Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivered an op-ed for The New York Times on Thursday, offering her advice to Democrats on how to win against “brain-dead” Republicans in the future. Clinton, who served as Secretary of State after losing the 2012 Democratic primary to former President Barack Obama, criticized Republicans generally — and President Donald Trump specifically — for requesting an increase to the military budget, complaining that the administration was ignoring working families to do so. Questioning those concerned with America’s falling birth rate — which is well below the replacement rate and predicts an imminent population drop-off — she added, “Their answer is too often nostalgia and misogyny: If we could turn back the clock to a time when women didn’t work (and knew their place), the economy would thrive and families would flourish. This is substantively and politically brain-dead.” Clinton then proceeded to tick off a list of priorities she believed Democrats should focus on if they wanted to succeed in the future — but most of her proposed solutions were either already well-entrenched in the Democratic Party’s platform or had already been tried, with varying degrees of success or failure, by one or both parties. One such solution, according to Clinton, was an increase in child tax credits — specifically refundable tax credits. The IRS describes a refundable tax credit as “a credit you can get as a refund even if you don’t owe any tax.” The end result of a refundable child tax credit would be a redistribution of wealth based on number of dependents — and in past years, this has been accomplished through the Earned Income Credit. Another solution — one that has already been embraced by both parties to some degree — is paid family leave. Clinton also focused on early education, childcare, and health care — all of which have been key elements of her party’s platform for years, if not decades. The key driver in all of those suggestions was her insistence that those programs be delivered at the national level rather than by individual employers looking for a competitive advantage or even by more local jurisdictions where the specific needs of the people in that area could be addressed. Her final suggestion was a national baseline for artificial intelligence safeguards — again, something that both parties and the White House have expressed an interest in exploring.

In the 90s, everyone became very familiar with the term “wag the dog,” in the political context. It was a way of describing how, every time he got into trouble, Bill Clinton ordered a bombing campaign to distract everyone. And of course, the term has lived on. When the United States began bombing Iran a month ago, there were similar allegations — which, as I said at the time, never really made much sense — that Donald Trump had ordered the attack in order to distract everyone from the release of the Epstein Files. It was always a strange claim to make, because there’s nothing in the Epstein Files that actually implicates Trump. But even if the Trump administration isn’t “wagging the dog,” as the saying goes, it stands to reason that other politicians in Washington might try to take advantage of the conflict. When millions of Americans are waiting to see if the president of the United States is going to wipe out an entire civilization, it becomes a lot easier to slip some things past them. That’s one way to explain the new push by Florida Congresswoman and anchor baby María Salazar to pass the so-called “Dignidad Act,” which translates to “Dignity Act.” You see, the name is written in Spanish, just to underscore the point that your country doesn’t belong to you anymore. In particular, Salazar has now launched a nationwide tour to promote this legislation and to assemble what she calls a “Dignity Coalition.” Yesterday I briefly talked about the absurdity of this legislation and how it constitutes an egregious betrayal of American interests on multiple levels. It’s treasonous, actually. A majority of the American public voted for Donald Trump to carry out a lawful campaign of mass deportation. That’s because we recognized, as a country, that we’re transforming into the third world. Everything is becoming more expensive and dangerous, we’re being defrauded at a historic scale, and it’s difficult to find jobs and housing — all because we’ve imported tens of millions of people who have no right to live in this country. But instead of supporting the deportation of these criminals, Republicans like Salazar are attempting to grant mass amnesty. Salazar is also putting together splashy videos like this one to sell the idea. Watch: Have dignity and be proud of supporting a Bill that will support economic growth. 