In The American Spectator, Jeff Clark questions a modern notion that the U.S. Department of Justice is an autonomous organ of government independent of the Executive Branch, i.e., the President. If the DOJ were to become so, Clark writes, the American republic would not survive beyond a few more presidential cycles.

Forget Everything I Said, or Backing Slowly out of the Echo-Chamber
Climate catastrophism suffered a Category 5 event with the recent confessional by Ted Nordhaus, among the world’s foremost prophets of doom, that he had it wrong all along. The models that forecast runaway global warming, Nordhaus writes in The Free Press, assumed simultaneously soaring populations, booming economies and flatlining technological improvement which, Nordhaus has belatedly recognized, simply can’t all occur at the same time.


