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December 3, 2024
The Wrong People, Doing the Right Things, Regarding Trans IdeologyOn November 19, House Speaker Mike Johnson was met by an eager press to get a statement on a resolution by Rep. Nancy Mace that would require gender-specific Capitol and House facilities to be used only by those of the corresponding biological sex. ...
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November 24, 2024
Expect the D.C. Administrative State to Defend Itself by Any Means NecessaryWe do not live in anything resembling the nation that was envisioned by our Founders, and for the first time in modern American history, we seem to have reached a consensus in recognizing that fact. This was just dramatically evidenced in a ...
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October 22, 2024
Choice Between Republicans’ Bad Economic Ideas and Democrats’ Worse Economic IdeasCommentators on both sides of the political aisle have had much to say about the idea of a law which would exempt service workers’ tips from taxation. Trump supporters, in particular, seemed to love the idea when he brought it to the t...
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October 11, 2024
Is the Biden Campaign Deliberately Sabotaging Kamala Harris and the DNC?When Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi had fully brandished the political knives in July to force Joe Biden out of the presidential race, it was undoubtedly their plan to anoint a successor by way of negotiation among the Democrat establi...
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October 5, 2024
Corrupt Union Longshoremen Will Hasten Port and Industry AutomationAs many Americans now know, our economic and material well-being is in the hands of a gaggle of racketeering union thugs who, at any given moment, could hold Americans hostage as they make their demands. This week, several thousand union doc...
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September 17, 2024
Did the Mainstream Media K.O. Kamala?Shortly after the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, leftist pundits began crowing on social media about how conservatives’ complaints about the bias shown by two ABC moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, are just proof that Trum...
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August 17, 2024
Kamala Has Democrats in Real TroubleEvery now and then, politicians allow the truth to seep into their carefully crafted talking points. That’s exactly what happened when Nancy Pelosi went on the record to confirm that Kamala Harris was not the Democrats’ origina...
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August 13, 2024
Democrats Go Long on ‘Tampon Tim’ and Transing the KidsRadical leftists are currently getting a dose of their own medicine. Saul Alinsky might say that, anyway, given the advice he handed down to them in his Rules for Radicals. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon,” he sa...
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August 11, 2024
Stealing Women’s MedalsIn the 2024 Paris Olympics, a controversy has arisen as a reportedly male competitor just won the women’s gold medal in boxing. And by the time you read this, there may be two biological males with gold medals in women’s boxing...
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July 29, 2024
It Can’t Be Kamala: Another Longshot Prediction in a Good Year for Longshot PredictionsBy February of this year, Joe Biden was already so cognitively impaired that nearly four-in-five Americans had revealed to pollsters that he was just too old to run for president again. Biden was already beginning to drown in polls against his ...
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July 23, 2024
There Never Was A Mythical Time When ‘The News Was Just the News’As I’m getting on in my middle-aged years, it seems that I’m more frequently encountering Boomers, Gen-Xers, and even some Millennials who criticize the frenetic flow of information on social media and the apparent bias in corporate news ...
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July 22, 2024
Biden’s Parting Gift to the Democrat EstablishmentAs many have expected, Joe Biden has withdrawn from the presidential race. His timing is perfect to allow a high-stakes event at the convention next month where the party’s new candidate will be anointed (which I predicted here, here, here...
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July 14, 2024
Providence and President TrumpWe are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. My wife and I were watching former President Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when there was an attempt upon his life. That we were even watc...
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July 10, 2024
The Politician Formerly Known as ‘The Great Talker’Channeling his inner Hillary Clinton, who just couldn’t understand why she wasn’t 50 points ahead of Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election, a forlorn Joe Scarborough told his audience after the 2024 presidential debate that he has ...
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July 9, 2024
Democrats: Dogmatic Geniuses or Dogs Chasing Cars?In February, I predicted that it can’t be Biden on the Democrat ticket in November, while also suggesting that Democrats were already aware of that fact, and that they were likely already scheming to replace him this summer. Betting markets ...
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June 17, 2024
Biden’s Continued Presidential Campaign is InhumaneAt a recent pre-Juneteenth event, Joe Biden appeared to freeze during a music performance in which the crowd around him was dancing, prompting huge amounts of criticism. For the first fifteen seconds of the video, he is awkwardly smiling at ...
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June 16, 2024
Summer Surprise: The Looming Biden ReplacementIn February, I predicted that it can’t be Joe Biden representing the Democrat party in November, and that he would be replaced sometime in the summer before the Democratic National Convention. The day before that article was publi...
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June 5, 2024
The Biden Disaster for Democrats, and the Cataclysmic Political Realignment of Young VotersJoe Biden is currently shedding young and minority voters at breakneck speed, prompting concerned progressives to ponder the reason as to why this is happening. Biden has clearly been struggling with nonwhite voters, and that’s a huge proble...
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June 3, 2024
Hippies Then, and Hippies NowThere has never seemed, to me, terribly much to celebrate about the anti-war protests in the late 1960s, though I’ve found it fascinating over the course of my life to hear people suggest that protesting the Vietnam War was some momentous act o...
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May 14, 2024
Jesse Owens and The Star-Spangled BannerChances are, like me and a lot of other people, you’re watching a lot less NFL football on Sundays than you were years ago. That wasn’t easy for me. I genuinely love everything about the sport. But I struggle to imagine a w...
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May 11, 2024
Smells Like ‘68: Foreboding Parallels for Democrats in 2024This election season, there are many parallels to the election year of 1968 on display, and none of it bodes well for Democrats’ chances in November. It didn’t work out for Democrats back then, certainly, with Republican Richard ...
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April 27, 2024
By Any Measure in Human History, Israel Has a Right to ExistOnce elected, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib famously used a Post-it note to identify the nation of Israel as “Palestine” on a map in her new office, signaling that she subscribes to the widespread belief that Israel does not have the right ...
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March 22, 2024
Debunking the Stupid, Yet Passionately Held, Myths About the 1994 Crime BillThe Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 now stands as a symbol of the tragic erosion of truth which can be caused by decades of leftist indoctrination and media spin. As the name suggests, the purpose of the bill was to ena...
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March 12, 2024
Hollywood Wanders the Untranny ValleyWokeness in film is a spectrum which ranges, without exception, between the mildly annoying and the intolerable. Denis Villeneuve’s new Dune duology is a good example of the former, managing to only be slightly annoying while being ge...
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March 8, 2024
When the Boomers are Gone, Will Gen X’s Time Be Up?If you add the numbers among the Greatest Generation, the Silent Generation, the Baby Boomers, and Gen X (born 1964-1980), you will find roughly 153 million potential voters. If you add the numbers of Millennials, Zoomers, and Gen Alpha (bo...
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February 27, 2024
The Left Demands Millions of Human Sacrifices to Appease the Gods of Climate Change“At their Monday night poker game in hell,” writes Mark Steyn, “I’ll bet Stalin, Hitler, and Mao are kicking themselves. ‘It’s about leaving a better planet for our children?’ Why didn’t we think o...
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February 13, 2024
Federal Entitlements and the End of the American IdeaIn his excellent podcast series, “Cold War: Prelude to the Present,” Bill Whittle opens the series by describing the Berlin Wall as “not only a wall between East and West Berlin.” He continues: It was the division o...
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February 9, 2024
It Can’t Be BidenDespite having always been a walking gaffe-machine, there was once a time when it would have been difficult to deny that Joe Biden was among the slipperiest in the nest of vipers that is Washington, D.C. That time is certainly not now. It wo...
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February 4, 2024
From The Wizard of Oz to the Apollo Missions, Woke Reboots AboundAs you may have heard, the beloved 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz will be rebooted by “black-ish“ director Kenya Barris to showcase “people of color” as the leads in the film. Haven’t we seen that reboot already, you m...
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January 22, 2024
What We Don’t Know About the Danger of DEI in the Airline Industry is Scarier than What We KnowUnited Airlines became the subject of derision and mockery recently as a viral video emerged of United’s CEO Scott Kirby proclaiming his company’s potentially disastrous and deadly mission to have half of their future hires be “wome...
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November 21, 2023
First They Came for the Smokers...In the early 2000s, entertainers Penn and Teller had a show called Bullsh*t! that aired on Showtime, in which the iconic duo apply their sense of humor and libertarian sensibilities to butcher lots of sacred cows. In recently revisiting some...
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November 18, 2023
Is Post-Roe America More Pro-Life, or Less?You’ve undoubtedly heard that Republicans have found themselves, as Caroline Vakil relates over at The Hill, in “political quicksand when it comes to abortion,” evidenced by underwhelming performances at the polls since the Supreme ...
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August 14, 2023
‘Rich Men North of Richmond’: A Stirring Ballad for the Real Forgotten ManSee also: The underground populist workingman’s protest song that’s gotten millions of plays A truly beautiful thing happened in the past week, as I hope you’ve already heard. Oliver Anthony, a singer-songwriter from Farmvi...
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July 17, 2023
‘People of Color’ and ‘2SLGBITQIA+’: Using Language to Enforce SubordinationRecently, Arizona Republican Eli Crane was rebuked for referring to “people of color” as “colored people.” That’s a controversy which would, at any other time in the history of the English language, be incomprehensibl...
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June 19, 2023
The Ties Between the Pride Push and the Great ResetA member of Parliament in the Netherlands named Pepjin van Houwelingen recently tweeted the following: (translated from Dutch) This letter from Klaus Schwab to Rutte has just been made public. It is clear that the WEF is coordinating the Great R...
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June 17, 2023
Beyond a Banana RepublicAs radio personality Jesse Kelly remarks on Twitter, there are two ways to view what is happening with Donald Trump right now: Either you see what's happening to Trump as being about Trump or you see it being about a weaponized government pl...
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May 13, 2023
Trump Takes a Hammer to the Carefully Maintained Delusions Inside the Left-Wing BubbleDespite an audience that was friendly to the candidate, CNN’s recent town hall hosting Donald Trump was anything but an effort to inform independent and Republican voters about the candidate’s position on the substantial issues faced by s...
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May 8, 2023
The Intolerable Woke-Washing of George WashingtonWhen I was a child, one of my favorite movies was 1989’s Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. For those who may have missed this Gen-Xer nostalgic gem, it’s a buddy comedy about two good-hearted teenaged slackers (played by Ale...
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May 6, 2023
Nefarious — The most interestingly subversive anti-woke movie you haven't seen or heard aboutAs a fan of horror films whose wife doesn't share my affection for them, I'm encouraged to watch movies when I travel on business if I ever get a free evening. Tuesday night was just such a night, and there were options. First, ...
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April 28, 2023
Bud Light’s Demise at the Hands of Credentialed Woke MillennialsEarly in my professional career, an experienced colleague shared with me a bit of advice. “If you sell people what they want to buy,” he said, “you’ll have a very successful career. If you sell people what you t...
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April 15, 2023
The Business of Wokeness is Bad BusinessA couple of weeks ago, millions of Americans awoke to news that Bud Light had sponsored Dylan Mulvaney, a man who has become famous by pretending to be a ditzy teenage girl. Suddenly, if you bought a Bud Light, you found yourself financing...
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March 14, 2023
The Looming Reckoning for COVID TyrantsMany of the tyrants who promoted the COVID madness have been begging for amnesty for some time, and we should only expect that their numbers will grow as more evidence surfaces. But we should make no mistake -- there needs to be a reckoning...
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February 22, 2023
Social Security is Broke, but American Taxpayers Just Gave Ukrainian Pensioners a Double-Digit RaiseAs American taxpayers paying into Social Security today stare down the barrel toward substantial cuts to their own benefits, estimated to take place in 2034, they can at least take solace in knowing that all categories of Ukrainian pensioners will ge...
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February 17, 2023
First, They Came for the Confederates….On Disney’s latest ultra-woke reboot “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder”, the characters immediately roll into a litany of damnable lies about the history of this country. Intended for an audience of children, the first diatri...
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January 19, 2023
Flashers, Peeping Toms, and the Men Invading Women's Locker RoomsIn 2020, 54-year-old Michigander Steven Pastoor was finally nabbed. He had been dubbed the "Cascade Flasher," confessing to having exposed his genitals to unsuspecting victims for decades. He eventually targeted one wo...
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December 16, 2022
The Looming Demise of ESG and Virtue InvestingThe White House has recently issued a regulation allowing investment fiduciaries, like 401(k) managers, to offer investment options “that consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, such as climate change and social justice ini...
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December 4, 2022
Biden campaign and Democrat party colluded with Twitter to swing the 2020 electionElon Musk, Twitter’s new owner and CEO, just dropped a bombshell that has no known parallel in American history: The Biden administration and the Democratic National Committee colluded with Twitter to swing the 2020 election to Joe Biden and hi...
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November 25, 2022
Elon Musk's Warped Idea of Free SpeechNothing against Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio's 3rd District, but it was difficult not to raise an eyebrow at his tweet on Tuesday suggesting that the "Left is furious that there's Free Speech on Twitter." There certainly doe...
