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December 5, 2024
Daphne’s defiant ‘no’ to Apollo’s demands may be a metaphor for Trump’s AmericaBernini’s early 17th sculpture of Apollo and Daphne, which you can see in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, is perhaps the most beautiful sculpture ever created. It’s also a useful metaphor for the sordid times in which we live. Apollo is...
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November 24, 2024
Is Pam Bondi really independent, or will her ties to the Zimmerman-Martin case make her a Deep Swamp pawn?Pam Bondi, Trump’s nominee for Attorney General now that Matt Gaetz has withdrawn, is an interesting choice. On the one hand, she seems like a conservative attack dog and comes out of Ron DeSantis’s Florida, which argues that she’s ...
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November 23, 2024
DOGE will clean out more than just the governmentVivek Ramaswamy says the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), which he’s working on in partnership with Elon Musk, will be able to cut government contracting costs substantially, fire useless employees, and identif...
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November 6, 2024
‘Get US Out of the United Nations’In the 1950s, billboard messages appeared across America: “Get US Out of the United Nations.” (A handful can still be found today.) That’s an excellent idea. At the time, America was not ready for a rational debate on this issue. Th...
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October 7, 2024
How to abolish the US Department of EducationIf Trump is reelected, one goal is to abolish the US Department of Education (“DOE”). Why? Because it usurps the Constitution when the federal government takes over a state’s right and because its mere existence is outside of the fe...
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October 5, 2024
A Nobel Prize in economics doesn’t mean your political preferences are good for America’s economyIn 2001, Joseph Stiglitz, along with George A. Akerlof and A. Michael Spence, received the prestigious Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which the Sveriges Riksbank created in 1968, decades after the original prizes were created. Stiglitz ce...
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September 19, 2024
The Haitian taste for domestic pets isn’t just driven by povertyHaiti is a very poor country—the poorest by far in the Western Hemisphere. The US has provided Haiti with large doses of foreign aid. In fact, the Clintons were given control of large amounts of aid money to improve Haiti through their foundati...
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August 10, 2024
Billboards versus the MSMRecently, Kamala Harris is holding her own in Presidential polls. If those polls are true (more on that in a minute), it’s not because of who she is or what she’s done. It’s because the media—her PR team—is flooding the ...
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June 5, 2024
Judge Merchan may need to rethink his obvious desire to imprison TrumpJudge Merchan seems to have no alternative but to sentence Trump to jail, given the obvious fact that Merchan and his rabid constituents are inflamed by the enormity of Trump’s conviction on thirty-four felony counts. However, there are problem...
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April 11, 2024
Giving context (and reality) to the phrase ‘African American’What does “African American” mean? Like its companion phrase, “Hispanic,” “African American” is a woke term that ignores historical reality and the complicated histories of the African and Latin American continents...
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January 11, 2024
Higher education is leftist education, but we can change thatThe real higher education problem is the leftist brand that most colleges espouse. College presidents who hate Jews can be fired all the way back to the community college level, and you really don’t address the overall bias problem that the lac...
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October 8, 2023
‘The Devil made me do it’Flip Wilson was a great comedian who became famous on national TV in the 1960s and 1970s. He made me laugh and then laugh some more. He was a favorite. His famous punchline was, “The Devil made me do it.” Flip did not do political comedy....
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June 28, 2023
The American Tyranny That Taxpayers Are FundingIn the 121 years since 1902, the federal government’s spending has increased from 6.9 percent of GDP to over 50 percent recently. Excessive government spending is directly related to tyranny. The following chart gives an overview of all gove...
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February 7, 2023
The University of Pennsylvania has become the poster child for ‘woke’The University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), which Benjamin Franklin helped found in 1751, has become the poster child for what the radical left has done to America’s once outstanding universities. It’s been in the news repeatedly over the las...
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September 27, 2022
Giorgia Meloni’s election should give hope here in AmericaGiorgia Meloni’s recent resounding victory in Italy is a lesson for America. It’s simple—the slogan “God, Family and Country” would be a winner here, too, especially if backed by policies supporting those themes. List...
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September 17, 2022
When it comes to doing their job, Republican congresspeople are failing badlyConservative Review calculates a Liberty Score for members of Congress based on their voting records. A look at the scores leads to despair for true conservatives. Yes, Republicans are better than Democrats. But gener...
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August 14, 2022
Fighting back against the climate change scamWith the Inflation Reduction Act, the Democrats are doubling down on their misbegotten climate change ideology. That’s true although actual sciences challenge both the premise of the entire “climate change” theory as well as the uti...
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June 18, 2022
The DC swamp hates Trump because he represents the real AmericaIf Trump is guilty of insurrection, why was it necessary to pack the January 6 Committee with Trump-haters? The answer: Because Trump is an existential threat to the D.C. swamp! Pelosi could not take a chance that the committee ...
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June 14, 2022
A great book shreds the climate change arguments against fossil fuelsAlex Epstein, an energy expert, may have written the most effective defense of fossil fuels you ever read. His book is Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less (Portfolio...
