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December 11, 2017
Time Flies When You're Torching SynagoguesProgressives deliver apologias for Islamists not merely because they see Islam as a useful tool in the fight against Western liberty but because deep down they share a lot of underlying principles.
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December 8, 2017
Socialist Sanders Passes Moral Judgment on Donald Trump"Trump should resign" over sexual abuse allegations, says the man who supports the ideology behind Nazism, the killing fields, and Mao Tse-Tung.
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December 2, 2017
Feminists on the injustice of pregnancyThe most pithy, almost eloquent distillation of the essence of feminism that you will see anywhere.
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November 7, 2017
Trump’s Biggest Challenge in SeoulThe progressive assumption shared by Seoul and Pyongyang stands in the way of a unified poilicy toward North Korea
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October 30, 2017
George Washington, Un-AmericanAmerica will be over when she no longer recognizes George Washington as the prototypical national hero.
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October 27, 2017
The World Before Racial HypersensitivityThere is a world of thought that is fading and almost lost today, one manifested in the communication of people who have not yet been degraded to the point of seeing themselves as nothing but vessels of political grievance and hypersensitivity.
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October 13, 2017
School Coach Branded Racist for Calling Thugs 'Thugs'A perfect microcosm of our modern educational disaster.
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October 10, 2017
Hysterical Christian-Haters for Property RightsIf a private man, including a small business owner, chooses to discriminate against certain people or kinds of people, that is his business.
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October 3, 2017
The Progressive Psychology of Exploiting a CrisisAfter Las Vegas, it's the same old story: stop thinking and pass laws, right now, precipitously, without a moment to reflect.
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September 22, 2017
Oops! Climate Cultist Destroys Own PositionWherein Neil deGrasse Tyson's "everyone trusts eclipse predictions, so why not global warming" talking point is routed.
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August 26, 2017
Death Cultist Calls for Trump's ImpeachmentA soapbox preacher for a global death cult (and former Democrat cabinet member), who in a more rational age might easily be dismissed as a slavering lunatic, is now questioning someone else's fitness for office.
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August 14, 2017
How the US Trained Kim Jong-un into His Current BoldnessHis behavior is merely the reasonable result of lessons he has learned from past responses to his and his father's aggression.
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August 1, 2017
Hysterical AT Writers Caused Charlie Gard to SufferMelanie Phillips accuses AT writers in defense of Britain's health care system.
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July 29, 2017
What the Charlie Gard Case Was Never AboutPeople want to say this is an issue of medical ethics or the limits of life-saving technology. It's not.
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July 29, 2017
RIP, Charlie Gard, and thank youCharlie has brought the true nature of socialized medicine, and of progressive government in general, to the attention of the world.
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July 26, 2017
Charlie Gard's Parents Give Up – and You're NextThere are numerous important lessons to take from this case and never forget.
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July 16, 2017
Tyranny Bares Its Teeth (to Protect Babies, of Course)In the U.K., the hospital that would kill off baby Charlie Gard insists it's doing so to "protect his rights" from his parents. Aldous Huxley, call your office.
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July 5, 2017
Parents vs. Paternalists: The Charlie Gard CaseThe central issue is not whether the hopes of Charlie's parents are realistic, but whether a child ultimately belongs to his parents or to his government.
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June 30, 2017
The True Meaning of Socialized Medicine(Spoiler Alert: If you find slavery or infanticide disturbing, you may be too squeamish to read further.)
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June 17, 2017
Canada criminalizes non-progressive thoughtTotalitarianism rarely looks spectacular from up close. But a new "transgender" bill in Canada portends disaster.
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June 15, 2017
Canada Goes Full MaoistHealth Canada is mulling a sweeping ban on junk food ads aimed at children and teens, media reports say. If the state gets its way, it's a sign of creeping totalitarianism.
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June 6, 2017
London mayor demands travel ban – against Donald TrumpIf religious fanatics were planning murderous attacks against my fellow citizens, my gut response would not be to recommend a travel ban against the U.S. president.
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June 4, 2017
Britain surrenders to IslamOne little detail of yesterday's London Bridge vehicle attack shows just how low Albion has sunk.
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May 25, 2017
The Non-War of Civilizations Erupts AgainI can't quite get my head around what is so inflammatory about calling the abstractly-dubbed "war on terror" a war of civilizations.
