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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…