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A Forgettable Warped Debate - Victor Davis Hanson
The sappy Harris won the visuals; the grouchy Trump likely the issues. But the real losers were ABC and its two partisan moderators, Muir and Davis.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Is ‘Destroying Democracy in Darkness?’
The 2023-2024 campaign season is not just the strangest on record, it’s also arguably the most anti-democratic. Ostensibly, the Democratic Party has claimed…
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Candace Owens is a cautionary tale about platforming ignorance
The extremist talker went off the deep end by engaging in Holocaust denial. Conspiracy theories are the last refuge of antisemitic media con artists.
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Why the Left Hates It When You Point Out We're 'a Republic, Not a Democracy'
For as long as I can remember, the Left has been sneering at anyone who points out that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. They find the notion almost as unsophisticated and fascistic as flying a revolutionary-era flag.
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Victor Davis Hanson: How Left-wing Conspiracies Work
Since 2016, there has been a clear pattern to left-wing conspiracies—beyond the obvious fact that they traffic in lies, stereotypes, and paranoia to serve…
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Nothing About This Is Normal
We've crossed the Rubicon. There's no way to walk back what Soros DA Alvin Bragg, Judge Juan Merchan, and a Manhattan jury did today. It will reverberate beyond Trump's (much more likely now) second term.
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It's Time to Go After the Left More Ruthlessly — and Truthfully — Than Ever Before
We now live in a world where it’s possible for a party in power to target its enemy with lawfare — and win. Never in American history has there been such a patently obvious attempt by a sitting president to silence his rival.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Blue Laws for Red Citizens
One state prosecutor and one civilian plaintiff have already won huge fines and damages from Donald Trump that may, with legal costs, exceed $500 million.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Delusions, Alternate Realities, and the Biden Consortium
Hunter Biden has a train of a dozen lawyers defending him on felony indictments ranging from several counts of tax fraud to gun violations. From time to time…
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Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving? › American Greatness
What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance…
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Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving? › American Greatness
What Excites Biden? Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance…
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If You Say Men Give Birth, We Know Your Position on Hamas
If you say “men give birth,” we all know your position on Hamas. Now, why is that? Why, if a person says “men give birth” or says that men who say they are…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Hysterical Style in American Politics
The post-Joe McCarthy era and the candidacy of Barry Goldwater once prompted liberal political scientist Richard Hofstadter to chronicle a supposedly long…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Americans Must Choose Between Civilization—or Its Destroyers
Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party.
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When Has War Even Been ‘Proportional?’
Proportionality in war is a synonym for lethal stalemate, if not defeat. When two sides go at it with roughly equal forces, weapons, and strategies…
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London Has Fallen; UPDATED
I have been following London’s decline for a while now, and have written a fair amount about the societal decline in Britain.
I often speak of Western culture, and the Anglosphere as a subset of...
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Damage of the ‘White Privilege’ Smear
One of the many satanic paradoxes of the Third Reich’s architecture of the Final Solution was the requirement—mandated after the 1939 outbreak of the war—that…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Our Post-Hamas Wreckage
As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions. The Passions of 9/11, Redux It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout…
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Even Now, Democrats Are Having a Hard Time Breaking Up With Their Terrorist Pals
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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Berklym wasn’t willing to rest on his laurels, despite his undisputed fame in the world of chocolate-macadamia Bo...
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Victor Davis Hanson: California, the Great Destroyer
In 1996, the California legislature created the high speed rail authority. In 2008, voters passed an initial nearly $10 billion bond to build an envisioned 800…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Post-Postmodern America
The Woke Revolution depends, one, solely on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others. And two, dangerous zealots with titles before, and letters after, their names prove to be quite stupid—and dangerous
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Frightened Left
An impeachment inquiry looms and the shrieks of outrage are beginning. The Left is now suddenly voicing warnings that those who recently undermined the system…
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Game is Hunter Biden Playing?
Why would Hunter put his father and president in such a publicity circus?
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Victor Davis Hanson: What the Left Did to Our Country
In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Actually, Joe, All Your ‘Objectives’ Were Failures
Name me a single objective we've ever set out to accomplish that we've failed on. Name me one, in all of our history. Not one!" -President Joe Biden, August 16…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden’s Race Against the Truth
Joe Biden has about 17 months left as an elected politician—if he is lucky. That projection guides most of the inexplicable and shameless behavior of the…
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Obama's Fraudulent Legacy Is Being Exposed, And It's On The Wrong Side Of History
The most discussed piece of journalism this year is shaping up to be a deeply unflattering interview with a respected Obama biographer.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed. A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and…
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Bring on the Counterrevolution
Conservatives need a national agenda that reclaims American institutions from the Left. A blueprint exists, from a surprising source.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Remaking of America
We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and…
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Victory Davis Hanson: The Wild 2024 Race
Current polls, pundits, and politicos insist that the 2024 race is a sure rematch between former President Donald Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Biden Family Caricatures
The Biden first family seems determined to confirm every stereotype of their antisocial behavior—to the point of dysfunctionality. During the 2020 campaign at…
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Dennis Prager: The 34 Professors Who Protested My Speaking at Arizona State University
In February, I was invited along with Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), and Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestseller, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad…
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Electric Cars Are a Scam
The left likes to treat skeptics of electrical cars as if they were Luddites. Truth is, making an existing product less efficient but more expensive doesn't really meet the definition of innovation.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Illegal Immigration and Western Spiritual Sickness
The usual suspects have weighed in on recent belated efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws. Our now bankrupt media, the corrupt government of Mexico…
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Now . . . it's Ben & Jerry & the injuns!
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream wants the United States to return the Blacks Hills to the Lakota.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Bidens’ Existential Threats to the American Rule of Law
President Joe Biden, the Biden grifting conglomerate, the Department of Justice, and the FBI under its fourth consecutive weaponized director, are in danger of…
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Victor Davis Hanson: What the Left Has Left for America
The present-day Left bears little resemblance to the old civil-libertarian, integrationist Democratic Party that existed from the 1960s through 2000.
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Gavin Newsom: The Groomed Leftist Who Expects To Be President
If lefty globalists were to spawn the perfect politician in a vat, Gavin Newsom would emerge from the goo.
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Why Culture War is Everything (And The Rise Of Left-Wing Fascism)
LGBTQ, he shouts, standing in a rising pool of raw sewage
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Time Is Running Out For Congress And States To Defuse Biden’s Election-Takeover Bomb
Through Executive Order 14019, Biden has ordered federal agencies to engage in overtly political activities that will affect elections.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Indict Walt Nauta? Why Not the Biggest Liars First?
Walt Nauta is a 10-year-Navy veteran and served as an aide to former President Trump both in and out of office. Special Counsel Jack Smith has now indicted him…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Pandemic of Nuclear Trash Talk
After the world escaped a nuclear exchange during the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962, it has been generally understood that nuclear-armed nations did not…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?
Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst. How can America be turned upside down, as it is…
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Victor Davis Hanson: It Was Always Only About Power With the Left
Why do so many liberal climate-activist grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a propensity for estate living?
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Has Pushed the Envelope
The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.
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Opinion: This Pride Stuff Isn’t Healthy
I have never understood ethnic, race, gender, or sex pride. Even as a kid. For my bar mitzvah, someone gave me a book titled Great Jews in Sports or something…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden, the Habitual Racialist Demagogue
The most recent liberal ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Joe Biden’s approval rating at 36 percent—the lowest in history for a president at this point in…
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It's Time for Hillary to Pay for What She's Done to America
Hillary Clinton lied. She knew Donald Trump was not a Russian spy. Trump knew she was lying. The FBI knew she lied but went after Trump anyway. The CIA knew she lied. President Barack Obama knew she l...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Weaponizing Death
Recently there has been a spate of horrific murders. The killers, whether committing mass shootings or single homicides, are hard to stereotype.
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The shallowness of anti-Trumpism
Joe Biden’s flip-flopping over the US-Mexico border reveals an elite bereft of principles.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The New Ugly Americans
The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald’s, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors.
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Ed Smith and the End of American History
Edward C. Smith passed away peacefully on March 11. He was 80. Smith was the first tenured black professor at American University, where he taught history for…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Do We Even Know We Are All Socialists Now?
Sometimes when you are in the midst of a revolution, you do not even know it. I doubt all the Germans who voted in National Socialism quite foresaw what quickly…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos
Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States? Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency?
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Prosecute Alvin Bragg
It’s Jim Crow Alabama. In an old plantation town, a young black man—a sharecropper’s son—wants change. He walks up great steps of the county courthouse to dead…
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Could It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here.
My field of study in graduate school was communism. As a fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia’s School of International Affairs, I was, if I remember correctly, one of seven students in t...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Left-Wing Violence Chic
A transgendered Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school.
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Realigning California Would Realign America
The conventional wisdom on the Right in most of the rest of America is that California is a lost cause. Rather than fight inside California, where you are up…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Price of Eliminating Consequences
Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered…
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The American Left Rigs Elections Everywhere Else, so Why Wouldn't They Do It Here?
“If we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win,” said then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in a 2006 interview with t...
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Toxic Racialist Obsessions of Joe Biden
Joe Biden ran on “unity,” which is critical in a multiracial America. He vowed to heal the divisions supposedly sown by Donald Trump. Instead, he is proving to…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Bombshells, Landmines, and Nemesis
For much of 2017 through 2021, Americans suffered the “bombshell” and “walls are closing” mythologies first of Russian collusion, then of supposedly vast…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Mess of an Address
After listening to the State of the Union address, Americans know why the latest Reuters poll has Joe Biden at 41 percent approval. Vice President Kamala Harris…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Race Everywhere
Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Differences Between the Biden and Trump Troves
Donald Trump for now certainly seems to have had more documents labeled classified at Mar-a-Lago in Florida than did Joe Biden at his various homes in Delaware.
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After The Past Decade, Why Would Anybody Trust The FBI?
According to a poll from late 2022, 50% of Americans trust the FBI either “hardly ever” or “some of the time.”
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Victor Davis Hanson: Reckless Reparations Reckoning
The last time racial reparations made the major news was on the eve of September 11, 2001 attacks. The loss of 3,000 Americans, which for a time fueled a new…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Manic Methods of Mad Democrats
For all Joe Biden’s talk about “semi-fascist” and “un-American,” “ultra-MAGA” Republicans, it is the Democratic Party that has far more radically changed.
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test
For America's new clerisy, scientific debate is a danger to be suppressed
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Caused the Political Hysteria?
The Left has gone mad over Donald J. Trump—past, present, and future. The current Democratic Party and NeverTrump “conservatives” assumed that Trump was and…
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There’s A Difference Between Biden And Trump’s Classified Documents Snafus, But It’s Not What You Think
The National Archives and Records Administration's lack of cooperation with Trump marks the real difference in the situations.
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Victor Davis Hanson: A Rendezvous With Rwanda?
“Despite being Black, he [Rep. Byron Donalds] supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.”—Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.)…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Coup We Never Knew
Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally?
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Baleful Cargo of Woke Diversity Worship
What do all our notable fabricators—George Santos, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama—have in common? Well, quite like the Ward ChurchilIs or Rachel…
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Woke Indoctrination: The Ads Tell the Story
In Against the Great Reset, Harry Stein asks how the Left has managed to subvert the culture and trample so effectively upon the fundamental concepts of decency, equality, justice, morality, and even human biology itself, not to mention humor and modesty.
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The ‘Reparations’ Scam › American Greatness
California is considering paying “reparations” to black Californians who are directly descended from enslaved people, which may surprise most Californians.
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Victor Davis Hanson: If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States, Then . . .
First, you would surrender our prior energy independence. Reduce new gas and oil leases on federal lands to the lowest levels of any president in history.
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The Question Fools Don’t Ask
What would you think of a person who never asked the price of anything he or she bought? You would assume the person was inordinately wealthy. But if the person…
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Reminder: The Club Q Shooting May Not Be What the Left Wants You to Believe It Is
Before we even know all the facts about the shooting at Club Q, the left has already decided who is to blame: Republicans. Enough with the finger-pointing.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Let The Blame Games Begin?
Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos, and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.”…
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DeSantis 2024? Think Again.
In a rigged electoral system, no Republican candidate, not even DeSantis, can be expected to win a national election.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Tuesday Takeaways
What, if anything, did the midterms tell us about the country—other than underwhelming Republicans could still take the House and Senate?
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We're Done–American Voters Are Idiots
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Happy Wednesday, Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Aldon frequently forgets to take his allergy meds when caught up in the folk dancing moment.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Pathetic Democratic Pantheon
Over the last few months the four icons of the Democratic Party—Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Nancy Pelosi—have hit the campaign trail. They’ve weighed in on everything from “right…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Switcheroos of the Two Parties
Our two parties have both changed, and that explains why one will win, and one lose in the midterm elections. The old Democrats have faded away after being…
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Will ‘Democracy Die in Darkness’ After November?
The Republicans were always going to win big in November, regardless of what biased pundits professed. There was likely never a sudden “blue resurgence” or “red collapse” of late summer.
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Gen X to Democrats: Eat My Shorts!
Some social media blue checks had a bit of a temper tantrum this week following the release of a New York Times poll that showed overwhelming support for…
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Blue State Blues: Why Trump Has Survived the Nixon Strategy
A new series by "Red Pilled America" finds parallels in the media's strategy against Trump: it's the anti-Nixon playbook, with a twist or two.
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Biden Administration’s Manipulated Energy Policy Demonstrates Ignorance of History
Consumed, as they have been, with the work of pushing revisionist woke ideology in the schools, it seems the Left missed the lesson that those who don’t know…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Martha’s Meltdown Model
Martha’s Vineyard has been all over the news. The tony resort community so loves aiding and comforting the undocumented immigrants who were flown in from…
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Victor Davis Hanson: How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful
There is no end of history. Instead, civilization is a constant fight to embrace what has worked for the common good through the ages—and to reject what in the…
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It’s the Midnight Hour: Saving America Now Requires Ruthless Offense
The Book of Ecclesiastes tells us there is nothing new under the sun. But there is undeniably something new happening in American history. New and terrible.