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May 19, 2017
Major League Baseball tries to reduce ballsA Toronto Blue Jays outfielder has been suspended for shouting an "anti-gay slur" at another player during an angry outburst. So much for "manliness."
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May 9, 2017
South Korea Lurching Blindly LeftA progressive win in today's election would definitely change South Korea's rhetoric, and therefore change the national tone in a harmful way.
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April 16, 2017
Dateline South Korea: What's Trump's Endgame Here?So what's President Trump's engame in the Koreas? Here's what it looks like on the ground from South Korea.
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April 1, 2017
Bizarro world: Politician actually gets arrested for bad behaviorThink something like this will ever happen in America?
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February 17, 2017
Freedom or Football?Can "traditional Americans" give up football – mere entertainment – as a more than symbolic stand in defense of their liberty?
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November 26, 2016
Fidel Castro dies (Okay, you may smile just a little!)The pop icon of bloodthirsty killers, drowner of desperate would-be escapees from his panacea of socialized medicine, and all-around authoritarian power-mongering cigar aficionado has finally gone to meet his...well, no one. Worms. Decay.
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October 15, 2016
Public Education: Progressivism's Unbeatable AdvantageIf there is to be a renewal of our morally and politically exhausted civilization in the foreseeable future, it will of necessity begin with an educational emancipation.
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October 14, 2016
Hillary and the fundamental legal premise of tyrannyOne of the chief, and most irreversible, symptoms of modernity's decay is the abandonment of the premise of all justice in a modern free society, namely equality before the law.
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July 18, 2016
France vs. ‘The Prettiest Sound on Earth’President Obama says the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset." Meanwhile, millions of Muslims are eager to kill, rape, or enslave you at sunset in the name of their faith.
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May 13, 2016
Escape from Obama's transgender school bathroomsWhat lies behind the long-planned push.
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April 19, 2016
GOP Primary Process RiggedWhat really irks the anti-Trump majority about Trump's whining is the absurdity of the frontrunner bemoaning the unfairness of a process he is winning.
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March 25, 2016
Donald Trump: Alpha Male or Mean Girl?Do you remember a John Wayne hero ever calling out the town bandits by putting up unflattering posters of their womenfolk?
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March 15, 2016
Trump and the Art of SycophancyOver the past quarter century, then, Donald Trump has sought to align himself with every major political movement within either party that seemed to be on the ascendency.
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March 3, 2016
Why I Trust TrumpHe's going to do exactly what he says he's going to do. Not what his supporters say he's going to do.
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February 28, 2016
Trump vs. Free SpeechDo we really want a President Trump going after newspapers who criticize him? That appears to be what Candidate Trump promised last week.
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February 26, 2016
Three Simple Questions for Trump Supporters(1) Don't you get the strange feeling that this has all been suspiciously easy?
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February 22, 2016
The Establishment's Path to VictoryThings are looking bleak for the GOP establishment's favorite choice at the moment, but precedent strongly suggests that they will not give up easily.
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February 18, 2016
Rubio's New American CenturyWe've been down this road before. Do we really want to travel it again?
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February 2, 2016
When Anger Trumps AllOne of the most dangerous effects of Donald Trump's presidential campaign is the venomous anger his demagoguery has cultivated among his more engaged supporters
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January 21, 2016
Is Trump a McConnell-Rove Establishment Tool?Donald Trump is no longer making a generic accusation against Cruz's demeanor or reputation. He is slapping him on behalf of the Republican he has supported most generously, Mitch McConnell.
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January 14, 2016
Polls and Mass Perception: Trump vs. HillaryModernity has succumbed to the perceptual illusion that candidates' campaigns are like physical objects hurtling through space, subject to laws of momentum and inertia, rather than acts of moral persuasion entirely at the mercy of the reasoned choices and free will of private individuals.
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January 8, 2016
Can Trump Restore America?Trump supporters argue that although he lacks sound constitutionalist principles, his tough character is what America needs right now.
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December 18, 2015
Global Tyranny Just Getting Warmed Up"What was once unthinkable is now unstoppable," boasted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the signing of the Paris Climate Agrement. More ominous words were never spoken.
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December 7, 2015
The Link Between Global Warming and TerroristsThere is one, and it's more horrible than we imagined.
