Howard Lutnick Doesn't Get To Decide What You Buy

Howard Lutnick Doesn’t Get To Decide What You Buy

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Every day, thousands of transactions take place in which Americans and Canadians consent to exchange currency for goods. Treasury Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks there is someone they forgot to ask. “We don’t want to buy 60 percent of our aluminum from Canada,” Lutnick explained during an interview with Fox News on Thursday. “We want to bring [aluminum production] to America.” Lutnick’s phrasing there is pretty telling. There is no “royal we” in the marketplace—that Canadian aluminum is not […]

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How Trump's Alien Enemies Act Deportations Violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment

How Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations Violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment

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  A prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Mar. 16, 2025 (El Salvador Presidential Press Office)   Most public debate over the Trump Administration’s efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act as a tool for deportation have focused on whether the invocation of the AEA is legal, and the administration’s apparent defiance of a court order blocking the deportation of some 137 Venezuelans […]

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CIA “DOGE us, there will be consequences”

CIA “DOGE us, there will be consequences”

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Writes Gail Appel: Leaked to CNN. Followed up with they “might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service”. Where is John Ratcliffe? These “disgruntled” former employees were given 10 months severance pay, a hefty “ buyout” chunk of change, full retirement benefits and are likely to move on to cushy jobs with Teneo, Brookings Council, Aspen Forum, McKinsey or any number of other  CCP backed “ private security” and “ consulting” firms. Or […]

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Excuse Me, But I Have a Touchy Subject to Bring Up

Excuse Me, But I Have a Touchy Subject to Bring Up

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I suppose I should be writing this in the Journal of Linguistics or the International Journal of Lexicography, but I have a feeling those outlets are not as widely read as this one, so I’m making my case for reformed word usage here, and I trust your indulgence. My concern is for the word “suck” and how it is being used, frequently in all forms of discourse, in a derogatory sense to means something bad, distasteful, or ugly—or […]

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