Last week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was spotted on an airplane. Normally, this wouldn’t attract attention from the media, social or otherwise. However, Cruz was leaving Texas just days before a winter storm was about to do nasty things to the state. And this didn’t sit well with some on social media. One user wrote,…
Last week, Texas officials announced that the state spent more than $1 billion on health care for “illegal immigrants” in fiscal year 2025. This article on FoxNews.com provides us with a slew of statistics to show the financial burden immigrants are imposing on Texas taxpayers. A billion dollars is a lot of money, but it…
Last week, I wrote about the government’s use of carrots and sticks to manipulate the behavior of home buyers. Now, in response to Trump’s new health care plan, a physician is calling for more sticks and fewer carrots regarding health care insurance. Trump has proposed sending money directly to Americans rather than to insurance companies….
Israeli businessman Shlomo Kramer recently called upon governments to take control of all social media platforms. Such a measure is needed, he claimed, to stop “polarization” and prevent the spread of lies. “We need to stack,” he explained, “rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online and take control over what they are saying,…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz recently condemned the welfare fraud in Minnesota, stating, “The Democrats have skin in the game of keeping this fraud—this is the largest fraud ever recorded, over $9 billion stolen from the taxpayers and sent to Somalians.” While conservatives like Cruz are trying to blame Democrats for the rampant fraud, they are…
A recent poll by Pew Research found that a growing number of young women say that they are unlikely to get married. In an opinion piece on Fox, author J. P. De Gance decries this finding. For decades, he writes, parents have taught their daughters to obtain an education, establish a career, and become financially…
In a recent podcast, actress Amanda Seyfried said, “Socialism is a gorgeous idea, and I know it doesn’t work perfectly.” When the podcast host pointed out that many people don’t know what socialism means, Seyfried replied, “For me, it’s taking care of each other. If I have more money, I can spend more money on…
A recent report claims that the Kansas City Chiefs have been the beneficiaries of implicit bias from referees. This bias, one of the study’s authors claims, is a result of “regulatory capture.” This is an example of a dangerous trend: equating the actions of private entities with the actions of government. Regulatory capture, University of…
Writing about current events is often disheartening. Progressives want to turn America into Venezuela, while conservatives seek to transform America into a Christian version of Iran. In recent years, my writing has shifted from a world dominated by irrationality to a world that could be and should be. I am writing less nonfiction and more…
In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a report titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” The report found that nearly half of American adults experience “measurable levels of loneliness.” This topic was discussed at a Jefferson Dinner I recently attended. Being a member of a community of people who share our interests, goals, or…
Many of my novels involve issues pertaining to race. Given the controversial nature of such issues, this can be challenging, particularly since I am a middle-aged white man. Some might claim that I am unqualified to write about racial issues because I am white. Such a claim is itself racist. The color of my skin…