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Ben Voth
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May 28, 2025
Free Trade has Failed to Reform ChinaHopes that insurgent free markets would revolutionize and liberate the largest communist nation in the world have largely failed.
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April 18, 2025
Jesus and AcademiaIt is the life, teaching and resurrection of Jesus that brings us to the persistent yet peculiar moment of Jesus versus the intellectuals in 2025.
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March 5, 2025
Understanding President Trump’s joint session addressAn exceptional display of Trump’s tenacity and seemingly boundless ability to feed upon the negative energy of his opponents to build an ever more triumphant sense of patriotic vision.
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January 20, 2025
How Two Southern Methodists Helped Make King’s Dream Come TrueOne of the most serious problems we face as a nation in 2025 is recovering our national history.
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December 30, 2024
Honoring President Carter by reducing American homelessnessThe death of President Carter is an excellent occasion to examine the unique American problem of homelessness.
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November 7, 2024
Deconstructing the Mythology of January 6The deliberate misrepresentation of events surrounding January 6 was the primary pretext to the longstanding argument against Trump’s election -- suggesting he is a "threat to democracy."
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October 17, 2024
Ted Cruz conducts a candidate fact check clinicTed Cruz demonstrated the potential for political candidates to conduct their own fact checking rather relying upon journalist moderators in these critical public debates.
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September 12, 2024
President Trump Won the Debate with HarrisTrump, who does not often score an outright win in any candidate debate, gave among his strongest debate performances by using humor strategically and dominating the hostile moderators.
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July 31, 2024
The Democrats and Racism in HistoryDemocrats live in a fantasy world where only Democrats fought for and achieved racial equality. The truth is different.
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July 15, 2024
Academic Presidential RankingsPresident Biden has been protected as a ‘great’ President since he was elected -- even though his deficiencies were obvious to the public.
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June 26, 2024
Solutions to the Debate Moderator Problem in Presidential DebatesThe impending Presidential debate on Thursday is colliding with a recurring rhetorical problem: the Presidential debate moderators.
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June 16, 2024
Hugo Black and Democrat RacismHugo Black's inclination toward racism and bias ran much deeper than most are aware.
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May 31, 2024
Criminal Convictions and the PresidencyPursuing political prosecutions of candidates in order to interfere with an election is dangerous and likely to boomerang rhetorically upon those seeking their own ends in this abuse of power.
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April 26, 2024
Palestine is Free. . . In IsraelThe rhetoric of genocide surrounding the Israel/ Hamas conflict must be clarified to arrive at a peaceful conclusion that saves the lives of Arabs and Jews in the region.
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February 21, 2024
The Meaning of Malcolm X’s DeathThe life, political rhetoric, and death of Malcolm X remain a growing source of misunderstanding about Black/White relations in the U.S.
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December 25, 2023
Jesus’ Birth and Christian NationalismThe recent three queens of America’s finest universities testifying to their ethical flexibility about rhetorical calls for “genocide of the Jews” are a crystal-clear reminder of how dangerous false knowledge is and how it grounds the deadly genocides of any age we care to look at.
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November 17, 2023
Responding to Bin Laden’s Letter to AmericaIt is important to create rhetorical responses for overcoming the relentless assaults on human freedom originating in this ongoing war against the “two Satans” of America and Israel.
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November 1, 2023
The New Global Anti-SemitismIt is a moral duty now -- especially with regard to American academic life -- to stand up alongside our Jewish brothers and sisters against deadly anti-Semitic rhetoric.
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October 9, 2023
The Rhetorical War for IsraelWith hundreds of Israelis killed and many more kidnapped or injured by the anti-Semitic Arab supremacists of Hamas, the rhetorical war for Israel has begun.
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October 5, 2023
Kevin McCarthy and the Political CultureThe loss of Kevin McCarthy is only the beginning of a public looking to take revenge against its reactionary intellectual culture that shows them such contempt.