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Joe Biden Has Always Been a Bad Person; No Wonder He's a Bad President
When a man like Biden becomes president, he is still the same man he was: a serial liar, a man who doesn’t hesitate to exploit others for his own purposes.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Strangest Thing About ‘Semi-Fascist’ Trump
For the Left, Donald Trump is synonymous with “fascism” (or “semi-fascism,” as Joe Biden put it the other day). And for Liz Cheney and most of the NeverTrumpers…
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The Short Life (And Fast Death) Of The FBI's Mar-A-Lago Play
Our country is far from healthy today, but a collective laugh at the FBI's joke of an affidavit is a long-needed step in the right direction.
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Come On, McConnell, Republicans Need You To Step Up And Lead
As the top elected Republican in the country, Mitch McConnell has an obligation to immediately and dramatically improve his performance.
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It’s Inevitable: Trump Will Be Indicted › American Greatness
A few days after federal agents stormed Donald Trump’s castle in Palm Beach last week, Judge Beryl Howell berated a man from Georgia for his involvement in the…
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WARNING: Destroying the Right Is Why the Dems Are Doubling the IRS, Giving Agents 'Deadly Force'
On Wednesday, Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) gave Democrats on the House Rules Committee an opportunity to choose between doubling the size of the IRS by giving the federal tax agency 87,000 more agents or ta...
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Do Those 87,000 IRS Agents Look a Little Different Now?
The IRS is already politicized. Obama did that. Now they will have more than double the number of employees to harass regular Americans.
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After the FBI's Trump Raid, Don't Take the Bait
Democrats are playing a cynical game. Do not give them what they want.
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How Do We Get Rid of the FBI?
President Harry Truman saw the FBI as the seed of a totalitarian cancer it would later become. “We want no Gestapo or Secret Police,” Truman wrote. “F.B.I.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Why We Lost Trust in the Expert Class
For years, European policy makers had assured the world that the relatively rapid “transition” to “green” energy was the world’s preordained future—regardless of the costs. Accordingly…
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The FBI Keeps Interfering In Presidential Elections. Disband It
Sen. Chuck Grassley’s letter lays out a disturbing conspiracy inside the FBI to interfere in the 2020 election to help Joe Biden win.
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‘Nixonian’ Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
The 1968 presidential election was my first. I voted for the erstwhile Republican, Richard M. Nixon. And because I wrote a college paper about my decision at…
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Victor Davis Hanson: How To Erode the World’s Greatest Military
The U.S. Army has met only 40 percent of its 2022 recruiting goals. In fact, all branches of the military are facing historic resistance to their current recruiting efforts. If some solution is not…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Should Be Happy with Biden
The Left should be ecstatic that Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted. The Left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden and The Destruction of Wisdom
There used to be an agreed-on body of wisdom, which both Left and Right, Republicans and Democrats, generally accepted. Heated arguments and invective centered on implementations and methods of…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Our New Antoinettes
Marie Antoinette, the beheaded wife of the beheaded French Bourbon King Charles Louis XVI, did not really say “Let them cake.” But in the short time that the…
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Dear Democrats, THIS Is What Your Oppressive Global Initiatives Lead To
After suffering from weeks of brutal food and fuel shortages, as well as crippling inflation, Sri Lankans have had enough.
Riots have broken out throughout the impoverished country. Police have used t...
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You Know What Would Deter Shootings? Executing Mass Killers Quickly
If politicians are serious that they're sick of 'living with this carnage,' the Highland Park shooter should be executed immediately.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Cry-Baby Leftist Mind
Modern progressives assume moral and intellectual authority. Consequently, their supposedly superior ends naturally justify almost any means necessary to…
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Following SCOTUS Win for Religious Freedom, We Are Still Utterly Screwed
The trends are terrifying, and eventually, the dam is going to break.
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Victor Davis Hanson: America Is More Fragile Than the Left Understands
The Left has been tempting fate since January 2021—applying its nihilist medicine to America on the premise that such a rich patient can ride out any toxic…
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Why Democrats Oppose Emancipation For The Unborn
The Supreme Court’s decision in Roe was as shameful as its decision in Dred Scott — and for the same reason.
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The Accelerating Purge
One week after a team of thugs working for Democratic Party activist Stephen Colbert were arrested for illegally entering a Capitol building in order to record…
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As a Former Liberal, I Can Assure You: Leftists Celebrate Abortion Because They Hate YOU
The real reason the lefty abortion goblins are misplacing their excreta lately is simple: they hate conservatives, and they believe every abortion is a swaggering middle finger to “evil, racist...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden and Oil - Destroy America in Order to Save It
Try to follow the Joe Biden energy plan of frantically trying to get his hands on more of something that his own party despises. During the Democratic primaries…
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January 6 for Non-Dummies
During another public hearing on Monday, the January 6 select committee featured a witness so irrelevant that his appearance should prompt even the most ardent…
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Honest Liberals Know Trump Is Innocent and the J6 Hearings Are a Sham
Any objective person can see that the Democrats are merely exploiting the Capitol riot with primetime hearings in an effort to distract the public from the nation’s economic woes....
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In the Shadow of D-Day › American Greatness
D-Day plus four marks a seldom-recalled event of great significance for America in 2022. On June 10, 1944, troops of the 4th SS Panzer Regiment surrounded the…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Sovietization of American Life
One day historians will look back at the period beginning with the COVID lockdowns of spring 2020 through the midterm elections of 2022 to understand how America for over two years lost its collective…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden and Racial Demagoguery
Joe Biden has had a long history of racist outbursts. Can we even remember them all? The “put y’all back in chains” insults to an audience of black…
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The Approaching Food Crisis Will Be a Catastrophe For Humanity
All modern famines are man-made, usually the result of war, disease, and stupidity. In 2022, all the elements necessary for a historic famine are present
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If Democrats Really Wanted Equality, They'd Treat Criminals Equally
Remember when you were a kid and your mom yelled at you for the slightest transgression you committed, but your felonious punk sibling got away with redrum?
Democrats have the same problem. They turn...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Losing the People? Then Change the Rules
Court packing—the attempt to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court for short-term political purposes—used to be a dirty word in the history of American…
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Give Them an Inch and They Want the Third Trimester: How the Left Made This Happen
As a kid, my mother allowed me to have one cookie per day. When I pushed to eat the whole box in an afternoon, I was told I couldn’t have any more cookies. What did I learn? Don’t be greed...
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The Western Leftist Absolutely Wants to Introduce Sex to Your Small Children, Here's Proof
The desire to sexualize your child is apparent.
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The Morning Briefing: Reminder — Barack Obama Is Un-American and Awful
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Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Clarissa’s muumuu isn’t the declaration of independence that she thinks it is....
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Disney’s Demographic Fantasia and the ‘Underrepresentation’ Con
Anyone over 30 probably remembers a refrain, common among influential people in business, politics, and media at the end of the 20th century: “We need a [fill…
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Nihilism of the Left
The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of federal government.
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DeSantis' Nuclear Option: What Would Happen If Florida Revoked Disney's Special Governing Arrangement?
The passing of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of it into law have escalated into a tense war between the increasingly solid red state and The Wa...
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Victor Davis Hanson: History Should Be Our Guide in Ukraine
There are several historical referents we should keep in mind about the Ukraine war. First, no-fly zones. Lots of Westerners are calling for NATO aircraft to…
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What If a White Man Had Slapped Chris Rock?
In the court of public opinion, Will Smith will benefit from the indifference of black elites when it comes to black-on-black violence.Barack Obama will not issue a statement suggesting that “Chris Rock could be his brother.” The Rev. Al Sharpton won’t ca
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It Shouldn’t Be Hard To Condemn Jackson’s Leniency For Child Predators
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s record on child predators is highly relevant to her qualifications as a Supreme Court judge.
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Democrats Need to Be Destroyed
How do you negotiate with a terrorist? You can’t. They want you dead, you don’t want to be dead; where is the compromise? Can you be half-dead? One-quarter dead? Can
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Real ‘Reset’ Is Coming
Joe Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a “new world order.” In the middle of the COVID global pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites…
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The Still-Masked Among Us
They are everywhere, and most of them are not elderly, obese, or suffering from compromised immune systems. They never needed the face masks they wear, as most human beings never needed the COVID-19 m...
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Florida’s Fictional ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Doesn’t Go Nearly Far Enough
The problem with Florida’s much derided “Don't Say Gay” bill is not just that the moniker is a complete lie. It’s that the bill so lambasted by Democrats and…
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The Identity Cult: On the mass conversion of our institutions
Linking to a Sesame Street celebration of “Latinx culture,” Antonio García Martínez, sharpest wit on Twitter, wrote last fall: “One of the great mysteries is how every elite institution, from universities to corporations to media to even Sesame Street, all spontaneously coalesced on the same narrow set of values all of a sudden.”
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Victor Davis Hanson: Vladimir Putin, the Latest of the Failed Irredentists
Irredentism—the romance of reclaiming “unredeemed” old lands—is a symptom of messianic presidents and premiers, and national paranoia and insecurity.
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As threat of nuclear war looms, how Democrats spin a crisis
No wonder Putin regards the West as so weak that he could stroll into Ukraine with impunity. The fact he met such fierce resistance is due to the courage of the Ukrainians, not fear of the West.
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Biden's Remarks Were a Mess, But He Got Nailed for It Big Time Twice During the Speech
Biden's brain breaks mid-remark and he doesn't have any idea at all what he's saying.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Putin’s Predictabilities
For all his caginess, dissimulation, and opportunism, Vladimir Putin is more or less predictable. Putin’s aims? The Russian president’s two-decade dilemma has…
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Where Did Our Freedom Go? The Cities.
In the 2000s, when I was in high school, civil disobedience was lauded as something almost inherently noble. Our teachers encouraged us to think like Rosa Parks…
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BLM privilege and Jan. 6 shame
When far-left activist Quintez Brown was arrested last week for trying to assassinate a Jewish mayoral candidate, he was immediately bailed out of jail by his LM comrades.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Hillary Clinton’s Greatest Masterpiece
Hillary Clinton’s never-ending shenanigans in 2015-2016 could be summarized as an attempted slow-motion coup. Four years of national hysteria, a divided nation…
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Why They’re So Afraid of the Truckers
“Nonetheless we will still need to react—and by that I mean react concretely—to the stunts of hooligan elements now active in Poland, whom the government has…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Our Elite is No Elite At All
An elite is always variously defined. The ideal elites, as ancient philosophers argued, were a “natural elite” due to their exemplary character, aptitude…
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It Sucks To Be a Democrat Right Now
If you’re a Democrat, things are going very, very badly for you. And it’s not going to get better. According to a recent McLaughlin and Associates study…
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Through CRT, Democrats Declare War on Reality
Let’s remember who are the real enemies of fundamental truth, and not become immersed in internal debates over theological principles.
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Rolling Over When It’s Payback Time › American Greatness
According to, among other sources, Politico and the Federalist Society, Senate Republicans are not exactly bracing for a “bare knuckle” fight over Biden’s…
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Why The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong About The 2020 Election
The problem is not ‘mass voter fraud,’ but a privately funded ‘shadow campaign’ for Joe Biden within the election system.
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Some Much Overlooked Facts Unravel the Emotional Neil Young/Spotify Squabble
Mr. Young was not exactly negotiating from a standpoint of strength – and a Spotify man doesn't need him around anyhow.
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Biden's Supreme Court Pick Sexually Assaulted Me 25 Years Ago
The news that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring is still fresh. He won’t even officially retire until October, and the Biden administration will likely spend months vetting potent...
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Republicans Plan To Win Back The Senate, Then Do Nothing, Per Usual
Republicans cannot do what they have largely always done with a Senate majority: set it on a shelf, polish it, and admire it from afar.
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The Next Fight For Civil Rights Lies In Ending The Federal City
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has banned nearly 60 percent of the city's black residents from bars, gyms, concerts, theaters, and more.
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Some Votes Should Not Count › American Greatness
Here’s something professional politicos know well: the broader net a pollster casts, the better his poll results will be for the Left. “How out-of-touch is the…
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Makes Riots, Conspiracies, Cabals, and Insurrections ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’?
“Indeed, men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which alike can look…
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Why Is the Left Worried Suddenly About the End of Democracy?
What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals…
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The War We Must Fight › American Greatness
“And what is most repugnant to me in America is not the extreme freedom that reigns there, it is the lack of a guarantee against tyranny.” “I have found genuine…
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Civilizational Suicide, Not Omicron, Is Killing Us › American Greatness
Last week in this space, I included a few words about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s remarkable new book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma…
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Obsessing Over ‘The Health Of The Nation’ Conjures Some Dark Places
Hatred of vaccine dissidents expresses itself first in marginalization and demonization. Then it advances to punishment. It's about more than public health.
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A Hollow Kind of Freedom › American Greatness
Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a pre-dawn raid on the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism…
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Republican Victory in 2022 Will Put America at a Crossroads
Imagine that you are a middle-aged husband and father, as well as a highly successful sales executive, with a loving wife and growing kids. Like other suburban American families, you have a mortgage,...
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Why The Left Always Projects › American Greatness
The Left is addicted to projection—the psycho-political syndrome of attributing all of one’s own sins to one’s opponents. The woke apparently do this out of…
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Why the Mandate is Illegal And Why It Will Still Be Imposed
Yesterday's ruling in a federal appeals court in New Orleans granting a temporary injunction against the vaccine mandate was encouraging.
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The Corporate Media Ignores a Few Firsts in Virginia Because They Can't Explain Them
The corporate media will never acknowledge the firsts in the Virginia election. They can't explain it because they lack curiosity and humility.
