Ukraine had drone armies inside Russia. Israel had drones inside Iran. China bought land near every military installation. What is Trump going to do about it?

Justice Alito explains, in a great video for Hoover Institution, that he wishes SCOTUS had taken our cases to prevent racial discrimination against Asian American students in Fairfax and Boston. We do too.

Happy 77th Birthday to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a truly great man. “You can be in the middle of a hurricane, or you can be on a calm day — north is still north. You could be in a thunderstorm — north is still north. People can yell at you — north is still north. It

Very nice to stumble upon Jeremy Talcott quoted in this The New York Times article (beware the NYT’s unfortunate attempt to make the Public Trust Doctrine bigger than it is!)—“An Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches.” Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ / nytimes.com/2025/07/19/cli…

Meanwhile, if you put an RV on your own empty lot, they would fine you as the landowner daily accruing fines (and yes LA routinely does this).

For a deep dive into the history of the public trust doctrine, please read Prof. James Huffman’s excellent law review article: law.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/…

Donald Kochan Jeremy Talcott The New York Times Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ "...unfortunate attempt to make the Public Trust Doctrine bigger than it is!)..." (Hawaii could not be reached for comment.)

AB 130 has made two massively important changes for coastal landowners: 1. The Commission is now subject to the Permit Streamlining Act's 60-day timeframe on permit approvals 2. exempts certain residential projects from Commission appeal. hklaw.com/en/insights/pu…

For anyone curious or worried, here's a quick image of the grant network if you donate money to Pacific Legal Foundation. Just sayin'.

47… but the caveats are that I have only driven through El Paso (and can’t recall if I even stopped while blowing through) and was too young to remember Honolulu. Still need Albuquerque, Buffalo, and Louisville.

This must be shared. x.com/timothysandefu…

A huge factor was the 5-4 failure of the Obamacare challenge (which wasn’t originalist) after oral argument went well. The highly visible culprit was old-school conservative CJ Roberts who explicitly asserted judicial restraint. The political backlash on the right was enormous.

People who would rather see the 7th best SEC team in a playoff rather than the Sun Belt Champion (or any G5 champ) are not college football fans.

The best part of the SEC news is that we are at best a year or three away from the sports journo takes that a 7-5 SEC team deserves to be in the CFP.

Is it even college football anymore more if there isn’t some team named Our Lady of the Immaculate Northeastern State Farm Bureau getting shellacked by Alabama’s third string in November?

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Chris Kieser unserious people: "The NFL is better than college football" Me: *submits the first five minutes of the first game of the college football season*

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