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The U.S. government has taken a 10 percent interest in Intel which used to be the primary manufacturer of computer chips in the U.S. The government is now reportedly the largest shareholder in Intel. The Trump administration is now looking at whether other defense contractors should be partly — or wholly — owned by the government. This is a tremendously bad idea. The Trump administration should be concentrating on rebuilding our military, which it isn’t doing. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the Trump administration is having a “monstrous discussion” about taking a stake in defense companies. He said that Lockheed Martin is “basically an arm of the U.S. government,” and asked, “What’s the economics of that? I’m going to leave it to my secretary of defense and the deputy secretary of defense.” Wow. Lutnick is defaulting in his job because it’s his responsibility — along with the secretaries of the Treasury and Defense — who should be shouting that the ownership of defense contractors should never be the government’s business. That’s true because the free market isn’t designed that way. Government bureaucrats aren’t responsible to shareholders or, in literal terms, anyone else. They are non-independent actors who look out for the bureaucracies that they are a part of. Among bureaucrats there is no thought of the free market though they happily take control of whatever they can. Shareholders can be relied on to look after their own interests in a growing or shrinking market. The market for computer chips — semiconductors to the trade — is rapidly evolving because nations and commercial interests are driving computers to artificial intelligence (AI). They haven’t reached that point yet. No computer functions as a human brain can. And maybe AI should never be reached, as we learned from the “Terminator” movies where the AI took over the world and declared humanity superfluous. China and several other nations are driving their research to achieve real AI as soon as it can. I’ve looked at both Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and George Gilder’s Wealth and Poverty. Neither says that the government should take control of defense contractors or any other types of businesses. Conservative economics, going back 250 years, prohibits government control of industry. Seizing — even buying — the means of production is not consistent with freedom. For Trump to take a 10 percent interest in Intel — be it a bailout or something more likely to take control of Intel’s business — is precisely the wrong thing to do. We should have learned that from the British nationalization of their steel industry. That happened in 1949 and 1967, both times reversed by conservative governments. The Keir Starmer regime — again, a hyper-liberal government — re-imposed nationalization in 2025 because China had taken control of it. That, too, will be reversed by a conservative government if one is even possible in the UK at this point. Intel’s fall from market dominance was caused by several factors, not the least of which is cheaper labor in Taiwan whose TSMC now dominates the chip market. Its chips are greatly faster than anything made in the U.S. Our defense capabilities are now mostly dependent on Taiwanese chips. Intel now outsources its most advanced chips to TSMC. China has promised to take Taiwan by force if necessary by 2027. What can we do to save the U.S. chip industry? In 2022, under the Biden administration, the “CHIPS Act” was meant to provide needed assistance to U.S. chip companies and gave power to government agencies to “help.” Trump has traded that support for Intel for the 10 percent ownership of Intel. What could possibly go wrong? This is where Murphy’s Law takes effect, especially if it spreads to other companies and industries. Government is unable to make market decisions especially where the survival of an industry is at stake. Can government make better decisions as to what products to manufacture or how best to predict the evolution of those products? No. We might fancy a takeover of the chip industry by DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — but that too would be a mistake. Independent research and development accomplished by industry is a more reliable factor. Two war stories illustrate this. Years ago, when I worked for Lockheed, I was told the history of stealth by its inventor, the late great Ben Rich who was the boss of the Lockheed Skunk Works which built classified aircraft. He told me that the CIA used to send him translations of Russian mathematical journals. Ben said that one Sunday morning, when he was reading one such translation, he stumbled across an article by a Russian mathematician who claimed to have a formula that would determine the radar cross-section of any object. As Ben said, he spilled his coffee, dropped his cigarette on the carpet,and called his team into action. The result was the first stealth aircraft, the F-117. When I served in the Pentagon during the First Gulf War, DARPA was under the nominal control of our office. The director, Vic Reis, stopped by my office on his way to then-secretary of defense’s Dick Cheney’s office. He told me that General Schwarzkopf had sent an urgent message to Cheney