Back in the Neanderthal days of television news, we had something called the Fairness Doctrine enforced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).   The Doctrine was enacted in 1949.  At the time, the FCC defined the Doctrine in its “Report on Editorializing,” which stated ”the public interest requires ample play for the free and fair competition […] More

Political narratives are not reflections of reality, but merely attempts to create a faux reality based on political perspective and bias.  Even worse, narratives tend to set the parameters for our political debates that too often endure even after the facts on the ground have changed. No where is that more true than in the […] More

Philadelphia resident Elana Fishbein was shocked last year when the elementary school two of her three children attended introduced “cultural proficiency” classes she describes as “totally racist.” The “woke” education classes are based in critical race theory, which divides society into “oppressors” and “oppressed” based on traits including race and sex.  Fishbein, a former social […] More

With the Biden Administration more than halfway through its planned troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, people are starting to raise serious concerns about the nation’s future. Troop withdrawal “will have an impact on the negotiation with the Taliban,” warns Abdullah Abdullah, head of Afghanistan’s National Reconciliation Council. “[Taliban leaders] may find themselves further emboldened and they […] More

Because of the deep division in America between red states and blue states, there has been much talk of secession. Is the United States too big? Would people be happier in smaller communities? Frank Buckley, a distinguished professor at the Scalia Law School, breaks with most of his fellow legal academics by taking these questions […] More

When discussing lowering the defense budget, many fall into accepting a false dichotomy: on one side is spending more than the next ten countries; each dollar removed from this ideal represents an incremental move towards the side containing all imagined dangers. Contrarily, the connection between spending and American safety is not always so directly positive, with […] More

We often hear that America is a nation based on the rule-of-law and that no man (or woman, I presume) is above the law.  As with any such overarching claims, there are exceptions.  We see that being played out in the reporting of Trump’s Justice Department investigation of information leaks going out of Congress to […] More