Author: Keith Lamparter

President Donald Trump has the ability to enact long-lasting change by asking GOP lawmakers to cement many of his initial executive actions into law. [...]

Imagine you are one of those gullible people who believed mentions of a Biden crime family was a Republican fever dream and a sinister plot to smear an honest, devoted father, his surviving son and [...]

Sources familiar tell the Daily Caller that Speaker Mike Johnson was aware of GOP concerns that Rep. Mike Turner was too close to the intelligence community [...]

Democrats will have a hard time making the case against Trump's new immigration moves when some were willing to surrender so quickly on the Laken Riley Act. [...]

Trump took office for the second time with a speech whose omissions revealed as much as what he said and may have left him stronger. [...]

Gunfire and explosions rocked the occupied West Bank's Jenin area on Wednesday, a Palestinian official and an AFP reporter said, as the Israeli military pressed on for a second day with a large-scale raid.The operation, launched just days after a ceasefire paused fighting in Gaza, has left at least 10 Palestinians dead, according to Palestinian health authorities. [...]

Former Syrian detainee Mohammed Najib has suffered for years from torture-induced back pain. Yet he dreaded being taken by his jailers to a military hospital, where he received beatings instead of treatment.The prison guards forbade him from revealing his condition, only sending him to hospital for his likely tuberculosis symptoms -- widespread in the notorious Saydnaya prison where he was detained.Doctors at Tishreen Hospital, the largest military health facility in Damascus, never inquired about the hunch on his back -- the result of sustained abuse. [...]

The controversial amendments were passed alongside laws on land disputes and amnesty for some crimes. [...]

The controversial amendments were passed alongside laws on land disputes and amnesty for some crimes. [...]

Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit. [...]

Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit. [...]

Iran's upper echelons appear to be slowly bridging their gaps over potential dialogue with the new US administration, as the threat of the crippling "maximum pressure" policy looms large. [...]

Iran's upper echelons appear to be slowly bridging their gaps over potential dialogue with the new US administration, as the threat of the crippling "maximum pressure" policy looms large. [...]

Trump fired his longtime Iran envoy, Brian Hook, and revoked the security clearance of former national security adviser John Bolton. His pick to be the Pentagon’s next Middle East policy chief, Michael DiMino, has a history of opposing the idea of joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. [...]

Trump fired his longtime Iran envoy, Brian Hook, and revoked the security clearance of former national security adviser John Bolton. His pick to be the Pentagon’s next Middle East policy chief, Michael DiMino, has a history of opposing the idea of joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites. [...]

Reuven Brenner, Law & Liberty In many ways, the entire macroeconomic sector is comparable to astrology. [...]

John Tamny, RCM Jack Kemp (1935-2009) always felt Republicans should do well with minorities and immigrants. He saw the Republicans as the party of growth and opportunity, and felt his [...]

Kevin Madden, Just Maddening What Companies and Organizations Can Learn from College Football's Game Management Theory [...]

Stephen McBride, RiskHedge RiskHedge—Disruption Research, Disruptive Technology Stocks—RiskHedge helps investors profit from disruption by providing research on the latest breakthrough [...]

David Hebert, AIER The only difference between taxes and tariffs is the location of the seller. Regardless, the buyer pays the cost. [...]

Carol Roth, Fox News Estate planning isn't just to make sure that your wishes are carried out. A proper will makes everything easy for your family and puts all the necessary documents in one [...]

Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]

Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]

R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]

Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]

It is no secret we think that grilling and smoking food outdoors is one of life’s greatest pleasures. But depending on where you live, the weather can be an unwelcome factor in your cooking routine. We’ve talked about how to tackle cold-weather grilling, but it’s also possible to run into issues using your smoker when […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Smoking Meat in the Winter appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The new year is nearly upon us. No, that’s not a typo, nor a not-so-subtle dig at your already-forgotten buying freezes and gym-related resolutions. Rather, a reminder that the Lunar New Year 2025 officially commences on January 29th.  With its associations with wisdom and transformation, the imminent Year of the Snake promises big things. In […] The post Fashion Just Found Its New Favorite Holiday appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Patagonia might immediately bring to mind images of puffers, fleeces and the dreaded tech-bro vest, but the outdoor retailer is so much more than that; from serious hiking gear to fashion-forward styles to sustainable programming, the brand is chock-full of quality offerings. Currently, the brand is hosting its yearly winter sale, which, you guessed it, […] The post Patagonia’s Winter Sale Doesn’t Play by the Rules appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy were initially used — and still are used — to treat diabetes. But in recent years, the uses of this class of drugs have grown in number. Nowadays, Ozempic and its ilk are often used for weight loss — and have shown promise in addressing other health issues. “Promise” […] The post A New Study Explored the Pros and Cons of Drugs Like Ozempic appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

According to the American Cancer Society, the last decade and a half has seen a worrying increase in the number of people under 50 being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Their data shows that, from 2012 to 2021, colorectal cancer rates rose 2.4% per year for this demographic. Making matters even more alarming is a new […] The post Why Are More Healthy Eaters Being Diagnosed With Colon Cancer? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

There are extremely large telescopes — and then there’s the Extremely Large Telescope. (This should not be confused with the Very Large Telescope, the European Southern Observatory’s massive facility.) The Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, will be the largest observatory of its kind when its construction and testing are completed […] The post Light Pollution Could Put Extremely Large Telescope at Risk appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

The Los Angeles wildfires came up a few times on this week’s Saturday Night Live, the show’s first new episode of the year. Host Dave Chappelle alluded to the fires’ devastation in his (17-minute!) opening monologue, including mentioning colleagues who had lost their homes. Chappelle also took the lead in a sketch about a family […] The post Dave Chappelle and “SNL” Made the Case for Go Bags appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