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August 3, 2023
100 Years Against Our Imperial PresidencyWarren Harding and Calvin Coolidge represented an important break in the emergence of an imperial Presidency embodied by Woodrow Wilson.
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May 28, 2023
The Politics of JesusThe American demand to separate Christianity from the State is consistently the prelude to unfettered injustice.
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January 24, 2023
Reducing the Deficits of the Federal GovernmentIt is possible to reduce the ongoing deficits of the Federal government. The simple mechanism for doing so is tax cuts.
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November 4, 2022
Biden's Rhetoric and Political ViolenceMuch like President Woodrow Wilson in the midterm election of 1918, Biden begs the American people to punish the opposing party and clear a political path for his internationalist visions.
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July 30, 2022
Overcoming the Rhetoric of JacobinismSaving the American republic requires a savvy mastery of language that is the root of all political power.
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February 6, 2022
Afro-Idealism in Black History Month and January 6What does Malcolm X have to do with the events at the Capitol last year? A lot, it turns out.
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October 6, 2021
The Good News about the U.S. Budget DeficitThough our congressional members are shocking in their contempt for the fiscal sanity their citizens must accept every day, our nation remains economically resilient and a more probable candidate for economic well-being than Russia or China.
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August 17, 2021
President Biden’s GenocideThe refusal to understand the nature of jihadist Islam will lead to massive deaths and a resurgent effort at a Caliphate. We need to do better next time around.
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August 6, 2021
America is Structurally Anti-Racist ReduxConfederate racists and CRT advocates are as one in their contempt for rational arguments against racism.
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July 7, 2021
Remembering the 2016 killing of five Dallas police officersToday is the five-year anniversary of Micah Xavier Johnson's attack on Dallas police officers and the larger world of nonviolent political change.
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June 19, 2021
Juneteenth and Texas HistoryA look at how black Americans' enduring "Texas independence day" came to be.
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June 4, 2021
The Presidential Response to the Tulsa RiotDespite what the mass media -- not to mention Biden -- would have you believe, the Tulsa riots have long been rebuked by Republican politicians.
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February 20, 2021
Understanding the Texas Energy CrisisThe Texas energy crisis exposes the whimsical contradictions of green energy.
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November 26, 2020
Democrats Must Regret Messing with TexasDemocrats have told themselves many tall tales in the recent years. Messing with Texas comes with a cost and the growing clout of Texas to shape an American future of red politics stands squarely in the door of blue political ambitions.
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October 27, 2020
Should Christians Vote for the Vain and Boastful?Moses, King David, Matthew, and St. Paul all think so.
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October 8, 2020
Pence won, and the Commission on Presidential Debates continues to loseRepublicans need to start pushing back at all the rigging coming from the Commission on Presidential Debates.
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October 3, 2020
It's Time to Reform How Presidential Debates GoAs a nation, we can do far better than what we all saw this past week.
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July 22, 2020
America is Structurally Anti-RacistAmerica is the most important and successful anti-racist political project in human history.
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April 29, 2020
The Anti-Trump Fantasy ThemeThe president is falling victim to the same abuse campaign the press visited upon Sarah Palin more than ten years ago.
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February 8, 2020
America RisingThe major political events of the first week of February portend an incredible seismic shift in American and ultimately global politics.
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January 22, 2020
America’s Most Successful Human Rights Campaign: The Pro Life MovementThe American pro-life movement may be one of the greatest successes for human rights and general well-being occurring in the 21st century.
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December 27, 2019
Trump and the PhariseesOur public sphere is brimming with unflinching public teaching of hatred of the President.
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November 28, 2019
The Red Scare and WhistleblowersThe real danger to our present republic is the ascendant interpretive hypocrisy of our American elite.
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October 30, 2019
The rhetoric of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's deathBaghdadi was a common enemy of all of humanity. Any failure to unite in victory over his death is more than appeasement of his genocidal vision; it is tacit approval.