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November 25, 2015
Thought Terminated: Kafka at Kansas UniversityThe university’s essence has been reversed. No longer a haven of philosophical detachment and open discussion, it is now the foremost exemplar of the mob mentality
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November 22, 2015
ISIS Renamed 'Climate Change'Today, when the need to name, expose, and combat Islamic radicalism seems more urgent than ever, our progressive betters are attempting to banish the word “Islamic” from future public discussion.
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November 14, 2015
Breaking: Idiot 'shocked' by Paris attacksWho knew there were violent Muslims? Apparently the head of Germany had no idea.
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October 23, 2015
Arranging American Gun ConfiscationLimited government in the true sense entails the state's tolerance of an armed civilian population -- or perhaps more than mere tolerance.
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July 8, 2014
Evidence of an Ominous American Climate ChangePropaganda, intimidation, and marginalizing rhetoric are the normal progressive steps towards the elimination of an undesirable minority
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April 21, 2014
Captains UncourageousWhat the captain of the capsized Korean ferryboat has in common with President Obama
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April 9, 2014
Meet the 2016 Republican NomineeHas America reached a stage of progressive soft despotism in which the only important family feud in national politics is between the fundamentally allied factions of the Washington establishment itself?
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March 30, 2014
Progressivism vs. the Pursuit of HappinessThe moral split personality that has ravaged modern society -- sentimental collectivism crossed with nihilistic self-seeking.
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February 23, 2014
Where are the Global Warmists for Freedom?"I need to take over your life, but it's for your own good," is not a line of argument men who still imagine themselves to be human are likely to accept, regardless of how many computer models you can provide
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January 10, 2014
Logic Gets Sucked into the Polar VortexA new bogus reason appears why you should give up your property rights, stifle your natural freedoms and your economy, and relinquish your national sovereignty.
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January 5, 2014
The Denaturalization of AmericaA great society deserves a nobler end than the dreams of Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, and their protégé.
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December 22, 2013
Obama, the Pope, and the FaithfulIs it possible President Obama and Pope Francis hired the same writer?
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December 3, 2013
Catholics and CommunistsFor generations, the global Catholic Church, at leadership levels, has been deeply invested in progressive collectivism.
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November 26, 2013
If You Like Your Tyranny, You Can Keep It2013 has been a banner year for damning self-portraits of American progressivism.
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November 10, 2013
The Progressive Degradation of FreedomSocialized medicine teaches that you must not value your life above that of other men. Not only should no doctor care about your personal survival, but you yourself should stop thinking your survival is any kind of priority.
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October 25, 2013
When Frogs JumpIt may be that any chance of averting the final collapse depends on the continued noisy jumping from within that nearly-boiling pot.
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October 9, 2013
ParasitocracyA uniquely intractable form of tyranny that is currently metastasizing throughout the world, namely the rule of an authoritarian plurality of societal parasites.
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September 27, 2013
Obama's 'Fake' Twitter Followers ExplainedA hitherto negligible segment of the population, non-existent humans, has found a powerful reason to become fully engaged participants in the political process
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September 18, 2013
Memo to Hillary Clinton: What a Difference, at this Point, a Year MakesA year ago, Hillary Clinton was perfectly positioned to be the next U.S. president. Since Benghazi, things are different.
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September 10, 2013
America: Not Shining but BurningAmerica had abrogated its founding principles in many ways before, but now she has joined the rest of the world in making unfreedom a concrete reality.
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August 25, 2013
Maybe I Do Have Something to HideWith the new surveillance technologies, the government has the ability to close our last pockets of personal freedom. And what good is all that expensive equipment unless it's used?
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August 13, 2013
Benghazi and the Banality of EvilThe inhumanity of our nation's highest officials becomes clearer and more horrifying by the day. How much longer before ordinary Americans do something about it?
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August 4, 2013
Are We Solving the Mystery of Atlantis?It seems that we, watching our Western civilization sink, may at last be granted the extraordinary privilege of bearing witness to the concrete truth about which the most daring thinkers of our past could only speculate.
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July 26, 2013
Mann vs. Steyn: Heresy Shall Be CrushedIt looks as if Mark Steyn and the National Review are going to need a smarter judge
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July 23, 2013
Irrational AnimalTo define Trayvon Martin as a mere victim is to deny him his humanity.
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July 20, 2013
The Midnight Ride of Larry GrathwohlLarry Grathwohl, the man who informed the world of the coldest truths about Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorhn, and the Weather Underground, has died.
