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Columns

Vogue Magazine Gets Gushing Over Gavin Newsome

Conservatives have complained about media bias for decades. But there is bias and then there is bias. Lots of major media institutions -- the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and many others -- are filled with everyday examples of slanted stories. But some, like the still-popular fashion ...

Impressions From A Maiden Excursion To Turkiye

The Shale Crescent USA Team is part of a U.S. Commercial Services Roadshow to Turkiye. Lynnda and I along with SCUSA President, Nathan Lord arrived in Istanbul last Sunday. We were in three Turkish cities for Roadshow events meeting with companies interested in investing in the USA. The week ...

Does The United States Still Have A Constitution?

Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government. But most of what lawyers have studied is theory -- how the Constitution is supposed to work, as ...

There Are Warning Signs For The GOP In ’26

Republicans are beginning to sound the alarm about the 2026 midterm elections, and not without reason. The concern was crystallized by a Texas state Senate race in a district President Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 but which recently shifted 14 points toward Democrats -- a ...

Mr. President, time has come to set Caleb Bailey free

“How can the life of such a man / Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?” — Bob Dylan, “Hurricane” You’ve probably never heard of Caleb Bailey, but he is a political prisoner who has been locked behind bars for nearly eight years; nine more years remain on his sentence. Anyone ...

What’s good for Peter Navarro should be good for Bill Clinton

The walls are closing in —on Bill Clinton. The former president and practiced political escape artist is on the verge of being held in contempt of Congress. This time, the Democrat party, which stuck with him during his scandal-plagued 1992 campaign and during his 1998 impeachment, ...