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Charlton Allen
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April 2, 2025
Sisterhood of the Traveling PronounsRiddle 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...
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March 28, 2025
Hijacked Jurisdiction: How District Courts Are Blocking Immigration EnforcementImmigration 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...
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March 26, 2025
Face the Nonsense, Again: Margaret Brennan’s ‘You Should Watch the News’ MomentCBS’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 ...
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March 25, 2025
Go, Canada! Breaking Up Is Not Hard to DoCanada 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...
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March 23, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil: The Lawfare Circus Delayed, but the Show Must Go OnThe 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 ...
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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...
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March 19, 2025
A Doctor, a Terrorist Funeral, and the Media’s Selective Outrage MachineThe 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...
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March 17, 2025
How Mexico Became China’s Trojan Horse in U.S. TradeThe 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...
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March 15, 2025
The Slush Fund Nobody Voted ForWashington 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...
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March 14, 2025
NATO, Ukraine, and the War Hawks’ Pixie Dust PlaybookThe 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...
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March 13, 2025
The USAID Case: Judge Amir Ali’s $2 Billion Defiance EscalatesThe 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...
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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...
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March 7, 2025
The Supreme Court Just Greenlit a $2 Billion USAID Power GrabIn 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 ...
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March 6, 2025
Schrödinger’s Women’s Sports: Simultaneously Existential and Irrelevant, According to DemocratsFor 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...
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March 5, 2025
Hot takes from President Trump’s address to CongressPresident 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...
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March 4, 2025
No More Globalist Delusions: Ukraine’s War Strategy Has FailedThe 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...
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March 1, 2025
Georgetown’s Hamas Family ValuesGeorgetown 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 ...
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February 28, 2025
Land of the Artful DodgersCalifornia—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...
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February 27, 2025
Georgetown’s Cura Palestina: Caring for the Whole PalestineGeorgetown 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 ...
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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...
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February 26, 2025
No, President Zelenskyy and the EU, you don’t dictate American foreign policyAmerican 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...
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February 23, 2025
Hail, Columbia! We Who Are About to Divest Thee Say: Pound SaltColumbia 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...
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February 20, 2025
Margaret Brennan’s Face-Plant on Free Speech: Welcome to Face the NonsenseThere 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...
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February 19, 2025
Supersizing the Curriculum: The University of Alabama’s Big, Fat Philosophy ClassMove 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...
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February 18, 2025
Not Your Grandfather’s Foreign AidThe 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...
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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 ...
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February 14, 2025
USAID’s Samantha Power: From journalist to global power broker—without accountabilitySamantha 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...
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February 13, 2025
Boiler Up? No, kids—LAWYER UPSome 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...
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February 12, 2025
Liz Cheney’s never-ending farewell tour: now featuring JD VanceIf 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,...
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February 11, 2025
Liz Cheney’s never-ending farewell tour: now featuring Elon MuskJust 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. ...
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February 7, 2025
When Tyrants Hijack Human RightsOne 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...
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February 7, 2025
Follow the money: USAID’s $53 million problemJohn 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...
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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...
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February 6, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard, the Smear Machine, and the Battle for America’s Intelligence IntegrityIn 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...
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February 6, 2025
Restoring the FBI’s mission: a plan for reformThe 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...
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February 6, 2025
The USAID boondoggle: fully exposed and unravelingNo 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...
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February 5, 2025
Ukraine’s Rare Earth and RealpolitikFor 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...
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February 4, 2025
Hillary Clinton’s Hypersonic Hypocrisy: The Missile Tech Scandal She Hopes You IgnoreThe 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...
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January 31, 2025
RFK Jr. vs. the establishment’s trained sealsRobert 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...
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January 31, 2025
The end of an ERA: Biden’s parting shot at constitutional governanceFor 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...
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January 29, 2025
Erasing Humanity, One Face at a TimeThe 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...
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January 25, 2025
A Sermon on the Mount of Modern ProgressivismIn 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...
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January 22, 2025
Biden’s injudicious pardon of FauciPresident 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...
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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...
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January 14, 2025
The Manufactured Outrage Over Pete Hegseth’s Nomination for Secretary of DefensePete 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...
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January 14, 2025
Misfire in South Carolina college: A lesson in overreachIt 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...
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January 10, 2025
The Laken Riley Act Must Become LawToday, 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...
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January 10, 2025
Fani Willis and the high cost of transparency theaterFulton 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...
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January 5, 2025
Angels, saints, and academia's genderfluid fantasiaBoston 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 ...
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January 2, 2025
Terror in Las Vegas: Bad symbolism, worse implicationsThe 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...
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January 2, 2025
Terror in New Orleans: When leadership fails, innocents payThe 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...
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January 1, 2025
The Stakes in the F Train TragedyThe 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...
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December 31, 2024
Mayorkas's FailuresOn 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...
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December 28, 2024
Put ‘science’ back in the National Science FoundationThe 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...
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December 20, 2024
Romance, RICO, and road trips: Fani Willis’s justice junketIn 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...
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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...
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December 8, 2024
The thread unraveling the Biden regimeTIPP 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:...
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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...
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November 30, 2024
Decolonizing Thanksgiving — and other joys the Left wants to ruinStrange, 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...
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November 26, 2024
Buttigieg: The Peter Principle on wheelsSome 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...