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June 5, 2022
Turning the idea of a 'climate change' class action into a realityA class action against the climate changistas for the huge economic damage they have caused is doable. Not only is it doable, but we’re doing the groundwork to make it happen. In several articles at American Thinker, I’ve proposed...
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May 24, 2022
What might a climate change class action lawsuit look like?In two previous articles at American Thinker (here and here), I have suggested filing a climate change class action lawsuit to determine if the planet is in danger of total destruction from anthropogenic climate change and to assess dollar ...
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May 22, 2022
A climate change class action lawsuit: is it viable?A few days ago, I suggested that a climate change class action lawsuit should be filed against those parties that clamor to destroy the economy via a Green Agenda that seeks to ban fossil fuels. Some commenters raised an interesting point: How do you...
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May 15, 2022
A climate change class action lawsuitThe UN IPCC and associated green activist groups; Federal, state, and local entities; universities; foundations; non-profit groups; and many corporations argue that the world will be destroyed without policies designed to turn on their heads the curr...
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May 5, 2022
Can we save SCOTUS from the leaker?The person who leaked the Alito draft opinion in the abortion case (Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health) committed an assault against the Supreme Court that has the potential to kill the Court's integrity moving forward. That is, it op...
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February 17, 2022
The electric vehicle plotThe Democrats have set in motion a plan to spend $5 billion over the next five years to build electric vehicle (E.V.) charging stations across America. One of the goals behind that plan is to herd everyone into the cities, where E.V. works...
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December 28, 2021
'Let's go, Brandon' is much more than a cheesy nickname for BidenIn a recent Salon article, Matthew Rozsa attempted to fold "Let's go, Brandon," into the long history of "insulting presidential nicknames." Aside from telling the risible falsehood that NBC's Kelli Stavast...
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December 11, 2021
SCOTUS should not reverse Roe v. WadePro-lifers hope and abortion-supporters fear that the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") will reverse Roe v. Wade, returning abortion to the individual states. Some Democrat states have already indicated that they...
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December 6, 2021
The story museums and public parks don't tell us (or mis-tell us)Both museum curators and those in charge of our state and national parks promote the myth of market failure paired with the idea of the government as savior. If you know where to look, though, the truth is just below the surface. The Gr...
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November 27, 2021
Biden's economy is very successful by the standards Obama setNever say that Biden is incompetent. His goal is to bring the country down, and he is doing exactly what is necessary to succeed. Still, we can survive and fight back. Remember when Obama said his policies would raise the cos...
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November 7, 2021
Everyone Should Watch Tucker Carlson’s ‘Patriot Purge’I saw Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purge (all three parts) for free on RoxyTube yesterday along with 175 others. (That’s right only 175 people were watching it then.) There is a lot to recommend. Indeed, everyone should see it and determine f...
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October 5, 2021
Why Tax?We’re told taxes fund otherwise unavailable services and equalize well-being to some extent. But is that true? No. Our system is unfair and breaking fast. Is there a fair method for taxation? Many say progressive taxes are fair. People with ...
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May 2, 2021
It’s time to take a wrecking ball to the leftist education edifice in AmericaAs the Biden/Harris/Obama wrecking crew seeks to destroy America, our federal system provides an effective response: The states must resist in every possible way. While there are many different items on the resistance menu let’s look at educati...
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January 23, 2021
Is the Biden/Harris agenda irresistible and inevitable?There are several ways the Biden/Harris juggernaut will be blunted. One of these is the market. A national government opposed to the market will make decisions that harm pocketbooks directly. These relate to taxes and...
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January 10, 2021
Will Manchin stop the left?Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) may be the only politician in America who can stop the far-left agenda of the Biden/Harris administration backed by both houses of Congress. He is from a poor, rural state with an economy heavily tied to energy production...
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January 9, 2021
How to stop court-packing and save AmericaSince the left shortly will control the presidency, the Senate, and the House, what remains to save America from total destruction? Only the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)! But won't the SCOTUS be gone, too, onc...
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December 30, 2020
There are peaceful, counter-revolutionary acts to reclaim AmericaOnce Trump is elected president in the House of Representatives, we need to focus on ways to reclaim America from the left. Even if Harris/Biden prevail, individual citizens still have the power to enact these approaches and make them effe...
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December 24, 2020
The imperial city of DC has run amok with its recent spending billThe recently passed COVID relief and omnibus spending bill is so obscene that it might serve a useful purpose. If President Trump will hold it up as an example of a government that no longer represents the American people, those same peopl...
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December 17, 2020
Does Mike Pence want to save America?Many scenarios have been floated as possible paths to a Trump presidential victory. A Harris/Biden presidency, as the effective third Obama administration, is the last step in the Republic's total destruction and the ultimate end of th...
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September 30, 2020
Turning the Clock ForwardIf America returned to 1950s family values with obvious improvements (constitutional civil rights and reasonable environmental regulations), would we be turning the clock back or forward? There is substantial evidence that this would turn the clock f...
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August 21, 2020
When will you make up your mind?In the 1950s, I fought with my father over a number of controversial issues, he the conservative and I the blooming liberal. In the 1960s, I went to college and stayed for a decade. That set my mind for a while. I bec...