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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...