10 Million illegal immigrants deserve to work legally and without fear. Let’s make this happen together. pic.twitter.com/HgPpROreyC — DIGNITY (@dignityactus) November 24, 2025 Source: @dignityactus/X.com She says that the Dignidad Act is “what 10 million illegal immigrants deserve.” You won’t find a more remarkable sentence from a sitting member of Congress. At the precise moment when the SAVE Act is stalled out in the Senate, one of the most prominent Republicans in Congress is telling us that illegal aliens “deserve” an entirely new legal system, just to shield them from deportation. Well, no, actually, they don’t deserve that. 10 million illegal immigrants don’t “deserve” anything — except for immediate deportation. Keep in mind that in order for someone to “deserve” something, someone else has to owe that thing to them. The idea that American citizens owe something — anything at all — to foreigners, to citizens of other nations who are flouting our laws, is deranged in the extreme. And by the way, if these people really wanted “dignity,” or “dignidad,” they’d go back where they came from, instead of committing crimes for their own benefit. In the meantime, the government should try prioritizing the “dignity” of its own citizens. How many Americans have been killed by foreign truck drivers who can’t even read our street signs? How many Americans have seen their car insurance premiums skyrocket because half the people on the road are driving like they’re back home in Mumbai? How many Americans — including students on college campuses — no longer feel safe going out for a jog, or using public transit, because they might turn out to be the next Laken Riley? How many public schools are now delivering their daily announcements in Spanish over the PA system? How many Americans are going paycheck-to-paycheck just to afford their health insurance premiums, while illegal aliens in blue states receive Medicaid and food stamps — something we’re told is supposedly impossible? How many people are struggling to find work because every employer in their industry is looking to hire H-1B’s? How many Americans — the ones who are fortunate enough to have a job — are watching most of their paycheck disappear before they even receive it? How many of them are furious that 40 percent of their salary is earmarked for welfare payments, which go directly into the hands of foreign fraudsters who are running “at-home daycares,” “home hospice services,” and “autism treatment centers”? If you want some more “dignity” in this country, start doing something about those problems. Those are actual problems, and the people who elected you are the ones who are facing them. So just at the outset, without reading a word of this bill, it’s obviously junk. And every leader of the Republican Party — including Trump and Mike Johnson — should say so. But they aren’t doing that, at least not yet. Therefore, it’s important to drill down into the specifics of this legislation, as I alluded to yesterday. As bad as this bill obviously is, it’s actually about ten times worse than it appears. For one thing, Salazar herself has no idea what she’s doing. She has no way of ensuring that her law will only apply to 10 million people or 100 million people. She has no way of knowing whether these foreigners (and their children) are going to contribute to our economy or become permanent leeches. She’s making those claims, but in reality, she has absolutely no idea what’s going to happen if this bill ever becomes law. Let’s start with Section 2101, which implements the so-called “Dream Act.” This would award lawful status to any alien who was “18 years of age or younger on the date on which the alien entered the United States and has continuously resided in the United States since such entry.” Additionally, the alien must have been “continuously physically present in the United States since January 1, 2021,” and he must have obtained some kind of educational credential (or been in the process of obtaining one). He can’t be a national security threat either, nor can he be guilty of a crime involving moral turpitude, multiple criminal convictions with an aggregate sentence of five years or more, or drug trafficking and prostitution. Although there’s an asterisk on that: “For humanitarian purposes, family unity, or if otherwise in the public interest, the Secretary may waive … consideration of— (i) one misdemeanor offense if the alien has not been convicted of any offense in the 5-year period preceding the date on which the alien applies for the Dignity Program; or (ii) up to two misdemeanor offenses if the alien has not been convicted of any offense in the 10-year period preceding the date on which the alien applies for the Dignity Program.” So you can still commit crimes in this country, depending on what those crimes are. And despite those additional crimes — on top of illegal entry — you can qualify for the Dignidad Act. Again, no one voted for this. No one wants this. It’s overcomplicating something that is extremely straightforward: Illegal aliens are illegal aliens. If you came here illegally, then you have to go back to where you came from. Period, no further discussion. But even if, for some unknown reason, you’re tempted to entertain this provision — maybe you watch a lot of network television, or maybe you’re an affluent white liberal woman — then you should know that, in fact, there’s absolutely no way to verify any of this. We have absolutely no way of knowing when, exactly, an illegal alien entered this country. Every single one of them, under this bill, has an incentive to lie about their age and claim they entered the United States before they were 18. But we really have no way of knowing the truth, because they snuck into the country illegally.  Additionally, we have no way of verifying that these people “continuously” remained in the United States, without interruption, for five years. There are American citizens who have lived their entire lives in this country who would have a difficult time proving that they never left, even for a short period of time. (And it’s insane for Democrats, or anyone else, to suggest otherwise. These are the same people who claim it’s impossible for anyone to get an ID or a driver’s license in this country. But now they’re going to ask these people for definitive proof that they’ve never left the country in five years? How exactly is that going to work?) Historically, the federal government has made no real effort to verify the age of anyone crossing the border. And it often leads to catastrophe.  