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July 16, 2013
Honoring Trayvon MartinIf you want to 'honor Trayvon Martin,' stop actively corrupting the character and sentiment of each new generation of Trayvons.
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July 9, 2013
Obama Demands Peaceful Surrender to BrotherhoodThe real Barack Obama is showing his face in regard to Egypt.
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July 3, 2013
The 'Privacy vs. Security' CanardJust a few private thoughts that I don't mind sharing with the NSA.
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July 1, 2013
Obama's Court Marks Churches for DeathThe American Catholic Church sleeps with the fishes.
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June 19, 2013
How Quaint: Big Brother Demands 'Privacy'It's amazing what can make a person feel wistful and nostalgic these days
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June 18, 2013
How Democracies Perish, Deathbed EditionWe must return to the Cold War to discover the roots of current media corruption.
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June 13, 2013
Barack Obama, Hell's Lightning RodAmericans ask whether Barack Obama can be trusted with so much power. Shouldn't the heirs to Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison be asking whether anyone can be trusted with it?]
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June 10, 2013
Guess Who's Coming to... EverythingWhy is it acceptable for the government to know which websites you visit, anymore than it is legitimate for them to know which stores you have entered, or which television programs you watch?
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June 3, 2013
Kindergarten and the KafkaesqueHard as it may be to believe, there is a method behind current educational system madness.
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May 30, 2013
Winning the Long WarThe first step to mounting an effective defense is to understand how progressivism has won so much territory, geographical and spiritual, over this multi-generational war.
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May 22, 2013
Dewey: Stalin's Propagandist, the World's TeacherThe single most influential man in the history of public education published a book whitewashing Stalinist tyranny, and inadvertently revealing his real aims with startling frankness.
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May 15, 2013
Benghazi Reveals the Heart of ProgressivismA cold lack of interest in the suffering of others -- not the abstract, theoretical suffering of collective interest groups, such as "the poor" or "gays" or "women," but the real physical pain and mortal terror-style suffering of individual human beings in mortal crisis
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May 7, 2013
The Soul Abstracted from LifeThe modern American educational system is not only wrongheaded, illogical, and mendacious, it is abjectly evil.
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April 29, 2013
Reports of the Obama Presidency's Death Are ExaggeratedDid anyone imagine Obama could remain "almost a god" forever? That Obama has lost some of his luster is certain; that this betokens a defeat for progressivism shows a grave misunderstanding on the part of conservatives.
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April 22, 2013
The Great SurrenderModernity may be on the verge of obliterating its own great promise and achievement, and revealing itself at last as The Age of the Great Surrender.
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April 12, 2013
Deifying the Dear LeaderNorth Korea knows that she cannot win a war against the U.S. and South Korea. So why is she pushing every button one would push if one wanted to precipitate the outbreak of such a war?
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April 10, 2013
Where's the Progress in Progressivism?Perhaps the ultimate explanation of every progressive atrocity, real and prospective, from the Communist Manifesto to Bill Ayers' projection of the need to kill twenty-five million Americans who resist re-education
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April 3, 2013
Facing the Hardest Truth on Public EducationA time for righteous anger, and the will to put a stop to more than a century of forced intellectual and moral decline.
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March 27, 2013
Larry Grathwohl's Bringing Down America Re-ReleasedOne man's experiences with the terrorist Weathermen take on a new and graver significance today.
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March 24, 2013
Does Progressivism Exist?Is there really such a thing as progressivism? Or is it no more than a mirage -- a mirage leading into a deadly bog of social and political quicksand?
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March 22, 2013
Please Do Not Adjust Your ChildThe American public education system is a machine designed to destroy young minds and characters. How can we assure that children prevail over it?
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March 5, 2013
Dennis Rodman, Obama's Madeleine AlbrightA timely reminder of just how power-mad progressives really are.
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March 4, 2013
Progressivism's RevengeTo gain a clear picture of the agenda of modern-day progressives, we need to take a close look at their century-old roots, for one simple reason: at that time their agenda was not so carefully concealed.
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February 27, 2013
One Hundred Reasons to Abandon Public Education NowNumber 33: "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." -- Mark Twain
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February 25, 2013
The Tyrant in Your TelevisionThe distinction of conservative versus progressive is now a difference in planes of existence, one the dead realm of an uncool past (i.e., real life), and the other the living mise-en-scène of our collective consciousness -- TV-world.
