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    The AI Future Is for Everyone

    By By Mark Zuckerberg July 28, 2026

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    By Mark Zuckerberg July 28, 2026 – The defining question of our age isn’t whether superintelligence will exist, but who will have access to it. Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?…I propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the source of prosperity, invention as the primary purpose of superintelligence, and balance of power as the foundation of safety. Read More

    America Needs the Filibuster AA

    By Ben Sasse July 19, 2026

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    By Ben Sasse July 19, 2026 – The filibuster prevents the dramatic pendulum swings that are the natural result of simple-majority lawmaking. Every election and every vote becomes an existential crisis in a system that no longer plods through checks and balances but instead rushes to European-style referenda…. It’s a partisan’s dream: Court packing, new states, federal takeover of state elections…Sweeping changes to nearly every aspect of national and local life….The reality is that once the dam breaks, the stakes will climb endlessly higher. Read More

    Thomas Sowell: My Experience With Artificial Intelligence

    By By Thomas Sowell Jan. 15, 2026

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    By Thomas Sowell Jan. 15, 2026 -Tragically, the AI impersonation fraud is part of a much larger and much longer lasting undermining of the very concept of truth…. If there are no serious consequences for either individuals or institutions that create frauds—whether by AI or by silencing other viewpoints—we will have no basis for settling our inevitable differences other than violence.,,,And once violence takes over, it may not matter what issues set it off, as violence and counter-violence take on a life of their own. At that point, the issue is no longer which vision will win, but whether we shall survive as a free society, or survive at all. Read More

    Black America Needs a Moral Rejuvenation

    By Robert L. Woodson Sr. Jan. 15, 2026

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    By Robert L. Woodson Sr. Jan. 15, 2026 – I remember growing up in the 1940s and ’50s, when black communities were sanctuaries from white violence, not danger zones for our own children. Moral discipline, faith and strong families were our first line of defense….Then came the transformation. The civil-rights movement dismantled segregation and expanded opportunity—an extraordinary achievement. But over time, leadership shifted from moral suasion to political patronage. Welfare replaced mutual aid. Bureaucrats replaced neighbors. Racial grievance replaced dignity. Read More

    A Hypersonic Missile on a Beer Budget

    By Kate B. Odell June 12, 2026

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    By Kate B. Odell June 12, 2026 – Few challenges are more consequential than the race for a cheap hypersonic missile. …The U.S. is “very far ahead, I’d say, in the high-end technology. We are woefully far behind on the speed to develop, the capacity, and the cost,” Mr. Hargis says. “Almost all wars end up in an economic exchange ratio that determines the winner”—that is, the side whose weapons are cheaper, as many Americans have now noticed in Ukraine and Iran. Read More