complaining that, on the first day of the war, several of our armored vehicles had been hit by friendly fire because of the dense sand storms. In Vic Reis’s hands was the solution. It was a coffee can shaped object that produced a powerful infra-red signal flashing “good guy” to any aircraft above. The prototype had been produced in just one day. It attached to the friendly vehicle and saved a lot of lives. That’s what U.S. industry was capable of then. It should be relied on to do more of the same now. Lockheed-Martin is, as Lutnick said, basically an arm of the U.S. government. Is it next on the list for a government takeover? The Trump administration should be concentrating on rebuilding our military, which it isn’t doing. As I’ve written before, the Navy needs more and better ships and the Air Force is older and less ready to fight than it has ever been. It’s time to rebuild our military. The initiative to rebuild shipbuilding by relying on South Korean shipyards is only a part of it. Our warfighters need the best and most advanced weaponry possible. That will take tens of billions — maybe hundreds of billions — of dollars to accomplish. Changing ownership of industries to government control is not going to do that. 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On a chilly Monday morning in September, James Bond approached the SIS building in Albert’s Embankment. He’d been coming to this bland grey cube for 30 years and he still missed the gothic stone tower of Century House. Which far better reflected the second oldest profession for servants of Her — His — Majesty’s Secret Service. “No wonder our conference meetings resemble a Sojo bar happy hour.” Bond swallowed as he often did when mentally revising the famous term for his employer. For most of his career, the late Queen had been a glorious symbol of the Crown, bearing it with grace, dignity, and Christian strength. The image of her while in the farthest, tightest spots around the world always gave Bond a lift — and the impetus to carry out some rather sordid assignments. The current monarch was a twit and an empty royal suit, Bond thought, more concerned with climate change and cultural diversity than defending the Faith or the country. The Islamic call to prayer held recently at Windsor Castle still vexed Bond. He got on splendidly with many Muslims — like his ill-fated Turkish Intelligence friend Ali Kerim Bey — but he deplored seeing them take over the royal seat of kings even for an hour. He knew too many who had a more permanent stay in mind, along with a fanatical hatred for British and Western values. Entering M’s outer office, Bond’s former cheer at the sight of Miss Moneypenny took the now customary blow. The fetching, frisky, and feminine secretary wore an indistinct grey pants suit with a white blouse and little makeup, making their once enjoyable flirtation more of a conscious effort. Bond accepted the challenge for all mankind and forayed once more unto the breach. “Good morning, Moneypenny. Are you going undercover too?” “Undercover, James?” Miss Moneypenny asked with a smile that belied her outfit. “As a cold misandrist rather than the volcanic siren I admire.” Miss Moneypenny smiled again. “Service policy,” she said. “To discourage sexist straight white male agents like you. Fortunately, you’re the last one in the Double-0s.” “The last sexist?” “And straight white male.” “No wonder our conference meetings resemble a Sojo bar happy hour.” “How would you know about that?” “Professional secret, Moneypenny,” said Bond. “Strictly need to know.” Miss Moneypenny laughed. The red light over M’s office door turned green. Bond went through it. The real M made Judi Dench seem like a Bond Girl, Bond thought. This prompted his reflection on the films based on the books that fictionalized his exploits. Before the Hollywood Left corrupted them. While the early movies exaggerated his physical prowess, the original actor was far closer to him than the asexual mope who last portrayed him. He hadn’t agonized over Vesper Lynd for 20 hours, let alone 20 years. His recollection of Vesper’s beauty vanished in the presence of M’s frizzy hair, aggressive glasses, and dour expression. “Delicate mission for you, Double-O-Seven,” M said. “Requiring your license to kill.” “Blofeld, I hope.” “Far more powerful, and dangerous to the nation.” “That’s a high bar, ma’am,” said Bond. “Target?” “Elon Musk.” It took all of Bond’s discipline to project calmness. “There must be some mistake,” he said. “The order comes from high above my level.” “Musk’s a hero. He saved free speech in America, thus America itself. Without him, the previous administration and its lapdog media would have quashed all exposure of its plots and the President’s mental infirmity. Donald Trump would never have been elec — ” M’s worried expression inspired Bond. “But of course,” he said. “Musk has turned his full attention to our side of the Pond. Downing Street is doing what the Biden Democrats dreamed of — arresting people for social media posts critical of its policies. Such as burying the rape of 70,000 girls last year by Muslim immigrants in England and Wales. The Metropolitan Police are conducting raids reminiscent of the Stasi. And Musk is rallying the opposition — the British people — with a little help from the White House.” “I read a recent post by him on X,” continued Bond. “Went something like, ‘The sniveling cowards who allowed the mass rape of little girls in Britain are still in power … for now.’ Clearly, he intends to change that. No wonder your masters want to stop him.” “You have your orders, Double-O-Seven.” “And I disrespectfully resign,” said Bond, adding, “Ma’am.” Walking on the Thames Path ten minutes later, Bond felt much as he had in East Berlin. His mobile rang. He noted the ID and took the call. “Hello, Felix,” he said. “This may be our last chat. But there’s something you should know.” READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Disney’s Lost Boys The Winter of Our Contentment The Empire Strikes Out on Canada

