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Leviathan and Its Enemies
Leviathan and Its Enemies is a book about power: who has it, how they got it, how they keep it, and whether it can be taken from them.
‘Diversity is Our Strength’ or Maybe Not
The standard platitude that immigration expansionists like to promote—that “diversity is our strength”—is dangerously naïve and, in some cases, fatally flawed.
Boston Mayor Wu Runs Unopposed
Despite the red ink that engulfs Wu, she paid $950 per hour—a total of $650,000—to prepare for congressional testimony defending Boston’s sanctuary city practices.
Congress Introduces Bill to Cure TDS
If TDS were limited to the area in and around Capitol Hill, the condition might be more understandable.
New York Times Conflates ‘Undocumented” Alien with US Citizen
An illegal aliens’ employers hired him without processing his stolen Social Security number through E-Verify. A citizen paid the consequences.
Maine 2026 Candidates Face Off
In Maine, polling means nothing. Votes cast in the Maine senators’ offices affect Americans in the other 49 states.
Red Ink Flowing in CA: $35B in Next Two Years
Some political analysts have Newsom leading for the Democratic nomination. Defending his dismal management of state funds will be impossible.
Maga: “There You Go Again”
To make a big splash before midterm campaigning begins, Trump should follow the advice of CIS fellow John Miano that the best H-1B solution is to end it.
The Newsom Hairdo: Style Over Substance
The presidential election may hinge on the popularity of Newsom’s heavily gelled hairstyle. Like it or not, substance has taken a back seat to style.
More Japanese coming to MLB in 2026, Blame the Bushes
MLB rosters should be limited to three international players, impossible to envision as part of globalist commissioner Rob Manfred’s agenda.
Blue Governors and Mayors Don’t Support Removing Violent Felons
About 70% of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests involve illegal immigrants with serious criminal convictions on their records.
USCIS Introduces New Citizenship Test
Executive Order 14161 directs DHS to promote lawful immigrants’ assimilation and to foster “unified American identity and attachment to the Constitution, laws, and founding principles of the United States.”
$100,000 Visa Fee Small Price for H-1B Indentured Servitude
The visa is valid for three years and includes automatic three-year renewal. With companies paying about $16,666 per year over a six-year term for an indentured worker, $100,000 is a bargain basement deal for employers.
Pennsylvania’s High-Stakes Supreme Court Election
Up for grabs: a Superior and a Commonwealth court seat, 18 district attorney races and 32 sheriff races. Stakes for Pennsylvanians are high, and voter turnout will be key.
With Prop 50 Vote Near, Cheating Wealthy Donors Out in Force
Prop 50 would suspend the voter-approved congressional map drawn by a nonpartisan commission in 2021 to give Democrats an advantage.
Johnson Untethered from Reality that Chicago Wants ICE
Black residents of Chicago applauded ICE officers as they went about their jobs removing criminals from the city.
How e-Verify could have saved Des Moines from Ian Roberts Fiasco
With every passing day, the scandal surrounding DMPS’s hiring of Guyanese con man Roberts as its superintendent grows more incredible.
Flim-Flam Guyanese Dupes Woke Des Moines School Board
Ian Roberts’ story has so many variations that investigators are still sorting through his background and trying to make sense of it all.
Voters and Hochul’s blessing of Mamdani
Voters soon to question Hochul’s blessing of Mamdani and wonder if it represents future self-serving choices she might make.
Trump Unloads on ‘Woke’ UN, Promotes Sovereignty
Most politicians encourage questions but then do their best to dodge actually answering them. Trump breaks this mold.
Erika and Charlie, Standard-bearers for a Better America
Charlie Kirk successfully encouraged Americans, especially the country’s youth, to realize the blessing that “America First” represents.
Bondi: Strike Two!
The Supreme Court recognizes Congress as the authority over whether aliens enter or remain. State and municipal governments do not.
Virginia’s Bellwether Election; Conservatism v. Biden-ism
The political trend is shifting away from the left and toward the more moderate middle ground that Earle-Sears represents.
E-Verify Would Stop Hyundai Mess Before It Started
The immigration enforcement action at Georgia’s Hyundai Motor plant demonstrates how many things go wrong when the federal government ignores its own immigration laws for nearly 40 years. Law enforcement officers arrested approximately 475 illegal aliens, roughly 300 of them South Koreans, on September 4 at an electric vehicle battery factory under construction near Savannah, ...
Chicago’s Killing Fields
Pritzker and Johnson rail against the possibility that President Trump may send in the National Guard to stem citywide violence.
Wu’s Diminishing Re-Election Prospects
Speaking as Boston’s highest-ranking official, Wu joins a protest of ICE enforcement actions against criminal illegal immigrants.
Sanctuary States and CDLs a Deadly Combo
California Code of Regulations requires legal immigration status to get a CDL but the state’s sanctuary state policy granted Singh’s CDL.
Californians Souring on Newsom
The wonder is how someone who has reached such high elected office could be so clueless about the political game’s fundamentals.
At Last! DOJ to End Illegal Aliens’ In-State Tuition Breaks
In-state university tuition rates for illegal aliens affects taxpayers in more than 20 states that spend those dollars subsidizing it.
Dolores Huerta and the H-2A Visa Program
Because of President Donald Trump’s commitment to federal immigration law enforcement and a Politico profile titled “What Would It Take to Get Citizens to Work the Farm?”, Dolores Huerta, the 95-year-old California labor activist, is back in the news. Huerta worked with Cesar Chavez to create the National Farm Workers Association, now known as the ...