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November 12, 2022
Abolish ‘Voting Season’ and Bring Back Election Day“Election Night no longer exists,” writes Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness, continuing: Returns are not counted for days. It is intolerable for a modern democracy to wait and wait for all sorts of ballots both cast and count...
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November 4, 2022
The Big Lie about 'The Big Lie'With only a few days left until the 2022 midterms, Newsweek laments a new poll by Redfield and Wilton Strategies showing that 40 percent of Americans still believe that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged or stolen." This is prese...
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October 5, 2022
9/11 Trutherism and Its Persistent Problems, Twenty-One Years LaterThis past 9/11, a very good friend of mine, via a texted meme to a small group of friends, suggested that America is just adamant to “Never Forget” the destruction of World Trade Center (WTC) Towers 1 and 2 on 9/11, but that we’re a...
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October 2, 2022
Lincoln Longed for a Dobbs-like Ruling to Correct the Erroneous Dred Scott DecisionLast summer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited Stephen Colbert’s show, and gave the audience the full benefit of her ignorance regarding constitutional jurisprudence and American history. When asked by Stephen Colbert about what appropriat...
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August 26, 2022
Corporate Wokeness Is a Joke, Even to the Wokest of the WokeOver at Amazon Prime, The Boys is a hit series that just completed its third season of skewering the pop-culture superhero craze. As a word of warning, some spoilers will follow, and if you happen to be curious about the show, be forewarned tha...
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August 4, 2022
Gasoline, Electricity, and Biden’s Fuel for the Inflation FireYou may recall that earlier this summer, in response to poor and middle-class Americans’ suffering record gas prices across the country, the Biden administration floated the idea of government-supplied “gas rebate” cards. M...
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July 10, 2022
SCOTUS Has Not Exercised ‘Raw Political Power’ in Repealing Roe -- It Has Surrendered ItRoe v. Wade, the infamous 1973 Supreme Court decision, in which seven men in black robes invented a constitutional right for a woman to kill her child in utero, has thankfully been repealed. On Friday, amidst another tragic series of dementia-sign...
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June 15, 2022
The Democrats’ Quest for Gun Control May Harm Black Americans Most of AllRecently, Joy Behar beclowned herself on The View in typical fashion, this time by suggesting that Americans would begin clamoring for more gun regulations “once Black people get guns in this country.” Black Americans certainly d...
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June 14, 2022
It’s Not About the AR-15Gun grabbers have a peculiar tendency to invoke guns’ use as sporting devices as a rationale for gun control. Take actor Matthew McConaughey, who just last week seems to have charmed the pants off of some Americans, and even some gun r...
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May 22, 2022
Pro-Abortion Leftists Go All In on EugenicsOn the legal front, it appears that Roe v. Wade may soon suffer a calamitous defeat. But its defenders continue to insist that Roe remains popular with the American people because they have already won American hearts and minds about the m...
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May 17, 2022
Downfall: Roe’s Final Days in the BunkerThough few could have imagined it could just a decade ago, Roe v. Wade, the infamous 1973 decision which invented a federally protected constitutional right for a woman to kill her child while in the womb, is poised to be overturned by the Supreme Co...
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May 4, 2022
‘Passing’ in the Twenty-first CenturyThe early twentieth-century act known as “passing” referred to light-skinned black Americans pretending to be white “in order to avoid discrimination and gain access to the privilege of whiteness.” It’s an archaic term t...
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May 2, 2022
Don Quixote and the Trans MadnessThe Spanish novel, written by Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha, is often credited as the first modern novel in Western literature. Literally translated to English, the title reads “The Ingenious Low-Born ...
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April 10, 2022
What Disproves the 'White Supremacy' NarrativeSelling Marxism has been a tough row to hoe in America, though that's not to say that those selling it haven't made inroads toward getting us there. But our laissez-faire roots and inherent disdain for the anti-freedom control mech...
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March 29, 2022
Chris Rock has a duty to press full charges against Will SmithSunday's Oscars award ceremony broke new ground with a physical assault on Chris Rock by Will Smith, in an incident whose details are now well known by practically everyone in the English-speaking world. Immediately after, Se...
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March 25, 2022
Is the Absurdity of the Lia Thomas Saga Hastening a Pro-Sanity Coalition?Ivy League women’s swimming is a subject that I likely would have known or cared little about until an eccentric young man named Will Thomas decided to draw attention to himself by pretending to be a woman named Lia, competing against female at...
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March 10, 2022
Three Reasons Why Trump Shouldn’t Run for President in 2024Donald Trump was a great president, and Americans of all stripes are beginning to recognize that. Even his opponents will find it hard to argue against that conclusion without waxing stupid about a supposed “January 6th insurrection...
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February 22, 2022
Will We Learn the Right Lesson in Our Recent Failed Social Experiment with Mask Mandates?Modern progressives have been particularly susceptible to the seductions of masking propaganda over the past two years, as it was presented as scientific innovation overturning the ignorance of the past. They fancy themselves enlightened sophis...
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February 13, 2022
Supreme Court Vacancy: No White nor Male Folk Need ApplyOur current president has promised (or was strongarmed by James Clyburn into promising, you might correctly say) that he would nominate a black woman as Supreme Court Justice before the formal selection process ever began. As the Babylon Bee...
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January 24, 2022
Lockdowns, Masks, and Vaccines Have All Been Complete Failures, But That’s Not the Real ProblemIt’s becoming ever more apparent that the government health intelligentsia’s efforts to protect Americans from COVID have been a complete failure. That’s why you’ve heard nothing about its success. But here...
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January 16, 2022
Our Post-COVID Loss of LibertyPolls now show that four in five Americans accept that COVID will be around for good, and those who have been irrationally peddling fear about the virus are finally losing credibility fast. But significant and lasting damage to the country may ...
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January 11, 2022
What Issue Was Really at the Heart of the Civil War, and is it Relevant Today?Most Americans today have a romanticized (and extraordinarily narrow) historical understanding of the conflict that we call the Civil War. In their imaginations, it goes something like this: With passions inflamed by a moral renai...
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January 9, 2022
My Weekend with COVID (and the Jab)My experience with COVID recently may be a bit unusual, as a friend pointed out to me over the Christmas holiday. Though COVID’s been everywhere for almost two years now, and I’ve been incessantly commenting about the global overreacti...
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November 22, 2021
My Hippie Vietnam War Professor Was Right About the Dangers of the Patriot ActIn the spring following 9/11, the War on Terror had already begun, and I was taking a college course on the Vietnam War. It was a unique course for the time, as most of us didn’t attend the live class, but students were given a choice to ...
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November 15, 2021
The Unvaccinated: An Inconvenient Control Group in a Sinister Social ExperimentBack when the experts didn’t know if the new vaccines would even be “effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 infections,” the government, media, corporations, and public health intelligentsia still relentlessly pushed the stuff...
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November 2, 2021
Federalism, Not Democracy, is What Protects American LibertyAsk any progressive about what little he believes to be worth preserving in America, and you’ll likely hear countless pieties about our “democracy.” They don’t mean it, of course. For progressives, democracy is a ling...
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October 25, 2021
A Culture that Celebrates Fake Heroes While Crucifying Real Ones Cannot Endure“Believe in something,” Nike told consumers in 2018, “even it means sacrificing everything.” The advertisement features former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick giving a stoic stare to those social justice warriors being ...
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October 24, 2021
Candyman and the Horrors of Cabrini-Green: Soulless Sequel Lacks the Original’s HookHalloween season is here, and for me, that means horror movies. Among the bill of fare this year was the new Candyman, which follows in the footsteps of 2018’s Halloween in the sense that it is a sequel that both exists in the same univer...
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October 15, 2021
Why a ‘National Divorce’ Cannot Be Civil, but Would Inevitably Mean Civil WarMany conservatives have talked recently about the need for a “national divorce” due to irreconcilable differences with the progressive left. We should be clear about what we’re talking about, though, when we suggest the prospe...
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October 14, 2021
Leaving COVID WonderlandOn the Saturday before Labor Day weekend, my son’s football team played its first game in almost two years. An omnipresent feeling of gratitude could be felt in the air of my little adopted Northern California burg. The sun was shin...
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October 9, 2021
Premature Premonitions of Civil War?Anyone paying attention knows that America is fast polarizing to become two distinct factions. One is comprised of the coastal blue states commanded by dictators, for whom concepts like individual liberty are just speed bumps on the way to their newf...
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September 24, 2021
The Fraud Behind ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome’On MSNBC, Joy Reid suggests that the sensationalism around the disappearance and presumed murder of Gabby Petito is a symptom of a prevailing systemic and cultural bias called “Missing White Woman Syndrome.” There is a media and pub...
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September 20, 2021
Is the Biden Administration Trying to Murder Its Opponents?Imagine a doctor standing at a patient’s bedside. The patient is deathly ill, and will likely die without the aid of that life-support device resting by his bed. “Thank God for these devices, and thank God we don’t ha...
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August 27, 2021
How ‘Informed Consent’ Became ‘Coercion of the Uninformed’There must be a lot of money to be made in peddling medical treatments and prescription drugs to Americans, or else there’d be no way the advertisements pitching these treatments and drugs to the public could be so plentiful. But you may ...
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August 24, 2021
Canceling Rent is Canceling AmericaLong after Twitter decided to censor the leader of the free world for suggesting dangerous ideas, such as his suggestion that the American people should have absolute assurances about the integrity of presidential elections, it struck me that Alexand...
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August 18, 2021
Fall of Kabul: The Day Reagan’s America DiedMuch has been made of the similarities between what we’ve witnessed in Kabul, Afghanistan and the fall of Saigon in 1975. These comparisons are entirely appropriate, to be sure. Like the South Vietnamese in 1975, any Afghans who placed th...
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August 10, 2021
How Sweden Triumphed over COVIDEarlier this year, Sweden’s top health official, Johan Carlson, felt obligated to tell the world how wrong everyone else was. “Some believed that it was possible to eliminate disease transmission by shutting down society,” he ...
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July 20, 2021
COVID Authoritarianism Has Changed Our PolityWe are not the same country that we were just a few years ago. However unfortunate it may be to realize it, COVID has changed the political identity of America. To put it bluntly, it has become normal to expect that the government can clo...
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July 19, 2021
Our not-so-dream-team: Modest hopes for US men's basketball at Tokyo 2021 OlympicsWhen I discovered that America's Olympic basketball team suffered two surprising losses to Nigeria and Australia, there was a twinge of frustration in me. I told my wife that it's too bad that our team is playing badly, b...
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July 8, 2021
No, Matthew McConaughey, America is Not ‘Going Through Puberty.’In a strange Independence Day message, actor Matthew McConaughey suggests to his countrymen that we, as a nation, shouldn’t be discouraged by the social turmoil and political violence that we witnessed in 2020 because this is all just evidence ...
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June 23, 2021
SCOTUSCare Follies: Et tu, Justice Thomas?Leftists are celebrating the Supreme Court’s latest ruling, in California v Texas, to uphold the constitutionality of Obamacare. And why wouldn’t they? Sure, Obama’s flagship legislation may be little more than a leaking...
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June 6, 2021
The Fall of St. FauciDr. Anthony Fauci's new book, Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward, recently had its listing removed by Amazon and Barnes & Noble. What we can say with near certainty is that Amazon and Barnes a...
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June 5, 2021
New Email Revelations Prove That Slippery Dr. Fauci Lied About His Lying on MasksOn March 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci famously told Americans via 60 Minutes that there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. In fact, masks are likely even counterproductive, he said, because people don’t wear them correctly, constan...
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May 17, 2021
Time for Modern Masking Madness to Be Cast into the Dustbin of HistorySince last spring, many people, including dear friends, have been insisting that masks had suddenly become vital talismans that stop respiratory viral spread. I’ve consistently argued the opposite throughout. (Here, here, here.) And th...
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May 16, 2021
History Suggests that America is Ripe for a Conservative ResurgenceAging hippies have a penchant for recalling the 1960s as some amazing, idyllic moment in time. As Jonah Goldberg writes in Liberal Fascism, it’s “bizarre how many people remember the 1960s as a time of ‘unity’ and ‘hope...
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May 11, 2021
How White Leftist Politicians and Hipsters Have Already Killed WokenessWhite leftist politicians and hipsters have already killed wokeness in American culture. They just don’t know it yet. There’s been this repeating cultural joke occurring throughout my lifetime that, for some reason, never seems t...
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May 9, 2021
Old Coke, New Coke, Woke Coke, Broke CokeBy the time the Cola Wars really heated up in the 1980s, Coca-Cola had perennially enjoyed the upper hand over Pepsi in a rivalry that dated to the dawn of the twentieth century. In 1975, however, Coke began to feel threatened by Pepsi, due to a mark...
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April 21, 2021
American Businesses can be Woke, or they can be the Best, but they can’t be Both“DE&I” (shorthand for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,”) is a handy acronym that has become commonplace in corporate America. As recently as last May some of the hucksters peddling it were lamenting that the COVID-...
