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- Opinion · Aug 20, 2026Socialist Surge in the Sunshine State
Hasan Piker and Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed are merely a few fringe voices denies reality. There is no massive “moderate middle” in today’s Democrat Party. Occasionally, we hear about … Electoral College . That’s a direct attack on the Constitution and the system of checks and balances created by our Founding Fathers. He uses the Bible to justify abortion
- Article · Aug 20, 2026Reader Comments
socialists like to talk about ‘the people’ owning the means of production, but in reality, the party apparatchiks own it. Capitalism, particularly since the invention of mutual funds, allows … Chinese business practice.” —Minnesota Re: Zuckerberg’s Bet: Open Source AI as a Check on Big Tech Power “Over the decades, most of the mainstream media have become spokespersons
- Alexander's Column · Aug 19, 2026Mr. President, Can You Get Iran Right?
Trump had wavered from his strategic compass. Bell noted: “Sir, the last time I checked, we are the United States of America. We are the world’s largest economy … very real threat of a nuclear attack on our nation. The hard reality is this: Trump’s effort to seek a permanent solution with Iran’s Islamist madmen is tantamount
- Article · Jul 29, 2026Hypocritical Politics as Usual?
example, persistent Trump critic and California Congressman Ro Khanna, finger in the air to check which way the wind is blowing, announced this weekend that he too thinks arresting Netanyahu … citizenship is a ticket to vote. Moreover, furnishing proper ID is an everyday reality of 21st-century life (just try to board an airplane or buy a beer without
- Article · Jul 27, 2026The Perils of AI in the Courtroom
follows rules they didn’t write and runs on infrastructure they can’t check. When it makes a mistake, who is responsible? The vendor, the arbitrator who accepted its summary … judge’s mood. Arbitration clauses sit buried in contracts nobody reads. Measured against that reality, a system that never tires and never has a bad day can look like
- Opinion · Jul 23, 2026The Left-Wing Unicorn Hunt for the White Male Working-Class Voter
privileged “person of color” launched into the accustomed anti-white racial rant without “checking their own privilege” first. The new batch of socialist candidates only confirms how deeply embedded this … registered voters. In 2024, they backed Trump by a 66-34 margin. That reality means that any further Democratic hemorrhaging among Hispanic and black middle-class voters will be fatal
- Article · Jul 20, 2026Making Trucking Great Again
rising number of fatal incidents over the last few years has exposed the reality that many of these immigrant drivers have no business sitting behind the wheel — especially those without … Border Protection] can’t even get access to the DMV database to run the checks.” But President Trump’s approach to solving the problem is not just stricter requirements
- Article · Jul 9, 2026Thursday Short Cuts
totally crucial that the U.S. forcefully react.” —NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte “Reality check: Trump’s effort to seek a permanent solution with Iran is tantamount to Israel’s effort
- Article · Jul 9, 2026The Nolan Wells Tragedy: Truths We Can’t Ignore
more profound understanding and, ultimately, a safer community for all. (For a reality check, read Mark Alexanders’s “ Race and Violence: A Politically Inconvenient Truth .” Systemic racism, the police, Republicans
- Article · Jul 1, 2026Is America Still ‘Indivisible’?
media or political personnel that endangers the lives of public figures. And now the reality check: We know only too well that partisanship is driven more by political opportunism than
- Opinion · Jun 25, 2026Fog of War: When Political Rhetoric Meets Strategic Reality
destination that looks remarkably familiar. That is not a partisan observation. It is a reality check. And reality checks are often the first casualty when nations find themselves
- Alexander's Column · Jun 24, 2026The Real Iran Deal
very real threat of a catastrophic attack on our nation. And the hard reality is this: Trump’s effort to seek a permanent solution with Iran’s six-century Islamist … likely will never be, necessitating perpetual surges of kinetic action to keep them in check. And for that reason, Trump needs to cease and desist making claims daily that
- Opinion · Jun 22, 2026America at 250: The Threats to America’s Greatness
great and powerful country. But this shouldn’t blind us to an obvious historical reality. Great empires rise — and fall. Just look at the history of the Roman Empire … teaching Western Civilization. Professors replaced Shakespeare and other dead white men with authors who check more intersectionality boxes. This garbage wouldn’t have lasted long in the marketplace of ideas
- Article · Jun 12, 2026Friday Short Cuts
beat the incumbent governor in a primary.” —former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina Fact-Check: False “This is just a partisan attack. [Graham Platner’s] tattoo was a skull … dashed that hope. ... To defend him, one has to be so far outside of reality and the realm of moral truth that they can no longer tell up from down
- Opinion · Jun 10, 2026Anti-Nazi Democrats Can’t Wait to Vote for the Nazi-Tattoo Guy
criminal record, Baldrick replies “Absolutely not.” Blackadder’s response summaries the reality of the class of politicians, both in the somewhat-fictional comedic retelling of Britain in the late 18th … Hegseth? What about Ken Paxton? Well, what about them? First off, last time I checked, neither Donald Trump, nor Pete Hegseth, nor Ken Paxton were sporting a SS Totenkopf tattoo
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2026Bolton Busted
people like John Bolton, accused the president of kowtowing to Xi. Here’s the reality—and I know this to be true because I have talked to enough insiders … billion a year. That’s enough money to send every taxpayer a check for $3,500. It’s enough money to boost the child tax credit
- Opinion · Jun 5, 2026Time to Clean Up California’s Election Laws
second term in 2006. (And Schwarzenegger was hardly a conservative.) In Los Angeles, former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has upended the mayor’s race with blisteringly creative … only registered voters receive ballots in the mail. But there are few if any checks in the system. The voter registration website allows anyone with a California address to register
- Article · May 22, 2026Yale Medical School’s Racial Favoritism
race-based admissions other than preferential treatment of one group over another. The racial check boxes on college applications fail to account for applicants’ experiences, skills, or knowledge. They were … politically managed. Institutions lose legitimacy precisely because they seem unwilling to confront obvious empirical realities.” They add, “The Department of Justice is right to force this conversation.” Tackling this problem
- Opinion · May 19, 2026UN Climate Committee Trims Back Alarmist Predictions
with very little criticism because few researchers have access to the resources to even check their work. Notably, the organization added, with so much time, money, and opportunity cost … think tanks still trying to pretend that this alarmist hypothetical was plausibly related to reality. “We’ve known since 2017 that upper-end climate scenarios are fatally flawed. Nine years
- Article · May 14, 2026Thursday Short Cuts
former Virginia AG Jason Miyares on Virginia Dems’ desperate attempts to save their gerrymander Reality Check “I went to a steakhouse but couldn’t afford to pay the bill