Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print As wildfires engulf Los Angeles, California’s Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, is facing renewed scrutiny for his record on forest management. As of Thursday morning, multiple wildfires, including the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, are raging across…

Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 1 Comments | Print This week, in a stunning volte-face, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be revising its censorship policies to accord with his older vision of free speech. Specifically, Zuckerberg committed Facebook to revising a series…

Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2025 | by AMAC, Robert B. Charles | 0 Comments | Print On the one hand, we have much to look forward to – a new president, new energy, and new enthusiasm for the future. On the other, the ease with which we displace people…

The U.S. Constitution, in the preamble to the nation’s founding document, speaks of an intention “to form a more perfect Union.” Since the preamble’s author, Pennsylvanian Gouverneur Morris, was a physician and not a professional grammarian, the phrase “a more perfect Union” is not quite grammatically correct — although it was acceptable in the 18th…

Donald Trump’s election to the presidency was formally certified on Monday, but he still faces “Trump-proofing” efforts in Washington and in the states—and in some cases, from familiar foes.  Democrat governors and attorneys general in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York declared their intentions to challenge Trump’s efforts on multiple fronts, from enforcing…

The American public is being sold a bill of goods that enrolling everyone in government-approved health insurance — primarily managed care — will improve the nation’s health and close the troubling disparities between the health of Black and white Americans. Former President Barack Obama made insurance coverage the signature issue of the Democratic Party. Now…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be undergoing a political awakening, which may pose an existential threat to the left-wing censorship regime. In a five-minute video posted online this week, Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to so-called “content moderation” policies across the suite of apps owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta, including photo-sharing giant Instagram. In…

Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | by Ben Solis | 0 Comments | Print While President Donald Trump’s historic political comeback was undoubtedly the most dramatic and high-profile victory anywhere in the world for conservatives in 2024, it was hardly the only one. In 2025, the global right could…

Colin Powell once observed, “Trust is everything in leadership.” The same can be said for public education. Parents have to trust schools to teach what really matters, or they back off, go private, or self-educate. Parents know their kids get one childhood. From Maine to America, trust in schools must be restored. Why and how? Nationally,…

Posted on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | by AMAC, Robert B. Charles | 25 Comments | Print Sometimes canoeing flat water, you hear rapids on the wind, maybe far off, maybe not so far off. A wise navigator plans. As Republicans squeaked Speaker Johnson out last week, we heard rapids.…