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April 19, 2021
'Stubborn Things,' and the Chauvin TrialConsider two contrasting quotes on how reason and passion relate to truth in a society. The first is (or once was, anyway) quite famous amongst Americans, spoken by Founder John Adams during his defense of the British soldiers accused of murder in...
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April 5, 2021
Can We Finally Stop Pretending that George Floyd’s Death Had Anything to Do with Racism?The lie that George Floyd was murdered by racist police officers in Minneapolis has made its way around the world several times over, leaving countless violent riots and more than $2 billion in property damages in its wake, but it seems that the trut...
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March 10, 2021
If we absolutely must cancel a Dr. Seuss classic, let's make it The LoraxLast week, I was saddened to learn that among the Dr. Seuss books to have been canceled in recent weeks is And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. It's a special book for my 11-year-old son and me, as we both read it for th...
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March 1, 2021
Big Business Caters to a New Generation of Racist CustomersThere shouldn't be any confusion about what big businesses everywhere mean when they tout "diversity and inclusion." But to clear up any potential misunderstanding that may exist, consider the following incident, recounted by...
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February 11, 2021
Average transgender athletes rob exceptional girls of opportunitiesAt The Daily Wire, Kelley Paul opines that "[Joe] Biden is asking women and girls to be gracious and smile politely from the sidelines as they accept third, fourth, or fifth place as biological males dominate the competition, swee...
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January 29, 2021
The GameStop Saga: The Retail Investors Strike BackHedge fund managers are currently learning a lesson the hard way. As reported by Reuters, hedge fund Melvin Capital Management “suffered heavy losses by betting against video game retailer GameStop.” Here’s how that happene...
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January 26, 2021
Another day, another stunning display of AOC's ignoranceCNN's Chris Cuomo interviewed left-wing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and naturally asked why she didn't attend Biden's inauguration. Her reason, she said, was that she and some of her colleagues "don't ye...
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January 11, 2021
We Will Not Be Lectured by the Violent, Anti-American, Revolutionary LeftAmericans are expected to be aghast at the events in Washington, D.C. on January 6. A vicious mob of revolutionary Trump supporters, we are told, swarmed the nation’s capital and, in an act of insurrection, unlawfully entered the hallowed...
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December 6, 2020
Canceling Christmas: The COVID Straw to Break the Camel's Back?"Christmas is going to be a lot harder," Joe Biden told an audience in a virtual briefing on December 2. "I don't want to scare anyone here, but understand the facts. We're likely to lose another 250,000 p...
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November 27, 2020
Time to Abolish Unconstitutional and Useless Mask MandatesYou have "no constitutional right to walk around without a mask," says the Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan. You'll invariably hear such declarative statements as a line of defense by those who support government ...
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November 23, 2020
A Circuit Breaker on Election Night?According to the media, Trump and his deplorables are doing a great disservice to the nation by demanding assurances about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. After all, Joe Biden has been all but inaugurated by news personali...
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November 18, 2020
Gavin Newsom Manufactures a COVID Crisis to Make California Miserable AgainFresh on the heels of the Sacramento Bee's criticism of Gavin Newsom's multi-family extravaganza at the famous French Laundry, a swanky $350-a-person-before-the-wine-is-ordered restaurant in Yountville, California, and after having his wrist ...
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November 6, 2020
Is Ballotgate the Single Greatest Crime in Modern American History?Imagine, for a moment, that the night of November 3rd, 2020, had gone a bit differently, with the circumstances reversed. Imagine that the media was champing at the bit to call several states early for Trump, while refusing to call those sta...
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October 26, 2020
Trump Continues to Hurl Monkey Wrenches into the Gears of the Democrats’ Political MachineGoing back to (at least) the technocratic and ambitious FDR, American Democrats have believed that federal government eggheads are best suited to manage most things, including mundane things like ensuring healthcare or housing, for everyone. Bu...
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September 28, 2020
The Upside-Down World of the WokeAfter a grand jury decision yielded no indictments for murder against the officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death, social justice warriors sprang into action. Strategically placed U-Haul vehicles, full of protest signs and riot shi...
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September 22, 2020
Knowing what's at stake, Trump-supporters increasingly refuse to hide in the shadowsA curious thing is happening in America, and you'd have to work pretty hard to ignore it. Trump-supporters are emerging from the shadows in large numbers, even in places you might not expect. One might not be incredibly surprised to...
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September 15, 2020
Roger Goodell and Wokeness Have Ensured the Decline of the NFL"Hey guys. Just letting you know that I'm not gonna run the league this year. My heart's not in it plus at least two guys are done with the NFL in general. Maybe next year all of the BS will blow over but until then...
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August 17, 2020
It’s Time to Roll Back the Mask Mandates, Not Ramp Them Up RidiculouslyJoe Biden recently made an effort to turn the mask hysteria up to 11, saying, “Every single American should be wearing a mask when they are outside for the next three months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate mask wearing.”...
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August 16, 2020
Google suppresses American Thinker results on its search engineBig Tech's institutional bias against conservatives was once relegated to the realm of conspiracy theories. Today, it's an immutable fact, and Big Tech doesn't even seem to be interested in hiding it anymore. For example, as...
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August 11, 2020
A Funny Kind of PrivilegeBlack female billionaire Oprah Winfrey recently “encouraged her white viewers to acknowledge that they will always have a “leg up” in culture because of the color of their skin.” White people, she says, “no matter ...
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August 10, 2020
Lockdowns Never Again: Sweden Was Right, and We Were WrongIn life, we encounter things that may work in theory but not in practice. Communism is famously one of those things. Time travel is another. With any luck, Americans will soon come to realize that strict social distan...
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July 27, 2020
Fauci's Lies and the Political Cowardice of Mask MandatesLike anyone who's paid the slightest bit of attention during this pandemic, you've probably noticed how the narrative regarding cloth face masks has evolved. Back in March and April, the surgeon general assured Americans that masks...
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July 20, 2020
Kanye's endgameTwo weeks ago, Kanye West burst onto the scene as a 2020 presidential candidate. He won't win, of course, but it makes for sensational popcorn fodder in politics. That's something Kanye's good at serving up...
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July 17, 2020
Time is Running Out for Coronavirus Course CorrectionLet's begin with a fact that undoubtedly contradicts the hysterics that you've routinely heard about the viral pandemic of 2020 — COVID-19 is anything but an indiscriminate killer of those infected by it. A new study, released by the...
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July 5, 2020
Roger Goodell’s National Anthem GambitIt is now being reported that the NFL will be playing “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a song that has been called the “Black national anthem,” before all NFL games in Week 1. This is a high-risk, low-reward mov...
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June 14, 2020
Cancelling ‘Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Lee’?The most popular musical act of the 1940s was a trio of ladies named Patty, LaVerne, and Maxene, collectively known as the Andrews Sisters. Their patriotic tunes are particularly nostalgic for me, a child of the Reagan era who had a special app...
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June 8, 2020
America Self-Flagellates to Atone for Phantom Social InjusticeAccording to the going narrative, the video of George Floyd being strangled while in police custody was a tipping point that exposed a deeply rooted societal issue of racism against black Americans. This underlying issue apparently becomes...
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June 1, 2020
Our Current Chaos is not All About the Death of George FloydDo not, for one moment, make the mistake of believing that the violence and vandalism we are seeing in recent riots area are about the horrific death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. This is not to say that there are...
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May 22, 2020
Horrific video of brutal attacks in a Michigan nursing home emergesVideo has emerged of a young man in Michigan, who has been identified on social media as Jadon Hayden, verbally and physically abusing senior citizens. As a fair word of warning, should you choose to follow the links provided below, that y...
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May 15, 2020
No Blue State Bailouts: Hold Democrats Accountable for Democrats’ PoliciesAs red states like Georgia and Texas methodically are ending their lockdowns and opening their economies without the spikes in hospitalizations and deaths that were promised by the progressive doomsday prophets, blue state governors continue applying...
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May 11, 2020
'Social Distancing' is Snake Oil, Not ScienceGovernor Andrew Cuomo of New York says that it’s “shocking” to discover that 66 percent of new hospitalizations appear to have been among people “largely sheltering at home.” “We thought maybe they were t...
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May 8, 2020
Scenes from the barbershop black market in CaliforniaLike many Americans, I began this week in dire need of a haircut, and I couldn't have been more thrilled to discover that two counties near mine in California have now famously decided to buck the state's reopening guidelines; wrest...
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May 5, 2020
A Modest Alternative to a Massive State Pension BailoutInterviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, New Jersey governor Phil Murphy praises Donald Trump for having been supportive of New Jersey’s health care needs, but Wallace reminds him: One area, however, Governor, where you haven...
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May 1, 2020
Was Killing the American Economy Absolutely Necessary?Like it or not, this is a question that will continue to be asked, and the terrible answer has already begun to take a convincing shape. Recently, Fox News analyst Brit Hume told Shannon Bream that “it’s time to consider the possibilit...
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April 25, 2020
Democrats Go All-In on Universal Basic IncomeIn a piece at Market Watch, House Appropriations Committee member Tim Ryan (D-OH) writes about his plan to “fire up the economy” by introducing “the Emergency Money for the People Act, which will provide almost every American $2,000...
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April 12, 2020
The costs of our fearsLet’s commit to a quick thought experiment. How many of your friends, family, or even loose acquaintances have unfortunately been identified as infected by COVID-19? Remember that number, and please accept my condolences if someone you...
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April 8, 2020
Does a Health Emergency Give Government the Extraordinary Power to Violate Our Rights?Over at the Daily Wire, author and podcast host Andrew Klavan concludes his article, “On Computer Models, Socialism, and Other Garbage,” with the following challenge to his readers [emphasis added]: And the next time some AOC-type kn...
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April 4, 2020
In What Sense Do You Think We Are Free?Here’s a sensible question. If the mayor of the most notable metropolis in the country can openly suggest that the government has the right to permanently shutter the doors of a church if it refuses to comply with “social distancing...
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March 27, 2020
The Left is Loving ThisConsider, for a moment, what ideas Americans seem to have generally accepted in the last few weeks. First, there seems to no longer be a question as to whether or not the government has a responsibility to ensure health care for American cit...
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March 23, 2020
If Americans Can't Work, They'll Need GovernmentHow quickly the soft tyranny of good intentions by the government becomes crushingly oppressive. For those who weren't paying attention, there was a buildup to state governors' issuing orders that American citizens are to remain in...
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March 19, 2020
Government and Media Responses to Pandemics, Then and NowThe H1N1 virus (colloquially known as swine flu) was "first detected in April of 2009 in the United States, and spread quickly around the world," despite the virus being of Mexican origin, as we later discovered. The Obama admini...
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March 13, 2020
Exploding the New York Times' Anti-American 1619 ProjectIn what should prove to be the most embarrassing endeavor ever undertaken by a prominent periodical, the New York Times is publishing a series of essays called the "1619 Project," which argues that "out of slavery grew nearly everythin...
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March 9, 2020
Despite What You've Heard, Trump and Bernie Aren't Two Radical, Populist Peas in a PodYou may have noticed a curious trend recently, usually exhibited by "moderate" progressive pundits, which involves comparing the candidacies of Donald Trump in 2016 and Bernie Sanders in 2020. The most recent I've seen is by ...
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February 28, 2020
Breadline Bernie Makes It Harder for the Left to Hide Its Love Affair with CommunismOn a recent episode of 60 Minutes, as Anderson Cooper narrates, a video is shown of Bernie Sanders suggesting, in the 1980s, that the Cuban people didn't help to overthrow Fidel Castro because the Castro regime had "educated their kids, gave...
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February 12, 2020
Do the Poor Remain Poor?Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez famously took to the House floor last week to quibble over the origins of the old maxim about “pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.” “You know this idea, this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a ...
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January 27, 2020
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.'s new policy of open discrimination is a giant leap backwardDavid Solomon, the CEO of Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., suggested last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos that, from July onward, the company "won't manage the initial public offerings of American and European companies unless ...
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January 20, 2020
Frederick Douglass vs. MLK: Competing visions for social justice?Last week, my son was tasked with memorizing and reciting the final paragraphs of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" (1963) speech for his class. I am proud that he did so, because, like most Americans, I...
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December 20, 2019
Dems Learning the Hard Way Why Impeachments Are So RareSome political observers, like Carl Hulse at the New York Times, are wondering if highly politicized impeachments will become the "new normal." I don't share that concern. Impeachments have always been politicized,...
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December 17, 2019
Greta Thunberg's Fantastic Voyage for Socialism Exemplifies the Failures of SocialismOn November 12, young Greta Thunberg set sail from America to Europe. But not in the same way she arrived, and you’ll hear few people mention that. Back in August, much was made of her trip to America. She “doesn’t fl...
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December 13, 2019
Conservatism vs. Internet PornA pretty epic battle occurred over the past weekend on Twitter among some prominent conservative commentators on the subject of whether online pornography should be regulated or banned by the government. Among the staunchest on the pro-regul...
