Author: nick
The USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier strike group has returned to the Middle East. The world’s largest aircraft carrier spent the last month in port after a laundry fire caused significant damage. On Saturday, The Associated Press reported speaking with two defense officials who confirmed that Ford had returned to the battlefield. The Ford will add to the substantial US military presence in the Middle East. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is already in the Middle East, and the USS George HW Bush will soon be the third carrier in the region. The Ford was positioned…
Dana Perino bridges her mentoring book ‘Everything Will Be Okay’ with her new novel Source link
In late April and May, I will be doing multiple speaking engagements in Spain and Italy. Several of these events are open to the public, to varying degrees. I look forward to potentially meeting readers in those two countries! Below is the list of the events, along with relevant links (listed times are in the local time zone). I will update with additional relevant information, if it becomes available. April 24, 7:40-8:30 PM, LibertyCon Europe 2026 (sponsored by European Students for Liberty), Madrid, Spain: “The Nationalist Threat to Economic Liberty.” Panel on “Economic Freedom: Challenges and Perspectives.” Registration and other…
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be lived, not treated as abstract, intellectualized theories .”Even those who support them too often talk about them as if they were academic playthings. They overcomplicate them, take the spirit out of them, and discuss them in a way that puts us to sleep,” he said. “But the principles of the Declaration of Independence, as I encountered them, are a way of life. They are not an abstract theory that you only learn in college or law school, but the basic premises of our Constitution…
The Pope and the President are beefing: but it’s not really about religion, or Iran Source link
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, rose 0.4% in February alone and is now running at 2.8% annually, while core inflation, which strips out food and energy, is still sitting at 3.0%. That is not progress. That is stagnation well above the Fed’s 2% target, and it is taking place before the energy crisis fully feeds through the system. The key point here is that inflation is no longer being driven by a single factor, it is embedded across multiple categories, and that is what makes it dangerous. When you break down where prices are…
The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, “Finding the Third Way.” I am imagining taking a series of strolls across the Yale campus sometime between 1963 and 1971. I am imagining whom I would have seen and what we might have said during my seven years at Yale for college and law school had such a tour not been imaginary. We’re traveling through time, so the walk isn’t strictly sequential. In my mind the first stop is a stone and redbrick edifice at 202 York Street in New Haven. This is the Hadden Building, home of the Yale…
Long-time readers may remember a series of posts I wrote circa 2020 about the conflicts between Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kagan. One of my recurring themes was that the Chief Justice thought he was in control of the Court, but he clearly wasn’t. Moreover, I suggested that the genesis of many of the leaks was due to frustration with the Court, and the Chief Justice’s leadership in particular. Finally, I said that if the Chief could not right the ship, he should step down. To this day, people misunderstand my point. My call for resignation had nothing to do…
A major Democratic group will start digging up dirt on 17 Republicans representing solidly conservative seats. Source link
You’ve heard the news and may have seen the video: New York Mayor Mamdani mugging for the camera, his face in a gleeful smirk, saying “When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well today, we’re taxing the rich!” He was announcing – on April 15, the day federal and state income tax returns are due – a new special tax on “second homes” located in New York City valued over $5 million. The Marxist mayor is standing in front of a building where he says hedge fund entrepreneur Ken Griffin has a residence…