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John M. Grondelski
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August 7, 2025
The 30-year-old baby, born in our brave new worldWhat does it mean when a human embryo is stuck frozen for three decades before he is born?
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August 6, 2025
Secret abortions for students in Virginia?A member of the notoriously leftist school system in Northern Virginia stands accused of facilitating an abortion for a minor without her parents’ knowledge or consent.
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August 4, 2025
ATT CEO: Get back to your desksThere’s a valuable lesson in America’s most successful businesses laying down markers that productive work is the mark by which one’s employment success will be measured.
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July 31, 2025
The many problems with driver’s licenses for illegal aliensAnd how Democrats might ‘solve’ them.
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July 18, 2025
Sanctuary spending: LA’s new cash program for non-citizensWhen it comes to American sovereignty, Democrats who throw cash at illegal aliens are playing with fire.
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July 15, 2025
Is it wrong to arrest ‘non-criminal’ illegals?Can we agree to call out the game supporters of illegal aliens are playing?
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June 30, 2025
Birthright Citizenship: Anchor Babies v. Anchor ParentsProponents of unrestricted “birthright” citizenship fail to address its perverse incentive.
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June 21, 2025
True vs. False Parental RightsWhat if a leftist says it’s bad to criminalize transgender mutilation because it infringes on parental rights?
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June 14, 2025
‘We have no kings!’Americans may have ‘no kings,’ but it seems we have a lot of entitled petty nobility.
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June 13, 2025
When a ‘sitting US senator’ gets handcuffedKristi Noem gave a press conference; Alex Padilla tried to interrupt it. The results were predictable — or would be in a law-and-order society.
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June 11, 2025
The foreign flag a-raisin’How convenient to rail against your country with a foreign flag, and then reclaim the flag of your country when it benefits you.
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June 9, 2025
Federalizing the California GuardLiberals are in a lather over President Trump’s decision Saturday to deploy California National Guard troops to quell unrest in Los Angeles.
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June 2, 2025
Good news for conservatives from Poland’s presidential electionNawrocki’s election continues the winning global run of conservative leaders intent on protecting their national identities, borders, and values.
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June 1, 2025
Parental Rights at 100A century has passed since the Supreme Court clearly declared kids are “not creatures of the state.”
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May 30, 2025
Foreign Students and Universities’ ScamsWhat’s the real reason for all this ‘diversity’ on college campuses? Hint: The answer is green.
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May 24, 2025
Montana breaks new ground for religious educationLeftists may scream ‘separation of church and state,’ but this is actually a good thing.
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May 13, 2025
Judicial paternity testsThe least we should be able to do, especially when single judges decide to impose their views of the law on the country as a whole, is acknowledge their presidential paternity.
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May 4, 2025
IVF: The Frozen Sleep Evading TimeWith frozen embryos piling up and parents implanting them at different times, the concept of chronological age becomes really weird.
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April 10, 2025
Don’t forget Lexington and ConcordIn little more than a week, on Saturday, April 19, 2025, is the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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March 22, 2025
Why have permanent foreigners?Liberal protests against Trump immigration detentions act as if legal permanent residents are de facto citizens.
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March 4, 2025
GOP Congress: Let’s protect women’s ‘Gaines’ in sportsDemocrats wear white to presidential speeches to show “support for women,” but vote against women’s interests. Let’s show them how it’s really done tonight, and dress up for Riley Gaines when President Trump addresses Congress.
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February 23, 2025
Let’s Make ‘Temporary Protected Status’ Really TemporaryHow does one claim that a program that has let Somalis stay for 34 years, Hondurans for 26, and Salvadorans for 24 is ‘temporary’?
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February 17, 2025
Vance’s very unusual security addressThe biggest threat, the most dangerous divide, is inside the West itself.
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February 14, 2025
A hidden tax increase?The president has expressed interest in getting rid of the penny. But that could have painful consequences for the American people.
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February 13, 2025
Judiciolatry or Hypocrisy?If Senate Democrats didn’t think judges pursue agendas, they would not have used every last minute of the last Congress to stuff the federal bench with “record” Biden appointments.
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February 11, 2025
There is no Execulative BranchA lot of anti-Musk rhetoric depends on a truncated vision of separation of powers that envisions an “Execulative” branch – a executive branch agency managed by Congressional fiat. There’s no such thing, in pure or mutated form.
