The Red Jackal

Musings of a Moderate Conservative

  • A Family Vacation to the California Utopia

    A field report from America’s most self-congratulatory experiment. Inspired by the touching tale of Jennifer Siebel Newsom taking her children to Alabama to learn about racism, I felt moved to…


  • Paul Ehrlich: The Elite’s Messiah

    The Prophet Who Never Paid for Being Wrong With the death of Paul Ehlrich last week, I thought I would provide a more apt obituary than what many of our…


  • Up in Smoke

    Legalizing Marijuana Was a Mistake — And the Evidence Is Finally Catching Up For more than a decade, Americans were sold a comforting narrative: marijuana legalization would be harmless, profitable,…


  • The Legal Lottery

    The Case for Tort Reform in the United States Tort law was originally designed to compensate individuals harmed by the actions or negligence of others. Over time, it has evolved…


  • The Minimum Wage Debate

    The Ideal Built on a Feel‑Good Fallacy I recently got into an argument on LinkedIn about the idea of a livable wage, like this is a human right and not…


  • More Random Thoughts

    2026 Enters with a bang The Capture of Maduro Not only was this a big shock that this actually happened but how seamlessly the operation was completed. Yes, Maduro and…


  • The Canary in the Coalmine Pt2

    How the collapse of South Africa should be a warning to the West. Continued from part 1 How do these people convince people of the revised history of the US?…


  • The Canary in the Coalmine Pt 1

    How the story of South Africa should be a warning to the West With the rash of political victories by communists Mamdani in New York, Wilson in Seattle and so…


  • Random Threads

    Miscellaneous topics of the week The Ukraine Capitulation I had mentioned previously about the one area where President Trump has struggled with is the Ukraine situation, and it seems like…


  • The Twilight of the West

    How the Western World surrendered willfully With the election of Zohran Mamdani, it raises the question what is the fate of the western world? New York City, despite being a…


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