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October 16, 2019
How Can We Fix Debate in America?Debate done correctly can open minds rather than close them.
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October 1, 2019
International Blue Privilege Meets the Trump Wrecking BallDon't the obvious contradictions of the 27th crisis of the Trump presidency point to an even greater need to further wreck the world of blue privilege?
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August 21, 2019
Academia and Republican PresidentsToday, academia has a thorough and profound reactionary supremacist view of Republican presidents.
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August 10, 2019
Killing One AnotherThe terrible goal of the Jacobin media and the political eltes is to tear us further apart and incite us all to further acts of violence.
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July 30, 2019
Understanding the Democratic Presidential Primary DebatesThe strengths and weaknesses of the Democratic debate process.
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March 27, 2019
The Poison that Is Killing AmericaThe extravagant intellectual fantasy themes carried out by our official interpreters are a threat here at home and abroad.
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January 21, 2019
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the War without ViolenceHere is how to honor Martin Luther King the proper way – the way the left refuses to.
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December 24, 2018
The War on ChristmasChristmas is a staggering counter-symbol against the powerful and elite who have so consistently ruled humanity with barbaric ruthlessness.
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December 8, 2018
Mis-Underestimating BushThe day of mourning for President H.W. Bush provided a brilliant moment to outshine the the liberal media's nonsense.
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October 29, 2018
The Intellectual Culture of Anti-SemitismOne of the surest paths of ideological unity that Americans and the world can discover is a common cause against anti-Semitism.
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August 19, 2018
And They Wonder Why We're AngryThe interpretive classes remain largely confused about why "flyover country," is so angry. Here is why.
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June 17, 2018
The Jesus FallacyLiberals are invoking Christ to cast aspersions against Donald Trump's immigration policy. That's not how this works.
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May 2, 2018
Two Saturdays in April 2018Until the nation embraces and returns to the grace embodied by a fine first lady, we will find ourselves more deeply embittered and divided than ever.
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April 28, 2018
The War on ReasonIn many respects, the American public has been living within a war against reason.
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April 4, 2018
Civil Rights Renaissance to Remember Martin Luther KingA look at the real civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the false ones that have followed suggests that the real one is in need of revisiting.
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February 21, 2018
The Habits of IndigNationA concerted team of political reactionaries guides the national conversation from crisis to crisis. Call it "IndigNation."
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December 24, 2017
The politics of ChristmasChristmas is a political reset. It is a euphoric chorus of delightful sound after an era of disturbing silence.
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December 5, 2017
The Disingenuous Tax Cut DebateThe data is clear, and the debate can be about only the choices the Congress makes in spending taxpayer money.
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August 31, 2017
Hurricane Harvey, or Katrina IIThe mediated struggle over the meaning of Hurricane Katrina twelve years later is a testament to how the media culture of America has changed for the better.
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July 12, 2017
Commander in Chief Trump defeats the ISIS GenocidaireAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. If our intellectual elite truly had genuine empathy for Muslims, this would be a moment of great celebration.
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May 4, 2017
How many Americans does Obamacare kill each day?Bringing light to the ACA’s role in reducing American life expectancy could go a long way toward not only revitalizing our democracy with a free press, but also saving American lives.
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February 17, 2017
The Left Silences DebateAn ideological Jim Crow has emerged in the nation whereby those who voted for Trump are called to collective silence while those who oppose Trump stand, lecture, and judge.
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January 31, 2017
President Obama’s GenocideThe Obama administration is directly responsible for the genocide carried out by ISIS.
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October 21, 2016
Ain't I a Woman?: The Political Economy of Sexism and RacismLook at what happens to those women and minorities who stray from the litany of Democratic ideological markers.
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September 25, 2016
Is Hillary Clinton Losing the 2016 Election?Even if the mainstream media refuse to ask it, the question is palpable among the rest of us.
