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An Ounce of Prevention Beats a Pound of Lawsuits

An Ounce of Prevention Beats a Pound of Lawsuits

I coached youth sports for more than a decade, and it taught me that scoreboards are neutral ledgers about who was better on any given day. The...

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Jay Rogers

Two Dans, One Ballot, and a Case for Sunlight

Two Dans, One Ballot, and a Case for Sunlight
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Jay Rogers

Spending More, Teaching Less

Spending More, Teaching Less

Ben Stein’s economics teacher in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” asked his class, “Anyone? Anyone?” and got silence. Forty years later, I’d...

30.10.2026 2

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Jay Rogers

Asylum courts got a reset. Congress should make it stick

28.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Ballots in the hallway: How California can restore lagging faith in our elections

California can end this argument without proving that anyone cheated. It has to lock the ballots, verify the rolls and publish the results of both.

28.10.2026 4

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Beer in my garage is legal. Whiskey could cost me five years

27.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The Fifth Circuit Got the Law Right. Now Fix the Docket.

The Fifth Circuit Got the Law Right. Now Fix the Docket.

On Friday, the full Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10-7 that immigrants who entered illegally and were never admitted can be held without a...

25.10.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Salvation lies within a sealed envelope

25.10.2026 8

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Robes Don't Come With a Soapbox

Robes Don't Come With a Soapbox

Before I accept an expert witness engagement, I run a conflicts check. The case, the client, and the counsel all have to clear it. An expert with a...

24.10.2026 9

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Jay Rogers

Democrats' House of Cards Is Missing One Card

Democrats' House of Cards Is Missing One Card

Federal prosecutors unsealed an eight-count indictment Thursday against Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat, alleging she led a marijuana...

23.10.2026 7

Townhall

Jay Rogers

The penalty for doing your homework

22.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Washington Warned Us About Slotkin’s ‘Deterrence Message’

On a grade school field trip, I walked through the marble halls of the Capitol building and felt intimidated and inspired in equal parts. If a kid...

21.10.2026 8

Townhall

Jay Rogers

The false promise of free health care comes with an invoice for the middle class

"Money out of politics! Money in your pocket! Medicare for All!" That's the rally chant of Abdul El-Sayed, who won Michigan's Democratic Senate...

21.10.2026 9

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Where There's Smoke, There's a Grand Jury

When federal agents left Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's (MN-5) Washington home on Oct. 12, they reportedly carried out her phone, notebooks,...

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When the Rap Sheet 'Doesn’t Even Matter'

“It doesn’t even matter, right? It doesn’t even matter.” Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialists of America-backed nominee for...

16.10.2026 10

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Jay Rogers

Letitia James has a habit of speaking before the evidence. Case in point: Cornell

Prosecutors can have opinions. They shouldn’t announce verdicts. On Sept. 28, New York Attorney General Letitia James posted that what the Cornell...

16.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

America.gov Built a Front Door. Show Us the House.

On September 29, the White House launched America.gov, a single website with AI-enhanced search across more than 29,000 federal websites. Edward...

15.10.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Sanctuary city whack-a-mole: Same policy, different ZIP code

Equal justice under law is supposed to mean something, and it isn't that government discriminates against citizens in favor of illegal immigrants.

14.10.2026 30

The Hill

Jay Rogers

New York's Detainer Rules Push ICE Onto the Street

A 5-year-old sat in the back seat of a Honda CR-V in Marble Hill last Thursday when an ICE agent fired several rounds at the car. The boy wasn't...

12.10.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Girls’ Sports Exist for a Reason

We separate boys and girls in sports for good reasons, and males don’t belong in women’s competition or in women’s locker rooms. An alleged...

10.10.2026 20

The Daily Signal

Jay Rogers

Voters hired Trump to deport detainees. Supreme Court saved his strategy from rogue judges

Last week, the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume deporting people to countries other than their own. The 6-3 order is temporary, and...

09.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The $1 jury verdict that should terrify Cornell

A federal jury in Maryland ruled last week that the University of Maryland let harassment of a cleared student continue. An outside hearing officer...

08.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

A New Jersey School Board Thinks Parental Rights Stop at the California Border

On June 15, Ann Ciccarelli, president of the Board of Education for the School District of the Chathams, New Jersey, read a statement into the record....

07.10.2026 20

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Jay Rogers

In Delaware, the state line beats the border

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm. On Oct. 1, the Justice Department sued...

07.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Congress is trading on your dime

Congress is the trustee of a government that just crossed $40 trillion in debt in August. It should live under the same rules we do, with no...

07.10.2026 60

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Ithaca Got the Podium, Huntington Got the Docket

Governor Kathy Hochul says the Cornell fraternity allegations are nothing short of horrifying. She has a point. A woman alleges that seven men drugged...