A spare tire, power windows, and now — an internet connection. The number of added features that comes with a car or truck is getting bigger every year, but that isn’t always a good thing. Last year, a New York Times investigation explored how onboard driving systems are sharing information with third parties — something […] The post FTC Proposes Restrictions on GM’s Ability to Share Driver Data appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

It’s safe to say that the scope of Real Time With Bill Maher is national. When politics comes up on the show, it’s usually in a national context — but not always. Given that Maher’s frustrations with local politics occasionally come up on the show, it’s not surprising that the L.A. wildfires were the central […] The post Bill Maher’s First “Real Time” of 2025 Took On Wildfires appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

In August of 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began negotiating drug prices for 10 different types of medication covered by Medicare Part D. The groundwork for the negotiations was established under the Inflation Reduction Act, and it didn’t stop with the initial 10. Now the same agency has announced the next […] The post Medicare Reveals Plans for Ozempic Price Negotiations appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Christian D. Orr, The National Interest You need to score five aerial kills to become an ace, so there's something numerically poetic about the fact that there were indeed a total of five [...]

Blake Stilwell, Military.com Forensics labs need Americans with 18th-century ancestral ties to the states of Maryland, Delaware or North Carolina to come forward for genetic testing. [...]

Ryan Stanton, MLive Many tales are told of World War II, but not widely known is the story of a sergeant from Ann Arbor and his decorated monkey friend Pat P. Pat. [...]

Peter Z. Grossman, RealClearHistory Few of the many encomiums to the late Jimmy Carter mentioned the domestic issue he regarded most crucial. As he put it a couple years after his [...]

Jordan Friedman, HISTORY A 1929 prepaid hospital plan created in Dallas gave rise to early health insurance companies—and helped spur the growth of a major industry. [...]

Dean A. Irwin, Historytoday The first year of Edward I's reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It set the path to their expulsion. [...]

Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]

Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]

Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]

Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]

Soybeans greatly benefit from nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which reduces the need for fertilizer, and a new study shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth as well. Agricultural scientists tested products from Pivot Bio called PROVEN and PROVEN 40, which includes one and two species of soil bacteria, respectively, that turn atmospheric nitrogen into plant-available forms. An edited gene involved in nitrogen fixation makes more of it available so more of it at planting means the bacteria colonize plant roots.read more [...]

The Biden administration recently issued a new report showing causal links between alcohol and cancer, and it's about time. The link has been long-known, but alcohol carcinogenic properties have been waved away with 'use in moderation' rhetoric. We don't tell young people to use cigarettes 'in moderation', even though nicotine doesn't cause cancer, only cigarettes smoke does, so that alcohol has gotten political free pass shows science is always second to politics.read more [...]

If a giant bọ biển (“sea bug”) in Vietnam hasn't been 'named' by an academic in a journal, does it really exist?Yes, because they are impossible to miss. Isopods of the genus Bathynomus are 10 inches long so they are hard to miss, but discovery is a lucrative business in academia so a new one has been named and because the authors say it looks like Darth Vader from "Star Wars" they have deemed it Bathynomus vaderi. read more [...]

In 2018, two black men were arrested in Philadelphia because that Starbucks store had a policy that did not allow people to use their facilities without purchasing something. Social Justice Warriors declared that racist and Starbucks changed their policy. Anyone could use the restrooms and anyone could take up seats, or smoke, or drink alcohol out of a paper bag.read more [...]

Despite nearly two decades of marketing campaigns insisting bees are in decline and science is to blame, the data show otherwise. Bees are not entirely irrelevant in the food supply, and do valuable pollination work in nature, but there are 25,000 other species of bees that are important also, it is only in boutique agriculture that honeybees are meaningful to our food supply.For crops like almonds, bees are rented. They are flown on planes or shipped on trucks and do their work and then go somewhere else. California only has 1.3 million acres of almond trees, which means about 2.6 [...]

I'm a Steelers guy now but I was a late fan. Where I was young in Pennsylvania, three teams in New York and two in Pennsylvania were the same distance to drive - and we did not drive to any of them. So I remained a Cowboys fan.(1) My brother, though, was an Eagles fan of early on. And he's never wavered.Ants think that's the proper way to be. Eagle fans hold grudges and ants respect that, but there is no comparison between the level of grudge Philadelphia has against Michael Strahan or Terrell Owens or Kevin Allen or Jerome McDougle and what [...]

If you want to know where someone is most likely to steal your package, the short answer if you want to stop reading is Washington, DC. The nation's capitol. Infer from that what you will. The cost may be up to $12 billion each year.read more [...]

Senator Tom Coburn used to do an annual report of the most ridiculous abuses of taxpayer money and it always got attention because his Wastebook didn't care if the party behind it was Republican or Democrat, he was a towering figure in fiscal conservatism.You work hard for your money and he wanted you to know when government squandered it. A Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska or a 'study' of how college students use cellphones, none of it should have been using taxpayer funding, but those and many others were.read more [...]

Blood samples of pregnant women have detectable levels of chemicals and that 'chemical cocktail' may pose "neurotoxic risk", according to a paper published in Science whose senior author is strangely on the board of reviewing editors at Science.This "chemical cocktail" nomenclature has been popular among activists like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other environmental lawyers for decades, because it needs no science, it instead means science 'needs more testing', and there will never be enough testing.read more [...]

During Christmas holidays I tend to indulge in online chess playing a bit too much, wasting several hours a day that could be used to get back on track with the gazillion research projects I am currently trying to keep pushing. But at times it gives me pleasure, when I conceive some good tactical sequence. Take the position below, from a 5' game on chess.com today. White has obtained a winning position, but can you win it with the clock ticking? (I have less than two minutes left for the rest of the game...)read more [...]