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April 23, 2016
Reforming Academia in 2016Colleges and universities are creating intellectually stifling environments comparable to Jim Crow America.
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January 13, 2016
Comparing Obama's 2016 SOTU and Bush's 2008 SOTUIt was ironic to hear Obama lament the partisan state of things now, in light of the way he responded to President Bush's SOTU in 2008.
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January 2, 2016
American Goodness and Generosity in the Aftermath of a Texas TornadoThis is not the evil America bitter leftists so often portray.
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December 7, 2015
President Obama's theophobiaPresident Obama’s longstanding preaching of a civil religion serves to feed the forces of terrorism here at home and abroad.
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November 4, 2015
Can the Presidential Debate Format Be Un-Wrecked?The first step is to get the media out. It's a tall order.
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October 11, 2015
Killing Christians and JewsThe steadfast refusal of our intellectual culture to take seriously the global and American agenda of violence against Christians and Jews is important and immoral.
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August 7, 2015
Winners and losers for the RNC Cleveland debate 2016The discovery of winners and losers is an important part of the debating process. For this most recent debate, there are a number of apparent winners and losers.
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May 20, 2015
Reforming American Presidential DebatesDuring elections, there is arguably nothing more impactful on public opinion than presidential debates. The stakes of these events make the reform of presidential debating imperative.
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March 22, 2015
The Vindication of George W. BushPretending that the ultimate evil is American or Israeli troops confronting violent supremacists is aid and comfort not only to America’s enemies but the enemies of innocent humanity.
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March 3, 2015
The Rhetoric of GenocideThe problem of genocide is beginning to envelope the administration as it limps toward the finish line of the second term.
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December 25, 2014
Merry Christmas from Texas to the WorldThe gift of Texas oil is a gift that keeps on giving and stands in contrast to the lumps of coal dished out by the Federal government.
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December 11, 2014
American DeceptionalismJonathan Gruber is no exception. We are besieged by an intellectual elite intensely committed to a grand design of American Deceptionalism.
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November 6, 2014
Five easy pieces of a brighter futurePolitical steps to take for a better world led by a strong America
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August 25, 2014
Escaping the American OnlookershipThe news media, entertainment, academic, and government nerves centers of the nation pulse with deception designed to nudge the public into agreement with self-evident falsehoods
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June 29, 2014
Stopping Global SupremacistsToday, Republican isolationists like Rand Paul can join leftist reactionaries in denouncing all manner of intervention.
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May 1, 2014
How the Civil Rights Movement Dismissed its Early HeroesTurning race into a political weapon for the left
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January 19, 2014
What Republican Senate Control Means for AmericaContrary to what you may have heard, there is in fact a pronounced difference between the two parties...and especially how they govern.
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December 25, 2013
Mary's ChristmasAll of the discomfort surrounding Christmas and education is unfortunate because of the powerful moral and ethical content of the Christmas story.
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December 14, 2013
A Definitive History of Media BiasHow journalists have shaped (and twisted) the American narrative -- from an academic press, no less!
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November 22, 2013
Don't Blame Dallas for JFK's AssassinationIt's time that a great American city shook off the vicious caricature pinned to it by a demented Marxist killer.
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November 10, 2013
The Blue Elite and Female LivesThe world is racing toward patriarchal domination at a rate unmatched in human history, thanks to sex-selection abortion supported by feminists and the Blue Elite.
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October 16, 2013
The War between Texas and DCThe natural gas revolution is cutting the heart out of progressive plans for the new millennium.
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August 25, 2013
Christianity and Martin Luther King's DreamTo divorce Martin Luther King's Christianity from his speeches -- and from the Civil Rights Movement in general -- is folly.
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April 23, 2013
Restoring the Image of President George W. BushA four decade long tradition of demonizing Republican presidents since Richard Nixon reached its apotheosis with George W. Bush
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January 19, 2013
In the Energy Debate between Palin and Obama...Obama LostOur president shows his ignorance on energy, over and over again.