Here’s just one example from the Biden administration: Source: News4JAX The Local Station/YouTube.com As the New York Post reported A 24-year-old Honduran immigrant who’s charged with murder in the brutal stabbing death of a Florida man had crossed the US border illegally months earlier while posing as an unaccompanied minor, an investigation by The Post found. Medina Ulloa was busted Oct. 7 in Jacksonville when he was found covered in blood after allegedly killing Francisco Javier Cuellar, 46, a father of four who had taken in the immigrant who told authorities he was 17. Police said they followed a trail of blood back to the victim’s home and arrested Ulloa, placing him in a juvenile detention facility. It wasn’t until Oct. 13 that authorities learned his real identity — and his true age. So he enters this country claiming to be an “unaccompanied minor.” And because he made that claim, the Biden administration flew him to Florida, at taxpayer expense, where he murdered an American citizen and father of four. And even then — even after this brutal murder — it took the authorities another week to verify his actual age and name. With that in mind, how exactly is Salazar going to ensure that her bill only applies to people who arrived in this country before they were 18? It’s impossible to verify, on its face. These people don’t even have to lie about their current age, which is what Medina Ulloa did. They simply have to lie about the age when they arrived in the country. Last night — credit where it’s due — Laura Ingraham on Fox News did an excellent job making some of these points in an interview with Republican Congressman Mike Lawler of New York, who introduced the Dignidad Act with Salazar. And in response, Lawler lied about the bill. Watch:

The Justice Department opened an investigation into the NFL over potential anticompetitive practices and harm to consumers as the league licenses more games to streaming networks. The investigation, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, comes as NFL fans and some lawmakers have raised concerns about the increasing cost to watch games as the league licenses more games to streaming platforms, such as Netflix, Prime Video, and Peacock. While The Journal stated that the exact nature of the investigation wasn’t immediately clear, CBS News cited sources who told the outlet that the investigation was related to the NFL’s leap into streaming. One anonymous government official told CBS News that the probe is focused on “about affordability for consumers and creating an even playing field for providers.” The Daily Wire reached out to the Justice Department, seeking comment. The NFL said on Thursday that its “media distribution model is the most fan and broadcaster-friendly in the entire sports and entertainment industry.” “With over 87% of our games on free, broadcast television, including 100% of games in the markets of the competing teams, the NFL has for decades put our fans front and center in how we distribute our content,” the league office added. “The 2025 season was our most viewed since 1989 and reflects the strength of the NFL distribution model and its wide availability to all fans.” The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 grants antitrust exemptions to sports leagues, allowing them to package league-wide TV deals that protect revenue sharing and prevent small market teams from being forced to strike major TV deals. With sports leagues such as the NFL and NBA agreeing to move many live broadcasts behind the paywalls of streaming services, some critics argue that the practice could be running afoul of the 1961 law. “The modern distribution environment differs substantially from the conditions that precipitated this exemption,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. “Instead of a small number of free broadcast networks, the NFL now licenses games simultaneously to subscription streaming platforms, premium cable networks, and technology companies operating under different business models.” Games remain free to watch on local stations in the markets of the teams playing, but the most ardent NFL fans watch multiple games a week of teams outside their local market. Many NFL fans have expressed frustration that the NFL’s agreements with multiple streaming platforms complicates viewing and makes it more expensive to watch the NFL. During the 2025-2026 season, 20 games were available exclusively on streaming platforms, including two Christmas Day games that were streamed on Netflix. The league has signaled that even more games will move to streaming platforms in the near future, including playoff matchups. In a letter to the Justice Department last month, Senator Lee wrote, “To watch every NFL game during the past season, football fans spent almost $1,000 on cable and streaming subscriptions.” The NFL’s streaming craze has shown no signs of slowing down, and the NFL is expected to push for more partnerships with digital platforms beginning in 2029, when the league has the ability to opt out of some of its current broadcast TV contracts.

