In 1805, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy and Marines to stop Barbary pirates from disrupting shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. This successful measure is captured in the Marine Corps Hymn stanza “…to the shores of Tripoli….” When he takes…
The Federal Reserve’s premature victory lap over inflation reveals a worrisome misunderstanding of the predicament we still find ourselves in. Unprecedented government spending and debt, combined with mounting fears that the debt can’t (or won’t) be repaid, played a misunderstood…
John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Anthony Hopkins, and Jeff Bridges lost homes in the Los Angeles fires, and as Malibu resident Mel Gibson told reporters, “I have never seen a place so perfectly burned. You could put it in an urn.”…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The American Spectator might not be at the top of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reading list, but had it been, he would have known that California’s teetering insurance system was just one particularly bad wildfire away from disaster. Sure,…
I’ve been saying for a while that Pete Hegseth’s confirmation process was going to mark a major change in American politics that was facilitated and caused by the election of Donald Trump on Nov. 5. It’s pretty clear that the…
Take it from a sociologist and journalist: sociology is a science that is not really a science, and journalism is a professional activity that does not have a specific professional activity. Sociologists and journalists share some vices, if we leave…
Why would 24 conservative Republican senators recently vote for a $200 billion Social Security bonus for the already rich retirement accounts of government employees — who, as civil servants, did not pay into Social Security during the time of their…
The U.S. federal government has a debt problem. At $36.2 trillion (or about 125 percent of GDP), this burden is already so great that it cannot be paid back any time soon and would take decades of concerted efforts to…
It is hard to admit failure — especially if you are a politician. President Joe Biden took the stage at the State Department the other day to tout his foreign policy record. He claimed America is stronger in “every dimension”…
