million USAID grant to three Lebanese universities: the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanese American Univ...

  • Tulsi Gabbard, the Smear Machine, and the Battle for America’s Intelligence Integrity

    February 6, 2025

    Tulsi Gabbard, the Smear Machine, and the Battle for America’s Intelligence Integrity

    In a time of growing distrust in institutions and blatant political double standards, the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has exposed the festering rot in America’s political and intelligence establishment...

  • Restoring the FBI’s mission: a plan for reform

    February 6, 2025

    Restoring the FBI’s mission: a plan for reform

    The FBI was once the envy of law enforcement agencies worldwide. Now, it’s a cautionary tale. Once trusted to root out corruption, it has become mired in its own. If America is to believe in federal law enforcement again, reform isn’t eno...

  • The USAID boondoggle: fully exposed and unraveling

    February 6, 2025

    The USAID boondoggle: fully exposed and unraveling

    No federal agency epitomizes waste, corruption, and unchecked power like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). President Donald Trump was right to scrutinize this bureaucratic behemoth, and now that he’s back in the White House...

  • Ukraine’s Rare Earth and Realpolitik

    February 5, 2025

    Ukraine’s Rare Earth and Realpolitik

    For years, American foreign aid has followed a simple, unquestioned rule: the United States gives, and a motley assortment of allies and opportunistic nation-states take. Aside from vague diplomatic assurances, billions in taxpayer dollars flow overs...

  • Hillary Clinton’s Hypersonic Hypocrisy: The Missile Tech Scandal She Hopes You Ignore

    February 4, 2025

    Hillary Clinton’s Hypersonic Hypocrisy: The Missile Tech Scandal She Hopes You Ignore

    The next time Hillary Clinton or her media allies wag a finger about “Russian interference,” remember this: Hillary Clinton’s State Department helped arm Russia with hypersonic missile technology. Yes, the same Hillary Clinton wh...

  • RFK Jr. vs. the establishment’s trained seals

    January 31, 2025

    RFK Jr. vs. the establishment’s trained seals

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked into his confirmation hearing expecting a grilling. Instead, he gave a master class in Washington’s most predictable theater—politicians masquerading as public servants while performing for their rea...

  • The end of an ERA: Biden’s parting shot at constitutional governance

    January 31, 2025

    The end of an ERA: Biden’s parting shot at constitutional governance

    For conservatives, Joe Biden's presidency will be remembered as a period marked by sweeping executive overreach, encroaching on the rights of the other branches of government and eroding the liberties of the American people. Among the most egr...

  • Erasing Humanity, One Face at a Time

    January 29, 2025

    Erasing Humanity, One Face at a Time

    The city streets of New York stir early, but recently, in some corners, a disquiet has emerged—not of peace, but of silenced voices. Signs and placards are everywhere in urban America, championing causes as varied as a lost pet, a new bar op...

  • A Sermon on the Mount of Modern Progressivism

    January 25, 2025

    A Sermon on the Mount of Modern Progressivism

    In 11th grade, my teacher quipped that the Episcopal Church was “the Republican Party at prayer.” That clever observation captured the church’s alignment with tradition and conservatism—an alignment that has since faded into h...

  • Biden’s injudicious pardon of Fauci

    January 22, 2025

    Biden’s injudicious pardon of Fauci

    President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci in his final hours as president is nothing short of a brazen political maneuver. Cloaked in the language of gratitude for Fauci’s decades of public service, the pardon shields a...

  • How Can Trump Overcome the Resistance?

    January 16, 2025

    How Can Trump Overcome the Resistance?

    A recent poll confirming that nearly half of federal government employees plan to resist a second Trump administration should alarm anyone who values the integrity of constitutional governance.  For those of us who have served in public off...

  • The Manufactured Outrage Over Pete Hegseth’s Nomination for Secretary of Defense

    January 14, 2025

    The Manufactured Outrage Over Pete Hegseth’s Nomination for Secretary of Defense

    Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, is facing a relentless smear campaign that ranges from the petty to the absurd. Chief among these efforts are allegations from a disgruntled former employee of Concerned Veterans...

  • Misfire in South Carolina college: A lesson in overreach

    January 14, 2025

    Misfire in South Carolina college: A lesson in overreach

    It all started with a Snapchat post: “get blasted.”  In this context, the phrase referred to being criticized or held accountable on social media.  There was no mention of violence, no reference to firearms, and absolu...