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February 21, 2013
The Endgame for the Destruction of the United StatesWe're fast approaching the point in America where all that is preserved of the history of modern liberty is the veneer of democracy masking the tyrannical structure beneath, as an emasculated humanity "freely chooses" its own slave masters.
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February 20, 2013
American Education: Rotting the Country from the InsideThe second in a three-part interview with the man who broke bread with those who would have the United States brought to its knees.
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February 19, 2013
Total Destruction of the U.S.: An Interview with Larry GrathwohlThis may sound like science fiction, but it's a true story...and we have a man from the inside who knows all about it.
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February 12, 2013
Swallow Your Pride, Save Your ChildIt is high time for parents who care about the future of their children, their community, and their civilization to stop telling themselves comforting lies about their power to combat the degradations of public education.
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February 9, 2013
Freedom of the Press (to Incite Murder)With their politically correct smearing of brave men, these progressives are at least rationalizing, and possibly inciting, terrorism and government repression against innocent people
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February 8, 2013
The Twisted Truth on Obama's Benghazi ResponseAccording to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as reported at The Weekly Standard, President Obama was completely aloof from the events in Libya on September 11. Nobody is even pretending to cover this up anymore.
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February 7, 2013
A Sleepy Compliance with TyrannyThe progressive ethic deifies subjective feelings, attitudes, and "values," in particular those which glorify the collective and debase the individual. "You didn't build that" is the resentfully anti-individual sentiment of a perfect dupe.
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February 1, 2013
Officer, Arrest That President!President Obama has cast the widest possible net for criminality in the financial realm, a net that he might come to regret, as he himself falls easily within its coverage.
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January 28, 2013
Hillary Gives Away the GameDuring her Benghazi testimony last week, all at once, before the whole world, one of the highest ranking progressive authoritarians on the planet spilled the beans -- all of them -- about the left's modus operandi.
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January 25, 2013
The Logic of the Progressive Healthcare Death CultBeginning from an inhuman premise -- namely that no individual has a right to self-preservation, they follow a train of reasoning that leads to a conclusion that is entirely logical, if you accept their initial premise.
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January 22, 2013
Killing Conservative Talk Radio, One Market at a TimeIf you want to view the concrete reality of today's political and media scene more clearly, just look at the case of a little radio show on a little radio station in a little town in the heart of Minnesota.
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January 18, 2013
Obama Playing Chicken with American MenThe left may have determined that, for all the tough talk, American gun owners will not, in the end, have the nerve to stand firm against federal orders involving firearms.
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January 10, 2013
Tearing Down Public EducationThe truth is that education is one of the few areas of authoritarian encroachment where you can, for the moment at least, advance liberty and morality through your own action.
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January 8, 2013
Good News: You May Be Spared ExecutionThose who continue to live on the Russian Roulette principle with regard to progressives and their recent proposals -- "oh come on, surely they don't mean it literally" -- can take heart: your odds of survival are getting better
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December 26, 2012
The Case Against Public EducationIf public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail. It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all.
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December 25, 2012
In Praise of the Carpenter's Son, a Teacher"Teacher." That word, in any language, has a kind of magic, as captured so perfectly by St. John. May we rediscover that magic in the coming year.
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December 17, 2012
Hillary in HidingExcused from the most important day of her tenure as Secretary of State, in effect by means of a note from President O-Mama saying "Hillary isn't feeling well today, and she won't be feeling well next week either."
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December 14, 2012
Ending Progressive Public EducationWhy do parents willingly send their own children -- their own future -- to socialist reeducation camps? "From my cold, dead hands," they proudly say of their guns. Are not their children worthy of at least so strong a grip?
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December 10, 2012
Obama and SlaveryThe progressive seeks to nationalize the slave industry. This is the literal meaning of his demands for confiscatory tax rates, redistribution of wealth, hyper-regulation of industry, and government control of health care and education.
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December 3, 2012
Global Governance Begins on December 14Just as hyper-regulation within a nation subverts representative government, so international hyper-regulation will have the effect of nullifying any transnational voice of unified dissent.
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November 30, 2012
Facing Up to the Enormity of Our ProblemThe modern left's anti-rational, anti-virtuous, anti-individualist superstructure must be destroyed, mercilessly and thoroughly. It took generations for this brilliant scheme to be wound around the West, like spider's silk around its paralyzed prey.