03.10.2026 20

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Senate Democrats just filibustered your power bill to spite Republicans

The House passed the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3 on Sept. 16. Republicans and Democrats agreeing on anything is about as common as a...

02.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Last call in America: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here

Closing time comes to every bar, and nobody acts surprised when the lights come up. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court let the Trump administration resume...

01.10.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Washington’s new budget shortcut is a time bomb — just wait until the Left uses it

Every September, Washington holds a fire sale on your money. Agencies with cash left rush to sign contracts and cut grant checks before Sept. 30,...

30.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Brookings confirms what basic economics predicted about Biden’s open border

The Biden administration ran an unhedged book for four years. The results were higher rents, suppressed wages at the low end of the distribution,...

30.09.2026 10

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Jim Crow Had a Party Affiliation

In "Casablanca," Captain Renault is "shocked, shocked" to find gambling at Rick's, just before collecting his winnings....

29.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Democrats’ Fake Lynching Panic Is Latest In A Long Line Of Racial Hoaxes

This isn’t the first time Democrats and the media have manufactured a lynching panic where none existed.

29.09.2026 10

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

Show up or shut up: How 351 hours of Trump exposed the media’s Biden cover-up

The White House press office announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump has logged 21,058 minutes at events open to the press since his second...

28.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Noncitizens Are Voting. Databases Are Flagging Citizens. Both Are True.

To attend the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, delegates appeared in person with valid identification to collect credentials. Certain...

27.09.2026 10

Townhall

Jay Rogers

They Ran Away From Women’s Sports. Not a Single Question Asked.

On Wednesday morning, three witnesses sat at a table in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Kim Jones co-founded the Independent Council on Women’s...

25.09.2026 20

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Jay Rogers

Jack Smith’s election interference wasn’t an accident. It was the strategy

The Department of Justice operates under a foundational principle: prosecutors pursue justice, not political outcomes. That’s the official story, at...

25.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

California's High-Speed Money Laundering, and It's All Perfectly Legal

I have spent two decades as an expert witness testifying about where other people's money goes missing. Pension funds looted by trustees who knew...

24.09.2026 20

Townhall

Jay Rogers

Virginia’s parole board applauded a killer. Show us the file

In 1998, Troy Demar stabbed Christine Allen to death in the Fairfax County home they shared. Her daughter was 3 months old. A judge sent him away for...

24.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

The First Amendment doesn't come with an approval rating

A rule that only bites reporters whose coverage the president dislikes isn't a rule. It is retaliation, and the courts have said so for half a...

23.09.2026 100

The Hill

Jay Rogers

Al Green’s Trump impeachment stunt fails — his own party just admitted it was theater

I ran the 400-meter in high school and college, so I know sprinting the first turn doesn’t win the race. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) never learned that. On...

23.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Ignorance was a choice: How Tim Walz handed scammers $250 million

I spent 30 years as an expert witness answering one question for a judge or jury: did the person managing someone else’s money know, or should have...

22.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Deprogrammed: Believe the Democrats Who Got Out

Maya Angelou's old rule still holds: when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. Two former Democratic insiders showed us...

21.09.2026 20

Townhall

Jay Rogers

The Supreme Court banned race sorting. Colleges found a 5-digit loophole

Three years after the Supreme Court told American universities to stop sorting applicants by race, the sorting hasn’t stopped. It just got a new...

21.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Noncitizen voters have lost on the facts. Now they’re weaponizing the Constitution

A federal judge in Miami will hear oral arguments this week on a legal theory that five people around the country are betting will spring them from...

18.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

Mamdani’s green card lawsuit isn’t about compassion. It’s about who pays

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at City Hall on Monday and announced that his city is suing the federal government to preserve immigrants’...

18.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

New York’s union bosses just invented a new way to silence their critics

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a bill on Sept. 9 that tells you everything about how entrenched interests behave when they start losing an argument....

17.09.2026 10

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

One label, not 50 verdicts: Why Kagan and Kavanaugh agreed to end the Roundup bonanza

Bayer’s Monsanto unit stood before a Missouri judge on Monday and asked him to approve a $7.25 billion settlement of roughly 65,000 lawsuits...

16.09.2026 30

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers

On the Hill, Democrats are creating a weapon that might backfire on them

The problem was never oversight. It's oversight that only ever points in one partisan direction.

16.09.2026 20

The Hill

Jay Rogers

DOJ Goes After Berkeley Law For Discrimination Against White Applicants

A federal finding says the University of Berkeley's Law School kept discriminating by race two years after the Supreme Court told it to stop.

16.09.2026 20

The Federalist

Jay Rogers

The census is a subsidy for open borders dressed up as demography

Picture a shareholder meeting where the company hands out voting proxies to anyone who wandered in off the street, share certificate or not. That is...

15.09.2026 20

Washington Examiner

Jay Rogers