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December 10, 2019
This Land is Whose Land?Of all the naïve nonsense that emits from the mouths of young people today, perhaps the most annoying is the constant and ignorant presumption that, somehow, the land within America’s borders doesn’t truly belong to the people who re...
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November 24, 2019
Debunking the Sports Media's Excuses for the Browns' Myles Garrett and the Helmet-Swinging IncidentLast week, there was quite a bit of confusion and outrage about an incident on Thursday Night Football when Myles Garrett got into an altercation with Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph, where the Browns’ defensive end ripped the helmet from hi...
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November 17, 2019
Kanye West, fisher of menI’ll be completely honest. What little I’ve known about Kanye West over the years has often revolved around his notorious antics that have raised eyebrows and peppered news cycles. You might remember his offhand, non-sequitur ...
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November 15, 2019
All eyes on the NFL: Browns' Myles Garrett could have killed a man on Thursday Night FootballOn Thursday night, the underdog Cleveland Browns met the Pittsburgh Steelers. And the Browns showed up, beating the Steelers 21-7 in a pretty decisive victory. That wouldn't be big news, normally. But at the end of the ga...
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November 12, 2019
A ‘Wealth Tax’ is a Morally Evil Policy PropositionThe late Dr. Charles Krauthammer wrote in 2002 that to “understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”...
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November 4, 2019
How Big-Government Regulation Contributed to California's WildfiresIn 2013, cartoonist Jack Ohman made a macabre attempt at humor that was published by the Sacramento Bee in a political cartoon referencing an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, at which fifteen people were killed and more than 200 were i...
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November 4, 2019
Transphobic heretic Bill Maher doesn't believe men can menstruateBill Maher is an interesting character. I don't find him particularly funny, and his politics are far to the left of mine, but that is not to say that we always disagree. Back in 2013, for example, recall that he threaten...
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October 23, 2019
Economic Security and Economic Freedom Are Very Different PropositionsWith the rise of the open acceptance of “democratic socialism” in America, one thing has become increasingly apparent. That is: what the Left believes the word “freedom” to mean is something entirely different from what ...
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September 23, 2019
Why Mayor Pete’s 2020 Presidential Campaign is Already FinishedPete Buttigieg has long had a problem with black voters. It's a problem that grew visible in his leadership as mayor of South Bend, Indiana over black-police conflict. In an effort to save his flailing presidential campaign, he has released ...
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September 15, 2019
Why Has the Overpopulation Myth Remained So Persistent When It's So Easily Disproven?In the scope of modern history, population control as a means to reduce scarcity of resources is anything but a new idea, despite what socialists like Bernie Sanders would have you believe. Bernie Sanders recently proposed that America should fina...
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September 2, 2019
Yes, Social Security is a Sinking ShipOver at Market Watch, in a piece published on August 29, Devin Carroll aims to tackle American misconceptions about Social Security. “These 7 Social Security myths aren’t true, no matter how often you hear them,” he asserts in...
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August 20, 2019
What the Elites Think Americans 'Need' Has Nothing to Do with Individual RightsYou may have noticed that all advocates of federal gun control are arguing for the same end result, which is federal limitations upon the individual right to own firearms. But the underlying arguments as to why they believe that the federal governmen...
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August 14, 2019
How The Federal Government Nullified the Second Amendment to 'Ban' Automatic firearmsThere are two competing theories being debated today about American individuals’ “right” to gun ownership. The original theory is that Americans enjoy a fundamental right to self-defense, in order to preserve one’s person a...
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July 29, 2019
Feminism Is Working Overtime to Destroy FilmIn a recent op-ed disguised as a movie review at the New York Post, film critic Sara Stewart proclaims that "Quentin Tarantino's exploitation has no place in Hollywood anymore." Why did she pen this obituary about Tarantino...
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July 17, 2019
A Different Take on Trump’s Tweet Storm About ‘Progressive’ Democrat CongresswomenPresident Trump was raked over the coals by both the left and right for his tweet storm on Sunday, suggesting: “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catast...
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July 15, 2019
Travesty in Arizona: Disabled Vet Loses His Home over $236 in Unpaid TaxesIn 1991, Air Force veteran Jim Boerner suffered "spinal and brain injuries" during a training exercise at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. Until recently, he had been the proud owner of a mobile home in a Mesa, Arizona mobi...
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July 5, 2019
America’s Road to Socialism Has Been Cobbled by Taxation and DebtEvery now and again, you’ll hear someone argue that a fundamental transformation of the American economy is necessary because we are in the throes of something called “late-stage capitalism.” Wealth inequality has reached an u...
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June 30, 2019
The Most Fundamental Problem with Democrats' Push for ReparationsIn 1927, several socialist-leaning American academics visited the Soviet Union, anxious to bring back stories of how successful the new Communist regime had been in its decade of infancy, and how it was exceeding American prosperity by cobbling a tec...
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June 10, 2019
Capitalism Makes Miracles; Socialism Makes DustG.K. Chesterton once observed that "we are perishing for a want of wonder, but not for a want of wonders." It is a simple and profound observation of the human condition. I first read this sentence in Leonard E. Read's bri...
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June 8, 2019
Sports Stars and Bartenders Are Not SlavesGeorge Orwell once observed that "we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." Clearly, such are the times in which we now live, considering that it's become necessary to ...
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May 24, 2019
Americans Are in Desperate Need of a Lesson on the History of SlaveryDemocrat hopeful Pete Buttigieg recently advocated removing Thomas Jefferson's memory from the public square and ending the practice of naming public events in his honor. The legacy of Jefferson, he said, is "problematic."...
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May 21, 2019
The Answer to the Abortion Debate Has Existed in the Constitution All AlongWe should begin by stating the obvious: Roe v. Wade was an errant ruling by the Supreme Court, and one which has rightfully earned “public opposition and academic criticism” because the “Court ventured too far in the cha...
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April 30, 2019
The Left Continues to Peddle the Lie that Trump Represents a Threat to Press FreedomSaturday night’s White House Correspondents dinner once again came and went without most Americans having paid it any serious attention, and for the third straight year, our president chose to miss this increasingly farcical event where journal...
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April 4, 2019
The Lies Leftists Tell about Hate CrimesWhen confronted with an immediate question in the wake of the news about Jussie Smollett having fabricated the hate crime he allegedly suffered, Cory Booker was calmly reserved with his comments, saying he would "withhold [judgment] until all th...
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April 2, 2019
Sandy O's Credibility ProblemThe radical left just loves Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That much can’t be denied. Actress Lena Heady, most widely recognized as Cersei Lannister on HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, went so far as to say that Sandy O “sho...
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March 19, 2019
Sorry, Sandy, Capitalism Needs No RedemptionAddressing an audience at Austin’s South by Southwest conference, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called capitalism an “irredeemable system.” “Capitalism is the ideology of capital,” she says. “The mo...
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March 12, 2019
Why the Senate Democratic 2020 Hopefuls Are IrrelevantThe Senate, last December, voted unanimously to pass the Justice for the Victims of Lynching Act of 2018. That bill fails to cite even a single example of lynching since 1968 as reason for its enactment, and it is little more than a bit of poli...
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February 27, 2019
Democrats' 'Anti-Lynching' Law Makes a Mockery of Real Lynching VictimsWhen most Americans think of lynching, they summon images of the horrific murders of American blacks, particularly in the years of the Jim Crow South. To describe such murders as "bias-motivated acts of terror," as Cory Booker ha...
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February 20, 2019
What FDR KnewIn order to secure a massive expansion of federal power to intervene in Americans’ lives and the marketplace, as FDR accomplished with his New Deal, politicians need to have both an indisputable crisis and a talent for deception. Alexandr...
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February 13, 2019
California Further Proves that Public High-Speed Rail Projects Are StupidReality has a sense of timing in asserting itself, it seems, and it has chosen to mercilessly mock the radical leftist proponents of the newly proposed Green New Deal. California governor Gavin Newsom has now abandoned the high-speed rai...
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February 11, 2019
Why the Radical Left (and No One Else) Touts Modern Monetary TheoryYou may not have heard about the fringe concept of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), but you can expect that you'll hear a lot more about it in the future as Democrats pretend the theory supports the plausibility of fiscally outrageous policy proposa...
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January 28, 2019
Elizabeth Warren's proposed 'ultra-millionaire tax' would be the rape of the ConstitutionElizabeth Warren has unleashed her bold new presidential campaign promise, which she cleverly calls "The Ultra-Millionaire Tax." After all, none of us is an "ultra-millionaire," so why should we care? ...
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January 22, 2019
The Democrats Own the ShutdownChuck Schumer may well have been pleased when President Trump signified his willingness to shut down the government to advance border security to fulfill his most politically charged campaign promise. Even some conservative ...
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January 14, 2019
Is Anti-Trump Hysteria America's Most Ridiculous Moment?I don't have a crystal ball, but you don't need one to know that, ten or twenty years hence, President Trump will not be remembered as "literally Hitler." The now-coming-of-age SJWs who quake in fear at night over Trump...
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January 10, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Top Marginal Tax Hike BoondoggleSocialist newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently revived a radical Democrat talking point from its slumber, suggesting to Anderson Cooper in a 60 Minutes interview that we should have a top marginal income tax rate of 70% applied to an ...
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November 19, 2018
Go Ahead, Representative Swalwell: Make my DayFor the American Left, gun control has always been nothing more than a statist impulse in search of a reason to justify it. And there have always been reasons they’ve offered as to why the government should prohibit Americans from owning thi...
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November 18, 2018
Dem congressman: Government can always nuke resistant gun-ownersBack in May, House Democrat Eric Swalwell of California authored an op-ed for USA Today that argues for federal confiscation, and an Australian-style "buyback," of "assault weapons" in America (which, even when accounting for murd...
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November 12, 2018
Why Progressives Can’t Understand How the Corporate Tax Cut is Fueling Our Booming EconomyGeorge Orwell was correct: “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” The corollary, that some ideas are so obviously correct that only intellectuals disbelieve them, is equally true. Consider these simple ...
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October 22, 2018
Replaying 2014?With just over two weeks until the November midterm elections, Democrats have found themselves championing two specific issues in the run-up to the elections – amnesty for illegal aliens and federal regulation of health care. This all has pr...
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October 12, 2018
If Leftists Pack the Court, They Destroy the RepublicIf Democrats are able to recapture the White House and Congress in the coming years, it now seems all but unavoidable that they will look to pack the Supreme Court with progressive justices in order to neutralize Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Whe...
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October 7, 2018
Better Late than #NeverTrumpDemocrats have done the once-unthinkable. No, they didn’t ultimately obstruct or delay the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (which has a nice ring to it). But they have been so dastardly, dishonest, and politically conni...
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October 5, 2018
Alexander Hamilton puts his money on Republican midterm winsAlexander Hamilton argues, in Federalist 77, in favor of the Constitution's protocol for selecting and confirming nominees for the Supreme Court. According to that established and continuing protocol, it is the role of the Executive to...
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September 8, 2018
Nike Goes Long on Kaepernick and America's Self-HatredNike, the world's leading athletic footwear and apparel brand, recently made Colin Kaepernick the face most identifiable with the company after it released an ad with his picture, captioned: "Believe in something. Even if it means ...
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September 2, 2018
Double-Double Failure for the Left's Fast Food BoycottsWe all remember when, in 2012, the left pressed for a massive boycott against Chick-fil-A for the company's stance on a definition of "marriage" that includes same-sex couples. In short, CEO Dan Cathy had expressed ...
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August 27, 2018
The Danger in Republicans' Fight to Own Lincoln's LegacyHuman beings (and Americans are no exception) like their heroes and villains easily identifiable and the explanation of historical events simple. As such, both Republicans and Democrats have built easily digestible historical narrativ...
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August 22, 2018
The #MeToo Movement Self-DestructsThe #MeToo movement was dealt a critical blow this past weekend as news emerged that one of its leading spokeswomen, actress Asia Argento, among the most prominent accusers of Harvey Weinstein, had paid $380K to young actor Jimmy Bennett in...
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August 15, 2018
Social Security and Fiscal Doomsday2035. That’s the optimistic date for Social Security’s impending doom, after which Social Security is expected to provide only 75-80% of expected benefits to retirees. For the record, I turn 67 (full retirement age, for me) in...
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August 10, 2018
How the socialistic rebirth of the Democratic Party may be shortsightedIn 2004, I watched my first full speech by Barack Obama at the DNC, then an Illinois state senator. I, like many people, was amazed at how powerful this speech was. Looking back fourteen years later, it's still easy to und...
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July 18, 2018
Fun with Roe v. Wade RhetoricSome squishier conservatives are now working hard to shy away from any suggestion that President Trump's newest Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, might challenge the Roe v. Wade decision. I'm not exactly sure why anyone's ...