When Donald Trump first ran for president, many of us on the Right reveled in the thrill of the brazen businessman swinging a chainsaw at the bureaucratic beast that had spent years grinding down conservatives, families, and young men. In the years that followed, we often felt vindicated. The Left had lied for years. Institutions failed us. COVID “experts” betrayed the public, Russiagate was a horrific hoax, and 2020’s summer of riots confirmed that rules only applied to the non-woke. Distrust was earned. But recently, young conservatives — especially men — have traded righteous anger at the Left for a toxic victimhood that mirrors everything we once fought against. They parrot conspiracies and insist that everything — America, young men, the world — is doomed and the cards are stacked against them, no matter what. This isn’t anti-establishment courage. It’s the same grievance politics the Left perfected, now wearing a red hat. As Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro warned during his recent appearance on the Hoover Institution’s “Uncommon Knowledge” podcast, this internal rot — conspiracy culture, corrosive cynicism, and a Marxist-style obsession with exploding “the system” instead of fixing our own lives — is how conservatism loses its soul. Shapiro warns that the Right’s biggest threat isn’t the Left anymore. It’s us falling into the same victimhood trap. “You don’t want to solve your problems,” he told host Peter Robinson, “because you say, they’re not my problems, they’re society’s problems and I can’t solve those problems unless society is exploded. It’s almost a Marxist vision of history.” This turns the Right away from traditional American ideals of individual agency and toward emotional, anti-institutional rage. I see this with my friends: it’s hurting relationships, crushing success, and handicapping personal ambition. Young men specifically are suffering, and the Left bears real blame. Male suicide rates remain four times higher than women’s. For men ages 15-24, rates jumped 26% between 2010 and 2023. Millions of young men are falling behind in education, struggling to launch careers, and checking out of relationships. The Left’s oppressor-oppressed matrix, its war on masculinity, its celebration of broken families, and its assault on merit have left a generation of boys, and more and more females, feeling like the villain in their own country. That pain is legitimate. But wallowing in it, embracing black-and-white “they all lie” thinking, and letting resentment replace agency, is surrender.  Shapiro calls this “depixelation” — the collapse of nuance after three trust-shattering blows happened near-simultaneously: the media’s Russiagate lies, COVID’s contradictory mandates, and the Black Lives Matter double standard that let cities burn while the rest of us were locked down. Suddenly, everything became binary. No evidence needed; just rage. That’s dangerous. Shapiro illustrates this perfectly using an episode of  Joe Rogan’s podcast. In it, Michael Shellenberger debunked Jeffrey Epstein blackmail claims against Trump. Rogan’s response? “Just because there’s no evidence doesn’t mean they won’t find it later.” Ben Shapiro’s apt reply: “The moon is made of cheese? Well, have you been to the moon? Do you trust the people who went?” Herein lies the danger. Once you are in that logical framework, accepting unfalsifiable logic — the same kind Karl Popper warned destroys real inquiry — you can be sold anything. Conspiracy theorizing without evidence isn’t just wrong; it’s a grift that turns people into marks for clicks, bile, and personalities over principles. Ask yourself if these voices have strengthened the conservative movement or improved society. The answer is no. Instead, they’ve left a trail of anger, resentment, bitterness, and hopelessness. They raise questions but never offer answers. They push dark narratives instead of teaching what actually works. The end result is paralysis — a generation left stagnant and vulnerable.   