The Republican Congress returns from summer vacation on Tuesday, just after Labor Day. And not a moment too soon! President Donald J. Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill is now part of the U.S. Code. Its tax cuts, border-security funds, deregulatory language, pro-energy provisions, and much more should fuel safety and prosperity for years. But there is much more to do. Republicans on Capitol Hill should take Trump’s relevant EOs to date, staple them together, and pass them as the Orders into Statutes Act of 2025. Republicans must remember this: Controlling the GOP House, Senate, and White House is not a permanent condition — at least not yet. Dazed and confused Democrats seem as far from retaking power as they have for decades. The midterm elections are scheduled for November 3, 2026 — light years away in politics. Who knows what plot twist could hand Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D – New York) the House speaker’s gavel or restore Chuck Schumer (D-New York) as Senate majority leader. Before anything so unthinkable unfolds, the GOP should use its levers of power to unleash a conveyor belt of bills that advance the America First agenda as well as other measures that conservatives have advocated since Bill Buckley was a boy. Here is a handy to-do list: Zero Rights for Illegal Aliens It seems unclear whether those who invade America with neither passports nor permission have any rights in this society. Consider “Maryland dad” Kilmar Abrego-Garcia. This illegal alien broke into this country. No one invited him. He breached the border in 2011 and, according to two federal proceedings, is a member of MS-13, the ultra-violent Salvadoran prison gang. All indications are that he is a human smuggler, wife beater, and child pornographer. Despite these sparkling credentials, Abrego-Garcia is like malaria. He never completely goes away. The second he is deported, legal briefs fly, black robes leap from closets, and one federal judge or other hops onto his bench to declare that Abrego-Garcia’s “rights” have been violated. The jurist orders yet another hearing, and this thug gets to stay in America, at taxpayers’ expense, for another month or three. Illegal aliens, criminal and otherwise, routinely exploit ambiguities in the law to assert a host of “rights,” always ignoring the fact that these people are as entitled to stay here as a home invader trying to occupy one’s guest room: Zero. So, the GOP Congress should pass a simple law: While legal immigrants, with passports and visas, will continue to enjoy a variety of rights and privileges, illegal aliens have no rights whatsoever, other than to be sent home, from whence they came, as swiftly as possible. One exception: In a case of mistaken identity (e.g., “You seek an illegal alien named Elio B. Gomez. I am a Green Card holder named Elio D. Gomez”), the aggrieved party should be able to prove his legal status. Aside from that, a new federal law should specify, at long last, that illegal aliens have zero rights in America, other than to request help to get the hell out. No Illegal Aliens in the Census The GOP Congress should make it abundantly clear that from 2025 hence, illegal aliens will not be counted in any Census. The Census should enumerate American citizens and legal immigrants. Those who penetrated America’s frontiers or overstayed their welcomes should not be included in the national, state, county, and local population totals that govern reapportionment and the allocation of federal resources. Period. Secure Election Integrity Republicans should adopt comprehensive election reforms that would deprive Democrats of their corrupt election-theft tools. Such a measure would apply to federal elections and ban mass-mail-in ballots, limit absentee ballots to those who — what a concept! — will be absent from the polls on Election Day, and end Election Quarter and return to Election Day (if necessary, a national holiday or voting over an entire weekend). This bill also would require voter ID, mandate clean voter rolls devoid of relocated and deceased voters, disqualify any ballot that arrives after polls close, and limit voting exclusively to U.S. citizens. These changes should shift the quality of U.S. elections from equatorial to First World. DOGE Into Dollars The Republican Congress should work closely with the Department of Government Efficiency to create a bill called Doge into Dollars. This would take every penny of budget savings identified by DOGE and turn it into statutes, budget