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June 27, 2018
How Democrats' Amnesty Push May Destroy All Prospects of a 'Blue Wave' in NovemberAmnesty for illegal aliens has never been a winning issue for Democrats. Barack Obama seemed to operate with this knowledge. But his successors obviously don't share his political cunning. Obama, you see, always pla...
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June 20, 2018
Finding Middle Ground for Social Security and Public PensionsOver the years, I’ve come to understand that government pensions are not a fun topic of conversation. Everyone knows someone else who is collecting a public pension, and I know many. The conversation tends to get very personal, and ...
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June 14, 2018
Virtue-Signaling Run Amok in AmericaA friend of mine and I recently had a political discussion that I found disturbing. He told me that a long-time family friend had come to his house the weekend before. His friend was an academic and a black man, and their dinner discussion i...
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June 4, 2018
Socialism Begets SocialistsReferencing recent polls and the popularity of Bernie Sanders among the youth, famed economist Walter E. Williams laments the signals that “young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism” in America. The reason for this, he be...
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May 29, 2018
As Ireland Aborts Its Soul, America Seems Poised to Salvage Its OwnIn A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus, the literary alter ego of Irish author James Joyce, laments: "We are an unfortunate, priest-ridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter." ...
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May 22, 2018
Goodbye, NetflixAfter about thirteen years of being a loyal customer of Netflix, the time has come for me to say goodbye. This isn't an easy decision for me. I have been with the company since my mid-20s, back when Blockbuster stores were still on ...
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May 13, 2018
A Quiet Place Is a Loud Proclamation of Humanity's Greatest VirtuesJohn Krasinski’s newest film, A Quiet Place, is performing well at the box office. As a horror movie fan, this is reason for optimism, because it signifies that more films like it might be produced. The movie is fairly original, tig...
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April 28, 2018
Feminist Politics: Theater of the AbsurdThe ease with which the left corrupts history and preys upon the young and dim never ceases to bother me. Take this example. Emily Zanotti at The Daily Wire reminds us of a popular movement during Trump's presidentia...
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April 23, 2018
The intersectional left vs. Kanye WestThe left may not win this fight as it has won so many others, such as Dave Chappelle, who innocently suggested to an audience that we should "give Trump a chance." He later apologized for it after the comment angered so...
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April 16, 2018
The Invisible Victims of Gun ControlShe’d always “felt safe in her neighborhood,” said an unnamed young woman in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. That is, until around midnight of October 25, 2008, when she heard a crash in her basement. A 47-year-old register...
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April 13, 2018
In a World Where Everyone's Offended by Everything, Can Comedy Exist?One of the greatest comic minds of the twentieth century, Mel Brooks, said late last year that "stupid political correctness" would be "the death of comedy." "It's not good for comedy," Brooks said in Se...
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April 8, 2018
Perpetually Progressive Confiscatory Taxation in AmericaHere's a troubling fact. According to data from The Open Syllabus Project, the most frequently assigned book "relating to economics and money" in college curricula over the last decade is Karl Marx's Communist M...
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April 5, 2018
Is the Second Amendment for Just the Militia?Let's begin with the simplest of observations. Our United States Constitution serves two distinct purposes. The first is to explicitly enumerate the powers and procedures of our nation's central government, which was defin...
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March 26, 2018
Big Budget Bills and the Death of Small GovernmentSpeaking of the new $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page omnibus spending bill that Congress hastily crafted, no elected official had read, and that Donald Trump grudgingly signed into law, Fox News' Greg Gutfeld said on The Five, with surprising nonchalanc...
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March 21, 2018
Why Reports of a Coming Republican Bloodbath in November Are PrematureA curious thing happens when you look beyond the media elation over Democrat Conor Lamb's victory in House district PA-18, which was framed as a referendum on Donald Trump's presidency. Trump won the district by 20 points in the 20...
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March 16, 2018
Dems Only Pretend to Disavow Hillary's 'White Women' CommentsIn Hillary Clinton's recent visit to the India Today Conclave, she made what would be, if she were anyone other than Hillary Clinton, some astonishing statements. She asserted that "all that red" in the middle of the United States ma...
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March 11, 2018
Trump's Tariffs Are All about PoliticsI've noticed recently an interesting dichotomy of general presumptions being made by President Trump's most fervent supporters. It goes like this. If you're for Trump's protective trade policy demanding tariffs o...
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February 24, 2018
Your Feelings Have Nothing to Do with the Second AmendmentLooking to capitalize on the public whirlwind demanding gun control measures, Ohio governor John Kasich took to Twitter to ask: If all the sudden you couldn't buy an AR-15, what would you lose? Would you feel your second amendment...
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January 21, 2018
Social Security's Death Knell Is Ringing. Can You Hear It?Social Security is, barring an immediate and massive overhaul in how benefits are paid to the back-end of the Baby Boomer generation and beyond, on its deathbed. There can be no mistaking that fact. Veronique de Rugy explains at Reason:...
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December 15, 2017
How the Media Already Have Twisted the Meaning of the Alabama ElectionIn their elation over Doug Jones having prevailed in the Alabama Senate race to fill the seat vacated by now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the media are now trying to position the election as a referendum on President Trump. Take a recent New Yo...
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December 12, 2017
#MeToo: From Salem to NowRecognizing the problems inherent in the hysteria surrounding the #MeToo campaign, which the media and politicians are heralding as a pivotal moment in our culture, should not require a difficult intellectual exercise. It was once conventional ...
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December 3, 2017
Matthew Dowd’s Empty Virtue Signaling on TaxesLast week, ABC’s Chief Political Analyst Matthew Dowd, a “Proud Independent” who puts “country over party” according to his Twitter profile, offered the following thought on Twitter: Any tax savings that I might get...
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November 13, 2017
Some Tax Deductions Are More Equal than OthersIf you were to randomly ask a sample of 100 Americans from around the country why the mortgage interest deduction was implemented in the tax code, I'd wager that the bulk of the answers would range from "I don't know" to "they ...
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November 10, 2017
Senate Republicans Aim to Torpedo House GOP Tax Reform BillIf reports about the Republican Senate resonse to the House tax reform bill are true, we could be witnessing the GOP’s suicide. The House GOP tax bill is, as I’ve argued, a fundamentally flawed bill in some ways. But in many othe...
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November 7, 2017
Does the GOP Tax Bill Promote Class Warfare?I have been slogging through the new House tax reform bill, which is being touted by President Trump as the biggest tax cut in American history. That’s not true, of course, if for no other reason than whether or not this bill amounts to a...
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October 20, 2017
The Regrettable Marriage of the NFL and Left-Wing Identity PoliticsWhat we are witnessing in the media narrative around the NFL protests is the prevailing modus operandi of contemporary leftists seeking to introduce their identity politics into all aspects of American life, even where those politics are unwelcome fo...
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October 9, 2017
The Logical End of the Left’s Anti-Gun CrusadeRecently on Tucker Carlson’s show, Don Calloway (Rep D-MO) opened with this pearl of insight into the leftist mind, suggesting that “mass shootings are the result of the types of weapons that are available to our society, and the lethalit...
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September 27, 2017
Can We Please Stop Pretending the NFL Protests Have Anything to Do with Free Speech?Following the lead of the now unemployed Colin Kaepernick and on the heels of some fiery rhetoric from President Trump on the matter, more National Football League players than ever knelt during the National Anthem on Sunday in order to protest the i...
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September 4, 2017
American Greatness in Response to Harvey: It’s the People, Stupid!There appeared a cartoon last week, showcased at Politico, depicting a Texas bumpkin, garbed in a Confederate flag and a cowboy hat, and his child being rescued from the ravages of Hurricane Harvey, airlifted from a his home emblazoned with “SE...
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September 2, 2017
Crisis Management as a Means to CorruptionSenator Ted Cruz of Texas was recently taken to task by Katy Tur of MSNBC for the fact that he is seeking federal aid for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, but yet he was opposed a federal spending bill in response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. ...
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August 27, 2017
Trump's Right about Confederate Statues and the Slippery SlopeThere’s been a lot of talk about the Civil War lately, given the left’s furor over Confederate statues and whatnot. These statues and monuments have long existed without any such uproar, so we can assume it’s the leftist cause...
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August 18, 2017
What the media say (and don't say) about violent extremists on the left speaks volumesI can't think of one mainstream, respected conservative pundit out there arguing that the violent actions of white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville were justified. But I can remember quite clearly several moments where left-wing...
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August 12, 2017
The Left Isn't Giving Up on Colin KaepernickWhat is it they say about New York? “If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere?” The lesson in last year’s Colin Kaepernick saga should be, “If you can’t make it as a professional social justice warrior/NFL q...
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August 5, 2017
Jim Acosta and the MSM: Grasping at Straws in the Immigration DebateOn Wednesday, CNN’s Jim Acosta took White House aide Stephen Miller to task for President Trump’s proposed immigration policy reform, which seeks to institute a “merit-based system for green cards based on the ability to speak Engli...
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July 31, 2017
That's Just Your Opinion: Moral Relativism and the Death of LibertyAmong my most hated clichés is one that you've undoubtedly heard countless times: "Everyone's entitled to an opinion." It's true, of course. Everyone does have the right to formulate and express an opinion of his...
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July 29, 2017
Portraits of Madness: Don Quixote and the Transgender SJWFor those who may be unfamiliar, Miguel de Cervantes's novel Don Quixote tells the tale of Alonso Quixana, an elderly (and exceedingly mad) gentleman who fancies himself a chivalrous knight. He takes the name Don Quixote and fights to prese...
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July 24, 2017
Have Repeal Efforts Always Been a Republican Ruse?For leading Republicans today, the answer is almost certainly yes. As evidence, allow me to take you back to the fall of 2013. The House GOP, the chamber majority since 2010, had a choice in deciding the fate of the Continuing Appropriations...
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June 28, 2017
Do You Remember What You Didn't Like about Obamacare?There must have been something about it that you didn’t like. Your vote demonstrated that in November of 2010, just seven months after its enactment, wildly shifting the balance of power in America from Democratic to Republican, though...
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May 24, 2017
Facts don't care about Islamic terrorists' feelingsIn the wake of the horrific Manchester bombing, which targeted young girls and killed 22 while injuring many others, President Trump took to the world stage to suggest that the perpetrators are "evil losers." "I won't call them ...
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May 23, 2017
Is it possible that the Civil War was about more than just slavery?In one of my favorite Simpsons episodes from my teenage years, the friendly, if perpetually price-gouging, Kwik-E-Mart clerk Apu Nahasapeemapetilon endures a line of questioning from an examiner in order to attain U.S. citizenship: Examiner: Here...
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May 17, 2017
Our Constitutional Crisis Has Nothing to Do with James ComeyPresident Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey has been pretty big news, and there will be no dearth of continued commentary about what it means. But what rings hollowest in all the commentary surrounding it have been the nearly uni...
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May 6, 2017
FCC: Hands off Stephen ColbertStephen Colbert wasn't exactly at the top of his game when he entered his fiery opening rant against Donald Trump that recently landed him in hot water. It's not really accurate to call the monologue "edgy," becau...
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May 1, 2017
Lies, Damn Lies, and Islamic Terrorism StatisticsIn case you haven’t noticed, there is an orchestrated campaign underway to convince Americans that the threat of Islamic terrorism is wildly overstated. And every so often, the purveyors of that lie will cite a study that ostensibly prove...
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April 25, 2017
The Fresno Killer, Media Subterfuge, and Jihadi PrivilegeThe Los Angeles Times reported that last week, a gunman by the name of Kori Ali Muhammad "stalked the streets of Fresno, fatally shooting three white men outside the Catholic Charities building with a .357 revolver." Muhammad, a self-...
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March 1, 2017
No, Repealing Obamacare Won’t Kill Off Thousands of AmericansAmong the most popular of the potentially looming tragedies cited by proponents of Obamacare is that thousands of Americans will die if Republicans are successful in repealing it. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler at the Chicago Trib...
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February 20, 2017
Progressive Populism: Socialism’s Latest Marketing CampaignThere’s been an undeniably increased usage among leftist pundits since Trump’s election of the term “progressive populism.” (Here, here, here…) Given the context of the times, it’s a curious marriage of w...
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February 16, 2017
Donald Trump: A Man for This SeasonJust four months ago, Democrats were flying high, assured of their own Party’s viability in 2017 and beyond. Now, the Democratic left is splintered, and massive infighting will ensue to secure Party leadership and decide upon future polit...
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January 31, 2017
The Social Security Shell GameTo make heads or tails of the Social Security debate requires an understanding about what Social Security truly is. But that understanding is exceedingly difficult to attain, given that both sides of the debate are prone to making misleading, o...
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November 29, 2016
Why Should California Bother to Secede?There’s been a lot of focus about whether California can secede. The better question, perhaps, is, why should it? Think about it. If you live in California, you already live with silly taxes that you don’t have to live with...
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November 25, 2016
All This Silliness about Abolishing the Electoral College“How could this have happened?” the media pundit bemoans, as he looks over the foolproof election data that he disseminated prior to the election. “How do I tell my daughter that America elected a racist, sexist bully?” ...