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The Injustices Facing J6 Protesters Are Warnings to You
A Google news search for Nathan DeGrave will show nothing more recent than two weeks old. This is peculiar, given that his letter on the conditions at the D.C.
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Where Have You Gone, Columbus Day?
What does your calendar say today? If you’re lucky, it still says Christopher Columbus Day only, but more likely it’s shared with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” (IPD)–or the latter is listed alone....
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The Great Divorce: Divided We Stand
America is badly divided. The evidence for this sad state of affairs abounds. For the record, I know a bit about countries in various degrees of separation.
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Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ B.S. › American Greatness
The winding road to American utopia is dotted with potholes, buckling bridges, leaking canals, and lit by flickering lights. To repave America’s highways…
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How It Might End, Act I › American Greatness
A couple of years ago, I had the honor of publishing American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup by Frank Buckley, a prolific author and law…
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Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Science,’ They Said
The scientific method used to govern much of popular American thinking. In empirical fashion scientists advised us to examine evidence and data…
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What American Children Are Taught About 9/11 Can Be Dangerous
The American education system will school the children of the tens of thousands of largely unvetted Afghan nationals who filled flights out of Kabul.
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Victor Davis Hanson - Our Afghan Nightmare: Tanks for Nothing
Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most…
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Why H.R. 4 Imperils Free and Fair Elections › American Greatness
As the summer comes to a chaotic and tragic close, I can think of many reasons why members of Congress should be called back from their August recess.
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Hey, Biden Voters! › American Greatness
Damn you all. You’re American citizens, with the right to vote in presidential elections. For four years, we had a president who, over the course of a single…
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The Emerging One-Party State › American Greatness
The sudden dip in Joe Biden’s poll numbers in the wake of his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan compounded with his refusal to control illegal immigration…
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America Is Now Actually the Mess Dems Pretended It Was Under Trump
Long before Donald Trump even had the chance to take office, we were constantly assured by Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media that the United States as we knew it was pretty mu...
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Nancy Pelosi’s Secret Police › American Greatness
We recently saw the first phase of the January 6 show trial. The congressional hearing, which the House Republican leadership has boycotted…
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Welcome to the Brave New America › American Greatness
The Left is achieving their fundamental transformation of America into a socialist hellhole, consolidating control over our major institutions and enacting…
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Be Safe: Don't Visit Your Dying Parent. Don't Leave Your House. Don't Get Married. Don't Have Children. Don't ...
As many observers have noted, staying safe has become a religion. “Safetyism,” as it is sometimes called, like all religions, places what it values — in this case, being safe —...
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‘Juneteenth’ Should Not Be A Federal Holiday
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to make “Juneteenth National Independence Day” a federal holiday. Until recently, few Americans had even heard of “Juneteenth,” and for good reason: relative to other events in history, the date does not much
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Guilt for January 6 Belongs With Those Most Eager to Condemn It
It is once again with great regret that I take issue with my friend of more than 40 years, George Will. From my perspective of unambiguous admiration and…
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Socialists Are Children › American Greatness
In 1886, Henry James, who may be the greatest novelist of all, published what he considered at the time to be his greatest work—The Princess Cassamassima.
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Men Give Birth. America Was Founded in 1619. And Israel Is the Aggressor. | RealClearPolitics
When you meditate for a moment on what the left expects honest and decent people to believe, you confront the world of absurdities and lies in which we...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden Mocks Ancient Wisdom
Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic, and social behavior that all countries…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Tuning Out Wokeism
If wokeness should continue and “win,” by now we all know where it will end up. After all, this is not a prairie-fire, peasants-with-pitchforks…
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8 Righteous Reasons Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial –– and That Juror's Shirt Is Only One of Them
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has moved for a new trial in the killing of George Floyd after yet another juror admitted bias in the case. But that’s only part of the reason why...
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Those Who Hold Power Today Are Those Who Claim Powerlessness
Faisal Hussain is not oppressed. He is a member of the new elite. He has an art show featured at a respected gallery, although his work has no artistic value.
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Victor Davis Hanson: The New Antiracism Is the Old Racism
What will be the future of the mass hysteria spawned last summer? No one knows. But its destination, if unchecked, will be ethnic tensions and sectarian strife…
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There's No Way Americans Can Trust The Jury's Chauvin Verdict
A fair trial for Chauvin might have come to the same conclusion. But we'll never be able to trust this one, because the left made a fair trial impossible.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Can the Great ‘Awokening’ Succeed?
We all know that we are living in revolutionary times. The origins, ascendence, values, laws, and future of the United States are all under assault by self…
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A Narrative Collapse in Chauvin Trial - American Greatness
Though not as prominent as the George Zimmerman prosecution, the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death last year of George…
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What Happened to Our Country? – RedState
"It is all insane. It will all get far worse before any of it even has a chance of getting any better. Perhaps it will take decades or more. If it happens at all."
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Progressives, Hispanics are not 'Latinx.' Stop trying to Anglicize our Spanish language.
Hispanic Americans face plenty of challenges as it is. The last thing we need are English-speaking progressives 'wokesplaining' how to speak Spanish.
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On ‘People of Color’ and ‘Systemic Racism’ — And Why I Am Sick of Hearing It | The American Spectator
I am sick of it. I really am sick of it. I understand, better than most, what prejudice is. When...
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Can You Afford to Ignore Politics? - American Greatness
Although it is somewhat hard for me to believe, I am told there are people who do not follow politics closely. All joking aside, I have always understood there…
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Victor Davis Hanson: In Rush Limbaugh, We Have Lost an American Genius
Rush Limbaugh created modern national talk radio as we now know it. For over three decades he kept at rapt attention — live from noon to 3 p.m. on weekdays — the largest conservative audie...
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When Will the Woke Go Full Caligula?
A bust of the Roman emperor Caligula. Photo: public domain. The other day, I was scrolling through Twitter when I …
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I Saw Provocateurs At The Capitol Riot On Jan. 6
The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol bore the markings of an organized operation planned well in advance of the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress.
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Democrats Don't Care About Your Children and They Never Have. School Lockdowns Prove It.
The Biggest Lie the Democrats Ever Told
In my three plus decades of conservative political activism I’ve pretty much learned every go-to trick in the Democrats’ playbook. As leftism is &#...
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The First Step Towards Righting America Is Refusing To Believe The Left About Anything
The weakness and stupidity of America’s right has allowed false narratives to cement in the minds of the public. It’s killing our freedoms.
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A Bad Week for The Science™ - American Greatness
The late comedian Mitch Hedberg, known for his clever one-liners, had a great quip about following his dreams. “I’m sick of following my dreams,” he said.
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The Pandemic Is Over - American Greatness
Conservative writers and pundits haven’t done too well this past year, and many of them turned out not even to be especially “conservative.
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Is Joe Biden Looking to Take Obama's Place as the Most Anti-Israel President in History?
Barack Obama’s antipathy toward Israel during his two terms was unprecedented at the time, but it looks like Joe Biden is going to give him a run for his money....
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Stop Calling It an 'Insurrection'
So, I was out at dinner with my old battalion commander – literally outside, because dining inside apparently is super deadly if you live under blue tyranny – and we
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Who Killed the Anti-War Democrats? - American Greatness
After three generations the anti-war tendency within America’s oldest political party has been thoroughly alienated from its leadership and rendered impotent.
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Biden Regime Embraces ‘Great Reset’ Plan to Destroy Capitalism - American Greatness
The Biden regime is fully embracing a radical globalist plan that seeks to destroy capitalism and replace it with a socialist system. "The Great Reset"
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To Hell With Unity - American Greatness
The recent betrayal by Republicans like Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is a reminder that the ruling class…
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No, this is not "getting back to normal" - Melanie Phillips
The extinction of reason, justice and freedom on campus is now to be institutionalised as American government policy
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Democrats Are Framing Americans As Domestic Terrorists So They Can Do To Us What They Did To Trump In Spygate
Democrats want a frightening expansion of federal surveillance and police powers, smearing anyone who voted for Donald Trump as a potential terrorist.
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Where Does He Go From Here? - American Greatness
There were no objections to President Trump’s address to his followers in Washington on Wednesday until several hours later, when the outrages at the Capitol…
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The Real Reason for Big Tech Left's Ban Spree
As with any debate, the definition of the terms is key, except, in this case, the definitions keep changing.
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The ‘Virtue’ of the New Totalitarians - American Greatness
What was the most disturbing thing to happen in the last few days? Some say it was the horrifying spectacle of the mob besieging and breaking into the U.S.
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How the GOP lost control of Washington, and what comes next
News Analysis: Democrats owned the narrative and rules of the 2020 election. Will Republicans learn from it?
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Do Black Lives Matter in the White Elite’s Civil War?
Sasha Johnson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, tweeted the last day of 2020 her highest hope as a black nationalist: “The white man will not be our…
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Victor Davis Hanson: Defenders of Civilization? - American Greatness
The year 2020 witnessed a long series of writs lodged against an America beset with plague, quarantine, recessions, riot and arson, and the most contested…
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A New Year Will Not Bring Relief - American Greatness
It is hard not to be happy about the end of 2020. Many people have said it has been the worst year ever, both personally and for the country. How could the next…
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Donald Trump Has Been The Most Illuminating President In Decades
In all Trump gave us — the good, the bad, the hilarious, and the unsettling — his administration brought much-needed clarity to the GOP and the country.
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Did Americans Come to Love Big Brother?
In less than a month, there will likely be no more President Trump for the media to obsess over. No more false stories about him overfeeding koi fish or…
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5 Reasons I'll Always Resist Joe Biden and the Democrats (and You Should Too)
Is anyone else tired of the media and the left telling you that Republicans should get in line and support Biden and stop questioning the election? Well, I definitely am....
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Why I will not accept Joe Biden as president
A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s victory.
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It's time for the 'Deplorables' to become the Unconquerables
Democrats won the election, but they don’t seem very happy about it. And with reason: The election failed in its main purpose, which was to shut down the Deplorables.
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Courts to Voters: Democrat Election Fraud Is ‘Too Big to Fail.’ Why we will not have another fair election in our country. There is no ‘next time.’
The courts have spoken, one after another. Some 74 million Americans have been denied our day in court. The Democrats’ crime of stealing a presidential election…
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America: A Reminder About Us
In his splendid little book American Exceptionalism, Charles Murray reminds us it was foreigners who took the lead in claiming Americans are different: For…
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No Science Justifies Bans on Indoor or Outdoor Dining - American Greatness
In a video that is simultaneously gut-wrenching and infuriating, a Los Angeles restaurant owner exposed the hypocrisy of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s order to ban…
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The Scars of 2020 - American Greatness
Amid plague, national lockdown, riot and arson, iconoclasm, recession, and the most contested voting in history, the country leaves 2020 with some scars that…
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Is This The Way Real Americans React To Treason?
Time isn’t on our side,” said President Trump on Friday. “Everything else is on our side. Facts are on our side.” The president was referring, of course…
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Donald Trump, classic Westerns' heroes and these American generals have in common
Hollywood epics and even some Sophoclean tragedies have a sequel. And perhaps Donald Trump will too
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Fools and Nobody’s Fools - American Greatness
Last weekend, it was the American people’s turn to announce they are nobody’s fools. On Saturday and then again on Sunday, ordinary citizens from all over the…
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The Horrors That Await If They Get Away With Stealing The Election
IT’S WHO COUNTS THE VOTES I predicted that unless there was wholesale cheating Trump would win. There was, is, wholesale cheating. There isn’t an educated soul anywhere that doesn’…
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I was a Never Trumper. I couldn’t have been more wrong
Four years ago, I wrote here that a win by Trump, courting white supremacists, meant 'the ascendancy of hate.' But my fears about his presidency endangering Jews were hyperbolic nonsense
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The Democrats’ Grand Delusion - American Greatness
The Steele dossier, an infamous series of memos that alleged Donald Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with the Russians to rig the 2016 election…
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Tuesday’s Election Is a ‘Win-Win’ - American Greatness
I’m supporting Trump for president, rather enthusiastically in fact. I supported him in the 2016 primaries and in the general election. He was a refreshing…
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If Masks Don’t Work, Why Do We Keep Wearing Them? - American Greatness
According to a recent study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 70 percent of the people who tested positive for COVID-19 wore…
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Twelve Days That Will Shake the World: What Trump's Debate Win Means For The 2020 Campaign
President Trump needed a strong debate performance to have any hope of slowing Joe Biden's momentum in the closing days of the 2020 campaign.
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The Unapologetic Bias of the American Left
Some yearn for the ancient monopolistic days of network news, the adolescent years of public radio and TV, and the still reputable New York Times—when once upon…
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COVID Crimes Against Humanity - American Greatness
For once, I agree with MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes. In an October 5 tweet, Hayes suggested the need for “some kind of truth and reconciliation commission” to hold…
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I Didn't Vote For Trump In 2016, But I'd Crawl Over Broken Glass To Now
I don't care about the tone of his tweets nor if his opponents think he's rude. I've seen that he is a patriot who loves the United States and its people.
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Trump Is Now One With Countless Essential Workers - American Greatness
Joe Biden has redefined mask wearing. It is now the thinking man’s patriotism, what every “scientific” and “refined” mind naturally does. Biden, the media…
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Left's Response To Trump's 'Don't Be Afraid' Emphasizes They Want Fear
We can't have people prudent about COVID, or rational about COVID, or thoughtful, or courageous about COVID. That does not produce the social outcomes that these people want. Being scared of COVID does.
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Saving the Golden State Will Save America - American Greatness
As demonstrated by the torrent of executive orders issued by King Newsom in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, constitutional rights, and due process go out…
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Ben Shapiro: Why I'm Leaving California
I want my kids to grow up in a community with a future, with more freedom and safety than I grew up with. California makes that impossible.
