The Newscasters’ Insights John Sophocleus Amy Howe’s Supreme Court strikes down tariffs, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 20, 2026, 11:00 AM), was among the first to report on the SCotUS ruling on Trump tariffs, widely viewed as unconstitutional by those with a fundamental understanding US tariff history. In their ruling on presidential power, the Supreme Court struck down … Read More
The Radical Left in Washington has held the American People Hostage Jorge Martinez For weeks, the radical Left in Washington has held the American people hostage, using a government shutdown as a weapon to force taxpayers to fund an agenda the country never asked for. Senate Republicans voted 15 times for a clean continuing … Read More
The Newscasters’ Insights The Filibuster Under Fire Murray Edwards The filibuster is a procedural tactic in the United States Senate that allows a minority of senators to prolong debate on a bill, effectively blocking its passage unless 60 votes can be mustered to invoke cloture and end the discussion. Originating from the Senate’s tradition of … Read More
J.D. Foster Think Berlin Gedachtniskirche (with an umlaut); in English, the “Memory Church,” a ruin of a once beautiful church in downtown Berlin, now a memorial to the horrors, the folly and the destruction that Germany inflicted and then suffered through Hitler’s Nazi terror. Pondering the fate of New York City (NYC) under the likely … Read More
Victoria Lee Scott It is not the widening of Christianity, but what must be examined is its depth. Do you feel the religious revival in America today? Is the human spirit hunger for true faith? More and more people are beginning to open their bibles, looking for spiritual guidance. This does feel like we’re bringing … Read More
John Sophocleus Most of my readers will recall Elkanah Tisdale’s iconic political cartoon evoking “Gerrymander” nomenclature for Massachusetts’ redistricted manipulations following the 1810 census. A July 18, 2024, post by Neely Tucker featured former chief of the Rare Book & Special Collections Division guest, Mark Dimunation. He offered the following on gerrymandering which has become … Read More
Murray Edwards Starting back during the Obama Administration, regulators were given a great deal of latitude to “flag” accounts as a “reputational risk”, thus the era of debanking began. Debanking is the practice used by financial institutions to abruptly close or restrict accounts of individuals or businesses. The policy has ignited fierce a debate across … Read More
Can We Trust the Media? Murray Edwards Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, recently announced that Operation Mockingbird is still active in their efforts to persuade public opinion. What was/is Operation Mockingbird and what did it attempt to accomplish? After you get an understanding of the program, ask yourself, is it any wonder why … Read More
The Newscasters’ Insights Deep State: Myth, Reality, or Something In Between? Murray Edwards The term “deep state” has become a lightning rod in American political discourse, evoking images of shadowy cabals pulling strings behind the facade of democracy, it refers to an alleged network of unelected bureaucrats, intelligence officials, military leaders, and influential elites who … Read More
The Newscasters’ Insights By Isabella Albano | Pelican Institute for Public Policy Just before the close of the 2025 Louisiana legislative session, a hotly debated bill targeting PBMs – pharmacy benefit managers – was thrown into the arena, which would have barred companies from simultaneously owning PBMs and retail pharmacies. While it ultimately failed to … Read More