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October 10, 2016
Trump's Taxes Aren't the ProblemWhy, exactly, are Donald Trump's federal income tax returns important to anyone beyond the fact that he has broken no laws? It's unlikely we'll ever find that Donald Trump has done something illegal with his taxes. Hillary knows ...
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September 7, 2016
The Left’s Hillary ProblemThough the mainstream media may appear ready to break out the party streamers and noisemakers for Hillary’s long-awaited coronation, being a Hillary shill (a convincing one, at least) is an extremely tough row to hoe in 2016. Consider this. ...
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August 22, 2016
Trump and Logic vs #NeverTrump and SuicideIn early August, the great Thomas Sowell presented an analogy describing the choice facing conservative readers of National Review, in a piece titled “Two Awful Candidates Heading to a Close Election. What’s a Good Citizen to Do?...
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February 4, 2016
Healing the Republican Party's Dangerous Schisms of FaithIowa's in the books, and Cruz emerged victorious. Being a pretty avid observer of this crazy kaleidoscopic coverage of the 2016 primary that is fragmenting (reinventing?) the Republican Party, I found the results pretty interesting. M...
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February 3, 2016
How John Adams Predicted Bernie Sanders and His AcolytesThere is something incredibly curious about the Bernie Sanders’s faithful. On the one hand, we’re told that they’re incredibly well-educated. Indeed, academia and its young charges support him more than other candidates,...
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January 23, 2016
The Left's Problem with Nature and LogicImagine a fairly busy four-way intersection in a suburb of Anytown, USA. At one corner of that intersection sits a man in a chair, plucked from a remote island in the South Pacific by some unknown force and placed there. This man has n...
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January 9, 2016
Why does opposition to political correctness require defense?Imagine, if you will, a world in which truth no longer exists. A world in which lies have become facts, and the truth has become radical. I’m not channeling Rod Serling; I’m describing America today. Here’s an example...
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December 11, 2015
In Spike Lee's new film Chi-Raq, the joke's on himSome critics are applauding Spike Lee’s newest “joint,” Chi-Raq. Justin Chang of Variety calls it Lee’s “most vital, lived-in work in some time.” David Edelstein over at Vulture heralds that it is ...
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November 19, 2015
The Pianist in Paris, and the Delusions of the Western LeftA lone pianist touched the emotional core of Western sensibilities when he played John Lennon’s “Imagine” outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris, where concert-goers were murdered by Islamist gunmen last weekend. The pianist wa...
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September 28, 2015
Two Americas, More Clearly Defined Now than Ever BeforeRecently, Phillip Rucker of the Washington Post asked readers if Republicans and Democrats are talking about the same country, and proceeded to provide evidence that they may not be. This is, of course, a wildly asinine question to ask....
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September 21, 2015
Trump the Everyman?This may sound funny, but a big reason why Donald Trump is being embraced by millions of conservatives is because we can relate to guys like him. We understand what makes guys like him tick. And ultimately, we generally just like guys lik...
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September 7, 2015
Islamic Extremism, Curt Schilling's Professional Demise, and the Waning Value of TruthLegendary hurler Curt Schilling was recently suspended by ESPN for posting the following tweet: Naturally, some people lost their minds and tweeted furious disapproval. Having understood the transgression against politically correct sens...
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August 17, 2015
Donald Trump: The Good, the Bad, and the UnknownIt’s still early, and despite his current lead in the polls, there’s a long and arduous row to hoe if Donald Trump is to make it to Cleveland in 2016. But at this point, what can we really make of the man? The Good It...
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August 1, 2015
Lincoln vs. Lee: How History is Distorted to Preserve LegendsSocial engineers have a knack for destroying history, then self-servingly reshaping it to align with political agendas for consumption by the masses. The results of their skill are no better exemplified than we are currently witnessing....
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July 31, 2015
Walter Palmer, DDS: The Left's Perfect VillainNo, you didn’t know Cecil the Lion prior to this week, and neither did most of the emotional gaggle seemingly finding themselves in the throes of depression on social media or nearly weeping on national television. From what I gather, Cecil ...
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June 22, 2015
Evaluating the Left's Madness on Gun ControlFormer Maryland governor and newly announced presidential candidate Martin O’Malley has had enough. He explains in a recent e-mail response to the horrifying Charleston shooting: I’m pissed that we’re actually asking ours...
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June 20, 2015
Bill Nye the Science-Is-Settled Guy vs. FactsBill Nye, most notably of children’s television fame, is now taking his personal insight to the millions populating the social media world. Take this recent pearl of disciplined scientific speculation on Twitter: “@BillNye: [Tr...
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June 19, 2015
Forgiving Rubio, or How to 'Stumble' on Immigration All the Way to the White HouseMarco Rubio was embraced by the media and Democrats in 2013 when he supported immigration reform, much to the ire of his conservative base. The media took the opportunity to paint his wayward supporters who opposed his efforts as backward extre...
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June 17, 2015
At His Own Peril, Jeb! Spurns Conservatives on Education and ImmigrationWe all know the famous Republican Jeb! (as his campaign seems eager to avoid use of his last name and believes an exclamation point will get people excited about him, I’ll indulge that wish) who is now an immediate heavyweight in the Republican...
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May 8, 2015
Time for the Welfare State to Stand TrialIn his speech on Monday in New York, President Obama referenced “the ideals we’re built on” as a reason for providing more government investment to address poverty in our inner cities. But he’s certainly not talking abou...
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May 7, 2015
Baltimore Indicts the Welfare StateIn a speech on Monday at Lehman College in the Bronx, President Obama blasted the media for focusing on “looters and rioters” in the recent race riots in Baltimore and Ferguson before it, and said that they should instead be focusing on ...
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April 23, 2015
McDonald's CavesUnder the direction of new CEO Steve Easterbrook, who took the corporate helm on March 1st, McDonald’s is “finally deciding to give some of its workers a raise,” the Huffington Post declares in an article from April 1st. ...
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April 18, 2015
The Looming Minimum Wage Hike: Stuck on StupidWe might be inclined to laugh off the national demonstrations calling for a $15/hr minimum wage for burger-flippers, as the suggestion should be received as utterly ridiculous in any intelligent economic debate. But the left isn’t laughing....
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April 13, 2015
Three Reasons Hillary Won't Win the Democratic TicketAt this point, I understand how this prediction will be received. It’s been common belief for some time that Hillary Clinton would headline the ticket. And there’s ample reasoning to think that she will. So let’s b...
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February 28, 2015
The Conservative and Progressive Measures of Success, Clearly DefinedIn looking back on his soon-to-be-over tenure as Attorney General, Eric Holder has “only praise for [Barack] Obama, disputing the claims of some African-American leaders that the first black president hasn’t really delivered for the black...
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February 16, 2015
Five Characters in Search of a Reason for New Orleans's Smoking BanNew Orleans’s city council has unanimously approved a city-wide smoking ban in all bars and casinos, making it the latest big city to pass such a smoking ban without the courtesy of a popular vote. The ban itself, like the others that ...
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January 5, 2015
The Fabrication of Courage by Sports MediaFor my money, it doesn’t get sadder than Mike Golic of ESPN's Mike and Mike regaling his listeners on his morning show about how the St. Louis Rams players were “courageous” last November 30th for taking to the fi...
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December 25, 2014
The Anti-Christmas Atheist MissionariesIf you’ve ever attempted a reasonable conversation with an American atheist about his or her distaste for religious influence in American politics, you know well that the primary beef atheists tend to have with religion is due to religionists...
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December 19, 2014
The Republicans' Road to RovetownEarly November signified a bolder refutation of a political platform in Washington than any that had been seen in an election for many decades. Republicans reaped a windfall of power in Congress, granted by an energetic conservative base and la...
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November 21, 2014
Michelle Obama and the Why of Ferguson, MissouriIt’s difficult to imagine a sadder state of affairs than political figures suggesting that any constituent group must adhere to a predetermined ideology without question, preaching that the flock should unquestionably follow a political party...
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November 16, 2014
Obama's Looming Government ShutdownThere comes a certain point when the law of a nation, and the media’s reporting surrounding it, ceases to have any practical value. That point arrives when certain laws go unobserved by a ruling body, and the media fails to recognize the ...
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November 1, 2014
Executive Amnesty: The Endgame Gambit in Obama's RevolutionSenator Jeff Sessions (R-Al.) issues a response to a Wall Street Journal report that confirms that “the President is planning to issue a massive unilateral amnesty after the election” that will “likely be broader in scope than anyon...
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September 1, 2014
Redistribution and the Lesson the Left Refuses to LearnHuman beings that excel beyond their peers in labor and industry should reap the rewards for their exceptional efforts and talents. That’s as simple as it gets, and not coincidentally, it’s built into our nation’s foundation. ...
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August 22, 2014
The Real Reason for the Tantrum in FergusonRest assured that the riots, the violence, the looting, and the destruction of private property that has taken place in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of Michael Brown’s death has all been for the greater good. The attention all of this b...
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August 21, 2014
Democrats Face the Republicans' Familiar Dilemma in 2016In 2008, Barack Obama rode the crest of anti-war sentiment, an economic downturn, and opposition to an unpopular outgoing president all the way to the Oval Office. Now, his approval rating among the American populace is dismal, and Democrats ar...
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August 12, 2014
Insurance as a Mechanism of TyrannyLet’s begin with something you might not expect looking at the title: insurance is a very good thing. It’s a very necessary thing. Insurance, in the most basic terms, is nothing more than the voluntary collectivization of r...
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August 3, 2014
They Condemn Israel because They CanIsrael is routinely beset by attacks, physical and rhetorical, at the hands of its hostile neighbors and the Western media and elite. Our mistake is to assume that we can counter those attacks with logic, reason, and evidence. We assume t...
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July 31, 2014
Illegal Immigration and a Conservative Catch-22Circa 1991, playing in the barn at my grandparent’s home near Randolph Air Force Base outside of San Antonio, Texas, I saw an old mattress and pallets of blankets laid out on the dirt in an interior area of the barn. This was a surprise, ...
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July 5, 2014
Reality vs. Political Correctness: Amnesty and the Fight for America's SoulDr. Ben Carson once made the observation that “political correctness” acts as a “muzzle” to quell legitimate dissent against the status quo. That is undoubtedly a true statement. But to drive in the stakes and buil...
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July 5, 2014
Deconstructing the Rhetorical Spin on AmnestyOur political betters in both the Republican and Democrat establishments have been pitching the notion that we need to accept amnesty for illegal aliens. These people have broken our federal laws in efforts to live and work within our borde...
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June 23, 2014
The Straw that May Break the Establishment's BackHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) ouster in a recent primary campaign was undoubtedly a signal to politicians of both established political brands. It is only too obvious, media and politicians to the contrary notwithstanding, t...
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June 6, 2014
How the Left is Spinning Surrender to the TalibanSalon editor Elias Isquith takes right-wingnuts to task in his latest piece, objectively titled “Wingnuts’ war on the troops: The ugly lesson of Bowe Bergdahl and Sarah Palin.” The article is riddled with false assertions and ins...
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May 26, 2014
Senate Democrats Declare War on VetsIn the past weeks, the current administration has found itself in the middle of a new scandal. No need to be taken aback by that, because this administration has been a complicit player in a number of scandals. But this one is particularly d...
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May 18, 2014
The Ominous Implications for the West of Jews' Exodus from FranceAccording to recent reports, the number of French Jews committing to a flight to Israel is steadily increasing, and in 2014, that number could touch a record. French spokesman for the Jewish Agency for Israel, Ariel Kandel, says that “...
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May 8, 2014
Tilting at Climate WindmillsThe sheer egotism in big government mouthpieces claiming that they can rescue mankind from all the natural threats which afflict us should be laughable. And make no mistake -- for many of us, it is. For my money, the humor in such egotism do...
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May 5, 2014
How the Left Makes Honest Discussion on Race and Poverty ImpossibleGeorge Orwell once made this statement: “We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” A wise observation describing bleak circumstances, sure, but I don’t think it q...
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April 14, 2014
On Conservative Radicalism“What will he do, now that the war is won?” King George III asked the American painter Benjamin West. “Oh,” West replied, “they say he will return to his farm.” “If he does that,” the king s...
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April 2, 2014
The Website Is only a SymptomDaily Beast columnist and CNN contributor Sally Kohn took to Twitter on Monday with a triumphant message to Republicans. “Once again, Republicans,” she tweeted, “if you’re [sic] biggest attack against Obamacare is the we...
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March 14, 2014
The Persistent Problem with Progress-PushersOf all the baffling aspects of progressivism, perhaps the most bewildering is its adherents’ inability to discern the inherent danger in the notion of “progress” as a dominant political position. History is rife with glaring e...
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March 1, 2014
Banning the American Flag and <em>Reconquista</em>A federal court has ruled that an American school student has a right to free expression -- unless that American might be threatened for that expression by others, in which case state officials have the right to quash the offending expression to appe...