language, and other vehicles that would make these fiscal reductions permanent. This could save taxpayers up to $205 billion up front and potentially billions more thereafter. Codify President Trump’s Executive Orders Similarly, President Donald J. Trump’s stacks of executive orders could be reversed on January 20, 2029, if, say, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-California) or entrepreneur Mark Cuban is in the Oval Office rather than Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio. So, Republicans on Capitol Hill should take Trump’s relevant EOs to date, staple them together, and pass them as the Orders into Statutes Act of 2025. It is much tougher to undo a federal law than to sign the death certificate for an executive order, which a Democrat president could do in about five seconds. Republicans should deny Democrats that chance. No More Rule by Autopen Speaking of executive orders, Republicans should require presidents to use their own hands to sign anything that would have the force of law. Using an autopen to sign a letter congratulating the Ames, Iowa, 4-H Club for its jumbo hogs is one thing. Executive orders, pardons, vetoes, and approvals of bills all must be signed, personally, by the president. This measure would earn unanimous GOP support. Democrats would squirm: A “Yes” vote would reinforce the case against President Joe Biden who is suspected of yielding his authority to two Autopen machines. Whether Biden had any idea what was signed in his name is an ongoing mystery. A “No” vote would put Democrats on the record for letting machines serve as president. This would be a bad look for Democrats. Adopt the HOT Tax Republicans should remove one arrow from the Left’s quiver and snap it loudly in half. Wealthy Leftists, such as Abigail Disney and über-hypocrite Warren Buffet, say they want to pay higher taxes … therefore Congress should hike taxes across the board. Disney and her ilk have every right to crave steeper tax bills. But they have no right to stick their guilty fingers into other Americans’ wallets. The Higher Optional  Tax or HOT Tax would be a simple box added to every IRS tax return — individual income, capital gains, corporate, death, etc. It would state: “If you believe that your federal tax rate on this form is too low, please enter whatever higher tax rate you wish to pay. Multiply your taxable income by that rate, enter that amount here, and send it to the IRS.” The HOT Tax would let bleeding hearts like Disney and her rich friends expiate their guilt while leaving other taxpayers unscathed. Without this arrow, Democrats no longer could use “these billionaires want to pay higher taxes” as an excuse to fleece Americans across the board. Parliamentary Hygiene The GOP needs to stop playing nice with Democrats and, instead, govern as ruthlessly as they do, when they are in command. It is inexcusable that Republicans still let the Congressional Budget Office evaluate tax and spending bills via Keynesian static scoring rather than supply-side dynamic scoring. The result? The CBO’s price tags on tax-cut bills always emerge higher than their actual, real-world cost. The CBO ignores the fact that tax reductions “lose” money at first. They then generate higher revenues due to faster economic growth. Smaller slices of bigger pies lead to more total pie. The House Ways & Means Committee reported last February that the Trump/GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has yielded $502 billion in federal revenues more than CBO estimated when TCJA was enacted in 2017. Republicans have every right and all the power to instruct the CBO to abandon the discredited static scoring methods and immediately adopt far more accurate, real-world dynamic scoring. Economists who comply should carry on. Those who resist should be sacked. This is not cute or a game. This is basic leadership, which is the least that a majority of American voters expect from their GOP Congress. Likewise, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough nixed a host of conservative reforms from the One Big Beautiful Bill. Among them, border-security provisions  and Medicaid-savings proposals. If MacDonough is a nice lady, Senate Republican Leader John Thune of South Dakota should invite her to his next Christmas party. However, this appointee of Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the notorious and late former Democrat leader, no longer should derail one vital conservative reform after another. The Senate Republican majority should thank McDonough for her service, throw her a lovely farewell lunch, and then replace her with a Senate parliamentarian who will find free-market and limited-government initiatives worthy of inclusion under reconciliation rules. In that connection, some of these measures could pass the House and withstand a filibuster by Senate Democrats. If so, fine. However, if any of this requires use of the reconciliation process, to adopt a comprehensive bill by a simple majority, rather than 60 votes, then Republicans should proceed at once with SOBBB — the Son of One Big Beautiful Bill! READ MORE from Deroy Murdock: Trump’s Secret Weapon Deserves a World Record Make the Census Great Again: Stop Counting Illegal Aliens ​Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.

