Charlton Allen

Charlton Allen


  • Terror in Las Vegas: Bad symbolism, worse implications

    January 2, 2025

    Terror in Las Vegas: Bad symbolism, worse implications

    The Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is a chilling reminder that we live in a world where symbols matter — and where targeting them sends messages that are as deliberate as they are destructive. E...

  • Terror in New Orleans: When leadership fails, innocents pay

    January 2, 2025

    Terror in New Orleans: When leadership fails, innocents pay

    The attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar drove a truck into a crowd, killing several and injuring dozens, stands as a chilling indictment of America’s compromised law enforcement and national security framewor...

  • The Stakes in the F Train Tragedy

    January 1, 2025

    The Stakes in the F Train Tragedy

    The footage is beyond horrifying: a woman burning to death in a New York City subway car, her alleged killer calmly watching her die, indifferent to the human suffering he caused.  This tragedy was soon followed by another harrowing inciden...

  • Mayorkas's Failures

    December 31, 2024

    Mayorkas's Failures

    On December 22, 2024, during an interview on “Face the Nation,” Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, dismissed the trafficking of children at the border as "outside the responsibility of DHS." This stunning remark...

  • Put ‘science’ back in the National Science Foundation

    December 28, 2024

    Put ‘science’ back in the National Science Foundation

    The National Science Foundation (NSF), once a cornerstone of American scientific progress, is veering dangerously off course.  Established in 1950, the NSF’s mission was to fund groundbreaking research that advances science, fuels inn...

  • Romance, RICO, and road trips: Fani Willis’s justice junket

    December 20, 2024

    Romance, RICO, and road trips: Fani Willis’s justice junket

    In Fulton County, Georgia, justice has taken a backseat to impropriety — or at least that’s the conclusion one might draw from the Georgia Court of Appeals’ recent ruling. District attorney Fani Willis has been disqualified fro...

  • Hawaii Judges Say ‘to Hell with the Constitution’

    December 15, 2024

    Hawaii Judges Say ‘to Hell with the Constitution’

    When I served as a judicial officer, I leaned into the originalist philosophy championed by Justice Antonin Scalia.  His wisdom — that judges must adhere to the Constitution and the law as written, not as they wish it to be — se...

  • The thread unraveling the Biden regime

    December 8, 2024

    The thread unraveling the Biden regime

    TIPP Insights has published a must-read editorial aptly titled “Biden’s Unprecedented Blanket Pardon Destroys His Legacy and Proves Trump Was Wrongly Impeached Over Ukraine.”  The piece cuts to the heart of the issue:...

  • Will a presidential pardon save Hunter Biden?

    December 3, 2024

    Will a presidential pardon save Hunter Biden?

    Flash, bam, alakazam — a pardon dropped out of an autumnal, orange-colored sky, as surreal as a Nat King Cole refrain.  With a sweep of his pen, Joe Biden erased his son’s slate, leaving decades of potential wrongdoing wiped cle...

  • Decolonizing Thanksgiving — and other joys the Left wants to ruin

    November 30, 2024

    Decolonizing Thanksgiving — and other joys the Left wants to ruin

    Strange, isn’t it, how some people can light up a room? And then there are those who enter like a soggy dishrag, wringing out all vitality and joy until even the pumpkin pie wants to surrender. John Steinbeck nailed it: “Such people...

  • Buttigieg: The Peter Principle on wheels

    November 26, 2024

    Buttigieg: The Peter Principle on wheels

    Some people rise to the occasion, and some rise to their level of incompetence.  For Pete Buttigieg, it’s less about rising and more about stalling — like one of his beloved electric vehicles running out of juice on a lonely str...