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February 10, 2025
Country as homeAs debates over immigration, immigration levels, and the proper national response to illegal immigration continue to roil America, perhaps we need to get back to basic reason.
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February 8, 2025
A 22nd-century history book on our ‘fascist’ ageWhat might a leftist expect the history books of the future to say about Trump and Musk?
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January 30, 2025
Democrats for InfanticideBig Abortion plays word games because it knows that if the unvarnished truth was spoken, Americans would be revulsed by the whole sordid business.
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January 21, 2025
The genital police!The latest Democrat scare tactic is to say keeping men out of women’s locker rooms is a threat to women.
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January 10, 2025
More abortion means killing parental rightsThe two can’t be separated, as a current case shows.
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January 7, 2025
Democrats: It’s Not A Message ProblemNYC "traffic congestion charge" puts another nail in the Dem's coffin.
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December 21, 2024
Get rid of lame-duck sessionsThe past week ought to be the best argument for ending lame-duck sessions of Congress.
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December 20, 2024
Christmas Pork Instead of the Christmas GooseThere should be no reason to bring back a Congress containing defeated or retiring members after a general election when that new Congress could just as easily be seated.
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December 17, 2024
A Half Century of MiseducationWhile the “experts” debate, American kids continue to move through the public-school industry, advanced more for social promotion than mastery of skills.
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December 16, 2024
My traveling kitchen tableElon Musk asked for examples of wasteful government spending abetted by unnecessary regulations, and I’ve got the perfect example.
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November 24, 2024
The Left and Human ShieldsLeftists like human shields almost as much as Hamas does.
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November 20, 2024
Getting the States In Line on Immigration EnforcementDemocrat governors are busy trying to build a new “blue wall” to shield illegal aliens from promised immigration law enforcement.
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November 10, 2024
Where were you when the Wall fell?Even as they fade in history, events like this should not be forgotten.
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November 2, 2024
Corporations, Childless Cat Women, and PoliticiansThey all love abortion, and they all only pretend to care about the survival of our nation.
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October 24, 2024
Kamala Harris’s ‘non-negotiable’ abortion positionLet’s look at what Kamala Harris really means when she refuses to allow conscience protections in the abortion debate.
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September 16, 2024
Abortion is a Civil Rights IssueAbortion is a civil rights issue, though not in the way pro-abortionists want to spin it.
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September 1, 2024
The pope wants people to read literatureStaring at the modern abyss of screens, the cynic says, ‘Good luck.’
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August 24, 2024
Broken glass on the way to workExponents of progressivism usually don’t have to cope with its consequences.
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July 19, 2024
Don’t Mourn the ‘Old’ Republican PartyIs it finally time for the party to take social conservatives seriously?
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July 10, 2024
Against Our ‘Service Economy’The free-market right commits a blunder when it exalts ‘service’ over ‘manufacturing.’
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July 2, 2024
The 17th Amendment Isn’t Going AnywhereThere’s a faithful remnant among conservatives that continue to agitate for repeal of the 17th Amendment, allowing the direct election of U.S. senators.
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June 24, 2024
The 10 Commandments Are about More than the 10 CommandmentsHere are five reasons why.
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May 27, 2024
June Is Fidelity Month“Fidelity Month” is an initiative launched by Princeton professor Robert George, the pro-religious liberty/pro-life activist, to showcase the importance of fidelity towards God, family, and community.
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April 21, 2024
Marg bar, masks, and maniaEver notice that anti-Israel protestors engage in word games and hide behind masks? How can you wish “death to” others while clinging to masks to protect your own hide?
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April 15, 2024
Are You Not Taxed Enough?A certain Harvard professor says you probably aren't taxed enough, so stop taking those tax deductions.
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March 23, 2024
Prenatal Lives Count … At Least SometimesCritics of the Alabama Supreme Court’s in vitro fertilization decision want to use it as a cudgel to push abortion, saying recognizing value in fetal life undermines woman’s rights. But the implications of such an ideological absolutism damage children … and women.
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February 27, 2024
Another Fertility Clinic MishapThere are lots of dirty little secrets about the in vitro fertilization (IVF) business that they really don’t want to tell you amidst the smiling pictures of happy parents.