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The Complex and International Fight for America’s Future - American Greatness
ecent sustained street protests, escalating intimidation, and violence by the Democratic Party’s leftist Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa activists have reached an untenable level of threat. Americans of all political parties, races, and faiths need to
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There Is No Such Thing as Systemic Racism Only Systemic Envy
There is no such thing as "systemic racism," especially not in the United States and Canada today. Systemic envy drives a dangerous revolt.
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September 11, 2001: Why We’ve Already Forgotten
It wasn’t September 11, 2001, that made me a political conservative—a believer, I mean, in the intentions and philosophy of the American founding. I had already seen into the lie of leftism by the time the Islamic terrorists hijacked our jets and attacked
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The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
Four months ago, I wrote a column titled “The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History.” I explained that “‘mistake’ and ‘evil’ are not synonyms. The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.”
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Why I walked away from Democrats to support President Trump (opinion)
The purpose of my speech was to serve as a culture shock, helping others break free of the groupthink-shackles placed on us by White liberals. Black Americans like me are free people with free minds, writes Vernon Jones.
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Chuck Norris: Why I switched from Democrat to Republican
Chuck Norris recalls his '60s rage at seeing party's racist actions against blacks
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Why America Is in Real Danger | RealClearPolitics
Americans have long been proud of the fact that, unlike European countries, America never went the route of totalitarianism as embodied in communism, fascism and Nazism.
This achievement may be...
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Victor Davis Hanson: Our Summer of Cultural Suicide
Professional sports, universities, and the motion-picture industry all know that what they are doing is bad for business. They also are ignorant of history and cannot be persuaded that they are destroying themselves.
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5 Arguments Against 'America Is a Racist Country'
The left-wing charge that America is a racist country is the greatest national libel since the Blood Libel against the Jews. America is, in fact, the least racist multiracial, multiethnic country in world history.
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Why A Newsom Recall Could Succeed
here isn’t a political professional to be found in California who believes the current attempt to recall Governor Gavin Newsom will succeed. With petitions approved for circulation and a deadline of November 17, recall campaign volunteers are trying to de
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How Our Anti-American Education System Made Riots Inevitable
Rioting social justice warriors are remaking the world as they see fit, consistent with what they’ve been taught from K-12 to higher ed.
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Don't Clean Up the Left's Mess | RealClearPolitics
Leave it exactly as you found it.
This is a message every parent knows. When your children throw a tantrum and wreck their rooms by tossing books, games and clothes everywhere (but oddly enough not...
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Victor Davis Hanson: George Floyd unrest – when the revolution doesn't go as planned
The ancient Greeks created new words like "paradox" and "irony" to describe the wide gap between what people profess and assume, and what they actually do and suffer.
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What’s Actually Wrong With America’s Cities? - American Greatness
very major city—and probably every community for that matter—has some form of a police commission. Police commissions are entrusted to monitor the activities of the police department as a whole, and in most cases determine appropriate discipline for indiv
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Let Liberal Hellholes Defund Their Police and Burn
The protest/riot/no social-distancing get-togethers in Democratic enclaves around what I think used to be the United States of America don’t seem like they want to let up any time soon. Police are bad. White people are bad. Heaven help you if you’re a white cop. It’s a mess out there.
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The American Experiment Isn't Dead Yet but the Lab Is on Fire Right Now
If we had all only known in March how everything was going to turn out we might have been able to do something different. Like move to Antarctica.
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‘Antifa’ Aren’t “Anti-Fascism.” They Are A Sub-Nazi Organization
ose the “anti” right off the top and go with “fa,” short for fascists, which is what the current rioters across the country really are. For those who may be confused, Edward Gibbon provides some helpful background in his The History of the Decline and Fal
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Mandatory Masks Aren’t About Safety, They’re About Social Control
To those looking to benefit politically from emergencies, COVID presents an opportunity to advance plans targeted to transform American freedom, like masks.
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Why Does This Ted Cruz Tweet Make Obama Officials So Nervous?
Former Obama officials did not react well when Ted Cruz revealed the scandalous nature of ObamaGate. Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor were not happy.
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Are Endless Lockdowns the Result of Malice or Stupidity?
Malice or stupidity? Whichever, it represents a godsend for the political left and progressivists everywhere.
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Don’t Be Fooled By The Media Narrative. Governor Cuomo Has Done An Awful Job.
The media has smothered New York Governor Andrew Cuomo with fawning praise from the beginning of this crisis and the downpour of adulation still continues, with no sign of letting up. Contrast this with the scorn heaped on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis,
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The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History
The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country .05/05/2020 14:12:45PM EST.
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The dangerous liberal ideas for censorship in the United States | TheHill
Democrats now use the coronavirus crisis to make the case.
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Our Dress Rehearsal for a Police State
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here” — referring to fascism).
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Some Governors Are Getting Serious About The Cost Of Coronavirus Lockdowns. Some Aren’t.
As the spread of COVID-19 begins to slow nationwide, some governors are proving to be more serious than others about what comes next.
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California Is Using the Coronavirus to Beat Up on the Little Guy
California politicians in LA County and San Diego are using the coronavirus as an excuse to release criminals and arrest the little guy. They're also playing around with Green New Deal standards.
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Coronavirus hype is the biggest political hoax in history - Washington Times
The new coronavirus is real. The response to the coronavirus is hyped. And in time, this hype will be revealed as politically hoaxed.
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The Privilege of Identity Politics - American Greatness
ast month, Melinda Gates announced that “we need to apply a gender lens to solving this [coronavirus] crisis.” She linked to a March 12 story in the New York Times reporting that with women making up to 70 percent of healthcare workers worldwide, women ar
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PRAGER: Has The Lockdown Worked?
Why are governments the world over rendering hundreds of millions of their citizens jobless, impoverishing at least a billion people, endangering the family life of millions (straining marriages, increasing child and spousal abuse, and further postponing
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Welcome Back to History America
Welcome back to history, America, it was wondering where you were. The coronavirus pandemic has upended most everything we assumed about the future, including the assumption that the Drudge Report would forever be a grounded center-right news aggregator.
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The Tyranny of ‘Scientism’ and the Subversion of Science
n an interview with Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy unintentionally defined this critical moment in America’s history. “We weren’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this,” he explained about his draconian decrees, inc
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It's Time to Reopen and Relaunch Our Economy
t is clear that the time is approaching that will be absolutely decisive for this presidency and for the country’s near-term future. The president will have to decide on an economic relaunch plan, and this will make or break him and his opponents. The vas
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A Total Mess: What Democratic Party Rule Will Do to America
ecent and ongoing events, historic by any standard, have emphatically refuted anyone who thought a black swan event could not possibly disrupt America’s 2020 election. Recent events might also suffice to remind us that yet another Black Swan event could t
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We Have Become A Police State, And None Of Us Should Be Okay With That
On Saturday, police in Kansas City “intervened” to shut down a parade of elementary school teachers. The staff of John Fiske Elementary School decided to organize the parade as a way to boost the morale of their students and encourage them in their new di
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Is What We’re Being Told About The Coronavirus Pandemic Wrong?
Predicting the future is a tough racket. If people were .04/06/2020 16:00:29PM EST.
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Dems, Media Try to Pin Blame on Trump. It Won't Work - American Greatness
he new Democratic pre-electoral chorus is already audibly arising like a Wagnerian finale from the largely hidden choir. President Trump, they intone, bungled this and must be investigated for his incompetence which is costing countless American lives. Be
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How Republicans Helped Nancy Pelosi Pass Another Unexamined, Pork-Stuffed ‘Stimulus’
House Republicans actively participated in Nancy Pelosi’s successful attempt to deny the American people a public vote on the $2 trillion legislation.
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It's Not a Choice Between Lives or the Economy - American Greatness
here seem to be shortages of everything these days, not least a shortage of commentary on the COVID-19 virus, also known as the Chinese virus, the Wuhan flu, known to some as the Chinese Communist Party virus, or the CCP virus for short. Since there has b
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Abolish the World Health Organization | Spectator USA
Adhanom’s goal seems to be turning the World Health Organization into another UN: a body that delivers impotent lectures and avoids big decisions
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America In a New Upside-Down World - American Greatness
he world is changing at a pace not seen in years, and it is no time to become captives of fear despite the real and immediate dangers we face. The coronavirus and the ensuing panic, at least for a few more weeks, have stagnated the economy and scared glob
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The Impeachment That Killed Americans | The American Spectator
The lethal price tag for the months of the Impeach Trump obsession by Democrats is now in — and rising. Over there at Breitbart, Joel Pollak, one of the serious journalists of the day, has put together this telling timeline...
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Fellow Citizens No Longer? - American Greatness
n May 22, 1856, Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the Senate chamber and proceeded to beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts nearly to death with a cane. Brooks’ attack was prompted by Sumner’s earlier “Crime Against Kansas” sp
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SICHEL: Before You Have An Opinion On Coronavirus, Ask Yourself These Questions
Most Americans fall into one of three groups when it comes to the surreal coronavirus event we are experiencing. The first group believes we need to lock nearly everything down except essentials and wait it out until we’ve “bent the curve.” The second gro
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Why The Pelosi Wuhan Virus ‘Deal’ Is A Near-Total GOP Surrender For Blue-Collar Entrepreneurs
Friday night's deal includes every Democratic wish except taxpayer-funded abortion and not a single Republican proposal. Those will come later, we're told.
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Coronavirus: Panic or Pandemic? | PragerU
You can't expect to live a full life without assuming some risk. There's a spectrum between precaution and panic, and if isn't well-calibrated you can miss out on the best things life has to offer. March is fundraising month for PragerU. Help keep our vid
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Instead of Bracing for Coronavirus, Democrats Focused on Impeachment
n January 15, House Democrats delivered two articles of impeachment to the United States Senate. Democrats knew the Republican-controlled Senate would not have enough votes to convict President Trump. But that didn’t deter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca
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Why the Left Calls Good People Racist
A few weeks ago, I devoted my column to an article about me published in Newsweek under the headline "Conservative Radio Host Ridicules Anne Frank." As the full context of my comments in the video made clear, it was a lie.
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Paul Batura: Ronald Reagan warned us about Bernie Sanders – over 40 years ago
With Bernie Sanders’ victory in the Nevada Democratic caucuses Saturday – making him the current front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination – words of warning from Ronald Reagan about socialism struck me as something more Americans ought to b
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Enough Of Hollywood’s Vapid, Hypocritical Girl Power Schtick
Last night’s Academy Awards ceremony was quite possibly the greatest display of heroism since D-Day. I may, in fact, be underselling it. After all, the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy were wearing gauche, cliched uniforms. At least the actor
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Trump’s Angry and True Victory Speech – American Greatness
At what point is it fair to say that a political faction presents a threat to the country?
This question loomed over impeachment week, which saw the country struggling to digest a disorienting series of dramatic contrasts. First we had the Democrats’ dem
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Gingrich: Censure Nancy Pelosi for Tearing Up Trump's SOTU Speech
Newt Gingrich called on Nancy Pelosi to be censured for ripping up a copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.
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Yes, the Senate Should Call Witnesses
The prevailing opinion of Republican lawmakers and most pundits on the Right is that the Senate impeachment trial should end without calling witnesses. Time to get back to the business of the Ameri…
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Why Are Republicans Settling for Acquittal Instead of Total Victory? – American Greatness
It’s a shame that so many Republicans are calling for a quick impeachment trial and the inevitable acquittal of Donald Trump. It seems more than a bit shortsighted. Why should Republicans settle for an acquittal when we can accomplish so much more?
The D
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What Good Is Cheaper Stuff If It Comes At The Expense Of Community?
Should we be so eager to destroy communities for cheap consumer goods? Perhaps a little less efficiency in capital allocation wouldn't be so bad, after all.
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4 Reasons The Left’s Methods Are Far More Cult-Like Than Trump’s
In their effort to label President Trump as a cult leader, media elites have finally cracked open a real discussion about mass conformity.
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Prager: Does the Left Hate America?
Whenever leftists are charged with not loving or even with hating America, they respond angrily, labeling the question absurd, mean-spirited and an example of right-wing McCarthyism. But there can be little doubt that the left has no love for America, jus
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How to Shut Down the Democrats’ Alternative Universe
By now, only a person living in Alternate Universe One could fail to understand that the past three years have precisely nothing to do with Russian collusion or Ukraine corruption and everything to do with who makes decisions about American policy: the du
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After Baghdadi Action, Dem Candidates Have Their Work Cut Out for Them
Nancy Pelosi appears to have been deeply unhappy she and other Democratic House members weren't informed in advance of the action to eliminate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Saturday night. However, on a "need to know basis" Nancy had no need to know whatsoever, no
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HAMMER: Remember Those Who Told Us Gay Marriage Would Not Lead To Polyamory? They Were Wrong.
“Slippery slope theory is a form of logical fallacy.” – Knaves and fools The concerted social push is now unequivocally on to normalize non-monogamous, polyamorous relationships. Just yesterday, CBS News ran a rather disturbing story en
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Durham Investigation Is Criminal: Why That’s A Disaster for the MSM
John Durham's investigation of the Russia investigation is a criminal probe, and this is an ultimate disaster for the liberal media, especially the New York Times and The Washington Post.
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The Derangement Syndromes of Our Time – American Greatness
In the absence of religion, patriotism, and traditions of family and community, people have found new ideologies to absorb their passions.
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You Get Your Own Name. It Can Be Whatever You Want. But You Don’t Get Your Own Pronouns.
Twitter informs me that today, October 16, is a Holy Day of Observation known as Pronouns Day. Following the sacred traditions of our ancestors, Pronouns Day provides the LGBT crew with yet another opportunity to lecture the world about how we are all sup
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Madness of Progressive Projection
Strangest among all the many melodramas of the last two weeks were the blaring headlines that President Trump had dared to talk with the Australian Prime Minister—and referenced the role of foreign governments and in particular Australia in U.S. electoral
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Why Nancy Pelosi Now Supports Impeachment Even Though It’s Insane
This is about Nancy Pelosi losing control of her caucus should she resist impeachment, and expecting disaster if impeachment was outside her control.
