Which states are the moochers now?

May 22, 2025

Which states are the moochers now?

Limousine liberals who live in wealthy enclaves have a habit of blasting red states such as Kentucky and Alabama as moocher states. This attack might not jibe very well with the Democrats’ longtime self-image as the party of the working man, but it fits in pretty well with the last couple of decades of coastal […]

Birthright citizenship and a post-constitutional order

The recent case before the Supreme Court on birthright citizenship points to a more fundamental constitutional crisis that has been called “post-constitutionalism.” We have reached the era in which the imperatives of the administrative state have replaced the formalism of the Constitution. The ideological liberals who advocated this radical change contend that the Constitution has […]

Andor is conservative art, too

There is no mistaking the left-wing themes of the Disney+ Star Wars series Andor. Set five years before the movie Rogue One, Andor shows the Empire strip mining planets, exploiting workers, arresting innocent people, and massacring civilians. At a time when the Democratic Party is claiming that the Trump administration is arresting U.S. citizens and […]

NPR’s little biases

This morning, I was driving the elementary school car pool, and my tactic of choice was playing classical music. This may have made the five children a little less wild, but it didn’t lull them into a reverie. Right after 8 o’clock, between Beethoven’s First Symphony and a symphony by Frederick the Great, WETA, D.C.’s […]

Why is Mike Lawler defending New York Democrats’ tax system?

Centrist Republicans from swing districts usually deserve a lot more leeway when it comes to their ideological purity versus the things they must do or say to keep their seats. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has exhausted that leeway, demanding that taxpayers across the country subsidize the Democratic tax system in his own state. This has been the core of the […]

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Trump plays good cop, Europe plays bad cop with Russia and Israel

Members of the European Union have joined the United Kingdom in charting tougher paths than the United States toward Russia and Israel. Let’s start with Russia. On Tuesday, the EU and the U.K. introduced a new raft of sanctions targeting Russian individuals, energy tanker ships, and financial institutions. The sanctions follow a phone call between […]

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