This is the horseshoe theory in action: The far Left and the grievance Right meet in the same dead end of inertia and despair. It’s why so many young men I know are single and sluggish. Ambition is crushed. Relationships die. Society gets weaker. The evidence is all around us; dating apps are flooded with it. The problem with today’s populace is that too many of us no longer know how to defend an idea. We follow personalities — blindly, willingly — because we like the way they speak and the anger they validate. But when asked why we believe what we believe, or the logic behind it, we fall silent. This is the trap of following people instead of ideas. Shapiro’s solution — and what I’ve been echoing — is a return to true conservatism: personal responsibility, evidence-based thinking, and relentless problem-solving. We must return to our foundational principles and place reason over raw emotion. We need to read, learn, and embrace a coherent set of values rather than a rotating cast of influencers. But none of that yearning for knowledge and truth can happen until we first reclaim autonomy over our own lives. As Shapiro puts it, “Individual responsibility is the lodestar of a successful society.” He’s right. Yes, institutions have failed many people — especially young men. But the answer is not to burn everything down or retreat into conspiracy. The answer is to rebuild on principle, agency, and honest analysis. Pure anti-Left reactionism or personality cults will never save conservatism. We won’t save conservatism by worshiping personalities or “owning the libs.” We can defend it by knowing why it’s right — by reading the Founders, studying evidence, and choosing reason over emotion. Institutions failed us, yes. But the solution isn’t burning them down. It’s rebuilding.

President Donald Trump blasted his former allies Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones on Thursday, calling the podcasters “nut jobs and troublemakers” over their comments on Trump’s recent actions. Trump published a nearly 500-word post on Truth Social blasting his former supporters for their attacks on the administration, which have gained the attention of legacy media outlets and leftists. “I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!” Trump wrote. All four of the commentators have become increasingly critical of the president over his decision to launch “Operation Epic Fury” and attack Iran. Earlier this week, Carlson urged U.S. military members to refuse Trump’s orders and claimed that Trump was considering using a weapon of mass destruction “on the population of Iran.” Kelly said on Wednesday that Trump was “bamboozled” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and blasted the president as “too weak” and “too gullible” to push back on Netanyahu’s argument to attack Iran. On Sunday, Owens called the Trump administration “satanic” and said, “satanic Zionists occupy the White House and Congress.” She also called for “Mad King Trump” to be removed from office. Jones has similarly called for Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment. “Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did!” Trump said of the four podcasters. “They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some ‘free’ and cheap publicity. Now they think they get some ‘clicks’ because they have Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody’s talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA — Or I wouldn’t have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE.” Trump added that Carlson has “never been the same” since he was fired from Fox News and suggested that he “see a good psychiatrist.” He also ripped Owens over her claims that French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife is a man, adding that he hopes Macron’s wife wins her lawsuit against Owens. “Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close!” Trump added. Trump then ripped Jones over his “horrendous” Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, which led to a court ordering Jones to pay $1.5 billion in damages to the families of the mass shooting victims. “These so-called ‘pundits’ are LOSERS, and they always will be! Now Fake News CNN, The Failing New York Times, and all of the other Radical Left ‘News’ Organizations, are ‘hailing’ them, and giving them ‘positive’ press for the first time in their lives,” Trump continued. “They’re not ‘MAGA,’ they’re losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA.” “As President, I could get them on my side anytime I want to, but when they call, I don’t return their calls because I’m too busy on World and Country Affairs and, after a few times, they go ‘nasty,’ just like Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown, but I no longer care about that stuff, I only care about doing right for our Country,” he added. “MAGA is about WINNING and STRENGTH in not allowing Iran to have Nuclear Weapons. MAGA is about MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and these people have no idea how to do that, BUT I DO, because THE UNITED STATES IS NOW THE “HOTTEST” COUNTRY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!”