Government and police surveillance tools have multiplied. Some detect actual violence in public. Others build permanent, searchable records of ordinary people’s movements. The distinction matters. ShotSpotter: Targeting Gunfire, Not Conversations ShotSpotter (now under SoundThinking) uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots and alert police to the location within seconds. Cities deploy it in high-violence areas. Studies […]
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Somewhere inside the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget this week, an analyst hit “publish” on a paper that should have led the evening news. The finding: no single change to how Washington taxes Social Security benefits will save the program. Reforming benefit taxation could help, the group said, in its July 30 paper on the subject, but only as one piece […]
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Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, has just stirred up a lot of controversy. He said that he wanted to go after property owners who had homes worth more than $5 million, and they were likely to be second homes. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily […]
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James Talarico, the Texas Democrat running for Senate and self-styled Presbyterian seminarian, has decided the New Testament is a policy brief for Medicare expansion. At a church town hall in DeSoto on July 20, he told the crowd that Jesus spent most of His time healing the sick, not preaching or teaching. Therefore, according to […]
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President Trump announced that his Board of Peace has secured an agreement for the complete, phased disarmament of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. The deal is framed as a major step in implementing his earlier 20-point plan and the Sharm el-Sheikh framework. Governance of Gaza would transfer to a new Palestinian technocratic body, […]
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“Evil” is one of those words people use freely but rarely define. It is usually reserved for murderers, dictators, and assorted sociopaths who make no effort to conceal their contempt for human life. But the more interesting question is whether evil must involve cruelty or whether it can arise from something far more commonplace, e.g., […]
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Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has become the rare Democrat whom many Republicans openly praise. He criticizes his own party’s extremes, votes against government shutdowns, backs Israel without apology, and talks about securing the border and deporting criminal illegal immigrants. That combination makes him stand out in a caucus drifting left. It does not make him […]
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Who caused unaffordability? Fear about “affordability” supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism. Yet annual inflation during former President Joe Biden’s four years averaged almost 5%. It peaked at over 9%, while prices for some key staples rose by 30% over his tenure—all to silence from the Left. (By contrast, annual inflation during Trump’s first term averaged […]
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A group of prominent Trump skeptics has moved from public criticism to an actual meeting. Former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, outgoing Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent, and Greene’s new husband Brian Glenn gathered recently. Greene posted a photo from the session—reportedly at Carlson’s Maine property—on August […]
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has spent years lecturing the country on systemic racism and equity. In 2026 he turned that same language on the Department of Homeland Security, accusing ICE recruitment materials of deploying “white nationalist slogans, songs, and imagery.” He demanded answers about whether the agency had been “infiltrated by violent extremists.” […]