Daniel Horowitz

Republicans had three swings at reconciliation. They used them for tax tweaks, DHS spending, Pentagon bloat, and almost nothing transformational.

Few surveillance products have ever been named more appropriately than Flock. A flock of sheep has no rights. It exists to be watched, counted, and managed by whoever owns the field. That increasingly resembles how government treats Americans as officials cover streets and neighborhoods with cameras under the familiar but false promise of public safety.

Data center boosters routinely accuse local opponents of serving China or obstructing progress. In Coweta, Oklahoma, supporters of a proposed hyperscale project appear to have answered authentic opposition with something less democratic: phony support from real residents.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin recently promised to focus immigration enforcement on criminal aliens . At a National Governors Association forum with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R), Mullin also noted that the United States had naturalized nearly 900,000 immigrants during the previous 12 months.

I'm tired of the “exposing the left” phase of conservative politics. I'm ready for the “implement what's right” phase. Anyone want to join me?

Nothing scares the vaccine establishment more than a meaningful control group. Some vaccine trials do use inert placebos, but most compare a new product with an existing vaccine or another formulation. What we almost never get is long-term randomized evidence comparing children who receive the full schedule with children who receive none of it.

Completely unvaccinated children are increasingly rare. The Amish offer a natural comparison population — and a test public health should welcome.

You can't drain the swamp by refilling it with the same sorts of politicians backed by the same special-interest money driving the status quo. The leftist base learned that lesson for its own dangerous purposes this primary season. The conservative base, meanwhile, has somehow unlearned what it knew during the Tea Party years.

You can have very low interest rates, and you can have debt-driven inflation. You just can't have both at the same time. That is the reality President Trump refuses to recognize.

Republicans seek office while Democrats seek power. That explains our politics in a nutshell. It also explains why nothing ever changes — at least not for the better.