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Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. We now know that the federal government spies on innocent Americans without suspicion and without warrants. The spying seems to fall into several categories. The National Security Agency, which is in the Department of Defense, employs about 60,000 domestic spies. These are the folks who want us to believe that they go through the trouble of making applications to…
Walking around the White House South Lawn these days, you notice a few things. There is the tiered platform with mics and music stands. There are the many folding seats, situated in a theater in the round, each stamped with: “WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT STAND ON CHAIR.” There are the stairs branded with crypto.com. And then, above it all, there is “The Claw”: the hulking, four-legged, makeshift canopy hovering 92 feet aloft, finished in red, white, and blue. There are selfies. The Trump administration on Thursday provided the press pool a preview of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250…
This week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to advance a formal ban that would prevent women from serving as pastors. This news took me back to 1990. Let me explain. When I was little, my favorite church services were when women took charge. This happened only a few times a year, on the fifth Sunday […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Lawrence Ware is…
The cleanup at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard along the bay in San Francisco’s southeast corner remains a huge headache for the Navy, the City, and the citizens of the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood. The shipyard was listed as an EPA Superfund site in 1989 due to the radioactive mess left behind by the Navy, […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. Greg M.…
Dear readers of TAC: Does anyone else remember the VHS cassette tape of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial that was accented with a horizontal green strip across its top? That I can distinctly recall it confirms both my aged status as a child of the Reagan era—some Googling reveals that the E.T. tape in question seems to have been released in October 1988, when I would have been five years old—and, more significantly, the decades-long presence in my imagination of the movie’s director, Steven Spielberg. I do not intend to present myself as a prodigy, but I can say with some certainty…
On June 8, 1967, the American Navy’s ship the USS Liberty was attacked by Israel, killing 34 and wounding at least 171. On June 8, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said, on the House floor, It’s my great honor, maybe one of the biggest honors of my lifetime, to stand here on the floor and do something that’s 59 years overdue, to recognize the survivors and those who gave their lives on the USS Liberty 59 years ago today, when they were viciously attacked by IDF [Israel Defense Force] jets and also after that by torpedo boats. Massie continued, “I’m…
Jeffery Taubenberger, acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — the agency formerly led by Dr. Anthony Fauci — is reportedly out, amid a broader shakeup at the NIH. Sen. Tammy Baldwin revealed Taubenberger’s apparent departure Thursday during a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, STAT reported. Jeffery Taubenberger, acting director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — the agency formerly led by Dr. Anthony Fauci — is reportedly out, amid a broader shakeup at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) revealed Taubenberger’s apparent departure Thursday during a U.S.…
The Fork in the Road on Food Inflation We are standing at a fork in the road, and the signposts are written in dollars and cents — or rather, in dollars that buy less and less. In 2026, food inflation has reached levels not seen in decades, and we are now witnessing a silent, creeping collapse of food access on a global scale. One recent report documented a 40% loss of food access in one region as prices surged over 190% [1]. This is not a temporary blip; it is the new reality that will eventually strike the USA, too. The…
Illustration: Lex Villena Few Americans have taken much notice, given the vast amount of other political news. But two Canadian provinces – Alberta and Quebec – may be holding referendums on secession in the near future. If the votes are held, the secessionists are likely to lose in both cases. But these events are still of interest to students of federalism and secession, and to anyone who cares about the future of America’s northern neighbor and one of our most important allies. And history shows that secession movements often persist even after defeat in a referendum. In Quebec, the separatist…