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January 31, 2014
The GOP Mulls SeppukuSee also: Boehner Courts a GOP Civil War Last summer, Ann Coulter, in her aptly titled column "If the GOP Is This Stupid, It Deserves to Die," addressed the Republican Party's dedication to winning the Hispanic vote by supporting amnesty for illegal ...
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January 15, 2014
Chris Christie and the Elusive Moderate Vote in 2016Recently, Republican governor Chris Christie has come under fire for his alleged involvement in a traffic crisis caused by lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, supposedly predicated on some bitter revenge plot meant to punish a political op...
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November 8, 2013
ObamaCare Is Not a Covenant - It's a Law, and It Can Be RepealedRick Newman of Yahoo! Finance offers his solutions to "fix" ObamaCare in his November 6 column. In his opening statement, you will find all you need to know about how the media perceive its immovable status as law: As clumsy as the laun...
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October 20, 2013
Behold Our Elected HypocriteSouthern playwright Tennessee Williams left us with this observation: The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite. It is universally accepted that hypocrites are a special kind of liar, deserving of a special kind of cont...
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October 19, 2013
Kentucky-Bribed Statesman: Mitch McConnell UnmaskedAnthony Weiner recently lamented that "if the internet didn't exist," he'd be the mayor of New York. In other words, if John Q. Public weren't so privy to the facts, and so readily able to investigate those facts and exchange opinions abou...
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October 13, 2013
Beyond Dowd's Vision of ThunderdomeIn her recent piece in the New York Times, "Welcome to Ted Cruz's Thunderdome," Maureen Dowd peers through her leftist lens into a dystopian 2084 (hardly a subtle or original choice), where conservatives have poisoned American ideology and introduced...
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September 30, 2013
ObamaCare: The Latest and Greatest Bastardization of the ConstitutionOne of the great illusions progressives cling to is the notion that the majority of Americans do not really oppose ObamaCare. Interspersed among the majority of Americans against ObamaCare is that minority of Americans who advocate a strict sin...
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September 25, 2013
Obamacare, Ted Cruz, and the Line in the SandDr. Thomas Sowell, in his recent column for National Review, asserts that the effort to defund Obamacare is an unnecessary "distraction" which serves only to help the president and Democrats. He argues that now is "the worst time, politically, ...
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September 20, 2013
There Is No Compromise on ObamaCareRepublicans oppose ObamaCare. That's no secret. But there seems to be some conflicting ideas among Republicans about how that opposition should be played out on Capitol Hill. For example, the House GOP establishment had, until this week...
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August 22, 2013
The Million Muslim FarceThe American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC) announced plans to hold "an historic event for 9.11.13 where one million Muslims will march to Washington, D.C. and demand that our civil rights will be protected by our government." Includ...
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July 31, 2013
Democrats and Phantom Voter DiscriminationEric Holder looked Texas dead in the eye, and has drawn the proverbial line in the sand. He is demanding a federal court order which will require Texas to submit to federal "preclearance" for any potential changes to voting laws, despite the Supreme ...
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July 5, 2013
Pelosi's 'Dependence Day' PitchThere has always been something powerfully unique in the American observation of Independence Day. And if nothing else exemplifies this, it is the fact that other Western nations get it so incredibly wrong when they try to emulate it. Some years bac...
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June 24, 2013
Obama Dealing with the Devil in QatarBarack Obama has crossed his fingers and shot the dice, hoping for an honorable exit from Afghanistan by extending the olive branch to the Taliban, expressing a desire to negotiate peace with our enemy. Peace talks with the Taliban, Obama says,...
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June 23, 2013
Dealing with DevilsBarack Obama has crossed his fingers and thrown the dice, hoping for an honorable exit from Afghanistan by extending the olive branch to our enemy. Peace talks with the Taliban, Obama says, are "an important first step toward reconciliation." ...
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May 20, 2013
If Government Were a Business, Obama Would Already Be FiredLet's begin by stating the obvious. If government were a business, and subject to economic realities and the consequences of its ignoring them, it would have been liquidated long ago -- its remaining assets of value would have been reclaimed by...
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May 1, 2013
The Sacramento Bee Dances on Texans' GravesThe Sacramento Bee recently caught some flak for a cartoon that it published, the left panel of which shows Texas Governor Rick Perry standing on a platform with a banner reading, "Low Taxes! Low Regs!" telling the audience that "Business is boo...
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April 26, 2013
Jihad BumsAs most have already heard, the brothers Tsarnaev lived on the taxpayer dole before bombing the Boston Marathon. The American response to this revelation is nicely summed up on the cover of The Boston Herald, in big, bold print: "WHAT NERVE." ...
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April 25, 2013
Bill Maher Exposes the Leftist Islamophobia Ruse for Even Leftists to SeeOn Friday's Real Time program on HBO, Bill Maher hosted an interview with Brian Levin, the director of the Center for Study of Hate and Extremism. It became clear within thirty seconds that Levin was not attending the religious parity party he ...
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April 20, 2013
Bombers' Uncle Does More for American Muslims than Progressive Talking Heads Ever CouldNews cameras got a chance to catch up with the Boston Marathon bombers' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, in an incredible interview that can be found here. The first thing that we notice is that he looks as we Americans feel -- shaken and angry. H...
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April 13, 2013
Remembering Why Jackie Robinson Is a HeroHollywood is giving a big-budget treatment to the story of Jackie Robinson, and the film, 42, premieres this weekend. Having greatly admired Jackie Robinson since I was a child, I'm pretty excited, and looking forward to seeing it. But while t...
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April 9, 2013
Your Children Belong to UsA Tulane professor and MSNBC host named Melissa Harris-Perry, in a video found here, suggests that your children do not belong to you, but rather, they belong to the collective. If only we can "break through the idea that children belong to their par...
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April 9, 2013
Same-Sex Marriage and the NFL GambitWhat Americans say in public about same-sex marriage isn't necessarily a good barometer of public opinion, because, if we're going to be honest, there's a huge discrepancy between the opinions that Americans express in polls and the opinions they exp...
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March 27, 2013
The Manufactured Authority of the Nanny StateLately, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been the chief spokesman touting the merits and necessity of a Utopian nanny state. In a moment of honesty, he said while making a recent appearance on NBC, "I do think there certain times when we should i...
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February 24, 2013
Weighing the Gun Control ArgumentIt is a bit misleading to call our current national discussion about gun control a "debate." Simply put, politicians and the media directing the discussion aren't interested in evidence or conclusions contrary to those that they have a vested i...
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February 10, 2013
A Perfect ContrastContrast can bring clarity. And I do not think that the two warring political ideologies in America have never been personified, juxtaposed, and as clearly defined as the contrast we witnessed at this week's National Prayer Breakfast. Dr. Benjamin C...
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January 24, 2013
Deconstructing Roe v. WadeThis week, Americans celebrate, lament, or just indifferently shrug at the fortieth anniversary of that storied 7-2 decision handed down by the Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in the United States. Aaron Blake of th...
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January 15, 2013
How Many Bullets Are Enough?Gun control advocates, in their infinite wisdom, seem to think they have the definitive answer to this question. The answer is "less than ten." Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York is seeking extensive gun control legislation to "tighten the assault we...
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January 12, 2013
The Payroll Tax Holiday Needed to EndThe payroll tax holiday is over. Americans are finding their paychecks a bit smaller in 2013, thanks to a two percent hike in payroll taxes. And Americans of all stripes are angry. Jeffrey Curl of the Washington Times acerbically reports instances o...
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December 14, 2012
How Socialism Has Doomed FranceThe French government is wringing its hands in frustration about how to deal with wealthy French nationals who are expatriating to avoid France's crushing new tax hikes. World-renowned actor Gérard Depardieu, for example, has recently decided to ta...
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November 22, 2012
Israel and the Impossible Peace with HamasFor the first time since 1991, air raid sirens blared in the city of Tel Aviv this week, as Hamas' militants rained hundreds of rockets upon the Israeli civilian population from Gaza. Israel immediately responded with airstrikes against Hamas' ...
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November 7, 2012
Barack Obama and the Cult of DependencyBarack Obama has won the 2012 presidential race. We will hear from the left that this amounts to America's rejection of conservative principles. The media will posit that the American people heard Mitt Romney's message, thought about it from each and...
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October 15, 2012
Social Justice is a Proven Failure... and So Is ObamaThere is a reason that Obama's ideological policy efforts have failed America. It is because they, like his ideology, are not American. No, I am not suggesting that he wasn't born here or that he's not an American citizen. I am stating with absolute ...
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October 13, 2012
Paul Ryan's Time in the Hyena's DenVice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan jumped headlong into the hyena's den to champion his vision for America, and emerged with little more than a few scratches. Ryan must have known where he was headed. Before the clock began ticking for the V...
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October 10, 2012
Barack Obama, Pants on FireNow we have hard documented evidence that President Obama will go before an audience and lie to their faces. Remember the video, released the night before last week's debate, from June 5, 2007? The one where Obama alleged to a black audience th...
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September 29, 2012
Sam Bacille Gets Capwned By the FedsNakoula Basseley Nakoula, otherwise known by his criminal alias, Sam Bacille, has been arrested federal agents, and he's being held without bail. Why? Well, isn't it obvious? Violation of parole. But it could he committed bank fraud...
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September 28, 2012
How Obama Misunderstands Freedom, and How He Failed ItBarack Obama addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations this week, and reaffirmed America's dedication to fostering democracy throughout the world, because "democracy put[s] us on the side of the people." He suggests that America supp...
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September 21, 2012
The Lesson on Egypt Found in the Dark Knight TrilogyThis summer, the release of Christopher Nolan's final installment in his epic Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, was met with fanfare, critical praise, and, as we remember, the news of the horrible killings in Aurora, Colorado. In a rush to...
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September 13, 2012
The Two 9/11sWe Americans look back to the attacks of September 11th, 2001 with sadness, remembering the innocent lives taken on that day. But we also look back on that day with a sense of national pride. Countless ordinary people emerged as heroes to...
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August 29, 2012
Juan Williams Spreads Democrats' Racist NarrativeCommenting on her speech at the RNC on Tuesday night, Juan Williams said he thought that Ann Romney came off as a "corporate wife" whose "husband takes care of her." You know- a wholly privileged gal who's never worked, never suffered (besides ...
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August 25, 2012
Tactically Tackling AbortionBarack Obama enters the studio, trademark grin in place, and sits down with his interviewer to discuss "the issues." Roundabout the middle of the conversation, the interviewer drops the bomb. "So," the interviewer asks. "You've been...
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August 14, 2012
The Second Amendment Is Not a 'States' Rights' Issue, Governor PerryIn the wake of a recent deadly shooting near Texas A&M University, anti-gun advocates have yet again taken the opportunity to position a horrific event as a momentous signal to introduce stricter gun control laws. Governor Rick Perry quickly resp...
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June 9, 2012
The Last Gasps of Public-Sector UnionismDemocrats are settling into a hybrid state of denial, anger, and depression in the aftermath of the Wisconsin recall election, where Scott Walker handed them an historic and embarrassing defeat. This was clearly another vote against vampiric pu...
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May 26, 2012
Socialism, by Any Other Name, Is Still Socialism(See also: Never Call Socialism by Its Right Name) The Washington Post heralded the election of François Hollande in France as the dawn of a new era, and the birth of a new breed of socialism. It is described as "free-market social democracy --...
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May 12, 2012
Spinning Same-Sex MarriageBarack Obama's position has now fully "evolved," and he has made the announcement that he supports same-sex marriage. The choice is unsurprising. The cultural status quo, upon whom Obama heavily relies, has dictated that same-sex marriage is th...
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May 3, 2012
Keynesianism and the Collectivist DreamIt's campaign season, and as usual, Democrats are employing their class struggle rhetoric to position a redistributive government agenda as the only way Americans can be saved from themselves and the greedy capitalists who prey upon them. Accustomed ...
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April 18, 2012
The Answer Really Isn't Blowing in the WindNinety billion is a rather large number. To get a gauge of just how large, consider that 90 billion minutes ago equates to roughly 171,090 years, the moment in history when scientists believe our ancestors began preening their bodies of lice. T...
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April 6, 2012
The Rebirth of Birthers?Two years, three months, and seven days after his inauguration, Barack Obama finally offered evidence to prove his eligibility for the presidency. On the White House website, officials posted an electronic document purported to be a scan of Bar...
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March 29, 2012
Corrine Brown and the Forgotten InnocentCongresswoman Corrine Brown (D-FL) is no stranger to finding her foot in her mouth. Among the more hilarious examples that I can remember (impossible to forget, actually) was when Ms. Brown chose to defend the practice of gerrymandering. She said: "...
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March 20, 2012
The Iranian Threat Is Clear and Present, Not Obscure and DistantFear evokes erratic responses from Westerners. If, for example, one is to argue based on loose and contentious evidence that the proliferation of an innate gaseous compound will cause the sea levels to rise and the earth to scorch at some obscu...