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September 16, 2012
It's Not Bush's FaultLet's dispatch some misconceptions about our 43rd president.
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December 2, 2011
The Fall of the House of FrankThe imminent retirement of Barney Frank from the House of Representatives is an important rhetorical marker for one of the most significant financial disasters in U.S. history.
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September 11, 2011
The Sounds of Silence on 9/11A famous left wing professor has called for silence to commemorate 9/11. When hate crimes occur on college campuses, I have never heard a college professor call for silence in response to the loss.
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January 30, 2011
The EPA's Mess with TexasThe EPA is messing with Texas in ways that threaten to disrupt the biggest jobs-producer in the United States.
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September 2, 2010
Iraq: The Good WarAfter seven years of war, it is important to remember the good accomplished by these efforts.
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August 27, 2010
Top Ten Things America Has Done for MuslimsMany passionately believe the argument that the United States is mistreating Muslims. Nonsense!
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June 19, 2010
The reality of international soccer - anti-American biasZero games are played outside the US where the referees are not actively working to undermine, embarrass, and hinder the American team.
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May 7, 2010
American Fossil Fuels: The New Alternative Energy SourceThe explosion of the Gulf oil platform this past week is a useful crisis for those advocates who hope to further restrict and prevent the extraction of fossil fuels in the United States.
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March 14, 2010
Backing Away from the WallIt is an article of faith on the left that a "Wall" separating church and state justifies hounding religion out of the public square. But the federal courts have been backing away from that metaphor.
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November 11, 2009
Victims, Villains, and HeroesSince the Vietnam War, the media has designated soldiers as falling into one of two unfortunate categories: victim or villain.
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July 9, 2009
Hating PalinAs a communication professional I have largely been at a loss to explain the judgments being drawn about Governor Palin by allegedly expert pundits.
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May 3, 2009
The Tortured Rhetoric of the Reactionary LeftThe reactionaries of the Left are celebrating their own unique sense of jingoism that has come to dominate their political community since Vietnam.
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April 4, 2009
Churchill's Finest Hour?The profound anti-American bigotry that animates the thinking and writing of Professor Ward Churchill is a normative fixture of American academic life.
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January 24, 2009
George W. Bush: The Case for GreatnessGreat Presidents are defined by their times.
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October 21, 2008
Palin's People PowerOne of the more awkward realities of this election is Governor Sarah Palin.
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September 18, 2008
Obama and Bush agree on more than you thinkDespite his avowed aversion toward the policies of President Bush, it is useful to examine important arguments made by Senator Obama which are similar and supportive of President Bush's own policies.
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June 3, 2008
The Congressional Energy CrisisThe regulatory relationship that Congress has relentlessly sought to impose on the energy sector of the American economy has had deadly effects on the supply of gasoline in the United States.
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March 9, 2008
Monsters, by Ben VothIronically and sadly, Samatha Power's calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" undermines the important task to which she has been so consistently and effectively dedicated -- the prevention of genocide.
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January 29, 2008
The Global GettysburgPresident Bush's State of the Union speech signaled an important first step in the establishment of his legacy. In many respects, the speech reflected a transformation in the American Presidency from domestic protector to global idealist.
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October 18, 2007
Eradicating Religion in BurmaThe evolution of noted atheist Richard Dawkins' perspective on religion into action took a bold step forward this past month in the sovereign state of Burma -- officially known as Myanmar.
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September 17, 2007
Brian De Palma and Rape in IraqFamed film director Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Untouchables) has completed and publicly screened a new film, Redacted, detailing allegations of a rape by US soldiers in Iraq.
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March 31, 2007
The Current Meaning of VietnamVietnam Vietnam Vietnam. These are words we here with some regularity in today's media. The metaphorical lens through which all contemporary military conflicts must be viewed is Vietnam.