As social media companies begin to navigate the patchwork of age verification laws in parts of the United States, people in Great Britain are dealing with the frustrating reality of those diktats. The Online Safety Act (OSA) requires all websites to make sure users are over the age of 18. The sites have to use facial recognition, ID scans, digital identity wallets, or bank documents to confirm someone’s identity, instead of the usual box-ticking exercises that Americans check when they visit certain sites. Kids Online Safety Act … empowers government bureaucrats to determine what is and is not “harmful” for kids. It’s a little odd considering that Britons aged 16 will be able to vote in the next national election. Some platforms attempted to comply with OSA to avoid the £18 million penalty ($24.3 million). X defaulted all UK users to sensitive content filter mode until their age could be determined. Google announced it would use a combination of “human review and automated processes” to determine harmful content. Reddit hired the company Persona for age verification through the use of either a selfie or a copy of someone’s government ID. Other websites, such as Wikipedia, decided to limit access for UK users. The age verification measures meant people were blocked from viewing Goya’s famous piece Saturn Devouring His Son, information on men’s fashion, a Conservative MP’s speech on rape gangs, gender neutral toilets, King Richard the Lionheart, and — ironically — the OSA itself. Instead of accepting OSA and the lack of Internet availability, the British fought back. Days after the regulation went into effect, 530,000 UK citizens signed an online petition demanding the law be repealed. Parliament will debate a potential repeal this fall. The Government has vowed to keep OSA in place because of concern about “small platforms that host harmful content,” promising a “sensible approach to enforcement.” Other Brits turned to technology — specifically VPNs or Virtual Private Networks — to breach the online blockade. VPNs allow users to access blocked websites and content by concealing IP addresses and locations. The BBC reported VPN makers saw massive spikes in downloads from various app stores, including an 1,800 percent download spike for a Swiss privacy tech firm. This use of VPNs didn’t go over well with OSA backers. The Age Verification Providers Association called on websites to start checking to see if someone was using a VPN to access their sites. The group recommended social media sites see if someone was following or interacting with UK-based accounts and if their time zone matched the UK. But Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, called for VPNs to start age verification. “It’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations,” she told BBC Newsnight. De Souza’s hope is that VPNs will be required to put together “highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.” She cited a report her office put out claiming children are seeing different violence and so-called “harmful material” before they are “old enough to understand what they are seeing.” She won’t get her wish. The British government has said VPNs will not be banned because they’re tools for adults. The push to expand OSA didn’t stop at VPNs. Its defenders turned increasingly combative, branding opponents as enablers of abuse. Labour MP Peter Kyle likened Reform UK MP Nigel Farage to Jimmy Savile, a pedophile TV presenter who assaulted kids before social media was invented. “If Jimmy Savile were alive today he’d be perpetrating his crimes online, and Nigel Farage is saying he’s on their side,” he told Sky News. After Farage, rightly, demanded an apology, Kyle doubled down. “If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that,” Kyle wrote on social media. If you’ve read this far and concluded that this is solely a British politics story, think again. There’s a reason that Farage is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on September 3 about the “European threats to American free speech and innovation,” including the Online Safety Act. That reason is that a piece of U.S. federal legislation is being considered that would copycat the Online Safety Act. So, there’s an effort afoot to import this sort of dysfunction and big government to the U.S. Worryingly, the legislation in question is bipartisan, which makes it more likely to pass, and therefore more troubling. U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) unveiled the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) in May. It moves the U.S. closer to an age-verification type regime like that in the U.K., and also empowers government bureaucrats to determine what is and is not “harmful” for kids. It’s easy to see how progressives, especially, could use it to throttle conservative speech and pushing leftist-ideology-compliant content under the guise of “protecting the children.” Blackburn and Blumenthal call KOSA an important piece of legislation to prevent children from seeing things like drugs, alcohol, or pornography online. Blackburn blamed Big Tech for not listening to parental concerns about social media. “I’ve heard too many heartbreaking stories to count from parents who have lost a child because these companies have refused to make their platforms safer by default.” That is directly counter to the view taken by social conservatives, especially. Last year, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R.-Pa.) said that KOSA “will facilitate digital censorship of culturally conservative views, and even appears to create a new iteration of the Biden Disinformation Board whose makeup also happens to look like it will be determined by applying DEI principles and possibly staffed by regulators hand-picked by Randi Weingarten and the AFT — the exact people who caused so much damage to children during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Meanwhile, allies of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) have pointed out KOSA could easily be used by Democrats to hammer pro-lifers, and pro-life messages, online. There is also the matter of data protection and cybersecurity. “In the age of constant cyberattacks and privacy threats, the government shouldn’t be looking to make the situation worse,” said Shoshana Weissmann, Digital Director and Fellow at R Street Institute, Washington, DC-based free market think tank. Weissmann believes the only way politicians will change their minds is if they’re presented with evidence that age-verification laws don’t work and can lead to data breaches, identity theft, and public dissatisfaction. “[They’re] only going to be convinced when they see the negative effects more broadly,” she said. It remains to be seen if KOSA will make it to President Donald Trump’s desk. The U.S. Senate passed KOSA by a 91-3 vote last year. However, it went nowhere in the U.S. House, and the House Judiciary Committee hearing could make the path even steeper. In the meantime, multiple lawsuits have been filed over state-based age-verification laws. While the U.S. Supreme Court appears to be wanting the suits to make their way through the court system before making any sort of decision, there’s evidence suggesting justices will find the KOSA-like laws unconstitutional. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote August 14 that Mississippi’s age-verification law “would likely violate … First Amendment rights under this Court’s precedents.” In other words, while the UK may be stuck with OSA for the long-haul — at least while Labour is in power — age-verification in the U.S. could be tossed in the legislative landfill where it belongs. READ MORE: Mexico Escapes the Tariff: Happy Cinco de Mayo! Happy Hour May No Longer Be So Happy