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November 26, 2012
'Shut Up, Grandpa'Old white men -- which is code for conservatives -- are being deliberately marginalized and trivialized by all sides of the political and cultural establishment.
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November 19, 2012
GOP Establishment Seeks Its Inner Neville ChamberlainA civilizational war is different from a geopolitical war, in that the parties are not primarily nations, but rather factions of human aspiration. That faction which favors individualism, liberty, virtue, and mutual respect is at present the minority voice.
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November 18, 2012
Obama Appoints Class Warfare Czar to Save New YorkIt is essential at this moment that conservatives not become so inured to adical rhetoric from Obama's politburo that we simply let it pass for normal in public discussion.
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November 12, 2012
America Votes to End Modern CivilizationThe stakes could not have been higher: freedom or coercion, individualism or collectivism, modern civilization or uncivilized brutalism. America chose the latter option in each case.
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November 8, 2012
A Few Things I Never Want to Hear AgainThe name of conservatism, and more importantly its proud truths, must never be allowed to slip from the public consciousness. They will do exactly that if the non-Democrat in future campaigns hides from this name.
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November 6, 2012
The U.S. Election is a Referendum on CivilizationThe international landslide of support for Obama is a clue to what this U.S. election represents to that minority of us among foreigners who understand what anti-Americanism really means.
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November 5, 2012
Obama: A Man Without a ConscienceIf a sane man lacks a capacity for stopping or rebuking himself, then we say he has no conscience. Barack Obama has long been a candidate for inclusion in the category of the conscienceless.
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October 31, 2012
Obama's Communist Cooperation Campaign Proceeds ApaceMight not a few Republican establishment pundits and statesmen just ask, politely and with the utmost moderation, "What's with all these communists stumping for Obama?"
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October 29, 2012
Would Obama Incite Civil Unrest to Win?One can hardly be blamed for wondering. Worse yet, we know the answer. He is already doing it.
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October 22, 2012
In Obama's World, There Is No YouOur president has a pathological habit of converting concrete human lives into an abstract, "composite" humanity which, to his corrupted intellect, seems more real than life itself.
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October 22, 2012
'Get the transcript'? Okay -- let's get itSo why was your administration blaming a video that few had seen, citing a protest that never happened, and exposing to public identification and danger the man who made this unrelated video?
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October 22, 2012
Here's the truth about Romney on GM: Obama liedPresident Obama's attack, during the final debate, on Mitt Romney's critique of the auto industry bailout was 100% false, i.e., a bald-faced lie. You can check it out here.
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October 18, 2012
Benghazi: Emperor Obama's Waterloo?It is fitting that in this Battle of Waterloo, the role of the Duke of Wellington, the emperor's nemesis, will be played by Truth itself, which, as Shakespeare wrote, will out.
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October 16, 2012
Obama Declared Winner of Second Debate (No Matter What)This will be true even if President Obama is completely humiliated in tonight's debate.
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October 13, 2012
No More 'Reaching across the Aisle,' PleaseIn Thursday's debate, Biden's blustering and Raddatz's filibustering were to be expected. The real problem was Paul Ryan's frequent apologizing for stalwart conservatism.
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October 12, 2012
Should Obama Win if He Creates Jobs?Obama's policy agenda is, in each and every detail, either directly socialistic or tending to advance the cause of the long-term achievement of socialism in America.
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October 9, 2012
Time to Demythologize the Authoritarian ImpulseThe tyrannical impulse is not the exclusive provenance of monsters who have nothing in common with real live human beings.
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September 25, 2012
The Persuasive Force of an AvalancheYou could not invent someone less suited to being president of the United States. Just lay it out for the undecided, verifiable step by step, and dare them not to draw the only conclusion reason permits.
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September 23, 2012
Reefer Madness (Climate Change Edition)A new study by climate researchers seems to prove beyond any doubt that -- hold on to your hat -- if global temperatures reach levels at which coral reefs are damaged, then coral reefs will be damaged. Terrifying!
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September 22, 2012
Watch That Last Step, It's a DoozyWhat are the real, practical mechanisms whereby socialists have co-opted most of the Western world over the past hundred years without awakening the majority of the population?
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September 20, 2012
A Tale of Two Secret VideosThe media's extensive and exaggerated coverage of the "secret video" of Mitt Romney speaking to supporters about the culture of dependency ought to remind us of another "secret video" that was not so widely covered.
