Should We Trust Anonymous Sources?
Dear anonymous sources, I must confess, you’re helping the mainstream media create some gripping and troubling content. I’m not sure which of your stories stands out the most. Is it the portrait you...
Why Courts Have No Jurisdiction Over Immigration Order
Irrespective of how the Ninth Circuit rules in the case against President Trump’s immigration order, our sovereignty is gone. Overnight, our most sacred values, laws, and traditions related to nationa...
California Goes Confederate
Over sixty percent of California voters went for Hillary Clinton -- a margin of more than 4 million votes over Donald Trump. Since Clinton's defeat, the state seems to have become unhinged over Trump...
Ivanka and Nordstrom Decision
Correction: A previous version of this post listed Home Shopping Network as dropping Ivanka Trump's brand, but the network never sold her clothing line. Instead, they've sold Trump Home products. I re...
Government Bureaucracies are Inefficient
Because they are so rare — and I mean unicorn rare — positive bureaucratic experiences stand out in my mind. In 2001, I went into a driver’s-license office in Montgomery County, Pa., and was greeted b...
Refugees Flooding in from 7 Suspect Countries
The State Department has more than doubled the rate of refugees from Iraq, Syria and other suspect countries in the week since a federal judge’s reprieve, in what analysts said appears to be a push to...
Compassion, Sovereignty, and Security
The sobbing face of 8-year old José is seared into my memory. During my visit to a Catholic school classroom in Chalco, a poor community outside Mexico City, the teacher asked José to stand up and tal...
Reconsider LGBT Strategy
Dear Mr. President and Mr. Vice-President, I write this letter as a supporter and advocate, not a critic or adversary. As someone who voted for you and who regularly calls on millions of American...
Unhinged Opponents
Trump’s Best Asset May Be His Unhinged Opponents “We have never in living memory seen an electorate as fired up and angry and engaged as they are right now, Ben Wikler, Washington director of the lef...
Left Uses Violence But Says Speech is Violence
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Anarchy takes many forms. There is street violence, like that at the University of California at Berkeley last Wednesday, a microcosm of the anti-Trump rioting all over the country...
Immigration Ban Was Clumsy, But Right About Radical Islam
I was a Muslim refugee once. I know what it’s like. I know what it’s like to gamble your entire future on a one-way ticket to a foreign land, what it’s like to fill in the forms, not knowing for s...
Prosecute the Rioters
From time to time over the years, the eminent historian Daniel Pipes has lamented that treason, not just as a crime but as a concept, appears defunct in the West. The question of bringing treason char...
