Politics

By Stephen Beale, American Conservative - Localism was once distinctive to the conservative lexicon—like custom, tradition, states’ rights, and human nature. Traditionalists have always defended the loveliness of the local community against the monstrous monolith of the state. It’s a strain of thinking that runs from Southern Agrarians to the present-day Benedict Option… But no more. Liberals have learned to love localism, too.

By Mark Metcalf, Daily Signal - A recent Justice Department report on U.S. immigration courts provides a rare glimpse into the difficulties faced by the Trump administration as it repairs the damages inflicted on these tribunals over the last 20 years... But give credit to the courts’ new executive, James McHenry. Early on, he identified the need for transparency and has made accurate disclosure of court business one of his agency’s highest priorities. Candor, if not reform, demands no less.

By Heather Mac Donald, Manhattan Institute, PragerU, March 23, 2015 America’s campuses, particularly those in California, spend tens of millions of dollars on administrators and programs to […]

By Jordan Candler, The Patriot Post - As columnist Dennis Prager writes4, “Any organization that labels Ayaan Hirsi Ali — the extraordinary Somali-American woman who devotes her life to fighting for oppressed women, especially in the Islamic world — an ‘extremist,’ as the SPLC has done, is not a moral organization.” It is, for all intents and purposes, the Southern Poverty Lies Center.