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The War on Common Sense – American Greatness
When Thomas Paine appealed to “common sense” to make the case for American independence, it probably never crossed his mind that there would ever be a need to make the case for common sense itself, at least not in America. But common-sense thinking has fa
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HAMMER: Never Forget 9/11. But We Need To Rethink How We Fight Radical Islamic Jihad. | Daily Wire
Eighteen years ago today, in what would be the deadliest assault by a geopolitical foe on U.S. soil since the War of 1812, the global jihad struck the most lethal blow in the history of its wretched movement.
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Did We Learn the Lesson of 9/11? | Daily Wire
It's now been nearly a full generation since September 11, 2001. There are people currently serving in the U.S.
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Dems and Jewish Groups Pick Wrong Side on Omar-Tlaib
Should the Netanyahu government have barred “Squad” members and BDS advocates Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country? Chattering classes in both countries quickly took sides.
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How to Tell if a Trump Supporter Is Racist
Every non-liberal leftist -- that is, nearly every Democrat running for president, New York Times and Washington Post columnist, CNN and MSNBC host, and your left-wing brother-in-law -- labels every Trump supporter and, of course, President Donald Trump,
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How Hard Can It Possibly Be For Democrats To Denounce Antifa? | Daily Wire
If an elected Republican refused to properly condemn a vile group of domestic terrorists that bears the faintest trace of purported relation to the political Right, one is left to ponder just how scathing and pervasive the media onslaught against the elec
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Victor Davis Hanson: Of Progressive Carnivores and Cannibals – American Greatness
The Obama-era Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes embraced just 11 years ago by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries.
The parameters of marriage, in Obama’s words “between a man and woman,” has now transmogrified
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The Left Has Managed To Mainstream Anti-Americanism
From the repudiation of the Fourth of July to calls for reparations, anti-Americanism that once was belonged to the far-left is now mainstream.
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A ‘Green Book’ for Conservatives? – American Greatness
Last year, an Oscar-winning movie made known to many of us what the “Green Book” was—a guidebook listing accommodations for the African American traveler during the days of Jim Crow segregation.
Today, I fear, we may need a
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They Belong On the Mall: U.S. Armed Forces Are Defenders of Liberty, Not Tools of Oppression
Tanks on the Washington Mall? They aren't evidence of an impending military coup; they're a symbol of America's military and civilian awesomeness. A quick word on today's special guest star, the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, before we get to the really juic
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Why Nike's Capitulation To Kaepernick Matters
By bowing to Colin Kaepernick’s objections, Nike is helping to normalize the brittle sensitivities of social justice warriors.
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Of Course the Census Should Ask a Citizenship Question | The Heritage Foundation
It’s being described as a loss, but the Trump administration actually won a partial victory Thursday in the lawsuits filed to prevent the reinstatement of a citizenship question on the U.S. Census.
We need accurate information on our population — includi
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Prager: Clarity About Nationalism – American Greatness
In order to make arguments for nationalism, we have to define it.
The first definition in Merriam-Webster is "loyalty and devotion to a nation." But in a second paragraph, it adds, "especially: a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above
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The Democrats Dangerous Derangement – American Greatness
America cannot continue as a republic without the acceptance that one party routinely will be turned out of office. Democrats no longer accept that bedrock principle of American liberty. They see themselves as the only party entitled to govern. “Trump Der
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Leftism Makes People Meaner: Reflections on the Torture of Paul Manafort | News and Politics
The sadistic treatment of Paul Manafort illustrates something I have believed since I attended graduate school in the 1970s and saw the behavior of left-wing students: Leftism makes people meaner. There are kind and mean conservatives and kind and mean li
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Mueller Just Proved His Entire Operation Was A Lawless Political Hit Job
As he showed at his press conference on Wednesday, Robert Mueller never cared about the rule of law. Instead, he turned it on its head just to get Trump.
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Mueller sets a new standard for innocence: Prove you did not commit a crime - Conservative Review
It was never Mueller’s job to prove a negative.
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BOZELL & GRAHAM: Jeff Daniels And The Arrogance Of The Left
The actor Jeff Daniels is now the toast of Broadway for his leading role in the Southern civil rights tale "To Kill a Mockingbird," adapted for the stage by leftist screed-writer Aaron Sorkin. Harper Lee's book has been recalibrated for the Trump era.
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The Electoral College Is Under Assault. Here’s Why It’s Worth Saving.
It has never been clearer that the Electoral College is under systemic assault.
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The Conventional Wisdom About Millennial Suffering Is A Myth
Despite a sense of unearned victimhood, millennials haven't had it harder than those who came before them. In most ways, the opposite is true.
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With The 'Equality Act,' The Democratic Party Has Again Proven That It Is An Anti-Science, Anti-Woman Cult
On Friday, the House passed the Equality Act, which ostensibly outlaws "discrimination" based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Every Democrat voted in favor of the radical, anti-science bill.
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Joe Biden Should Apologize To Clarence Thomas, Not To Anita Hill
Even a favorable hearing in front of the world is not enough for a woman alleging that a man has sexually wronged her, we have to rewrite history.
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Hey, Democrats: Here’s the price I paid for your socialist dream
The house where I was born in Communist Cuba had a dirt floor, a bathroom hole-in-the-ground, which we shared with six other families, and a zinc roof that left us unbearably hot in the summer and shivering in the winter.
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How To Combat Our Culture’s Rampant Self-Supremacy Problem
The terms self-supremacy and self-supremacist capture the intent and the ultimate agenda of power elites. Self-supremacists are control freaks.
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Why The So-Called Equality Act Is A Bait-and-Switch Power Grab
The ‘Equality’ Act doesn’t protect anybody. It undermines human freedom and dignity by legally stripping Americans across the board of inalienable rights.
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HAMMER: The Mueller Report Amounts To A Democratic Oppo Research Document
For two years now, many in the right-leaning political/commentariat class have advanced the notion that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe, which began as a counter-intelligence i
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Time for Democrats to accept reality | TheHill
Democrats are out of credible narratives now that the special counsel has found no collusion.
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No Recriminations for the Real Collusion
The total exoneration of President Trump and his campaign has given his voters a few days of smiles and happy headlines, but not deep satisfaction. The claim that Donald Trump, his family, and his staff were traitors and Russian agents remains a sickening
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Why we should all be celebrating the collapse of Hillary’s big lie
The results of the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller are a tremendous vindication for President Trump and the many millions of Americans who never doubted his innocence. The findings prove, once and for all time, that he won the 2016 election fair a
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Attorney General's Letter: Unambiguously Good News for America | National Review
Americans should reject the conspiracy theories that have dominated parts of the Internet and too much of the media.
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MALKIN: Never Forget: CAIR's Dirty Deeds
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is having a banner month. The militant Muslim group never lets a crisis go to waste. That means Americans should beware. When unappeasable CAIR is ascendant, our free speech rights, religious liberty and national
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Captain Marvel's War on Women
Art imitates life, but to an even greater extent, life imitates art. Like culture and politics, the two are intertwined in an infinite feedback loop. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where one begins and the other ends.The latest addition to the wildly popul
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The College Admissions Scandal Proves Yet Again That ‘Higher Education’ Is A Giant Scam
As you’ve probably heard, a bunch of rich people have been charged with bribing college officials in order to get their children into various top universities.
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Tucker Carlson Must Not Be Silenced
Let’s be completely clear here. Nobody—least of all the leftwing mobs attacking Tucker Carlson right now—cares what he said on the radio a decade ago.
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Why The Democrats’ 'For the People Act' Is an Unconstitutional, Authoritarian Power Grab | National Review
The Republican-controlled Senate will almost certainly block Democrats' election-reform bill from becoming law.
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The false equivalence between ‘Islamophobia’ and anti-Semitism | Coffee House
I have been travelling in the Middle East for the last few weeks and slightly regret returning to the maelstrom of ancient animosities and unbridgeable sectarianism that is modern Britain. But in my…
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No, Your Politics And Morality Are Not Superior If Children Endorse Them
The only thing more insufferable than child activists prodded along by cynical cultists are adults nodding as if they are listening to Socratic wisdom.
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PRAGER: Explaining The Left, Part VI: Do Leftists Believe What They Say?
Truth is not a left-wing value. I first discovered this as a graduate student studying the Soviet Union and left-wing ideologies at the Russian Institute of Columbia University School of International Affairs. Everything I have learned since has confirmed
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Jussie Smollett and the Hard Lessons about Facts and Assumptions | National Review
As Jussie Smollett’s case enters its last act, the cracks in his initial story are further deepened, suggesting that what started as an alleged hate crime likely never happened.
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Call it what it is: Andrew McCabe plotted a coup to overturn results of the election
Will leaker McCabe face justice?
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AOC: The Perfect Graduate of Today's Biased Colleges
Reforming our educational system is the most important mission of our time.
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Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Should Be Sanctioned — History Demands It
Executive director of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition Abbas Hamideh poses with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) at a swearing-in …
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Publishing Stupid 'Hot Takes' Is Why We Can't Have National Discussions
Is there any American newsroom left that has the good sense not to publish outlandish hot takes on hot-button issues? Where?
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Andrew Sullivan: The Abyss of Hate Versus Hate
After the Covington debacle, it is clearer than ever: Liberal democracy is being dismantled before our eyes — by all of us.
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Factually Incorrect Cannot Be Morally Correct
A few weeks ago, the Fresh Face of the Democratic Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave one of the great defenses in the history of politics.
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Opinion | Teachers Unions Don’t Really Strike for ‘the Kids’
When the United Auto Workers walk off the job, no one pretends they care about car buyers.
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Opinion | Mike Pence: Venezuela, America Stands With You
It’s a humanitarian and economic crisis, but also a matter of regional security.
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The Right Should Reject Tucker Carlson’s Victimhood Populism | National Review
Carlson accurately identifies certain maladies, but they are maladies that public policy can’t cure.
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Republican Midterm Losses Did Not Diminish Trump | National Review
Midterm losses typically humble a sitting president of the United States, but Donald Trump is beyond humbling.
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Prager: What the Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre Means
The dishonest now have the Pittsburgh massacre to blame on Trump.
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Here’s why Hillary Clinton losing her security clearance matters for the rest of us
By overlooking and explaining away how Hillary Clinton treated government data, including classified information, and then covering up what Imran Awan allegedly did for years in the House, the mainstream media has done a massive disservice to the state of
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DNA Doesn’t Define Who We Really Are | National Review
Should we cast aside our family heritage because of a pie chart on a DNA test?
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Warren Is a Fraud. Here’s Why. | National Review
Without that ‘one drop,’ she was just another privileged white woman.
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A Terrible College Case Shows the High Cost of ‘Believe Women’ | National Review
There is no substitute for evidence and due process.
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National Review: Run, Hillary, Run
If Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2020, it will be the best possible thing for the GOP -- and the country.
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It didn't start with Merrick Garland: Trump should now nominate Miguel Estrada to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals
In addition to a political and judicial victory, Estrada’s re-nomination would also send a powerful message to Democrats that the way to victory isn’t smears, obstruction, or crazy tactics.
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Stop Apologizing for Our History | National Review
Today’s ill-informed critics of Churchill would be speaking German if he had not led the fight against Hitler.
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WALSH: Columbus SHOULD Be Celebrated. Here's Why. | Daily Wire
On this wonderful Columbus Day, please be sure to ignore the historically illiterate, preening dimwits who will spend their time screeching about a fictional version of history where Europeans were the first to introduce rape, pillage, and slavery to the
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Dennis Prager: Here's Why Leftists Feel Entitled To Ignore All Common Rules of Decency
Most liberals and conservatives abide by society’s rules of order and decency, most leftists do not feel bound to live by these same rules.
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Opinion | For Once, I’m Grateful for Trump - The New York Times
In the president, one big bully stands up to others.
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What Does Female Empowerment Mean? | National Review
What does female empowerment mean amid the Brett Kavanaugh controversy?
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After Kavanaugh’s Stand, Republicans Abandon Him at Their Peril | National Review
Brett Kavanaugh fought with passion, evidence, and compassion, and he united the conservative movement.
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WALSH: Kavanaugh Has Suffered Enough. End This Disgusting, Despicable Charade And Confirm Him. | Daily Wire
We have now heard from both the accuser and the accused in sworn testimony before a Senate committee. Both delivered emotional, compelling, credible opening statements. Only one presented any evidence. Only one has witnesses backing him up. Only one has a
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Why the Kavanaugh Smears Validate Trumpian Politics | National Review
The Trump phenomenon is impossible to gainsay.
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Belief Outweighs Truth in the Kavanaugh Hearings | National Review
When proof is subordinated to mere belief, the standard of evidence is reduced to whatever bolsters that belief.
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The Politicization Of The Kavanaugh Sexual Abuse Allegations Damages #MeToo
This week, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was hit with accusations of sexual abuse from Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University.
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HIRSCHAUER: Maybe Senator Hirono Should Take Her Own Advice
With characteristic grace and restraint, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) responded Monday to the accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by claiming that “men in this
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Whining Serena Williams Is Tennis' Hillary Clinton | RealClearPolitics
Whining Serena Williams Is Tennis' Hillary Clinton | RealClearPolitics
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WALSH: The Outrage Directed At Norm MacDonald Is Incredibly Stupid
The pitchfork mob has now set its sights on comedian Norm MacDonald. As MacDonald is known for being irreverent and politically incorrect, it was only a matter of time before he had his turn.
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Is Diversity Really Our Strength? | National Review
Every successful experiment in diversity requires commonality.