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September 16, 2012
Obama Continues Pleading for 'Mursi'What Obama fails or simply refuses to see is that Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood do not recognize or care about the rules.
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September 15, 2012
Romney Gets It Right: It Was 'Disgraceful'The big difference between those who look at the world and see reality, and those who look at the world in desperate search of vindication for their irrational theories of moral equivalency and systemic injustice.
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September 10, 2012
Obama's Communist Party EndorsementThe CPUSA endorses Barack Obama on the very same grounds -- even in the same words -- that Obama uses in defense of himself.
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September 7, 2012
The Democrats' Dog Whistle SloganGiven the left's propensity for calculated projection, and amid all their talk of conservative code words and "dog whistles," perhaps we ought to take a good look at the use of coded language at the Democratic National Convention.
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September 7, 2012
God, Jerusalem, and the Daffy DemsIt has been marvelous entertainment to watch Obama and his gang twisting themselves into pretzels on this platform issue.
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August 31, 2012
Evil Right-Wingers Turn to Family, Not GovernmentCampaigning last week, President Obama raised the question of where one should turn for help in pursuing one's happiness. The answer: government, "applause"; family, "booo."
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August 30, 2012
The Last Line of Defense: PropertyBy speaking his true mind for a change in his "you didn't build that" remark, President Obama conveniently highlighted the heart of today's civilizational crisis: the war over the meaning and legitimacy of property.
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August 24, 2012
Debate Questions Obama Won't Be AskedIf you could submit just one question to be asked of President Obama during a televised presidential debate, what would it be?
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August 16, 2012
Obama's Shared Prosperity: A Euphemism Wrapped in a LieLeftism is not, and never has been, about "sharing," or "compassion," or any of the other moral euphemisms progressives use to hoodwink the intellectually and morally lazy. It always has been about that gun pointed at the prosperous -- and, ultimately, at everyone.
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August 13, 2012
Paul Ryan Naysayers: Whom Were They Hoping For?Liberals dislike him for the best reason -- namely, because they fear him. But the very fact that the GOP establishment approves of someone is now regarded by some conservatives as prima facie grounds for suspicion.
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August 3, 2012
Conservatives Have a SecretCan conservatives be revolutionaries? Given the level of crisis into which civilization has fallen, is "conservatism" up to the task of radical change?
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July 23, 2012
'Gentlemen's Club' Gangs Up on BachmannCourage to raise issues of national security that today's climate of political correctness, reaching from the State Department to the U.S. military, has rendered taboo.
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July 19, 2012
Infantilizing Leftist MoralityToday's ever-expanding "entitlement mentality" is literally shamelessness elevated to the status of a moral code.
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July 9, 2012
The Gathering Storm within the GOPAmerica needs a Republican Party establishment that values the Constitution over cocktail parties.
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July 1, 2012
Still Struggling with the Roberts-as-Hero TheoryI've tried -- I really have tried -- to accept the kindest reading of Chief Justice Roberts' decision and opinion on ObamaCare. But, so far at least, I just can't bring myself to see the positive here
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June 29, 2012
America Fades, the World Gets DarkerDon't let this light flicker its last. There is, at present, no other.
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June 27, 2012
Time to Start the Real Health Care DebateSupreme Court subtleties notwithstanding, conservatives must find a way to refocus the health care debate on two questions that constitute the true rock-bottom essence of the issue.
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June 26, 2012
Prediction: Global Warming Will Cause EverythingGlobal warming strategy in a nutshell: cross your fingers that the propaganda has taken hold so that most people will not ask you to prove anything, and then carry on making dire predictions.
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June 22, 2012
The Unknown Ayers and Obama ConvergenceLeftists, whether of the "blue jeans" or the "well-tailored suit" sort, seem to have a fatal flaw -- namely, a practical intelligence that is inversely proportional to their desire for power.
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June 15, 2012
Perpetual Peace: Accepting the Yoke Without a StruggleThe Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has released its 2012 Global Peace Index (GPI), and Americans can breathe a sigh of relief: America is now the 88th-most peaceful nation on Earth, just ahead of the 89th-ranked People's Republic of China.
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June 7, 2012
America: The Home of the...Compliant?The priorities of civilizations can be gleaned from a consideration of the virtues they cherish most.
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June 3, 2012
Obama Administration Combats Racist AirThe Obama administration argues, in effect, that freedom has led to an unfair distribution of healthy lungs, and therefore steps must be taken to achieve respiratory justice.
