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Ben Sasse, I want you to read your obituary while you can
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (549+ words) I wanted Ben Sasse to be president of the United States. Since he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, that is unlikely to happen. A tragedy for him and his family, obviously, but a tragedy, too, for the country…...
Dragging the House of Representatives into the 21st century
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (526+ words) The House of Representatives is poised to provide $4 million in new spending to modernize the chamber's internal operations. The chamber's Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations approved the boost to the Modernization Initiatives Fund, which would become available for use on…...
The Left declares its contempt for wealth creators
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (470+ words) The Left's message to wealth creators has hardened into, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass!" Once upon a time, radicals who achieved or aspired to elected office concealed their fiscal militancy behind a screen of social conscience....
The president's Iran war calculus
2+ hour, 58+ min ago (293+ words) Though Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the end of offensive measures under Operation Epic Fury on Tuesday, the Trump administration's military action against Iran is deeply unpopular with the American people. According to a March 26 Pew Research poll, 61% of…...
A lively look at the high court: review of Last Branch Standing
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (201+ words) As is the case with every other institution in society, public opinion of the Supreme Court has turned sharply negative since 2020, nearing historic lows. Even so, it remains the branch of government most trusted across American society. As far as…...
When are we going to put children first?
2+ hour, 58+ min ago (649+ words) The number of single men seeking children through surrogacy is rising on both sides of the Atlantic. In my home country of England, 170 single men have applied for parental orders since 2019. In the United States, where commercial surrogacy is a…...
Congress opens investigation into Wikipedia
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (16+ words) Congress is demanding information from the Wikimedia Foundation on "foreign operations" working to "manipulate" Wikipedia's information....
Individualism, collectivism, the IRS, and marriage
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (483+ words) Our age is an extremely individualistic one. This may sound wrong to the observer who sees collectivism on the rise, but collectivism and individualism are not opposites, as philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt explained " they are two sides…...
Wikipedia donations go toward paying liberal activists to rewrite articles
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (362+ words) The foundation running Wikipedia uses surplus cash to bankroll groups responsible for inserting left-of-center viewpoints into its articles....
Wikipedia and legacy media compete to out-bias each other
1+ hour, 56+ min ago (317+ words) I used to roll my eyes when my college professors barred us from citing Wikipedia. Now, I couldn't agree more. This problem is not lost on Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who has long criticized the website for its lack of…...