Here’s What I Learned About the Jones Act While in Puerto Rico
by Gabriella Hoffman • Maven Here’s more from my reporting trip to Puerto Rico. I recently joined a group of center-right bloggers and journalists on a reporting trip to Puerto Rico…
Frontiers of Freedom Applauds President Trump’s Action to support American Businesses in International Shipping Markets
President Trump announced plans to withdraw the United States from the 144-year-old postal treaty through the Universal Postal Union that has preserved international shipping imbalances to greatly favor companies from…
NASA’s Inspector General Is A Political Hack — Abusing His Office And Fleecing Taxpayers
The function of an Inspector General (IG) in the federal government is to detect waste, mismanagement, fraud, abuse, and even criminality. Each federal department or agency has an IG. But…
Federal Employees Who Resist Elected Officials’ Orders Should Be Fired
By Inez Feltscher Stepman • The Federalist Most Americans are still under the illusion that when they elect a president, he takes control over the executive branch and proceeds to…
Netanyahu to U.N.: Iran Has ‘Secret Atomic Warehouse’ in Tehran for Nuclear Program
by David Rutz • Washington Free Beacon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of having a “secret atomic warehouse” in Tehran for its illicit nuclear weapons program during a…
In Contemporary American Politics, There’s No Such Thing as Rock Bottom
By George Will • National Review If this week has proven anything, it’s that we can always go lower. When John Keats said that autumn is the season of “mists…
Why NASA’s Space Launch System is Indispensable
If the 1986 Challenger disaster taught us anything it was – “Don’t put all your Space Launch eggs in one basket.” After that accident and the other ones that grounded…
Fixing the Nation’s Vulnerable Postal Service Depends on the Completion of the STOP Act
This week, the House and Senate are aiming to finalize the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act within a set of opioid bills to be signed by President Trump.…
DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN
Yogi Berra famously observed that events sometimes seem to repeat themselves — “It’s deja vu all over again!” So, this history of the criticism of the Bush administration’s nuclear and…
Viktor Orban at the Crosshairs of the European Union
Since he stepped into the turbulent waters of Hungarian politics by delivering a highly emotional funeral oratory at the reburial of Imre Nagy the murdered hero of the 1956 anti-Soviet…
Elon Musk’s Increasingly Bizarre Behavior Makes Him An Even Worse Bet
by Seton Motley • RedState I am opposed to any and all government money going towards picking private sector winners and losers. In no small part because government doesn’t pick winners…
Blame Congress for Politicizing the Court
By Senator Ben Sasse (NE) • Wall Street Journal Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of hating women, hating children, hating clean air, wanting dirty water. He’s been declared an existential…
Bolton Is Right to Repudiate International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction Over US Military, Government Officials
by Brett Schaefer • The Daily Signal National security adviser John Bolton didn’t mince words in a speech on Monday as he outlined U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court.…
Kuwait Is Not Behaving Like a U.S. Ally
By Peter Roff • RealClearPolitics The relationship with Kuwait should be one of the United States’ strongest, but it is starting to fray. There’s still time to set it right,…
She’s Allergic to Grass Pollen, and the Local Government Is Forcing Her to Grow Turf Grass
by John-Michael Seibler • The Daily Signal For four years, Carl and Janice Duffner of St. Peters, Missouri, have been fighting the city’s enforcement of a mandate to grow turf…