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March 3, 2012
When Economists Fail, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love StimulusDon't worry, America -- Europe and the global economy will be just fine within a few years. This was the final message heard by a group of over three hundred financial professionals, delivered in a presentation by a chief economist of a very large an...
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February 16, 2012
The Ministry of PropOgandaAh, indoctrination. The left loves to talk about how America has been historically guilty of it. Every time a kid stands up, puts his hand over his heart, and recites the Pledge of Allegiance, he is being manipulated to love this coun...
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February 11, 2012
How Obama Betrayed His Constituents, and Why They Won't CareSometimes, when a governing body betrays its indoctrinated masses, the betrayal is easily spun to be for their benefit. We witness a stark allegorical example of this in George Orwell's Animal Farm. In the novel, the ruling class of pigs comes ...
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January 28, 2012
The Time for Social Security Reform Is NowWith the payroll tax holiday set to expire in March, there seems to be little doubt on either side of the aisle that the forthcoming negotiations will result in an extension of the 2% payroll tax cut through the end of the year. Of course, Republican...
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January 13, 2012
A Portrait of the First Lady as an Angry Young WomanMichelle Obama has recently taken issue with her critics for allegedly perpetuating the idea that she is an "angry black woman." "That's an image people have tried to paint of me, since, you know, Barack announced, that I'm some angry black wom...
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December 18, 2011
The Magic of the Tim Tebow SagaIt has been difficult to digest every bit of criticism and praise that Tim Tebow has endured in the past weeks. One minute, Bill Maher is lambasting him as a right-wing Christian nut and sports columnists are essentially laughing at the fact th...
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December 9, 2011
Creeping HalalIn January of this year, the Daily Mail reported what was, to some at least, an alarming trend of "secretively prepared" halal meat (the meat of animals ritualistically slaughtered in accordance with Islamic law) being served in "Britain's most popul...
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November 30, 2011
The Casualties of the Government's War on Obesity"It takes a village to raise a child," as noted and self-proclaimed progressive Hillary Clinton advocates, and according to this mindset, when adults allow their children to be obese (apparently, it's invariably a choice), the "village" should have n...
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November 18, 2011
Rev. Bill Maher preaches to his choirBill Maher fancies his comedy "edgy." At least that's what he told Elizabeth Hasselbeck in his recent interview on The View. "Somebody has to live on the edge to know where the edge is," he said. And Bill Maher is apparently that guy who is doing the...
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October 15, 2011
A Holodomor for the New MillenniumIn 1928, Joseph Stalin began a "program of agricultural collectivization" which included a mandate that farmers and peasants surrender their lands and livestock and submit to labor upon state-owned communal farms. When Ukrainian farmers opposed...
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September 22, 2011
Selectively Smearing SarahDaily Mail Online reports: Sarah Palin could be set to lose both her marriage and her political career after the release of the explosive biography on the Tea Party darling. ... In The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, the 47-year-ol...
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September 14, 2011
Ben Franklin Skewers Obama's Jobs ProposalBen Franklin's essay, "On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor," directly responds to President Obama's jobs proposals. And indeed, it nearly encapsulates the entire message we conservatives have for our president on the matter of t...
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September 8, 2011
When Al Jazeera Comes to TownA reporter from Al Jazeera named Gabriel Elizondo wanted to watch a high school football game in Texas, which, as he seems fully aware, is as unique an experience as viewing a bullfight in Madrid. For pure aficionados of the sport, it just...
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September 4, 2011
Kidnapping Dr. KingWhile watching C-SPAN on Monday evening, I happened upon coverage of the "Jobs and Social Justice National Symposium," where I was able to catch what was meant to be a rousing speech on the necessity to fight against "economic injustice." To sa...
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August 29, 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood, Genocide, and ObamaThe Muslim Brotherhood has just issued an ultimatum to the Israeli ambassador in Egypt, telling him to "leave Egypt or die." Brotherhood activists have rallied together, emboldened by their rise to prevalence in the political vacuum created by ...
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August 8, 2011
NJ Governor Christie Hates Public Unions, But Loves Islamic OnesJust a few years ago, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security sought to deport a radical imam named Mohammed Qatanani, who operates a mosque in New Jersey's Passaic County, which has the second largest Muslim population in America....
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August 3, 2011
Tax Hikes Good for Social Justice, and Nothing ElseA recent celebratory video showed a mildly content Obama applauding Congress for "compromising" by agreeing to raise the debt ceiling through the next election cycle in exchange for long-term spending cuts, but he went on to reiterate the need for th...
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July 27, 2011
Obama's Exit from Relevance, Stage LeftJust how far to the left Obama's politics can veer is a topic that has not been limited to domestic spectators. Two years ago, Hugo Chavez famously quipped about Obama, "Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to right." Whether or not O...
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July 19, 2011
Taxpayer-funded exhibit slurs GOP govs as NazisA taxpayer-funded exhibit equates Republican governors with Nazism, and coincidentally proves progressive delusions. "Artist" Sean Michael Stimac has released his piece, "The Faces of Fascism," for display at the Marquette (Michigan) Arts and Cu...
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July 17, 2011
Charlie Rangel's Misunderstanding of Christ and CharityThe left is desperate to coerce Americans into embracing the president's platform of increasing taxes on the wealthy to redistribute to the downtrodden, slothful, and all those between who stand to collect. So Charlie Rangel appealed to a large...
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July 14, 2011
Rachel Maddow Goes to Bat for Late-Term AbortionI have to admit, I occasionally like watching Rachel Maddow. Her show is more comedy than commentary. She has such confidence that her wit is so acerbic and seems so pleased with herself after delivering it that watching her fall flat can...
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July 11, 2011
Conservative HereticsChris Matthews recently crowed that Republicans and Tea Party conservatives are bringing about the end of days, "economic Armageddon," by their stubborn faith in the "religion of no taxes." If you haven't already, take a moment to savor the del...
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July 7, 2011
Obama's Underhanded Budget EndgameBarack Obama, after extending the Bush-era tax cuts in the lame duck session last year against his wishes, is seeking to redeem himself by launching an all new (but oh-so-familiar) assault upon wealthy Americans. And this time, in his desperati...
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May 23, 2011
Barack Obama: Yet Another Roadblock to ZionismNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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May 1, 2011
The Danger in Severing God from America's IdentityIt is beyond dispute that there is a link between socialism and American progressivism. Both flawed ideologies are predicated upon the soundness of a large and powerful government designed to disperse the fruits of labor by seizing means and pr...
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April 7, 2011
Barack Obama, the Muslim Brotherhood, and ZionismMahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran has predicted a shameful end to the political career of Barack Obama. He contends that Obama offers the guise of "change and defending the rights of nations" only to use military force in order to protect A...
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March 24, 2011
What Israel Knows About HamasThe general estimation of Hamas by the international community is something of a mystery. On the one hand, the group openly harbors an unwavering desire to ethnically cleanse Israel of its Jewish population through suicide bombings and rocket a...
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March 18, 2011
The Lesson in the Death of Yoav FogelQuite often, criticism of the Quran is accused of being contextually incorrect, its detractors charged with cherry-picking quotes in efforts to demonize Muslims. Below is one of those oft-quoted blurbs that Islamic apologists insist is just ano...
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March 9, 2011
Can 'Muscular Liberalism' Save the West?Western European leaders have been calling for the application of a more "muscular liberalism" in recent months. Their hope is that by hardening their stance on immigration, Europe will be better equipped to deal with issues arising f...
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March 2, 2011
Obama's Magic TrickGiven his celebrity, it's easy to think of Barack Obama as an entertainer, and as such he has been compared to a rock star admired by groupies, or a movie star adored by fans. But more aptly than either of these analogies, in my opinion, Obama ...
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February 25, 2011
Where Obama is Blind, Putin SeesNormal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ...
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February 19, 2011
Common Ground for Justin Bieber and the American LeftJustin Bieber has just graced us with his opinion on healthcare. Regarding US healthcare policy, he has said, "You guys are evil. Canada is the best country in the world... we go to the doctor, and we don't have to worry about paying...
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February 15, 2011
Revelations in Gaddafi's Double-SpeakIn efforts to appeal to Western sensibilities, Muammar Gaddafi has just called for Palestinians to "amass peacefully along Israel's borders until it gives in to their demands."For the West to believe his suggestion is a call to "peacef...
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February 11, 2011
Revelations in Gaddafi's Double-SpeakIn efforts to appeal to Western sensibilities, Muammar Gaddafi has just called for Palestinians to "amass peacefully along Israel's borders until it gives in to their demands."For the West to believe his suggestion is a call to "peacef...
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February 6, 2011
America Must Lead, Not Hype an ElectionBy the end of the Cold War, Americans had become accustomed to the dichotomy between Communism and democracy, and as practitioners of democracy, we generally view it as a more promising path than other forms of government. So it comes as no sur...
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January 12, 2011
Rep. Slaughter uses AZ tragedy to push for Fairness DoctrineIn Arizona, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) was shot in an attempted murder that cost six other Americans their lives. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) is disgustingly using the tragedy as a call to arms to legislate a better way to “polic...
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January 6, 2011
Reevaluating Pension Entitlements in the Public SectorUnfunded state and city pension liability has been isolated by many analysts as the next big crisis on the horizon. But it looms in relative silence, largely because Americans simply do not want to talk about it. Let's be honest: it's not...
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December 18, 2010
The Left's Politics of RetributionLiberal pundits have awakened from the euphoria of nearly two years of successful Democratic initiatives, and they are fuming. Barack Obama decided to side with Republicans on the issue of extending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest American...
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November 17, 2010
Brother, Can You Spare a Waiver?In an unprecedented turn of events, massive corporate interests and various unions have been selectively granted a waiver for the "annual limit requirements" of ObamaCare. These are requirements in the health care bill that company-sponsore...
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October 9, 2010
Geert Wilders Endures Churchill's BurdenGeert Wilders is currently on trial, accused of hate speech and facing up to one year in prison. The "hate speech" is, at least in part, his vocally recognizing the threat of fundamental Islam and its correlation with National Socialism. It...
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October 7, 2010
Amanpour Inadvertently Exposes the Real Issue with IslamRecently, Christianne Amanpour hosted a panel discussion meant to explore the misunderstood delineation between moderate and extremist Islam.A dichotomy is certainly brought to light in discussion, but considering Amanpour is a staunch Islamic apolog...
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September 12, 2010
Islam Continues to Strengthen Geert Wilders' CaseGeert Wilders, Dutch politician and outspoken critic of fundamentalist Islam, has just witnessed another example of Islamic tolerance. A well-known Islamic cleric in Australia has just called for his beheading. (See also Geert Wilders 9/11 Grou...
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September 11, 2010
A Tale of Two ImamsThe president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Imam Muhammad Musri, has taken a very different and unexpected approach in addressing the proposed Koran inferno in Florida. He did not admonish Pastor Jones' group as idiotic or archaic Christ...
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August 14, 2010
Regarding Ground Zero, Bloomberg Misses the PointSlightly more absurd than any other political argument today is the concerted defense of a proposed mosque at Ground Zero. An Islamic entity known as the Cordoba Initiative, funded by shadowy interests, is looking to erect an ornate mosque and commun...
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August 6, 2010
Howard Zinn's Communism, by any other nameHoward Zinn, the late author of A People's History of the United States, has just been exposed as a longtime member of various Communist groups in the United States.This should hardly come as a surprise to most sensible and observant Americans. ...
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June 17, 2010
The Coming Obamanomics DisasterBarack Obama's tax plan is going to further impoverish Americans. Take a look at this chart from the Wall Street Journal. In 1981, Reagan enacted tax legislation to lower taxes called the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA). However, th...
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June 13, 2010
Pelosi's Crooked CatholicismFew would have guessed it, but Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become quite the outspoken Catholic. In last month's Catholic Community Conference in Washington, she testified that amnesty for illegal aliens would be a "manifestation of our living...
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May 14, 2010
Major League Baseball Caught in the MiddleSen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey recently issued a letter to Michael Weiner of the Major League Baseball Players' Association indicting Arizona law SB1070 as racist legislation, and included a plea to boycott or move the All-Star game slated to be ...
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May 9, 2010
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May 2, 2010
Within an Inch of Their LivesIn Manchester, England lives a seven-year-old schoolboy, and he is not so different from other children...except that this child survived three attempts on his life before he took his first breath.In 2002, as a 24-week-old fetus, he was unsuccessfull...
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April 27, 2010
South Park MattersPolitics in Western culture is little more than a circus these days, a spectacle of lunacy that would make any sane individual scratch his head. Each day, Americans arise to bend their ears upon news stories and political initiatives that defy all lo...
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March 31, 2010
Why Code Pink failsCode Pink has struck again, this time against Karl Rove at a book signing in Beverly Hills.Code Pink attended the signing, ten members strong, to make a citizen's arrest. Their goal was to make a political statement by making a fake attempt to ...