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An Open Letter to the NYT’s Anonymous Senior Trump Administration Official | National Review
For the good of the nation, the anonymous Trump administration senior official who claimed Trump is unfit for office in a NYT op-ed must identify himself, and back up his claims about the president with hard evidence.
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Why I'm boycotting Nike: Get woke and go broke
Nike should understand that sports represents the best of America, not the loudest and most divisive protester.
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How to Think about Privilege | National Review
Progressives misuse the term “white” as a catch-all for everything they dislike.
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Kimberley Strassel: Mueller's one-sided probe cannot be justified
The country has watched the FBI treat one presidential campaign with kid gloves, the other with informants, warrants and eavesdropping.
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WALSH: It's Time To Tear Down The Statues Of These Three Monstrous Liberal Heroes | Daily Wire
The Left was ecstatic this week when "protestors" (read: criminal vandals) toppled a Confederate statue on the campus of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
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Dennis Prager: Explaining the Left: Part II
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, did Americans a favor last week.
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Andrew Cuomo Was Never That Great | National Review
Try as he might to convince us otherwise, New York’s shape-shifting governor remains a failure.
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Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both? - Kurt Schlichter
Congratulations, oh most insufferable of generations – against all odds and confounding the experts, you have still somehow managed to make yourselves even more annoying. Apparently, the hep new jive among your tiresome cohort is “Democratic Socialism,” resurrecting a poisonous nineteenth-century political death cult and putting a kicky new spin on it to make it palatable for the suckers. It’s the political equivalent of hipsters who insist vinyl records are superior because they didn’t grow up forced to crank their tunes on that miserable format.
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The Problem of Identity Politics and Its Solution
To combat identity politics, we must emphasize an American nationalism based on both a commitment to the ideals of the American Founding and a shared love of our national history and culture.
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Explaining American Leftists: Part I | National Review
The combination of affluence and secularism produces boredom as surely as the combination of hydrogen and oxygen produces water.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Generation Know-Nothing’s Perfect Representative
It’s not what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t know that gets her into trouble; it’s what she knows for sure that just ain’t so.
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Yes, We Should Fight for Montenegro | National Review
If the NATO alliance cracks, then Europe takes a giant step back to the great-power politics of the past, which led Americans to fight in unimaginably brutal European wars. If it endures, peace prevails.
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Scarlett’s white flag will only make outrage mob smell blood
“I believe that all artists should be considered equally and fairly.” So said Scarlett Johansson, after withdrawing from “Rub and Tug,” a film in which she had been cast to play Dante Tex Gil…
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What’s Wrong with the Idea of ‘Free’ College? | National Review
Tennessee lures students into the state’s community colleges with free tuition — what’s wrong with that?
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The United Nations’ Patently Ridiculous Report on American Poverty by Nikki Haley
It is unnecessary, politically biased, factually wrong, and a waste of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
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PRAGER: If We're Nazis, Expect More Violence
Because of the ever-descending moral and intellectual state of the mainstream news media, there has been no outcry against the leftists who call President Donald Trump and all Americans who support him Nazis. Indeed, members of the media now regularly do
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Max Boot’s Crazed Take-Down Of Republicans Demonstrates Full-Scale Trump Derangement Syndrome
On Independence Day, former conservative columnist Max Boot wrote in the pages of The Washington Post that it was time for conservatives to dump the Republican Party. Why? Because, in Boot’s words, “You used to belong to a conservative party with a wh
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No, It's Not Silly To Call Out Socialist Hypocrisy
On Thursday, Washington Post columnist Elizabeth Bruenig took on the problem of limousine liberalism – by defe
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New York Times: Hey, Let's Kill The First Amendment. It's Helping Conservatives Too Much.
Leftists are deeply unhappy with the First Amendment.
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Shapiro: How Trump Haters End Up Helping Trump
“Trump is a Nazi.” “Trump is ruining America.” “Trump supporters are Nazis who are ruining America.” It’s difficult to live in Los Angeles without hearing
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Justice Kennedy Retires, and the Legal and Political Ramifications Are Immense | National Review
The next few months may well define the Supreme Court for a generation — and help decide who controls Congress. Buckle up. It’s going to be a wild ride.
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HIRSCHAUER: They Hate Sarah Sanders Because They Hate You
The most obvious illogic embedded in Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ show trial on the premises of a Virginia restaurant is, of course, that the actors cheering this as a heroic act of #Resistance are the
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George Will: The Charles Krauthammer I knew
When he was asked how to become a columnist, Charles Krauthammer would say, with characteristic drollery, "First, you go to medical school."
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Trump Opponents Keep Comparing Trump Immigration Policy To Nazi Policy. Read A Damn Book, You Idiots.
In the latest in a spate of nutty posts linking an Obama-era Ninth Circuit court decision to Nazism, former CNN host Soledad O’Brien tweeted that America is on the brink of a Nazi takeover:
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Moral Cowardice: Why This Should Be Google's New Slogan
If it were to be true to its values, Google should have changed its slogan from "Don't be evil" to "Don't fight evil."
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Why the Left Won't Call Anyone 'Animals' - The Dennis Prager Show
If you want to understand the moral sickness at the heart of leftism, read the first paragraph of the most recent column by Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne: "It's never right to call other human beings 'animals.' It's not something we should e
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Why Senators are failing the religious test for office | TheHill
Nominees should not be forced into defending or abandoning their religious convictions, regardless of how antiquated one senator finds such beliefs.
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PRAGER: Whatever The Left Touches It Ruins
The only way to save Western civilization is to convince more people that leftism — not liberalism — is a nihilistic force. Quite literally, whatever the left touches it ruins. So, here is a partial listing of the damage done by the left and the Democ
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Why does California hate free speech?
California’s legislature is poised to approve one of the most serious attacks against freedom of speech ever contemplated in U.S. history this week. Assembly Bill 2943 is legislation that would place that state in an Orwellian society by banning books,
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Why The Ignorant Parkland Kids Don't Speak for Their Dead Classmates
It’s incredibly annoying to be lectured to by high school kids because the fact of the matter is that very few of them know anything about anything. Why would they? They’re kids. Somebody else feeds them, puts a roof over their heads and pays their bi
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WALSH: The Rules Of #MeToo Are Clear. Women Can Sexually Harass Whomever They Want.
According to the media, Katy Perry "gave an American Idol contestant his first kiss" during his audition this week. "He kissed a girl and he liked it," beamed People Magazine. The two were "flirting," according to TMZ. "Lucky guy," said many internet comm
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Intersectionality: Religion for Deep-Blue America | National Review
Intersectionality and Moral Therapeutic Theism are the new religions of post-Christian America.
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Every Single Government Authority Failed In Parkland. And They Expect Americans To Forfeit Our Self-Defense Rights To Them?
On Thursday night, the American public learned two bombshell pieces of information regarding the Parkland, Florida mass shooting.
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Gun Control Advocates Parade Grieving Teens Who Make Simplistic Pleas | National Review
If we can turn children into our decision-makers, we can infantilize our politics down to simplistic statements like “you’re either with us or against us” on preventing school shootings.
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Dear Gay Olympians, We Get It, You're Gay, Get Over It
Dear Gay Olympians, We Get It, You’re Gay, Get Over It
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Alabama Conservatives Made Their Stand | National Review
While Roy Moore may have lost, Conservatism may have won ...
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Why ‘Indigenous Peoples' Day’ Is Far Worse Than Columbus Day
If we really want to commemorate horrifying, unspeakable violence and oppression in the Americas, I’ve got the perfect holiday: ‘Indigenous Peoples' Day.’
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Robin Smith: Why Columbus Day Is Worth Celebrating
But if you live in any number of “enlightened” progressive cities, today is “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
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The Left’s Dictator Envy
The more you learn about Kim Jong-un, the scarier things get. Don’t tell that to Chelsea Handler, however ...
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Science & Belief -- Climate Change & Sexual Orientation Identification Technology | National Review
The whole “science denier” canard is a weapon wielded by people who often harbor their own doubts about the scientific consensus ...
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The RINO Hunters Become the Hunted
As Donald Trump sides with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer over their Republican counterparts, one of his allies lobs a telling insult at a movement conservative.
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My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump
We created him, and now we're rationalizing him. When will it stop?
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Why Have Jewish Organizations Been Silent About Otto Warmbier's Death? – Tablet Magazine
Otto Warmbier, an American student at the University of Virginia—who was active in Hillel and who went on Birthright, where he received a Hebrew name—died yesterday after being arrested and tortured by North Korea. You’d think that the cluster of ha
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The left’s misguided obsession with ‘cultural appropriation’
In July 1954, a 19-year-old Memphis truck driver recorded at Sun Studio the song “That’s All Right.” When a local disc jockey promised to play it, the truck driver tuned his parents’ radio to the station and went to a movie.
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Trump’s Order on Refugees: Mostly Right on Substance, Wrong on Rollout
The instant backlash to Trump's executive order on refugees is the result more of knee-jerk emotion than a sober assessment of Trump’s policy.
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Trump Is Already Ditching His Movement
Donald Trump is already abandoning the movement that propelled him to the White House.
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Why The Victim Mentality Kills
Take a good look at the Facebook post of the Ohio State University attacker.
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Trump and BDS are symptoms of the same illness | Fred Maroun
Despite living at a time when immensely more information is available at our fingerprints than ever before, and even......
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Americans Want To Elect Mommy Or Daddy. That's a Problem. | Daily Wire
Americans want to elect Daddy or Mommy. That's what this election has become. It hasn't been about competing or contrasting visions of government. It hasn't been about rooting out corruption in Washington or bringing change to the syste
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Supreme Court -- Merrick Garland: Republicans’ Nomination Blocking Is Indefensible
The Republican party’s incoherent response to the Supreme Court vacancy is a partisan reflex in search of a justifying principle. The multiplicity of Republican rationalizations for their refusal to even consider Merrick Garland radiates insincerity.
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Donald Trump 2016 -- Voters Should Be Above "Burning the System Down"
After a depressing weekend of political violence, and cries of “go back to Africa” and “go to f***ing Auschwitz”, it’s time to bury that rallying cry of immature rage, “Burn it down!”
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Donald Trump: Culture Rot Created Him
A few years back, I began reliving, in reverse, the most treasured part of my upbringing. On sunny summer Sundays, my son, age seven and falling in love with baseball, would curl up next to me on the couch to watch the game.
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Dear Trump Fan, So You Want Someone To ‘Tell It Like It Is’? OK, Here You Go.
Dear Donald Trump Fan, I'm going to tell you the truth, friend. You say you want the truth. You say you want someone who speaks boldly and brashly and bluntly and
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Dear Democrats, Please Stop Insulting Our Intelligence on Judicial Nominations
Does any sentient human being believe that if the Democrats had the Senate majority in the final year of a conservative president’s second term – and Justice Ginsburg’s seat came open — that they would approve any nominee from that president?
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Republicans Fighting Leftism: Conservatives must identify their ideological foe
American conservatives are rightfully annoyed with the Obama administration, and Democrats generally, for refusing to name radical Islam or Islamism as the major source of terror it is.
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Will: Goodbye to 2015, a year of absurdity and overreach - The Washington Post
American institutions outdid themselves on self-parody.
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President Obama's latest pathetic speech on terror
President Obama tried yet again Sunday night to convince the nation he’s serious about fighting terror, and, as usual, proved the opposite. Days after the San Bernardino attack, he finally called i...
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Liberalism’s Imaginary Enemies
In The Wall Street Journal, Global View columnist Bret Stephens writes about liberalism’s imaginary enemies. In Paris, it’s easier to battle a climate crisis than confront jihadists on the streets.
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No, George Bush Is Not to Blame for the Paris Attacks | National Review Online
Is there a statute of limitations for blaming George W. Bush for the world’s ills? This weekend, in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, the Huffington Post ran yet another piece repeating leftist conventional wisdom that Bush created ISIS with his disastrous Iraq invasion, that Obama’s missteps were minor by comparison, and oh, by the way, those who supported the Iraq invasion should just shut up.
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Krauthammer: Obama’s phony war
The president is more interested in fighting Republicans than the Islamic State.
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Top 5 Reasons Why Obama’s ‘ISIS’ Press Conference Cemented His Legacy as a Coward.
sharp line being drawn today between Hollande saying this changes everything and Obama saying no it doesn't — Philip Gourevitch (@PGourevitch) November 16, 2015
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Bill O’Reilly makes a mess of history - The Washington Post
The truth has already caught up with him. Were the lungs the seat of wisdom, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly would be wise, but they are not and he is not. So it is not astonishing that he is doubling down on his wager that the truth cannot catch up with him. It has, however, already done so.
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Political Correctness Has Peaked | National Review Online
If you’re Social Justice Warrior, you’re a liar. You actively spread absurd falsehoods about the nature of men, women, sex, and culture that can’t withstand even the slightest scrutiny. You change history and conceal facts to fit preferred narratives, even when it costs human lives.
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John Boehner, A True Conservative Statesman | The Daily Caller
It will be important for the next Speaker to keep in mind that we can take the country forward with strong leadership
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Don’t Know Much About History: Another Fake Rubio Scandal - WSJ
“He’s rarely been in the headlines, but Marco Rubio has had a fantastic couple of months,” David Leonhardt of the New York Times observed Monday afternoon on Twitter. “Partly because of the headlines,” we rejoined, with a link to our June 9 column, which discussed the Times’s feeble efforts to find scandal in Rubio’s wife’s traffic tickets and in the Rubio family’s past financial struggles.
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How Ahmed’s clock became a false, convenient tale of racism | New York Post
When is America going to get serious about the problem of white kids getting suspended from school for nothing? By now you’ve heard the story of Ahmed Mohamed, crowned by...
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Europe Is Making a Fatal Mistake | RealClearPolitics
Allowing millions of Syrians and others from the Muslim Middle East into Europe will end up a catastrophe for Europe, and therefore for the West. This may be the most difficult sentence I have ever...