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January 24, 2024
The Logical Inconsistencies of Physician-Assisted SuicideThe dirty little secret that we would simply like to give people the “right” to kill themselves anytime, anywhere, at any age.
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January 20, 2024
Michigan prepares to open Pandora’s box on surrogacyAre you ready for minor surrogates? How about disabled surrogates? Or dead ones?
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January 9, 2024
Are We Really Getting Morally Better?Leftists love asserting that history is on auto-pilot towards moral progress, even though history shows plenty of old barbarisms just keep coming back; Michigan’s proposal to legalize surrogacy is just the latest example of historical recycling.
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December 29, 2023
On Democrats and slavery, Nikki Haley needs to learn to play hardballShe blundered on a town hall inquiry in New Hampshire, and then suggested that the question was planted.
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December 25, 2023
A Christmas Carol -- The Adult VersionAlthough many people today treat A Christmas Carol as a child’s ghost story, it was originally written for -- and continues to have -- a very adult message.
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December 21, 2023
What does the Boston Tea Party say to today?Let’s be clear-eyed about what those proto-Americans were really fighting for.
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December 10, 2023
College presidents and 'context-dependent' ethicsWhere is the problem: the college president's office, or the ethics the college teaches?
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December 5, 2023
Commercial surrogacy gets a hearing in MichiganAnd yet no one wants to say very much about the disturbing nuts and bolts of the operation.
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November 23, 2023
Constraining Thanksgiving CommercialismThanksgiving in the United States is increasingly overshadowed by Black Friday’s commercialism.
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November 22, 2023
Virginia Democrats already pushing abortion-on-demand amendmentEnsuring the death of unborn children is their first priority.
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November 7, 2023
Parental rights on the ballot in VirginiaParents rights should remain a salient issue in Virginia.
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November 6, 2023
Ohioans: Don’t Be Deceived about Issue One!Ohioans vote Tuesday on a referendum that radically protects abortion through birth, abridges parental rights, and weakens medical protections for women.
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November 1, 2023
The Pro-Life Stakes November 7Off-year elections sometimes produce the most excitement. Three states are in the pro-abortion crosshairs this year.
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October 30, 2023
What the fall of men’s clothing stores says about AmericaI’m pretty sick of buying (and returning) pants online. But there’s more to it than that.
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October 22, 2023
The demise of an old American pastimeIt was a fun way for kids to learn a variety of subjects, from geography to economics to history. But the modern world is dispensing with it.
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October 19, 2023
Indigestion, Ethics, and College ProtestsIt will take more than ‘teaching ethics classes’ to fix the moral rot among American college students.
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October 9, 2023
The federal holiday in October...and what followsColumbus Day is only the first of three holidays this time of year that drive leftists up a wall.
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October 2, 2023
Nickel-and-diming your trash'Tax your trash' schemes seem especially to proliferate in blue states.
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September 30, 2023
Shine on, Harvest Moon!Sometimes, there's value in asking ourselves why our forebears prioritized something about which we hardly bat an eye.
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September 20, 2023
Jimmy Carter's Malaise on SteroidsWhat kind of disease must plague a rich society obsessed with sterilizing its children?
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September 18, 2023
The Two-Parent 'Convention'Is the rearing of children in families composed of two sexually differentiated parents married to each other merely an accidental “convention” that arose due to certain historical and cultural circumstances or is there something “normative” -- that this is how things should be -- about it?
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September 16, 2023
The Constitution versus valuesWhereas, once upon a time, we could try to summon the hidden 'living Constitution' from the dry parchment of the written document, the left's latest tactic is to see the Constitution itself not so much part of the solution as the problem.
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August 13, 2023
Shortwave Radio: A changed hobby, and American influenceWhat was it like for a kid to collect QSL cards from shortwave radio stations around the world in the 1970s, tracking all the wild state-sponsored propaganda he could get reception on?
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August 11, 2023
On the defeat of Issue 1 in OhioThe temptation of simple majority politics by recourse to referendum will create two Ohios, separate and unequal.
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August 7, 2023
Ohio’s August 8 Referendum and ‘Democracy’Tomorrow, Ohioans will vote on an attmept by pro-abortion forces to carry out an end-run around the state constitution.