The 85 essays that comprise The Federalist Papers are in great measure concerned with the principle of the separation of powers — that “the legislative, executive and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct,” since the “accumulation of all…
The Signal app episode shows how Trump has changed Washington: Democrats now demand accountability. What an amazing turnaround for a party that demanded none for four years despite countless Biden administration failures. According to Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic, on…
“With a nuke-nuke here and a nuke-nuke there, here a nuke, there a nuke, everywhere a nuke-nuke….” I know, I know — I shouldn’t use a nursery rhyme in commenting on something as serious as nuclear proliferation. After all, one…
The venerable logical principle known as “Occam’s razor,” attributed to the 14th-century English philosopher and theologian William of Ockham, asserts that when confronted with multiple possible explanations for a causal phenomenon, the simplest explanation is — absent persuasive evidence to…
As a proud Gen Xer, I’ve always found Watergate to be quite a peculiar scandal. Especially as a kid and a young adult. Peculiar in the sense that Watergate never really seemed like all that big a deal. At the…
There was a time when organized crime meant control — of streets, of cities, of governments forced into uneasy truces with the men who ruled them. But today’s criminal economy is not about control; it is about movement. Modern crime…
Whatever else is going on with the violent assaults on Tesla dealerships or individual cars, Vice President Vance has put his finger on one very correct question. Newsmax headline: “Vance: ‘Terrorism Is Not Cheap,’ Hunt Tesla Terror Check Writer.” The…
Several days back, when one of the near-countless cases of judicial overreach in which partisan Democrat operatives in black robes issued absurd orders delaying presidential orders involving immigration issues or spending reforms or other changes well within the sole purview…
Most of my adult life has been involved with the terrorism threat, first as a scholar, then, for many years, as a counterterrorism practitioner, and now the author of frequent articles on the evolving threat. Most of this involvement has…
