Author: Keith Lamparter

Columnist David Marcus writes that Sen. Cory Booker's recod-breaking filibuster was a performative stunt and a perfect metaphor for the Democrats' impotence. [...]

Elon Musk isn't shadow president. DOGE echoes Reagan's reforms - Trump's team is cutting waste, not the Constitution. [...]

American greatness starts with refocusing our politics on families and expectations that citizens take responsibility for themselves. [...]

Wisconsin is among a handful of states that have enshrined the popular voter-integrity measure in state constitutions. [...]

What is the patriotic populist path to broad success? [...]

Tuesday, April 1st on the RealClearPolitics Podcast:00:00 Immigration Turbulence for Trump 14:30 Comedian Axed from White House Correspondents' Dinner21:30 C [...]

Since last November, Democrats have struggled to find a strategy, message and messenger. Trump's executive-power blitz has only added to party frustration that they lack the legislative leverage with which to counter it. [...]

Israel is upping its military action against Syria despite protests from the new government in Damascus. [...]

Israel is upping its military action against Syria despite protests from the new government in Damascus. [...]

The Pentagon has been quietly amassing forces in the Middle East amid concerns that Iran's IRGC could lash out at US bases in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant if the White House's bid to end Tehran's nuclear enrichment via diplomacy goes off the rails. [...]

The Pentagon has been quietly amassing forces in the Middle East amid concerns that Iran's IRGC could lash out at US bases in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant if the White House's bid to end Tehran's nuclear enrichment via diplomacy goes off the rails. [...]

The sanctions target several individuals based in Russia accused of assisting Houthi official Sa’id al-Jamal, who has been under US sanctions since 2021. [...]

The sanctions target several individuals based in Russia accused of assisting Houthi official Sa’id al-Jamal, who has been under US sanctions since 2021. [...]

Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy fines in Turkey for refusing to do so. [...]

Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy fines in Turkey for refusing to do so. [...]

The Sudanese government accused the Rapid Support Forces of looting and destroying cultural heritage sites, including the Sudan National Museum, during their occupation of Khartoum, calling the actions war crimes and pledging to work with UNESCO and Interpol to recover stolen artifacts. [...]

The Sudanese government accused the Rapid Support Forces of looting and destroying cultural heritage sites, including the Sudan National Museum, during their occupation of Khartoum, calling the actions war crimes and pledging to work with UNESCO and Interpol to recover stolen artifacts. [...]

John Tamny, RealClear President Trump is doing major damage to his presidency. And no, this opinion piece is not about tariffs. Much more economically damaging than tariffs is a falling [...]

Michael Lind, New York Post The disastrous post-Cold War era, in which Washington negligently sacrificed American industry to appease communist China and other predatory trading partners, is at [...]

Kimberlee Josephson, Am. Institute for Economic Research Preferential trade terms, like other non-tariff barriers, distort markets and shackle economic growth. [...]

Charles Sauer, RCM In sports, a little [...]

Jessica Walrack, U.S. News & World Report Tax credits reduce tax liability dollar for dollar, while tax deductions reduce taxable income. [...]

Terrence Keeley, RealClearPolitics [...]

Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]

Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]

Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]

Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]

Spring is finally approaching, and what better way to start off the season than with some new gear? Enter this giveaway with Bleu de Chauffe, the French maker known for their renowned bags, leather goods and more, for the chance to win two new bags and a T-shirt valued at over $1,000. The Postman bag Éclair […] The post Add These to Your Collection of Well-Made Goods appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

We’ve all been there: You go over to someone’s house, and they ask if you’d like a drink. But when you ask what they have available, they stumble over a few “uhhhs” and “ummmms” before offering you a random beer shoved in the back of the fridge or some sus vodka that’s been in the […] The post What Every Grown Man Should Have Stocked on His Bar Cart, According to a Woman appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Everyone looks the same these days. At least on my Instagram they do. With the excessive Botox and fillers, dramatic weight losses, buccal fat removal, filters and over-editing, it’s become nearly impossible to decipher what’s real, what’s been modified and what’s AI-generated. Despite my aversion to the many beauty trends currently dominating my social media […] The post Take It From a Woman: I’m Begging You to Not Get Veneers appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

After moving to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in January 2009, I went to my first Feast of the Giglio festival that summer. For 12 days in July, the neighborhood’s historically southern Italian community comes together to celebrate and pay homage to la Madonna Della Carmine. After my friend and I got our fill of sausage and peppers […] The post The Art of Caffè Corretto, a Beloved Italian Drink With Meager Beginnings appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Would you travel in a vehicle operated entirely by software? Depending on where you live, that might not be an option — or it might be a regular part of your weekly travel routine. But if the idea of getting into the back of a taxi with literally no one behind the wheel leaves you […] The post Waymo’s Robotaxis Are Safer Than You Might Think appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Some books explore their subjects more deeply than you’d expect. Perhaps due to the mysteries of publishing schedules, we seem to have a lot of them due out in the month of April. Our recommended books this month include comprehensive biographies of James Gandolfini and Rosemary Woodruff Leary and pensive accounts of climate change and […] The post The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This April appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

What we’re drinking: Pinhook Vertical Series Rye 9 Year Where it’s from: Launched in 2010 with all sourced product, Pinhook began releasing small batches in 2014. All Pinhook barrels are now aged, blended and bottled at Castle & Key in Frankfort, KY; since 2017, Pinhook has been also distilling proprietary mash bills of bourbon and […] The post Pinhook’s Vertical Series Rye Continues to Age Like a Fine Wine appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

