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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.
