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Why 'Enforce the Laws' Is A Perfectly Valid Rebuttal to Gun Control Calls
48+ min ago (730+ words) While the Bruen decision did leave the door open for some gun control laws, it's one thing about the decision that I don't like. I can live with it, because the door is only barely open, but it's still not…...
How Would You Have Applied Massachusetts Law in the Lindsay Clancy Trial?
4+ hour, 28+ min ago (820+ words) [A.] I know lots of people have opinions about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and I wanted to pass along the......
China’s Super-Dam Is Becoming an Upstream Water Bomb
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (266+ words) Brahma Chellaney urges greater transparency and international oversight for a project that could affect two billion people....
An Ohio Train Station, Born Again
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (293+ words) Valerie is Ideas Editor at The Dispatch, based in New York City. Prior to joining the company in 2025, she worked at The New York Times and NewsGuard Technologies, and she is currently a Novak Fellow through The Fund for American…...
Trump Has Made America Less Conservative | Ruminant
6+ hour, 18+ min ago (195+ words) Peacefully anchored on the Potomac, the HMS Remnant rocks gently from side to side. Captain Jonah Goldberg, peg leg and all, stands at the prow gazing at the darkening horizon. To the west, the storm clouds of AI apocalypse are…...
Anti-Conspiracy Fanatics: Psychologically Brainwashed Wards of the State
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (59+ words) “People conspire, that’s not a theory.” “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” ~ William Casey, Ronald Reagan’s first CIA Director “No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the government…...
Nearly Half of US Citizens Say Washington???s Post-9/11 Wars???Worth the Cost???
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (653+ words) Nearly half of US citizens believe the wars waged by Washington in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond after the 11 September 2001 attacks have been “worth it,” a YouGov poll published on 2 August shows. The poll was commissioned ahead of the 25th anniversary of…...
America Last: H-1B, DEI, and Wealth Disparity
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (768+ words) When you look at present day America 2.0, you almost have to marvel at the depth of the unfairness, injustice, and criminality all around us. As I’ve said so many times, there is nothing accidental about it. None of the randomness…...
Sanctioning a Ghost: Europe???s Empty Gesture Against Iran
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (138+ words) The trade Europe is threatening to withdraw barely exists One number frames the entire affair. In 2025 the whole of the European Union traded about €3.7 billion in goods with Iran — roughly $4 billion — against Iran’s total foreign trade of some $182.6 billion. Europe…...
Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy
9+ hour, 17+ min ago (335+ words) Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine. “But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children.” Too bad, the majority have decided…...