  • The Laken Riley Act Must Become Law

    January 10, 2025

    The Laken Riley Act Must Become Law

    Today, January 10, marks what should have been Laken Riley’s 23rd birthday.  Instead of celebrating her life, her family and loved ones are left to mourn her senseless death — an avoidable tragedy caused by an illegal alien with a cr...

  • Fani Willis and the high cost of transparency theater

    January 10, 2025

    Fani Willis and the high cost of transparency theater

    Fulton County, Ga. district attorney Fani Willis may want to add “avoiding accountability” to her résumé.  This week, a scathing court order — entered on January 3 but only recently made public — reveal...

  • Angels, saints, and academia's genderfluid fantasia

    January 5, 2025

    Angels, saints, and academia's genderfluid fantasia

    Boston University has decided to push the academic envelope—or, perhaps more accurately, shove it into a drag bag and parade it down the cobblestone streets of 12th-century Paris. In a feat of scholarly innovation, the university is rolling ...

  • Terror in Las Vegas: Bad symbolism, worse implications

    January 2, 2025

    Terror in Las Vegas: Bad symbolism, worse implications

    The Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is a chilling reminder that we live in a world where symbols matter — and where targeting them sends messages that are as deliberate as they are destructive. E...

  • Terror in New Orleans: When leadership fails, innocents pay

    January 2, 2025

    Terror in New Orleans: When leadership fails, innocents pay

    The attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar drove a truck into a crowd, killing several and injuring dozens, stands as a chilling indictment of America’s compromised law enforcement and national security framewor...

  • The Stakes in the F Train Tragedy

    January 1, 2025

    The Stakes in the F Train Tragedy

    The footage is beyond horrifying: a woman burning to death in a New York City subway car, her alleged killer calmly watching her die, indifferent to the human suffering he caused.  This tragedy was soon followed by another harrowing inciden...

  • Mayorkas's Failures

    December 31, 2024

    Mayorkas's Failures

    On December 22, 2024, during an interview on “Face the Nation,” Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, dismissed the trafficking of children at the border as "outside the responsibility of DHS." This stunning remark...

  • Put ‘science’ back in the National Science Foundation

    December 28, 2024

    Put ‘science’ back in the National Science Foundation

    The National Science Foundation (NSF), once a cornerstone of American scientific progress, is veering dangerously off course.  Established in 1950, the NSF’s mission was to fund groundbreaking research that advances science, fuels inn...

  • Romance, RICO, and road trips: Fani Willis’s justice junket

    December 20, 2024

    Romance, RICO, and road trips: Fani Willis’s justice junket

    In Fulton County, Georgia, justice has taken a backseat to impropriety — or at least that’s the conclusion one might draw from the Georgia Court of Appeals’ recent ruling. District attorney Fani Willis has been disqualified fro...

  • Hawaii Judges Say ‘to Hell with the Constitution’

    December 15, 2024

    Hawaii Judges Say ‘to Hell with the Constitution’

    When I served as a judicial officer, I leaned into the originalist philosophy championed by Justice Antonin Scalia.  His wisdom — that judges must adhere to the Constitution and the law as written, not as they wish it to be — se...

  • The thread unraveling the Biden regime

    December 8, 2024

    The thread unraveling the Biden regime

    TIPP Insights has published a must-read editorial aptly titled “Biden’s Unprecedented Blanket Pardon Destroys His Legacy and Proves Trump Was Wrongly Impeached Over Ukraine.”  The piece cuts to the heart of the issue:...

  • Will a presidential pardon save Hunter Biden?

    December 3, 2024

    Will a presidential pardon save Hunter Biden?

    Flash, bam, alakazam — a pardon dropped out of an autumnal, orange-colored sky, as surreal as a Nat King Cole refrain.  With a sweep of his pen, Joe Biden erased his son’s slate, leaving decades of potential wrongdoing wiped cle...

  • Decolonizing Thanksgiving — and other joys the Left wants to ruin

    November 30, 2024

    Decolonizing Thanksgiving — and other joys the Left wants to ruin

    Strange, isn’t it, how some people can light up a room? And then there are those who enter like a soggy dishrag, wringing out all vitality and joy until even the pumpkin pie wants to surrender. John Steinbeck nailed it: “Such people...

  • Buttigieg: The Peter Principle on wheels

    November 26, 2024

    Buttigieg: The Peter Principle on wheels

    Some people rise to the occasion, and some rise to their level of incompetence.  For Pete Buttigieg, it’s less about rising and more about stalling — like one of his beloved electric vehicles running out of juice on a lonely str...