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Andrew Breitbart and Michelle Malkin warned conservatives about The Donald | RedState
The rise of The Donald has been remarkable. He is, it seems, supported by conservative Republicans and independents. At least that is the what they claim to be. He is supported by people who impose strict litmus tests on politicians-ready to denounce them
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Cecil the Lion -- Human Rights Matter Too | National Review Online
The uproar over the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe by an American dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, is further proof that secular society inevitably produces moral confusion.
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World inspection didn't stop Syria's chemical weapons use - why would Iran be different? - Opinion - Haaretz
The CIA belatedly concluded that Assad has been cheating on his agreement to disband Syria's chemical weapons stash. There's no reason to believe the international community will do better in Iran.
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1938 and 2015: Only the Names Are Different - Dennis Prager
We say that evil is dark. But this metaphor is imprecise. Evil is actually intensely bright, so painfully bright that people look away from it. Many even deny its existence. Why? Because once people acknowledge evil’s existence, they know they have to c
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We Aren’t the World | The Weekly Standard
Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about Foreign Policy, Global, Iran, Iran Deal, Matthew Continetti, Obama, President, Foreign policy and global from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition.
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Iran Deal: we could have imagined - The Washington Post
Congress needs to act in order to rob the deal of its domestic legitimacy.
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Why The Iran Nuclear Deal Paves the Way for Iranian Empire
How the Iranian nuclear deal will embolden Iran and create the conditions in which a regional Iranian empire can be realized.
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Imminent, Dreadful Iran Nuclear Deal Must Be Stopped
THE NEGOTIATIONS over Iran's efforts to develop nuclear weapons are about to be completed. This will trigger one of the most important congressional debates in American history. From all that we now know the agreement will set off a chain reactio
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Sorry, Everyone, America Isn’t That Racist
It’s called “proof by example,” and it happens all the time. We take one event and point to it as evidence of a trend or, even worse, a universal fact—a dog attacked my child, therefore all dogs are vicious and should be put down. Despite its popularity,
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Fracking, with care, brings big benefits: Our view
Fracking — the practice of cracking open underground oil and gas formations with water, sand and chemicals — has rescued U.S. energy production from a dangerous decline. Any debate about banning it should take a hard look at what that would cost the nation and at facts that aren't always part of the discussion.
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Time for the States to Declare Independence From the Federal Government - Breitbart
One hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, it is becoming increasingly clear that there are two Americas—one where the principles of constitutionally limited government and individual liberty are still revered, the other where statism a
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GREENFIELD: America's Black Racist Hypocrisy | Truth Revolt
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. Over twenty years ago, five young Latino women were among the seven victims of a fire. They were in their late teens and early twentie
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The Formal End to Judeo-Christian America - Dennis Prager
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the redefinition of marriage seals the end of America as the Founders envisioned it. From well before 1776 until the second half of the 20th century, the moral values of the United States were rooted in the Bible a
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MALKIN: The Media's Vile Attacks on Conservative Assimilationists | Truth Revolt
I have had enough of smug liberal elites wrapped in their "Celebrate Diversity" banners tearing down minority conservatives. Look in the mirror, media and academia bigots. Your own reflexive racism and divisive rhetoric are poisoning public disc
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America's post-Constitutional culture | Fox News
The Supreme Court's latest ObamaCare decision cements the role of the Court as the Executive Branch’s lap dog in the protection of government power.
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A National Tragedy and a Partisan Response | Truth Revolt
Why do black lives only seem to matter when white people take them? Why does the president of the United States think it’s proper to take a horrible racial tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina as an excuse to bash America as the violence capital of the
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The Left’s ‘Microaggression’ Obsession Is Indicative of Its Micro-totalitarian Tendencies | National Review Online
Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as “America is the land of opportunity.” Why? Because this is considered to be an act of “microaggression” against minorities and women.
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Left-Right Differences -- The Left Rejects Painful Truths | National Review Online
Here’s a difference between Left and Right that is rarely noted despite the fact that it is at least as important as any other and even explains many of the other differences.
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As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence
Oh, how the feminist movement has lost its way. And the deafening silence over ISIS’s latest brutal crimes makes that all too clear. Fifty years ago, American women launched a liberation campaign f...
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American Imperialism FTW | Washington Free Beacon
The rest of the world loves to whinge and moan about U.S. aggression—until it needs something done, of course. And then they're happy we haven't given in to the reigning international order like the rest of the failed imperial powers out there.
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The Danger Of The Campus Crusaders - NYTimes.com
Well-intentioned moral fervor on campuses today often slides into a dangerous type of zealotry.
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There's No 'Gender Pay Gap', But Here Are 11 Reasons Why There Should Be - Breitbart
The “gender pay gap” is one of the most persistent myths put about by feminists and social justice warriors. It has been comprehensively debunked: in the UK and US, women in their 30s are actually paid more than men for the same
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MALKIN: Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge? | Truth Revolt
How many times have you heard President Obama and his minions pat themselves on the back for their noble "investments" in "roads and bridges"? Without government infrastructure spending, we're incessantly reminded, we wouldn't be able
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To Defend a Position, You Must Understand Both Sides | National Review Online
Most Americans hold either liberal or conservative positions on most matters. In many instances, however, they would be hard pressed to explain their position or the position they oppose.
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No, Calling the Baltimore Rioters ‘Thugs’ Does Not Make You a Racist | National Review Online
I was going to write about the latest Clinton stuff but, frankly, I can’t muster the energy. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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No holds barred: President Bush redux - Opinion - Jerusalem Post
Hearing former president George W. Bush speak on Saturday night at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas sent me into a nostalgic reverie. The president was in top form, speaking lucidly and compellingly about the threat from Iran and Islamic State. So this is what it’s like to hear a world leader speak about evil with moral conviction. Oh yes, I remember this.
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The Corker Bill Isn’t a Victory — It’s a Constitutional Perversion, by Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review
As the Framers knew, we are unlikely to outgrow human nature. So what happens when we decide we’ve outgrown a Constitution designed to protect us from human nature’s foibles?
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Liberals Are the New McCarthyites—and They're Proud of It
It was just over 60 years ago that the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy were repudiated when he was censured by the Senate in December 1954. Ever since then, McCarthyism — the reckless hurling of accusations at adversaries so as to destroy their reputations — has been considered one of the lowest forms of political behavior and one liberals love to crusade against.
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Black Hats and White Hats
With elections upon us, a return to the Evil-Man Theory of Everything. American governance is complex – even its subcomponents are so complex that the well-meaning people who are handsomely paid to manage them throw up their hands in despair, e.g. IRS agents who freely admit that there are too many changes in the tax code – an average of more than one per day – for them to keep up with.
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Hillary Clintons Candidacy Is Depressing
She has accomplished nothing, but she’s a woman (who’s a liberal), and that’s all that matters to the Left.
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MEDVED: For California, Gay Astronaut Beats Sainthood | Truth Revolt
Which Californian represents the state’s splendor and greatness most appropriately; the Catholic saint who founded nine settlements that grew into major cities or a recently deceased astronaut who completed two missions on the space shuttle? Does the
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America's Decay Is Speeding Up - Dennis Prager
As one who loves America — not only because I am American, but even more so because I know (not believe, know) that the American experiment in forming a decent society has been the most successful in history — I write the following words in sadness...
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Mashable: Duping Millennials All the Way to Pete Cashmore’s More Cash Bank Account
I am astonished that the Agenda Mongers at Mashable do not think that every single thing on the list of “Weird Facts” about Ted Cruz is just awesome.
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Please, Please, PLEASE #BoycottIndiana | The Daily Caller
As a proud resident of the Hoosier state, I don't mind if leftists, social justice warriors, and all my other social superiors decide to go away and leave the
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Dershowitz Rips Obama on Iran: Couldn't 'Negotiate a One-month Lease' - Breitbart
Famed defense attorney and retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz ripped President Barack Obama in an address to a conference of pro-Israel activists in Los Angeles on Saturday evening. Dershowitz, who backed Obama in both the 2008 and 2012
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The Left's Ugly Israel Freakout
Obama's allies in the press have coopted some of the most absurd justifications for throwing Israel to the wolves. After years of ginned-up conflict, Barack Obama has finally found a pretext to change the contours of the United States-Israel alliance. Israel’s policies might not be changing, but the administration will “reevaluate” the relationship, anyway.
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Obama Cant Force His Iran Deal on the Country without Congress’s Consent
It is no secret that Barack Obama does not have much use for the United States Constitution. It is a governing plan for a free, self-determining people. Hence, it is littered with roadblocks against schemes to rule the people against their will. When it comes to our imperious president’s scheme to enable our enemy, Iran, to become a nuclear-weapons power — a scheme that falls somewhere between delusional and despicable, depending on your sense of Obama’s good faith — the salient barrier is that only Congress can make real law.
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Ben Shapiro: Hillary Clinton Lies... A Lot | Truth Revolt
Hillary Clinton says that she is the most transparent woman in American politics. There's just one problem - Hillary Clinton lies... a lot. Ben Shapiro takes a trip in the way back machine to look at a few of the more egregious examples. TRANSCRIPT: Hil
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Why Obama So Dislikes Netanyahu, by Dennis Prager, National Review
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.
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Ben Shapiro: First They Came for the Jews | Truth Revolt
President Obama does not stand up for Jews murdered by Islamic Terrorists. President Obama does not stand up for Christians murdered by Islamic Terrorists. Is there anyone President Obama will stand up for? Ben Shapiro explains why the answer is probably
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Obamas Iran Obsession
The Obama administration values a future relationship with Iran more than it values the historic relationship it has with Israel. Unless there’s a reversal in the reported deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, all the superficial talk about this extraordinary friendship between Israel and the United States isn’t going to mean much.
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Why Bibi’s Speech Matters
The emerging nuclear deal with Iran is indefensible. The White House knows it. That is why President Obama does not want to subject an agreement to congressional approval, why critics of the deal are
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Fighting Terrorism with Social Justice | FrontPage Magazine
State Department spokesperson Marie Harf became the target of much ridicule last week when she inanely suggested that we can combat Islamic terrorism through job creation. But the concept makes perfect sense to an administration that considers the solution to every issue, including “violent extremism,” to be “social justice.”
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Why the Left Hates American Sniper | New York Observer
What American Sniper is really about is the battle by decent men against truly dark forces of wickedness. American Sniper is a film of soaring patriotism and an ode to our courageous military. For too long Americans have lived with only two percent of the population losing arms and legs and dying so that the other ninety-eight percent can be safe and free. If we’re not going to copy the heroes of the military at least we can salute them.
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If the President Couldn't Tell a Lie | RealClearPolitics
In the famous 1997 movie comedy "Liar Liar," actor Jim Carrey plays a lawyer who, as a result of his young son's birthday wish being magically fulfilled, cannot tell a lie -- he can only tell the truth -- for 24 hours. Let's imagine that such a wish forced President Obama to do the same, not for 24 hours, but only during his State of the Union address.
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George Will: The harm incurred by a mushrooming welfare state - The Washington Post
America’s national character will have to be changed if progressives are going to implement their agenda. So, changing social norms is the progressive agenda. To understand how far this has advanced, and how difficult it will be to reverse the inculcation of dependency, consider the data...
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Obama's State of the Union Foreign Policy Translated - Bloomberg View
"The truth is, the world is on fire and there’s not a whole lot anybody can do about it."
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Victims Über Alles | National Review Online
Victims Über Alles - The Left’s Islamophobia obsession shows the extent to which victimology dominates our politics.
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The Fox News Obsession | National Review Online
The Fox News Obsession - It’s an exercise in confirmation bias on the Left.
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Islam Gets Special Treatment - Dennis Prager
Since 9/11, the Western world’s academic, media, political elites have done their best to portray Islam in a favorable light, treating it very differently from all other religions. Criticism of every doctrine, religious or secular, is permitted, often e
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Nylons for nothing in Cuba - The Washington Post
Obama walks away empty-handed in a one-way deal with Cuba. There’s an old Cold War joke — pre-pantyhose — that to defeat communism we should empty our B-52 bombers of nuclear weapons and instead drop nylons over the Soviet Union. Flood the Russians with the soft consumer culture of capitalism, seduce them with Western contact and commerce, love-bomb them into freedom.
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We Have a Moral Divide, Not a Racial One - Dennis Prager
As we await protests and riots scheduled for Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere if a grand jury in Missouri does not indict the white officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager, a little moral clarity is called for. For decades now, we hav
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Why Unhappy People Become Liberals | National Review Online
Why Unhappy People Become Liberals - . . . and why liberalism makes them even unhappier.
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Poverty Causes Crime? - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show
One of the first clues that this Columbia-educated, liberal, Democrat, New York Jew had that there was something wrong at the heart of progressive/left-wing thought was when I read and was taught over and over that “poverty causes crime.” I knew from
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The Nuclear Option: Democrats Win if Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid Lose Power Nov. 4
If pollsters are to be believed, Democrats nationwide do not have much to look forward to in next week's elections. There is, however, a silver lining that stands to benefit the party and liberal-leaning voters everywhere in ways that far outweigh the
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If It Damages America, It's Good for Democrats - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show
In almost every area of American life, the better things are, the worse it is for the Democratic Party. And vice versa. Marriage. Even today, after decades of feminism, most Americans agree that it is better for women (and for men) — and better for soci
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What's the Right Minimum Wage? - Prager University
What's the perfect minimum wage: is it $10 an hour? $15? $20? How about zero? That's right. Zero. While Congress discusses a minimum wage hike, economist David Henderson shows that any minimum wage makes it harder for unemployed people (particularly young
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Dennis Prager - What the Arab World Produces
At least since the early part of the 20th century, aside from oil, the Arab world has produced and exported two products.
