Reviews and Reflections on Life In America
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) President Trump might have violated federal law last night when he promised to send $5,000 to every American if the Republican Party keeps its majority in Congress. Speaking at the midterm GOP convention in Dallas, Trump claimed that the United States was making so much money that the government, which is $40.1 trillion in debt and climbing, can afford to...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Frightening data assembled by a top think tank show that the 9/11 Muslim terror attack did nothing to slow immigration from the Islamic world, and in fact might have inspired open-borders officials to increase it. A report released today by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that the number of Islamic-world immigrants to the United...
by Paleo Pundit The Center for Immigration Studies recently published an analysis arguing that the foreign-born population has declined by 2.9 million since January 2025. CIS went further, claiming that the illegal-immigrant population has fallen by roughly 2.3 million over that period. I wrote a short article explaining why I think we should be cautious about those numbers. Here is another piece...
By Wayne Allensworth Donald Trump made his name partly by building casinos, and he seems to think the entire country is one large gaming table, ripe for exploitation. Whether it’s Kalshi, Polymarket, Fan Duel, or Draft Kings, Trump is the pro-gambling president. His administration has made it easier for these online gambling venues to go nationwide, encouraging a self-destructive addiction that...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) GOP Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky named names in the Epstein Files on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, in announcing that he will seek a discharge petition to put yet another Epstein Files bill up for a vote. The list included some of the most prominent names in the country, including bazillionaire hotel tycoon Thomas Pritzker...
By Paleo Pundit Last year, I questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s claim that 1.6 million illegal immigrants had “self-deported” since Donald Trump returned to office. The evidence offered for that assertion relied heavily on changes in the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS), and I argued that the survey was being asked to bear more weight than it...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) As expected, boosters for the war against Iran now admit what everyone knew when President Trump scrapped the Constitution and attacked the country on behalf of Israel. An air campaign will not bring Iran to heel. That leaves one option: Ground troops — hundreds of thousands of soldiers and Marines on the ground, slugging it out in a country that Israel...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Congressional resistance to law enforcement’s increasingly using Flock cameras to code and trace the activities of Americans without a warrant is growing rapidly. The concern: The cameras are a mass-surveillance tool that permits cops to skirt the Fourth Amendment to the federal Constitution. Last week, GOP U.S. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri...
By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American) Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s resignation because of his squabbles with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has invited the usual speculation about his replacement. One candidate is a man who volunteered for the Israel Defense Forces, and once wore an IDF uniform in the halls of Congress: GOP Representative Brian Mast of Florida. The possibility has undoubtedly...
By Wayne Allensworth CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s “secret” visit to Moscow last week prompted a flurry of speculation about its purpose and what transpired at his meeting with Russian intelligence chiefs. Ratcliffe did not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but with Russian Foreign Intelligence (SVR) chief Sergei Naryshkin and the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr...
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