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May 31, 2012
Academic Tenure, or Trickle-Down Entitlement TheoryYour children are being prepared for the "real world" by men and women sustained by the oldest, most corrupt entitlement program.
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May 28, 2012
Obama's Sons: They Are Real for HimI believe it is likely that Obama compared the future prospects of "my daughters" to that of "my sons" precisely according to a sincerely prepared and carefully vetted script.
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May 19, 2012
The Vanishing Feeling of FreedomThe primary reason why it is so difficult to defend political liberty today is because freedom is a rational construct, and thus cannot be understood by the irrational.
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May 19, 2012
Obama Was Born in Hawaii Before He Was Born in KenyaTo be a flip-flopper on gay marriage or single-payer healthcare is politics as usual in the modern age. To be a flip-flopper on your basic identity or your past associations, on the other hand -- this is something new in presidential politics. Something historic, in fact.
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May 16, 2012
Globally Warmed Over: Hatred Unmasked at LastNo longer engaged in pseudo-science, he is simply screaming, "We're all gonna die! Run for the hills!" Why is this alleged man of science speaking so incautiously?
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May 4, 2012
America's Historic Cokehead PresidentDoes it bother you that the most powerful man on the planet was a longtime drug user?
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April 29, 2012
Conservative Third-Party Dreams and RealitiesThird-party advocates among the right should take a long, hard look at how things worked out in this vein in Canada.
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April 25, 2012
The Death Panel's Loving EmbraceHere is an object lesson in how death panels -- also known more kindly as "palliative care" -- work in countries with socialized medicine.
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April 21, 2012
Allan Bloom: Remembering the TeacherThis spring marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Bloom's best-selling philosophical polemic, The Closing of the American Mind. The time is ripe to asess the impact of the man and his work.
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April 12, 2012
Race, IQ, and Derbyshire's KidsMorality and politics, not innate intelligence, are at the heart of the problems Derbyshire cites.
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April 9, 2012
U.N. Report: Happiness Is...World SocialismAccording to the United Nations' new "World Happiness Report," European socialism is the road to well-being, and it ought to be imposed on all mankind.
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March 31, 2012
On Restoring American IndividualismIf public disapproval of particular Obama policies is to become a lasting movement toward societal renewal, then the conservative's primary objective must be the restoration of American individualism.
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March 30, 2012
Don't Get Drunk at the Individual Mandate Victory PartyThe individual mandate is merely the left's latest instrument in the effort to undermine liberty through health care; it is not the primary target. Conservatives absolutely must remember this as ObamaCare makes its way through the Supreme Court.
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March 22, 2012
Revisiting the Guy in Obama's NeighborhoodThe relationship between William Ayers and President Obama is back in the news again. Obama's most famous denial of a formative relationship does not withstand close analysis.
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January 9, 2012
Where There's a Will...George Will greeted 2012 with an upbeat look into the future of American conservatism.
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December 29, 2011
How to Break a Camel's BackDesirable as defeating President Obama is, the calamity awaiting America just a few paces further along its current path makes mere electoral victory inadequate.
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December 24, 2011
How Polls Poison the Well of CitizenshipThe wellspring of popular government has been poisoned by a bilious antithesis of enlightened public opinion: the public opinion poll.
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December 19, 2011
Ron Paul's Foreign Policy ExposedAfflicted with foreign policy myopia: A disbelief in the complete and independent reality of a world outside of the United States
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December 16, 2011
How Bachmann Can Defeat ObamaThis is a moment that can best be seized by Michele Bachmann, the Washington politician who has been most closely associated with the Tea Party since its inception
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December 12, 2011
Gingrich's Citizenship ProblemWhat exactly does the former speaker mean when he repeatedly speaks of long-established illegal immigrants as "law-abiding citizens"?
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December 10, 2011
Turning Off Reality TV PoliticsIt is manifestly not a time for GOP nominees to participate in someone else's publicity stunt.
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December 5, 2011
Newt Gains Two More 'Endorsements'Two more influential Washington insiders throw their weight behind the former speaker: Newt Gingrich and Mr. Perfect.
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December 2, 2011
Ron Paul: Why Not?How can Ron Paul, who counts among his supporters a sizable group of people who hope that his first act as president will be to reveal that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, continue to draw significant poll numbers among Republican primary voters?