We cover Huckberry a lot. And for good reason: the retailer aligns with everything we care about here at InsideHook HQ, from buying into the premium cool-guy look to prioritizing quality and American manufacturing. Toss in a roster of brands we respect — Danner, Flint and Tinder, Corridor, etc — and a proclivity for waxed garments, and you can […] The post Every Spring Footwear Style Imaginable Is on Sale at Huckberry appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

It’s not often that Rolex introduces an entirely fresh model family, making this year’s Watches & Wonders a particularly notable edition. Then again, upon closer examination, this new family has hallmarks of models that have long been out of production, offering something for both the modern connoisseur as well as the vintage collector, to boot: […] The post Rolex Unveiled an Entirely New Collection at Watches & Wonders ’25 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Are we witnessing a golden age of fast food menu hacks come to an end? Last year, Starbucks announced that it was cracking down on extensive order customization in an effort to reduce customer waiting times at its locations. Ornate custom orders aren’t the only kind of menu hacks out there, though; there’s also the […] The post A Popular In-N-Out Menu Hack Is No More appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Nicholas Slayton, Task & Purpose The short-lived Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War was in a way the U.S. military's first air force. [...]

Clare Fitzgerald, warhistoryonline The Purple Heart traces its origins back to the American Revolution. [...]

Mark Cartwright, World History Encyclopedia This gallery of photographs tells the dramatic story of the Second World War (1939-45). The selection aims to reflect the global nature of the [...]

Stephan Blum, The Conversation Based on organic residues - imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level - bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally [...]

Erin Blakemore, NatGeo The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary [...]

Greg McKevitt, BBC Charles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until he retired on 14 December 1999. By then, the unassuming cartoonist had built a billion-dollar empire. [...]

Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]

Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]

Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]

Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]

For decades, natural history books have taught that when a catastrophic asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs and gave mammals – until then mostly small, tree-dwelling creatures – a chance to flourish on the ground​. It’s the classic “mammals rise after dinosaurs fall” narrative.read more [...]

In the past few years my activities on this site - but I would say more in general, as the same pattern happened also on social media - have progressively shifted away from pure casual blogging and reporting of personal matters to a more focused discussion of scientific topics, always lingering around my research interests. read more [...]

When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said, "It’s not a bill I care that much about” but he still signed it, despite the health benefits being well-established and claims of harm being the kind of slimy epidemiology that claims "risk" of BPA, weedkillers, PFAS, and too many products to count.Utah wants to be the California of the right-wing; ban things because it matches the politics of their voters and science will be marginalized.(1)read more [...]

It's easy for Greenpeace employees in cities to talk about farming but in the real world, without pesticides we'd lose 78 percent of fruit, 54 percent of vegetables, and 32 percent of cereal crops. Most farmers want to optimize razor-thin margins and protect their biggest asset, land, so they are cautious about spraying too much, but the organic process leads to startling amounts of nitrogen runoff into rivers and ground water. A study claims 31 percent of agricultural soils around the world were at high risk from pesticide pollution while the old ways of German farmers recently showed they were exposing [...]

In this article I'm going to examine how student feedback plays a pivotal role in enhancing learning design and engagement, particularly in online education environments. I will explore the mechanisms by which timely, constructive feedback not only improves course content and delivery but also empowers students as co-creators in the learning process.read more [...]

If you insist you will only eat berries picked by hand near a stream, you are virtue signaling to other wealthy people that you have more money than than they do, while masking it in a halo of claiming to care about taste or renewability or other nature.No one is fooled. That is why restaurants and consumers who fetish-ize wild caught fight while claiming it is more nutritious or tastes better are so cloying. Sure, there can be differences in taste, just like if you give a chicken different feed, but that is easily solvable, and has been, like in [...]

Perhaps the most important thing to get right from the start, in most statistical problems, is to understand what is the probability distribution function (PDF) of your data. If you know it exactly -something that is theoretically possible but only rarely achieved in practice- you are in statistical heaven: you can use the maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation, and you can get to understand a lot about the whole problem. read more [...]

Environmental lawyers, especially lawyers at Natural Resources Defense Council, exist to sue companies and to have casus belli they need to suggest corporations are killing us all. It is no surprise that NRDC has hired lots of lawyers who are anti-vaccine, anti-cell-phone, anti-food (ingredients, colors, the type of seed), anti-nuclear, etc.If you don't know any scientists or Republicans, and NRDC employs neither, it is easy to demonize them because you never have them looking at you over lunch.(1) NRDC knows a Republican insider now. Their former lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is part of the Trump administration and the "mainstream" [...]

The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, is to kill off all the wild birds. That is not practical but what we can do is stop buying raw pet food. All of it. Now. And never start again. You will kill your cat if it is transmitted in that food. And stop buying raw milk. All of it. Now. And never start again.read more [...]

When a tourist visits California, the first thing they notice getting off of the airplane is a warning sign that the material they are near will give them cancer. Then another one. Then another. Soon, they become invisible but not before people do searches to see how much more cancer Californians develop than everyone else.(1)Not only will most things in Walmart have a cancer warning, the building itself can give you cancer. Photo: Hank Campbellread more [...]