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Andrew Klavan: The Newest Threat on College Campuses: Microaggression | Truth Revolt
In which our brave and compassionate host takes a look at some real-life examples of microaggression and the deep harm such assaults can really do. TRANSCRIPT: OUR MICRO-AGGRESSIVE UNIVERSITIES I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth. Wel
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Andrew Klavan: Is ISIS Islamic? | Truth Revolt
In which our intrepid host, Andrew Klavan, employs a crack team of investigators to determine if President Obama is correct when he declares that the terror group ISIS is not, in fact, Islamic. TRANSCRIPT: IS ISIS ISLAMIC? I’m Andrew Klavan and this is
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Bill Whittle: You're Not A Liberal!
More and more these days, people who call themselves "liberals" have bumper-sticker philosophies that are liberal -- they're not even leftist. They're infantile. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle dissects one of these childish, undeservedly self-righteous positions and compares the modern "liberal" to the real deal.
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Ben Shapiro: Women Are Winning the War on Women
Ben Shapiro takes on the enormous falsehood that women are under assault in America. Reality check: The wage gap, the war on reproductive rights and the explosion of sexual assault on campus are all just lies made up by Democrats to hang on to power.
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Iraq's WMD: The Shameless New York Times Moves the Goalposts - Larry Elder
Contrary to the expectations of all 16 of our U.S. intelligence agencies, the "weapons hunters" sent to Iraq by President George W. Bush found no "stockpiles" of WMD..10/23/2014 7:13:05AM EST.
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The Media Are Much Scarier than Ebola - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show
Why do some things scare people more than others? One reason is that people engage in a rational assessment of risk and conclude the appropriate level of fear. For example, people feel free to walk alone at midnight in Times Square but not in Central Park
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Andrew Klavan: Eric Holder: Federal Dick | Truth Revolt
In which our host, best-selling crime author Andrew Klavan, tells the hard-hitting cop-story of the nation's top law officer - Attorney General Eric Holder: Federal Dick. TRANSCRIPT: I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth. America’s chief
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What the Arab World Produces - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show
At least since the early part of the 20th century, aside from oil, the Arab world has produced and exported two products. It has produced essentially no technology, medicine or anything else in the world of science. It has almost no contributions to world
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Memo to the BBC: The 'Far Right' Did Not Decapitate David Haines nor Rape 1400 Girls in Rotherham
Here is the news: in Australia, a plot by Islamic State sympathisers to capture random members of the public and chop their heads off has been foiled by security services; in Syria, two Americans and a British hostage have been beheaded by an Islamist nic
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GOP Rep: Obama 'Owes a Profound Apology to George Bush' and Those Who Died Securing Iraq
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- President Barack Obama owes former President George W. Bush and those Americans who died fighting in Iraq an apology, Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks said Thursday after attending a classified briefing on ISIS.
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Liberal Bully of the Week: Josh Earnest and the White House spin - Washington Times
The president has been taking a lot of heat for referring to ISIS as the "junior varsity" team of al Qaeda less than a year ago. But he's not going to humbly admit he made a hideous mistake.
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The American Jewish Community Should Join the GOP | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
The recent Gaza war has demonstrated that the era of bipartisan support for Israel is over. Republicans overwhelmingly sided with Israel while Democratic leaders hemmed and hawed over every conceivable statement calculated to alienate the least amount of
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Russell Brand’s Racial Tendencies | DrinkProgress.org
How does one define racism?
I think this one will suffice.
I don’t think there is a more apt definition of bigotry, if not all out racism, then as such. If someone has a preconceived notion in their head that they use as a litmus test to verify the authenticity of someone else’s race, then I don’t think it is a stretch to say that holder of said notion might be susceptible to bigoted or racial biases.
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David Cameron stands up to Islamists -- a lesson for Barack Obama | Fox News
While British Prime Minister David Cameron appeared self-assured and determined in his approach to ISIS on Friday, President Obama came across as a deer in the headlights, unable to outline a coherent U.S. response to a rapidly growing crisis in the Middl
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A Pro-Hamas Left Emerges - The American Interest
In the pursuit of political goals and an anti-Israel message, Historians Against the War has abandoned the standards of its profession and adopted a stance that objectively supports Hamas's war aims.
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Obama Never Has a Plan
On Thursday, President Obama held a press conference in which he humiliated himself entirely on the question of America’s handling of the terror group ISIS. Explaining that he had to consult Congress and check the pulse of Americans, Obama stated, “I
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Gutfeld Is On A Smackdown Roll... - Chicks on the Right
just about a day ago, Gutfeld did a monologue on The Five that reminded all of us what happens when you "dismiss the devil."
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5 problems with California's 'affirmative consent' bill | WashingtonExaminer.com
In the rush to advance legislation to combat sexual assault on college campuses, California lawmakers have cast aside the due process rights of the accused. As a result, more college men could find themselves unfairly branded as rapists. On Monday, the Ca
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Are Obama Admin Officials Scared To Strike At ISIS?
With potential U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in Syria looming, there is talk that Obama & friends are concerned that military action could prompt these cowardly jihadists to directly strike the U.S.
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Old-fashioned anti-Semitism for progressive thinkers - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
Opinion, Ben-Dror Yemini: There is one community in the world, which according to the British newspaper the Independent, can be reasonably called a child murdering community.
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Last Defense Of Obama’s Defenders On Israel Has Evaporated
Obama never hid his contempt for the Israeli government or the majority of Israel’s voters.
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Why Washington Should Declare War on ISIS - NationalJournal.com
The terrorist group has a bigger sanctuary, far more money, and is more indiscriminately murderous than al-Qaida was on Sept. 10, 2001.
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Hillary’s Hamas terror tunnel connection - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com
According to Algemeiner, “Much has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement into Hamas’ hands, thus making the construction of the tunnels possible in the first place.
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James Foley Went Looking to Support Terrorists in Syria, Instead They Cut Off His Head
He cheered on the Sunni Muslim terrorists fighting to ethnically cleanse the Christians of Aleppo.
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Why Sometimes Police Have an Obligation to Shoot--Even the Unarmed | RedState
1 RecommendedRecommend Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES Just two days after the shooting of Michael Brown, the Dallas Morning News reports: Dallas police shoot and kill Andrew Gaynier: Andy was unarmed and was shot multiple times by a police officer. This tra
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The Hell That Is the Obama White House | FrontPage Magazine
An agenda of destruction at home and abroad.
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The Decline & Fall of America: Look to California | RedState
California decayed into a propagandized parody of the Golden State over a period of 40 years. America's following this formerly great state over the cliff.
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Analysis: The Islamic State sends a bloody ransom to President Obama
The beheading of an American journalist, with another held and threatened, is a direct challenge to the leadership of Barack Obama.
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Heavy Metal: Why Ferguson has conservatives challenging military-style police
A split is emerging among conservative commentators and politicians, some of whom are troubled by the way local police departments have bulked up until they resemble military units.
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Stop the INSANITY: ISIS is beheading children, and Obama drops two bombs - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com
During my morning run, I pondered last night’s address by President Obama regarding the current situation in Iraq. What immediately …
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INTO THE FRAY: Israel’s Left: Ludicrous, loathsome and lethal | JPost | Israel
In reality, the Left has no genuine concern for humanitarian values . All it truly desires is dominance over the political system.
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Former worst President ever, Jimmy Carter, calls for the legitimization of Hamas
Because they're tough to defeat. Jimmy Carter used to be the worst President in history. Fortunately for him, his record of economic and foreign
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Is Thinking Obsolete? - Thomas Sowell - Page full
While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative..08/05/2014 0:30:50AM EST.
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America: Exceptionally good or exceptionally evil?
Anti-Americanism, like Americanism, is a home-grown phenomenon.
I am defining anti-Americanism not pejoratively, but clinically, as referring to antagonism to American ideas and institutions.
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Larry Elder - Why There Can Never Be 'Peace in the Middle East'
Secretary of State John Kerry is the latest to think the power of his personal diplomacy can bring "peace to the Middle East." But, once again, when one side publicly calls for the destruction of the other, what is there to discuss?
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Is Reagan Optimism Passé For Conservatives? | The Daily Caller
Over at The Week, I’ve penned a short essay on the border crisis.
But that’s really just the timely hook. It’s also about a much broader concern I have regarding the current state of conservatism.
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CRUZ: A tale of two hospitals: One in Israel, one in Gaza - Washington Times
If you want to judge a nation, look at how it treats its most vulnerable civilians. Hospitals are a good place to start.
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Analysis: Kerry, Obama to Blame for Kidnapping of IDF Soldier
While the immediate blame for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin Friday morning, a mere 90 minutes into a humanitarian ceasefire, lies with Hamas, the responsibility must also be shared by Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Oba
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6 questions for the sponsors of the new campus sexual assault bill | WashingtonExaminer.com
Eight senators introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday designed to combat sexual assaults on college campuses. But, as with most fancy-named bills, the “Campus Safety and Accountability Act” may not do anything to actually combat sexual assaults a
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Krauthammer's Take: Amnesty via Executive Order an Impeachable Offense, but Impeachment Would Still Be Political Suicide
Krauthammer's Take: Amnesty via Executive Order an Impeachable Offense, but Impeachment Would Still Be Political Suicide -
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Hamas on the ropes; Obama and Kerry to the rescue | Human Events
If Barack Obama and John Kerry’s bizarre intervention on Hamas’ behalf against Israel over the weekend seems confusing, it’s because you’re talking their boilerplate rhetoric about being “friends to Israel” who respect her “right to defend herself” seriously.
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Chuck Norris: What America Needs Now
Forty-five years ago, there was a day like few others that rallied Americans and changed America forever. Yet I could find but one or two news stories about that momentous occasion and triumph. Do you remember what it was? It's the type of event that Amer
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Moral equivalence is usually moral negligence | Mobile Washington Examiner
Efforts to proclaim moral equivalence are not always misguided; sometimes each side is equally at fault or close enough. But these efforts are often misguided and unhelpful -- and sometimes harmful. Throughout my life, there has been an increasing trend t
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Is the White House Lying or Just Bad at Crisis Communications?
Ordering a cheeseburgers with fries while a downed airline smolders may not have been a great decision.
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The Left's Hollow Complaints About Hobby Lobby | RealClearPolitics
Progressives are fond of saying that they stand for empathy and compromise, and are quick to blame conservatives for polarizing our politics. Their feverish reaction last week to the Supreme...
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The New York Times' Wretched Anti-Israel Bias Comes in All Too Clear
Three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped on June 12 while hitchhiking home in the West Bank. They were found dead on June 30, murdered by Hamas militants. Palestinians attacked the ambulance carrying their bodies. Later Hamas launched rocket attacks on Isra
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20 Reasons Obama's Line About Not Being 'Interested in Photo-Ops' is Knee-Slapper of the Century
Yeah, he really said that.
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Breaking through the myth of 'Islamophobia' | Mobile Washington Examiner
Ever since President George W. Bush said “Islam is peace” on Sept. 17, 2001, it has been politically shielded from any debate about its effects on its adherents or on the rest of the world. Muslim nations and pressure groups such as the Council on Ame
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Government will take every penny you've earned so far this year: Examiner Editorial
As Americans celebrated this nation's birthday on July 4, most were likely unaware of a less uplifting commemoration that fell on the calendar during the same holiday weekend. That was Cost of Government Day, or July 6, 2014. The date's significance is on
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Does reaction to Hobby Lobby reveal the dark side of American liberalism?
Turn on a cable TV news discussion and it won't be long before somebody is accusing somebody else of being a bigot. And that somebody will almost always be the liberal. In the liberal determination to attribute political problems to the evil isms -- racis
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No, Matt Bai, it’s not all Bush’s fault - Hot Air
Let's check the record. In an expansive essay published on Thursday, Yahoo News’ national political columnist Matt Bai dubbed George W. Bush the most influential president in decades. The imprint the former president left on domestic and geopolitics is so expansive that his shadow still looms over virtually every major issue dominating the headlines more than a half-decade after he left office.
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The New York Times Once Defended ‘The Religious Liberty Of All Americans’
While the New York Times may be upset about Monday's Supreme Court Hobby Lobby decision (see their editorial board's calm, evenhanded op-ed on the issue
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Liberals champion freedom of speech -- except in politics | Human Events
Where does this speech-squelching impulse come from? Perhaps a sense of victimization.
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Why I can’t be both an economist and a liberal
In today's America, I can't be both an economist and a liberal.
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Why Democrats insist on lying about how 'poor' they are
Hillary Clinton claimed that, at the moment she and her husband were signing up for $18 million in book deals, that they were “dead broke.” Harry Reid (who lives in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel) said lib...
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Dr. Ben Carson - Playing a Name Game with the Redskins
The audacity of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in canceling the trademark of the Washington Redskins is frightening. When the government is in charge of deciding what is offensive and what is not, and has the power to punish the
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The Elder Statement: FLASHBACK: Did GWBush 'Squander' The 9-11 Unanimity? By Larry Elder --Even Bill Maher was pulling for Iraq
Sept. 11 unified America. But President George W. Bush "squandered" this shared sense of purpose. We still hear this drivel, mostly from the left, 10 years after the terror attacks. But how did Bush blow this alleged consensus, this shared sense of purpose presumably expected to last, well, forever?
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Ralph Peters - Obama and the Mockery of Honor
Obama and the Mockery of Honor - Benedict Arnold chose to put on the uniform, too. Did he serve with “honor and distinction”?
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Hollywood's Beverly Hills Hotel Boycott: Sharia or Islam? | Larry Elder
The Beverly Hills Hotel, owned by the sultan of Brunei, is a ghost town. The sultan recently imposed Sharia on the citizens of this small country in Southeast Asia...
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WEINSTEIN: Hollywood’s Hotel Hypocrisy
Hollywood's hypocrites are at it again. This time Hollywood is mobilizing to protest an ostensibly supportable cause. The glitzy Beverly Hills Hotel is partly owned by the Sultan of Brunei, one of
